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Old 06-11-2015, 11:11 AM   #1
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Old 06-11-2015, 11:32 AM   #2
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I could not have said it better myself. Offline MLB The Show 15 has been a joy. I have never played the game as much as I am right now. It literally has not left my PS4 since 3/31/15 I can't bring myself to take it out and pop in another game. Every time I finish a game, whether it is one of my offline franchise games, a Diamond Dynasty game or an online franchise game, I find myself always saying.....one more. The game has made so many under the hood refinements this year that have brought it to a new level of realism on the field. Playing the CPU is unlike any other sports game experience in my history of playing the genre. The CPU will exploit your weakness as the OP pointed out in his article.

Crazy thing is they are going to continue to refine and build off this solid soul. My hope is more advanced and deeper statistic tracking comes (which is priority one) in MLB 16 and online franchise is refined to play like offline franchise. Also Diamond Dynasty has been the mother of all surprises for me. 40% of my game time has come playing that superbly fun fantasy baseball mode. I love it.

But I always come back to offline franchise. It is the heart and soul of the game for me personally. Couple that with our incredible roster community, I have never had more fun playing console baseball than right now. I feel like I am 15 all over again.

Thank you SCEA!!!
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Old 06-11-2015, 12:37 PM   #3
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I am so glad someone else shares my opinion on this. With all of the negativity in this forum this year, I truly felt that I was just about the only one that loved this game.

Honestly for me it doesn't get much better than this. I have never had so much fun with this title as I am having this year. I usually play one Franchise and one RTTS every year. Well now I have 3 franchise teams going. Two RTTS and I just set up a play off grid with the worst teams in baseball to decide who my next franchise is going to be.

I truly do love this game more that I have ever loved it before.

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Old 06-11-2015, 12:50 PM   #4
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It's refreshing to see a purely positive, non-critical piece every now and then. I'm sure you'll be getting counter points about everything that is absolutely "broken" with this game, but we sometimes we just need to step back and appreciate what we have. MLB 15: The Show deserves praise, it's a tremendous sports game. Thumbs up.
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I really like The Show 15, but taking away last year's pure analog holds it back from me for being a truly all-time great game. The graphics are terrific, pitching/fielding is great, and the franchise mode is much deeper than any other respective games'.

I was annoyed the other day though when I had a perfect game going with Felix Hernandez in the 8th and the defense gave up 5 unearned runs to give him a lose with a 0.00 ERA. But that's my own personal hangup and not the game's fault.
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Old 06-11-2015, 01:37 PM   #6
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So your not getting line drives hit right at your shortstop and him ducking like a coward?

You start a paragraph with "The core gameplay is perfect." I completely disagree. While it is great from a hitters and pitchers perspective, the fielding and throwing is atrocious.

Don't get me wrong, I love this game but if somebody bought a PS4 and The Show just by reading this they would be highly disappointed.
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Old 06-11-2015, 01:44 PM   #7
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Thanks for the praise, everyone. I'm usually like the lone critic of The Show on OS, but I'm marveling at how organic the gameplay feels this year. I've played 100+ games already and haven't gotten sick of it at all.

I've changed my position that the game needs an overhaul to that I think it just needs to keep piling on the new animations where it can. The ones they added this year have really helped keep the game fresh, for me.
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Exactly right. This game captures the variance of the sport with amazing fidelity. It's hard to overstate how right they got this aspect of the game that is so central to the baseball experience.
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