Gaming Thread- Ps5/4, Xb1 & Pc

Went to go buy it this morning from Tesco's and the customer service section was closed. Loads of people were being turned away, missed a trick there.

 

EA Sports ? You don't say Ashdon. I'd rather stick my face into a glass window than touch anything created by them. The ruin of many a decent franchise and development studio. SOS every year. New this and that which was in there previously but is now reworded.

 

It's a terrible game and EA Sports are a terrible organization. Electronic Arts in general. Stultifying development and suffocating competition by legal means or buying them out. No better than most giant corporations. And using peer pressure to make fortunes for their dreadful products with all that FUT garbage.

 

Same to both, I find defending slightly bit clunkier than previous but the attacking AI is far superior to 20. Can see a lot of high scoring games in this edition.

 

I'm waiting until after the update on the 16th before firing up a Watford Career Mode, that way all players will be in the squad.

 

Rivals is a car crash, put me far higher than my actual skill. Not fun.

 

PES6 was great. I did a lot of work on option files for South America and young players. Facemaker and stadium modder. Juce was and is a legend for his kitserver now replaced by his and Neca's slider for PES2019 onwards. You can mod anything for the PC now.

Speaking of PES2022 it will be using the Unreal 4 engine. Apparently development work has been in progress for two years in conjunction with Sony providing hardware specs for the PS5 so Konami can make best use of it. The same engine will operate on the PC platform as well which is great news.

It may well look like. As Spoony says the company Visual Lane is using Unreal 4 for this VR presentation of Old Trafford. Amazing detail and changes in real time ie shading, lighting and weather. Can't wait to see Vicarage Road recreated by someone. The visuals should be spectacular I just hope the AI, Masterleague is improved significantly.

Catching up the renders of yesteryear:

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First news from PES2022 this year is that Atalanta Bergamo have signed an exclusivity deal. Other than that all very quiet. As usual the first look at these games will be at the usual convocations where game developers show off their wares to the gaming journalist community so at two months. Napoli SSC will also be exclusive in the following season.Personally I dislike these deals.

As before just hoping the AI and game modes have made a huge leap forward to parallel what will no doubt be stunning visuals.

 

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The developer leading the design of PES2022 seems to be focusing mainly on the photorealistic aspect of the game. This concerns many. It is all well and good having shiny visuals but they need to be backed up by immersive intelligent gameplay from the AI such as the setting of lines, defensive awareness and runs into space and even knowing where the touchline is. Without that it's just empty.

 

Could not agree more UEA. The trailer they revealed was diabolical. No gameplay, the graphicS were awful and it looked no different indeed worse than PES2021.

No modes at launch but to be added possibly as DLC. Just a handful of sides they have partnered with, loss of the serie A license. Two years of expectation and once again Konami never fails to disappoint. It perhaps is not that much of a surprise given the changes in the development team. The model is clearly to cater to the very casual gamer, young kids and earn fortunes with microtransactions.

Microtransactions are the bane of modern sports games. Something has to be done in law because they encourage spending often without parental knowledge or consent and in effect it is a form of gambling. It's a dark day for those of us who have played PES from the heady days through the nadir to what seemed to be the recovery only for it to be ditched in favour of mammon.

This pursuit of mammon is a disease. Hence numerous worthless films, books, TV series and dreadful popular music all in the name of eking more out of the often dumbed down consumer. You could pick up and play PES out of the box. But it took time to master. That was part of the joy of it. Hours on the training pitch.

And the community. What a community it was. I was honoured to be part of it creating faces in o-edit, stadiums in Rhinoceros. Indeed @nornironhorn I was created the faces for most of the Northern Ireland side for PES6 and other nations not blessed with 'real' faces. Now the disease of mammon has percolated into the ranks of the community. Sites selling option files to console gamers, other modders selling their work be it kits,faces, stadiums on the web. When once it was all done for love of the community at large and the excitement of seeing these additions thanks to Lord Juce and his kitserver into the game.

Konami have shat on that community loyal to a fault and this is the last straw. I will not be playing PES whatever they call it efootball2022. And what is worse FIFA shows no signs of actually improving. There are no football games worth playing which is pretty sad for the global sport.

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A sad state of affairs. Two garbage franchises. The same old rubbish, the lying slogans. All these two EA and Konami care about is revenue. Not the independent developers desire to make a game as exciting and attention grabbing as possible. Not to mention somewhat realistic. End of the line for me.

Desperately need an open source developer group or other studio to get involved. Most modders can do a better job than the idiots who run both projects.

 

I have not played Madden for a decade I think. I am considering Madden 22 for the PS5. I was searching the relevant videos and found this which shows how EA Sports sit on their backsides for the most part when 2K always put in the effort and extra touches. Some of the animations for are natural in 2K as opposed to Madden.

The best NFL game ever ? All-Pro Football 2K8 just after EA decided to silence the competition with an exclusive license with the NFL. Shame.

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Pros:

Runs whisper quietly - good ventilation (Sony have learnt well from their failed attempt at a PS3 cooling fan).
Loading times reduced down to almost PC speed - pretty impressive.
Really good processor - able to run 4K gaming
Much better user interface than even the PS4.
Online store and connectivity improved greatly.
PS5 has to be one of the best gaming pads ever designed - the triggers are something else.

Cons:

It looks like a demented toaster.
It weighs a ton (not really a con)
Not as powerful as the XBOX Series X which is a shame.
Very few games that are built to engage with the new hardware
Price.

 

It's effectively a beta which is a disgrace after the supposed 2 year cycle they were working on. Adding modes as DLC and other bits and pieces such as 3D grass is a shambolic effort. The shame being the gameplay is decent better than FIFA if hardly anything stellar. Both games are a disgrace really.

@SkylaRose still to get one. Might wait until next year but have collected several PS5 games in preparation most including haptic feedback on the controllers such as Terminator Resistance and updated A Plague Tale:Innocence.