Comments on: The Towering Inferno

By: not-Greg

not-Greg — Sat, 10 May 2008 13:35:29 +0000

ck - good to hear you’ve picked up the Aylesbury Vale thread again. I’ll check it out later. Haven’t you got yourself a PSN account yet? Tons of great demos for you to catch up on by now. There’s just no PES2008 for me to sample the non-European release!

By: cklarock

cklarock — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:00:16 +0000

I’m pretty ignorant about these things as I just got my PS3 a few weeks ago.

In an irony, I’ll probably be firing up the PS2 for some of my gaming — I explain in the Aylesbury Vale thread, but essentially the PS3 editing situation is rubbish.

By: All the world’s a stage | PES Chronicles

All the world’s a stage | PES Chronicles — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:12:21 +0000

[...] game. I wasn’t lacking in concentration or taking anything for granted. Quite the opposite. I’d recently paid the price for taking games lightly. I knew that this match, or the one after it, could win or lose me the title. The problem, I think, [...]

By: not-Greg

not-Greg — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:57:40 +0000

ck - I’m getting curiouser and curiouser about the NA version of the game. I might have to try and lay my hands on a copy in a month or two - purely for research purposes, of course. Region-free console gaming ftw! woot, etc.

I had a look on the US PSN store using my US account last night, and there’s no sign of a PES2008 demo. Which is odd. I’m sure there was one. Or has it been taken down?

By: cklarock

cklarock — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:29:59 +0000

Yes, I keep expecting to wonder-dribble eventually. Then I try it with players who have fantastic stats, and still no-go. I have some players who can out-run guys if they get a head-start, but my players have a more difficult time beating defenders than in the PS2 version!

You know what else I just realized? When keepers bobble a shot, it tends to fumble to the ground in front of them, rather than in the path of strikers. This is surely a “fix” implemented into the North American Japanese version.

Regarding defensive clearances — they are as bad as the PS2 version! Except in this version, the CPU (when it’s feeling frisky, which is about 70% of the time) will “camp” your fullbacks — man-mark them, essentially — preventing you from passing your way out of the defense. Until you can get defenders with 75+ passing stats, you’re hosed.

Curse you Seabass!