MLB The Show 16 Has Officially Arrived, Post Your Impressions Here

[Flaxseed Oil]

Has anyone noticed if the grass color gets deeper and greener during the summer than in the spring? The colors really do look rather washed out compared to last year.

[econoodle]

Quote: Originally Posted by zeus9800

Loving this game. Only 2 real complaints so far: 1. Sometimes it jumps to the next batter without an intro, usually after a hit but some other times as well. Just a little extra effort to check and see who is hitting if you don't remember. Plus, why would I want to skip the walkup? Hoping this is a bug that can be fixed. 2. The awards and things that I earn. I couldn't possibly care less. Yet I'm bombarded with these after games and just turning on the game sometimes. Yes, it's a small inconvenience to just hit X, but I'd rather not have to deal with it. Makes me feel like I'm forced to play a mode I have no desire in, or that that mode is somehow supposed to be more important than any of the others.

thats by design. i love it. thats the way it is on broadcasts, during the replay the batter is walking up to the plate, so when the replay is finished the batter is ready for the first pitch. They many times will show the OSD after the next pitch, unless its a foul ball or something.

+ I like the new idea behind the circular energy/rating thing but holy cow is it hard to read. I be walking up to the screen every single time i need to check energy levels. wtf lol

+ the colors seem a bit washed out compared to 15, but maybe its the lighting engine. it might very well be more realistic then 15, but i was just used to the color pop last year.

+ bring back pitcher warm ups for starters. It was part of my strategy.
+ bring back option for button prompt to bring up pitch/swing info
+ upgrade presentation times's 10 and we are good for a 9 next year.

edit:

+ how could i forget. Please, Please, PLease fix that warping between pitches [batter warping back to the batters box, catcher throw back to the mound skipped] for a second i thought i selected hybrid mode, but nope i was still in full presentation.
I miss True Broadcast presentation on ps3 and dont know why they vamoosed it. [I also miss real time, remember that?!}

[countryboy]

Any one else loving the hit variety? I'm pulling frozen ropes down the line, fighting off jam shots with bloopers over the fielder's head, reaching for a pitch and poking it somewhere.


Man I'm in love with this game.

[LastActionHero]

Quote: Originally Posted by Flaxseed Oil

Has anyone noticed if the grass color gets deeper and greener during the summer than in the spring? The colors really do look rather washed out compared to last year.

Quote: Originally Posted by econoodle

+ the colors seem a bit washed out compared to 15, but maybe its the lighting engine. it might very well be more realistic then 15, but i was just used to the color pop last year

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed.
With all the guys having the game early raving about the lighting and everything I thought we would be getting an even more lively/vivid game colour palette wise but I think it's a slight downgrade. Still great game don't get me wrong!

[Arrowhead21]

Quote: Originally Posted by econoodle

+ bring back pitcher warm ups for starters. It was part of my strategy. ?!}

this is the kind of stuff i simply cant understand them removing

[Eman5805]

Game looks and plays great. But something I was not ready for and thus really bummed out at first was Showtime as the default. Which makes sense. But turns out I have to disable it in two option menus to kill it once and for all. And then a linedrive was hit right at my shortstop and a Showtime deal happened where I had to press a button to catch it.

I think it's a neat feature, but I don't want it! Stop doing this to me! Ghlagh~!

[half-fast]

After playing some 20 games now, I'm back to give further impressions on this game from a more experienced perspective. I won't touch on prior issues I've mentioned such a the low framerate.

The hit variety really is an improvement. I saw it in '15 over '14, but this is more drastic in my opinion. Not just hit variety, but play variety in total. The fielders have more variety, I'm seeing more injuries that look realistic as well.

The fans are also a standout. You can see the difference just when looking around or even fielding, but while pitching you can see they added new faces, clothing and gestures. It's a definite standout.

Game outcomes and paths to those outcomes are far more bountiful in my opinion. Obviously, with the aforementioned increased hit variety and fielding being better, also with more variety, you're going to see new things, but score flip-flopping, dominance shifting, or even the pitcher/batter battles are better.

I don't like that you can see player stats in your pre-game lineup screen anymore. At least I couldnt find them. They were there in player details, but I dont see them any more.

Online is a serious sore spot for this franchise it seems. Online seems to have taken a step back this year so far, and part of it being in my opinion due to lack of network resources. The quick menu takes forever to load most times, which is a pain, but while pitching, pulling back on the right analog stick, for those of us that use pure analog, you need to hold that sucker down for sometimes 4/5 seconds before the meter even starts moving.

That's another thing. How in the heck does the pitching meter still disappear online?! It's been doing this since '14 that I've noticed, and it is still doing it. How is this still a problem? It's actually dumb-founding that this bug is still there. Any other sports game, and this online play would be considered broken 100%.

Certain fielding issues still exist since I've been playing. Perhaps I've been doing something wrong all this time, but precharging your throw sometimes = no throw at all, or a super delayed throw that makes no sense, where the player sits and stares at the infield forever, meanwhile, opposing team players are just rounding bases. This has cost me many games in the past, and is still costing me games, where you literally can't believe the player is staring, meter is full, but arms is raised and not throwing. You can recharge the throw, but the damage is done by then. Is there something I'm not understanding here?

All in all, I've come to love the variety in play, and see this game as an overall improvement. I hope some of these issues can be patched.

[econoodle]

Quote: Originally Posted by Eman5805

Game looks and plays great. But something I was not ready for and thus really bummed out at first was Showtime as the default. Which makes sense. But turns out I have to disable it in two option menus to kill it once and for all. And then a linedrive was hit right at my shortstop and a Showtime deal happened where I had to press a button to catch it. I think it's a neat feature, but I don't want it! Stop doing this to me! Ghlagh~!

u turned it off and its still working?