You highlight one of my major gripes with the game in your post CRANEY91, this is another reason I just can't play 2011 any more. You have a run of games against good teams winning and keeping clean sheets and think you found a system to play the game. Then the game scripting kicks in because you're too high up the league and you lose the next three games to Wolves, Blackpool, Wigan with scores like 5-4, it makes no sense at all. Due to this just crazy inconsistency you start wondering whether the entire game is scripted before hand. Therefore as many people mentioned you can either ride with the fact that the game already has a disposition to how it's going to played and run with it (like assisting the movie when it's running), or try and fight it and get frustrated that the game keeps raping you.
If you are in the camp that can appreciate PES for being a joyous assisted ride, with some very good graphics and some magical moments, then this is a fantastic game.
If you're in the other camp that wants to try and manipulate the result, tactics, yourself and giving yourself 100% user input to be right or wrong, the game is unbelievably frustrating.
I played PES 2011 in the way I think the makers wanted ME to PLAY the game after realising I couldn't really do WHAT I WANTED TO DO, and had many hours of enjoyment out of it. But when I got fed up of going along for the ride and just being a cog in how the game works and not actually making a great deal of difference, I started disliking it. Just some stupid things wind me up when I occassionally go back to 11 after PES6(Xbox), and that's the mongol-robotic-takes half an hour to get hold of controlling the player, the amount of assisted clearances, kicks, passes, and just the general unresponsiveness of the game.
Just to highlight that sometimes in PES2011 it makes no difference at all what you do, I played Bayern in a Europa League Quarter Final tie. Normally I get knocked out at this stage due to crazy scripting. I drew 2-2 with Bayern at theirs, I took the lead, then scripting kicked it, and then right on cue Ribbery scores a 89th minute free kick, first it wasn't a foul, secondly the free kick was a one in a hundred from the position he was in, but he scored. I then pulled out all my craft to get a late leveller. Game massively scripted, and the CPU tried it's best with my leveller to stop me after a wonder save, a rebound off the bar, and finally a tap in which Forlan almost missed.
Then the second leg I managed to hold out a 0-0 in which Bayern had like 2 shots on goal all match.
Now I know this does happen, but this stupid scripting both for and against the player is just stupid. Needless to say the computer learned me good and proper, as after I saw off Munich, the fight of FC Twente proceeded to go three nil up at Anfield inside thirty minutes, two laughable headers and a through ball off some 67 rated so and so who passed it through Carragher's head, for the striker to knock Agger out of the way and the CPU to give me total loss of control just as the shot was coming in.
Like many say on here it's not sour grapes, but the scripting must stop. I lost 3-0 to Man Utd yesterday on PES6(Xbox), Rooney was on fire, and every goal they cut me to ribbons, you can take that like a man, tactically I got it wrong, I lost possession in midfield twice, and didn't think of man marking their main goal threat - I can live with getting tonked like that, hands up, my fault. But although I've had some magic 11 moments, I just simply can't be a passenger on a trip that already has the stops marked out and final destination decided.
