FIFA 15 | League Mode | Real Madrid 2014-15 | PART 1

One solitary La Liga season and we're done. I won't be covering every match either. We'll skip ahead several matches between Parts. I think there'll only be 6 or so episodes in this series. Just the absolute highlights, in ultra-brief style. There's some kind of attention span crisis going on, don't you know.

This opening Part is the shortest. The others won't be all that much longer. I am considering making everything Shorts-only.

And yes, it had to happen: my actual voice is here. I either had to spend ages making on-screen captions for these videos, and then spending ages more in positioning them correctly, and then ages MORE tweaking them so each is on-screen for the right amounts of time... or just do a voiceover myself quickly. I'm getting over a slight summer cold and still hoarse and a bit quavery. I'm definitely not Sean Dyche.

FIFA 15 is good. It's really good - better than it has any right to be in 2025. Better than PES 2015 is today, which sounds like heresy but when you think about it, isn't. FIFA had already had a release - FIFA 14 - to get used to then-newish PS4. PES 2015 was Konami's first effort. But I'll get to this sort of musing in future episodes.

I'm hedging my bets on EA FC 26. I'll doubtless spring for the 10-hour trial again.

In the meantime, here is a League Mode season from FIFA 15's launch year, with Real Madrid. I'm weary of slogging through with minnows. And this is a League season. No real management dimension here. Cumulative fatigue between matches isn't even really a thing (although injuries are, as will be seen in future Parts).

Was life just objectively better in 2014-15, or what?