There is nothing that makes me feel like I'm playing simulation football like breaking the legs of my opponents 5 times in the same play and not even getting a yellow. Or having an AI that plays possession game on their half at 85 mins losing 0-1 in the champions league finals. PES 2016 was an arcady mess, let's please move forward instead of making excuses for it.
Playing PES and FIFA on manual is like putting a band aid on lung cancer instead of stopping smoking. You are purposely handicapping yourself to introduce some level of randomness into the game since nobody can auto-aim passing and shooting, when this should happen due to stats and error.
Sadly the default out of the box game plays like a ping pong fest and that's how you are supposed to play these games. Go to any "professional" PES tournament in the world, play any online game... this is it.
It's honestly heart breaking seeing people tweeting the FIFA sliders in hopes of finding some magical combination and "placebo" themselves into believing they found gold. Or in PES case, I even saw an example where the guy let the AI face the AI during defending so it wouldn't look bad
I also don't get you guys, PES 5 sucked because it only has 8 direction and it didn't have freedom, now it had ping pong all along. FFS.