I've been taking a real good liking to PES 2013 lately, as I wrote in the
tier list thread. I know, it was in my bottom half of PES installments not too long ago, but that really changed now. I think I've said this before, but I was playing with a South American patch which did not have gameplay I liked at all, and now, playing with PESEdit 6.0 patch, with the latest .exe and DLC, I've been having an insane amount of fun.
What I saw as "too counterattack oriented" is really "dynamic play" in my opinion. This latest official gameplay has addressed a lot of the defensive lapses that the other patch included, and even though yes, the game is more offensive than others, I read this as a real highlight in dynamics. And this comes from someone who likes slower games. Is this a contradiction? Maybe, but in the end fact is that I've been on a PES 2013 marathon in these past few days.
Even if I wished goalkeepers were a bit better, I can accept this as part of the whole package (Which cannot be said about PES 2014-16). It's kinda like this: When I open PES 2013, I know I'm gonna have fun. I can't believe the night and day difference between the previous patch I'm playing with and this one, not only in terms of playing style and physics, but also overall appearance, pitch, stadiums, players, etc. Now I'm playing PES 2013 as it was meant to be.
Stay tuned for more ongoing observations!