I'll get it for a bash at weekends. I got cash to burn on some new games as I am bored of PES6, have completed GOW and find it impossible online against the geeks, PGR3 is still amazing and can't find the initiative to play FEAR. I'll download it later, can you remind me Jack? Send me a message at 8pm via the 360.
Haha, yeah, Gears Of War is ridiculous online. My 11-year-old nephew bugs me to death to play it every night, and he's like a fucking robot, everyone calls him Shotgun. Plus 90% of the time you get team-killers who think they are
hilarious. I want to trade it in, but it's also one of the best games I've played... I don't know what to do.
Same with PGR3, actually. I've completed it offline and I know I won't play it again because the only way I can get a game is the player matches, and they all play Cat & Mouse (which I think is the stupidest game mode of any game on Earth). The gameplay is great though, even if I do prefer Forza (which I've only just started playing properly, and it is great; just a shame that it's last-gen, but the new one is coming along soon).
As for sending you a reminder... Yeah, if you send me that PS3, I'll be your secretary for the month. Until then, use a PostIt note. :thumbup:
I'm starting to love the freeness of it and I get where you're coming from Jack. Really frustrates me how its like the CPU decided whether your shot goes over or not in PES. And you cant direct them. Say the ball comes out from a defensive header from a corner and I'm there with Lamps to smack it. But it either goes miles over or straight into the keepers hands. In Fifa you choose where the shot goes.
Exactly my point; my God, maybe I'm not just wasting my life away on these forums after all, maybe I am actually getting through to people.
I'll sound like the saddest bastard in the world here, but when I first saw the arena in FIFA 07 (where you control the one player) and I saw how you could aim for a corner, place it exactly where you wanted it to go with NO CPU ASSISTANCE, and watch the keeper desperately stretching for it but not being able to reach it, it was a pivotal moment for me, gaming-wise. When you go to a park to play football, you can spray the ball wherever the fuck you want to. In FIFA, it's exactly the same. You just choose the direction and push the button, and the ball goes to where you just put it. To me, that is what next-gen is all about. It's a hell of a step closer to reality.
What could be more satisfying in a game than knowing the pass you just pulled off was all your own work and it wasn't just the CPU auto-targeting somebody and landing the ball in-front of them (or, if you're playing the CPU, in an impossible position for you to get it), without any element of control? And that the shot that was just out of the keeper's reach went into the net because you aimed it just right?
PES is not realism. You press cross and the CPU does the work, you don't even need to power it. You press shoot and it will go to one of six places (seven if you include the goalkeeper's gloves), with the goalkeeper being able to save anything that the CPU feels like saving.
It's just a shame that there's still a few things that need fixing, such as the ludicrous through-balls and the heading system. But overall, I'm really looking forward to the 23rd.