Starry, starry night
Posted by: not-Greg in PES Chronicles, league table, tags: league table, PES ChroniclesI’ve taken the disappointment of being eliminated from Europe and the D1 Cup, rolled it up into a little ball, and tossed it into a very dark corner. There’s nothing else for it but to make the best I can of the rest of this season. I have to finish as high up the league as I am capable. That could—and I think should—be in the #1 spot. I should win the title this season.
I’ve got a great chance. I’ve got some great players—all the youngsters I bought a couple of seasons ago are now maturing and starting to put CPU teams to the sword, where they belong. Larsson. Giggs. Del Piero. Bradley. Maldini.
Not to mention the likes of Schwarz, Camacho, Fernandez. In goal, Lehmann is starting to turn in some fine performances—my Goals Against column has never looked healthier at this stage of the season. Looking through the squad, I’d say I haven’t got any real weaknesses—especially in midfield and up front, where only the very young and raw Kim Cyun Hi would be unable to carry a game on his own at the moment. All the rest are virtual one-man teams when the mood takes them.
I won all four games leading up to the mid-season negotiations. I dished out a beating and a half to Osasuna, an awkward little team who were threatening to keep me at bay until I scored a hat trick with Schwarz in the last half an hour and got a bonus fourth goal with Kim Cyun Hi in injury time. I beat Real Madrid 1-0. My new policy against the division’s Big Three (Madrid, Barca, Valencia) is to play ultra-conservatively, get my goal, and then shut up shop. It works. I beat a couple of other teams as well. I forget who they were, or by how many goals I beat them.
Time was that I obsessed over almost every little detail, faithfully pausing the game to note everything down in a little notebook. I still do note things down, but not so much. Perhaps it’s a telling fact that I was much more willing to pause the game and write notes when I was playing PES2008 on the PlayStation3. Now that I’m playing a PES that I actually enjoy and find to be consistently challenging, I’m much less willing to interrupt my play session and take timeouts to scribble notes.
Consequently, this blog has become Impressionistic, hit-and-run—perhaps even a little bit sketchy. Note-taking tends to get in the way of playing the game. It disrupts rhythm, upsets flow. It takes the gloss off magic moments, because at the back of my mind I think I’d better press Start to pause the game and make a note. Nowadays, I just carry on, trusting that I’ll either remember the details later—or, if I forget them, then they weren’t worth remembering.
So, those four wins took me up to top of the table. Going into the mid-season negotiations, there’s nowhere I’d rather be. Well, I’d rather be top of the league and still in the European Cup and the D1 Cup, but you know what I mean.
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I just saw you got Kim Cyun Hi! Yay!
Good luck playing varied football with him in your team. It will be very tempting to pass every ball to him and dribble around or outmuscle the opposition to score at least a hat-trick every game.
As I told you, he’s 25 in my master league, and he’s scored over 400 goals so far. Simply amazing. Better than Schwarz, I dare say. Better than Khumalo too, who I think is as good as Schwarz.
Make sure you play him every game for at least 15 min. He’ll be flying in a couple of seasons.
I don’t like to give anything away, but he can reach high 90’s in a number of stats, including speed, body balance, and shooting accuracy.
Adriano - Kim’s 19 now and (not giving anything away myself) I’m starting to see what you mean about him… I’ve never known a young player’s stats increase so dramatically so quickly in such relatively little playing time. The goals have started to come as his stats go up and my confidence in him increases. But I’m getting ahead of myself here. I’ll catch up with this phase of Kim’s development in the blog in due course.
If I had to award the title of ‘best ever striker I’ve played with in PES so far‘, it’d have to go to Bergkamp in PES5 (as seen, over and over again, in my two PES5 movies, the links to which I still haven’t got round to repostng on this new-look blog, on account of me being so lazy! I’ll get to it tomorrow).
I’m sure Kim will make you forget Bergkamp in no time, just keep playing. He’ll reach his peak in only a couple of seasons and keep there for at least five. I can post a couple of pics of his stats at 25, if you’d like.
Heh, I’m playing my first ML on the PS3, and who do I see at the first transfer window? Schwarz, Kim Cyun Hi and Khumaar.
I’m making them my strike-force, in honor of this blog, and Adriano’s convincing PR campaign.
^ correction; Schwarz, Kim Cyun Hi and Khumalo
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You can play Schwarz and Kim upfront with Khumalo as an AMF or SS behind them. I feel sorry for your oposition in a few seasons.
ck - Schwarz turns into an absolute monster on the next-gen PES2008. Seriously, after a few seasons he’s unstoppable - not virtually but literally… I never had Kim Cyun Hi on the PS3 version. The two versions are a lot different (just how different you’re currently finding out) so it’ll be interesting to see how the next-gen Kim turns out. I can confirm that Kim Cyun Hi on my current ML is a wunderkind like no other before him. He’s currently out-Giggsing Giggs (this will make more sense in several blog posts’ time!).