well, i know from where you got it
, but like i told you earlier, that link doesn't work anymore.
can you please reupload?
Oh sorry, guess i was lucky to grab it when i could, here you go!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z1mpqgp10004gw7/UEFA_Euro_2008_Patch_v1.0.rar?dl=0
Having now played PES 6 for several months now (due to being tired of the PES 19 scripting and being stuck with a bad laptop), I have come to realise that I have worn nostalgia goggles all aloung! The state of the game was even worse back then than it is now!
The constant clumsiness shown by the players, the shooting controls making no sense, the amateurish goalkeepers, I absolutely cannot stand that old piece of garbage anymore!
I would love to be enlightened by PES 6 defenders explaining to me how the game is better in any way than newer PES games.
I think Retro PES may not be for you in that case and you're either better suited to trying something from the '11-'13 era or maybe even PES 2017 which is in my opinion, the best of the fox engine versions.
I appreciate you didn't have a good experience with the game but PES 6 really isn't as bad as you say it is though, that's just a fact. Yes it's aged mechanically compared to what we have now, of course but that's the entire point of retro gaming. It isn't going to have the luxory of 15 years of gaming evolution we have now. You might aswell just compare the PS2 to the PS4 as well in that case, why?
Appreciate these games for what they were, they're literally time capsules which represent a time when developers were ambitious and passionate about merging gaming with the philosophy of the sport. What Konami accomplished is nothing short of tremendous on PS1 & PS2 tech. They could've put out another football toy like Actua Soccer or FIFA like others were doing at the time but instead had the vision that gaming could transcend the stereotype that it was a distraction for kids and adolescents.
There's a reason so many people reference that golden era of PS2 PES games. They replicated the emotions, drama & dynamics of a football match on that tech. Not many PES games after wards had you punching the air when you scored. They we're challenging, but they were also responsive and rewarding.
I'm surprised you said so many games ended in 0-0's, PES 6 was actually a game where you could have a lot of high scorelines because they re-balanced the game after the notoriously difficult PES 5. As far as variety in goals and AI?
Go check out my 2002 World Cup series I made for the game, The creativity and unpredictability in some of the goals from the CPU had me out of my seat.
@Lobbedball , I know what you mean. All the ultra-modern football stadiums look like upside down cereal bowls. Too much roof cover for all the corporate boxes, no floodlight pylons or moats around the edge of the stands.
The old Olympic Stadium in Munich was my favourite real world and Gran Chaco in PES.
Yeah i brought this up a little while ago that whilst i understand these grounds are decades old and renovation is necessary and sometimes even knocking them down and building new grounds, it also makes me sad that a lot of these venues where iconic, unique and instantly recognisable and they've been replaced by the same template it seems now. Almost every new stadium either looks like the Allianz or Emirates stadium. And pretty soon, they'll all be named some variation of that too.
I miss the character of White Hart Lane, Highbury, Munich's Olympic Stadium and Vicente Calderon, now they've all got that bird nest bowl look going for them, they're corporate playgrounds now.
@Worm199: Even though I don't think PES6 is the best PES of all time, its greatness is self-evident because here we are, 13 years after its release, talking about it - some keep on enjoying the game, some don't, but it's still a kind of ghost that never stops haunting the latest PES releases, as people keep comparing those with that game every time a new iteration comes out. I hope I'll be around to find out whether by the time PES2032 is released, we'll still be comparing it with PES2019 and playing PES2019 instead of PES32.
Perfect post. I'm also interested in
@Worm199 history with the series, if he grew up with PES 5 & 6 too as i imagine it might be difficult going to an older game with no point of reference other than current tech. You've got to have expectations and an understanding that you can't play PES 6 the same way you'd play PES 2019. The main appreciation is how well these games replicated football with the tech available then they had any right of doing. It's also something typical of sports games that an older title has a long lasting legacy too. It's not just PES, I understand that NHL 2004 is still beloved, supported by the community and modded with current rosters today, it's the PES 6 of NHL. Miguel, you could probably speak on what the NBA 2K equivalent is and of course in Wrestling games, No Mercy is often credited as being the best wrestling game of all time, that's a bloody N64 game, worse hardware then the PS1 for it's limited cartridge space.
But yes, you're right about thing though. Just play what you want to play and enjoy what actually gives you satisfaction. Just because something is popular with other people doesn't mean you have to force it down your own throat either. It's ok to not enjoy what others like or not understand why it's so critcally acclaimed. If that was the case, i'd be throwing my wages at Fortnite, myClub & Black Ops 5 with Game of Thrones and The fucking Walking Dead season 8 streaming in the background just because they're culturally popular right now.
A man who could have found a place in the ML defaults, slotting in nicely at left back. Removing the legs of any winger who dared to stray into his corner of the pitch.