He MAYBE played football in the street with neighborhood kids when he was younger, but he was nothing more than the equivalent to a 4th-string tight-end who couldn't catch, was slow as dirt, and had a pulse. Anything beyond "playground play" is dumb, and if he claims otherwise, he's extra retarded. The only sport Phil plays is the mental gymnastics he performs to sway his wheelchairs into believing him.
I remember when he played Feefuh 12 and after about an hour of bugged menu mechanics he was finally playing the game with Man-Chested United and when the AI kept scoring goals on him by crossing the ball in for a header, he referred to them as "rhendom headbutt goals", as if the game is glitched and things like this never happen in the actual sport.
He finally went back to it and beat it. I think it was sometime last year.
In his first playthrough I think he did manage to get to Ludwig's second form a few times, but as you can imagine he died to it, I think every time he died to the second form's instakill move which is slow as shit and telegraphed to hell and back. I mean this is the same guy who said that he was, I quote "learning core gameplay mechanics" when fighting Ludwig.
I saw his "I quit the Old Hunters DLC" and he stated that he learned core Gameplay mechanics against Adriatus (did i wroe that Right?) And Adriatus was a secret end boss Right? God damn. No wonder Phil's streams with Souls-like games are so "popular". they all wantto see him rage and whine an maybe even cry.
Oh sorry, still it doesn't bode well for him because Ebrietas is probably the hardest boss in the base game, not including chalice bosses. She isn't an end boss, but she is a secret endgame boss due to her difficulty. I remember in his first playthrough he got spanked by Daddy G who is the first mandatory boss so he grinded to level 25 or something like that and after that he grinded even more to level 40 before he even fought Vicar Amelia which is the 2nd mandatory boss, then he rounded off his scrubby play with probably the easiest weapon to use in the game which is Ludwig's Greatsword (not to be confused with the Moonlight Sword that the actual Ludwig uses in the boss fight) which explains why he didn't have to learn even core gameplay mechanics until Ebrietas, before her he just kept smashing his head against the wall with his overleveled character until the bosses eventually relented.
Oh I fucking love watching him play sports games. I grew up a hockey kid, I know the game in and out, have my list of favourite players, have my teams and plenty of opinions about how they're fucking up their franchises. I lay that framework because when it comes to pretty much any other sport, I'm pretty clueless. That said, sit me down in front of a football/baseball/soccer/tennis/motorsports I can and have figured out the basic shit. Don't cross the line of scrimmage before the snap, a hit is when the ball can't/isn't fielded before the runner reaches base barring an error, you can only fault twice before surrendering a point, there's an optimal line to drive in a race and every driver follows it.
Can you imagine Phil playing one of those serious Simracing games like Assetto Corsa, it's successor or Heaven forbid rFactor 2? I doubt he would even manage to get past the first corner with his bad eyesight. Or trying to fiddle with the setup of any car.
Whenever he plays a Forza, or a NFS I always want someone in chat to trick him into playing a GT or something. He would get so mad that he can't just smash his way through the other racers and that he can't just cut corners on the grass without taking time penalties.
I'm not touching that with a five-in-a-half foot pole.
