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

10:12 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 I think the world of Matt Vasgersian but he is shackled to an outdated commentary engine given to repetition and dead air.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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# 361 seanjeezy @ 08/02/12 07:41 PM

So I'm watching the Red Sox/Twins game right now, and when the Sox shifted on Morneau, Middlebrooks was playing shallow left... I don't believe this is possible in the show since the "extreme right" position for 3B puts them at SS, so maybe custom shifts (outside of an actual game that can be saved) and hopefully a player tendency option next year? The Mariners employ a similar shift (Seager in shallow right, Ryan right behind second base, and Ackley normal).

# 362 DickDalewood @ 08/02/12 07:54 PM

Some post-release Vita support would certainly be nice.

# 363 debauchlord @ 08/03/12 01:08 PM

Personally, much more depth would be nice. Sure, you can choose ads for the stadium, but it doesn't visually do anything. Add a hot tub on paper, but not visually. Field degradation looks fancy as a slide bar but, visually, means nothing. Make these things visible. Stop using the same "ad companies" that you've had for 4 years. How hard is it to invent new ones? It'd literally take an hour to throw in 20 more, especially because it is all text. Give greater control over team and stadium functions with a visible element. Move teams, divisionally and physically, if you want. Add a new team, start from scratch. Edit uniforms. have more awards, and, again, a visual element, other than text. Also, hair that isn't creepy (hello Joel Hanrahan).

# 364 blueduke @ 08/03/12 01:47 PM

-Would like for it to be a tad easier when diving for a ball to be able to come up with it. Too often my infielder dives for a groundball and it goes under his armpit. Maybe it's just my slow reflexes though (it probably is)

-Would like to see a different atmosphere from the crowd in regards to game score and game importance. Would like for a crowd witnessing a 3-2 game or a playoff game to have a lot more excitement

-2K's announcing team

-Would like to start a season and plug in a roster without going thru the "spring training work around" to keep lineups intact

# 365 analogdan @ 08/03/12 04:01 PM

1. Commentary

Everyone has said it. It doesn't need any explanation. I won't buy next year's game unless there is new commentary. I've bought the last 4, but that's where I will draw the line. I don't have as much free time as I used to.

2. Rookie leagues, fall leagues, instructional leagues, etc.

Young, developing players don't sit around during the off season. There should be more to do in RTTS (and even Franchise) than watch a calendar go by. None of those leagues need special stadiums or uniforms. Just have the players wear training uniforms, and have some generic minor league stadiums as the locations. The point is to let your player develop his skills.

3. Injury rehabbing

This is one of the biggest issues for players in baseball. Players, especially pitchers, go down for years at a time left and right. Many of them never return to their old ways. Some of them come back even better.

4. Endorsements

Let me unlock special cleats and gloves with my RTTS progress. ROTY or Gold Glove? You get an endorsement! That would give players some sense of progression. There should also be a prominent "trophy room," of sorts. Note: this doesn't mean give players fewer options to begin with

5. Pitch editor

Neftali Feliz's 4-seam fastball and Cliff Lee's 4-seam fastball move in different ways. Give us customizable parameters for every kind of pitch. It doesn't need to be unrealistic or ridiculous, just subtle tweaking.

6. Snapshots / Baseball cards

If I pour time into a player who I play over 15-20 seasons, I want to be able to look back on his rookie year. I would love to have pictures or baseball cards alongside my statistics where I can look at how young and thin my pitcher looked at age 18 compared to age 50. I want to be able to see my pitcher playing for his old teams with his old equipment. Currently, your player has absolutely no sense of history or career progression.

7. Realistic crowds

I realize SCEA doesn't want to hurt any feelings, but the crowds are completely unrealistic in the current game. Not only the number of people, but the way they're dispersed in the seats.

8. Player roles

Team leader, consistent veteran, power hitter, utility specialist, lefty-only specialist, opposite-field hitter, pitcher-handler (for catchers), etc. See Madden.

9. Draft position

1st round draft pick (high expectations), later round (lower expectations). Again, see Madden.

10. Improved "Hall of Fame" Prediction

It's virtually impossible in RTTS to make a mediocre, journeyman reliever. The game assumes you want to be an ace, and treats you as such. Not all RTTS players should have that expectation. There were numerous times when my mediocre, soft-tossing left-handed pitcher (playing on the hardest settings) was given the opening day start over players with much better stats, much better careers, etc. The game shouldn't baby you into those positions. If you're the 3rd best pitcher on the team (measured by both performance and your player rating), you should be in the third rotation spot.

After 8 or 9 seasons playing on the hardest settings, I had never posted an ERA below 4 (my average ERA was above 5) or won more than 10 games in a season, but the game said I would make it to the Hall of Fame. Some people want RTTS to actually be a challenge. That means it should be possible, if you don't perform well, to fail.

# 366 Galvatron @ 08/03/12 08:27 PM

Reduce the frequency of double plays. 3-4 a game on average is way too many.

Not to mention the ricochets off the pitcher, which has been a thorn in my side for far too long, especially when they are NEVER injured as a result. I smoked a line drive directly off of Chris Capuano's nose which sent him writhing in pain and clutching his face on the mound, only to get the cutscene of him hobbling on one leg then continuing to pitch! Needs serious attention next year.

# 367 RoyalBoyle78 @ 08/03/12 08:33 PM

For me.. Just add all the cut scenes and all the bells and whistles and I'm will be happy... This is vita of course

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# 368 rjackson @ 08/03/12 11:01 PM

I would be thrilled with only a few things:
There are too many double plays due to the delay from the batter's box.
There are too many times the pitcher gets hit by a batted ball.
When I choose 'sim season', sim the damn season. Don't ask me if I want to stop for all-star games, minor league playoffs, etc.
Trade logic--teams in it are not trading for prospects and teams out of it are not trading for stars...A potential players do not get traded often but they do in this game.
Edit player--PLAYER POTENTIALS NEED TO BE EDITABLE

# 369 EmmdotFrisk @ 08/04/12 01:20 AM

If the show could deliver the depth of OOTP in franchise mode and mix it with the same multi user functionality that's in NCAA Online Dynasty or the new Madden CCM, it would be GOTY.

# 370 dodgerblue @ 08/04/12 02:12 AM

Commentary is stale, improvement here is a must

MLB today feature - Just like in 2K

Make it possible to manage and play in the same game. I want to manage while my team is in the field and then bat. I don't like to sim while in the field because you lose to much control over moves.

# 371 BoSox5 @ 08/04/12 12:47 PM

Franchise needs a lot of changes. Trade logic is terrible. Franchise is almost unplayable without 30 team control. Why is Strasburg being moved in the first year? Franchise players are being moved far too often, there needs to be some recognition from GM's of who defines their team (not only on the field, but marketing and franchise value ie.. Derek Jeter).

If that is not implemented they need to add some sort of "commissioner mode" where the user approves all cpu to cpu trades. Not sure if this is against some MLBPA rules, but we should be able to edit salaries to bring some realism to franchise.

# 372 KakeNasty130 @ 08/04/12 03:55 PM

I want to see a creation mode on MLB 13 The Show. Create-a-team, create-a-stadium, etc. Also, this sounds like a long shot, but online Road to the Show. I would love to see that; have it be similar to online franchise, but with your Road to the Show character. Be able to invite friends and have a draft to see where all the players in the Road to the Show "league" will go. And although this may seem like a minor thing, I can stand the rendered, fake players that they have in the minors and in the draft. A black guy with a blond, euro mustache, and a square jaw, dumb stuff like that. I'd like to see more realistic fake players.

# 373 fnz21 @ 08/04/12 10:28 PM

I would love to be able to edit coaches, and hire/fire within the season. And have the coaching staffs availble to see/edit outside of franchise mode. Like part of the roster file.

# 374 Zavalonius @ 08/05/12 06:26 AM

I hope next year's game will have more freedom with its rosters now that there is no exclusive MLB contract with a rival developer, which I understand is why there is no MLB Today-like feature in The Show. But what I'm thinking of is a lot more interesting than just the ability to play today's matchup with correct rosters, something that takes a lot of painstaking preparation to do accurately in The Show 12.

Next year, if The Show is going to take a serious step forward, feature-wise, here is what I MOST want to see:

A Time Machine mode.

Something I think both players AND devs would love. Go back in time to pivotal moments in games throughout history. How about that marathon game last year between the Pirates and the Braves that ended with a heartbreakingly bad call at the plate? Who knows what that season could have been for the Pirates had they not completely collapsed in the games immediately after that moment? In MLB The Show 13, step into the time machine and replay that final at-bat of the game as either team and change the course of history. After a brief recap of the game/season so far to give it some context, either with video or (more intriguingly) in-game cutscenes which mimic what happened in real life, the player takes over from that critical point with the exact same roster, ballpark conditions, and gameplay situation as occured in real life.

Other possible "what could have been?" moments that could be included in this mode might be the Bartman ball incident, or the day the 1994 season ended for good (with the Mariners having to play every game on the road after the Kingdome started to crumble, and the Montreal Expos as close to a World Series as they would ever get). Obviously specific commentary, cutscenes and research would need to be done for a time machine mode, but I would pay for new DLC "episodes" a hundred times more quickly than for a historical stadium or Challenge of the Week.

Just the briefest look into the roster building section of this forum, where just hundreds of hours of free time is devoted to recreating rosters from particular time-periods and playing "What if?" should be enough to convince anyone how much demand there would be for this kind of feature in a baseball sim. If that's not the next step in sports simulation, I'm not sure what is.

# 375 MauerMorneau09 @ 08/05/12 12:56 PM

Put the uniform creator from Diamond Dynasty in Franchise. I feel it would be cool if there was a swing customizer which allowed you to set the types of strides(ex. High, toe tap), stance position(ex. open), and swing type(ex. 2H). It would be also if there was a way to edit player tendencies and potentials. These including a preference of diving or sliding in outfield, what cpu players do 2-0(swing away or take). We should also have to ability to add statistics for players not in the game that we create along with editable service time. Another cool thing would be a schedule creator, which would allow us to make schedules of repeat years if we made classic teams. Rehab assignments & trades for cash need to be in for Franchise. Other little things include 26th man for a DH, Rain-outs & Rain Delays, contract buyouts, different glove webbings.

# 376 EmmdotFrisk @ 08/05/12 01:59 PM

An online roster and team editor would be clutch.

# 377 Scooter3 @ 08/06/12 12:34 AM

Uniform creator would be fantastic!

Like to add lifetime stats to each old-time created player.

On attributes please give us a choice to choose actual Batting Ave and HR's per season instead of the "0 to 99 sliders".

Also for the old time Rosters we create please give an option to choose 60, 61, 70 or 73 HR's as the season Home Run Record to beat.

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# 378 fanofikedavis @ 08/06/12 05:37 PM

more player sliders (contact vs rhp, that kind of stuff).

for example: strikeout likelyness, batting aggresiveness, fielding ability at all positions

# 379 DieHardYankee26 @ 08/06/12 05:44 PM

Assuming Create a Franchise is off the table..

1.) Add a Plate Discipline slider (not vital, but would like the ratings to play more of a role in this at times)

2.) Fix the Interleague ticker issue (not game breaking, just bugs me)

3.) Fix decimal stats

Add those 3 and put it in a new package with updated rosters and I'll consider it the perfect baseball game. Add in create a franchise and it could be my favorite sports game ever.

# 380 Cavicchi @ 08/06/12 06:06 PM

When pitching from the Pitcher Full selection, the hot/cold zones are not clearly defined. Deeper shades of colors would be extremely useful.

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