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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 I think the world of Matt Vasgersian but he is shackled to an outdated commentary engine given to repetition and dead air.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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# 681 Scooter3 @ 11/27/12 12:41 AM

please nix the RING AROUND THE BAT

# 682 Scooter3 @ 11/27/12 01:33 AM

Hats from the past:

Milwaukee Braves..."Red"and "Blue" cap with an "M" and "B"

Brooklyn Dodgers.....Royal Blue Cap with a "B" and white nob on top

New York Giants.....with a "NY"

Kansas City Athletics... with a "KC"

There are so many outstanding uniforms in the history of baseball. If SCEA would offer the following home and away uniforms:

1956 Redlegs "cut sleeve uniforms
Kansas City A's....Brooklyn Dodgers .... Milwaukee Braves....New York Giants...

When a player hits his first HR of the game they announce the season total but if he hits more than one home-run in a game they announce that he hit his second or third home-run of the game.
It would be cool if they also announced the total home-run count of the season.

Please Offer:

...a helmet with no ear flaps and offer an option of no batting helmet.

...a choice of different sized bats.

...an option to choke-up

...one bulging cheek full of bubble gum

...sleeves need to be loose and cut above the wrists

...black cleats with the tongue folded forward over the laces

...reduce the size of the batting helmets

...the option to work on the eyebrows separately

...the option to work the left and right side of the mouth separately

...hair color and facial tones controlled by a slide scale

...fans of all ages and body types dressed in the styles of any chosen decade

scooter...BigKlu...

# 683 bamawaz @ 11/27/12 02:32 PM

Overhaul RTTS

I want to play for my dream team and don't want to have
to play thru 5 or 6 seasons to do so.

I want to play with most of same MLB players that SHOULD
be still on that team. Way too much movement of rosters
before I get to bigs. Teams are somewhat unrecognizable
in 2-3 years.

The awarding of points is sometimes laughable, almost as if
someone who never played the game decided what deserves
points & how many. How about rewarding hitting for the cycle
with 100 pts or multi-homers games x100 per homer or
getting more than 3 hits in a game. You get the idea, real
accomplishments should be rewarded as such.

Quit telling my power hitting 3rd place hitter to hit and run
in the first inning - my God !!

I have a lot more to add for RTTS but that's a good start.

I would like for the way RTTS plays to be an option for Season or Career mode. I am talking about how you would have the option to just take your at bats & skip through everthing else, not have to pitch or field. You can play a game in just a few minutes that way and maybe get through multiple seasons before the next iteration comes out. Also, the option to skip to next inning or half inning is great but when I get to the late innings and go to my bullpen this does not work for me. I want to have the option to just have a righty pitch to the first righty for example and then bring in a lefty to pitch to the next 2 lefties for example with out having to actually pitch for them. I hope I made that clear. In other words, I guess I want another option, which is to pitch(automatically) hitter by hitter instead of by inning or half inning(although this works well until I want to start going to the pen.

Waz

# 684 Knight165 @ 11/27/12 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by bamawaz


	Overhaul RTTS I want to play for my dream team and don't want to have to play thru 5 or 6 seasons to do so. Waz

There is a reason it's called ROAD to the Show you know....

M.K.
Knight165

# 685 bamawaz @ 11/28/12 07:48 AM

Haha, I realize that Knight, but when you play every game
that could literally take me 2 years of steady play. I am an
old man and may not have that much time left. LOL Besides
the fact Sony may want me to buy the new version. I will
never realize my goals before next version comes out.

I understand and respect your opinion but I would like to get
to my favorite team and recognize the players when I get there.

Love what you do for the game Knight.

Waz

# 686 Knight165 @ 11/28/12 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by bamawaz


	Haha, I realize that Knight, but when you play every game that could literally take me 2 years of steady play. I am an old man and may not have that much time left. LOL Besides the fact Sony may want me to buy the new version. I will never realize my goals before next version comes out. I understand and respect your opinion but I would like to get to my favorite team and recognize the players when I get there. Love what you do for the game Knight. Waz

I needed an emoticon there.
It wasn't really a comment on how you want to play the game...just a little ribbing.
Too bad they couldn't add a "fast forward" into the future where you could sim a few years quickly or a sim to MLB feature.

M.K.
Knight165

# 687 Armor and Sword @ 11/28/12 03:47 PM

On the field....the ball physics just need some tuning....everything else is close to perfect for me.

Further tuning of collision detection (which was a big improvement on 12) would be a nice enhancement. Fielding animations where a player runs into the wall but showing them crash in smoother, just tightening up the great animations that sometimes go ary in close quarters.

And I am very curious about the Franchise and RTTS love 13 is going to get.

Enhanced play by play and color (Steve Lyons should be interesting) as well as further improved/enhanced franchise presentation.

I can't wait for some real information on the upcoming release!

# 688 Bard @ 11/28/12 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Knight165


	I needed an emoticon there. It wasn't really a comment on how you want to play the game...just a little ribbing. Too bad they couldn't add a "fast forward" into the future where you could sim a few years quickly or a sim to MLB feature. M.K. Knight165

Not sure why, but i think this will be added this year now.

# 689 2ndBase @ 11/28/12 09:20 PM

1. Stadium specific home run animations, like the fountain at Comerica.
2. An option to create a history for created players in Franchise. It would be cool to create a player who wasn't a rookie. Maybe be able to input stat history. This would also be cool in RTTS. Start off as a 10 year vet trying to keep his job.

# 690 Edmond @ 11/28/12 09:38 PM

-Being able to manually adjust weather conditions.
-Definitely tweak the ball physics, it hangs in the air way too long.
-Switch times the game is played.
-Rain outs resulting in double headers the next day.
-Batboy/batgirls.
-No more Willie Mays catches.
-Not have the CPU play the bounce off the wall perfectly every time.
-More urgency in getting up to throw out a baserunner.
-Urgency in getting up to take the next base when the fielder is overthrown instead of the baserunner taking his sweet time wiping dirt off his jersey.
-Revise the bunting system, pulling a bunt back is just about impossible.
-Logic in the fan/player support.
-Ability to add even more vendors.
-Budgets are based on income.
-Contract negotiations during the season.
-Able to go with 2 outfielders and 5 infielders.
-Ability to swap positions even if my bench is empty.

# 691 LowerWolf @ 12/01/12 03:19 AM

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned or not, but ... I'd like to be able to create myself as manager and have a career that way.

That was always one of my favorite features of NCAA Football. And I'm glad Madden brought it back this year.

# 692 Edmond @ 12/01/12 10:36 AM

Has anyone else noticed that there are no kids at the ballpark?

How about cameramen in the camera wells?

Option for pitchers to pitch from either the stretch or windup.

# 693 drstriker15 @ 12/07/12 05:35 PM

I want a better pregame atmosphere like showing the outside of the stadium before the game kind of like Triple Play did many years ago.. I want to see fans coming into the stadium, I want to hear vendors yelling " get your programs" etc etc etc.... I also want to hear the National Anthem played, maybe not the whole thing but its part of baseball so it should be in there..

But the most important thing for me is something I've never seen in any video baseball game yet it happens in every real game.. I want to see the team run onto the field from the dugout with the PA announcer, announcing the team as they run out.. " Ladies and Gentlemen, your 2013 Oakland Athletics to music like they do in every stadium...

# 694 brobro @ 12/08/12 11:44 AM

I agree with the rest of you on improving the commentary. I think that adding in interviews or reports mid game or in between innings would be a nice addition, like Ken Rosenthal or Peter Gammons. Adding or improving stadium specific sound would be great also!

# 695 Edmond @ 12/08/12 12:08 PM

Runners getting back to base have a very slow reaction time. When you press L1 for them to lead off, the reaction is just about instant. But when you press R1 for them to get back to base after leading off, they don't even move! How about fixing that?

Also, why are baserunners having to go around fielders when taking an extra base? My baserunners take a huge detour around a fielder mindlessly jogging over to cover a base. That huge detour ends up taking up valuable time.

# 696 dbacks_Nation @ 12/08/12 01:45 PM

I think it would be awesome if the playoff atmosphere included the fans of the home stadium all wearing relatively the same colored shirt, such as an Angels sea of red, or Arizona's "Black Out."

# 697 Jordan93 @ 12/08/12 11:00 PM

Realistic Contracts it would make franchise running a small budget team so much more realistic. Can't stand nick Swisher making 1.2 million in the game when he makes nothing close to that and every team in the game bidding on and being able to afford Cano when only 23 of the 30 mlb teams can even afford to pay him in real life. Cano will not sign with the A's for 5 years and 60 million.... not realsitic at all. You guys need to make player contracts reflect real life contracts or at least be close. You guys have the length right bit not the dollars no idea why, every other sports video game does Fifa, Nba 2k, Nhl,Madden. Maybe it's your license agreement wich I've read on here. Although I don't see it since every website, Newspaper, sports channel release the length and amount of contract. Even the MLB site releases it and Baseball teams actually hold Press confrences, confrence calls and have agents, Players, GM"s and Owners telling media and public of the length and full dollar amount of players said contract even the yearly breakdown and signing bonus so it's public knowledge.
It would only require paying a guy for one day and researching the actual contract length and amount using sites like cot's and Team press releases.

Thank you for creating a great baseball game and hearing the public wants. Another quick note Franchise would be so much more worth while if you actually had real team budgets where the Rays no matter how many games they win can't spend more than 60 million on payroll and have to try to compete agaisnt the Yankees 190 million: whcih would work in your game with real player contracts. Also Bullpen, Bench coach in game and Coaches pictures in game simliar to Madden not a big deal but you have their nameing rights so why not their face.

# 698 Jordan93 @ 12/08/12 11:02 PM

@ ME I meant only 7 of the 30 MLB teams can afford Cano in real life sorry fake MLB the Show Rays you can't make the playoffs one seaosn and sign this guy not happening.

# 699 jsou4646 @ 12/09/12 04:31 PM

Fix the frame rate issues in night games, ruins the game.

# 700 DJ @ 12/09/12 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by jsou4646


	Fix the frame rate issues in night games, ruins the game.

I have never had an issue with this. How often does this happen for you?

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