Commentary repetition

[Caulfield]

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Doesnt Madden have updated commentary you have to download each day?Why dont they do that?

Football commentary in a baseball game?

[Drty_Windshield]

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They seriously need to increase the total amount of audio clips. I'm talking like 10 times as much audio or more.

[Blzer]

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I'm tellin' ya, they gotta go the "Madlibs" approach of stitching in frames of sentences just like they do with player and team names.

[Gagnon39]

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I once was an adventurer like you, until I took an..... contract set to expire at the end of the season...


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[Drty_Windshield]

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I once was an adventurer like you, until I took an..... contract set to expire at the end of the season...


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That was a worm burner...

[Bremser_Rules]

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That was a worm burner...

Blah blah blah four pitch repertoire blah blah blah

[Detroit Tigers]

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I lasted about three games with the commentary. “Okay, I’ve heard enough.”

I do pop it back on here and there, maybe once every eighth game or so, but that’s just to switch things up. For me it’s less about it being repetitive and more that I just don’t think it sounds any good. Take FIFA for contrast: that commentary sucks by all accounts, and is way more repetitive than this game, but it sounds fantastic so it doesn’t bother me at all. Or MLB 2K7 if you remember that commentary, same thing, where I’m sure it was every bit as repetitive as this game if not more so, but it sounded amazing so it didn’t matter.


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[ElvisP41174]

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I thought you guys said commentary is better then 17. I am hearing alot of complaints. Why are you guys defending this game. All I see is new threaded poping up about things that are wrong with this game. Lol

[Caulfield]

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I am hearing alot of complaints. Why are you guys defending this game.

It does do most things right but it also has its flaws. Commentary just isn't it's strength. If it was perfect we'd have to put it on a cross.

[dickey1331]

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I thought you guys said commentary is better then 17. I am hearing alot of complaints. Why are you guys defending this game. All I see is new threaded poping up about things that are wrong with this game. Lol

You could have a perfect game and people would still complain. I’m not saying the game is perfect but welcome to Internet forums.


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[Bunselpower32]

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You know, the more I play without commentary, the more I like it. It felt really weird at first, but now it just feels immersive, like I'm on the field.

Besides, the game is way better without Pleasac yakking in my ear telling me he didn't understand what I was waiting for on that strike when the strike was literally right on the corner, and the commentary in my head is way more dynamic and interesting anyways.

100%. Last year I turned it off, and it was awesome (plus I can now turn on the Cardinals game and not have The Show yakking at me).

I think that's a big thing, if I don't hear Dan McLaughlin or Mike Shannon or the great, great John Rooney, it's not immersive to me anyway because I listen to commentary for the Cardinals all the time. Heck, with MLB TV I now listen to everyone else's commentators as well.

I heard Reynolds say the same thing 3 games in a row (the first 3 of my franchise) for the lineup breakdown, and I knew I had to do something. Turned it off, included Sounds of The Show, and it's like I'm there. If anyone is going to go no commentary, please visit the sounds of the show thread and set that up. My goodness, it is fantastic.

Listened to 3 games of commentary this year, heard the same things in a row, and promptly turned it off, not because they don't do a great job with commentary (they do), it's just that for me, no commentary gets me immersed so much more.


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[kenp86]

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I just mute it. Better that way. Can listen to any of the podcasts i listen to, sports radio or music.

[dougdeuce]

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I thought you guys said commentary is better then 17. I am hearing alot of complaints. Why are you guys defending this game. All I see is new threaded poping up about things that are wrong with this game. Lol

I really didn't start this thread as a complaint, but it's the internet so people ran with it. I was more trying to offer a solution to a problem that plagues most sports games.

I think if there was just a way to prevent certain lines of dialogue from running in back to back to back to back games it would go a long way towards improving it. For example, the player to look out for at the beginning. Today it's going to be Brian Dozier and his immaculate hair. That's fine. But since that ran, tick a box that says it's not available for 6 games in the commentary engine. Now we've run out of players with specific audio? Ok, have a few lines that talk about generic aspects. "This lineup is really struggling to hit as a team the last week, hitting just over .200 collectively. They're going to need a couple players to step up today if they want to get the bats going"

I'm sure there's plenty there to play with, I just don't wan't to hear the same "story line" or player to watch for in every game of my franchise.

[Bremser_Rules]

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The ironic thing in all this is that the more commentary they add the more it seems repetitive due to the uniqueness of the commentary. Nobody notices how many times you hear “three balls two strikes” because it’s a necessity. However when describing “the unique stylings of Hunter Pence...” it really gets old.

[franch1se]

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Eric hosmer is the guy everyone in the club house gravitates to.

Insert any hit streak number. He's also doing it with pop, not just seeing eye singles

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