Yeah the keepers are really bad. Sort of ruins the whole experience for me as the diving animations take all the joy away from scoring. The actual animations bug me more than the mistakes they make.
The main problem stems from the ball & nets imo. If you look when you're playing, the ball is slightly too small. The nets also look slightly too big for the keeper. In reality, they probably aren't, and it's more to do with the depth of the net (or lack of) that actually makes them look so high and wide. So small ball, big nets, keeper with poor animations/poor AI generally means scoring won't be very satisfying.
The keepers just don't command the nets like a proper keeper does. It's like sticking one of your mates in net, and he doesn't really play football, let alone know how to be a good keeper.
The keeper animations on pes6 were pretty good, and the nets were box like, and the ball seems bigger to me.
Do me a favour please,take a good look at fifa10 were the goal frame and net isnt proportionate to the size of the pitch or the players,and the ball is deliberatly oversized because of the default camera view and angle.
I dont know why you guys make such a fuss about keepers its almost like a obsession.Its all about game balance,with fifa being a example of were there intentionally superhumanised otherwise most games would turn into a goal fest with cricket score lines.Ive played alot of fifa this year and the keepers make daft mistakes and blunders much like pes,its just not highlighted as much as it is in pes.
This is a BETA,and i stress beta which is probably as old as the month of june and i bet my bottom dollar(im not american)the version sitting in the laps of the game journos out there currently is on a completely different plain.
Your talking about a collective group of developers that have experience that pans 20 years of making football games,do you not think even pes productions can see the bugs,flaws and how the keepers are prone to not picking up the ocassional loose ball or flapping behind the sticks because they can.
Ive played a lot of pes2010 and blue samuri and i really get the impression a lot of the points directed towards goal keeping are quite hysterical.There much better then pes6 were they never came off there line and were the defence was like a teabag and clumbersome so the keeper ai was deliberatly notched up.
If it isnt tricks its goalkeepers,am im pretty sure once everyone gets some time with the covering and tracking defensive system those trick whores will be either bundled off the ball or dispensed with a well timed crunching slide tackle.
Weve all been burned a bit over the last three years but lets not start throwing the water out of the bath because the babys crying,im sure pes2011 in its finished state will be fine.
Some of you really make me laugh,if actually you understood how difficult and hard it is to make a video game and how much work goes into games like pes and fifa and how hard it is to simulate the sport but also adhere to the fact thats its a game and has to have good gameplay you would be a little bit more open minded.
Pes6 was good but it had issues,its funny how rose tinted nostalgia and the fact that playing the game for long periods(years)starts to make the mind paper over the cracks because you have a comfort zone with the game and the brain knows the right patterns and how to avoid the problematic areas.
Ive been very critical of pes over the course of the last three years and ive also played alot of fifa this gen but that hasnt stopped me from realising theres still a genius in pes(even in this generation of consoles)that fifa will always lack however good the animation,goal keepers and control mechanics become.
Pes6 is a world away from the football games of today,its been superseeded.
I couldnt give a rats arse about goal net depth,the size of the ball,or what shape the nets are,i just want a solid balanced game with great gameplay to boot,that looks reasonably fluid and requires skill to play and were you have to use your brain to actually score and defend,with clever off the ball ai,free control mechanics with a little bit of that pes productions alchemy thrown in,and for me pes2011 fits the bill.
Lets not forget fifa has awful free-kicks,some of the worst replays ive ever seen in a game(that clip and are choppy at best),is only good on the xbox360 because the ps3 version is vastly inferior and the pc versions null and void,the in-ability to save replays,a horrible heading system thats almost non existent,to many cut scenes,a menu interface thats like reading a jjr tolkien novel,planet no gravity physics with players that skate and bounce around the pitch.