Back in the time before FIFA ruled the soccer video games landscape PES was the game of choice.
The fun that the game brought me is incomparable to the sterile relationship I have with the current crop of FIFA reproductions we get handed every year.
I have said it before and it's most definitely true, the fun of football games has been drained out of the genre and replaced with a desire from developers to create a realistic as possible product.
The problem with this is that realism brings boring to the table. The fact is that 80% of real football matches are actually tactical boredom.
Just look at the recent Liverpool vs Man Utd match to see how an overhyped product generally fails to deliver on the media frenzy from Sky and various media sources.
Now, why the heck would you want to spend your time playing a football game that makes it as hard to score in a game as it is in real life?
It's just not fun, is it?