MLB 14 The Show: Little Issues Hampering the Fun

[dalger21]

I've stopped playing it. The whole random PCI with timed hitting turned me off. MLB 14 might be my last purchase for a few years.

[ShaBoomer]

Quote: Originally Posted by @legendm0de

My "small" issues with this game, are how impossible it is to play RTTS/PlayerLock modes under ALL PITCHES, making the mode unplayable for me because I only play these modes under ALL PITCHES. (this issue seems more a bug, than by design though).

What do you mean by this? How is it impossible to play?

[ShaBoomer]

Quote: Originally Posted by bwiggy33

My only complaint is there no longer being slow mode. I'm still having fun, but man oh man it'd be nice to breathe between pitches and actually have time to think about what I'm doing.

There are plenty of ways to take your time yourself, without weighing down the game with extended cut scenes and making the pitcher stand on the mound for 15 seconds between pitches.

You can call time (down on the d-pad), you can press R3 to get the batter's perspective, you can hold R2, L3. You can press Options to pause, or the touchpad as well.

Lots of ways to slow the game down...

[cardinalbird5]

"Batting Interface Lacks a Ball Icon

Speaking of pitch cursors, MLB 14: The Show could greatly reduce the frustrations of its "zone" hitting style if there was an on-screen icon that represented the ball from the time it left the pitcher's hand to the time it crosses the plate. Presently, the ball's location only appears on screen once it's inside the catcher's mitt.

Baseball titles from Konami, SEGA, Nintendo, EA Sports, Acclaim, etc., have all offered this method of hitting, yet Sony's MLB: The Show series still does not."

Uhh no. How about read and react to the ball? I don' know need a little cursor on my screen. Spirits is a great baseball game, but it isn't the show. That game is pure hand-eye coordination and physics based. Its cursor is based on the sweet spot of a bat, while the PCI is something completely different composed of attributes of the hitter/pitcher.

Everything else I can agree with. I wish community challenges were paying out stubs. I don't mind the loading times, but it is a waste of a mode until we can actually make stubs from it.

[bwiggy33]

Quote: Originally Posted by ShaBoomer

There are plenty of ways to take your time yourself, without weighing down the game with extended cut scenes and making the pitcher stand on the mound for 15 seconds between pitches. You can call time (down on the d-pad), you can press R3 to get the batter's perspective, you can hold R2, L3. You can press Options to pause, or the touchpad as well. Lots of ways to slow the game down...

I already know all of this. It's not the same though. I've been accustomed to the slow style since I started playing all the way back with MLB 10. Doing all of those shortcuts and stuff hampers the experience and doesn't give it the feel the game previously had with true slow speed. I understand people who didn't use slow mode are happy and it doesn't affect them, but I just don't understand why some people make it sound like us slow mode users are the bad guys. The fact is just flat out that the dev team pulled it from the game. They did something that angers a small amount of people, but none the less it's still part of their fan base and most of those people have played the game for years.

[@legendm0de]

Quote: Originally Posted by ShaBoomer

What do you mean by this? How is it impossible to play?

http://theshownation.com/bug_reports/12714

It almost seems like a bug or something they overlooked somehow.

[nemesis04]

My top 3 issues:

1) Check swing appeals are way out of whack, had to turn them off.

2) Contact swing is on major steroids.

3) The pickoff controls are no longer camera specific. Still not sure why this needed to be changed.

Nothing earth shattering but still there non the less.

[jmik58]

I've played The Show for nearly 5 years and I love Zone hitting as it is. It's taken a long time to get good at it, but I love it. I love trying to predict the contact point with my left thumb while timing the swing with my right. it's a very challenging and rewarding system IMO.