So, I've decided to give it a few more matches today, this time by myself.
You know how when you play a game with a friend, even if the game sucks, it's still a fun time? Well, yesterday I played with my dad, and while we laughed at most of the experience because we knew it was poor, there seemed to be some light at the end of the tunnel. Now that I've played by myself and had no one to laugh with, I realize that the light at the end of the tunnel was a train ready to run over me.
One thing I can't stand is the weight of it, PES always had weight, at least in FOX, and I liked that, because it was realistic and gave a feeling of inertia, here however it's just too much, in some moments it feels as if the players had the biggest meal of their lives before the match, it's sluggish and feels so off.
However, the worst thing to me, who loves to play possession, is the short passing, the pitch feels like mud, I can't believe how slow short passing is, it makes it so most of my riskier passes are intercepted because the defender has all of the time in the world to get to it and stick his foot out, so I'm stuck doing mostly safe passes that don't progress my play at all. One of the few reliable plays I have is a through pass on the wing, since it seems very open, however no matter how much of a head start my fast winger has it seems like the defender always catches him and tackles, no matter how old and slow they might be, it makes it feel so robotic.
I can't stand playing this, everything feels so sluggish and I can't pass properly because the ball feels as if it's rolling on mud and gets stuck, most of my goals feel like luck and it overall feels like there isn't much depth to anything, I've only played a few matches and it feels like I've already seen everything, the same things happening over and over, the same patterns of play, the same situations and outcomes, it's so predictable and boring.
In my previous post I compared this to PES2014, but when playing that demo all of those years back I had a lot more fun than this, PES2014 was never this sluggish, and the passing felt much better.
This is just a complete disaster of a launch, I don't care anymore if the ideas are decent, what matters is how they were executed, and they were executed horribly, I don't care if this will be more playable in a year or something, I don't want to play it, I'd rather play something else, and it depresses me, I never thought I'd feel this way about a new PES title, but here we are.
What were they thinking?