You better Fifa or PES? The real challenge is that of nostalgia
You better Fifa or PES? The real challenge is that of nostalgia

Graphics, physics, celebrations, stadiums. Everything perfect, but the two blockbuster football simulations missing something now that has been lost in the past

It is a Naples-Carpi record, what is taking place on the screen of my living room. Are now five spectacular goals, almost all signed by Gonzalo Higuain, and the TV runs like a devil, he is angry when the wrong angle shot and screams like a madman when I can put it in half overturned. Routine for you calciomani that for years there arrovellate PES on the eternal battle against FIFA, a digital war that in recent years I have followed from afar, through the telescope, without ever taking place. Because for the nostalgic like me there is no cure, and sometimes all the beauty, the new, the glittering sends me into confusion, pushing me to go back with the memory and heart to the years when the players were little more than piles of polygons blochiness.
Today to play seriously in a football simulation serves as a minimum be the second coach of Barcelona: the menus are so full of innovative and attractive that when I chose to play just a friendly between two brackets of series B, the game was about to insult .

No comment on the screen instead of tactics: if in the early years of this decade I enjoyed move midfielders fucking dog, now it’s set patterns of artificial intelligence that even Skynet.

Besides, I am part of a generation of footballers virtual vivacchiava on the sofa, shoulder to shoulder with friends, with Japanese commentators clearly under amphetamines (and that no one will ever beat Fabio Caressa) and songs like Song-2 by Blur and Rockafeller Skank Fatboy Slim, become synonyms for Fifa 98 and Fifa 99. Those were the days of slide bastarde the goalkeeper, the passage 1-2 with L1 + Triangle and press R1 ignorantly throttle, Roberto Carlos that it was only because riconoscevi a dwarf with blue booties and the Master League with phenomena such as Castolo and Ximenes.

Now everything is more beautiful, of course, the stadiums are perfect, the ball physics is at historic highs and nose Chiellini is just as bad in reality. But when I turn on the console formations I not take it anymore, and it’s just me on the couch, with millions of strangers ready to challenge me online. It seems that someone spends money to buy figurines also digital, but I believe it’s just a legend of the Internet: who would never be stupid enough to bring out real money to discard a packet that does not exist?