This game desperately needs some excitement

[bodhiball]

Baseball is a "boring" game. It's slow paced, cerebral, and long, with moments of pure ecstatic insane excitement. I love it.

And I feel none of that excitement with this game. Never really have.

It's great in so many ways, and needs improvement in a lot of others....though I think the thrill of baseball and its little moments is one of the glaring things deeply missing in the franchise, and rarely discussed.

As an example...here are some clips of some game tying homeruns. Have you EVER felt this way hitting one in the Show? Has the crowd reacted that way? Announcer? players? Anything?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX9CGqH-cCU

It needs a "Moments" feature. The crowd standing on an 0-2 pitch in a clutch situation. The dugouts exploding on a game winning or tying hit. The crowd at a fever pitch with the game on the line. Key matchups, big strikeouts, heck...even scoring a run (which is the whole point of the game) doesnt even have an animation in this game. Never has. You score, and MAYBE you see the player clap his hands as he walks by home plate on the way to the dugout.

Boring.

Here are some walkoffs just to keep the good times going:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZSnCniptwY

Listen to that crowd. It's deafening....in a regular season game. Look at the player reactions.


Baseball is boring, and wonderful. Because it has those intense moments...Hoping The Show can start to bring some of that excitement to their franchise

[Stolm]

Ya, they really need to add some sort of "Clutch Moments" reaction from the crowd and the commentators.

I can only imagine how cool making a spectacular diving play would be in RTTS late in a tied ball game, and having the stadium explode in cheers and the commentators freaking out.

[eric7064]

I agree with everything you say. But the opening sentence saying baseball is boring I completely disagree. I get what you mean by saying it. But I don't think you can call something you love boring.

But I do agree they really need the crowd to be ridiculously loud at times. There needs to be a diff between the Rays and the Cubs. Atmosphere needs to be electric.

[Jeffrey Smith]

The crowds in Toronto were crazy this past season. Wish The Show could duplicate that atmosphere.

[LastActionHero]

Well I played a 15 inning game a few days ago against a friend online (very smooth this year!) and I won with a squeeze play and Matt and the crowd went nuts! So in some moments it's there but I agree it could be improved on overall.

[headzapp]

Making the audio and crowds get excited like that would be perfect. The cut scene in the game would be better if they were like real life too. More cuts of players faster replays. To me they seem slowed down too much. Look at the replays in that video. It's only a little bit slower. In the Show it's like Baywatch slow. Better, realistic crowd sounds, realistic broadcast with realistic replays will make this game better.

[TheWarmWind]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jeffrey Smith

The crowds in Toronto were crazy this past season. Wish The Show could duplicate that atmosphere.

I'm... not sure I'm ok with that. I was at game 5 of the ALDS, and when people started throwing stuff on the field, all I could think was how embarrassed I was to be associated with that group of people.

Duplicate the noise, yes, and the passion of the crowd. Just not the disrespect for the game those (all to many) few showed. Made me sick to my stomach.

[kaptainkarl76]

Maybe not have the same four or five idiots waving signs every game...How about some variety?