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Football Manager: The Best of Games, the Worst of Games

 
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boojiboy7
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 12:38 pm        Reply with quote
Actually, I am pretty sure the Football Manager games sell way better than paradox's stuff. yup, just looked it up, and they have sold 7 million copies of the game over it's life span (which holy shit what the hell?), which I am pretty sure beats the pants off of Paradox's stuff, saleswise. Not that that matters really.

You are right though that they are both descended from a similar line of thinking on simulations and strategy, though.
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boojiboy7
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 2:35 pm        Reply with quote
CubaLibre wrote:
Weird. So much for short shrifts. Guess it goes to show the kind of people I online-hangout with to have thought Paradox was more popular.


Well, I think you are right that in certain groups, they totally are. And a lot of strategy/wargammers, though they would possibly be loathe to admit it, are more about the settings/aesthetics than the mechanics. The mechanics are obviously important (duh), but transpose the kind of intense strategy gaming to another setting, and the interest from that group fades. And there is nothing wrong with that. Heck, that is exactly true the other way, where in football/soccer is such a popular setting (outside of the US) that it carries Football Manager's sales to some extent.

Still love the Football Manager character in Sonic Kart 2.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 7:17 pm        Reply with quote
Man I am just looking forward to this as an "American who knows nothing about soccer/football" so yeah, awesome stuff so far.
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