Re: PES2010 News & Rumours thread
The only football game i've enjoyed (1v1) online is PES5, every other game since has just been about who has the faster players and can do the most chipped through balls (including FIFA).
Defending was an art - the use of super cancel to get your defenders into the right place (nothing better than having your keeper rounded and a defender diving headering it off the line
) and to push players off the ball in particular made defending just feel right. That combined with the fact that if you just held the pressure button then you would give away loads of fouls (which I think is right, holding a tackle button should be the equivalent of sticking legs out with bad timing and fouling, not doing good tackles) or get skinned easily.
So people would have to defend properly or give away loads of free kicks, so I used to spend ages in training mode with the teams I used online (normally Tottenham, Roma, Atletico, Valencia) practicing free kicks with their best free kick taker until I could score a fair percentage of them from various positions. I scored a lot of free kicks online, anything within 32m had a good chance
.
Then, the use of super cancel in attacking positions to leave the ball, get your striker in a better position to get their head to a cross (or set up a volley/overhead instead of a header) or to nip in front of the defender to get to the ball first from a bad through ball etc. made attacking feel right and super cancel was so responsive and unlike the following games in the PES series, it didn't slow your player down when you tried it.
PES3 and PES5 are the only two games which I think have got the balance between defending and attacking right - every other game seems to favour attacking if you get what I mean, hard to explain. Like you'd hardly ever see a game with 8 or more goals.
@ Badgerman - PES6 was ruined by the fucked up shooting system (PES5's was great, still the best ever probably), unresponsive/ineffective super cancel (players would slide off each other if you tried pushing them) and how players like Ronaldo/Eto'o/
Adriano would be almost unstoppable, as well as cheap cutback goals being extremely easy (to the point where it's all most people online would try to attack with), almost all headers going over the bar and the fact that free kicks from distance were impossible to score because keepers reacted so fast (sometimes before you even kicked the ball).
