Re: PES2010 News & Rumours thread
It still seems as if they're not adding lower-league teams - Konami need to understand that there's a lot of people who aren't plastic fans and actually support their local teams, and want to play as them on the game.
Admittedly there's a bigger market for those plastic fans who support a team in a city they've never lived in and have hardly been to any of their matches but claim to be a "fan" of the team, and then use the old "well i've supported them all my life" bollocks, twats... anyway, enough of the ranting on glory hunters
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I'd be a lot more likely to buy PES if I could actually play as the team I support (Coventry) in a proper league structure with the player attributes well researched.
There's more to football than the matches between teams full of superstars, which are the only ones where PES shows it's main good point - player individuality.
In the matches between not-so-good teams, most of the players seem to play the same (slow, can't hit simple passes with consistent power, can't shoot etc.), unless a player has a big reputation and has played for a top team before in their career the attributes they have on PES just seem like guesswork, like the people who set the attributes have never seen the player play.
I feel that I must point out that Konami makes PES.
Including every Premier League team is a god damned miracle in all honesty. They only really focus on getting the big teams right, anyone outside of Europe they don't give a soggy shit about.
Case in point, Portsmouth. Admittedly our promotion team wasn't going to win the Prem, but we did top the table at one point and had a relatively successful debut season. But yeah, fair enough, I'm sure they had to assume that we were relegation favourites.
Now 7 years later, after we won the FA Cup, had a European tour, had AC Milan down 2:0 in said European tour, signed world famous players like Campbell, Defoe, Crouch, etc. I would expect that we would have a smidgen of recognition for these accomplishments. Hell, we even beat Liverpool in that Champions of Asia trophy. We beat a globally surported team, in Asia, right infront of their face.
Yet no, we are apparently shit and everything that we have gone through these past years has been a figment of my imagination. In reality we are a step below Boro and Fulham, meandering from season to season, hoping that the direness of football on display does't lead to a significant portion of season ticket holders commiting suicide.
Seriously though, every single one of our players is rated the same. There is no discernable difference between Niko Kranjcar (whose god damned awesome and loin-wettingly beautiful) and Richard Hughes. That is unforgivable - Hughes can't get a game for Scotland and Kranjcar is a key part of a very skilled Croatian team. Looking back to the PES3/4 days, you had Ivica fucking Mornar being of similar ability as that of Yakubu. The fact that you don't have a clue who Mornar is is a good enough indication of how woefully inept Konami are at using anything other than a dartboard to discern player's ability.
I remember the dark days when Gary O'Neil and Matty Taylor were the only bright sparks amongst a squad containing Giannis Skopelitis and Azar Karadas. I know what it's like to rely on 2 good players literally stopping your club from being embarassed week in week out. Master League did not represent this in the slightest, everyone was tarred with the same shitty brush, meaning you could use just about anyone and the end result would still by the same.
Honestly, they don't care if you support a lower league team. You're not meant to have a hard fought midfield battle, scrapping for goals with your one good player. You're meant to do a long through ball to Eto'o and see if you can outrun Evra. They are so apathetic to the lower league folks that if they even attempted to go into the lower tiers it would be such a hashjob that it would be a farce. Every team would have the same set of average players, plodding about like the ridiculously poor default ML players.
If they can't get the other 14/20 Prem teams right then it would be taking the piss if they attempted the lower leagues.
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