The commentary still needs work

[mlblover15]

Re: The commentary still needs work

the repeating is worse than ever.. seems like the scripts are shorter or coding screwed up or something... it is bad..

[jeffy777]

Re: The commentary still needs work

I am 100% in agreement that the long, drawn out stories and explanations add absolutely nothing. It's just white noise meant to fill dead air. Worse, it gets very, very repetitive.

Personally, I would rather have one single play-by-play guy describing the action before or as it happens ("Sale with the 2-1 pitch... fastball in for a strike." "Ground ball, past a diving Lindor and through into left field.") and adding some relevant information to that play-by-play. ("That brings up Pedroia, who homered in yesterday's game.")

I don't understand the complaints about dead air. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but the inane, useless chatter during the game drives me nuts. There doesn't need to be commentary after every pitch or even every out. I used to mute the other announcers as, after a few months in my franchise, I can't stand their canned lines. Remember "MEAT!"? Ugh. Too bad that option was removed.



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Yes, this is why i'm extremely disappointed they removed the option to mute individual commentators this year. After awhile, I only want play-by-play because everything else grows stale.

[videobastard]

Re: The commentary still needs work

With the addition of harold reynolds that would of been the ideal time to bring on a new play by play guy to pair with reynolds and have them record together in the same room. But they already had extended matt v to stay on.

If the developers once harold reynolds was on board tell matt v were going with a new recording style with both of you recording together to have a more fluid experience, they could of at least had the new recording style implemented to go off of going forward.

There is different variations to the matt v commentary. There are recorded sequences where he sounds like he had sinus issues at the time of recording, and the other normal sequences where its just a dull monotone voice. At the least a re do of matt v's play by play recording would of been improvement.



I cant bare to listen to the commentary on. I tried to test it on with historic rosters to see what names would be called but i had to turn it off. When you hear the audio calls during the main menu between songs it drives home how bad the in game commentary sounds in comparison.

[Crawdad7000]

Re: The commentary still needs work

The commentary hasn't changed at all, all they did was change the voice. Its still just as bad as ever, which is disappointing.

Like Blzer said, they need shorter lines. That is part of the problem.

The other problem is that too many lines are centered around irrelevant things, like a pitch that was just thrown, and not enough lines are centered around important things, like the score, win streaks, current standings, pitchers coming back from injury, etc...

Real announcers don't have 3 minute dialogues over every pitch and swing.

Real announcers also don't keep talking about the previous at bat while the next batter is swinging at a pitch. Drives me nuts. LOL.

[KnightTemplar]

Re: The commentary still needs work

One man booth. I have no idea why they need 3. It isn't working, imo.

[sportdan30]

Re: The commentary still needs work

One man booth. I have no idea why they need 3. It isn't working, imo.

At worse, have a two man booth. The three man booth in this game does not work. There's simply not enough lines to go around.

The commentary is improved, but still very poor to how it should be after all these versions.

[gamer052001]

Re: The commentary still needs work

Maybe this is an unrealistic idea, but I've always wished they could get all the local announcers in the game. For example, when you play in San Francisco, Krukow and Kuiper would do the game. You could add the ESPN and/or MLB Network guys for national games sprinkled throughout the year as well.

In franchise you'd have all your home games with the same local announcers like Kruk & Kuip in SF (except for national games) and on the road you'd have that team's local play-by-play announcers do the game.

That would keep things fresh with having so many different voices. I know it would be a big undertaking to get them all to do it, but it would be amazing!

Edit: this idea was brought up on page 2. Still love the idea!