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MLB14 The Show - discussing "quick counts"

Posted on May 30, 2014 at 06:31 AM.

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hi everybody!

just wanted to share a discussion with you guys about the new feature in the show called "quick counts".
the guys at OS covered very well this topic so i'd like to have a very informal chat about that with anyone who wants to share his opinion.

my p.o.w. is that quick counts are good to make you sim less games and actually play most of them but , how?

let's start by sayin' what is baseball for me:

i believe the game of baseball is a mental game, very deep inside the thoughts of the pitcher, the reading of the defense, the feeling of an at bat and the way it is progressing.

so, what comes with quick counts?

can you play more games and maybe go through a whole season? YES

will you enjoy that? MEH ...

with quick counts you lose all the gameplan, the battle between a pitcher and a batter, you can't really structure a system of pitching and a secuence that is victorius in your mind.
you will just have what the game gives you.

ex: i play with my team, the BoSox; if i am at the plate with Ortiz, the cpu often give me counts like 0-2, 3-2 and similar, and it is really a game of 1 pitch if i go wrong.

instead, when i am at the plate with big Papi, Napoli or players like them, i like to take a couple pitches, to try to understand the release of the ball, tryin to understand what the pitcher has in mind.

so, to wrap up my opinion, in a scale from 1 to 10 i give the "quick counts" feature a 5.

useful, but takes you out of the game.

think about Madden that gives you "quick downs" making you start playin in a "3rd and 13th" kind of situation....

let me know what u think guys thanx

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