OK, screw ML. I'm tired of this BS.
PES 5 is great when I play with my friends. It's fun, it's realistic, and it's awesome. My best friend plays Real and I play Chelsea, and it's like a real life Chelsea-Real game, it's so intense. We almost always go overtime. The goals that are scored are very rarely flukes - usually they are what goals in real life are. You should see the one he scored on me with Ronaldo, it was amazing. Or my silver goal winner from an unbelievable header by Gudjonsen in the last few mins of 2nd ET.
But ML is a totally different story. Somethin just happens to my players. I have a very good offensive line up, but they can't do sh*t. The other day something that totally pissed me off happened. I passed the ball to Schuster (my best player, check him out, he's good), he trapped, turned around, and then ran away, leaving the ball for the opponent. My jaw simply dropped. I spent about 20 minutes playing that back and forth in replay mode. That was just explicit cheating to the core.
Every time I take shot with a player whose accuracy and technique are 90, he hits the post. Or it goes out. Whenever I take a P.K. with a person with 90 accuracy and a penalties abilitiy, it gets saved. I shoot straight, keep doesn't move, I shoot top left, keep saves, I shoot top right, keep saves. I shoot bottom, keep saves. WTH?? Since when did the EPL goalies get so good? I understand if buffon or cech saved my penalty. That'd be realistic. But when my best player, with a penalties ability, can't put the ball in the goal from 4 out of 5 penalties, that's just wrong.
I don't understand how does it happen that the comp suddenly gets unbelievably good in the last 20 mins of the game if they are losing. Shouldn't this happen for my team, too? But no, wait! My team just gets tired with 20 mins to go. They can't play Carlos.
That, and many other stupid things such as defenders bumping into each other and falling, defenders taking the ball away from the keeper and scoring own goals, cursor switching on manual setting to prevent me from defending, players zigzaging in order not to get the ball before the opponent, insane ref decision against me, very lenient reffing against the cpu, 5-6 shots out of a total of 15 hitting the post in a game, world-class players missing shots from 1 yard out while being completelly unmarked by their opponents, etc, etc, etc, all of this is probably going to make me stop playing the game.
I tried fifa. It sucks. The graphics are horrible compared to PES, the animations are crap, and the game doesn't look realistic at all. Plus, it's boring and too easy. But I'm very disappointed with PES for ruining the thing I loved the most about it: master league.
My inet connection here at school sucks and not many people play soccer games in the US, so I'm stuck with only two people who can play, and I'm better than them by a lot.
Warcraft III anyone?