Why do people say this game is bad?

[HustlinOwl]

Re: Why do people say this game is bad?

Because they probably only own the xbox one and are hating. Even with its flaws it's the best video game representation of its sport by far in my opinion. I was watching the Royals comeback the other night and all I kept saying to myself was "this is just like a game of the show I played". When a video game captures your imagination like that you have something really special.

funny, A's score and Royals would answer right back and all this talk about the AI doing the same lmao. Casual baseball fans smh

[KBLover]

Re: Why do people say this game is bad?

funny, A's score and Royals would answer right back and all this talk about the AI doing the same lmao. Casual baseball fans smh

Yeah, and the "comeback code" that made Kershaw suddenly suck and the Dodgers to give up 8 in an inning.

I do wish I could hit a ball to the third deck with Harper though...

[Bobhead]

Re: Why do people say this game is bad?

funny, A's score and Royals would answer right back and all this talk about the AI doing the same lmao. Casual baseball fans smh

Yeah, and the "comeback code" that made Kershaw suddenly suck and the Dodgers to give up 8 in an inning.

I do wish I could hit a ball to the third deck with Harper though...

Don't forget all the pitches thrown down the middle that stumped Josh Hamilton and Albert Pujols.

If they were using cursor batting like in PYS, that would have NEVER happened.

[HustlinOwl]

Re: Why do people say this game is bad?

SMH Zimmerman rolling and Giants get 2 on in 9th with 2 outs and tie game 1-1, I hate baseball

[KBLover]

Re: Why do people say this game is bad?

SMH Zimmerman rolling and Giants get 2 on in 9th with 2 outs and tie game 1-1, I hate baseball

And 18 innings and scoring just one run.

Nats need to turn up their solid hits slider.

[andrewochs615]

Re: Why do people say this game is bad?

Ok, here's what I can come up with that shouldn't even be on a list in 2014:

-Practice swings still have players unnaturally slide back into their stance upon completion. This has been a problem since games from the '90s, you'd think it would have been addressed by now.

-Only 3 body types. Even Madden now has quite a few different body types.

-The "casual fielding" that seems a lot worse than the last few years.

-A ghost-town of a franchise mode. With 162 game seasons, there need to be reasons to plug along all year.

-The frame-rate issue in cutscenes. If the gameplay can run at a silky 60 fps, so should all the cutscenes.

-The commentary is still bad, lacking any real flow and variety.

-The menus are still clunky, OS did an article themselves on that issue.

-No PTBNLs, 3 team trades, or trades that involve more than 3 players.

-Lack of low minors, drafted players can't be used until the next season.

-Lack of any real Stat tracking.

That being said, the on-field product for the most part is really good. The various difficulty options and all the mechanics and features they keep around and build from are great.

Seeing all the progress NBA 2K15 made makes me really excited to see what SCEA can do with The Show 16, but it's not like 15 was a perfect game by any stretch.

These are my biggest gripes with the game. And for the past 3 years since they haven't really chaged. Also add the poor free agent and trade logic that has been around for the past 3 years as well. I think franchise mode really needs to be gutted and given some major work this year.

[NimitsTexan]

Re: Why do people say this game is bad?

These are my biggest gripes with the game. And for the past 3 years since they haven't really chaged. Also add the poor free agent and trade logic that has been around for the past 3 years as well. I think franchise mode really needs to be gutted and given some major work this year.

MLB the Show is head and should above most major sports titles in recent history (possible exception of NBA2K14/15, but I as I rather dislike basketball, sort of irrelevant for me).

Compare these "biggest gripes" (which are mostly just wishes to make good things better) with the threads on Madden 15 (which are mostly just wishes that Madden vaguely resembled a game of professional football, since, if for no other reason, the cover art appears to indicate that is sport they are attempting to simulate), and "bad" is the last adjective I would use for MLB the Show.