lancers
League 1
I'm opposed to fully manual, yes. It's in FIFA, and I'm ok with that, but it doesn't give you more of a sim experience. I've never seen a convincing argument otherwise in my 3 years or so of regularly posting on here. I also don't think manual shooting makes sense as a control mechanism, and manual passing moves things further away from how football is played nowadays. The manual games I've played against veterans have always been interesting and challenging, but never more 'realistic' in terms of how moves build up. Often less realistic.
The only situation in which I'd be fine with fully manual is in Clubs or BaP/BaL, where you control just one player. Otherwise I'd rather it was mapped to a shoulder button as it is for passing in PES.
I agree that full manual does not equate to a simulation. That is the problem all sports games now have. True replication of stats can only be duplicated by full assist which might not be much fun to play really.
Whether they choose to go with an arrow system like older PES titles which gives you a player's best/worst day or some other avenue is the question.