MLB The Show 16 Has Officially Arrived, Post Your Impressions Here

[Arty23]

Positive... visually, the game is stunning. The players look fantastic! I also like the addition of the prime player's cards.

Negative... After a solid year last year with carry-over saves, roster makers and hardcore baseball fans got the shaft this year. The coaching section is laughable. Where's the bench, bullpen, and assistant hitting coaches? Minors league coaches? Real free agent coaches? Coaches that have been around for years still aren't included. Let us edit them? Disappointed with lack of non-roster invitees, international free agents, and inabilitiy to edit contract terms by year. The stat tracking is improved, but the stats don't carry over from past years, so the advantage of importing players from 14/15 that weren't in the league the previous year is lost. Why can't we edit stats?
The new modes seem directed at casual fans and I would have much preferred that effort be invested in fixing franchise and season modes.

[Dan05]

Quote: Originally Posted by Knight165

Yes..... Gameplay options......advanced......injuries to manual. Make sure the profile associated with your team is the one loaded when editing it...AND then go to the lower right hand box on the main screen(USER SETTINGS) and hit USE AS DEFAULT. M.K. Knight165

Thanks. I looked and looked. I completely forgot about the "advanced" options.

[Knight165]

Quote: Originally Posted by C.J.S.

how long is Sony going to cash in on this PS3 game engine....I don't see how this doesn't seem the same ol every year.. I haven't bought this sense 2012 and it looks like what i left..even Clap Hanz made a new game engine for PS4 with the upcoming Hot Shots golf...

Thanks for the impression of a game you don't own.


Shocking.

M.K.
Knight165

[jvalverde88]

Quote: Originally Posted by C.J.S.

how long is Sony going to cash in on this PS3 game engine....I don't see how this doesn't seem the same ol every year.. I haven't bought this sense 2012 and it looks like what i left..even Clap Hanz made a new game engine for PS4 with the upcoming Hot Shots golf

You're posting impressions of a game you don't have, makes sense.

[cheechoo98]

Overall I'm liking the game as I do every year.. but after playing for a few days now, I am noticing some things that I hope get addressed.

The 'Urgency' on fielding plays is missing again.. Many times, the pitcher, fielder, catcher, will lollygag out on a slow roller and then we have to wait for the long animation while the runner arrives at 1B safely. I remember this being an issue in '14 but something they fixed in '15, but now it's back in '16

Slide-Step pithcing. While holding down the R2 button, the pitcher doesn't do a slides-step anymore - he just goes through his normal delivery. Hmm I guess I'll post this issue in the Bugs thread at theshownation.com

Anyhoots, Great Game as usual!!!

[alphamarcaphi]

The menu's throughout the entire game are VERY hard to read.

I have 20/20 vision, same tv as last year, had MLB for many years....

The menu for anything you go into, lineup, manage roster, game play option, only takes up ehhhh maybe 40% of the screen.

The font on all these is way too tiny.

Trying to read the player ratings inside the little bubble in manage lineups might cause a blood vessel to blow in my eye.

Very dissapointed in this.

Outside of that, the game continues to be a 10 out of 10 every year.

[Scott]

Quote: Originally Posted by C.J.S.

i seen it on my PS4 live streams don't need to own it to see gameplay and graphics. you completely ignored my post

Enough. This is an impression thread for a reason.

[raneman85]

It's growing on me. I still hate the slow load times in roster and player vault and there isn't much of a search option for roster vault. Nice that they fixed fielding which is crisp. Nice to see the shortstop charge a ground ball. Originally disappointed with fish eye view but I'm liking it better. Night games are awesome.

I really hope this wasn't a bug but Freese decided to turn around going from 2nd to home while Polanco went from first to third. Assisted running and I hit L2 to advance all. Freese would have been out at home most likely. D'Arnaud ran him back to third and tagged Polanco (faster runner) not Freese. Even though it cost me, I thought that was so cool.