Yeah it's proper amateur stuff. We basically get served up the same dross year after year from Konami with incomplete squads and a broken online mode.

How they can have the cheek to charge full price for it every year is just taking the piss now. It's a 20 quid game at most.

i decided to start a master league on this now i've got all the fancy patches and what not.  and then for the first time ever decided not to play as newcastle, picking some random spanish second division team instead.  still used the default ML squad though.  bit of wheeling and dealing to bring in some random young players that will hopefully develop well, transfer listing anyone old and/or not good enough to get in the first 11.
only 'recognised' player i bought was Jack Alnwick cos my keepers were all shit and he was a free agent...except that he seems to be even more shit than them so far!
and then got stiffed on last day of transfer window, as decided to see if there were any good old free agents still available, and Drogba was there.  thought it would be a nice mix of my normal style/players to have a big powerhouse player, but the game would let me start a negotiation on the last day. boo!
bit of a mixed start to the season so far, doing ok but keep having patches in games where we implode and concede 3 in quick succession, which has led to a loss in the league and going out first round of the cup on away goals after it finished 4-4 on aggregate.

i've always shied away from getting too involved in fiddling with the tactics and setup other than basic formation stuff, but there's a neat 'end of month' report you get now that breaks down your play style, shows types of passes, success rate etc.  I assume the point is that if you play the way you say you will play (and get players that suit that style) then the performances are boosted accordingly.

Paul the sparky wrote:

Out of my next five games in the master league, four of them are against Everton. One in the league, two in the UEFA Cup and one in the FA Cup. The other match is a league game against... Liverpool. I'm gonna be fucking sick of scousers by the end of that.

Just had a month of 
Chelsea (home)
Swansea (away - FA Cup)
PSG (away - CL)
Arsenal (home)
Man Utd (home)
Liverpool (away)

Won them all except Utd at home, pleased with that.  Not pleased with the myclub servers after they introduced free-to-play. Absolutely ruined, if anyone's given it a go.

That's the gimped version for gimps.

My Scousergeddon results:

Premier League: Everton 2-3 Newcastle

FA Cup Semi-Final: Newcastle 4-0 Everton

UEFA Cup QF 1st Leg: Everton 1-4 Newcastle

Premier League: Newcastle 2-1 Liverpool

UEFA Cup QF 2nd Leg: Newcastle 2-0 Everton

Blammo.

Probably the best thread for it: Pitch to Pixel, the National Football Museum's video game football exhibition.

I won nine nil in the FA Cup Final against West Brom on Top Player, but like you say Superstar is just too boring and frustrating to play.

Pointless possession from the AI, you finally win it back and grind out a chance only for your nippy attacker to get caught and elbowed off the ball by a slow as fuck defender for the fifth time in a row. Then it's tippy tappy Barca at their best football from players who's stats suggest trapping a bag of cement is a challenge, one nowt to them in the bottom corner.

Just feels like you're going through the motions, acting out a script. Fuck Superstar.

PES 2016's officially licensed Euro 2016 DLC only has 15 officially licensed teams.

Ah well, at least it's free.

I know there's a pure footy game thread around here somewhere, but I found this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35873703

And thought of Ram. :]

Fuck FIFA.

The coins.

Mate its like customer surveys. Tell them bullshit and they don't bug you.

I assumed so. How do you think spambots work? Identifying this is a gaming forum, then spamming it with fifa coin scams. There are two ways to stop that.
1. Ensure it is a PES only/non Fifa forum or
2. Stop talking about any games at all

I'm doing my bit on #1.

Jokes are hard work here.

Master League is close enough. You start with the same set of (mediocre) players whichever team you choose, and you can rename it, change the strips etc. Once you get going you'll be buying new players, and it'll end up your own team.

At least, that's how it was around 2004, last time I played it.

JonB wrote:

Master League is close enough. You start with the same set of (mediocre) players whichever team you choose, and you can rename it, change the strips etc. Once you get going you'll be buying new players, and it'll end up your own team. At least, that's how it was around 2004, last time I played it.

PES4, good game... which is also the version I dedicated some serious time to. Picked up PES 2016 recently and I am still trying to get used to; the gameplay has changed quite a bit in the last 12 years. myClub seems a bit obscure to me, can't see what's the appeal, yet. Started a quick league to get familiar with it. Wanted to jump into Master League, but the option of creating a new team and the time it takes to look for new players put me off.