IWP League 2010 Application Form
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Archive for November, 2009
PES Matters 5th November 2009
Posted by dougiedonut in PES 2009 News on Thu 05 Nov 2009
It’s official. I hate PES2010. Yes you heard correctly, I hate it!
I am no longer playing any other game, so pretty much every other game in my collection is just gathering dust. I’m looking to cash in Operation Flashpoint because I’m just not playing it. I don’t even care about COD MW2. Honestly! For the first time in three years, I’m really enjoying PES.
I don’t feel like I’m playing a broken game, and really do enjoy the battles on the pitch. I’m playing games which all so far feel very different from one another. I don’t feel like I’m playing the same essential football match spread over different teams in battle. My goals have been varied and rewarding, and yes I am very very happy with PES, in case you hadn’t guessed by now!
I’m now firmly addicted to the Master League mode. It is consuming every spare minute that I can find away from my everyday home life.
I picked Team A or whatever they are called, from the set of teams that are available to create your own teams. So all the player stats are very average. I’ve already cut the squad by around a third, earning me a few million and have recruited some raw youngsters. I set myself the goal of being a midtable team by the end of the season playing on Top Player, but currently find myself in fourth place with around a third of the season left to play. So I’m in with a shout of winning the league, but I’d rather lose a few and avoid promotion so that I can focus on rebuilding my squad ready for next season.
What I’ve found from the January transfer window is that when I submitted bids for players, I didn’t get responses back until the end of the window. This has got to be a major flaw with the transfer system since I found I hadn’t succeeded with some transfers and so was left short. I will wait until the end of season transfer window to work out if I interpreted the system incorrectly, or whether there is an issue. So I’d appreciate hearing from you guys if I’ve missed a trick, or whether we need to complain to Konami about it.
I have to say that I am a bit of a weird PES player in terms of the players that I use in games. I won’t go for established talents, so I rarely play with the likes of Torres, Messi, Gerrard and many other top players. I prefer to try to find promising youngsters and develop them over the years in Master League mode. This means that a lot of my players are unable to pull off fancy tricks since their stats are pretty low, but I think that suits my style for now. I have been struggling with pulling off tricks but am slowly improving in that department. So my game concentrates on getting to know my team and play to their relatively low strengths. It’s about clever passing and dribbling and shooting with me!
Talking about shooting, I have to say that I really do love the shooting system in the game. I really find that I can place the ball where I choose to, and find that if I make mistakes with forwards, then it’s my fault. I can accept that and learn from it.
For now that’s all I have to say since I’m still learning the game and want to reach a point where I feel like I’m in control of how I play before I take my battles online. So far I’ve had mixed results online. I’ve been experiencing lag in some games, but can clearly see my opponent’s connection is mostly red. This leads to response lag which ruins the game. I will make time to try some more comprehensive testing of the online system, but I would appreciate hearing from you guys out there about how you are finding it.
Is the online system working for you? If like me you’re not totally happy with it, and do not suffer when playing other games online, then we need to make noises about it. So please do leave comments.
But for now, Master League is the way forward for me!
Thanks for reading
Dougiedonut
(dougiedonut@pesgaming.com)
Interfering With Play – Tuesday 3rd November 2009
Posted by Dan Bolas in Interfering With Play on Tue 03 Nov 2009
Welcome to this week’s Interfering With Play. It is definitely a case of after the lord mayor’s show regarding PESGaming.com at the moment. After all the discussions, reviews and debates in the months leading up to the game, the lack of posts and contributions speaks for itself. People are now playing the game, and as I have said, are more than entitled to make up their own opinions. This week’s Interfering With Play will be briefer than usual, we a few things that I am researching before penning over the new couple of articles. I would like to open by saying that I am currently working on a form for IWP League 2010 applications, and have experienced a couple of bugs. Hopefully these will be ironed out and the form given its own post within the next few days. In my opinion, this year’s competition promises to be the best and most challenging ever, with lag being less of an issue than previous instalments. With more of that to come in the following weeks, let’s crack on with this week’s Interfering With Play.
“I Just Don’t Get It!”
My first point this week is arguably the biggest gripe with PES 2010, and that is regarding the goalkeepers. I know some of the most critical persons on this site highlight the goalkeeping issue as one of the problems with Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, but in the 50 plus games I have played so far, including a couple of tournaments and a handful of online games, there may be two goals that, at a push, I would blame the goalkeeper for, and this is both for and against me. The epitome of this was in my recent quest for the Asia Cup, when I took Australia to the final against South Korea. About 10 minutes in, the Korean Gk tipped two shots on to the post in the space of 20 seconds, followed by a fantastic point blank stop to deny Harry Kewell. I ended up winning the game 1-0, but my tally of 11 shots, 7 on target told its own story.
I understand that I may be in the minority here, but I don’t really get what all the fuss is about. This is not me sticking up for Konami, because anyone who knows me and knows my writing would realise I would never do that, but I genuinely find the goalkeepers as a whole to be more than competent. Watching this week’s Match Of The Day, I saw a huge number of parried shots and saves that fell straight back into the 6 yard box, and even saw Jensen, the Burnley goalkeeper tip Geovanni’s free kick into the net, a la PES 3. Whilst I know many people complained about not being able to control the goalkeeper (something which is now an option in PES 2010) or moaned that they simply aren’t good enough, I find the keepers on a whole to be a realistic interpretation of their real life counterparts.
Maybe it’s just me, and I don’t have too many shots for or against in matches, or perhaps the teams I play with have better goalkeepers than Victor Valdes, (because based on online, Barcelona and Real Madrid are the only teams on the game!) But I really don’t get it. So here is my open challenge, my request to all the people who blame the keepers. Take your mobile phone, or if you’re fancy, your video capture card and send me your videos. You can upload them to you tube or just mail them to me direct and I will approach the situation with a completely open mind. The quality doesn’t have to be perfect, it is just so I get an idea of the problems you guys have on a regular basis. If these problems are so frequent, and in some people’s eyes, game ruining, it shouldn’t be hard to have two or three pop up in a number of matches. I will analyse any footage I receive and provide an honest assessment in due course. In turn, I will also provide some moments of goalkeeping magic filmed on my iPhone, to balance things out. Mails can be sent, as always, to the usual address.
“I’m Keeping You”
So, quite a few people are keeping Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, with only a handful admitting to returning the game. What I find very interesting to read though, is how people’s opinions of the game is changing the longer they play, and not always in a good way. I must admit, as soon as I picked up and played PES 2010, I was a little sceptical about how far the game had moved on. The demo felt and played much different to the end product, so I was just a little taken back by the whole experience, and genuinely not sure what to make of it. This is why I waited a few days before reviewing the game, by which time I was firmly hooked. Yes, it still lacks the kits and the transfer updates, but on the pitch it’s exceptionally enjoyable to play. I am now really enjoying finding out the new tricks, including my beloved L Turn, and quite honestly have never looked back.
But I find it interesting that people who enjoyed the game have started to get frustrated with it. This has never happened to me on any video car, bar Mirror’s Edge, as I play games for fun, and wouldn’t spend my time being frustrated. Of course, I get annoyed when I concede a goal or miss a chance, but those frustrations are very much football relevant, and therefore only add to the experience. If you are one of those people who first loved PES 2010 and have since gone off it, I would love to know why this is the case, either via e-mail or in comment format below. Also, if you have just got round to picking up the game, either due to your location or financial options, please let the community know whether you are keeping it or taking it back.
“Chart Breaker”
Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 finds itself at the top of the charts. It’s a statement that has been spoken about on pretty much every forum and community board across the web over the past 7 days. Granted, when the ISS Pro 1998 was out, most people would have been playing the game on chipped a Playstation with a copied disk, and charts didn’t really count for much, but I am sure Konami will be delighted now that their game has once again found its way on to number one in the sales rankings.
Personally, I genuinely couldn’t care less about where the game ranks or rates. Obviously, the people that work for the game and create the game need to see good sales figures, but if it was only selling averagely, and still played the way it does, I would be just as happy. At the end of the day, sales prove popularity to an extent, but community sites and option file editors prove that Konami is still very much a game for the people, and in many cases edited by the people. However, when all is said and done, any ratings, sales charts and rankings are all set to be blown away in two weeks time when Modern Warfare 2 launches, a game that has topped the pre-order charts since late January! If any game outsells that this year, it’s truly worthy of any praise it receives, including any EA Sports franchise.
That’s your lot this week. I still have a fair few things to say, but as mentioned at the start, I am going to hold on until I have researched the topics a little further. Hopefully we will be receiving an official Konami update in the next couple of week’s, news on of that when it happens, along with instructions on how to install it. interferingwithplay@hotmail.co.uk is the place for all your e-mails, and remember to get your videos of your goalkeeper nightmares; I want to see what all the fuss is about. Expect news of the IWP 2010 League applications a little after Thursday, all being well.
Thanks for Reading
