I've never watched a football match where someone is not being retarded. Barca performance against Sociedad reminded me of the heart feature on PES 2014. Pique almost caused a goal when he stuck a leg out to a simple throughpass. I kept thinking of the heart feature and how a team can school man city in the week then look like a 2nd division team at the weekend.
YouTube - Real Sociedad Vs Barcelona 3 1 All Goals And Highlights La liga 22 2 14 HD
Yes Zee, been thinking about this a lot lately and IMO, people (myself included) may be a little quick to criticise certain things in the game that have an influence over stuff we cannot control.
Part of the problem is this 'control' thing, where people like to feel that the game will pan out in x direction. For example we play as a superior side against another side and psychologically expect the game to go in a certain direction, kind of because it's a game.
Then when something out of the ordinary happens we question everything because we've lost an element of control. Liverpool-Swansea is a great example, of Liverpool going 2-0 up then getting back to 2-2. A lot of people on here would probably be up in arms if that happened in PES when in fact, generally, PES does a very good job of replicating the random element in sport.
I played West Ham as Liverpool for example, and lost 2-1 to West Ham by a late goal even though I was the better side. They played a tight defensive game, and the game was a slow tempo tight affair throughout. But I got frustrated and they picked me off on the counter.
The next game was totally different. The team I played came to attack and it was clear it was going to be zinger. After scoring first in the previous game on the 10th minute and not being able to score the second for the next 80, I proceeded to score 2 in the first 20 minutes.
It finished 3-0 and I had about 20 shots on the goal; it could have been 10 nil. But that's football. Stuff like this I'm always very impressed with PES. I can't explain it, but FIFA for example has always felt 'so' contrived. One element that feels different this year which I really like, and I'm not sure if it's placebo or not, but I feel that away games are harder to pick up points, like they should be.
On another note, I do a lot of sports betting stuff and believe me, on a day to day basis, the stuff that happens IRL across the globe is NOTHING to what PES 'scripts' thrown up...if this stuff happened in PES more there'd be a huge outcry of 'unbelievable' etc etc.
After this latest patch, I'm having a great time with the game. In around 6/7 matches I've only had one situation where I'd call keeper blunder, but even that was passable as it was the animation of the keeper that made it look completely shit rather than the outcome.
Scripts seem to have been toned down, but there's still enough in there that when you make an error the CPU can punish you. I'm loving the dribbling more now, and the shot power and shots in general I think are improved considerably. I'd say ML offline, is now near an 8, 8.5 game.
