I have played a good number of games the past few weeks. The focus of this shall be PES 2009.
The become a legend mode has always held some interest. The issue is, of course, that the vertical camera used often does not aid my skills and experience in using the wide camera. As such, I was utterly unable to score, or even play, in the vertical mode.
Interestingly enough, I had a housemate who persevered with this mode for something like three seasons. When you bear in mind this can be 40 games or more, at ten minutes each, this is a substantial amount of time. Add to this the fact that he scored something like 2-3 goals in an entire season, and those goals were always tackling a defend, or hitting in a rebound.
So why play it? Why suffer this frankly atrocious gameplay? Because the idea is good enough. And since the idea is good enough, everything else is secondary.
So what difference has the normal camera made? I have given it a good few hours this week, and feel happy to pick it up every so often. It is quite brilliant. At times frustrating, yes. But the Master League is more frustrating in the sense that my team is too good for the mid level now. And the top level is simply too hard with the rubbish team given at the start. Perhaps starting on the hardest difficulty with Wolves is an apt balance?
In all of this is something that I read in PC gamer: that some games are best played on the easiest difficulty setting. So many games are about that this is, in some ways, the best (only) option for a busy teacher like myself. This time saving option has led to one new consideration: I play until I die three times at the same point. At the moment in Operation Flashpoint (which I do enjoy) I am dying at a similar point whilst assaulting a village in what must be the final mission of the campaign. With this in mind, I play until I die three times.
There are some games, too, that I want to give time to. This Christmas shall see to that...
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A teacher
