Agree fully with this. For me, it's one of the game's biggest negatives, and sometimes I think that Konami looks at FIFA's intuitive control scheme and they choose to be different just for the sake of doing it differently.
Exactly what I said!! I'm certain they’re just forcing themselves to be different.
Good control design is 'layered'; when you hold down one button, it opens up additional options that you wouldn't need unless you're doing that first action.
I’m not sure if they’ve changed it now, but Fifa used to have:
R2 sprint
L2 slow dribble, protect the ball & L2 + X flair pass
R2 & L2 finesse dribble
This is fantastic layered control design for a number of reasons; having three speeds of movement mapped to two shoulder buttons, with one being activated when the other two are pressed together means you can 1) seamlessly move between all 3 movement speeds using only 2 fingers, 2) the middle speed is the combination of buttons, with the two extremes at either end, making it feel natural and intuitive to move between them, and 3) it free's up another button to be used for something else, rather than being needed for finesse dribbling - Great control design
They also had the sense to think
"okay, so when the player is moving slowly, what are they most likely going to be considering? Well, as they are going so slow defenders will be near them, so, probably the need to shield the ball, or wanting to do some kind of fancy flick / pass past the defenders" so what did they do? Add shield the ball to the same button you'll already be holding down to move slowly - Great control design.
PES 2019 used to work in a similar fashion, but 2020 has absolutely fucked that up completely:
* You need to let go of left stick to then be able to move freely using finesse dribble?
* You have to hold R2 to enable some skills, which then locks you out of others?
* You hold R2 to do finesse touch, but then finesse dribble (something you'd naturally assume would follow on from this) is something TOTALLY different??
* R2 is also let the ball run through your legs, but sprint, the action you'd also be doing directly after this, is again something TOTALLY different in R1???
There's a reason why 90% of FPS games have near-identical controls. There's a reason why all racing games stopped using X/A as the accelerator - because it works. So what if Konami would have had a similar control scheme to Fifa, you guys have been copying each other for years.
Someone must have given the controller to their dog, because PES 2020's controls are designed for paws, not hands.
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still beat me 3-0