Re: My Final Take on MLB The Show 17 - from a Critical Standpoint
I don't think any of my ideas would suggest I'm looking for an arcade experience. I'm simply looking for an experience that MY SKILLS dictate. I personally don't want to play a game in which so much is dictated by the game because . . . it feels scripted. I'm not in control. I could just as easily watch baseball because I'm not in control of that either. I want my user input, my skill, to dictate the results with the ratings coming into play via ease of meter use and PCI size. Why on earth would anyone want to play a game in which so much is dictated to them in an effort to obtain realistic stats? What good are realistic stats if they were fabricated by unrealistic events and dictated results?
I'm not looking for an arcade experience at all. I'm looking for an experience in which realism occurs due to ratings AS WELL AS my user skills. But I want my skills to dictate more. I want it to be possible to take the San Diego Padres to the World Series on Legend if I'm that good at the game. That's the way it should be. The way it is now, it's literally impossible to succeed with a poor team on higher difficulty levels because it's dictated that those teams aren't good and therefore won't succeed regardless of user input. That simply isn't realistic to me.
Another very good point that I missed. So many times I've had a runner on second, hit a sharp single to right, and the runner on second (even though I have running on MANUAL) runs back to second and cannot advance to third. How many times in real baseball have you seen a runner on second not advance to THIRD on a single??? It just adds to the belief that too many results are dictated by the game and it totally ruins the immersion factor for me. I see no reason to play a game in which results are dictated based on ratings and in which user input can at times be largely ignored because . . . the game said so.
I don't think any of my ideas would suggest I'm looking for an arcade experience. I'm simply looking for an experience that MY SKILLS dictate. I personally don't want to play a game in which so much is dictated by the game because . . . it feels scripted. I'm not in control. I could just as easily watch baseball because I'm not in control of that either. I want my user input, my skill, to dictate the results with the ratings coming into play via ease of meter use and PCI size. Why on earth would anyone want to play a game in which so much is dictated to them in an effort to obtain realistic stats? What good are realistic stats if they were fabricated by unrealistic events and dictated results?
I'm not looking for an arcade experience at all. I'm looking for an experience in which realism occurs due to ratings AS WELL AS my user skills. But I want my skills to dictate more. I want it to be possible to take the San Diego Padres to the World Series on Legend if I'm that good at the game. That's the way it should be. The way it is now, it's literally impossible to succeed with a poor team on higher difficulty levels because it's dictated that those teams aren't good and therefore won't succeed regardless of user input. That simply isn't realistic to me.
Another very good point that I missed. So many times I've had a runner on second, hit a sharp single to right, and the runner on second (even though I have running on MANUAL) runs back to second and cannot advance to third. How many times in real baseball have you seen a runner on second not advance to THIRD on a single??? It just adds to the belief that too many results are dictated by the game and it totally ruins the immersion factor for me. I see no reason to play a game in which results are dictated based on ratings and in which user input can at times be largely ignored because . . . the game said so.
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