No no no no no!! You got it all wrong there son. PES5 was cutting egde stuff because of its simplicity, players were more robust, resilient with a proper balance between individual players abilities that didnt allow certain players to abuse the game.
Konami's biggest mistake was trying to change the DNA of the game when it moved to nextgen and changint to teamvision AI. Thats what has and will continue to corrupt the game
No one is expecting the perfect game, We are simply asking them to bring it MUCH closer to what we see on TV. This is achieved through introducing hundreds of more variables that make each single moment, in each single game UNIQUE. The more the variables and the more the possibilities of what you can do, the closer it is to real soccer, and the more fun and authentic the experience feels.
Konami now fails in almost all aspects because of its limited freedom auto mated ai assistence and cliche goals that you expect to score in every game, its no longer free flowing football instead its a parody of real life.
Watch this video of the this garbage of a game with all the bugs in all its glory and tell me seriously that PES2010 was only at fault because of how the human player couldnt control some important aspects in passing. The game was corrupt from top to bottom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5tc_I1eF9o
PES 5/6 had the correct balance between simulation and a fun, playable game engine. Obviously the shouldnt have have released it on the PS3 and just glossed it up in terms of graphics. But they should have kept it as its base to build and add around it as there was only miniature complaints mainly with goalkeepers and and defense issues needing tightening up. Now there are so many problems with this new base they are using that I could write a story about, and they are not going away by simply adding in the pass bar
At the moment they seem to be caught between trying to take the series in a different direction whilst still incorporating the same mechanics and formula of the old rigid engine that they've adopted on nextgen, and what's resulted is a fast paced ping pong arcade game.
Theres far more work to do than simply introducing manual passing