When can we expect stadium grass to look like its real life counterpart?

[ZealousMonkey]

I'm really getting a little tired with the weak sauce grass saturation in this game as well as the grass patterns that in no way resemble real life for many many stadiums. The shading on the grass patterns is amateurish at best and the saturation is okay to horrible IMHO.

The reason this thread exists: I want to know what people think after attending real games and then playing The Show. This isn't a whining thread and whoever comes in here to whine about this thread is expected to leave promptly after they give me their tears.

I criticize this game because it's not perfect. The aim of the devs is to recreate a simulation of real baseball on its highest level. They seem to be very detail-oriented and most things have been given ample time, even the actual grass itself which is now 3D. No small feat and we love it we do....

I also want to say these are MY expectations for 15 NOT 14. I know this was a launch game and I know they didn't have enough time. I just want to know what people think and maybe if we are lucky someone up high will answer us.

My hope is that they will have someone who is sick from office work, and good with photography, visit the stadiums and take pics with a really nice camera to bring back to the offices. You might as well not even attend Target Field as I will be doing this myself for next year's OS keg party.

WHAT I DO NOT, under any circumstances, want to hear in this thread is that the grass is A-OKAY. IT ISN'T. END OF STORY. When I go to a baseball game at Target Field and then play The Show, I will admit, I can barely continue on sometimes because of the weak saturation of the field. It just gives the whole stadium a dead and lifeless attitude that in no way resembles what I just saw in real life.

Some people criticize animations and others commentary, blah blah. What I am criticizing is the fact that above all else this is what I notice most at games that I cannot with any believability tell people that The Show does this right. I can STILL say they have decent animations and decent commentary. They do not however have decent grass shading or saturation. Thanks for contributing your opinion.

#FEEDIT
#Angrygroundskeeperthatwillnevergoaway

[bigwill33]

Re: When can we expect stadium grass to look like its real life counterpart?

How many posts on this do you feel the need to make? Post your examples of what you would like versus what you think we have at this point, because the game hasn't released yet and we don't now what we are dealing with entirely. Perhaps you get this game home on your calibrated TV and it looks perfect. Perhaps it is far off from what you would like, but odds are the light reflecting is what the issue you are having is. And odds are also that it won't be an important aspect in many people's minds. One thing I can say is that fine tuning the color of the grass is pretty far down on my own pecking order as to what is off in this game.

So, unless you wait until you get the game and then take some screen grabs and do a color comparison versus real life pictures of grass fields in the majors and then show us all on a color wheel where you think things should be versus where they actually are these posts are not going to mean much to anyone or help anything. Not hating on what you are trying to do, pointing out a more constructive way to go about it.

[ZealousMonkey]

Re: When can we expect stadium grass to look like its real life counterpart?

I don't understand how this can be so far down on a list of things to get done since it is relatively easy, compared to say coding AI, to get done in real life.

Also, people want to whine about commentary, something they don't even see in a game, and yet the real life stadium grass that everyone and their mother sees in real life, and that many people spend thousands of hours on a year, is simply not important?

And how many threads/posts? As many as it takes. How many threads/posts of commentary whining do I sift through when people realize commentary hasn't been updated. Or Sounds of the Show. Or Animations. I don't even care about commentary and yet I agree with them and hope some things got fixed this year. The same thing applies here. I don't want to look at what to me looks like some kind of PS1 coloring and shading on grass anymore. It's that simple. I used to play baseball in grade school and our grass didn't even look that pale. And comparisons:

http://www.operationsports.com/media...reenshot-28505

http://waxcracker.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/2014-04-13-13-05-02.jpg

This is just one random sample as I have been to Tepco. They live there. To me that grass is pretty damn awful looking in game. It's my opinion but even objectively that in no way resembles the real thing.

[kehlis]

Re: When can we expect stadium grass to look like its real life counterpart?

First. Just because you create a thread, doesn't mean you get to create your own set of rules. The rules of the site are the rules of the site. If someone disagrees with you they are free to post their thoughts just as much as you were free to create the thread.

I have no idea where you got the thought that you could just create a thread and then dictate who could or couldn't post in it or what they could or couldn't post in it.

Second, you've posted this several other times, no need for a separate thread.

Third, as you admitted, this is about 15. You can wait until the wishlist for next year to post this.