MLB 11 The Show Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[misterkrabz]

Quote: Originally Posted by Knight165

If you really want all that on-screen...I think you need to be playing OOTP.(I'm not even sure THEY have all that on-screen).Seriously. I'm sorry, I won't even say I only disagree with you here...I'm going against one of my own rules to say that you're just flat out wrong on this one. There is already ENOUGH clutter in games....Sorry. M.K. Knight165

Don't know if I'm "wrong". Maybe a difference in opinion I suppose. I just think it would be nice. It would make the game more interesting for me. I don't really understand why someone would think the screen is too cluttered, there's nothing on it besides the batter and the pitcher. take that away and what do you have? Nothing. Look at OP's article on the 8 bit baseball games:

http://www.operationsports.com/featu...aseball-games/

Those games have on screen stats, does it seem cluttered to you?

[DickDalewood]

Quote: Originally Posted by Knight165

If you really want all that on-screen...I think you need to be playing OOTP.(I'm not even sure THEY have all that on-screen).Seriously. I'm sorry, I won't even say I only disagree with you here...I'm going against one of my own rules to say that you're just flat out wrong on this one. There is already ENOUGH clutter in games....Sorry. M.K. Knight165

Absolutely agree with you here Knight... hell, I'd be happy if they could find ways to put even LESS clutter on the screen.

[thaSLAB]

Quote: Originally Posted by misterkrabz

I want the stats on screen, don't want to hit any extra buttons. I want to see pitch counts, batting averages, HR's, player attributes, who's on deck, who's in the hole, give me speed stats (player attributes and stole bases) of my guys who are on base, what's the status of my guys warming up in the bullpen? The on screen display is just so bland and boring...Get me engaged in the situation by giving more information. I don't want to slow the game down with pauses and digging through menus screens. How many times to you position your players? Me, never because it's a pain the butt. It shouldn't be and it doesn't have to be. I don't know all the attributes of all Major League players and I may be missing opportunities, for example, to steal because I have no idea how fast a guy is. Maybe the catcher has crummy accurancy/arm and my guy has marginal speed, is it worth the risk to steal? I have no idea because I'm not going to pause the game and dig through stats for 5 minutes for every situation. The game is slow enough already. Relevant stats and attributes should be in your face, all the time. The game would be so much more engaging.

If by engaging you mean, cluttered and not being able to see it... then yes, LOL. Seriously tho, it only takes a second to see (press select ---> look to the left for pitcher stats, look at the right for batter stats. or press L3 to look at pitch sequence overlay when pitching or hitting) its all there and it only takes a second (literally) - look at 0:08 and again at 1:17 of this video. I basically pressed select for a second and I knew the new batters hot and cold zones, or pitch count or pitcher energy or whatever info I may have been looking for:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-DmIemXoKQ

notice I do it for every batter (or pitcher) - now granted in '10 the base runner attributes showed up on the start menu, but this year I believe they are all on the same screen, as well as on the base running windows.

[Skyboxer]

Ok so I have a few "wishes" I guess you could call them:

1: The ability to full stadium range for custom cameras. I was just a little disappointed that there was a zoom out limit. I planned on having a pretty far zoomed out view for pitching. Almost like the HIGH fieling cam. Obvioulsy that wouldnt be for everyone but I wanted to try it.
Sure there was a reason though so not a big deal.

2: I love franchise and controlling players BUT I'd rather have the players ratings be 100% in control of the results and not partly due to my interaction. So what I usually do is play 1 game out of a series so I can get play time in and have mutiple games of just ratings determining the results(sim or MOM). That way my inept play would be ironed out by a few simmed games lol
MOM would solve the "have the players ability be 100% the deciding factor but no my need to also play.
What I'd like is the ability to player lock on either a position or player. That way I could play every game and just rotate a player to control each game. I'd also would LOVE an auto pitch feature so I could just play D when in the field and let the CPU control the pitching.
With that said I'm sooooo pumped for the retail version.
Bring it on.

[WB1214]

Quote: Originally Posted by misterkrabz

I want the stats on screen, don't want to hit any extra buttons. I want to see pitch counts, batting averages, HR's, player attributes, who's on deck, who's in the hole, give me speed stats (player attributes and stole bases) of my guys who are on base, what's the status of my guys warming up in the bullpen? The on screen display is just so bland and boring...Get me engaged in the situation by giving more information. I don't want to slow the game down with pauses and digging through menus screens. How many times to you position your players? Me, never because it's a pain the butt. It shouldn't be and it doesn't have to be. I don't know all the attributes of all Major League players and I may be missing opportunities, for example, to steal because I have no idea how fast a guy is. Maybe the catcher has crummy accurancy/arm and my guy has marginal speed, is it worth the risk to steal? I have no idea because I'm not going to pause the game and dig through stats for 5 minutes for every situation. The game is slow enough already. Relevant stats and attributes should be in your face, all the time. The game would be so much more engaging.

If they ever did this, I pray they would have an option to turn it off. I would hate that

[Visionsofmastery]

I love this year that they have multiple animations for balls in the dirt and when going after a strikeout approach unless you really just jam one in the dirty the catcher will block out in front. Yea I can use my change-up again lol

Also the weather wind effects for balls off the bat is outstanding the guys reallu nailed it as you can see a line drive pulled start to really tail away.

Also noticed the outfielders miss balls when diving unlike last year where almost 99% of the time is was that pop slide animations this year it goes off the arm leg head anything if they time it wrong or take to much risk on coming trying to make the big play which usually = *** and elbows get the running to the warning track lol

[misterkrabz]

Quote: Originally Posted by thaSLAB

If by engaging you mean, cluttered and not being able to see it... then yes, LOL. Seriously tho, it only takes a second to see (press select ---> look to the left for pitcher stats, look at the right for batter stats. or press L3 to look at pitch sequence overlay when pitching or hitting) its all there and it only takes a second (literally) - look at 0:08 and again at 1:17 of this video. I basically pressed select for a second and I knew the new batters hot and cold zones, or pitch count or pitcher energy or whatever info I may have been looking for: notice I do it for every batter (or pitcher) - now granted in '10 the base runner attributes showed up on the start menu, but this year I believe they are all on the same screen, as well as on the base running windows.

hehe...that's funny. You must be a speed reader because I watched the video (:08) like 10 times and couldn't get all that information you claimed to have gotten. No sale on that. even with the pitcher view like you're using there's no reason why they couldn't put stat boxes in the upper left and right corners of the screen. It wouldn't be obstructive at all.

[snugglyirishman]

quick question...how's the fielding with the analog...I would be playing the demo but for some strange reason it's taking hours and hours (6335 minutes remaining) to download so I just canceled it...is it determined by how hard you push the analog stick to how much power you put into a throw and is it difficult to throw accurately?