MLB The Show 17 News Post

Early Impressions of MLB The Show 17

01:22 PM - March 29, 2017 by RaychelSnr

As it is with the dawn of every baseball season, the launch of the newest MLB The Show game brings about the usual sources of excitement that we’ve come to expect over the years from playing the series: a bunch of new and promising features waiting to be explored, loads of welcome tweaks to an already solid core of gameplay and — of course — a flurry of people logging on at midnight when the game's officially released, causing the overwhelmed servers to quickly become unstable.

Okay, that last one is probably more of a continued source of frustration than excitement, but at least we can say the servers have been a little better than they were last year.

With only limited time to play the game since its release on Tuesday, here are a few stray observations on what has stood out to me so far, besides the inconsistent online gameplay...

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Member Comments

# 41 CCDaDon @ 04/01/17 05:45 PM

I'm enjoying the new RTTS direction. I wish there was an option to just talk to the manager and discuss your position or to just retire when you want like the other games, but I'm not complaining.

My only actual complaint is that when the balls bounce off the outfield wall or hit the warning track they bounce way too high. I've been seeing a lot more ground rule doubles because of this.