MLB 15 The Show Wishlist, Ours and Yours

[Nero84]

Re: MLB 15 The Show Wishlist, Ours and Yours

Better animations and smother frame rate. When I see what Konami has done with a PS3 game in PYS, I feel the Show could be doing a lot better in this regard on PS4.

[RedMeansGo2006]

Re: MLB 15 The Show Wishlist, Ours and Yours

From the point of view of an historical modder...

- Coach edits (Appearence and name, helps with immersion to not potentially have Ryne Sandberg coach Ryne Sandberg.)

- Create A Team, including the ability to use the IP of former MLB teams (Expos) and the ability to replace current teams in Franchise mode.

- Create A Draft Class: I'm aware that draft classes are produced by the game dynamically for the draft, and aren't preset. However, it would be an interesting feature to let us insert customized players amongst the players to be drafted and also, after having done that, imposing a cap on the potential of the players that are dynamically produced by the game so that the customized players are better than them and that dynamically produced guys end up being depth filler. Include an option for players to enter the game world a certain year without going through the draft for international players. Don't cap the number of customized players allowed.

The way I see it, draft classes would be created as an exportable and vault-able file. Then during Franchise mode, when a season starts, you get the option to import your custom players to the draft, with the game filling in the rest of the draft with dynamically produced guys, if there aren't enough custom guys to fill the whole draft. Then you can scout them and draft them.

This way, somebody playing my 1994 mod, for exemple, could import the 1994 class in Season 1 of franchise, the 1995 class in Season 2, etc. Data integrity and historical continuity would be maintained over time. This is a huge, huge thing. And it creates a new category of User Created Content.

Personally, this means more work for me, because not only would I have to create draft classes, 20 of them, and I would, but also because I'd need to remove 94/some 95/some 96 draftees from my current file so that there wouldn't be duplicates. But, I'll say as a modder that if this would be in, it would be used. I'm sure others will agree.

- Historical rules, divisions & scheduling, including settings to have less than 30 teams in a Franchise mode, no Interleague play, no replays...

- Ability to set alternate uniforms as Default ones and ability to limit what uniforms the CPU will use in Franchise mode, once again, helps with immersion in an historical setting.

- Salary, contract lenght, years of service editing for default and or created players.

- Maintain ALL current editing capabilities including the brilliant import/export mechanic.

- And, pipe dream, ability to edit last season / career total stats so that players in historical mods don't start at zero

This is probably the one thing I want to see most of all in the game. I'd like to add a few things that I mentioned in my old post: I'd like to bring back old stadiums an minor-league affiliates as well. I want to have the option of bringing back the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons (best minor-league team name ever if you ask me )as my AAA team in a Phillies dynasty if I begin in 2006 or earlier, or even bring it back now. And the calender year needs to say the year you start in. I start a franchise mode in 1995, it should say 1995. I'd like to be able to set default logos as well.

[lynkraid]

Improved online franchise mode.

Create a stadium for offline fun and franchise mode. Let users share stadiums. We already have custom rosters of years like 1998, so why not have the same stadiums for that year?

Custom franchise mode settings, like for instance say you have a custom roster for the year 1927,
but the first problem is in 1927 there was far less teams than we have now, and no playoffs, and not even the same amount of games. So allow us to set how many teams we want in the franchise, and when and if we want the league to expand.

Classic stadiums, how much longer before we can finally play in Tiger Stadium in all its PS4 graphically glory. Or the old Yankee stadium of the 20s, or Ebbets field, the Kingdome, the Met, and so many others.

[Bobhead]

Re: MLB 15 The Show Wishlist, Ours and Yours

Chris I think you're being awfully nice if you say the commentary isn't just plain bad in this game. The "stale" excuse gets used too much. It didn't even sound good the first time I heard it. The commentary sounds like it's done by people watching baseball for the first time in their entire lives.

My wish list? More than anything I just want better gameplay. Revamped fielding, and a fixed baserunning/stealing system, as well as a way to know when the opponent is stealing a base (and what base is being stolen).

Hitting needs to get better too. Still too floaty.

Theres some big lapses in the Franchise interface too, like not being able to see a pitcher's energy level from the main franchise menu, or how cumbersome it is to compare the stats of two players.

Trading with the CPU feels like a crapshoot, and there's very little rationale in what the CPU will accept vs not accept. Salary seems to be weighed far too heavily, too (in the rationale, that is).

But I can live with things missing from franchise mode, with subpar commentary, and really everything else, if the gameplay provides something close to actual MLB play. Right now, it does not.

[Stolm]

Re: MLB 15 The Show Wishlist, Ours and Yours

This is a cut and paste of a post I made in another thread a month or so ago, with minor edits.


MLB The Show is the only sports title I play so I spend a lot of time with it.

Though this year I am playing significantly less then previous years. Part of this is because the game is becoming quite stale, another reason is the stripping of certain features and options I've noticed over the last couple years.

Features like the Signs from the 3rd Base Coach from 12 were totally stripped from the game. This gave a lot of life to the baserunning game, and being asked to drop a bunt down in certain situations is certainly more immersive.

The Green Light for Baserunning was also great. It made you be extra careful as getting caught to many times would have the manager keep you from stealing, and if you stole anyway you were benched. Another realistic immersive feature.

Also I really miss the Newspaper that had a brief recap of the previous game played. I know it wasn't the greatest thing, but if they weren't going to improve on it, they didn't have to remove it. It almost added a kind of RPG type feel to the game.

Another thing I miss this year is the classic bunting option. Again not sure why this was removed.

One thing I really hope they do going forward is to focus on improving what is in the game already, and not cramming in a bunch of new modes and systems. They really need to focus on the Core modes. Franchise, RTTS, Online. Thinking of all the improvements to these core modes we could have gotten, instead we get Show Live, Community Challenges, etc. Maybe I am the only one, but I only ever touch those other modes, if there is a trophy associated with it. Then once I am done, It's back to RTTS and Franchise until the next year.

Hell, I'd happily give up all those new modes for working stable online. Would have been great to see all those extra resources go into improving that instead of the community challenge feature. I have only played one online game ever and that was back in The Show 12. I don't even bother trying because I know how bad it is.

RTTS needs major attention in 15.

It's all a little lifeless imo, there is zero interaction between your player and your teammates beyond the "ask manager for promotion/trade" button. Giving us the option to say spend extra time working on certain fielding drills with fellow players. For example maybe if you are a 2B and practice turning a double play with your SS you could get a kind of "familiarity bonus" to fielding interactions between the two of you. Even though its a small thing, it's realistic and makes sense, it makes you feel more part of a team, then just tossing a ball to a scripted lifeless bot.

Some VO from teammates on the field wouldn't hurt either. Or have the 1st and 3rd base coaches talk to you after you reach base.

I'd really like to see you RTTS player have some sort of manager/representation when negotiating contracts too, instead of calculating my stats through a war calculator and asking for a deal they won't agree to.

A couple little things I would like to see is more customization while creating battings stances, actually have the ability to customize how you stand, arm placement, if you tap your foot or not. Much better than the locked stances that are currently in the game. Batting stances really need an overhaul, with all the glitchy sliding of feet after you step in the batters box, and certain stances where the bat will actually be clipping through your head. (Forsythe). I'd like to see the teleporting back to the box set after you foul a ball fixed as well. Keep that for quick play exclusive. I hate fouling a ball, and then instantly have to be ready to for the next pitch, let me wander outta the box for a sec.

Like most people I'd like to see some real brands in the game for all equipment, even fake brands would be better than the generic looking equipment we have now.

Each year there seems to be a certain bug that absolutely kills the game, and is never fixed. In 12 it was the drop strike by the catcher that would freeze all play in RTTS and you would have to quit out. This year its the not being able to move into double play depth randomly. Fix that.

Though gameplay is far and away more important than graphics, the game is starting to look dated, especially with the ps4 game being little more than a touched up ps3 version. 60 fps locked would be great. And the player models need a massive makeover. Hopefully we can see them made over in tandem with new animations and batting stances.

And for the love of god include a calibration system in 15. Timing is too important in baseball to not have one. Ever since 12 the game has felt terribly floaty because of the extended timing window. Hitting in 12 felt perfect, extremely responsive, difficult but rewarding. Since I have moved to a fast gaming monitor I have been pulling everything into the seats. I have to purposefully be late on everything, it isn't fun.

I know the post is long, but I'm passionate.

[wowitsme0258]

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I would love to see the draft in franchise get a rework. I hate scouting players who don't end up in the draft. Having all players draft-able and having pools for money (like in real life) with slots. Then if a player isn't happy with his bonus he can chose to go to school and try again later. Also please remove the caps so if a free agent is signed to a team they don't have some ugly computer generated player or the wrong cap.

[saintloue28]

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Along with my create a team wish (desperately want the Rays in Orlando). I'd love to be able to create a veteran player and input career stats. I know that's being super picky. But it would be awesome!!! Also.... Let us link together last names. I have such an uncommon last name, I'll never hear it in game unless I could combine two different names =(

[jdlsantos]

Individual tendencies
- pitchers that start slow/fast
- pitchers that embrace or get nervous facing a big bat
- pitchers reacting to a ball they thought were a strike
- batters/pitchers who perform better with behind or in front of the count
- pinch hitter specialist
- curveball/fastball/etc. specialist
- batter that welcome or fold in pressure situations
- dynamic strike zones (tie-in with tendencies)


Presentation
- more start overlays
- more stadium specific branding
- cameramen in the media wells next to dugouts
- TV cameramen throughout the stadium
- dynamic stadium crowd (booing home team during blowouts, sarcastic cheering, celebrating/jeering former players)
- more stadium, dugout, player, bullpen camera cuts
- stadium specific infield grass and batters box chalk lines
- dynamic weather/lighting, transmissions of weather and time

Editing
- put players in team uniform in edit screen, tired of guessing what team color 1-3 is
- neckwear
- home/road and even cold/warm accessories editing option
- real glove models
- real cleat models
- more elbow/shin guards
- ability to wear more fitting or loose uniform
- more swing follow thrus

[Eyeman79]

How about some sort of co-op with OOTP or Strat-O-matic, past season replays, league creator, custom schedules, "sandbox mode" etc.

[Nikko25]

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I think it would be pretty easy to take the uniform editor from Diamond Dynasty and move it into franchise. Then you could change or create your own uniforms and maybe, just maybe, an Expansion mode?

[wanzalla13]

Re: MLB 15 The Show Wishlist, Ours and Yours

Highlights from other games in franchise mode would be cool

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[RedMeansGo2006]

Re: MLB 15 The Show Wishlist, Ours and Yours

I think it would be pretty easy to take the uniform editor from Diamond Dynasty and move it into franchise. Then you could change or create your own uniforms and maybe, just maybe, an Expansion mode?

I would love to see this. There are so many awesome concepts on display at sportslogos.net (awesome site if you've never visited it), and I have a few of my own as well. I'd like to have this to recreate throwback jerseys with matching batting helmets for throwback jerseys that were worn before they had batting helmets, and maybe add names to the backs.

[JohnDoe8865]

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I'd love to be able to create the old Montreal Expos uniforms and logo and move a team there in Dynasty Mode. I've wanted to be able to do that so bad since they moved to D.C.

[cardinalbird5]

Re: MLB 15 The Show Wishlist, Ours and Yours

Have different trajectory on homerun balls. I want to see a Matt Holliday line drive homerun at times.

Some type of connected careers mode where you can do co-op RTTS or even use them online vs others. I feel like every sports title has this except MLB The Show.

The ability to relocate or create a new stadium...maybe add in a owner mode?

The ability to slide step whenever you want and not just on pitch outs. Stolen bases were abused online because if anyone saw you slide step they'd just hit R1. At the very least, allow these players to be picked off when they constantly try to steal and go back. Also bring back manual early steal.....It took much more skill to do that than to just have the CPU randomly do it for you.

More fielding animations that we have control of. If you hold the meter down longer the player should do a quicker animation and vice versa. I don't like the randomness.

Fix check swinging online and I'd just go back to how online was before. No more of this synching from user to user stuff. It causes too many weird glitches.

Enable manual catch for online and make it where you can't put your fielding difficulty on rookie. Include fielding difficulty for matchmaking or just leave it on Veteran/AS for every game.

More stadiums too and I want to see places like Coors have more of an impact on the game. It has a slight affect coded in the game, but I feel like it should be more drastic.

[Teigh Cubs Teigh]

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I would absolutely love to see the possibility of expansion built in to a revamped Franchise mode. Also as part of this I would absolutely love to see prices brought back in and actually have an effect on payroll and whatnot. Plus a Create-a-Ballpark feature which we know (thanks to that one interview earlier in the year) was high on this the list for 14.

I can think of few things that would be more amazing than building an MLB team from scratch and trying to grow it over the course of multiple iterations of MLB the Show.



In addition to that I would love to see logic improved across the board from trade, roster construction, lineup construction, bullpen usage, and free agency to in game decisions made by players.