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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 I think the world of Matt Vasgersian but he is shackled to an outdated commentary engine given to repetition and dead air.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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# 521 D0GGERT D0G @ 09/06/12 04:45 PM

I really want more uniform options, anyone uniform made by Majestic should be in the game in my opinion, I understand the teams approve any uniforms. Here are some I would love to see next year

Tigers: 1979 Road
Giants: 1912 Home and 1924 Road, Gigantes
Angels: 1980 Road
Rangers: 1994 Home
Reds: 1991 Road
Astros: 1993 Home
Rays: 1979 "Faux-Back"
A's: 1936 Road
Red Sox: 1912 Home and 1936 Home
Yankees: 1912 Road
Nationals: 1924 Home
Cardinals: 1982 Home and Road
Phillies: 1991 Home
Cubs: 1912 Road
Mets: Los Mets
Brewers: 1982 Road, Cerveceros, Birrai
DBacks: 1997 Purple, iDBacks

# 522 Tweeg @ 09/06/12 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Scott


	They had one-pitch mode on High Heat, I loved that feature.

1 pitch mode/generated counts would be amazing.

# 523 Mike Lowe @ 09/06/12 10:53 PM

More hit by pitches, and less control of the strikezone WITHOUT serving up meatballs always as a byproduct.

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# 524 Greencollarbaseball @ 09/07/12 01:27 AM

1. Hot/cold zones that change and not just for the current game but during a players career. ex: 8 years in to my rtts and Josh Reddick still has all his zones blue.

2. Hit spray charts that change, right now the all say 33/34/33.

3. Banners that show career histories against pitchers or batters. Real broadcasts show these things every game

4. A more lively and fluid commentary. There is too much dead air. Personal note; listen to an A's or Giants game, I think they have two of the best announcing crews I've heard. I am biased because I am from there but I watch a lot of baseball (MLB.tv) and they are still my favorite.

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# 525 Greencollarbaseball @ 09/07/12 01:36 AM

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Originally Posted by D0GGERT D0G


	I really want more uniform options, anyone uniform made by Majestic should be in the game in my opinion, I understand the teams approve any uniforms. Here are some I would love to see next year Tigers: 1979 Road Giants: 1912 Home and 1924 Road, Gigantes Angels: 1980 Road Rangers: 1994 Home Reds: 1991 Road Astros: 1993 Home Rays: 1979 "Faux-Back" A's: 1936 Road Red Sox: 1912 Home and 1936 Home Yankees: 1912 Road Nationals: 1924 Home Cardinals: 1982 Home and Road Phillies: 1991 Home Cubs: 1912 Road Mets: Los Mets Brewers: 1982 Road, Cerveceros, Birrai DBacks: 1997 Purple, iDBacks

To go with this,

Old negro league unis
Old PCL unis ie.
Athletics- Oaks
Giants- Seals
Mariners- Rainers ect.

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# 526 mwjr @ 09/07/12 08:45 AM

1. Search for player feature - I don't know how feasible this is for a console, but when trying to trade for talent, I'd like to be able to search for and filter for players based on position, age, skills, etc.

2. Better World Series celebration. What an incredible letdown.

3. Training mode that means something. It really seems to be quite arbitrary right now.

# 527 zippy2212 @ 09/07/12 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by seanjeezy


	There are plenty of A's - in every test franchise that I've ran, I have been able to draft 2-3 A's every year (including the first year) and a few of them have been close to major league ready. Too many A's lead to overblown stats and trades, the league becomes too good and superstars are traded for prospects 1-1. If the potential system is reworked to include A potentials who actually become busts then more A's wouldn't be a problem. The rest are very good suggestions though and I would also like to see the same things make their way into this game.

I like all of the OP's ideas. The only thing I would say different is instead of more A rated draftees I would make it that more of the top rated draftees be A's and B's.

For example, as the Cubs & the 6th pick I messed around and did the draft 5 times. Each time taking the top player available only to end up with D, C, F, C and D rated picks. To me that is a little unrealistic. If a player is projected to go anyway in the first round they probably are no lower than a B rated prospect.

Even with this I echo what everyone else has already stated, by far the #1 game out there.

# 528 fanofikedavis @ 09/07/12 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by seanjeezy


	There are plenty of A's - in every test franchise that I've ran, I have been able to draft 2-3 A's every year (including the first year) and a few of them have been close to major league ready. Too many A's lead to overblown stats and trades, the league becomes too good and superstars are traded for prospects 1-1. If the potential system is reworked to include A potentials who actually become busts then more A's wouldn't be a problem. The rest are very good suggestions though and I would also like to see the same things make their way into this game.

More A's in the first rounds and less A's in the last rounds. The draft shouldn't be all about who has the best rankings for teams drafting in the top 10ish.

# 529 jct32 @ 09/08/12 03:50 AM

Being able to play manager mode online would be amazing. I know some of us, like me, don't have the stick skills and only choosing the manager action would negate any lag in the online code since the user is only deciding strategy.

I could only imagine playing a manager only, online season. It would a great experience.

# 530 cbearson @ 09/08/12 05:38 AM

I think the game primarily needs refinement, and I can provide many examples that others already have. All fielders make players above their level of ability, so you really can't appreciate those who are stand outs. Basically all pitchers are dominating above rookie level on the default sliders to all but very serious vets of the game. I think everyone here gets that idea. BTW, Curveballs are INSANELY effective, regardless of the pitchers ratings, but sliders are horribly weak by comparison.

The game needs to be a little bit easier. I'm a lifetime veteran of real and virtual baseball, and have talked it with well known college managers etc. I should be able to handle the game on Hall of Fame without insane slider boosts (hell, I can barely handle it on hall of fame at all).

However, there are a couple of ideas I recommend (I don't even mind if you directly lift them). They primarily have to do with scouting and should be applied for RTTS and Franchise etc. First off, we need to be able to scout pitchers like in the real big leagues. Before you face a starter, there should be some little dossier or file on them. Ya know, they have a tendency of blank fastballs on x 3-1 counts with 2 men on etc etc. Also, an explanation of short ideas to use against em, be more patient, watch for late count hanging curves etc, would be nice.

And since the unique umps are a feature, why are we not getting info on them? We need a mini scouting system on the umps in here. It exists informally in the big leagues, but why not jot a few notes down for us on these virtual umpires?

One more quick thing, why not allow us to create our own batting stances? And it'd also be great if we could decide to move our RTTS hitters up or back in the box, even if we can't make up our own stances!

# 531 nightowl_80 @ 09/08/12 06:56 AM

I don't have time to go through all 59 pages I am sure people might have thought and typed this.

I would love to see a create your own park mode Where you start out with replacing a team and then you have to create a park and do a fantasy draft to get your team. Then you can get emails from crazy fans telling you that they are going to stop being fans if you don't stop winning games.(For the record I got the crazy fans email from the first page)

I would also like to be able to play the game with the people that actually are playing. Let me make that more clear just like the MLB today mode in 2k series.

I know that creating your own park is far fetch but, I have this really cool staudim idea and I like to do fantasy drafts. Since EA hasn't put out a NBA game in two years they make me buy 2K series and even the NBA 2K has that mode. Since MLB 2k won't be happening and it doesn't take a genius to figure out that both Sony and 2K copy each other ideas with trophies and game modes. I am surpised Sony hasn't done this. I am not knocking Sony as I love the show series more then any baseball series in the past 7 years.

# 532 Still2REal @ 09/08/12 12:03 PM

Update Franchise and Trade Logic

# 533 shabagel @ 09/08/12 03:42 PM

Haven't read all the pages so,sorry if these have already been stated.

Make Minor League stats matter.
If your 21 Year old,A potential prospect hits .192 his potential should drop,and if your D potential prospect hits .350,his should go up.But make age expected level factor in(No placing a 25 year old in AA to raise potential)

Have busts.
This is my main problem with the game.Very rarely will an A potential not be an A or B overall.Have A's be D's and D's be A's occasionally.

Let us create a team offline!
This was added to online so why not give us the ability to make an expansion team? Or even replace the whole league? You can do this in Madden and NBA 2K,why not the show?

Improve trade logic.
The Whitesox getting Mike Trout for Kevin Youkillis is definitely not realistic.

Add Spring training invites!
Instead of making us sign free agents to 5 year deals let us invite them to spring training and evaluate there.

FIX THE FUTURES GAME!
Why have it if every year after a roster update an injured MLB vet will make the Futures teams every year and sometimes be on both teams!
That's about my only problem's with the game.

# 534 Jolly Roger @ 09/08/12 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Tweeg


	1 pitch mode/generated counts would be amazing.

How does this work? I mean, what if the batter fouls it off? Then what?

# 535 EnigmaNemesis @ 09/08/12 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by SportsGamingBlake


	i know its quite unlikely, but it would be cool to have the national anthem, and 7th inning stretch (God bless america and take me out to the ballgame)

You can add those with 'sounds of the show' feature.

# 536 Knight165 @ 09/08/12 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Jolly Roger


	How does this work? I mean, what if the batter fouls it off? Then what?

It continues on with the new count.....ala ASB 2005
Great system.

It had....
Random count
Pitchers count(it would generate more towards the pitching ratings more often)
Hitters count(same as above)
and then you could choose to have actual counts continuously.
(1-0....2-1...etc)

If you fouled off a 1-0 count...it was 1-1 and the AB continued.
I would love it in the game.

M.K.
Knight165

# 537 Greencollarbaseball @ 09/08/12 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by EnigmaNemesis


	You can add those with 'sounds of the show' feature.

I think, and I may be wrong, he is means like how it is at a real ballpark. Where you might have some players warming up and the national anthem plays and they stop what they are doing and put their hand over their heart, unless it's Boston, unpatriotic a'holes just keep playing catch while the song of your country plays...sorry where was I.

I think it would be really cool if they introduced the teams and had them line up along the baselines during the playoffs like they do in real life. Then did the National Anthem and a fly over while everybody is still lined up.

# 538 Mike Lowe @ 09/09/12 04:27 PM

I'm convinced what this game needs more than anything is a franchise import/export feature which would work from one year to the next.

I'm falling in love with my GM mode I've created (letting AI manager handle staff and lineups, AI organization handle marketing/training etc.) in which I handle team transactions and then watching games (not manager mode though).

I'd like to setup an online GM league that sims daily. Franchise rollover would allow for this as well as the long-term buy in.

Other changes needed:

Make call ups based on performance, not only injuries

Deeper minors

Storylines

More HBP (check MLB)

Agree with those who say more busts/gems in draft

Deeper draft

Expansion/relocation/stadium generator

Fan interaction needs major work

Rainouts/doubleheaders/make up games

Revamped broadcasts

Far more stat overlays. Far more

Deeper stat tracking in-season and year to year

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# 539 KamekDSU @ 09/09/12 04:28 PM

More advertisers besides StateFarm. It's always StateFarm this and StateFarm that. What is MLB The Show's favorite thing? StateFarm.

More advertisers besides StateFarm, which kinda sucks.

# 540 Knight165 @ 09/09/12 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by KamekDSU


	More advertisers besides StateFarm. It's always StateFarm this and StateFarm that. What is MLB The Show's favorite thing? StateFarm. More advertisers besides StateFarm, which kinda sucks.

You mean like Topps, Majestic, MLB.com, Veterans Association, National Baseball Hall of Fame or Major League Players Association?

M.K.
Knight165

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