MLB The Show 17 Video - Franchise Mode Tour (Game Informer)

[PackerBacker123]

Time to stop giving these guys a free pass on everything. No competition in the sports gaming scene always leads to complacency; whether it's still having flat looking or superhero-like player models in 2017, or the same set of running animations since the early PS3 days -- I'm not seeing a lot of innovation or needed fixes.

[Spokker]

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Time to stop giving these guys a free pass on everything. No competition in the sports gaming scene always leads to complacency; whether it's still having flat looking or superhero-like player models in 2017, or the same set of running animations since the early PS3 days -- I'm not seeing a lot of innovation or needed fixes.

It's no longer Sony's fault there's no competition. The market probably cannot sustain two baseball simulation games. Especially with today's costs.

Today it's either AAA games, casual games or indie games. It's really hard to develop those AA games that have higher budgets than casual or indie games and appeal to a smaller segment of the public than AAA games.

[zman2392]

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Kind of looks like the critical situations might be only for majors and not minors. Hope not as I was planning on getting more involved with my minors teams with this feature. We will see come Thursday though!

[Cowboy008]

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Ramone mentioned franchise front office but didn't go into detail about it. Hopefully they will talk about that on Thursday's stream.

[squashbuggie]

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Love idea of quick manage. Wonder if people who do 30 team control can quick manage for both teams or just one.

One thing that was bothersome was Sabthia only had 56 pitches in 6 innings. Maybe due to the quick button mashing to get through the stream to show off what can be done?

make sure sim sliders for cpu starters are 1 or 2 maybe and u will see stamina go appropriately. a pitcher can go 6-innings w/ that amount of pitches.

[squashbuggie]

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I wish on the quick manage screen, it had pitch counts or a percentage of health left. Hard to tell with a bar. Maybe that can be changed at some point


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they also need L/R splits for batters, instead of us having to write it all down in a notebook.

[Blzer]

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So the critical moments is just for that game not for career milestones like 100 hr or hits so on as that's what was asked to Russel and he dodged the question also anyone who saw the commentary stream will they talk about trades during the game . ?? Thanks franchise mode for me is something I love but this year apart from critical situations everything else is just a paint job.

Sounded to me like he answered right then and there that milestones are a part of it. In fact, he was the one who initially brought it up.

I'll have to seep through the video again a little bit, but speaking of the milestone stuff, you could be sitting on 399 home runs for a long time with somebody, for example, and they must prompt you at least once a game if that's the case. I'm assuming they would jump to that person's AB in the first inning? If you say no, does it automatically ask again during the next AB? Next game? The curiosities strike my fancy!

Or, say you do jump in, and you ground out and want to jump back out again with the "Simulate to End" option. Does it prompt you to jump back in with that player when he bats again in the 4th inning?

Very interested to see how this plays out. I would definitely use this feature in franchise mode. Can't play all 162 games of 30+ years.

[Millennium]

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Time to stop giving these guys a free pass on everything. No competition in the sports gaming scene always leads to complacency; whether it's still having flat looking or superhero-like player models in 2017, or the same set of running animations since the early PS3 days -- I'm not seeing a lot of innovation or needed fixes.

You are commenting on something in which you have no idea about. This type of comment is not needed or wanted at OS.

Until you see a dev being "complacent", take your opinion off of my forums. Only warning.

[rkocjay]

i think Thursday they will surprise us so ill wait until then

[justin23IU]

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This "news" is so incredibly disappointing. There is so much to be explored in franchise mode, but instead they basically focused on the lowest common denominator and just made it easier to fly through games. It's hard to believe this is all they managed to do in a full development cycle. I will still get the game at some point, but this went from a day 1 buy to something I'll pick up when it goes on sale.

[CrimsionXBL]

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This "news" is so incredibly disappointing. There is so much to be explored in franchise mode, but instead they basically focused on the lowest common denominator and just made it easier to fly through games. It's hard to believe this is all they managed to do in a full development cycle. I will still get the game at some point, but this went from a day 1 buy to something I'll pick up when it goes on sale.

Honestly, it's unfair to sit there and say it's disappointing in regards to what they've done this year. Last year they made a whole slew of changes when it came to offline franchise and there isn't much more they could have done to WOW people outside of throwing owner mode back in.

I was impressed with what they did last year even if it didn't make it into online franchise and they knew they needed to please not only the hardcore fans, but the casual.

Not to mention this video touched upon nothing to do with the Player Quirks and such.

[PVarck31]

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Really like these new features. I really can't get through a whole season and this should help me be able to and get the full benefits of franchise mode.


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[PhantomPain]

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I'm not sure if it's possible in tis year's game, but it would be cool if you could just watch the critical moments. If you are someone that sims a lot you are already relying on the AI to perform. So it would make sense that if you didn't want to be the deciding factor on whatever that critical moment is, then you may just want to "watch" the critical moment instead of playing it. Would still bring you into the game more than just seeing the text simulation.

Maybe something to add next year if it isn't already in or too hard to do. Either way I definitely like the critical moments idea and think it's something that can be really expanded upon over the next couple of years.

[Vmascarello]

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I'm not sure if it's possible in tis year's game, but it would be cool if you could just watch the critical moments. If you are someone that sims a lot you are already relying on the AI to perform. So it would make sense that if you didn't want to be the deciding factor on whatever that critical moment is, then you may just want to "watch" the critical moment instead of playing it. Would still bring you into the game more than just seeing the text simulation.

Maybe something to add next year if it isn't already in or too hard to do. Either way I definitely like the critical moments idea and think it's something that can be really expanded upon over the next couple of years.

I gotta assume you can watch the Critical Moments. Just jump into the game and then go to Select Sides and make it CPU vs. CPU. Takes 2 seconds.

[JBoo2911]

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I am really looking forward to using Quick Manage in my Chises. I tend to play a handful of games per month thru a season and now in '17 I'll ablè to be more involved in my teams season. Great addition!! I know these guys have a few more surprises in the Twitch Stream Thursday, keep positive! Those Developers do a great job on this game every year!