PES 2013 annoys me!
I fully expect this post maybe deleted or some people will think I am a FIFA fanboy trolling on this forum. Well, I am not, I am a long time PES player, and I have been buying PES instead of FIFA for so many years. But seriously, PES 2013 annoys me, here are the reasons:
1> I usually play on professional difficulty and switch to top player once in a while. Any logical person would expect higher difficulties mean smarter AI, sure! The AIs are not only smarter, they are also on steroid! Under the AI control, some random defender from the China team can run as fast if not faster than my Cristiano Ronaldo, and their forwards are so fast that Pepe and Marcelo can have a problem keeping up with them. Not to mention the moonwalk sidestep crap they can do. On the other hand, my team gets dumber, and Casillas have the reaction time of an old lady that any decent striker will score 99% against him 1 on 1. Just to make the game more frustrating, the AI keeper is like a panther on crack, scoring is not easy even when 1 on 1.
2> The referee, really Konami?! I have to say Konami has done a great job and captured the essence of a rigged football game by simply turning the referee against the player. Simple tackles get fouled to hell or even carded, while the obvious fouls get ignored. I don't even remember how many times my players have been taken down violently by the AIs with no whistle. I even saved the replay of an offside goal scored by the AI, this game is more frustrating than any older PES because of Konami's dirty referee. They should just add the bride referee option in ML!
3> ML, BAL, same crap every year without any significant improvements, and same unreasonable non-sense they never bother to fix. I used to think EA is the company that release the same piece of junk with new coating every year to milk their customers like sheep. Now, I think Konami deserves that title more.
4> The control and player AI is laggy and stupid, and no match compare to the lightning fast reaction of the AI opponents. Cursor change gets you on the wrong person all the time. Anyone would expect cursor change will let you assume control of the player closest to the ball and actually have a chance to get possession, it is not rocket science. But no, you get someone that is not even there, and the guy in front of the ball just watch the ball goes by like an idiot.
5> Commentary, I don't think I need to explain that, we all know how bad it is, and Konami is obviously not giving a damn about it. Same crap every year with a few new lines.
6> Online is pretty unstable, not enough contents, and it takes forever to get an opponent.
If I don't see a patch that fix some of these issues, (especially the referee, and the laggy controls) PES 2013 will most likely be my last PES... :angry: