MLB The Show 17 Twitch Stream - Gameplay, Animations & Retro-Mode Deep Dive

[knich]

Re: MLB The Show 17 Twitch Stream - Gameplay, Animations & Retro-Mode Deep Dive

To me Retro mode just sounds like a gimmick and pointless.

I am not sure it is pointless. I don't think the devs put in or intended to put in alot of time on this mode. They mentioned they wanted to include because of Griffey. I have been playing video games almost 50 years. That is probably 30+ years more than most people on these boards. Many probably have never heard of Magnavox Odyssey. My point is I don't think many will play this mode because most people playing today weren't even alive or old enough to remember consoles like Atari 7800. Even though I enjoyed video games during that era, I would never go back to that era. I do like the ability to play games in the stadiums from the 90s. And although MVP Baseball was great for its time, I would never go back to it either. I got bored "watching" retro mode after 5 minutes.

They should have the dude with the beard talk more. Love his laid back personality.

He on streams often, and he talks alot. Great guy it seems.

Everybody always thinks that modes or features they are not interested in seem pointless.

If it brings in a few more fans to the game then it is not pointless. If it allows me or anyone to have friends over who do not own the game over and lets to jump into a fun head to head game without me dominating then it is not pointless.

It also seems like some people seem to believe that a stock PS4 has unlimited graphic and computing power. It wasn't even comparable to a good gaming PC when it came out 3 years ago.

Ramone says there is plenty more room for graphics update. My only "gripe" is that the player models are not next gen. Just not sure why that is. But I suspect there is a good reason (unrelated to memory) why they have not been able to unleash that graphical power thus far?

[baseball_fever]

Re: MLB The Show 17 Twitch Stream - Gameplay, Animations & Retro-Mode Deep Dive

My main area of criticism is just a small thing and I will piggy back on what Tnixen said about it. But I realllllly dislike the "early, perfect and late" words that now appear in regards to the timing on the pitching meter. Very unnecessary clutter. Otherwise, keep up the fine work guys!

[ARoid1313]

Re: MLB The Show 17 Twitch Stream - Gameplay, Animations & Retro-Mode Deep Dive

if this was the only gameplay stream I figured its worth asking now,
has anything been done to analog pitching by chance? felt a bit too easy to master last year even on the highest difficulty, just wondering if there were any tweaks to difficulties and interfaces options in general.

[skrody]

Re: MLB The Show 17 Twitch Stream - Gameplay, Animations & Retro-Mode Deep Dive

I am sending this feedback specifically to them. Multiple users brought it up to me.

thanks for seeing this and responding.

would suck to have offline throws all game because "WHERE THE F IS THE SPOT IM SUPPOSED TO HIT" haha

[benny15]

Crap. PS4 Pro confirmed. Now I'll have to upgrade.

Sent from my LGLS991 using Operation Sports mobile app

see this is why I wish more people were upset with Sony slapping early adopters in the face with the pro. I will now be playing an inferior edition of my favorite sports game.

All we got out of PS4 Amateur was a 1 "next gen" edition last year.

[Adam_SDS]

Re: MLB The Show 17 Twitch Stream - Gameplay, Animations & Retro-Mode Deep Dive

On the good side they already removed the MLB The Show 17 logo on the Scorebug! Thank You Adam_SDS

You are welcome!

[tnixen]

Re: MLB The Show 17 Twitch Stream - Gameplay, Animations & Retro-Mode Deep Dive

now that we have an awesome fielding camera option, next question is
Can we disable the home run celebration camera? I'm really hoping yes!

Please pretty please let this be so

We used to be able to disable the home run celebration camera several versions ago and then they took it away for some reason. It is by far for me the number one feature that Sony took away that I miss!

I think there was once a time where somebody said they never take things away only add to the game but that really is not the case any more. I am just trying to understand how having the home run celebration camera as an option in the settings would be a bad thing?

[ryanmc564]

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see this is why I wish more people were upset with Sony slapping early adopters in the face with the pro. I will now be playing an inferior edition of my favorite sports game.

All we got out of PS4 Amateur was a 1 "next gen" edition last year.

How is it going to be inferior?? outside of slightly better video resolution and load times, what else is the pro going to have over the original? its not like the pro is going to have new player models or more fans in the stands. Too many people have a huge misconception about the Pro like its suppose to be the ps5 or something..

[breakfastcat]

Re: MLB The Show 17 Twitch Stream - Gameplay, Animations & Retro-Mode Deep Dive

How is it going to be inferior?? outside of slightly better video resolution and load times, what else is the pro going to have over the original? its not like the pro is going to have new player models or more fans in the stands. Too many people have a huge misconception about the Pro like its suppose to be the ps5 or something..

If it runs on Pro at a constant 60fps while the original doesn't, that's a pretty big difference IMO.

[tnixen]

Re: MLB The Show 17 Twitch Stream - Gameplay, Animations & Retro-Mode Deep Dive

How is it going to be inferior?? outside of slightly better video resolution and load times, what else is the pro going to have over the original? its not like the pro is going to have new player models or more fans in the stands. Too many people have a huge misconception about the Pro like its suppose to be the ps5 or something..

No not new player models or new seprate feature on PS4 Pro.

However the overal look of the game maybe significantly better.

I guess we will all find out on March 23

[breakfastcat]

Re: MLB The Show 17 Twitch Stream - Gameplay, Animations & Retro-Mode Deep Dive

Anyone else notice in the pause menu the "Quick Manage" option? Makes me think we may have finally gotten a text-based manage mode similar to the ones from the old MVP games. This would be an awesome quick way to get through more games in Franchise!

[kiddlex]

Re: MLB The Show 17 Twitch Stream - Gameplay, Animations & Retro-Mode Deep Dive

Anyone else notice in the pause menu the "Quick Manage" option? Makes me think we may have finally gotten a text-based manage mode similar to the ones from the old MVP games. This would be an awesome quick way to get through more games in Franchise!

That would be superb. 162 games is a haul, but I hate simming, you feel disconnected.

[ryanmc564]

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If it runs on Pro at a constant 60fps while the original doesn't, that's a pretty big difference IMO.

I can appreciate that. The frame rate dips were never a issue for me because it seem to only occur during cut scenes and in some way, it made it seem more like live TV because it gave the illusion of someone actually holding the camera.

[breakfastcat]

Re: MLB The Show 17 Twitch Stream - Gameplay, Animations & Retro-Mode Deep Dive

I can appreciate that. The frame rate dips were never a issue for me because it seem to only occur during cut scenes and in some way, it made it seem more like live TV because it gave the illusion of someone actually holding the camera.

As someone who plays in Broadcast Presentation A LOT, those FPS dips are the bane of my existence.

[countryboy]

Re: MLB The Show 17 Twitch Stream - Gameplay, Animations & Retro-Mode Deep Dive

I've been bouncing around the stream. Two things:

1) I'm going to have an absolute blast playing Retro Mode. Cannot wait to play a league with my friends.

2) I really hope the pitching meter feedback can be turned off. Not a fan of it.