MLB 14 The Show Review (PS3)

[SpectralThundr]

Quote: Originally Posted by Knight165

If you play enough of any game.......you hear the same commentary over and over. You know what's getting Old, Stale and Boring? YEP. M.K. Knight165

They are very capable of adding in situational commentary to overall improve the GM experience. Other sports titles do this. I love The Show, it, and NHL for me are the two best sports games out there hands down. However, that doesn't mean they should get a pass by having the same exact commentary they've had for the past 3 or 4 years. No excuse for that. Presentation needs some love and attention at this point because as much as the game play is amazing, the presentation is flat out stale, much like NHL is in the same boat.

[Knight165]

Quote: Originally Posted by ty5oke

Basically comparing to OOTP. Since playing that and FM over the past 4 years or so, sports console gaming just hasn't cut it much for me. I need immersion, weekly shows, highlight cut-out to other games, running storylines, etc... I shouldn't have to go searching through multiple screens to make up my own storylines.

Have they added a weekly show or highlights from other games in OOTP for '15?

Heck...it doesn't even have a ticker of other league games running when you are playing...you have to click on another screen to get out of town. You have to pause it and go to the BNN Network screen.

I love OOTP as much as the next guy, but I don't see how other than the news items....it has that much more immersion than The Show for the way you are describing.

In other ways...it blows the Show away(full minor leagues....COMPLETE ability to edit anything in franchise.....expansion...etc)...so there is that.

M.K.
Knight165

[Knight165]

Quote: Originally Posted by SpectralThundr

They are very capable of adding in situational commentary to overall improve the GM experience. Other sports titles do this. I love The Show, it, and NHL for me are the two best sports games out there hands down. However, that doesn't mean they should get a pass by having the same exact commentary they've had for the past 3 or 4 years. No excuse for that. Presentation needs some love and attention at this point because as much as the game play is amazing, the presentation is flat out stale, much like NHL is in the same boat.

Have you played yet?
If you have...I think you'd hear there is much more situational commentary in franchise mode this year.

M.K.
Knight165

[SpectralThundr]

Quote: Originally Posted by Knight165

Have you played yet? If you have...I think you'd hear there is much more situational commentary in franchise mode this year. M.K. Knight165

Sadly I have not as I'm impatiently waiting for the PS4 version. But that is promising to hear. Really all of these sports games going into this gen need to do more with that horsepower, be it weekly recap shows, highlights of other games, what have you. There is no excuse that presentation in sports games has been so stagnant over the last gen+. Time to step up developers.

[tril]

solid game play
-dated commentary
-not really a fan of the quick counts. I dont find it immersive enough.

[ey215]

Quote: Originally Posted by bluengold34_OS

The commentary is good, I would even go so far to say it's great at times - but as with anything, its time has past(IMO) and it is time to get a new fresh team in there. A lot of it isn't whats being said, it's who is saying it. We are so used to hearing Matt as the lead announcer that no matter what he says - it all just comes out as Mattisms - Honestly Matt could describe a three-run blast to win the game, or a cat pissing on a bush and it would sound the same to me. I like Matt in real life, and think he is a quality play by play guy, but just ready for a new voice.

I can unabashedly say that I hope they never get rid of Matty V. That's just because I truly enjoy his work.

With that being said, it's a fair point. Announcing teams are to some extent a matter of taste. However, I agree with what I seem to recall Russell saying in that changing the team, especially Matt, would set them way back just due to the sheer volume of audio they have of him over the years. I'm not sure bringing in someone new just for the sake of change would be a good idea.

At this point, I really don't think it's the announcing team that's holding the commentary from the next big step forward it's just the technical "how do you do it" part of really getting it to sound like an every day broadcast.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this and while I can come up with a pretty grand vision of where I'd like sports game commentary to go I have no clue how you'd do it technically. It would be a monumental task.

[SpectralThundr]

Quote: Originally Posted by ey215

I can unabashedly say that I hope they never get rid of Matty V. That's just because I truly enjoy his work. With that being said, it's a fair point. Announcing teams are to some extent a matter of taste. However, I agree with what I seem to recall Russell saying in that changing the team, especially Matt, would set them way back just due to the sheer volume of audio they have of him over the years. I'm not sure bringing in someone new just for the sake of change would be a good idea. At this point, I really don't think it's the announcing team that's holding the commentary from the next big step forward it's just the technical "how do you do it" part of really getting it to sound like an every day broadcast. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this and while I can come up with a pretty grand vision of where I'd like sports game commentary to go I have no clue how you'd do it technically. It would be a monumental task.

I agree here, switching for the sake of switching, is just throwing out years of work. Better to expand and improve by making the commentary more dynamic as to what's going on ON the field, and what's going on in a player's franchise, or around the league in said franchise in general. Situational commentary is really the way to go these days I think.

[jim48888888]

this review could use an editor for misspellings and grammatical mistakes. im just sayin'... it takes away from the attempted professionalism of the piece.