MLB The Show 16 Has Officially Arrived, Post Your Impressions Here

[ajblithe20]

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I've been very vocal already about the frame rate issues. But besides that....

The new hitting and pitching animations look very very fluid, as do the defensive animations. Animations got a big upgrade.

I also love the new equipment they added in, makes the game that much more immersive.

Last thing for this post... I love the way hitting feels so far. I've been using the PCI and I think it really got overhauled this year. The vast majority of the time I make contact, the ball goes where I expect it to go.

[Yanks1408]

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Hit L on the D-pad

Thank you!

[SoxFan01605]

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Some quick observations (Not a lot of time with the game yet):

Pros:

- The game looks and plays great so far. I have had a couple of frame rate hiccups in specific spots (after check swings and transitioning between camera cuts chiefly), but nothing that has detracted from my experience.

- The improved presentation is noticeable and has breathed new life into individual games.

- Fielding seems more responsive in terms of dives/jumps. I actually feel like I can field the corners with good players now

- Contact off the bat sounds and feels particularly solid this year. Seems to be better weight or friction on grounders and hops as well.

Cons:

(I've spent more time digging into rosters and franchise to check some things out, so that's where my focus is here)

-Can't seem to see a players uniform number unless you go to edit him. IMO, that's a fairly significant interface oversight unless I'm missing it somewhere.

-It appears the option to switch between instant and delayed trades is gone. No delayed trades mean that the ability to essentially play "commissioner" for trades is gone.

-Team stats are only available via the league rankings now. You can't just view your team's totals on the player stat screen anymore.

None of those are particularly major (though the first two are real bummers for me personally), but they do detract a bit from the improvements made. Not sure if such things can be patched or not (hopefully so), but they should definitely be addressed when possible.


EDIT: Oh, and I only got silver rewards when starting up, not gold, which is supposedly what we're supposed to get as returning players. Not a huge deal as I don't spend much time with that stuff, but I figured I'd mention it as it happened last year also and appears to have happened to others as well.

[canadianace15]

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my carry over franchise(1styr) does nit have any umpire introductions or any talk of whos working behind the plate. 12 games in.

[dalger21]

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One thing I dislike is that they brought back something they did in'09..that is after the first AB, you don't see the avg, hr and Rbi under what the player has done in the game

[Stolm]

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Wonder if PBR is the cause of the framerate issues?

Graphical improvements don't usually come without performance loss.

[mkilcNYR]

Started a Rays franchise right out of the box and I've decided to be like the pros and flesh out the game and all its nuisances in spring training.

- Fish Eye is hard to learn but also visually stunning. Found myself early on in the first 2 games swinging at pitches up in the zone only to realize they were balls. Also pitches down low were a bit hard to pick up on if they were strikes or not at first. I've gotten better though and after launching a homer with Steve Pearce I really felt like I was getting better

- Directional hitting is good! No problems. I've had guys be right on pitches and crush them (Steve Pearce homer was a mistaken slider from the O's pen right down the middle). Also had Kiermaier launch a double off the wall because he had great timing and the PCI showed the pitch in it's range even though it was on the outside part of the plate.

-Showtime is not a sure thing and that makes me happy. Tested it out with Hank Conger and all he did was swing and miss on a changeup. Next game though he did take the pitch and lace a single to right with Showtime so even though it was only 2 uses I like it so far (tried to use a semi-average hitting guy to test if it was overpowered or not. Not at all)

- Commentary is eh. I like it, Sounds more engrossing and they are using names a lot more but already i've heard the same 2 lines, from EK on the pitcher run down, over and over and I've only been through 2 games and maybe 13 pitchers between the Rays/Nats/O's. It's the "He's got 4 pitches" and the "He's got 5 pitches". I do like that there is a lot more involvement it seems from guys not named Matty V and that makes me happy

-Weather! Love the fact that now in franchise the weather is randomized. I've had rain on the opening day of ST and then partly cloudy 2 days in a row. Big fan of the weather changing now rather than being sunny for all 162 games like last year.

-Fish eye cam....again. Idk how to explain it but it just has this wow factor for me. It really takes in the whole stadium and just looks great. This is my default for the rest of the year as I get better at using it

[Chad0034]

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- it looks like they got rid of the button prompt to bring up the previous pitch info on the bottom left. Now its either on or off. I dont like that. I dislike clutter. i liked being able to push r3 or whatever it used to be on ps3


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Thanks for mentioning this. How exactly do you turn this off? I dislike it taking up the bottom corner of the screen and I don't really happen to be using this at all.

I was unaware it could be turned off.

[Denzel Washington]

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Hit L on the D-pad

Any chance a patch is added so pitchers can see what they have thrown in that particular at bat. It was in 15 and I can't seem to bring it up now. At least not online

[fatleg3]

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Day games are beautiful. ..

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[xNeurosiis]

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The two big gripes I have with the game (so far) are that you have to push left on the d-pad to go forward in uniform selection (home, home alt, etc). It feels so counter-intuitive and, hopefully, there's a way to fix it (I'm not holding my breath). The second gripe I have is that there's a lot of uniforms missing, and errors. The Angels still don't have red belts, and the Padres don't have their amazing Navy camos in the game.

Besides those things, the game looks and plays as amazing as ever. I love the fisheye camera, as it seems to make the scope of each ballpark bigger in size. Plus, it works really well with the closed roofs.

Speaking of those closed roofs, I do love how the lighting changes when the roof is closed, versus when it's open. It really feels like the ballpark is being lit artificially by lights, as opposed to the sun.

As I play more and get into my franchise and RTTS I'll try to post more impressions. I may not be as detail-oriented as some of you, so I'll let those people do the talking.

[JTommy67]

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I'd say the game looks improved from last year. Hitting is certainly different. I'm finding myself early on a lot of fastballs but I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually. Timing window definitely has been made easier.

Commentary seems much improved, and the lighting is fantastic.

Like others who have posted, I do not like the circle meters at all. They are difficult to see especially since they seem to have shrunk down the font. I don't see the need to make changes every year to the front end menu system. I thought it was fine before. Not a big thing, though.

As a roster maker, I dislike the fact that you can't edit batting helmets for fictional SCEA players, and I wish you could edit service time as well. Don't understand why these preventions are there to begin with.

Also, they got Ryne Sandberg's batting stance wrong. This is odd, because his stance has been in the game for years. Perhaps his real stance is still there somewhere and he was just assigned the wrong one.

He never rested the bat on his shoulder and also he had a minor sway back and forth.

Anyway, all things considered a job well done.

[mastershake88]

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This is MLB 15: The Show just with a few more gimmicks and buttons and features added to it.

-Zero upgrade to Camden Yards and zero upgrades to made to Minuite Maid Park. Like don't bother asking me to help in making improvements to the stadium through email if all what they did was just issue the same problems in another game.

-Same mundane uniforms. What is the use of helping the team with uniform suggestions when all what they're going to do is just put the same uniforms in the game year in and year out.

I'm done. Like if you want to repackage the same game over again that's fine. Just don't give me the illusion of "helping out".

[Chad0034]

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Someone needs to explain to SCEA what a foul tip is vs a foul ball because it's screwed up again this year

Game breaker

[Stolm]

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Not really impressed with the RTTS Player Creation. The equipment slots are nice, but the overall look of it is ugly, far uglier than years previous.

Not sure if improved lighting is showing just how ugly the create-a models are but they are hideous, hair as well.

Game has started to hard freeze on me as well. 2 hard freezes within 5 mintues of eachother. Not sure if its a bug with the music I just added or what.