Flipper the Priest
International
- 15 July 2003
It's what I do when I play friendlies when I'm mucking around with a game. Good for variety and trying out different tactics.
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Fictional football squad ML United hold this day as a testament to their worst-performing, infamously bad third-choice stopper Zamenhof. The side was made up mostly of useless prats anyway - save for a few such as Njorgo; Vornander and the rather oddly named 'Oranges102', but one day a man named 'Zamenhof' just popped up in there out of nowhere, on 15th December 2002.
His stats made even Lothar, the replacement for his superior Kelsen, look incompetent at the true ability of 'looking out into the pitch and not paying any attention to the actual game'. It's debatable how he even made it as a player too: some say that he was a friend of Burchet, which given the pronounciation of his name, would make sense from his ability. Others have claimed he got in from a competition titled 'collect ten crisps packets and be a goalkeeper for ML United'. The most likely story however is that he was created from a mutation in one of the factories handling production of the shirts for the next season, just after an accident caused by a psychotic-induced worker, and then just shoved into the ML United team because they were bottom of the league at the time.
And given Zamenhof's insane ability to concede more than two goals in every single match he was placed in, it was no doubt that the managers were simply paying him in drugs and putting him in goal for a laugh. Oh well.
Fixture 1 Group B is here.
Finland v Denmark (me)
Belgium (me) v Russia
An excellent win for Finland and they really deserved it. I loved the bit right at the end when Larsen cleared it off the line for us. Although it looked like it was hitting the post. In the other match that was an emphatic win for one of the favourites, Belgium. Russia did have their chances though and if they had scored one of their shots it may have been a different result. I loved De Bruyne's goal.
I mean if that's his only purpose otherwise being eternally benched, kinda makes him somewhat... useless. He also had the worst peak on PES 5 out of any player in the default team.so I brought on the tall keeper in place of the centreback.
Nice one. De Bruyne goal was indeed class and Belgium looking the part. The less said about the Russian keeper thebetter!
While we're on Euro 2020...
I got the idea for EURO 2020 from yourself as I enjoy your videos. So well polished too.
I find it a bit tiring sometimes though, play game, make video, upload. I like watching them back though.
I mean if that's his only purpose otherwise being eternally benched, kinda makes him somewhat... useless. He also had the worst peak on PES 5 out of any player in the default team.
Could be that the Konami's lacking of changing the stats properly after PES 2 to actually accomodate for physics changes affected the defaults rather dramatically on a per-game basis... like, tracing Ivarov's stamina stat of 78 goes back to a time where the stamina stat affected the GK much more drastically (PES 3), where it was set to 80. For reference, most other GK's in later games had theirs set around 60ish if memory serves me right.
Most of the default players had their stats fixed at PES 4 era, though those were mostly unchanged from 3, which were slight alterations from 2, which were nerfed from the first game (mostly unchanged from it number-wise but players were rated much lower in PES 1 than 2)
OMG, it's full of stars! (Valderrama, Hernandez, Stoichkov, Matthaus, Etcheverry )
The hardest Konami PS1 title, it has an additional difficulty level (which I played on). I think all PS1 patches should be made on this game, it's much better than WE 2002.
Thank you!
I know the feeling, it can seem a chore. But it is nice to see them back, have them for posterity and think: "hey, I made that!"
Also nice when people enjoy it and say so, too. I look at the analytics even with my meagre 30-odd subscribers and it's a mad amount of views and time spent watching!
Love it. Will watch in full later. It was on my long, long list of potentials for YT!
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Interested to know some thoughts on an idea I have. I have a vision for a sort of online 'trophy room', where people can record all the trophies they've won in any football game ever made. All your PES, FIFA, Championship Manager, Sensible Soccer, etc silverware.
Things to record: game; trophy; team (should it be only if you use the same team? I think so); difficulty level; time and date; media (screenshots or video). Think I'm missing anything?
Of course if there's mileage and wider interest in this perhaps it could be something bigger and better. Maybe have its own platform. I just think it's a great way to celebrate offline football game in a world of online nonsense. And while I enjoy playing games here and there I enjoy it much more when I'm playing towards something.
For now it's probably going to take the shape of something lame on social media, starting with my Master League D2 Cup win!
Yeah, he never really lives up even to Kelsen on this regard I guess. Thanks for the remarks on the stats history though.I was however disappointed with Lothar; the young keeper for the future turns out to reach an early, modest peak and then decline, so he bred resentment in me. Not only does he never get as good as Ivarov, he is in decline before Ivarov generally retires, if I remember rightly, so you need to buy a new keeper for the future. And unlike Zam, his modest height doesn't inspire me to use him as a CB!
The sun's beating down but the wind is shooting through the stadium.That's a really good point, why not use WE for the Euro market? Presumably they would have consulted non-Japanese people on this; it seems quite intuitive to me that eleven gives a clue to what the game will be about, and it's a simple message- it's like saying "The best team!". I think Winning Eleven is a better name than Pro Evolution Soccer, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense in English, now I think about it. In fact it sounds like the sort of lost in translation version of something that presumably sounds better in Japanese. That was definitely the case in the commentary of the first Pro Evo, when we had great lines such as "The wind is whistling through the stadium" (I wouldn't want it any other way!).
[silence]
[shot taken]
[silence]
[shot goes wide]
"I tell a lie, he's missed"
There's one line that's clearly contextual in PES6 but is obviously not triggered correctly that really annoys me.
First shot of the game, a tame effort that the goalie throws his cap on.
Brackley: They must be wondering what they have to do to beat the keeper today
( I think there's a line before it about the keeper saving the shot - in fact it might be Trevor that says the first line then Peter Brackley responds with that line)
I can't remember that one, which game is it from?
I think I'm one of the few who would say "I definitely would" to this.We complain about it, but would we really have it any other way? 😂
Heh LOL.If this was the sentiment for the PS1 and PS2, no-one told the commentary guys.