Im not judging. It looks like and should look like a game built on 2017 gameplay. I've been setting up myself for a big change towards simulation for 4 years now and i don think i should for the 5th time. Thats it.
Simulation of what, exactly?
Following on from my post in the FIFA thread in which I said we need to take more accountability for our choices, I'll also say we need to take far greater accountability for our expectations.
This really is what it all boils down to for me now. I guess it is different for me and some others in that I know I will be buying both games with what I believe are realistic, manageable expectations. I'm not so sure others approach these games in a similar fashion any longer.
And hey, before anyone says I am being "insecure" or whatever about PES, I posted similar about FIFA in that games thread too.
The only way the "hardcore" will be truly catered for, given some of the completely unrealistic expectations they apply to both games, is for them to try fund or develop their ideal game themselves or just be completely done with football games entirely.
PES was never a sim, nor was FIFA. They both on occassion just happen to stagger upon doing more right than wrong as football videogames.
Has there ever been a football videogame that is as comparably a sim as say a flight simulator? Nope. Will there ever be one? Dunno, but even if I did think that it would be foolish of me to both expect either EA or Konami to produce it for me, or for that to happen anytime soon. Not even having a go at either publisher/developer and instead am just being completely realistic.
It seems to me, given all the various posts about both games, that both developers have made the ideal football game at one time or another. Konami would certainly seem to have done so, given all the PES 3, 5, & 6 love. Maybe it is just time to reckon that unless you go and do something about it yourself, that is as good as it is going to get for you, when considering EA or Konami developing a football game.
These games have evolved in so many ways since what many feel was these games performing at their peak. There are so many things that have influenced the evolution that really are sometimes even out of the develolers hands. The times, the demographics, the evolving tech and even social landscape will influence that evolution.
But let me make this completely clear: some expectations are driven by nostalgia. Nothing wrong with that, but it would be wrong to demand either developer to deliver on those for you. Again, not a dig at either franchise.