King of Lyon
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I am a die hard PES fan. Last fifa I ever played was FIFA 98 on nintendo 64.
Today I played FIFA 10 and I must say I was surprised, even more so than I was with the PES demo. DON'T GET ME WRONG, I still find PES a more serious football game, it gets closer to the real experience. Fifa, on the other hand, still feels (and will always feel) a tad childish for me. BUT, it seems they have taken interest in A LOT of cool aspects of the game itself, things PES have once took interest in and had since left behind.
Even with it's flaws, in FIFA you can score up, down, right, left. You can kick it hard, you can put the inner part of the foot, there are tenths of volleys and a lot of different animations for different goal scoring opportunities within the box and outside of it.
So.... some of the things I think PES should adapt (copy) from fifa are the following.
FINESSE SHOT: Very important. Specially when you're one on one with the keeper. I mean being given the choice of taking a hard shot or a soft one with the inner part of the foot.
This feature is also on FIFA's PK's. I liked it a lot. If you hold the R2 button (on PS3) you kick a soft shot to the desired direction. Essential.
FREE KICKS: It seems to me that you become less likely to score on free kicks in PES year after year. I mean, there once was the chance to take a shot at the keepers side and score, but now... WTF? You should be able to choose to kick it hard to the keeper's side, over the wall, under the wall, avoiding the wall etc. FIFA has not taken this options away (thus making it a bit unrealistic), but I'm sure KONAMI should be able to find a balance with this.
PLAYERS MOVEMENTS: Ohhhh......... well, this is what I liked the most. I mean, FIFA's players still move like FIFA's players but they have this style to them. They dribble with the outside part of the foot, they pass with style, they run with style... it just works, they look good and not like robots which has been one of the major let downs in the latest PES games. I remember the classic Maradona a couple of PES' ago moving like, well.. the football god he is. It was a pleasure playing with him. It's one of the little details that make a big difference.
SCORING: To this day, it's not easy to score on PES. BUT you really don't have many different ways of scoring. It should not be easy to score like it is on FIFA, but you should have hundreds (if not thousands) of different ways of doing so thus make it more rewarding.
It seems the only way to score is to take a shot to the keeper and have him leave the ball stranded on the box and having the other wing puting it in. Or maybe on a corner kick, or hope for the keeper's mistake (another shitty flaw). Year after year it becomes less likely to score a 'real' looking goal on the game, it's a joke.
So, it should be tough to score, but the more hard it is to score, the more options you should have to do it. The trick should be in generating those options for yourself.
This are some of the things I've noticed. I can't think of more at the moment.... so... forgive me, I'm drunk.
Today I played FIFA 10 and I must say I was surprised, even more so than I was with the PES demo. DON'T GET ME WRONG, I still find PES a more serious football game, it gets closer to the real experience. Fifa, on the other hand, still feels (and will always feel) a tad childish for me. BUT, it seems they have taken interest in A LOT of cool aspects of the game itself, things PES have once took interest in and had since left behind.
Even with it's flaws, in FIFA you can score up, down, right, left. You can kick it hard, you can put the inner part of the foot, there are tenths of volleys and a lot of different animations for different goal scoring opportunities within the box and outside of it.
So.... some of the things I think PES should adapt (copy) from fifa are the following.
FINESSE SHOT: Very important. Specially when you're one on one with the keeper. I mean being given the choice of taking a hard shot or a soft one with the inner part of the foot.
This feature is also on FIFA's PK's. I liked it a lot. If you hold the R2 button (on PS3) you kick a soft shot to the desired direction. Essential.
FREE KICKS: It seems to me that you become less likely to score on free kicks in PES year after year. I mean, there once was the chance to take a shot at the keepers side and score, but now... WTF? You should be able to choose to kick it hard to the keeper's side, over the wall, under the wall, avoiding the wall etc. FIFA has not taken this options away (thus making it a bit unrealistic), but I'm sure KONAMI should be able to find a balance with this.
PLAYERS MOVEMENTS: Ohhhh......... well, this is what I liked the most. I mean, FIFA's players still move like FIFA's players but they have this style to them. They dribble with the outside part of the foot, they pass with style, they run with style... it just works, they look good and not like robots which has been one of the major let downs in the latest PES games. I remember the classic Maradona a couple of PES' ago moving like, well.. the football god he is. It was a pleasure playing with him. It's one of the little details that make a big difference.
SCORING: To this day, it's not easy to score on PES. BUT you really don't have many different ways of scoring. It should not be easy to score like it is on FIFA, but you should have hundreds (if not thousands) of different ways of doing so thus make it more rewarding.
It seems the only way to score is to take a shot to the keeper and have him leave the ball stranded on the box and having the other wing puting it in. Or maybe on a corner kick, or hope for the keeper's mistake (another shitty flaw). Year after year it becomes less likely to score a 'real' looking goal on the game, it's a joke.
So, it should be tough to score, but the more hard it is to score, the more options you should have to do it. The trick should be in generating those options for yourself.
This are some of the things I've noticed. I can't think of more at the moment.... so... forgive me, I'm drunk.
