MLB 12 The Show Features 14 New Umpires With All New Personalities and Other Tidbits

[JerseySuave4]

new cleats... yay!

[ILurk]

Quote: Originally Posted by sportdan30

Please please please add a MLB 2K style presentation.....PLEASE!!!!!

Just play MLB 2K if you want their style of presentation.

I hope the jerseys blow in high winds. that would be a little icing on the cake. they're doing excellent in improving this game year to year anyway.

[bwiggy33]

Quote: Originally Posted by pj_28

To me that depends on the umpire, some umps in baseball are regularly graded as the worst in the league and are known to have inconsistent strike zones (CB Bucknor and Joe West) and others are very consistent (Jim Joyce and Jim Wolf). If they do what happens in FIFA and they tell you who is behind the plate you would learn what umps are consistent and what umps are going to make you pull your hair out. I hope that if they do get Joe West they have one of his country tracks play every time he ejects someone.

No doubt you are correct on that. I just think that it wasn't done as well as it was in MLB 10. To me MLB 10 had the umpires down perfectly. There was just something about 11 that didn't seem right. It was not a huge issue to me because I would rather have them miss more calls than give more calls. It was enough for it to bother me a little bit though. The best but worst feeling I get in this game is when an ump misses a no doubt strike 3 and then I give up a huge hit on the next pitch. It just feels like baseball. I absolutely can not wait for 12. For some reason I'm more excited than 12 then I was for 11. This game can only get better.

[Perfect Zero]

Quote: Originally Posted by pj_28

I hope that if they do get Joe West they have one of his country tracks play every time he ejects someone.

I don't think they have real umpires in the game. If I'm not mistaken, all Russell said was that there would be fourteen additional umpires. That is unless they have a license with the Umpire's Union; in which that would be bad because they probably want to be viewed in a positive light without variable strikes.

[joshtree14]

3d grass didn't add anything to madden, it's only visible in replay mode. Do you play the game from replay mode?

[Knight165]

Quote: Originally Posted by Perfect Zero

I don't think they have real umpires in the game. If I'm not mistaken, all Russell said was that there would be fourteen additional umpires. That is unless they have a license with the Umpire's Union; in which that would be bad because they probably want to be viewed in a positive light without variable strikes.

I'm pretty sure they will be SCEA created umpires.
Somebody make the Wiki guide to SCEA umpires and their strikezones!

M.K.
Knight165

[pj_28]

Quote: Originally Posted by Perfect Zero

I don't think they have real umpires in the game. If I'm not mistaken, all Russell said was that there would be fourteen additional umpires. That is unless they have a license with the Umpire's Union; in which that would be bad because they probably want to be viewed in a positive light without variable strikes.

Oh I highly doubt they use real umps, I was just poking fun at Joe West's quick hook and terrible music.

[nomo17k]

Quote: Originally Posted by Knight165

Somebody make the Wiki guide to SCEA umpires and their strikezones!

Speaking of which, do we have a wiki page for the Show somewhere? I don't know if that sort of thing can be set up at OS but it would actually be nice to gather all the (informal) info that we discussed about the game in one place, so that we don't have to (ask people to) search the forum all the time.

I saw some info on the Show nicely collected at some other gaming site, but t isn't a wiki (what I remember is some how-to's) and for old iterations of the Show.