For all romantics/positive outlook guys in here,what signs have you seen to make you believe it's going to be a good Pes 2022?
And i should clarify,not being an ass,just want to know what you think,based on previous games.
I'd say I'm probably someway between romantic/pessimistic. I think we're going to get a better game than 2020/21, by which I mean less buggy and with fewer on-pitch contradictions. But I think the smoother, cleaner result will be directed in favour of their gameplay ambitions: a game fit for esports, with exciting moments. So, on that score, I'm not confident various AI issues will be sorted – e.g., that we might finally have a midfield again.
But you asked for optimism! So.. I'll say this.
I don't think this applies specifically to the next PES game, but to future footie games in general – surely dev teams at some point will start to use neural networks to determine team shape and defending/attacking habits in a range of circumstances. They can potentially feed in the data of thousands of games for the neural networks to output realistic formations and changes on the pitch. That could be quite an exciting thing. On the other hand, it could make the actual coding of the AI something of a "black box", and difficult to tweak. (I'm not a dev or coder, so no idea how easy this would be.)
Another thing I am reasonably excited about is the new engine: it is likely to give them a much greater time budget to focus on whatever other development goals they have. That might mean more time spent making the game play in a way I don't like, but I think it's reasonable also to expect it to be less buggy as a result. And I am hoping that designing certain elements afresh with the engine tools will mean they're not plastering layers on top of buggy layers, keeping around particular "legacy glitches" year after year.
Another thing: new consoles. I really don't know what to expect in terms of the UX going forward – Konami have been so bad at it for so long, I am a bit scared it will be more of the same (e.g. making you confirm through five separate successive screens information that could be shown on just one screen/popup). But, even if they are still really bad at this, the SSDs will make the process less painful (that's already the case even running 2021 off a SATA SSD, let alone what the internal NVMe PS5 drive will be capable of).
With the new consoles there could be various quality of life improvements on-pitch too. E.g. not resetting play completely when there's a throw-in (currently it happens sometimes but not all the time); this issue could still happen if there's generational cross-play though, but probably not the year after. Also stadiums can be filled with more elements given CPU/GPU improvements, and they can be doing more unique and interesting things.
Lastly, I am just hopeful that the team taking two years and moving to a new engine has given them the chance to take a synoptic/overhead view of the game, its vision, its methodological principles, etc. They really have had a chance now to go "okay, what are we going to do with this game? how shall we make it?" I feel like that's a chance they basically haven't given themselves since developing PES 2014 and PES 2015. Instead it's been "okay, how are we going to tweak the last game?"
Back in the day though, after the novelty of one game, i never bothered again.
