MLB 15 The Show OS Community Impressions

[Pt81094]

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For the life of me i cannot sign a single free agent in the offseason of franchise mode..i have tried i even offered Brayan Pena a 2 yr/ 12 million dollar contract and he had no interest while the Rays offered 2yr/ 3.14 and he will sign with them..am i doing something wrong?

[DJ]

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Don't know if its a server thing or not, but today it took me 4:30 from hitting the option button to log into the game, the time before that I got a CE error.

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I had the same thing happen to me just now. Was able to play, but the menus took several minutes to load and input response was laggy.

[CujoMatty]

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I just read the ign review. I agree with it and most other reviews game is good a solid 8 or 8.5 but not too different from 14.
Something that I'm sick of reading about though and it was mentioned in the ign review is about the crowd. While I agree that the crowd looks great and honestly the best out there articles always mention the variety and how they have to really look to see duplicate people. Again I agree but the actual scenes that matter are the close up cut scenes. As good looking as Ramone and the other devs are the novelty of seeing them at the begining of every game and every place ever has worn out with me. These devs are awesome and I mean zero disrespect but I wish they would capitalize on the randomness of the crowd.

[ChrisHansen59]

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The same problem that has always existed in this series on the higher difficulties remains here; if you dare take a lead, they're going to take every ball and hit anything and everything no matter where you put it or how you mix up your pitches

[CujoMatty]

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The same problem that has always existed in this series on the higher difficulties remains here; if you dare take a lead, they're going to take every ball and hit anything and everything no matter where you put it or how you mix up your pitches

I use to think that too and if I'm being honest every once and a while I still feel like I'm being cheated. Ive read a bunch of the threads and taken others advice and it rarely happens to me anymore and realistically it does happen in real life. Look at the jays game tonight. 2 hit batters and a wild pitch followed by a lucky hit and bam. Game over.
i think it's human nature to feel like we're being cheated when things don't go our way. If I had a dollar for every time I said "this game cheats" while growing up I'd be rich. Not trying to diminish your opinion just my thoughts.

[CujoMatty]

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Decided to continue my rtts from last year. I could not get into it last year for the life of me. I've now been playing it for 3 hours and am really enjoying it. I figured out why I like it so much better this year. The load times plain and simple. Not waiting 5 minutes to play for 3 makes such a difference.

[thomeklund]

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My impressions of 15? I'm just so glad I still have 14 and Pro Yakyuu Spirits so I can enjoy baseball-games. Never ever buying the show again if pure analog hitting isn't taken back like its supposed to be.

[Bullit]

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I usually don't even post in the impression threads for the same reason I don't read or post in the Bugs threads. I want to form my own opinion and see for myself what a games is like for the good and the bad.

But this year I found myself to be in a unique situation with this game that I have never been in before. So I thought I would share my impressions for the first time. I am quite sure I will be blasted as I have seen the change in The Show side of the forums for years now.

The gameplay in this game, overall is the best it has ever been. The fielding speeds are what I have always wanted. Pitching and hitting are harder this year that they have been since '12 and it is a joy to work the count and get my pitch. The graphics and lighting have really stepped up the game and the parks are absolutely breath taking. The new licensed equipment is cool to see in the game, while I personally don't care it is a nice addition.

However all is not right in Camelot. The online component of this game has never been good, ever. So the decision to tie the new cards, rewards, stamps etc to the servers seems to be a really bad one. I, among others, have not received stamps or cards since last week sometime, if at all. Today I struggled in both Franchise and RTTS load times as the system would spend anywhere from 10 seconds to 2 minutes looking for a server to award a card at every screen. I personally don't, have not and will not play online so I don't care about those features at all. But when they affect the single player experience it just gets to be too much.

This isn't about bugs and glitches. I get that these things happen with games nowadays. I mean it is pretty much a given in this day and age that a game doesn't work as advertised on release day and I am sure this trend will continue in the future. This is about the first time I have been disappointed in The Show. The decisions with this game this year have worsened the single player experience for me. I try to have faith that everything will get patched and fixed this year but I can honestly say that for the first time in 10 years, next year this will not be a day one pickup.

[Knight165]

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The same problem that has always existed in this series on the higher difficulties remains here; if you dare take a lead, they're going to take every ball and hit anything and everything no matter where you put it or how you mix up your pitches

Well...I better go back and replay the Mets-Nats game I pitched on Legend and beat them 11-1.
Maybe the comeback code took that game off on a coaches suggestion.:wink:

M.K.
Knight165

[Skyboxer]

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True Knight lol

The biggest mistake is leaving pitchers in too long or giving it to the batters IMO..

Anyways just dropped the first game at Baltimore.. Tex had a terrible game in the field.
Was up 1-0 and then

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Ended up losing 6-1. Tex also added a boot later in game.

Currently 4-3 record....
Loving the variety of games and occurrences.

[ryanmc564]

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WAIT!!!! THERE'S A COMEBACK CODE????? that explains so much. LOL


actually the first few games I played before starting my franchise, I won each game with ease with no problems with hitting, pitching, fielding, or base running. but then I started my franchise and things just nose dived on me, my hitting went cold and baserunning(totally my fault, although sometimes it seemed that my commands weren't registering when trying to get a runner to run home from second with another guy on the base path) but the most complexing was that my bullpen couldn't get a out to save their life, every single one of my reliever gave up multiple runs and would lose the game on me. this went on for the first 6 games of my franchise going 2 for 4 . but after that I've been on a 5 game winning streak and even making comebacks from a good deficit(which I always use to struggle with, if I was down by 3 or 4 runs by the 8th inning in the past I always counted on losing that game) but yet this time I was down 6 to 1 in the 9th and scoring 6 runs for the win and my relievers are starting to get outs.


So really this game plays to both the user and the cpu equally, you will have your up's were everything is going your way and the down's were it seems you can't do anything right. I don't think gameplay has ever been a issue for out of the 6 years I've been playing this series.

[BobSacamano]

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This is the best the game has ever played out of the box, at least if you play offline. The only slider I've touched is the solid hits one, lowering it a couple notches, and I don't anticipate messing around with many others. Pitch speed, fielder speed, baserunners... All that feels phenomenal. Even better, I'm actually seeing balls hit over outfielders' heads. My god, it's a thing of beauty! I could stand to see some more bloops, but that's kinda nitpicking. This team deserves all the kudos for putting out a fully functional, playable game on day 1. Seriously, that's so rare these day.



One area of the gameplay that still needs improvement is hits down the line. Even hard hit balls past or over the third baseman don't really roll to the corners, instead just dying in the outfield grass. If a ball is hit to the right of the third baseman, it most likely is going to get into the LF corner. That rarely happens in the Show. Usually the LF cuts the ball off and holds my guy to a single. I know this has been an issue in the past and that the development team has worked on it, but it's just not there yet.

[NEOPARADIGM]

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As much as I adore what they've done here with the Partly Cloudy lighting system, I wish Overcast got some similar treatment. Would be fantastic if when selecting Overcast the Party Cloudy system would go into effect for like a half-inning here and there, where the sun peeks through the clouds for the first in like the bottom of the sixth or whatever.

[Spokker]

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One thing I would suggest is letting players adjust the sensitivity of the PCI movement.

[NDAlum]

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The most impressive aspect of The Show '15 to me is the overhaul of the fielding system. The smoothness of fielding animations is just so natural this year. To me they spent a great amount of time cleaning this up. In '14 it was an area that was quite an eyesore to be completely honest. Too many times you saw IF'ers do unnatural movements and attempt crazy throws. The level of improvement in this aspect has made the game so organic.

Let me go ahead and list some other things I'm enjoying:
+ The extra 0.5 seconds you get to watch the flight of the ball after contact (catcher view hitting)
+ The slide step was something that needed to be in and it's a great tool
+ The added slide animations are top notch
+ I feel like the ball physics were improved overall. I'm seeing some great hit variety on Timing hitting
+ The licensed equipment adds an overall immersion and presentation factor that I didn't think would be this impactful
+ Improvements to quick counts. Less 3-ball/2-strike counts BUT they are still there.
+ Outfield animations are more crisp. No longer tied into long animations that often
+ Revamped pitch movement. I feel like I see the ball so much better this year and it's because you can read the pitches out of the hand better. Overall the movement is just spot on, I love it.

I've had a few small issues but they pale in comparison to the improvements.