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And judged as an own goal...Did you guys see the Costa Rica goal they scored from the penalty? Classic Pes goal! lol
Some great stuff @miguelfcp@Anjin: Loving the concept already, keep us updated on your ML. The kit is looking great too, reminds me of a more classy Peru shirt.
@rockstrongo: Glad you're having fun on PES12, I'm kind of jealous because it's one of those games which I still have the box but the disk itself is nowhere to be found. Certainly I'm curious to see how will you enjoy that experience on it, since the last time I played was half a decade ago already...
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I had an urge to play another WC on PES2010 and f*** it, this time I was going to use an even worse NT than Angola, my last and rather successful try. For the first time, I decided to use Syria.
What a goddamn horrible team they are. No defender has more than 70 defense stat, no striker has more than 73 attack, and if you're familiar with player overalls (a feature that some of you already know I absolutely hate) no player has more than 66.
Decided to set up a kind-of-4-4-2, a very fluid approach to try and mask my team's shortcomings and to take advantage of three decent (rather, "not-horrible") SS/AMF. Since I didn't have any competent striker, I let those three players to roam freely up front where a traditional striker would've been.
The two shadow strikers double as wingers and sometimes even AMFs, depending on the situation. Offensively, this formation will often appear like a 4-4-2 but the AMF is very offensive minded (he's a natural SS too) so it tends to morph into a 4-3-3. The right-side CMF is a natural SMF so he joins the attack a lot.
Defensively, the AMF joins the three other midfielders and our shape returns to a 4-4-2. Our defensive organization resembles a 4-4-2 flat as the right-side CMF helps our right-back defend the wing.
As for our WC group, we ended up with Uruguay, Portugal and Sweden. Syria's a lucky country indeed.
Fixture 1 vs. Uruguay - Solid exhibition for Syria's first-ever WC match. After an eventless first half, Uruguay's Abreu got a red card and I began to believe...but despite having a few decent chances, they managed to score twice and win the match. Well-deserved win for them.
Syria 0-2 Uruguay
Fixture 2 vs. Sweden - Another decent first half to keep the 0-0 at halftime, though this time around we had clearly the control of the match and the best chances to score.
As the referee blew his whistle for the start of the 2nd half, Zlatan Ibrahimovic decided to display how disgusted he was with his team's performance to his teammates, manager and...well, to the world. Naturally, he would've done it in a way only Zlatan could ever do.
https://streamable.com/sbymi
As Syria attacked he remained in the same position, like a (beautiful) statue. After I lost the ball for a Sweden counter-attack, he remained still. Zlatan glitched? But as soon as the legendary Henrik Larsson passed him the ball, Zlatan reacted and got back to normal.
Anyway, Syria stole Zlatan's spotlight with their first-ever WC goal after a corner-kick. We managed to keep it like this until the end of the match!
Syria 1-0 Sweden
Fixture 3 vs. Portugal - After the 2nd fixture, all of the 4 teams in our group had 3 points! Because of our negative goal difference, only a win would get us to the round of 16. We depended only on ourselves to get there though.
Impossible is nothing, right?
15 virtual minutes in and...Syria scores! Is this real life?
But just 10 more minutes afterwards and they score through a corner, 1-1.
We were able to hurt them on the counter but our efficiency was poor, rarely ever did we bother Rui Patrício. Portugal didn't bother us a lot, but on their only chance on the 2nd half they score, 2-1. The score wouldn't change until the end and Syria was out of the World Cup.
Despite not getting through to the round of 16, Syria's NT returns home with a pleasant memory of winning a WC match - I hereby declare such thing will never happen again! Witnessing Zlatan's diva anthics was a cool experience for them too. Fortunately we don't have that kind of ego problems in Syria's NT because the players are all crap and they know it.
He's doing the same over here. You see him on TV, pick up your phone, and he's on Facebook. All his Visa crap. But I'm not sure why...Some great stuff @miguelfcp
Yeah kinda recognise Zlatan there,but suprised he didn't try to sell any products,he's on every commercial break here right now.
@ahmed_1 No it's for PC is there a way to switch it to PS? Could you load in a ps option file in to the editor and then load the pc one in as a second file and transfer it all over - would that work?
He's milking it 24-7 right now.He's doing the same over here. You see him on TV, pick up your phone, and he's on Facebook. All his Visa crap. But I'm not sure why...
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Cool,hope you like it.@rockstrongo Just downloading the demo of pes 2012 on pc so will have a play of it later and see how I get on.
Great news @miguelfcp@rockstrongo: Never heard of that TV series, it's going to my "to-watch list"!
It has also 4 swedish teams but instead of Helsingborgs, it has Kalmar FF. Also there are lots of fake teams and a whole league comprised of generic Team A, Team B (just like PES6) so it's a good platform to customize at your own will.
Now for the gameplay, some days I love it, some days I can't handle it. Depends on my mood, but often I get a satisfactory experience mostly when I'm using weaker teams. But the beauty of retro-PES - and of having a collection of the majority of all those games - is that you can just fire up whatever kind of PES you feel like playing on that particular day. And fortunately we have a wide range of arcade/simulation versions of PES so, providing you're able to choose, you're likely to be satisfied with your experience.
@WhoAteMeDinner: Definitely bet on Hamsun as Matt said. Also guys like Jaric and Ordaz are worth giving a lot of minutes to. Are you planning to do an Originals challenge or will you eventually buy/sell players?
@rockstrongo: Be sure to tell us all about your ML, seems like an interesting challenge.
I'm 99% sure your beloved Hammarby is in PES2008 (PS2), I remember it had like 4 swedish teams on it. Helsingborgs, AIK, Hammarby and the other I can't remember. Another thing to persuade you to play this version!
About PES14, it was definitely the version I played the less, 1/2 matches and I was done with it. I didn't hate it but certainly didn't persuade me onto playing more, so I ended up getting much more out of the PSP version than the then-current-gen one (PES14 PSP is basically PES13/12/11 PSP only with updated rosters). It's on my "to-revisit list", even if just for a few friendlies.
I love the way the players run on birds eye camera. Just look at the legs