MLB 12 The Show - Gameplay Impressions

[Knight165]

Quote: Originally Posted by ped3328

Having realized I was just as bad hitting while playing The Show as in real life when I played sandlot baseball, I decided on pitching exclusively. When it's my turn to bat, I simply switch to pitching for the other team. It's pretty gratifying when I hear Soupy say '' That was a pretty good pitch''! It may be an odd way of playing the game but I'm having more fun doing it that way.

ped.....We may be in luck in the future.
I asked Kolbe(who may have been just saying YES to everything knowing he'd never have to deal with me again!!!!) if they could put an option in for AUTO hitting and/or AUTO pitching, so that you didn't have to really hand over control to the CPU for half an inning(and have it possibly make moves for you) and he seemed to think it was doable.
I'll definitely put it on the list I plan on sending for '12.

M.K.
Knight165

[nomo17k]

Quote: Originally Posted by Knight165

ped.....We may be in luck in the future. I asked Kolbe(who may have been just saying YES to everything knowing he'd never have to deal with me again!!!!) if they could put an option in for AUTO hitting and/or AUTO pitching, so that you didn't have to really hand over control to the CPU for half an inning(and have it possibly make moves for you) and he seemed to think it was doable. I'll definitely put it on the list I plan on sending for '12. M.K. Knight165

I hope that sort of flexibility gets in in future as well... Just like we can change in-game which team to take control of, it would be great if we can choose "how" we take control of (wanna control players? just managerial decisions? that sort of thing...). I like watching CPU vs CPU games more than doing full MoM, but sometimes I want to intervene and decide on player substitutions myself, which I can do by taking control of the team as we can right now, but cannot do like MoM...

When the MoM mode gets revamped I'd like the devs to think ahead of having that capability.

[EnigmaNemesis]

Quote: Originally Posted by nemesis04

My last game I played at the event was the Tigers and Yanks at Yankee Stadium. It was Verlander (CPU) and Sabathia (me). I took an early 4-0 lead in the first three innings and Verlander's confidence was never below 50%. Sabathia bled runs through 6.5. The big blow was a 3 run Home run in the 6th and the lead trailing 6-4. That event brought his confidence down between 40-50%. Last year that would have been lights out and Sabathia probably would have not been able to get out of the inning. Verlander stayed in and completed 8 full innings and his confidence never really went above 75%. Fast forward to the bottom of the ninth trailing 6-4 and the Tigers bring in Valverde to close it out. He predominantly used his fastballs and very rarely went off speed with anything. Anyway to start the 9th Swisher grounded to short for the first out. Valverde's confidence was pretty high which would be expected starting off the inning with an out. Andrew Jones was up next and I kept him instead of pinch hitting for him with a lefty. After working the count I hit a long drive into the left field seats 6-5 now. As Andrew Jones rounds third the Jumbo-tron flashes "Its not over yet!" talk about motivation! Martin gets up and Valverde is pounding the inside of the Zone, confidence was still high considering he gave up a bomb. I actually picked up a pattern during this at bat and was able to hit a sharp single down the third base line just past a diving Inge. His confidence only dropped a little (the cocky bastard that he is). Gardner got up and I hit a deep drive to left center which was caught just before the warning track. 2 outs man on first and Valverde's confidence is pretty solid. Jeter steps up to the box, I knew I was going to get pounded down and in. Still going with his fastball, ball 1 down and ball 2 just misses in. It took all my power not to swing, lol. The third pitch he took a little off and I barely fouled it off down low. Remember that pattern I mentioned, it was back and the next pitch was deposited into the left field stands! Yanks win 7-6!! No dance for Papa Grande today! The biggest thing I noticed with the confidence in this game was even though it was high at times, pitchers were still beatable and still lost control at certain points. So full confidence did not mean lights out like in the past!

The atmosphere was so amazing, even I as a Red Sox fan cheered and jumped. Was pretty damn E P I C!!!

[thaSLAB]

Quote: Originally Posted by PsychoBulk

I need to speak with the devs about realism because this series is clearly going backwards on that score. You are telling me, Papa Grande, the Papa Grande, author of a perfect season of saves, 49 from 49, was manhandled like that by of all people, Andruw Jones! I simply dont believe it. Im done with this game

Fluke! LOL, not to worry, Papa Grande was doing his dance when Nemesis and I play against each other!

He did make it interesting tho, but closed it out for a 2-1 victory for the Tigs.

[YanksFan4Life]

Quote: Originally Posted by nemesis04

My last game I played at the event was the Tigers and Yanks at Yankee Stadium. It was Verlander (CPU) and Sabathia (me). I took an early 4-0 lead in the first three innings and Verlander's confidence was never below 50%. Sabathia bled runs through 6.5. The big blow was a 3 run Home run in the 6th and the lead trailing 6-4. That event brought his confidence down between 40-50%. Last year that would have been lights out and Sabathia probably would have not been able to get out of the inning. Verlander stayed in and completed 8 full innings and his confidence never really went above 75%. Fast forward to the bottom of the ninth trailing 6-4 and the Tigers bring in Valverde to close it out. He predominantly used his fastballs and very rarely went off speed with anything. Anyway to start the 9th Swisher grounded to short for the first out. Valverde's confidence was pretty high which would be expected starting off the inning with an out. Andrew Jones was up next and I kept him instead of pinch hitting for him with a lefty. After working the count I hit a long drive into the left field seats 6-5 now. As Andrew Jones rounds third the Jumbo-tron flashes "Its not over yet!" talk about motivation! Martin gets up and Valverde is pounding the inside of the Zone, confidence was still high considering he gave up a bomb. I actually picked up a pattern during this at bat and was able to hit a sharp single down the third base line just past a diving Inge. His confidence only dropped a little (the cocky bastard that he is). Gardner got up and I hit a deep drive to left center which was caught just before the warning track. 2 outs man on first and Valverde's confidence is pretty solid. Jeter steps up to the box, I knew I was going to get pounded down and in. Still going with his fastball, ball 1 down and ball 2 just misses in. It took all my power not to swing, lol. The third pitch he took a little off and I barely fouled it off down low. Remember that pattern I mentioned, it was back and the next pitch was deposited into the left field stands! Yanks win 7-6!! No dance for Papa Grande today! The biggest thing I noticed with the confidence in this game was even though it was high at times, pitchers were still beatable and still lost control at certain points. So full confidence did not mean lights out like in the past!

Sorry not right topic, But Nem's post got me so excited to see how yankee stadium looks in '12 haha

[Blake1129]

Looks like I will finally be buying a PS3 this year!

[rudyjuly2]

Quote: Originally Posted by nemesis04

Fast forward to the bottom of the ninth trailing 6-4 and the Tigers bring in Valverde to close it out. He predominantly used his fastballs and very rarely went off speed with anything. Anyway to start the 9th Swisher grounded to short for the first out. Valverde's confidence was pretty high which would be expected starting off the inning with an out. Andrew Jones was up next and I kept him instead of pinch hitting for him with a lefty. After working the count I hit a long drive into the left field seats 6-5 now. As Andrew Jones rounds third the Jumbo-tron flashes "Its not over yet!" talk about motivation! Martin gets up and Valverde is pounding the inside of the Zone, confidence was still high considering he gave up a bomb. I actually picked up a pattern during this at bat and was able to hit a sharp single down the third base line just past a diving Inge. His confidence only dropped a little (the cocky bastard that he is). Gardner got up and I hit a deep drive to left center which was caught just before the warning track. 2 outs man on first and Valverde's confidence is pretty solid. Jeter steps up to the box, I knew I was going to get pounded down and in. Still going with his fastball, ball 1 down and ball 2 just misses in. It took all my power not to swing, lol. The third pitch he took a little off and I barely fouled it off down low. Remember that pattern I mentioned, it was back and the next pitch was deposited into the left field stands! Yanks win 7-6!! No dance for Papa Grande today!

Fake! Papa Grande doesn't blow saves!

[steelersfan77]

Pared, you may have addressed this already but in '11 the replay of a stolen base seemed off. I guess what I mean was the view wasn't always that great.

Has that been reworked where the replay zooms out more of the steal attempt?