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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 I think the world of Matt Vasgersian but he is shackled to an outdated commentary engine given to repetition and dead air.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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# 661 Drew127 @ 11/20/12 06:15 PM

1. Better atmosphere and crowd reactions. The crowd needs to rise/swell instead of just bursting out into a loud cheer. I can't stand nailing a line drive to the gap and having the home crowd silent until my guy finally gets to second base standing up, at which point they decide to react. And how about ambient sounds besides just the crowd and announcers? I love playing in Seattle with the trains, and it's been done really well. But this concept should be expanded to other stadiums. Such as Camden Yards, when I go to games there I can regularly hear sirens from within the ballpark (and no this isn't a slight against Baltimore it's just a fact). I think even ASB or some game years ago had great ambient effects like this.

2. Better menu system in franchise mode. Better/deeper career stat tracking. Better stat presentation. More stats presented on overlays during games. MORE STATS.

3. Refine the physics further. Ground balls down the line that just make it inside the bag die about 20 feet into the outfield. I still have yet to see a ground ball down the line make it even close to the corner in the outfield. Line drives obviously are a different story.

4. On this note, even more hit variety. I never see bloop hits. That's the biggest thing missing IMO.

5. This is a nit-pick but I imagine could also be done easily. Have the home crowds represent the team colors better. I play at Camden and the crowd is wearing mainly white shirts. We all saw what the place looked like in the playoffs, it was a sea of orange and black. And it's like that during the regular season too.

# 662 Chai2112 @ 11/20/12 08:34 PM

I've been posting the following for a few years now and each year I wish The Show would have it. Basically, I mainly play Franchise mode. I would love for them to add personalities to the mix, similar to the way the NBA2K series has it. In the player edit mode there should be options for personality, such as fiery, mellow, indifferent (think JD Drew), etc. It would be so cool if then this affected animations and gameplay. For example, Papelbon (who would have a fiery personality) blows a game, then he goes back to the dugout, you push a button, and he throws over the water cooler. Or you push it multiple times, and he kicks something or really takes out his aggression. This would also work well in terms of if a batter gets a bad strike call, you could push buttons to respond, based on the player's personality. This would make ejections no longer completely random, as they are now. It would also just add to the overall feeling of control, which to me is the most important thing. I'm sure this could be applied in many areas of the game and in ways I haven't thought of yet.

Also, the one other thing I would love is MANY MORE STATS. I don't want overlays crowding up a screen, but I would love to be able to push a button which would take me to a quick screen and show me, for example, a specific batter's stats versus a specific pitcher. Just more stats in general. I can't think of any offhand (I'm super tired), but the game currently is severely lacking in this area. I want it to be comprehensive. If I'm playing as the Red Sox against the Yankees late in my Franchise and I've already played them a bunch of times, I would like to see the historical stats of the season. For example, in a September game, I want to push a button and see what Ortiz's stats have been so far in the season against CC Sabathia, or how Buchholz has fared against the NY lineup and each specific player.

Lastly, I want more editing functions - more hair and facial hair options, TWO batting stances for switch hitters, and the ability to edit (at the very least) the facial hair and hair of current (non-created) players, since they often change these throughout a season.

Regardless, can't wait for MLB 13 The Show!

# 663 Lovesports @ 11/22/12 10:41 AM

The sleeves seem too big. If they could fix that I can die happy.

Make players change their hats when they get traded. Either make them all cyber or just put blank hats on them.

# 664 Majingir @ 11/22/12 06:33 PM

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	The sleeves seem too big. If they could fix that I can die happy. Make players change their hats when they get traded. Either make them all cyber or just put blank hats on them.

Or if possible...blank hats that can change color. So default color would be white hats, but if a player gets traded to Phillies, his hat in the pic changes to red, if he's traded to Jays, his hat changes to blue.

That would be easier than up****** the pics with real cap logos and all that, once at least the color is right, it's fine. I'd rather have guys with blank hats, and correct color, than cyberfaces with correct logo.

I hope during exhibition, we can choose the time and month the game starts. So if we chose April at 7pm, the game will be dark early, and temperatures colder. But if we choose 7pm in August, it gets dark later, and temperatures are warmer.

# 665 Bluejaysfan65 @ 11/22/12 08:40 PM

I think that the thing that has to be changed the most and is most important to me is the actual commentary in the game. It would also be nice to see the roofs retractable roofs in some of the stadiums be able to actually retract. Another nice feature would be if we could have pregame snapshots of players taking batting practice or coming off of the team bus just like what NBA 2K11 had.

# 666 Lovesports @ 11/22/12 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Majingir


	Or if possible...blank hats that can change color. So default color would be white hats, but if a player gets traded to Phillies, his hat in the pic changes to red, if he's traded to Jays, his hat changes to blue. That would be easier than up****** the pics with real cap logos and all that, once at least the color is right, it's fine. I'd rather have guys with blank hats, and correct color, than cyberfaces with correct logo. I hope during exhibition, we can choose the time and month the game starts. So if we chose April at 7pm, the game will be dark early, and temperatures colder. But if we choose 7pm in August, it gets dark later, and temperatures are warmer.

That's actually one of the best ideas I've read on here in reference to this hat problem. I'm so fed up with having all these guys from different teams (looks like the all star game) that I wouldn't even care if they lost the hat all together. I just hope that they finally decide to fix it after all these years

# 667 Hazend @ 11/23/12 04:44 PM

I have not looked this page over but will. I defiantly want to read everyone's opinions about my favorite game. I am strictly a "show" guy. The creating a career and playing it is the only feature I use. I know the one thing I would like above anything else. That is a better ability to look at past statistics. I love comparing my seasons. I like how it keeps up my totals and I can see what my career BA is against lefties compared to what I am hitting in 2023. I want to be able to see more stats. Look back and see who was on my 2015 squad. An example would be the first year my team had 5 fifteen game winners, I know in real life the Braves were the last team to do this. Well after the season is over I can't go back and see this in any way. I would like to know if my 2017 team had a better E.R.A than this current rotation. I would like to see what teammates I had during the season I won it all. Basically I am a gaming nut but I still am a stat nut. So many more statistics that could be kept. With the memory available I have never understood why the cutoff point of what stats were saved was chosen. I am still finishing 11,I want to see a career to the end, so possibly 12 has some of this. I find myself so many times wishing I could see if a former team did this or that. I would like the card to say what team the player was on. When the Twins traded Kubel I know what year it was and I like to see before and after. Did any team I was on hit higher than the .301 this team is hitting? I could go on and on but I think the point has been made. The game play is incredible. You always can improve. I sometimes think you make changes just to make changes though. Like how you run etc...How I learned is always going to be how I go back and set it up. I love the circle in my box. Moving up and down and timing my hit with the button. The stick 'improvement" was to me less realistic. I think recognizing the pitch, moving my plate coverage indicator, and timing the swing , is the most realistic comparison to swinging. As long as you leave the old ways I guess new features don't matter one way or the other. I just find some of them silly. Not as bad as Madden has got. I get that you have to add to keep people buying. I am not one of those people. The new players are enough. The new stadiums. Yeah I do see some of the new changes and use them. I just wonder sometimes if the change is better for anyone or just a way for the game to say "an all new improved way to swing". I wonder if this actually makes a difference in sales. Stats stats stats for me. I am going to look everyone's stuff over later. I can't imagine I have an idea that all these gamers have not addressed. I felt this one may be unique to me. I am a fantasy nut so statistics are as much fun as playing to me. I mean I only have one way to see what years we won the series and it is a ridiculous route to have to take to find out something so simple. I'd like to see who won when I didn't. I over killed my point but I did so on purpose. I really hope that someone sees this and realizes it would be a cool addition. I have talked to other owners of the game who agree. I don;t think it is a make or break thing on the sale of the game but it would take it to a whole new level for me.

# 668 takki @ 11/23/12 07:27 PM

The fans need to catch foul balls. This has been the most glaring omission from this series, surprisingly enough. The amount of detail in this game to seemingly meaningless things but no crowd interaction with the ball, which is a giant part of baseball (they show it in every replay during a real game) is surprising.

I would like to see live weather changes (rain delays in the middle of a game, etc.)

The online needs to be made playable, the lag is too bad to even be able to play the game.

# 669 jdmsi7 @ 11/24/12 11:02 AM

Something similar to maddens connected careers, not the whole mode it self but I would like the ability in road to show to take over any player in the league and play as him if I didn't want to create a player

# 670 TGov @ 11/24/12 03:13 PM

Urgency in animations, at least when needed...
Im fine when a player is moving slow and laxed to get back to a base or whatever when the situation is right...
But when your trying to get back to a base to avoid getting picked off and the baserunner does his little 4 step trot back to the base and easily gets picked rather than rushing back with a quick long step...

What Im saying is, make the animations more real, speed-wise... in a hectic situation your going to rush, in a laxed situation your going to be calmer... I feel like there's 1 speed for both of those animations(and its the latter)

Also make games quicker, I love playing a few seasons, especially trying to progress my prospects along to the majors but I find myself simming more games every year and losing interests because so...

AND, make modes interactive, like the ability to import players from a new roster set to an existing franchise so you wont have to restart to use them... I would LOVE This!
Or Taking a player from a franchise and using him in RTTS or vise-versa...

# 671 Unit303 @ 11/24/12 04:34 PM

I just want better animations and fields.

# 672 riotmonster @ 11/24/12 10:20 PM

I'm sure it's been mentioned a hundred times but franchise retirements and trades make that mode almost unplayable, and that's mostly the mode I buy the game for. 35 year old All Stars don't retire due to age especially if they're under contract, good players don't retire because of poor free agency, etc. As for trades in the game, they happen way too often and rarely make any sense. I'd like to see a slider for trade frequency, and no retirements on players unless they're really really bad or old and finished with their current contract

That's my biggest problem with this game.

An expansion team mode is still something I'd love to see, but that's not going to happen any time soon.

# 673 Chai2112 @ 11/24/12 11:29 PM

A few more things:

1) the weather needs to be updated! it's not 40 degrees in Boston through June!

2) in the same vein as the above, get rid of the automatic long sleeves when it's cold. make those optional.

3) there are way too many times when a ball is hit just foul and the fielder reaches over and catches it. this happens WAY TOO OFTEN, when in real life, it's a much rarer occurrence.

# 674 Factzzz @ 11/25/12 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Chai2112


	A few more things: 1) the weather needs to be updated! it's not 40 degrees in Boston through June! 2) in the same vein as the above, get rid of the automatic long sleeves when it's cold. make those optional. 3) there are way too many times when a ball is hit just foul and the fielder reaches over and catches it. this happens WAY TOO OFTEN, when in real life, it's a much rarer occurrence.

Please! I hate seeing that.

# 675 Knight165 @ 11/25/12 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by baseballin23


	That would be amazing

It would be....but DEFINITELY not happening, if ever, until next gen.

M.K.
Knight165

# 676 authentic @ 11/25/12 09:57 PM

A realistic franchise mode would be just spectacular. It's sad sometimes when last generation games still had better franchise modes than current games do (not just The Show).

# 677 Berserker2020 @ 11/26/12 10:29 AM

Give us the option to control retirements, for example let me decide if someone should really retire at 34-36 when they just had a monster season or career for that matter. I hate when players retire when they would really be playing a few more years. Give us an option for up to say 5 additional years when they decide to retire or just complete control for us to decide.

# 678 catswithbats @ 11/26/12 10:56 AM

One thing I don't really get in RTTS mode is basically every manager is Dusty Baker. I've had a young SP throw 150+ pitches just to get a complete game; another one of my RTTS pitchers routinely throws 110-130 pitches per start, even when he is tiring. I'd love if this sort of AI was improved, if possible.

# 679 Culture Rot @ 11/26/12 03:13 PM

Retro stadiums, uniforms

# 680 Bluejaysfan65 @ 11/26/12 11:37 PM

I think it would be nice to have some cut scenes where a fan actually gets a foul ball. We see the fans reach over and try to get foul balls bjt we never see them get it. It happens in real life. If they do add this into MLB 13, they should make sure it doesn't happen too frequently and increase the amount of time that it takes to complete a game too much. And also, some of the uniform colors need to be made so that they are more accurate (especially the Blue Jays alternate uniform).

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