MLB The Show 17 Impressions

[Datninja619]

re: MLB The Show 17 Impressions

This is just a quick post about from someone that strictly plays Madden.

I wanted to give this game a shot because of the RTTS career mode hype and to support a studio in my hometown of San Diego.

I just want to tell the devs to continue paving the path for career modes in sports games! The customization and animations are amazing.

I barely understand the details of baseball, but every time my player steps on the plate or on 1st base I'm hoping not to make a fool of myself.

[N51_rob]

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Once they get the servers online I hope they take a look at "passed balls" especially on fastballs. Not something you notice in one off fames but playing franchise Im seeing way too many from my catcher and mostly with runners on base.


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[N51_rob]

re: MLB The Show 17 Impressions

I have a question for whom ever might know. I currently have about a $-950k per week cash flow in franchise mode. I am slowly losing money from my bank. I want to know what happens when I run out of money, and also how do I better start making money?

What team are you using? What sponsorships do you currently have? What roster moves have you made? Ill try to duplicate later tonight.


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[Armor and Sword]

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Once they get the servers online I hope they take a look at "passed balls" especially on fastballs. Not something you notice in one off fames but playing franchise Im seeing way too many from my catcher and mostly with runners on base.


I may experiment with lowering base runner speed one more click down from 3 to 2 and see if that allows average to below average runners to be gunned down sometimes. Because right now....it looks like little league.

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Same here. Starting to see this too often. I love that they nerfed the cheetah like speed in the way catchers pop and pounce....but this is starting to look like the other extreme of no pop and reaction. Base runners are walking to second and third with ease and no fear of being gunned down on wild pitches that are blocked by the catcher.

[coachpars]

I have always been auto field manual throw guy. The fielding is so much fun because of ball physics I can't see going back. This really is a fantastic baseball game. I'm a college coach in northeast, and had a DH in which we split. I got home around 11 and thought I saw enough baseball for day.long story short...played until 330am.

Game is that good.

[inkcil]

re: MLB The Show 17 Impressions

In brief:

A wonderful game that is more "fun" than any show since 2011, IMO. Yes, it has improved every year, but this game really brings fun to a new level, mainly because of all the game modes (there are so many ways to play, even for an offline guy like me. Dynasty and Conquest, Retro and RTTS, etc.)

The graphics and framerate look good to me on my PS4 Slim and Dell gaming monitor. And the animations are fluid and believable. The colors really pop as well.

With gameplay the pitcher/batter interface is great because you have so many options on how to approach it. I use fisheye batting camera & directional hitting and it is quite a treat to see the whole park from the batter's perspective.

My only gripe with gameplay is that I wish fielding were more fun. It's all about preloading throws on the infield, which makes it feel automated to me, even on manual fielding. Also, where are all the infield choppers? Those make fielding fun. Everything hit in the infield is just on the ground.

Lastly, the sound could use improvements as well. The crowd and ambiance noise is a little too low and feels like an auto-loop of 10 seconds worth of crowd noise playing over and over again. The announcers are also lackluster, even though the new additions to the booth are a welcome change. The crowd does come more alive in late game situations, however it should be much more dynamic than that.

[TEE04]

re: MLB The Show 17 Impressions

Baseball......it's been a part of my life since I can remember. Literally 42 of my 47 years on this planet, I have been playing, coaching and watching baseball. It is part of almost everyday for me. Around 1981 at the tender age of 11, my dad got me my very first console home video game system. It was called The Atari 2600. My oh my was I thrilled. Of course the very first game I wanted was Homerun baseball. Three guys on a screen moving in unison to catch a square pixel. That was what I had at 11 years old to recreate what I did on the field. And man I played the crap out of it. It also had modes that you could reduce it to 2 or just 1 guy on the field to shag everything.

Well of course the Intellivision system came out shortly thereafter and I had to have it. That game was actually officially licensed and called MLB Baseball. And guess what? It had 9 guys on the field!!! It was amazing. Hours upon hours and my friends and I made a league, kept stats in a notebook, standings. What a joy that game was. Of course we would go on and get every system and every baseball game practically ever made. I have played them all.

In 2009 I finally took the plunge on a PS3 after 10 years of service from my old reliable PS2 and 5 years of that playing MVP 2005. The Show 2009 was a system buyer for me. I was blown away. This was a game that for the first time made me feel like I did in my playing days. The batter/pitcher face off was awesome.

I tell my son 3 key things every time I drive him to practice and before he plays games. Just three key things and it is a consistent message.


1) I want you to be the very best competitor on the field and do anything to help your team win.

2) I want you to reach your attainable goal of hitting the ball hard.

3) Have fun.


I also give him permission not to be perfect. I give him permission that he does not have to get a hit every single AB. It's O.K to make mistakes. This allows him to go out and use his baseball instincts and strive to be the very best competitor on the field, to reach his attainable goal of hitting the ball hard and most importantly...to have fun. This pressure free message from me....the one who loves him the most makes this possible for him. He has enough pressure from the game itself. Baseball is the biggest self esteem destroying sport on the planet. Bar none.


So when I pulled The Show 17 out of it's wrapper last Monday 3/27/17 at around 9:30PM EST I knew three things before even loading it in.

1) It will be the very best competitor on the sports game market

2) It will hit the ball hard in terms of giving me great new features, gameplay, modes and improvements

3) And it will be more fun than any game I play every year.

These guys have done it again, but have taken the game/genre to a level we have not experienced yet.

Hands down after a week with the game and the honeymoon faze over I can proclaim with confidence that this is the very best sports game I have ever played.

And I give them (SDS) permission not to be perfect. I give them permission to use their baseball instincts and take chances free of outside pressures. And by having that attitude, I have embraced the game for what it is. A really fun, competitive baseball game that emulates the sport on my TV like no other has before it.

So let's celebrate this. I can't say enough about it that has not already been said on the previous pages of this impression thread. The game really delivers the goods on so many levels. Modes, gameplay and replay-ability.


What I love:

1) The new Ball physics are mind blowing. Never before have we had this type of true to life ball spin off the bat and out of the pitchers hands. It has made all previous versions of this game completely obsolete for me. It really has. I can't go back to balls that don't spin, curve, tail off....I mean it's really next gen stuff here.

2) Humanity AI and fielding animations - One of the biggest requests we have been pounding the sand about is fielder urgency and non urgency. I am blown away at the sheer amount of variety I have seen thus far in throwing and fielding animations. I am seeing something new almost every game. And it is so life like. It's stunning. The outfielder routes to the ball are far more lifelike and realistic. Playing balls off the wall and corners now also is unpredictable. It's a joy to see unfold.

3) Framerate and PS4 Pro/Ultra 4K HD - Mind numbing how beautiful this game is. I play on Enhanced Visuals and needless to say, I have never played a sports game as smooth and life like as MLBTS17. The game is butter. I still am in awe of the visual eye candy. I can see the ball so well now out of the pitchers hand, and it is a joy to play. The ballparks have all come alive.

4) New player faces, body types, equipment, hair etc - The player models are awesome. I love the new look of players and the face scans are amazing. Even all my transferred classic season files look 10 times better. It's like playing a new game.


5) Presentation - The new MLB Network presentation was long overdue, but Theme 1 and Theme 2 are also really great. I love just playing whatever theme it calls for on the schedule. It is keeping it very fresh for me and making me look forward to the MLBN presentation when it happens. Also HR and DP are great new editions. I can see this will evolve and get better with each iteration moving forward.


Again, I don't want to rehash more stuff that has been said 100 times already in this thread. But those things really stick out.

"I give you permission not to be perfect"

So we have some bugs and things that the development team need to work out. All well documented here. I don't need to affirm it. I see it like you do. The long moon shots and the SP logic that is a little wonky right now. I have not seen the SP wonkyness to the extreme some others have. But I have seen it. It is there. And they will address it. I know it. As far as the HR's......I am not minding it to be honest. Totals are in line after simming and testing. But the majestic shots are up. hey...plays into my last point....

Have fun.

Out of the box this game get's an 8.5/10

I gave a full point deduction because of some bugs like:

SOTS 1000 slots not available as advertised.
Score Ticker on the bottom not showing league leader categories
Y2Y save issue with a message I get "not advancing file one year" when this was not an issue on 15 or 16 (I found a workaround for all my classic season files but still why is this happening all of a sudden?)
Starting Pitching logic seems off this year.

Once we get a patch addressing these issues which I deem big....this game is 9.5/10 for me.

Again...not perfect. Nor do I ever expect it to be.


Enjoy this game folks. It is a special year for us die hard Show fans. They really hit the ball hard this season.

Huge props to SDS.

BOOM!!!!!!!

[audbal]

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Just had a glitch in instant replay where I could watch the replay from anywhere in the stadium. It was awsome!

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[jeffy777]

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Well, 2K did quite a bit before others. They started the analog play, like, a decade ago with hitting. They added fielding a couple of years later. They had analog pitching starting in '10 maybe? It was also implemented in a much more fun way than The Show does it (though this game is more predictable in its behaviors). They started the collectible card stuff back in '08. And as for terrible servers, 2K had that years before The Show! It was almost a national day of remembrance when the servers worked for a full day.

As far as online gameplay goes though, from 2K10 onward, their servers were smooth as silk and you could barely notice any lag when swinging and pitching. The Show has never seen online gameplay that smooth. Hioefully they'll get it right someday.

[CaseIH]

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Another addition to this game I love is the ability to take control of your runners when using auto baserunning. Im now able to stop a player from making a stupid decision on the bases, and also able to get caught in a run down, where as in the past on auto they would just run to the next base without trying to get out of it.

[Steven78]

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Another addition to this game I love is the ability to take control of your runners when using auto baserunning. Im now able to stop a player from making a stupid decision on the bases, and also able to get caught in a run down, where as in the past on auto they would just run to the next base without trying to get out of it.

In last years game too.

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[lil frier]

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Sometimes, this game feels like pre-determined nonsense. I just lost a Conquest game with such a frustration. Extra innings, 0-0 game, 2 out. CPU hits a hard grounder up the middle. CF runs to it, ignores it, ball runs to the wall, triple. Next pitch, single to right to end it. So infuriating.

[GoDucks1224]

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Sometimes, this game feels like pre-determined nonsense. I just lost a Conquest game with such a frustration. Extra innings, 0-0 game, 2 out. CPU hits a hard grounder up the middle. CF runs to it, ignores it, ball runs to the wall, triple. Next pitch, single to right to end it. So infuriating.

Honestly, there are times where it feels kind of pre determined. For some examples, when my catcher drops a ball on an off speed pitch (which seems to happen more this year) and the runner from first breaks for second on the wild pitch, they seem to double clutch and then throw to the shortstop side of second EVERY SINGLE TIME. Guaranteeing that the guy will get to base. Then there are times where the computer has a guy on third, and they suicide squeeze (which happens IRL sometimes I know) and it ALWAYS works. It's always a perfect bunt to the third baseman and the runner from third always scores. Other times are like... Throwing in from the outfield to throw out a slow runner trying to score from first, and regardless of how accurate/strong the outfielders arm is, the ball is almost always off target. Catcher has to play it near the mound, or if it does get there in time, he drops it in front of him. Or a slow runner trying to turn a single into a double/double into a triple, the throw is always offline/dropped/double clutched and late. Another thing. Has anyone else noticed that no hitters/perfect games always seem to be lost in the seventh inning due to a bunt single/dribbler down the line/pop up that drops? These things just seem like regular occurrences for me. Maybe I'm paranoid. Or just bad at the game I guess. I'm on hall of fame, default sliders.

I felt this way in 16 as well. Was the first time I did.

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[CujoMatty]

re: MLB The Show 17 Impressions

Well, 2K did quite a bit before others. They started the analog play, like, a decade ago with hitting. They added fielding a couple of years later. They had analog pitching starting in '10 maybe? It was also implemented in a much more fun way than The Show does it (though this game is more predictable in its behaviors). They started the collectible card stuff back in '08. And as for terrible servers, 2K had that years before The Show! It was almost a national day of remembrance when the servers worked for a full day.

Pretty sure the NCAA MVP after they lost the MLB license was the first baseball game to use analog stick hitting. I could be wrong I just remember that blew my mind and seemed so simple and intuitive that I couldn't believe no one had thought of it earlier. I will say that I was a big fan of 2k's pitching mechanic with the analog motions.

[Steven78]

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Pretty sure the NCAA MVP after they lost the MLB license was the first baseball game to use analog stick hitting. I could be wrong I just remember that blew my mind and seemed so simple and intuitive that I couldn't believe no one had thought of it earlier. I will say that I was a big fan of 2k's pitching mechanic with the analog motions.

Rock n fire pitching?

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