MLB The Show 20 Review: A Worthy Sendoff For This Generation

[knucklecutter]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Review: A Worthy Sendoff For This Generation

Yeah, it's not the people that commentate that are the problem, it's that historically video game commentary is extremely limited and the end result is that it becomes very repetitive. Whoever ends up being the commentary team next year, they need to record 10 times the amount of audio.

[csamuelsvt]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Review: A Worthy Sendoff For This Generation

@csamuelsvt You lost me at "NHL."

EA Vancouver hung on to Gary Thorne and Bill Clement until they had pretty much no choice but to switch crews on the NBC rebrand. Thorne and Clement didn't sound bad per se, the community just wanted different voices. The result? Way too much Doc Emmerick, who is an acquired taste even when he's calling a LIVE game. And video game commentary? *facepalm*

So this year, with the NBC agreement having run its course, they decided to go with a different crew, and even invited guest commentary from such noted hockey experts as Snoop Dog, Will Ferrell, and Drake...? Wait, what?

Be careful what you wish for, and don't be so quick to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

With an established cast, you can add new lines to the database without having to rebuild all the commentary from scratch. Bring in a new cast, and you have to start all over from nothing. Pick the wrong cast, and you could spend YEARS trying to get the commentary back to what it was.

Love him or hate him, Matty V is the straw that stirs the drink right now. And starting over with a brand new voice cast is a gamble. With the series shifting to a new hardware generation, I'd expect he stays put for now, until the franchise is established next gen.

Eh, i'm a big Devils fan and Eddie and Doc sounded nothing like they did in real life. With the new guy, I enjoy him and his enthusiasm and Ray Ferraro is pretty good. The guest commentary stuff is not what I'm referring to. That's catered towards kids and stuff and what's "cool" to do, granted it's good to appeal to different audiences.



Matt has been good for the series no doubt, but what better way to head into next gen than with a new cast. The commentary is repetitive and stale to the point, as soon as a line starts, most people I know who play this series can say the exact line he's about to say. Been playing since the PS2 days, it's extremely repetitive.



Give me the 2K baseball commentary(Thorne was great in that with Phillips and Kreuk) on top of the Show's gameplay, and boy would we have something.


Again, just my opinion on the commentary, and one that I know many share.

[csamuelsvt]

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Yeah, it's not the people that commentate that are the problem, it's that historically video game commentary is extremely limited and the end result is that it becomes very repetitive. Whoever ends up being the commentary team next year, they need to record 10 times the amount of audio.

Agree 100%. Definitely need more lines. They also need someone who can bring more excitement if they move to someone else. When you hit that game tying home run in the 9th, give us someone that brings it.



Matt does it on ESPN all the time. I remember a poster who listened to one of his games and said "What is this? Where is this in the Show!?"


I believe a developer even came on here and said they tried to get Matt to be more excited recording lines. There are a couple of lines where you'll hit a home run and he says "GONE!" but they're few and far between.

[adambaseball]

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In the past we could turn off individual broadcasters, right? I like Matt and it’s nice to have some play by play. But Derosa is awful to listen to no matter what he’s saying, and I’d love the option to turn just him off again. I just go commentary off and enjoy the ballpark sounds. Also, I LOVED Gary Thorne in the NHL series. He had/has the perfect voice for it.

[AUTiger1]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Review: A Worthy Sendoff For This Generation

Love the game this year, but with regards to the commentary, enough is enough. It's time for a new commentary team once and for all. I, and many others, can call out most of the commentary lines as they've been pretty much the same for many years.


If the NHL team, Madden team, etc can do it, MLB can as well. I know there's a relationship with Matt, but the commentary is so incredibly dated.



Need a guy with more emotion(Been saying this year after year). Nothing worse than coming up in a big spot and then hearing Matt just lazily read his line with zero emotion behind it. Completely ruins immersion.

It's made even worse because in real life Matty V is one of the best in the business and has plenty of emotion. But he is so dead in the game.

[AUTiger1]

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Agree 100%. Definitely need more lines. They also need someone who can bring more excitement if they move to someone else. When you hit that game tying home run in the 9th, give us someone that brings it.



Matt does it on ESPN all the time. I remember a poster who listened to one of his games and said "What is this? Where is this in the Show!?"


I believe a developer even came on here and said they tried to get Matt to be more excited recording lines. There are a couple of lines where you'll hit a home run and he says "GONE!" but they're few and far between.

If people want over the top excitement like Gus Johnson then they should go with Chip Caray.

[sheredia]

can't wait for this to come out for xbox one.....it's about time.