MLB 15 The Show OS Community Impressions

[tabarnes19_SDS]

The more I play the more I LOVE this year's game. Visually it's stunning. Gameplay wise is so tight.

Franchise is pretty tight this year as well. Budgets are well done the changes they made to contracts for renewable players and minor leaguers have made it so much more enjoyable.

A few small tweaks and this(for me) will be perfect!

That is until we get complete stat tracking

[L_Thibs]

Love the gameplay, smoothness of controls, visuals.....much praise to the devs for somehow making a great game better!


However, I ran into something I don't like. In extra innings, NO OUTS and BASES LOADED....the CPU bunts....pops it up to pitcher, resulting in triple play.


I know in past versions the CPU would try squeeze bunts with a guy on third and no outs....was hoping they eliminated that.

[tomothyd]

Loving diamond dynasty!!! Never have played in the past but with the pre order bonuses and cards given after games really makes it easy to get into. Have almost exclusively played that since it came out. Now I just need a diamond McCutchen and I'll be golden

[daddies3angels]

Love the gameplay. My only issue is Trade Logic by CPU. Seeing Stars getting trade Stars every couple months really hard to understand. Even harder when same Start traded 2-3 times in 1 yr period. Once Trade Logic is fixed it will be a perfect game for me.

[Hockeynut99]

In my opinion this game is so much better than 14. Love the hit variety and the graphics really are smooth and doubles finally down the line!! Great job SCEA!

[RCMSfan77]

I love the new additions to the stadiums, more specifically all the flags at Globe Life Park and the Texas flag flying high there as well. Dodger stadium has the California state flag as well. Also, maybe my favorite thing so far is, that I can finally move the DH player to a fielding position if I need to and have the pitcher take his spot in the batting order. Thank you guys so much for finally getting some of these little things in the game.

[Bobhead]

Overall I think this game is a step forward, but I'm very disappointed at some of the things that were changed/removed, like the L3 feedback for each swing/pitch, and the quick access to the pitcher analysis screen.

I love the change to controlling where your pitch is thrown, instead of where it ends up. It is especially beneficial to pure analog pitching, as pitches don't end up down the middle so much anymore, and I am not "accidentally" throwing strikes all the time.

The fielding looks and plays a lot better. I haven't seen many new animations yet, but it almost looks like the animations themselves were slowed down some. Whereas previous years played like they were in "fast forward," this year you can see that every movement requires effort, which is what it should look like. Almost like players are "heavier" than previous years, which is a good thing.

In contrast, I always felt like error animations and recovery animations (eg: getting up after a fall or dive) were painfully long and silly looking, I've seen some new ones this year that played out very naturally, where the player quickly adjusted himself after an error or got up quickly instead of rolling around on the ground like he was hit by a truck.

Lighting/colors are fantastic. I can't emphasize enough how terrible I am when it comes to analyzing graphics or noticing specific improvements... BUT, I will say this. For every year I've ever played The Show, I've had to have a separate set of contrast/color settings on my TV just for The Show (the rest of my games played fine in default). This is the first year where I can actually play with default TV settings, because the contrast isn't over done and the colors feel natural and diverse without feeling "photoshoppy" like they used to.

I can tell the devs didn't have as much time for balancing and testing and stuff as they usually do. The game doesn't play as "evenly" out of the box as it has in the past. But all the ingredients are there. More solid contact, better fielding system, etc...

But man I can't stress enough... losing the L3 feedback really hurts. This game already struggles to provide useful information in an efficient manner, and here they took out the most useful tool of them all. I feel like I'm just guessing at the plate now.

[BL8001]

I have owned every show.

You know what? This game is weird.

But baseball is weird.

I reset my sliders to default and played cubs vs sox and batted for both sides.

Sox 10 hits
Cubs 6

Sale 5 K's
Lester 2 K's

This is what is weird. Flowers homers in the 9th when I press x and down on the L stick. (Last game I hit a homer with a contact circle press swing.)
But even weirder is the best SS in the league had 3 errors.

I will say it again baseball is weird. Maybe this game is really gunning for that aspect.