Football defeats usually mean: Sad players, booing audience, critical commentators. The latter can now be influenced in FIFA 23. However, the outcome is also crazy.
The commentators in FIFA 23 accompany each match with sometimes more, sometimes less useful information. If your carefully built team plays well, it will be praised – if you play poorly, there will be critical remarks.
At least until now, you could only decide whether you wanted to turn the commentators completely off, on, or at least quieter. But now there’s a new setting.
What is this setting? If you dig through the audio settings in FIFA 23, you can find a new feature: “Disable Critical Commentary”.
You set it to “on” – and all critical remarks from the FIFA 23 commentators are simply turned off. From then on, there will only be praise.
Those who have been pulled down by biting comments before but still would like a bit of commentary here are probably in the right place. But even if you haven’t cared about it before, it might be worth trying out the feature for a bit of fun.
Because what comes out of it is interesting, especially in embarrassing defeats.
FIFA 23 in praise mode is bizarre when you lose hard
When you score seven own goals in the “normal” mode, the commentators logically comment on it prominently: “Another goal against”, “This is not his day”, “very, very weak performance from them” – it goes in that direction.
The 1:7 is only referred to as cosmetic results – under the motto “that doesn’t change anything now”.
If you turn off the criticism, there is primarily one thing with 7 own goals: Silence. You might briefly think that the commentators have accidentally been completely turned off. Only during the 0:4 by my unlucky goalkeeper did Wolff Fuss let slip an “Oh, that’s unfortunate”. But that sounded more sympathetic than critical.
In that respect, the setting works.
However, it gets bizarre when you manage to score a goal again. When the striker scored the 1:7, the commentators nearly exploded with joy, shouting: “Phenomenal! Without words”.
That already feels a bit strange – imagine if someone had done that during the 1:7 between Brazil and Germany at the World Cup 2014.
But that was only the extreme case. What do you think of the feature? Cool addition or rather unnecessary feature? Let us know in the comments!
If you generally don’t want to hear commentators, you can simply turn them off completely in the audio settings of the game. Alternatively, you can also let the soundtrack of FIFA 23 play during gameplay this year.
