Hello and welcome to this weeks “Do I Not Like That”…. As always thank you for all the comments and emails on last weeks column. A fantastic turnout on my shortest piece to date.
I will certainly be trying a few of the suggestions to extend the playing life of pes2010 so thanks for those, and I’m sure for the regulars on the forum we’re all interested to here Dave O’s dance mat playtest !?!?
I’ll go back over some of the comments and email points raised last week a bit later in the column. Obviously with the raising of the media embargo the hype is over, well of a fashion.
Curtain Raiser…
As much as we all know the charity/community shield is the curtain raiser of the EPL the playtest reviews are equally significant on the pending release of the latest instalment. I must admit it is hard not to offer opinions and hypothesise about what the new game will or wont achieve based on the last few years grumbles. Having read many playtest reviews I am equally excited and cautious about it. (Theres links to many articles including our own on pesfan)
Excited; because everybody who has played and reported on the game sounds amazed by it. Cautious; because I’m not sure Konami have addressed some of the major points or targeted the features the fans wanted. I’m also disappointed about the licensing of teams, only two again. Don’t misinterpret that by the way as I’m not shallow enough to make that a major item. I just play lots of one on one competitions between friends for financial rewards (and I’m sure I’m not alone!) so to that end using an edit option file has been termed as ‘cheating’ previously which means I having two users set up on my ps3, one for the option and one for comps.
Any way, I digress, I’m not trying to put a dampener on things and I suppose it’s a half full/half empty scenario. The only way to find out is play it ourselves and we can’t really judge others opinions of it, as its obvious from the comments we all want different things. For me, It’s a concern the goalkeepers are not improved but I am over the moon the referees are sorted out. The way I’m approaching this release as: I hope Konami have got the basic principles of game-play / on-line etc right this year and next year they can concentrate on ‘tweaking’ it and providing some of the more detail features the fans want. Either way, it sounds promising to me and I want a copy now, as we all can’t be as lucky as certain people in the forum. How do you guys feel about the screen shots, animation videos and playtest reviews?? Excited?? Unhappy?? On the fence??
Points Raised……
Some brilliant points raised last week guys, I even think you’ve convinced me to have a go at BAL for more than one and half training games. I received an interesting email on BAL which I will be going through in a future column, hopefully with input from the seasoned professional author who sent it. It was glad to see some good honest discussion and debate this week with you guys respecting each others opinions. As for the net editor its something I see requested so much that its made me curious; I’ve got to the point where when I score a goal I’m watching the replay to see what could be improved. Its something that would have never crossed my mind but a feature I may find interesting at some point in the future, providing the gameplay is sorted. Micky P made a great point asking for a customisable commentary. I can’t see it ever happening but you could certainly have a laugh with it. He also asked for customisable corner flags, which raised a laugh, however why don’t we see triangular ones when we’ve won the cup? Or even have our club crest on them should we win three in a row? (although I believe that’s a myth!), so I think it’s a good point Micky. All in all, arnookibeast summed it up this week by pointing out the game should be able to be set up visually to the user preference. I couldn’t agree more and when it becomes fully customisable we might achieve the holy-grail of video games !!!!
Well that’s your lot this week. I’m looking forward to the return of football this weekend, its long over due !!!
I look forward to reading the banter and discussion on the forum as always; alternatively I can be reached at doinotlikethat@hotmail.co.uk
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