@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.
I couldn't write that last sentence with a straight face, though. And given the tendency, it's much more probable we'll be comparing PES32 with...goddamn PES6.
As for the subject of directly comparing a 13-year-old game with one that is two console generations apart, if you feel the need of comparing both, then you already lost. Retro-PES isn't for you at all, you'll only be wasting time on it, and you'll have no satisfaction in playing anything but the modern game. You're comparing apples with oranges, and because the comparison makes no sense, you'll get no satisfying answer for it.
For me, this is simple: like the game, play it; don't like it, don't. You can talk about the modern games' 4K graphics, XPTO engines, Ultramegamodern technologies, 567 leagues and gazillion players; logically, you're correct, any retro-PES game always loses that comparison. But none of that matters when you're playing. You rather care about having a fun, entertaining and challenging experience every time. I get that with PES6 - among many other retro-PES games. You could write me a list of a thousand things you find wrong about that game, I'd certainly agree with most, but I'd keep playing the game anyway.
Why though? Is it for the game's own merit? Nostalgia goggles as you call it? Me being a dumb f*ck who thinks 8-directional player movement is enough?...
...then again, who cares? I play the game, I like playing it, so I play it again.
In saner times this would be an obvious idea, but I guess it's almost a revolutionary mentality in an age where cognitive dissonance is king, where the audience spends a whole year bashing the newest sports game because they're having a horrible experience with it; yet for some reason they keep on playing it and next year, there they are buying the following iteration, and the cycle never ends. It would go a long way if people stopped buying/playing sports games as if they were investing on the stock market and just sat down, looked at their banquet of available sports games to play and thought to themselves: "what do I feel like playing today?".
Old man rant over.