I'm right behind everyone moaning about the genuine problems in PES 2014 - the off-the-pitch crap, the useless goalies (especially at the near post), the slightly underwhelming feeling when you score sometimes (because of the poor defensive AI), the tendency to ship buggy goals, the tech issues (slowdown etc), the automated/magnetised chipped through balls to off-the-ball sprinters, the ridiculous lack of fouls, the lack of stadia and so on. These are all pretty grim - not what we should expect from a full-price game in 2013. There's a lot to moan about.
But I've got to be honest, 99% of the moaning about gameplay that I've read here really does seem to be a bunch of through-ball-spammers and footballing half-wits throwing their toys out of the pram. Some of the stuff people have been complaining about is ludicrous. Despite all the niggles, PES 2014 is an astonishingly realistic football SIMULATION, and it seems to me that a lot of people who've been asking for this for years don't really want what they think they want.
You CANNOT play this game like an arcade game. Well, you can... but you'll have a very unrewarding experience. You have to play slow, patient, realistic - I mean, way more than in previous PES games. You can't even play this game like PES5. I've been on 30 minute games, passing the ball round defence etc where necessary, taking my time with everything, allowing the cpu to have the ball where appropriate rather than rushing in, lots of square or backwards passing, adjusting the DF line to stop the computer pinging through balls past me... and it's fantastic. It's an incredible game. An incredible game with loads and loads of stupid irritations (all of which could, in theory, be patched out - because they're exactly the same irritations we got in previous PES games, and they've been successfully patched out in the past). But a really, really amazing game.
I'm not saying that everyone who complains about something gameplay-related which isn't on my list above is stupid, or knows nothing about football, or just secretly wants an arcade game or whatever. I'm just saying that a lot of people are so used to the usual "OMG Konami what are you doing" reaction, from recent PES games, that whenever something goes "wrong" for them they're reaching straight for the insults rather than suspecting for one second that they might be the problem, and perhaps they just need to learn a new skill, or apply some real-football knowledge to the problem. I swear I saw someone a few pages back say the game was shit because you can't score headed goals, or something like that (not you Zee, lol). I've scored bloody hundreds of headed goals. It's just that heading has changed in this game - it's become more realistic, rather than just button mashing / random. People moaning that their player doesn't shoot the instant they press the shot button, despite the fact that he's totally off balance and in the middle of a feint animation!! And so on. The answers to many of these "problems" lie in taking real-world understanding of the sport and applying it to the game. There's plenty wrong with this game that can't be fixed by changing your approach - but a hell of a lot that can.
One good patch and this could be far and away the best football game of all time. I wouldn't say I was confident that we'll get that patch - I know Konami all too well - but there's no reason why we shouldn't. And for now... well, it's still the best football game of all time. But that's just it - it's a FOOTBALL game. The many irritations are, well... irritating. But you write off PES 2014 at your peril. It's a great game. A great unfinished game. But still a great game.
So now doesnt matter you choose Xavi or Messi to your squad. Another joke from Konami .
kinda like ... real life 
