MLB 15 The Show Livestream - Cubs vs. Pirates: Full Game (Archive Available)

[Cman9]

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As far as gameplay, new animations and presentation I am a little disappointed. Looks like 14 with licensed equipment and slightly better graphics to me. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure I will still love it.

[MetsFan16]

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As far as gameplay, new animations and presentation I am a little disappointed. Looks like 14 with licensed equipment and slightly better graphics to me. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure I will still love it.

I feel like its hard to coment on how smooth the gameplay feels when you're not playing it for yourself. When you have the game in your hand I feel like you can feel the gameplay improvements and you will be seeing more animations and presentation aspects

[NAFBUC]

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props to the developers, for their invaluable dedication to this title. To take time, to actually participate in this 'raw' stream, and actually make it available to the fanbase. Wow.

I equate MLB The Show franchise to a Porsche 911. While the model doesn't change drastically year to year, it instead is improved and refined each calendar year to the point of complete perfection, and has NO peer.

I only have 1 request: please bring back the organ music which was prevalent in MLB The Show 09, 10, and 11. Specifically, the organ music which would kick in when home team is batting during potential rallys. This makes for automatic excitement and instant atmosphere. At the minimum, will you please make the frequency of organ music an option (or slider adustment)?

thank you, again, SCEA-San Diego__

Great post vinny.....

Additional organ music, vendor and chatter talk between the players. This is also a way to avoid some
of the duplicate commentary that might happen at a particular points in the game.

[teeds]

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Any camera angle updates for broadcast cam behind the pitcher? Do the angles originate from local broadcasts or national? The reason I bring this up is because Pirates local broadcasts use the dead center cam and it's the same old low, off-centered angle here on this livestream. Tampa Bay, St. Louis, and Minnesota use the dead center cam also. And Colorado's Root broadcast is adopting this same camera angle this season.

Just curious to know how these angles are chosen.

[seanjeezy]

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This has been toned down a bit in 15, do to the slower reactions of the fielders across the board, as well as animation branching.

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There was a perfect example in the stream - pitcher takes a liner to the leg and is temporarily stunned. The 3rd baseman is unable to react fast enough to the sudden change in trajectory and eats the play.

Last year that is either a 5-3 or even a 1-3.

Edit:

Baez wore the air max mvp elite 1 and occasionally jordan 13's, I don't think either of those are in the game (the air max mvp elite 2 has a radically different design).

[JaFFiTh]

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I don't know if this has been mentioned but I noticed Cole loses hair as he's set to throw. Pre pitch selection he has his normal hair, once he selects his pitch and ready to throw, half of the hair disappears.

[Factzzz]

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I don't know if this has been mentioned but I noticed Cole loses hair as he's set to throw. Pre pitch selection he has his normal hair, once he selects his pitch and ready to throw, half of the hair disappears.

Yup, it's been like this since last year as well.

Players with long hair and long beards, lose it, or it looks really frizzy during actual gameplay animations, but then looks fine in close ups. It's like this in other sports video games too, so it's not only a Show problem.

Probably something to do with frame rate or something, but i don't know anything about that stuff, so i could be wrong.

Any camera angle updates for broadcast cam behind the pitcher? Do the angles originate from local broadcasts or national? The reason I bring this up is because Pirates local broadcasts use the dead center cam and it's the same old low, off-centered angle here on this livestream. Tampa Bay, St. Louis, and Minnesota use the dead center cam also. And Colorado's Root broadcast is adopting this same camera angle this season.

Just curious to know how these angles are chosen.

I'm curious about this too because I pitch and hit from the broadcast camera behind pitchers, because i like it to look exactly like real life, which is why i also get rid of any OSDs, other than the score bug. And that dead center cam that Minnesota uses is hideous in my opinion, but I haven't noticed any other broadcasts that use a similar camera angle like that, in real life or in the Show. But the Show has their broadcast cameras down pat it seems.

Baez wore the air max mvp elite 1 and occasionally jordan 13's, I don't think either of those are in the game (the air max mvp elite 2 has a radically different design).

Any Nike shoes would be better than generics though, and Nike batting gloves as well.

[thaSLAB]

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Any camera angle updates for broadcast cam behind the pitcher? Do the angles originate from local broadcasts or national? The reason I bring this up is because Pirates local broadcasts use the dead center cam and it's the same old low, off-centered angle here on this livestream. Tampa Bay, St. Louis, and Minnesota use the dead center cam also. And Colorado's Root broadcast is adopting this same camera angle this season.

Just curious to know how these angles are chosen.

Local broadcast. This was there camera at one point, that's where it came from. So you're saying it's changed in the last few years? If so, I would say it's an oversight by the team. I never liked pitching in PIT because of this camera angle, personally. You may be stuck with manually changing to one of the other teams broadcast cam (or custom cam) this year, but I think this is good info, going forward.

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[sink4ever]

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I feel like its hard to coment on how smooth the gameplay feels when you're not playing it for yourself. When you have the game in your hand I feel like you can feel the gameplay improvements and you will be seeing more animations and presentation aspects

I really don't think this can be overstated. I enjoy watching the streams, but never put too much stock into the gameplay because it seems drastically different (for the better) once I finally get the game and play it myself.

[Jimmydm90]

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Sure, I think you could say if there was a competitor out there then the pressure to be the baseball market leader could lead to more radical changes and things to set them above the rest. That said, I think we are pretty lucky that The Show is as good as it is being that is has no competitors.

MLB the Show has competitors. It has every other video game in the market. TV, movies, real sports, the Internet, friendships, families, etc. They're all battling for the consumer's free time.

Obviously this is true for almost any game but if they don't make the new game fresh and exciting, if they don't hook consumers then consumers just won't buy it. They'll spend that time and money doing one of a million other things so SCEA has to keep pushing and improving. They don't have the benefit of the huge advertising budgets and massive brand recognition of annual titles like Madden or Call of Duty so they have to fight for every penny.

[ajblithe20]

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I really don't think this can be overstated. I enjoy watching the streams, but never put too much stock into the gameplay because it seems drastically different (for the better) once I finally get the game and play it myself.

When I watch the streams I just look for new features, equipment, batting stances/pitching motions, face scans, etc. I don't look at the graphics too much or pay much attention to the on field gameplay. Those two things always look wayyy better on my TV at home.

[thaSLAB]

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When I watch the streams I just look for new features, equipment, batting stances/pitching motions, face scans, etc. I don't look at the graphics too much or pay much attention to the on field gameplay. Those two things always look wayyy better on my TV at home.

Sort of on that note, and I mentioned this to someone at CD. That the game really looked good on the monitors we play on there... in the past it would look decent, but has always looked a lot better on my TV/projector at home. So if that same offset carries over this year, we should be very pleased once release hits.

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[zbundy3]

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Local broadcast. This was there camera at one point, that's where it came from. So you're saying it's changed in the last few years? If so, I would say it's an oversight by the team. I never liked pitching in PIT because of this camera angle, personally. You may be stuck with manually changing to one of the other teams broadcast cam (or custom cam) this year, but I think this is good info, going forward.

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This is camera angle the pirates use at pnc park now.

[Dolenz]

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When I watch the streams I just look for new features, equipment, batting stances/pitching motions, face scans, etc. I don't look at the graphics too much or pay much attention to the on field gameplay. Those two things always look wayyy better on my TV at home.

When I watch the stream I am looking for the humorous notes the put below the presenters names.

[Go Yankees]

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I think the camera angle has to do with if the pitcher is right handed or left handed and in the show you can switch camera angles from behind the mound, not sure but i think so.