Licensing is still an issue, as it will always be, but OFs fix that for the most part. There's been improvements, but it still seems last-gen. From those that have reported playing, the experience isn't as smooth as Fifa. I haven't been able to get an online game going. Outside of gameplay, PES could obviously use a bit of work. Going to need more time before any patterns emerge, but it's looking like this is the football game to beat - past and present! Some team tactics could use some tweaking, which is possible to do. Perhaps a few hard tackles here or there that go uncalled, or how players slide in so unrealistically in their tackles. I've had it for a few days and there isn't much that is annoying me with the gameplay. I mean, it's really hard to blame EA for focusing on it. It's a shame that FUT is just so profitable. Oddly enough, for couch games against friends, I prefer Fifa by a mile because it does the end to end game so much better, IMO. I actually had high hopes for Fifa this year until I played the demo and saw that it was basically identical to 16, with 15's controls added back in.
There's plenty of resource to pour into offline experiences and they're simply choosing not to.
EA make $650M a year from Ultimate Team alone. I don´t understant what took Konami so much to get here, but now I just hope they don´t loose sense and change things for worse in the future. They might paint it with the cliché sentences "revolutionary colision system" or whatever, but there´s really not much to see there. Finally, we can clearly say they are feeling confortable now and presenting us with a satisfying product.ĮA will eventually get there, but for now, all we have is a new engine doing the exact same thing.
PES has come a long way, full of frustrations and people migrating to EA´s titles or even other game genres. It all depends on how fast they can tune the engine for the next editions. Underneath, the engine is there, but it´s covered with the last years code, so almost nothing new here.
They announced the new engine and everybody got excited. Just writing it down annoys me to no end.įifa franchise is on a transition right now. The one thing about Fifa I just cannot stand is watching the ball literally go through the player models. In Fifa, I feel like almost every play is determined by the animation it wants to use, rather than the other way around, because of the ball not being it's own entity. It makes everything feel more organic and less "scripted" if you will. The biggest thing PES has over Fifa this year is the ball physics.