MLB 12 The Show Preview - Pulse Pitching, Zone Analog Batting, Collision Awareness

[TN - BRAVES FAN]

Quote: Originally Posted by reduced price

The one thing I've really hoped for, for years now is a playoff mode. It would be nice at the end of the year to either place whatever teams you like into the playoffs or, you could follow the mlb and place those teams that are actually in the playoffs. Now I'm hoping that this year this has made it in there. But what they have listed seems amazing.

[joshtree14]

Ball physics by itself, if programmed correctly would give you a completely new game in itself, that right there is a game changer.

[tabarnes19_SDS]

2 new training techniques in Road to the Show (baserunning, fielding), as you're now a Double-A starter who is the most touted prospect on the team


Does this mean you now start out as a Blue chip prospect in Road to the Show? Maybe I'm reading more into it than what there is, but if that's the case would seem to slow down being traded numerous times, and would start out higher rated than in the past.

[bp4baseball]

Quote: Originally Posted by tabarnes19

2 new training techniques in Road to the Show (baserunning, fielding), as you're now a Double-A starter who is the most touted prospect on the team Does this mean you now start out as a Blue chip prospect in Road to the Show? Maybe I'm reading more into it than what there is, but if that's the case would seem to slow down being traded numerous times, and would start out higher rated than in the past.

As people have been asking for

[JustOpinions]

all-new free-agent signing process

Woohoo!, I actually started to miss the old school offseason "game" if you will, but the way it was in MLB 11 is a tad too annoying, while true to life it wasnt fun. Hopefully there is options on how complicated you want the offseason to be, sometimes you just want it to be simple like heres the Free Agents, heres your money available, see what you can do

[Knight165]

Quote: Originally Posted by Errors Occurred

I love everything I see so far seems to be another great year for MLB The Show fans but if I may ask has anyone heard anything new about stats being more into this game than in years past? like an update on the players card that has more than just 4-5 stats and has more like what Madden and other games have where there are 10-15 stats lines and not just (BAA,HITS,HRS,RBIS,SB) Also I hope the new Trade Logic works out well....I got another game that said they fixed it and wow was it still a mess.

Toughest part of programming in the franchise section from what I hear from the devs....
I see it from their tweaks....push too much one way(say towards valuing prospects)....and too many vets just get moved/ignored...and vice versa.
I know they want to just rip the entire guts out of it and redo everything with no legacy code(ENTIRE FRANCHISE)....I just don't see that for this year, but I know they are tweaking the hell out of things we've complained about and it looks like even adding some things! Which I find very encouraging.


They definitely hear us on stats........I think we will get a lot of the things we've asked for....but I know that year to year ....full stat saves is a huge memory problem. Fingers crossed.

M.K.
Knight165

[K_GUN]

some good stuff there.....any chance a *playoff mode* gets in there this year?

[wrigleyville33]

I'm thrilled that they brought in analog zone hitting. I know I'll love the challenge of it. As many as you know usually I'm pessimistic around this time, but I'm loving the information flowing right now.