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What Does MLB 13 The Show Need to do Next Year to Satisfy Your Baseball Gaming Needs?

11:12 AM - May 25, 2012 by Steve_OS

With the MLB 2K series all but confirmed to be dead, Kotaku's Owen Good has posted an article on what MLB 13 The Show must do to keep the fans of baseball gaming happy. It should be interesting, considering a simulation baseball game for the 360 doesn't look very likely.

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	Your long slog through your career in Road to the Show makes the game's threadbare commentary painfully apparent. I think the world of Matt Vasgersian but he is shackled to an outdated commentary engine given to repetition and dead air. Dave Campbell's dialogue library is really showing its age, and a majority of his work sounds like Dave Campbell playing Dave Campbell. Eric Karros should be thanked for his service and sent home. The Show has world class visuals and a smooth, if minimalist, broadcast presentation. The commentary supporting it has not pulled its weight in years.

In your opinion, what does MLB 13 The Show need to do next year to satisfy your baseball gaming needs?

Source - If We Won�t Have MLB 2K to Kick Around Next Year, Here�s What The Show Must Do (Kotaku)

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# 201 rjackson17 @ 06/09/12 08:08 PM

I would like to see in next year game 5 umpires for the World Series Game and Rain Delays or Rainouts! That would make the game complete! Plus I like to see in the fanchise mode when you trade a player can you choose cash for the player! In the gameplay mode Please keep Classic for Batting and Pitching!

Thanks,

RJ

# 202 tbbucsfan001 @ 06/10/12 02:28 AM

Different potentials for different ratings; like a ceiling. Things like vision and discipline should be able to progress while things like speed and arm strength should already be at the ceiling.
Vision: Current: 45 Pot: 64
Speed: Current: 76 Pot: 76
Like that.

# 203 szink @ 06/10/12 02:52 AM

A lot of these suggestions for Franchise mode are really in depth. And, as a gaming company, they probably want to keep it as simple as possible to appeal to as many people as possible, instead of just hardcore baseball fans (such as us). So, there should be difficulties for Franchise! But if you want to do a simple Franchise but play on say Hall of Fame, then you can do that. A difficulty just for the managing aspect of it.

Easy: Easy to trade for good players/high potential players. Potential scale remains the same as now. Less injuries. Easy to sign Free Agents. Simple scouting(automatically have all Potential ratings unlocked).

Medium: Trading and signing Free Agents is a little more difficult. Potential ratings have + and -(A+, A, A-, etc.). Scouting that is a little more in depth, but only players that will be in the current draft.

Hard: Executing trades is like real life: in order to receive best players, you have to trade top prospects, and vice versa. Potential for each seperate attribute (Contact Pot: 90, Power Pot: 75, etc.). Realistic amount and severity of injuries. Hard scouting (have players that might not be in the current draft like it is now, players that may be hard to sign because they are going to college or staying in college). HARD to sign top Free Agents. Have signing bonuses for draft picks. Anything else people have mentioned that might be too in depth for the average person.

And fix CPU trade logic for ALL difficulties.

# 204 Karle @ 06/10/12 05:01 PM

This is a simple thing, but it would be a big help when constructing rosters.

Currently one can export from a roster only players not created with SCEA faces. I would like to have the ability to also export players with SCEA faces as it then makes it possible to export such a player from one roster and then import him into another.

Karle

# 205 bartlett381 @ 06/14/12 03:11 AM

I would love to see the announcers get updated. In that same area I play franchise and after I win a world series or do anything really I would like to hear the announcers refrence my stats from the year prior not the outdated stats that the game statrted with. Also being that I play franchise I like to go back and lok through all of the players stats from years prior it would be nice to actually be able to pull those up and even see the teams the guy played for. Some roster improvement from year to year would be nice as well. I would also love more fan cut scenes. Have a guy run on the field or just weird stuff in the stands would be fun. I always like that in NHL 09 I think it was during stoppige in play a guy would sometimes propose to a girl and sometimes she said no and the commintators actually commented on it. Doesn't effect the game but I always got a laugh out of it. Lastly I would like suspensions, weather it be for beans or even through in off the field issues.

# 206 mcmo35 @ 06/14/12 11:19 AM

I just have a couple things to add (mainly for Franchise Mode) that have been in other sports games I have played.

1) I like how Madden eventually has retired players come back as coaches. It's a nice little feature. For example, after X-amount of years, Tom Brady comes back as a coach that is above average in coaching QBs and offense in general. For The Show, it would be like having Chipper Jones or Derek Jeter come back as a coach a few years after retirement and having plus ratings in some hitting attributes that could improve your team if they are on your staff in some capacity.

2) In MVP 05, I thought it was a nice touch when they added "Baseball America Top 100 Prospect" to some of the top talent in the minors. All-Star Baseball 2004 had a similar feature where you could go to a screen and see the top prospects at each position, for each team, and for the entire MLB. In the MVP franchise, it was always neat when playings a minor league game and the opposing pitcher had a "Top Prospect" icon next to his stats as he warmed up before the game, or when a hitter would come to the plate and have the Top Prospect icon above his stat line.

3) Less important but something I've always wanted since I started playing The Show back in 2006 was the ability to edit potential. I know that this is basically impossible, but if only one improvement could be made from this year's game to next year's, I'd want editable potential. I know it's likely to never happen, so I'm not too worried about this ever getting into the game.

# 207 Sportsflibs @ 06/15/12 07:04 PM

Stop adding new features. Fix what's in the game.

- Fix progression in Franchise so ten years in the whole league isn't 30 and older - younger guys can become superstars.
- Fix trading so teams who should be in "win now" mode don't trade away superstars.
- Fix trading so teams in rebuild mode rebuild..seek A and B prospects for aging, expensive stars.
- Fix trading so rebuilding teams don't trade away their young, cheap superstars.
- Fix trading and lineups so teams don't have two or three superstars or stars at one position.
- Improve the pitcher/hitter dynamic so sometimes guys swing and miss at balls off the plate, and so pitchers have to throw out of the strike zone to work outs.

# 208 MLB Bob @ 06/15/12 08:23 PM

Probably mentioned but I would love more minor league teams with full roster spots. I dont want them playable..so as A ball is now. I just want more spots so you can really develop players. The draft can be longer and so on.

I would also like pitching tendencies such as Vs. RHB, Vs LHB, GB/FB % have these as attributes so you can really build different players. And some adjusting in position player attributes like speed not increasing as a skill. Have certain base attributes that can affect other specific attributes..

# 209 UK0wnag3 @ 06/16/12 03:02 PM

In franchise mode, get rid of the newspaper. It's 2012! A website similar to 2K's would be great, so you can see news from around the league and for individual teams. The franchise mode can feel like such an enclosed space at times, another team could throw a no-hitter and I'd never even know.

# 210 AC @ 06/16/12 04:11 PM

I LOVE photography, especially in baseball. Every time I go to a game at the Rogers Centre, I take my camera and make sure to get some photos.

What I would pay for is having a stadium-tour kind of thing, you could see the entire stadium. I'd love to see the concourses at Yankee stadium, or be a fan sitting where Bueller sat at Wrigley. Watching the baseball game on right now as well, I just saw them showing the stadium from the 500 level outfield, with a beatiful view of Harbourfront in the back ground, and I thought, "It'd be awesome if they could get the surroundings of the stadium withing maybe a kilometre or 2 (miles, for you Americans

)." Also, revamped franchise with more in depth scouting and prospect development. And I'd like them to have every level of baseball for franchise and RTTS, all of them playable. Heck, maybe just buy the minors while you're at it! It'd save Knight some work, hehehe.

# 211 tytyboogie @ 06/17/12 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by knich


	Can we PLEASE cutoff a ball in the outfield...how this is not in a game that promotes the little things (and this is a BIG thing) is beyond me. Bring over the MLB2k announcing crew..they are great (I say this and I hated Gary Thorne for the NHL series) Retractable roofs and rain delays (c'mon this was in All Star Baseball) MLB 2k scouting reports (But don't make us pay for them...all MLB teams in real life have scouting reports on all players) Broadcast view is still too zoomed Corner outfielders still play too shallow MVP Batter's eye A lot more Franchise stat and situational overlays Fix the weird helmets in PIP baserunner view. It is evident with teams with light colored helmets (e.g. DBacks, Nationals, etc). Real players and unis would also be nice. MLB 2k baserunning control system..or at least the ability to control runnners even with autobaserunning enabled .OBP as a dedicated stat when showing stats after 1st at bat (like avg, HRs, RBIs) Every team in MLB does this..the little things. Please also replace slugging % with .OBP on jumbotrons and stat boards in stadiums. Again..no one excludes .OBP. Live look-ins/highlights would be great in Franchise PLEASE give option to start season with 25 man roster if you skip spring training or at least to revert back to starting 25 man if you play spring training Weather and attendance should be based on historical info..Not sure it is..or if it is it doesn't work real well Better field degradation..especially during rain games. More dynamic and responsive stadium crowds..still don't get the right feel of being at ballpark. Rivalry games should have more amp'd crowd than non-rivalry games. Fans should be more excited when big name pitcher is on mound or batter is at plate...as well as big scoring opportunities. # Better distance imaging...Very hard to see stats on scoreboard because focus is on pitcher batter duel. Scoreboards are great if we can read them. For example, can't see stats on scoreboard from home plate at Orioles Park or Yankee Stadium..and I have 1080p HD monitor that is crisp.

your tv has nothing to do with not being able to clearly see the jumbotron stats..its the antiglazing idea.they want it to be harder to read cuase of the distance

# 212 RobD4477 @ 06/19/12 12:30 AM

I would love to see three team trades and the ability to have more than 6 players involved in one trade like possibly 5 players per team

# 213 tlobster12 @ 06/19/12 02:05 AM

I would like to see more equipment options like having a set of accessories for a player to wear during away games and home games.

It would also be nice to be able to use custom cameras online and to be able to export any player

# 214 brindlerednoze @ 06/19/12 09:15 AM

like to be able to play online co-op or my league games with custom camera angles without "traffic delays"

# 215 TGov @ 06/22/12 08:57 AM

Players to honor there contracts...

ARod retired after the 2012 season for me due to age, same with Jeter... Don't get me wrong I'm managing the Red Sox but I like to have the competition realistic and competitive, and most of all... ARod and Jeter are under contract past 2012, I believe, at least ARod is... Same thing happened with Mariano Riveria...

# 216 Edmond @ 06/23/12 12:06 AM

One thing I would like to see is more realistic reactions to throwing errors during stolen bases.

Example:

If you steal a base and the ball is thrown into the outfield, your guy will take his time dusting himself off instead of popping up to see if he can take another base.

# 217 LastActionHero @ 06/23/12 03:09 PM

-Saving exhibition games

-Fully customizable HUD (options to not show certain things)

-Upload created uniform/team to the vault

-Upload custom camera to the vault

-Never been a fan of the interface.
Hoping for a complete overhaul next year. The basic menu structure has been the same for years with little
changes from year to year.
More user friendly please!

-while pitching give us the same pitch history option by pressing R2 as you can while batting

-Use created DD team in exhibition/season/franchise

-crowd ambiance improvement (they're standing up way to much!)

-4pm starting times

-(Out)fielders interacting with foulballs coming/rolling right next to them instead of ignoring them completely

-Strike 3 foult tip in glove out?

-Ditch the cut-off man after the throw? Holding L2 button to cut-off and release when you want the reliever to let the ball pass him.

-add a difficulty to cathing fly balls, right trigger or R3 stick to raise your hand/glove

-Make dives in the outfield a little easier. It was ok in 08 and 09 but since 10 its almost impossible!

-Finally give us full control over slidings

-Highlite the player's name when there's an overlay for him. I always have to do a quick scan. Such an easy touch!

-On a homerun the base runners still start to jog right after the ball is hit which gives away that its a homerun even before it goes over the fence. Same with balls in the gap that could be caught by the CPU where the baserunners allready tell you the outcome by stopping half way or keep running.

-Full manual option for pickoffs so that it's not completely based on ratings but more on your own reaction time if you get back on time or not.

-After a linedrive is caught by an infielder he stands there as if there is another play to make. When there are runners on base this makes sense but they almost always go to this animation. This is not necessary when the bases are emty or there are 2 outs.

-Let the pitcher (from time to time) turn his head to check the runners on base before the pitch. Always wondered why this isn't in.

-Field chatter

-weather changing from overcast to sun for example. Game starts out with overcast and then it opens up in the 6th with some sunbeams or the other way around. That would make the game feel even more dynamic.

-the possibility to jump into the middle of a season and take it from there, or in September—six months after release—use it as wish fulfillment when their team starts to fade. That type of functionality would properly differentiate this from MLB Today, and turn it into a pick-up-and-play season mode that can deliver the full context of a pennant race.

-add baggy (oldschool) uniform style

# 218 Urban Achiever @ 06/23/12 05:19 PM

Even more animations added for plays would be a start, as well as even further tweaking of the ball physics (which I love this year)

More crowd diversity.

The option to tweak trades in RttS (Franchise mode options here)

The option like in FIFA to be a "player manager" - basically you play your RttS character but also run the franchise you're on without controlling other players, just trades subs, etc.

# 219 redsoxfan25 @ 06/24/12 08:53 PM

The ability to set injuries to what league you want. This was an option in MVP Baseball and would be cool to see in here.

For example, you could set injuries to MLB only, MLB/AAA, MLB/AAA/AA or All.

# 220 JJFurr29 @ 06/24/12 10:52 PM

For RTTS:

- Hire an agent, someone who gives you info on what the team thinks about you, what other teams think, and the best value you can receive..

- Add another level (ex. Class A)..

- When my player is a pitcher, stop giving me goals that involve hitting! And really I'd think that instead of goals they just promote you based on performance.

- be able to upload a picture for yourself and have that for your player pic.

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