Better AI on both teams would definitely be an improvement, as well as a more friendly learning curve. I don't know about you guys, because I'm usually a Level 3 player, but I've had more difficulty with this year's PES than in previous editions - so much that I've been having to play on Level 2 just to be able to win my matches, and still I haven't finished a match with over 50% possession. This may sound nitpicky, but it doesn't reflect a dumbed-down AI in the slightest (or maybe it's because I usually play on keyboard - my joystick doesn't always stick to the USB port).
All other changes I'd want are basically cosmetic and/or content-based:
* More licensed balls, adboards and stadia;
* Show the crowd wearing the shirts I make on Edit Mode, stamped or not;
* More and better music... I'm SICK AND TIRED of Konami's shoddy "Summer Hits" playlists (at least there's no David fucking Guetta though) - that's something they should learn from EA;
* No more of this duplicated team crap. The thought that a South American team can appear THREE FRIGGIN' TIMES - one for their league, one on Libertadores, and one on Sudamericana - gets on my nerves. Do they do that with the European teams? No. Then why must they do that for South American teams?
* Bring the stadium editor back;
* Put in some African clubs, just to make it a more complete experience;
* Make teams with generic kits appear with their correct colors, or a more correct design (I recall it was painful playing with Brazil in green in these late years; I know they got the license to the Brazilian team now, but I'm sure they'd still make a green kit rather than a generic yellow-blue-white, and I don't want that);
* If they can't get the Bundesliga licensed, then make a generic German League. There's just no logic for them not to do it, considering they make a generic English League with 95% of fake teams every year. Besides, they have the license to three teams from Germany, which makes it a better proportion than the English League (1:6 to 1:20).
I think, off the top of my head, that's about it. I'm not asking much for licenses because most of these kinds of problems can easily be remedied in Edit Mode.
Yup. Fake names in general are shit (player and team).
On the whole, they need to sort out the player naming system. Each player (with the exception of those who use nicknames/common names) should have a first name and last name. It looks sloppy when you have most of the team with 'A. SMITH' names, and then you have a 'SCHMOGLOBRAQ' (Konami love their 'Qs').
And cut out the all caps shit. Again, it looks sloppy and unprofessional.
Damnit, THIS. I can't believe I forgot to point it out before.
I wonder what the hell the people at Konami smoke to come up with these names? They don't even sound anything like the language they're supposed to be! I even added that to TVTropes here, rattling off the Kalaquisong City players as an example:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AsLongAsItSoundsForeign
BTW, "Kalaquisong"? Are you seriously trying to convince me that's in Australia? I'd think it were in Thailand, Cambodia or whatever, but friggin' Australia?! Gimme a goddamn break, game.
