It's the same for both games, though, when it comes to AI. Without making this the comparison thread, I read
@Mikhail talking about how PES's CPU were passing around at the back in one of the Twitch feeds of 2020 and I thought "yes, finally, the AI will be worth playing" - so I went to watch the feed and... they were only doing that after kick-off. The rest of the time, your players are in an attacking phase when the AI get the ball, and so they just
counter,
counter,
counter. Direct passes straight forwards, every team. Absolute shite. (In my opinion.)
That,
on top of the AI bullshit I posted in the comparison thread earlier, just kills it. Two wrongs don't make a right but my point is, it's a bit annoying to constantly read that "FIFA's just shit" when...
A) I honestly think both games are as bad as each other but in different (sometimes opposite) ways, and B) we all end up going "fuck it" and buying the games, telling ourselves it'll be okay (which I'm definitely doing at the minute, as is everyone in the PES thread) - but it never lasts, because they never really move on.
The only solutions are either A) both games take a year's break, B) new engines (hopefully next year for both games), C) a third football game competitor comes along and makes something amazing (which would probably take years to get right anyway), D)
we all start playing online (which is exactly what they want) or E) we just stop playing football games.
I got a lot of joy out of FIFA 19 and hope to do the same with 20 if the gameplay's just a little better (the pace is certainly better, or at least, it is in half the vids). If not... I'm addicted to Football Manager again...