Zlax45 wrote:What is making Be a Legend mood so good for you?
How does it compare to Fifa's Be a Pro?
I've never played the FIFA version so I can't help you. I just enjoy trying to take my guy, a AMF, and trying to set up scores and score from distance. Right now, I'm only able to play in training matches with the reserve team, so I'm trying to show the coaches that I could be useful on the bench. IT might be s*** compared to Be a Pro, I just can't tell you.
I have a "USA players only!" room open in the main English server of the PC version of PES 2009.
I've played four online games against Europeans and the first three were OK, but the last one was ruined by lag and glitches and I don't want to play against them foreigners any more.
dbdynsty25 wrote:Bastards didn't get it in today. What the hell...got the automated call from the twat from Gamestop. Oh well.
Yeah i was a little disappointed no one around here had it yesterday, since I had the day off. Of course, that day off is the reason no one had it until today, because the distributors had the day off too.
Picked it up today and I was amazed at how underwhelming the game seemed. Normally I play the heck out of a PES game as soon as I get it but after only 1 game I had a pretty blah reaction.
The animations have traditionally been a real strength of the series but they have just fallen seriously behind FIFA on the next gen systems. The sound effects are pretty horrible as well - I don't know what the hell they sampled them in but they just sound absolutely crap. I'll have to play more to get a good sense of the AI but to be honest I'm not really feeling a huge amount of enthusiasm towards playing the game right now.
It's probably what PES 2008 should have been, but the bar has been raised so much by FIFA that it's really hard to put up with the lack of licenses or real league play when the superiority of the game play has disappeared.
Best wishes,
Doug
"Every major sport has come under the influence of organized crime. FIFA actually is organized crime" - Charles Pierce
Good post doug kinda sums my feelings up towards it.
I was expecting a huge leap forward after Seabass was pretty much berating his own game but its barely changed game play wise from what i see with the demo.
Seems to me that there is even more cpu interference when i'm controlling my players.
Player switching has changed for the worse.
I do like the vertical wide camera though, very nice.
I wasn't expecting a huge leap but I was hoping for a little more. Hopefully they've at least fixed the on-line lag.
I still prefer the way crossing works in PES over Fifa and some elements of the presentation (pre-match, goal-scoring celebratiion) are superior as well. I think the way the AI handles the team management is better as well - one seriously weak spot in FIFA is still the management mode and the way the AI handles the roster (not resting players properly, iffy substitutions).
There's just not nearly enough in the match engine to keep me enthused. Maybe I'm also a bit burned out on the PES series given I've probably played a couple of thousand matches.
I'd like to see Konami invest some serious resources into the series because I think the only reason Fifa finally improved is that PES were beginning to cut into EA's sales and reputation. I'm not sure there's any evidence at the moment, however, that Konami have the ambition to make major upgrades and invest the resources that these upgrades would take (particularly on a compressed development cycle).
Best wishes,
Doug
"Every major sport has come under the influence of organized crime. FIFA actually is organized crime" - Charles Pierce
Definitely a strange feeling for me - I've also played thousands of PES games over the years but am not sure I'm going to pick this one up. I am really, really having a great time with FIFA09 - even more than I did in the good old days with WE6. I'm enjoying to non-frantic pace to each match and the beautiful animations.
I'll probably give PES a rent this week and see how I feel from there. Champions League certainly sounds nice.
I don't know, I played a couple if games last night and I really enjoyed it. There are a bunch if little tweaks from last year, especially in re addition of more variety in terms if the inaccuracy of passes.
Having played so much FIFA onlne recently, it sure feels nice to have snappy, responsive control over the players. The one major thing they seem to have stolen from FIFA is that your teammates will intercept the skip passes instead if letting the ball through. That's certainly new to this series (or really, a blast from the way-past).
I'm looking forward to delving into the Legend mode. Online, which has such a bizarre setup, seems to allow up to 4 into a room, but after that I don't know how it allow you to set up the game. I'm hoping you can do any combo from 1v1 to 2v2 or 4vCPU. And of course I hope it's playable, but with Konami you just never know.
So far, I think it's a much improved version from last year's game, and I really liked last year's game, especially in local 1v1.
I skipped PES 2008, but these are the things missing from 2009 that bug me compared to PES 4, 5 and 6:
- No date and difficuly on replay saves, no ability to name replay saves, and only 50 slots for replays instead of 250+.
- You can't skip back to the beginning of a replay, so it takes 10 seconds to rewind.
- No Play Again feature in training mode, so you can't rewind time to try moves over again.
- No Challenge Training mode.
- Commentary is even worse now. The play-by-play guy talks total rubbish about your team training twice a day, or how you're a bad manager because you're down a goal at halftime but didn't make any subs. I've already put the commentary frequency down to the lowest setting without turning it off.
- You can't adjust shirts/shorts/socks individually before a game.
- You can't find out how long a goal was scored from in the half-time or full-time stats.
- Wide camera is too high and you can't tilt the camera at an angle. This makes it harder to judge your shots on goal.
