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QUOTE(dasox24 @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 02:02 AM)
Woke up, got a haircut for first time in 3 months, got online, played soccer with some friends, played FIFA '06 with my new team, Liverpool, and dominated Man United. Pretty solid day since I didn't watch the Sox game...

Seriously, how awesome is that game??? I'm obsessed.

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QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 05:07 PM)
Seriously, how awesome is that game??? I'm obsessed.

I still remember playing Fifa 98, and I loved that game because it had an indoor soccer stadium, with walls so you could lob the balls off the walls and play all sort of crazy angles, plus each team only had 5 a side.

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QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 02:45 AM)
Is 06 pretty current or is it semi discounted now. I may have to pick that up. last soccer game I had was the Fifa 94 or something for Super NES (I played it about a month ago).

I think it's pretty updated. I'm not a huge soccer guy, so I really don't know that much, but from what I know it's pretty up to date. The game is a ton of fun though, especially when you're playing against a friend. Very intense games.

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QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 12:49 AM)
I think it's pretty updated. I'm not a huge soccer guy, so I really don't know that much, but from what I know it's pretty up to date. The game is a ton of fun though, especially when you're playing against a friend. Very intense games.

Can you play in the world cup or is mainly premiere league seasons and is there any sort of franchise type mode?

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QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 07:15 AM)
I still remember playing Fifa 98, and I loved that game because it had an indoor soccer stadium, with walls so you could lob the balls off the walls and play all sort of crazy angles, plus each team only had 5 a side.

Hands down, FIFA '98 on N64 was the best soccer game ever, mainly due to the indoor stadium mode. Why don't they do that anymore? It was so badass!

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QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 02:50 AM)
Can you play in the world cup or is mainly premiere league seasons and is there any sort of franchise type mode?

I haven't messed around with the franchise stuff yet but there is a franchise type mode you can do. They do have all the international teams but I'm not sure if you can do like an actual world cup type thing. You can make your own tournament though and put all the international teams in it and basically make your own world cup, that I know for sure.

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QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 07:50 AM)
Can you play in the world cup or is mainly premiere league seasons and is there any sort of franchise type mode?

Well, there's no World Cup, but you can create your own tourney. And, yes, there is a "Manager Mode" which is like a Franchise Mode, and it's pretty sweet. I've gotten pretty into my team. Go Benfica! 6 straight Portuguese SuperLiga titles! :headbang

 

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 07:49 AM)
Very intense games.

Oh man, isn't that the truth? A bunch of my friends also own the game, so when we play, it's always rediculously intense. Especially when we play at my friend's house, who has an HD-projection screen TV (size of a wall) and an XBOX 360. It's, by far, the best gaming experience I've ever had.

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QUOTE(dasox24 @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 02:55 AM)
Oh man, isn't that the truth? A bunch of my friends also own the game, so when we play, it's always rediculously intense. Especially when we play at my friend's house, who has an HD-projection screen TV (size of a wall) and an XBOX 360. It's, by far, the best gaming experience I've ever had.

When my friend first bought the game we ended up playing a big tournament with some other friends. We all took an international team and just set up a tournament. It was the first time all of us played so none of us knew what we were really doing, so every game was basically 1-0 and wow it was really intense. Everyone just going nuts when someone scored. Oh ya, put the game on spanish when you have the option at the beginning, the announcing is so much more fun to listen to. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL.

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QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 07:59 AM)
When my friend first bought the game we ended up playing a big tournament with some other friends. We all took an international team and just set up a tournament. It was the first time all of us played so none of us knew what we were really doing, so every game was basically 1-0 and wow it was really intense. Everyone just going nuts when someone scored. Oh ya, put the game on spanish when you have the option at the beginning, the announcing is so much more fun to listen to. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL.

Yeah, I've put it in Spanish before. It is pretty awesome to listen to. Actually, I'm taking Spanish this year in college, so I thought maybe it would help me if I had all the menus and announcing in Spanish, but so far, it hasn't so much.

 

Anyway, just wait 'till everybody has played and all become experts on the "Professional" or better difficulty level. That's when the games get really intense. I watched a two of my friends the other night play the best game I've ever seen. My one friend got an early 2-0 lead, but then my other friend battled back to tie the game at 3-3. So, they played two OT's of neither team scoring, and the friend that had the lead at first ended up winning 4-3 on PK's. It was sweet!

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QUOTE(dasox24 @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 03:04 AM)
Yeah, I've put it in Spanish before. It is pretty awesome to listen to. Actually, I'm taking Spanish this year in college, so I thought maybe it would help me if I had all the menus and announcing in Spanish, but so far, it hasn't so much.

 

Anyway, just wait 'till everybody has played and all become experts on the "Professional" or better difficulty level. That's when the games get really intense. I watched a two of my friends the other night play the best game I've ever seen. My one friend got an early 2-0 lead, but then my other friend battled back to tie the game at 3-3. So, they played two OT's of neither team scoring, and the friend that had the lead at first ended up winning 4-3 on PK's. It was sweet!

I've got pretty decent but I'm still not great. The worst thing that happened to me though, is I was playing my step brother and we were tied at 1 in like the 80th minute or so. I pass it back to my goalie for him to just kick it out, he turns around and shoots it into my net. I ended up losing 2-1. :(

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Im mad I missed the Fifa 06 conversation. I love that damn game. The only thing is that the international team selections are very dissapointing. Quite a few good countries missing.

 

And as of now, the game is really outdated unless you update the rosters online. Ballack w/ Bayern Munich, Shevchenko w/ Milan, all the Juventus stars, etc. And you also can't play the a World Cup tournament.

 

Still a phenomenal game and I play it all the time. Best soccer game ever IMO, World Cup '98 for PS1.

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QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Jul 23, 2006 -> 03:31 PM)
How about Winning 11?

i have a friend that is obsessed with that game!

 

 

 

Fifa 06: I thought that game was only world cup and no EPL or anything like that am i mistaken?

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QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Jul 25, 2006 -> 11:55 PM)
You know, it really isn't so bad. I greatly enjoy my time at the Chicago HS for Agricultural Sciences.

So that was you in the pictures? You look older then (almost) 17. Uh huh... BUSTED! :P

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QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jul 26, 2006 -> 07:39 AM)
So that was you in the pictures? You look older then (almost) 17. Uh huh... BUSTED! :P

 

You know, I hear that I look older all the time, although it's usually when I haven't shaved and have stubble, beard or shadow, depending on how long it's been.

 

But since I'm clean-shaven there, or just about, I don't see how you think I look older. I guess it's just facial features? The clothes?

 

I rarely wear jeans, and hardly ever wear t-shirts or tank tops. I carry a briefcase instead of a backpack to school, and some kids call me Professor.

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QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Jul 26, 2006 -> 03:10 PM)
You know, I hear that I look older all the time, although it's usually when I haven't shaved and have stubble, beard or shadow, depending on how long it's been.

 

But since I'm clean-shaven there, or just about, I don't see how you think I look older. I guess it's just facial features? The clothes?

 

I rarely wear jeans, and hardly ever wear t-shirts or tank tops. I carry a briefcase instead of a backpack to school, and some kids call me Professor.

:lolhitting

 

Pure Comedy.

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QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jul 26, 2006 -> 01:02 PM)
:lolhitting

 

Pure Comedy.

 

...I was serious!

 

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Today was easily my best day of 2006, and the best day I've had since November of 2005.

 

When I was chasing the Chicago Debate League City Championship, there was a Judge that I met. Mr. Scott G. Scott was a fine judge, and he did an excellent job critiquing me post-debate (a debate that I won, with my partner -- but, I won't bullspiff you. Max was my partner in theory; in reality, he was a body I had to have there because you must debate in partners).

 

After that debate, I talked to him for a bit, because he looked very interesting. A bit of a beard, a light face, a happy demeanor. I said, Hi Judge, and from there, we talked about his life and mine. I found out that he was a Chicago native who won second place nationally in Academic Decatholon when he was the Captain of the Team at Whitney Young in the late 1980s. He told me that he'd moved to New Orleans, but came back when the city was destroyed. It was a bummer.

 

Scott was, however, a wonderful talker, and a brilliant mind. Aside from one other person, I've never known someone that I bonded with as well as I did with him. We talked everytime at debate about baseball, politics, relationships, sex, everything. Once the City Finals occurred in March, I found myself in a rough spot in my life, and I knew I wouldn't be seeing Scott very much -- or enough. To give you a brief glimpse of my life at the moment: at the 2006 Debate City Finals, me and my partner went 3-2 in the Preliminary Rounds. We lost one of them because I erred. I had a lot on my mind, and I cost us one victory in one of the rounds.

 

In the other, we were tasked with defending the NSA's Wiretapping Program. A Judge who had a personal vendetta against George Bush said she personally disapproved of the Program, and thus would vote against us. She did, and that was rough, because we won that debate hands down -- HANDS. DOWN. It was a slaughter, and I'm not saying that because of my ego. That was genuine.

 

Well Scott's smile lights up the world, and he's such a smart man. We decided recently to meet up, as he's moving to Dallas because he's tired of living back in Chicago at home. Today was that day, and we went for a walk downtown, culminating in my jumping into the lake, pants on, to go for a swim. We went back through train to my house, where we talked, then we got dinner. After that, we went to a park, where we walked about and talked about everything. We sat by a pond and chatted about love, life, sex, politics and everything in between.

 

If I got married tomorrow, he'd be my best man. Easily.

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Scott is always talking about honesty. That something strikes him as dishonest and he doesn't like it. That honesty matters. You know how refreshing that atttitude is? I appreciate honesty so much. Honesty and openness, and that means that if you don't want to share something, you don't, but you don't make something up or lie.

 

That's one of the million things I like about him. Honestly.

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