Given up on both master league and be a pro modes now and just play a couple games a week with my mate which can be fun although sometimes fun for the wrong reasons (keeper errors and some other flaws). Stuck the master league level on Hard which basically means its near on impossible to sign any players for your team even when they are at your popularity level (stupid name and system). Some other annoyances:
- Not only this but the search function doesn't work properly when you want to buy a player. i.e. you put in a value between 80-99 for shooting and then the matches appear with players outside those barries. Idiotic!
- For some strange reason you seem to be able to loan any player in the game very easily but you can only do this in the january window and not at the start of the season. Managed to loan Arbeloa (whos suprinsigly one of the best fullbacks in ML after 2 seasons) and Cheillini from Juventus straight away.
- Every team you face has far superior stamina to you (i used the default ML players but along with loaning proper players too with good stamina stats). You get to the end of a game and the CPU team has half a bar left and most of your players have about 10% of theirs.
- Still using points system since lord knows when. Can't they incorporate a money system for PES and keep the points system for the japanese market? They love that fantasy crap
- Player development is so unrealistic and spoils the game. Last PES you had Alan Smith being one of the best players in the game. The players stats only improve greatly if your team wins games.
- Cant change teams or receive offers from other teams to manage during your game.
- Terrible transfer system. No reasoning given to why your bid is rejected. Not only this but the swinging metre is pointless and is supposed to add to the tension of 'will he or wont he' join my team. It doesnt do that at all, just annoys me.
- You can only put in 5 bids per turn and you can only add some many players to your scout list per turn as well. Okay I can sort of see why they added this in but may be remove the scout list limit, thats just pointless.
- Dogs on the screen! Konami have some weird obsession with sticking little Yorkshire terriers at the bottom or top of the menu screen. WHY!! Don't get me started with the little still cut scenes at the top displaying your fans wearing ****** hats and crying their tears when you lose one game.
