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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 I think the world of Matt Vasgersian but he is shackled to an outdated commentary engine given to repetition and dead air.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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# 741 ksig24 @ 12/18/12 07:29 PM

Lineup management -

Please allow lineups to stick regardless of players ratings!!!

# 742 ksig24 @ 12/18/12 07:32 PM

Please give us a way to see how many pitches a pitcher has thrown when attempting to pinch hit for him in the later innings. There is nowhere to find this info.

I dont know how many times I will be checking an opposing pitchers pitch count and its up in the 120+ pitch range. This needs to be fixed for realism.

# 743 ksig24 @ 12/18/12 07:37 PM

Give us the ability to control a couple players per game. What I mean by this is similar to RTTS batting mode. Say I am playing a game with the Angels and I want to control Mike Trout, Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton. I get to FF to the players next AB which would create a simulation like style for the game.

This would be amazing for Franchise Mode as players who like to use minor leaguers can control say Kolten Wong and Oscar Taveras for one game without having to play the whole game and hit with every player if you chose "Player Select Mode."

# 744 seanjeezy @ 12/18/12 07:38 PM

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	Reduce ground-rule doubles. Far too many. I probably hit 1-2 per game.

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	Revamp the home run distances. I did a test of 100 home runs hit and the result had the same distances on over 30% of all HR hit. Not a major thing, but when balls are absoltely no doubters and the distance comes up 379 ft its got me scratching my head.

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	Gameplay - Fielding! The second baseman runs to his left or right on a fieldable ball to only stop it and overrun the ball. The lack of urgency on certain fielding plays that require IF'ers to act quickly. I dont know how many times a chopper gets fielded by the pitcher out in front of the catcher and he takes a couple steps to make the throw and the throw doesnt have any pepper on it. More realistic OF throws. Too many bounced throws to cutoff men and unrealistic distances. Get rid of the frequency of off-line throws to the plate. Revamp the aggressiveness on OF throws similar to real baseball. Get rid of the "suck in" animations while fielding. Balls that a fielder attempts to catch while being "sucked in' bounce over their heads far too often. Balls hit down the line die before they get to the wall. The ball physics need a little more refining.

I'm pretty sure these will be fixed, and I'm especially excited about the news pertaining to batted ball speed since it was something I mentioned in the feedback forum (you should put your suggestions there, this alone is proof that SCEA does indeed listen!).

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	Alter the pitch movements. make curveballs snap, make cutters cut more, make change-ups fall off the table, etc.

I asked about this a couple of days ago, word is that adjustments won't be made until '14...

# 745 ksig24 @ 12/18/12 07:39 PM

Allow the "fire" icons to actually reflect a players ability to go or remain on a hot streak. I feel that this icon indicates a hot stretch, but does nothing to maintain it or enahnce it.

# 746 ksig24 @ 12/18/12 07:46 PM

Get rid of the "suck in" baserunning animations. Time and time again I think I have a bag swiped and the animation slows the runner down only to be tagged out. This also pertains to lead-offs. I get picked off all the time.

# 747 ksig24 @ 12/18/12 07:47 PM

Sorry for the location of these posts. Can a Mod please post these in the "suggestions" forum that Jeezy has mentioned.

Thanks,

# 748 ksig24 @ 12/18/12 07:49 PM

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	I'm pretty sure these will be fixed, and I'm especially excited about the news pertaining to batted ball speed since it was something I mentioned in the feedback forum (you should put your suggestions there, this alone is proof that SCEA does indeed listen!). I asked about this a couple of days ago, word is that adjustments won't be made until '14...

Hey Jeezy, where is the suggestions forum?

# 749 ksig24 @ 12/18/12 07:53 PM

Give players better speed out of the box. I dont know how many times I get gunned down by two or three steps on choppers with the speedsters! More realism to this!

# 750 seanjeezy @ 12/18/12 07:54 PM

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	Hey Jeezy, where is the suggestions forum?

Here ya go man: SCEA Sports - MLB the Show Feedback Forum

I bet you're real pissed about trading Myers huh?

# 751 ksig24 @ 12/18/12 08:07 PM

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	Here ya go man: SCEA Sports - MLB the Show Feedback Forum I bet you're real pissed about trading Myers huh?

You have no idea! I didnt have anything to do with his signing because of where I live, but I did sign Mous, Mongomery, Duffy and Lamb. The whole point was to build a team that would have a chance at winning. Trading away the MiLB POY for a #3 starter with success at the MLB level is suicide. Myers type players dont grow on trees. Bye, bye 30 HR, 100+ RBI, and an offensive force for years to come.

# 752 Pasco08 @ 12/18/12 10:52 PM

Managers arguing with Umpires. And making RTTS A little better to where if you have a great great player like a pitcher who is 12-0 with 180 innings pitched over 200k's and a under 1 ERA shouldn't still be sitting in double A.

# 753 jrivera34 @ 12/19/12 02:43 AM

Ability to force a player to not retire or force retirement.

# 754 artdog5110 @ 12/19/12 11:02 PM

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	Funny you bring up Ebbet's. $500,000.00 Yep...they want 1/2 million dollars for the rights to that stadium. Even if you agreed to pay a GREAT amount it would not work for them. They took a bath on the historical stadiums they put in that one year(I think they are still blaming me for hounding them on that one.) Maybe one day....who knows? M.K. Knight165

I benefited from the fact they gave the classic stadiums for free if you pre paid for the game but do you think if they had made people pay for it from the start do you think it would have made more sense? I know nothing about the business aspect of it just spitballin. The one thing I think they could have done better was picking stadiums that had a little more relevance to the average player. For example I'm 42 and I never watched a game from one of those stadiums. If they had went Tiger, old Comiskey,and Candlestick, then mixed in some turfs, I am for my own wants going Riverfront ( you could sub veterens, or Three Rivers) the '70's Busch and the Astrodome you would have a good mix of really old parks and the cookie cutter era but their all stadiums that people could have reasonably watched games from. Once again spoken with no real knowledge of the business just from what I want and it seems from the throwback rosters people do that would have covered a lot of ground that people would want.

# 755 JustinVerlander35 @ 12/19/12 11:09 PM

Being able to use your money for something in RTTS, and more hair styles and facial features as well.

# 756 Knight165 @ 12/19/12 11:28 PM

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	I benefited from the fact they gave the classic stadiums for free if you pre paid for the game but do you think if they had made people pay for it from the start do you think it would have made more sense? I know nothing about the business aspect of it just spitballin. The one thing I think they could have done better was picking stadiums that had a little more relevance to the average player. For example I'm 42 and I never watched a game from one of those stadiums. If they had went Tiger, old Comiskey,and Candlestick, then mixed in some turfs, I am for my own wants going Riverfront ( you could sub veterens, or Three Rivers) the '70's Busch and the Astrodome you would have a good mix of really old parks and the cookie cutter era but their all stadiums that people could have reasonably watched games from. Once again spoken with no real knowledge of the business just from what I want and it seems from the throwback rosters people do that would have covered a lot of ground that people would want.

I think they went in with that first batch as a test run...they were low cost(except for the Polo Grounds....they wanted one or the other...Ebbets or Polo) to see if they could come relatively close to keeping it going.
Not so close.

I'm not sure how close they could come to trying to resemble some real old time stadiums without getting "in trouble"...but that would work for me!
Just gotta keep asking.

M.K.
Knight165

# 757 garyjr33 @ 12/20/12 01:23 AM

1. I want additions to franchise mode (I play this mode almost exclusively): player roles would be great (like those implemented in NHL 13 this year (ex: 3rd line FWD, 1st line scoring FWD, minor top D pair), with different star potentials and the likelihood of reaching those potentials indicated by a color). Not everyone reaches their potential. I would love improved trading and AI logic, but who doesn't want that. Also, another thing I like in the NHL series, is the ability to upgrade your scouting and injury prevention. Although keeping your facilities (gym, and auto-pitcher, etc.) is pretty much the same thing. Improved franchise specific commentary and immersion (tickers, twitter headlines (ex. Madden 13), mlb network highlights show, ESPN sunday night baseball, TBS). This is all part of my utopian world for sports gaming though. Haha.

2. The ability to continue a franchise from mlb 13 the show to mlb 14 the show. This is an extremely lofty request as stated many times before, but it would be epic.

3. I like the new throwback uniforms they are including this year.

4. I love the ability to fast-forward 1/2 an inning or a full inning or a few innings to save time sometimes so hopefully they never take that out.

5. Also, Madden 13 implemented the whole draft stories thing this year. I had a great time trading up to allow myself to draft two brothers that played for UCLA. If nothing else, they should add the colleges, leagues, and countries that the prospects come from. In NHL 13 they obviously have all of the junior teams in the game, and with Madden it at least shows that this guy went to Illinois and this guy went to Stanford. I love drafting players from colleges that I am a fan of or graduated from.

6. New playoff format

7. Knight's rosters again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some of these are simple, and others are probably out of reach at this point.

Looking forward to MLB 13: The Show more this year than any year in the past b/c of the NHL LOCKOUT!!!

# 758 Knight165 @ 12/20/12 01:33 AM

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	1. I want additions to franchise mode (I play this mode almost exclusively): player roles would be great (like those implemented in NHL 13 this year, with different start potentials and the likelihood of reaching those potentials indicated by a color). Not everyone reaches their potential. I would love improved trading and AI logic, but who doesn't want that. Also, another thing I like in the NHL series, is the ability to upgrade your scouting and injury prevention. Although keeping your facilities (gym, and auto-pitcher, etc.) is pretty much the same thing. Improved franchise specific commentary and immersion (tickers, twitter headlines (ex. Madden 13), mlb network highlights show, ESPN sunday night baseball, TBS). This is all part of my utopian world for sports gaming though. Haha. 2. The ability to continue a franchise from mlb 13 the show to mlb 14 the show. This is an extremely lofty request as stated many times before, but it would be epic. 3. I like the new throwback uniforms they are including this year. 4. I love the ability to fast-forward 1/2 an inning or a full inning or a few innings to save time sometimes so hopefully they never take that out. 5. Also, Madden 13 implemented the whole draft stories thing this year. I had a great time trading up to allow myself to draft two brothers that played for UCLA. If nothing else, they should add the colleges, leagues, and countries that the prospects come from. In NHL 13 they obviously have all of the junior teams in the game, and with Madden it at least shows that this guy went to Illinois and this guy went to Stanford. I love drafting players from colleges that I am a fan of or graduated from. 6. Knight's rosters again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Some of these are simple, and others are probably out of reach at this point. Looking forward to MLB 13: The Show more this year than any year in the past b/c of the NHL LOCKOUT!!!

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I love this list.
Especially #6!

Seriously though.
Player roles...this is something tabarnes is talking to the dev team about for a future feature. AaronSCEA has already given us some great ideas on things he would like to add if they work on player roles in regards to FA signings and how a player will be effected in your 5 day window for re-signing(and hopefully mid season signings) such as offering a spot in the rotation....assuring the CPU role...or a starting position on the team.
I love the idea because it adds another layer of strategy.

#4 will still be in...I'm sure.
Who knows?...maybe it will be even better

M.K.
Knight165

# 759 bp4baseball @ 12/20/12 01:44 AM

I like where you're going with that last comment Knight. What if I want to fast forward to a particular players next at bat? Or sim to the end unless the scores within two after the seventh inning.

# 760 Knight165 @ 12/20/12 01:46 AM

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	I like where you're going with that last comment Knight. What if I want to fast forward to a particular players next at bat? Or sim to the end unless the scores within two after the seventh inning.

January 4th.

M.K.
Knight165

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