And some people should get off their high horses and
I wasn't going to post this as I wouldn't want to ignite anything in here, but you're asking for it badly. No one cares what your background is, it doesn't hold any water, sorry. I've been a ISS/PES and Fifa player since 1993, does that make my opinion any better than anyone? No.
PES is not a million miles behind Fifa. That is one hell of an exaggeration I can't and won't stomach. I've been playing the Fifa 13 demo and for the life of me I simply cannot comprehend what about it do you call football. There are a few good things I like, but the one basic thing that it should do better is freaking wrong. Players skating around the pitch is not what I call football. Ball control doesn't represent football. Dribbling doesn't represent football. I simply cannot stand it and makes me so angry at a huge company like EA who cannot get this basic thing right. Seriously how hard is it to implement? They have all the equipment and the money required for this, yet it still looks ugly as hell. They call it a simulation yet they can't simulate what I mentioned. I hate the skating with a passion. Give me Fifa 08 with all it's faults any day over this.
I find PES gives me what I want football-wise on the pitch. It might be weaker in other areas but on the pitch is all I care about. The football experience. A game can have all the fluff in the world but when it comes to the real part - football - it fails. Then I'd stop playing that game because I won't be sitting there staring at fluff. Fgs I endured all the PES blandness (not football) way back when and used pen and paper for all the scouting, leagues, etc yet I never complained. Why? Because the football part of it always pulled me back. I loved every second of it, every moment. Take the notebook with me everywhere comparing players on my list then setting tactics based on their strengths.
This is what I'm looking for. I know we are in an age where all this should be long gone but I seriously couldn't care any less if a football game gave me what I wanted from it on the pitch. I'm ready to get back to pen and paper if that's what it takes. And PES gives me that, not Fifa.
In conclusion, PES on the pitch isn't poor, Fifa is. And I'm not one bit biased. I couldn't care less what company it is that gives me what I want. It can be a one man company/project with childish crayon drawings of Chris Camara in the background but gives me the best on the pitch football gaming experience I'm looking for.
And this is my honest opinion.
Its a lie anyone can see miles away.
