Flipper the Priest
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- 15 July 2003
Any fans of PES Chronicles here? Haven't read for a while and I see it's down - can anyone shed any light?
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Here am i! i asked @xPJRx by PM, cause he was a regular in the comment section there, told me that Greg decided it to, due to time balance issues, between the blog and real life.Any fans of PES Chronicles here? Haven't read for a while and I see it's down - can anyone shed any light?
Great that you kept at it,/restarted.So, despite the possibility of another game breaking event around the corner, I decided to keep going on my Pes 13 ML all the same. Too much fun.. definitely worth the risk at this point!
I had to rebuild the team the best I could; after the blank season, all the reserves with the last contract year (almost all of them except one, as for who's playing so little I usually go year for year) decided to leave me. Marilungo asked for the transfer after I refused an offer for him, so I had to sold him as well anyway despite being my best striker; in his place, I bought two forwards: Ji Dong-Won (complete, korean SS/CF) and Cani (classical tall striker).
So I had to face the first half of the season with a very short roster (just 19 players). Decided to play with a DMF and a more robust midfield whenever the situation required it.. and I think it paid; despite the league being tough as nails until now, that's how I managed to do at january:
That's also kinda fascinating we are all there in just a few points. Only 10 points from the first to the 15th place . Everything could happen from here to the end.. I just hope I'll not end up with another cursed streak like the last time.
On the market, I decided to renew everyone and listen for offers (on transfers list) for who didn't convinced me fully. WIll buy a replace for every guy I can sell from here to end season.
I was tempted to put Cani on the market as well, since he didn't shine in the few occasions I gave him.. but the last game, in which Gerardi was injured and I had to play him, he scored two goals and did a great performance, and I also can't sell a guy that is costantly on this mood:
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so.. as any good ending Pes story, he'll probably stay.
I also brought in two guys from the youth team (Piccioni and Budan, both with an overall under 60) just to make number. I'll maybe discard them in the summer but at least in case of red cards/injuries etc. I'll have something resembling a bench for the rest of the league.
Think I saw a documentary on that bloke a few years back,runs a antique shop/used books or something.@rockstrongo
The same bell end who usually does he appears to be going to all games (away as well) and standing outside.
It would appear to have been daylight robbery on our part to have won that. 29% possession (most of it hoofing it in the air I expect?) and 4 shots to 17 against the bottom team. Taken on the bear face of it, two play offs in three seasons it would appear he's doing a pretty good job but it's desperate stuff to watch most of the time under Jackett and behind closed doors is honestly the best way to watch it. I remember in last season's game MK played some great football to watch.
Had a quick go on PES 2011 last night and yeah you're right however it's a lot quicker and a bit more tolerable because of the 360 degree movement.
Yeah I agree, But in fairness, This period in football is a bit of a cross-roads with how average professional footballers and their dribbling ability is conveyed. Even your worse defenders for top flight teams should have capable agility when doing simple turns, Of course some more elegantly than others like your Ferdinand's and Maldini's but I think 10 years ago when these games were based compared to present day, Where almost every footballer is a super athlete to the point where most footballers are all rounders now, The slow turning/dribbling animation wasn't such a necessity in my opinion even back then. I think as you say it was a way of representing the difference between a Messi/Ronaldo and a Vidic/Agger but perhaps too exaggerated in the latter.
It appears so, At least a compromise I think. You can get some realistic enjoyment out of PES 2021 & maybe FIFA but you do have to customize your game settings to look for it. Game speed, Passing/shooting assistance, sliders on the latter, tweaking tactics etc... You basically have to Frankenstein your own game in order to make it more stimulating to play which as a consumer looking for a certain experience isn't always ideal especially when both mainstream games go in the same direction rather than just one of them, giving you an alternative.
I came up with a saying that "These used to be football games, Now they're just games based on football."
Gran Turismo is a racing game, The prefix is the specialist subject that is the priority and is going to be represented faithfully, You can't be disappointed if you play it when you don't even like racing.
GTA is a fun game that's based on racing/driving as a core but it's an exaggerated and accessible version of driving that anyone can pick up and play with out the consequences of not driving properly but there's more attractive activity's on top of the driving fundamentals to accomplish such as missions, Earning money and collecting novelties. Kind of like football games now. The football is the basis but the priority is the engagement with novelty modes such as myClub & FUT and the quickest way to get the player to interreact with these squad building and pack opening screens before they back to the "grind" of playing a football match to get them back to these dopamine triggering pack reveal screens for their rewards than back to the pitch and so on. It's a cycle.
Anyway, Yes that's my take on the philosophy of football gaming over the last 20 years. Started as a novelty distraction, Then they pushed boundaries to see how uncannily they can represent the sport digitally and now we're back to a cutthroat competitive distraction, vying for the consumers attention before they take their money elsewhere and chase their thrills in Fortnite and Roblox.
Thanks mate. I don't think FUT & myClub have influenced the way the sport is played even if young footballers play those games, They would still be under strict instructions from their coaches. Even the most exciting branded young players in the world right now such as Mbappe, Haaland and Ansu Fati don't play shaolin football the way it's depicted & encouraged on FIFA.Love your refreshing insights as always. With the handball debacle going on in the Premier League, as well as erratic score lines(terrible defending). Do you think the Fortnite and Roblox generation of young footballers are playing Fifa-esque football with seemingly a sole focus of having a 99 Pace, 99 Strength and zero regard to the art of defending?
I may be wrong, but I believe it is the popularity of FUT and MyClub in recent years which have influenced and altered the way football is being played out. Pointless passing for possession's sake, reliance on pace and non-existent defending seems to be the new philosophy of the game. Pains me to see how the game is slowly becoming a high-scoring sport like basketball. A goal is meant to be special in football, I'd take a hard fought 1-0 over a 5,6,7 goal drubbing.
Playing as a centerback in a Sunday league in my late 20s, I am starting to grow disillusioned with this beautiful game we so dearly love. At this rate, defenders are getting penalised for doing the right thing, (how are we supposed to defend with hands-tied on our back), while attackers get to exploit and get away scot-free with the ridiculous hand-ball rule. Will be final straw for me if this handball bullshit seeps into the lower leagues.
Future for football seems bleak when modern football games are influencing the next-generation players to be attacking-oriented and render the art of defending obsolete. Football used to be end-to-end stuff, but players could actually defend.
Yeah the biggest inconsistaancy is diving. You've introduced VAR for the sake of the fairest and most sanitised experience for better or for worse, Yet it still doesn't solve the problem of diving and simulation. What is even the point?If you watch the 2002 World Cup again you'll see 15 yellow cards for diving throughout the tournament. What the hell happened to football in the meantime? This game actually used to be watchable, full of intensity and physicality, the ball fluently travelling from one side of the pitch to the other. Today the game gets interrupted any time there is a physical contact, the actual playing time is shorter than ever with this VAR disaster. And with all these penalties given for dives and handballs it's honestly becoming the most ridiculous and unfair sport ever.
If you watch the 2002 World Cup again you'll see 15 yellow cards for diving throughout the tournament. What the hell happened to football in the meantime? This game actually used to be watchable, full of intensity and physicality, the ball fluently travelling from one side of the pitch to the other. Today the game gets interrupted any time there is a physical contact, the actual playing time is shorter than ever with this VAR disaster. And with all these penalties given for dives and handballs it's honestly becoming the most ridiculous and unfair sport ever.
Yeah the biggest inconsistaancy is diving. You've introduced VAR for the sake of the fairest and most sanitised experience for better or for worse, Yet it still doesn't solve the problem of diving and simulation. What is even the point?
Nowadays it's if any kind of contact with a player no matter if it's light as a feather and wouldn't affect the attackers situation at all is considered a foul and a penalty so long as the player theatrically throws himself to the ground.
Look at this example at 1:57 for a joke of a penalty, Disgraceful.
That is very much true that technology, pitches and general conditions have contributed to the change in football but what I mean by the players getting faster isn't necessarily that they're genetically enhanced or that their super athletes or anything, But the training and nutrition and physiotherapy has evolved so much as well as more & more younger players who are in their physical prime & fitness are playing over those in their mid to late 20's that it's going to be an amalgamation of overall increase of pace in the sport.When people talk about the speed of the modern game, they do so because today's pitches are 100 times better than 20 years ago, and the balls travel faster. So the passes sometimes look like ping pong: they are very fast, even the precise ground passes. All that, with better shoes and equipment, is what technology has brought to football and we should thank it for that. But the footballers are not faster than before; speed is more or less genetically innate and there is only so much you can do with training. What today's training methods improve is stamina and durability, and modern medicine allows for better recovery from injury.
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But the training and nutrition and physiotherapy has evolved so much as well as more & more younger players who are in their physical prime & fitness are playing over those in their mid to late 20's that it's going to be an amalgamation of overall increase of pace in the sport.