I've been playing pes my whole life and I must say i get most people who criticize. Fifa you can just start a match and everything is clear and easy. Pes somehow always irritates the first two weeks you play it, i have had this same, even stronger feeling with Pes 2012. In the begin i thought what the fuck is this, this cant be Pes 2012. Now ime playing it for 2 weeks and I keep on learning more and the matches are getting better. Pes 2012 is a very good follow up to 11, and i know ill be loving this game for another year. Fifa 12 has also has made good improvements, dont get me wrong. Its these little things that makes most foottie fans want to play Fifa. The stadium atmosphere, the away teams have their own part in the stadium and the gameplay, licensed teams, it speaks for itself. I guess it's just the unpredictable gameplay that makes Pes the game i love. And ofcourse things can always be improved, i hate it that i see these green men every match on the field(i dont know where they got this from), the supporters animation is still just a ugly moving gif(that has the quality as if it looked like it was made in paint), it looks ridiculous. And what are the supporters with the yellow-striped shirts doing in between the home supporters every match?
And for the people that play online, they should really change something about that. Playing Barca-Real-AcMilan-InterMilan isn't my thing, but somehow i feel restricted to do so if others choose these teams. Not because I want to, but because the teams i want to pick just wont gain resistance to the big teams most Pes players keep on choosing. And if i choose a team that is way less than the big teams i usually end up having the half of my team 'blue or purple'. So please, Konami make online more fair. Give us 'top team' modes or let the weaker teams have a 'green/orange/red' line up.