Anyone played the latest PES?

Has anyone played PES 2012, and what did you think of it?

At the moment I have Fifa 12 but I am seriously considering a trade in to get a hold of the newest PES. I have generally always been a PES man, but I don't want to swap Fifa in for it if it is on a bad year...

Loved the last PES to a point, I did find some of the foibles a bit irritating, but I might even dig it out later for a re-play!

Go to blockbuster and rent it out

I don't know anyone who's bought it

fernando wrote: I don't know anyone who's bought it

Not surprising, as last I heard Fifa 12 had outold PES by 25 to 1.

PES a few years back was really challenging, they just seem to have badly fallen by the wayside now, the marketing for the game was nonexistant.

Yer agree PES 2008 was pretty awesome or around that time. I really dont understand the fascination with FIFA games, there's basically no or little improvement from year to year. PES is for superior gameplay & FIFA is for licences.

i agree with everyone else.

PES used to be so much better than it is now. Its dissapointing how much it has fallen away really.

I've played the new PES, though not nearly as much as I'd have liked due to some PS3 problems. On a comparison to the new FIFA I'd say it plays better on a pure game play level and I certainly prefer it. I often find PES often gets maligned far to much in recent years in relation to FIFA when in reality there's nothing much in it and from a personal level I consider PES to be the better experience.

I often get the feeling the backlash PES has suffered is often bandwagon jumping on a myth that reviewers seem to regurgitate that its declined massively in recent years.

Hero you raise two interesting points, one is about challenge something that I feel no FIFA game has ever provided even on its most difficult setting, I've always found the difficulty curve in PES to be far better (The unlockable difficulty level in the latest version is especially vexing). The other is from a marketing perspective where it now seems a must for a game to be successful it needs to have large amounts of money chucked behind it post launch which raises the question of is the gaming industry really that shallow and superficial. The latter is something I've thought about in the past and touched on in other topics, it's always a interesting point.

I often think game buyers get swayed to easily by reviewers or whats the current in trend than judging what's actually in front of them. It wouldn't be the first time a better quality game has sold far less than a more hyped counterpart and I doubt it will be the last either.

In truth I think FIFA is a far more superior gameoverall now, I used to be a PES man through and through however FIFA has consistently gotten better and PES consistently worse. I'm not spending £80 on two football games but I will spend £40 on one, and my money this year has gone on FIFA, played PES 2012 at my friends house, didn't really think much of it personally still an arcade game.

AlexHuckerby wrote:didn't really think much of it personally still an arcade game.

PES has obviously gone downhill and they knew however much money and time developing it was meaningless when competing against FIFA. PES maybe an 'arcade' game nowadays but in its prime its gameplay was superior to FIFA. Obviously the licensing agreement is a huge advantage for FIFA but in my opinion the graphics have hardly improved over the last two years. I've found FIFA to be more difficult to score, repetitive goals (where you go wide and square the ball which eliminates the keeper in scoring a tap-in - basically the most common way of scoring and evident online everytime). PES might not have the skills which play a huge part in FIFA, but the gameplay is far more enjoyable and unpredictable with a variety of differing goals and not reliant upon skills being used non-stop by a pro which makes the game boring

in other words youre pap at fifa?

AlexHuckerby wrote:in other words youre pap at fifa?

no. in other words i have a life

fifa just got Messi!!

its looking bleak for PES, major endorsment lost.

cherriesfan wrote:fifa just got Messi!!

its looking bleak for PES, major endorsment lost.

They actually dumped Messi for Ronaldo.

I'm a big fan of PES. The style and speed suits my gameplan, patient build up & passing, more than Fifa does and I find everything is harder to accomplish in PES than Fifa.

Manning-to-Manningham wrote:

cherriesfan wrote:fifa just got Messi!!

its looking bleak for PES, major endorsment lost.

They actually dumped Messi for Ronaldo.

I'm a big fan of PES. The style and speed suits my gameplan, patient build up & passing, more than Fifa does and I find everything is harder to accomplish in PES than Fifa.

I found FIFA this year to be all about the patience on the ball, and especially in defence, and I don't know on balance whether it is preferrable to the quicker action of PES and the practically non existent defence of last years!

I do think that once you work FIFA out, you won't slip up anymore, and I reckon I'm hitting that stage soon.

not bought either yet (skint) but will still buy pes over fifa when i get some money. having played both the last versions of fifa and pes have to say pes has so much more depth to it still. scored a goal the other day i have never scored before, where as fifa is pretty much the same thing over and over again. also think pes is the better game to play with mates (defending was far to easy on fifa 11). fifa has improved alot over the years but still doesnt quite get the in game aspects nailed on and it doesnt bother me in the slightest if im playing mersyside red or liverpool, same team at the end of the day.

fifa will always get the more buys with the sequel churning powerhouse ea behind them. i generally get the impressive that most of the fifa fans are the online players as Vs the computer its quite limited