cadburyho
Registered User
I have just sent another 20 suggestions to Joanne of Konami this evening.
Thought I share with you guys what I have written. Feel free to comment.
( I did not check my grammer though)
1. Injury-
It is important that we are given an estimate of how long a player will be out of action at least for our planning purpose. A brief description of the player’s injury will be instrumental. Eg.hamstring injury, dislocated shoulder, broken kneecap etc.
2. South American Teams
Bring back the South American Teams. The game is just not complete without these teams. Nothing can be more satisfying than to be a World Champ by beating every team in every part of the continent. Right now, we are European Champ at best.
3. Substitutes
Upon activating the sub, it would be great to be able to see the substitutes(CPU players as well) warming up on one corner before the ball goes out of play. The only exception is when a player gets injured and the substitution has to be done immediately.
4. Special Moves
Assign a dedicated button for flicking the ball and jumping simultaneously to avoid a sliding tackle especially during a high speed dribble. Also during a slow dribble, allow us to perform like what Blanco of Mexico did. Hold the ball between the legs and jump. Best performed in crowded situation.
5. As an added challenge, introduce pitches in all kinds of environment that affects players’ stamina and ball physics. Eg.
1. High altitude pitch in South America
2. Hard and parched pitch in South Africa
6. Own goal
Name of the player causing the own goal should be mentioned.
7. Crowds
Add life to the crowds. Eg. fans can create a Mexican wave, moving about etc.
The size of the crowd should also correlated to our performance. If we are on a
losing streak, the crowd size should dwindle and the cheering should be
somewhat subdued.However if we are on top of the table, winning match after
match, we expect the stadium to be filled to the brim and the cheering deafening.
Similarly if we are playing us poorly, we can see crowds leaving before the final
whistle.
Also create some life at the tunnels.Have people(eg. ice cream sellers) moving in
and out of the tunnel from time to time.
8. Man of the Match/Overall Team performance
Name of the player should be mentioned at the end of the match. Currently it is difficult to discern as it is quite often that we find players having the same rating at the end of the game. Similarly it would be great that the entire team is rated as a whole in addition to the individual rating. This would help check any slide in our performance.
9. PA system
Name of the player being substituted, sent off or having scored should be announced audibly on the tannoy.
10. No of Appearances
For every player under the Master League, create a record of their first team appearances. At least we would know which player of ours has made the most first team appearances for the club and also to keep a tab on others.
11. Liven up the Menu
Instead of just a plain screen menu, show a picture of the actual football ticket to keep us in the mood.
In between the football ticket, allow us to find the instruction “ Start the Game”.
Once the game is loaded, the football ticket will be torn electronically.
12. Press Conference
For any expensive signing say exceeding 800points, give us a brief cut scene commencing with the player garlanded with flowers giving a press conference (cameras clicking away)and ending with the Manager and the new signing holding the club jersey on each end (camera clicking away and fans applauding).
13. Master League/Chance to manage a National side
ML, being the jewel should provide us with an opportunity to manage a national side. Offers to manage a national side should be made available to us if we perform well in the Master League (perhaps winning the Div 1 title). An option should be given to us whether to accept or to reject. If we reject the offer, we can continue with the Master League for another season. However if choose to accept the offer, the Master League will end there. Upon accepting the offer, the system will provide us with a list of players from the 64 club teams having the same nationality. Eg. if England makes the offer, all the English players will be highlighted for our selection. We need to choose only 16 players to fill in the 16 slots from scratch.. Also provide us with an option to activate Naturalized Process ( For eg In real life,. Alex a Brazilian playing for Japan). On activation, we can use our accumulated points to naturalize a player. The more points we have the more players we can naturalize. The naturalization is necessary as there are not many national teams that have 16 of their players in the 64 Club Teams found in PES/WE. Eg. if we have naturalized two players, a national side having 14 nationals will be able to make an offer. So we will have more choices. To those who find this not challenging enough, you can choose not to activate the naturalization process and you can proceed to play the International matches without the need to accumulate further points. In any event, the International competition found under the ML should be different from what we are having currently.The current competition for Africa Cup, America Cup, Asia Cup, Konami Cup, Europe Cup and International Cup,should remain status quo but renamed differently under the ML mode eg.World Cup(if it is TM, perhaps Universe Cup)/ Europe Nations Cup/ African Nation Cup/Asian Nation Cup/Copa America to differentiate the competition. If more international teams are added as suggested on my earlier letter and the South American Club Teams reintroduced, the competition will be more intense and definitely exciting. The reward- to unlock the World Elite Team/Euro Elite/Africa Elite/America Elite/Asian Elite team.
14.Contemporary music
Instead of the spinning boring instrumental music during half time, let us have
contemporary music to keep us in tune with the times.
15.Men in Black
To create more suspense, add another cut scene where the ref gives a stern warning to
the player instead of a card. However this applies to serious fouls only. Should the ref
decides to let the player off the hook, he will just give a stern warning.
Notwithstanding, I would still prefer my earlier suggestion to have the ref on the pitch.
There is no need for cut scenes as all action will happen live on the pitch. The ref can
weaves his card , plays the advantage or gives a warning. It is not realistic to have an
invisible ref sheltered indefinitely from stray balls.
16.Scissors Kick/Bicycle kick
Currently not an easy task to perform. Even at an ideal height/speed by pressing the
square button , we get to see the player heading the ball instead of performing either
the scissor kick or bicycle kick.Instead I would suggest a dedicated button to execute
such kicks. Perhaps R2. We need perfect timing though to perform these kicks. Press
too early will see our player kicking thin air and fall flat to the ground. Or if the ball
is not on an ideal height / speed will see the shot bungled.
17. Grounders(Rolling shot)/Passes
In real life, it is possible to hit a shot that travels at ground level at enormous speed.
On both WE7/PES3, it is virtually non-existent or difficult to perform. Such shots are
instrumental in beating tall keepers from afar(around the edge of the penalty box)
and I am surprised to find such shots are not given much emphasis. Allowing us to
perform such shot by tapping square button 3 will be great.
Similarly,more speed and power should be added to the Triangle button for through
passes/fly through pass if the triangle button is depressed longer. Also, passes using
the manual method (analogue stick) should be made easier to execute like in previous
edition. On WE6, we merely have to move the analogue stick without depressing to
perform the pass. On WE7, we have to depress the analogue stick Cumbersome
19. PES/WE Shop
Besides International Classic Teams, give us an opportunity to purchase
Classic Club sides as well eg. Liverpool of the 80’s, MU of the 90’s etc.
20. Better AI- CPU’s defenders.
It is possible to score three goals in a similar fashion in one game against weaker
teams like Iran once you know their weakness.I have done it before. Run down the
wing, side step your opponent at the edge of the penalty box, turn and speed to the
edge of the goalpost and press the square and up button together. If the shot is not
deflected, there is a high probability that you will score.It is so predictable and linear.
Would suggest that CPU analyses their weakness once a goal is scored. Changed
formation/Edit position or substitute defenders if necessary.
Thought I share with you guys what I have written. Feel free to comment.
( I did not check my grammer though)
1. Injury-
It is important that we are given an estimate of how long a player will be out of action at least for our planning purpose. A brief description of the player’s injury will be instrumental. Eg.hamstring injury, dislocated shoulder, broken kneecap etc.
2. South American Teams
Bring back the South American Teams. The game is just not complete without these teams. Nothing can be more satisfying than to be a World Champ by beating every team in every part of the continent. Right now, we are European Champ at best.
3. Substitutes
Upon activating the sub, it would be great to be able to see the substitutes(CPU players as well) warming up on one corner before the ball goes out of play. The only exception is when a player gets injured and the substitution has to be done immediately.
4. Special Moves
Assign a dedicated button for flicking the ball and jumping simultaneously to avoid a sliding tackle especially during a high speed dribble. Also during a slow dribble, allow us to perform like what Blanco of Mexico did. Hold the ball between the legs and jump. Best performed in crowded situation.
5. As an added challenge, introduce pitches in all kinds of environment that affects players’ stamina and ball physics. Eg.
1. High altitude pitch in South America
2. Hard and parched pitch in South Africa
6. Own goal
Name of the player causing the own goal should be mentioned.
7. Crowds
Add life to the crowds. Eg. fans can create a Mexican wave, moving about etc.
The size of the crowd should also correlated to our performance. If we are on a
losing streak, the crowd size should dwindle and the cheering should be
somewhat subdued.However if we are on top of the table, winning match after
match, we expect the stadium to be filled to the brim and the cheering deafening.
Similarly if we are playing us poorly, we can see crowds leaving before the final
whistle.
Also create some life at the tunnels.Have people(eg. ice cream sellers) moving in
and out of the tunnel from time to time.
8. Man of the Match/Overall Team performance
Name of the player should be mentioned at the end of the match. Currently it is difficult to discern as it is quite often that we find players having the same rating at the end of the game. Similarly it would be great that the entire team is rated as a whole in addition to the individual rating. This would help check any slide in our performance.
9. PA system
Name of the player being substituted, sent off or having scored should be announced audibly on the tannoy.
10. No of Appearances
For every player under the Master League, create a record of their first team appearances. At least we would know which player of ours has made the most first team appearances for the club and also to keep a tab on others.
11. Liven up the Menu
Instead of just a plain screen menu, show a picture of the actual football ticket to keep us in the mood.
In between the football ticket, allow us to find the instruction “ Start the Game”.
Once the game is loaded, the football ticket will be torn electronically.
12. Press Conference
For any expensive signing say exceeding 800points, give us a brief cut scene commencing with the player garlanded with flowers giving a press conference (cameras clicking away)and ending with the Manager and the new signing holding the club jersey on each end (camera clicking away and fans applauding).
13. Master League/Chance to manage a National side
ML, being the jewel should provide us with an opportunity to manage a national side. Offers to manage a national side should be made available to us if we perform well in the Master League (perhaps winning the Div 1 title). An option should be given to us whether to accept or to reject. If we reject the offer, we can continue with the Master League for another season. However if choose to accept the offer, the Master League will end there. Upon accepting the offer, the system will provide us with a list of players from the 64 club teams having the same nationality. Eg. if England makes the offer, all the English players will be highlighted for our selection. We need to choose only 16 players to fill in the 16 slots from scratch.. Also provide us with an option to activate Naturalized Process ( For eg In real life,. Alex a Brazilian playing for Japan). On activation, we can use our accumulated points to naturalize a player. The more points we have the more players we can naturalize. The naturalization is necessary as there are not many national teams that have 16 of their players in the 64 Club Teams found in PES/WE. Eg. if we have naturalized two players, a national side having 14 nationals will be able to make an offer. So we will have more choices. To those who find this not challenging enough, you can choose not to activate the naturalization process and you can proceed to play the International matches without the need to accumulate further points. In any event, the International competition found under the ML should be different from what we are having currently.The current competition for Africa Cup, America Cup, Asia Cup, Konami Cup, Europe Cup and International Cup,should remain status quo but renamed differently under the ML mode eg.World Cup(if it is TM, perhaps Universe Cup)/ Europe Nations Cup/ African Nation Cup/Asian Nation Cup/Copa America to differentiate the competition. If more international teams are added as suggested on my earlier letter and the South American Club Teams reintroduced, the competition will be more intense and definitely exciting. The reward- to unlock the World Elite Team/Euro Elite/Africa Elite/America Elite/Asian Elite team.
14.Contemporary music
Instead of the spinning boring instrumental music during half time, let us have
contemporary music to keep us in tune with the times.
15.Men in Black
To create more suspense, add another cut scene where the ref gives a stern warning to
the player instead of a card. However this applies to serious fouls only. Should the ref
decides to let the player off the hook, he will just give a stern warning.
Notwithstanding, I would still prefer my earlier suggestion to have the ref on the pitch.
There is no need for cut scenes as all action will happen live on the pitch. The ref can
weaves his card , plays the advantage or gives a warning. It is not realistic to have an
invisible ref sheltered indefinitely from stray balls.
16.Scissors Kick/Bicycle kick
Currently not an easy task to perform. Even at an ideal height/speed by pressing the
square button , we get to see the player heading the ball instead of performing either
the scissor kick or bicycle kick.Instead I would suggest a dedicated button to execute
such kicks. Perhaps R2. We need perfect timing though to perform these kicks. Press
too early will see our player kicking thin air and fall flat to the ground. Or if the ball
is not on an ideal height / speed will see the shot bungled.
17. Grounders(Rolling shot)/Passes
In real life, it is possible to hit a shot that travels at ground level at enormous speed.
On both WE7/PES3, it is virtually non-existent or difficult to perform. Such shots are
instrumental in beating tall keepers from afar(around the edge of the penalty box)
and I am surprised to find such shots are not given much emphasis. Allowing us to
perform such shot by tapping square button 3 will be great.
Similarly,more speed and power should be added to the Triangle button for through
passes/fly through pass if the triangle button is depressed longer. Also, passes using
the manual method (analogue stick) should be made easier to execute like in previous
edition. On WE6, we merely have to move the analogue stick without depressing to
perform the pass. On WE7, we have to depress the analogue stick Cumbersome
19. PES/WE Shop
Besides International Classic Teams, give us an opportunity to purchase
Classic Club sides as well eg. Liverpool of the 80’s, MU of the 90’s etc.
20. Better AI- CPU’s defenders.
It is possible to score three goals in a similar fashion in one game against weaker
teams like Iran once you know their weakness.I have done it before. Run down the
wing, side step your opponent at the edge of the penalty box, turn and speed to the
edge of the goalpost and press the square and up button together. If the shot is not
deflected, there is a high probability that you will score.It is so predictable and linear.
Would suggest that CPU analyses their weakness once a goal is scored. Changed
formation/Edit position or substitute defenders if necessary.
