MLB The Show 21 Impressions Thread

[IHateDuke32]

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I love the Show 21, I have it for both PS5 and XSX. For some reason I like playing it on the XSX.

Every time I sit down to play, I can’t decide which console to fire up lol. Just hoping they fix the lighting in the parks that look super dark, that’s my only gripe with the game so far. But I’ll honestly probably platinum the game on PS5 and then get 1000 gamer score on Series X. I’ve never platinumed a sports game before, but this one is very doable.

[DamnYanks2]

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Haha ain’t that the truth. Love the ‘run’ the Yankees are on . It’s a great game but the commentary is just off. Almost sounds like they added Matt in to existing commentary as his tone changes.

Commentary needs a complete overhaul. It's kind of embarrassing. Some of those lines have been in the game since 06 and they don't communicate with each other very much. I just kind of ignore it now. At least they have SOTS.

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[CBoller1331]

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I have not played with pin-point pitching. Does it include a feature in the mechanic to differentiate good, average, poor pitchers?

I’ve used meter in the past and the feature is basically the same for every pitcher.

Thanks!

If I understand it correctly, the mechanic is the same for every pitcher regardless of rating, but the speed of the delivery impacts the timing for each gesture.

However the "Perfect Accuracy Region (PAR)", or the area where the pitch can go if you have a perfect input, does change based on the control rating of each pitch. So pitchers with better control will have a smaller PAR and pitchers with poor control will have a larger PAR

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[ryanmc564]

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Finally got a game in (PS5 edition). And i simply can't believe SDS choose to gloss over the Next-Gen stream. All the improvements and upgrades i've seen just playing one game, are worth enough to talk about. Some players head scans are crazy good looking and the facial expressions add so much more life into the players. Seeing Alex Reyes literally sweating it out on the mound in a jam trying to close it out in the 9th looked and felt next-gen, accompany that with the new gesture pitching, made for some good dramatic baseball.

In my opinion its a good start graphically (wasn't expecting to see a huge difference the first year, but surprised with the difference we got), some players desperately need new head scans because the old ones don't carry a torch to the new ones (looking at you Goldy). But with some upgrades and refinements to player models, throw in player collision and jersey movement (but better) like 2k had and a bit of adjustments to lighting, this game will finally look like it took the leap into next-gen.

Also, Gesture pitching is where its at, makes pitching feel more real and intense and probably helps with making the game feel a bit more next-gen to me with it being a new addition this year even though its on all systems. Its a bit difficult at first because its not totally clear that you have to move the thumb stick down back in the direction/location you want to throw the pitch (kind of a blink and you missed it on the graphic), but by the 4th inning I was flipping some PERFECT curve balls in there for strikes.

I don't know what was all improved on for the last-gen version, but I can happily say I'm good with i got on the ps5.

[CujoMatty]

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Now that I've got almost a full week of playing here is my final impressions:

-Graphically the game looks beautiful. There are some minor lighting issues that I'm sure will be patched. For example Texas. Somethings going on there and its not just a "too dark" issue. There is a weird splotch between the pitcher and batter while pitching that comes and goes after you select the pitch. Also if you have the opening week graphics by the sideline in that stadium they are not lighting correctly. The white lettering is almost black. I noticed a similar issue with jersey logos in the create uniform screen, when you select "shiny".

-Diamiond Dynasty. Never really been into it but out of any card collecting modes in sports games, I get the appeal of it. I messed around a bit and with the faster load times its kinda fun. Could see myself messing with it a bit this year.

RTTS. I like the direction its going. The load outs and perks are a cool feature but I'm still trying to figure it out. It seems like I have to activate each loadout if I am pitching vs being a hitter. If I just switch loadouts my guy is OK at one but terrible at the other. If I activate I can be good at both. I'm sure I'm just not understanding something but its convoluted. Also the grind is real. I have only ever gotten very deep into RTTS once and that was years ago. I just struggle with the long grind only to have to start over again. If they don't fix or tweak progression it will take forever to get any good. I will say tgat the addition of pin point pitching and being a two way player has brought a lot of life to this mode. I actually prefer pitching now with pin point so the repetition of RTTS is alleviated. I can see myself spending a lot of time with RTTS this year.

-Franchise. My main mode. It is what it is. Its functional and has always been good, its just stale and needs some love. When the gameplay is as good as it is, franchise in its current state is acceptable to me.

-March to October. Gotta be honest, with every thing there is to do, I kinda forgot this existed lol. Don't see myself spending any time with this mode.

- No SOTS. SOTS would put this game over the top. I built the packs here on OS for a number of years so you can imagine how much of a bummer it is custom SOTS is gone. tgat being said they did do a good job of ambient sounds and the actual walk-up and in between innings music all feels appropriate and they nailed the reverb this year.

-Year to year saves. I never really used it. I always prefer having scans over CAPS and that was a huge hurdle for me in Y2Y. That being said, it would be crushing to have it gone if I was deeply time committed to a franchise. It might honestly even be a deal breaker. Hopefully it returns soon.

-Dual Sense controller. Here is the brilliance of the Dual Sense, if you are thinking about it, its kinda "thats it?" but in reality its just quietly adding subtleties and immersion, kind of like ambient noise you don't really notice. Thats what I like about it. The pop of the catchers mit. The heartbeat under pressure. Sliding. It all translates really well with the dual sense and in a non aware subtle way. None of it is better than the perfect perfect hit. I love how they play out with the Dual Sense.

Bat sounds. The more I play the more I like. When I think back to last year, they were kind of over the top. I think this years are more in line with what I hear on TV or when I'm at a game. Some situations could probably use tweaking though.

Announcers: Not great. I'm sure there were challenges with covid. Announcers sound really disjointed, tingy at times, different volumes. Lines are repetitive. not enough color commentating. Baseball is long and drawn out. We need NBA 2K type commentating please. Talk about the league, new rules, old rules, events tgat have happened, player stories. Its serviceable but in all honesty its pretty bad when you think about it.

- Pitching. Pin point more specifically. Simply this is my favorite thing ever added. I didn't think it could get better than the 2K mechanic but they improved on it in every way and so smartly too. The timing part is amazing and makes sense. Then going to the top to aim and finally nailing the release with a timing circle is brilliant. Having it all make sense and play out in meaningful ways if you miss is so important and they nailed it. In years past, if I missed the spot on the meter, it felt fairly random where I would miss. More often then not it was a meat ball and user walks were virtually non existent. I love being able to fire curves into the dirt with better accuracy and purpose, watching a batter flail and strike out.

-Fielding. The drift track or whatever its called, also is extremely well done and adds depth to the usual routine fielding. The only thing I wish is they would give methe ability to turn off the yellow ball trail as it would add another layer of difficulty. Fielding in general though is smooth and well done. Feels the best its been.

-Hitting.
Subtle changes here. I play zone analog with stride from broadcast cam. It seems much more difficult to get contact unless you line up the pci which is a much welcomed challenge. I hated in the past making consistent contact on balls you were not even close on. Also the timing window seems smaller which adds challenge. Not a homerun fest this year and I like hitting being harder. I love broadcast cam as I am a clean screen as close to what I see on TV kinda guy. I would love for them to add an option to turn off the pitcher grip like when you play online. I try really hard not to look but sometimes my eyes wander and I catch a look at whats coming.

I just played the game 3 days straight, like not even stopping for anything but to eat and sleep(my wife is an angel). This is not only the best baseball game I've ever played, I think this is my favorite sports game ever played. It has some issues for sure but nothing that grossly takes away from a stellar experience. Like the rest of us, I'm sick of this pandemic and sick of being stuck at home. This game couldn't have come a long at a better time. So much fun.

[baseballguy99]

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I've been very negative in general about 21. Y2Y and no SOTS is brutal.. Franchise "improvements" are suspect.. with that said I've been playing more and have to say this is the best the game has played. Batting is more difficult which is very welcomed change, not every hit is a homerun as that was a major issue for me on default in 20. PLEASE SDS dont ruin it with a patch to make easier, people can move down difficulty if they have issue lol

Im now getting the hand of pin point pitching on legend and Im really starting to enjoy it. It feels rewarding when you strike out a batter and the CPU appears to have a more potent offence when hanging pitches. I just lost to the Cardinals 8-1 and I happy about it!

Please fix the PS4 SOTS bug, and give me the option for the HR camera and my take on 21 will only get better

[hyacinth1]

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Just downloaded the Xbox One Gamepass version and seeing what people are saying about the framerate on xbox one being pretty bad. Any fix for this? And I'm talking about offline too.

[apclr]

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Got this game and played a game and my biggest quam so far is that I can't see the entire ticker at the bottom of my tv. Is the only solution to get a bigger tv? Awesome. I tried all of the camera angles and none of them works. No load time or frame rate issues for me though on xbox.

[ThrowBack]

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I played a bit on Xbox Series X after playing extensively on the PS5 this weekend. A few things I noticed right off the bat...

Input lag on Xbox is significantly better than PS5. I'm guessing this has to do with Xbox having auto low-latency mode. Sony needs to get this feature working on their console ASAP.

Framerate for cutscenes is significantly worse on Xbox.

[BigOscar]

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Very first impressions are that this game is pretty offensive to the senses. Straight away you're hit with a ton of pretty unhelpful menus and options, which look like something out of a default created website, all while being bombarded with loud obnoxious music. Even in game the music constantly breaks in as well, while the menu navigation is pretty awful. I'm sure I'll get used to it and also turn off all the music, but it's probably the ugliest UI I can recall the SHow having, while the music seems even more in your face than normal?

Only played a couple of moments, but visually on Xbox Series X it looks pretty much just like the Show 20 but with slightly different lighting. You could tell me it's the same game and I wouldn't be surprised. Hopefully the gameplay is an improvement, as otherwise, this looks like a very sideways at best entry

[apclr]

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Very first impressions are that this game is pretty offensive to the senses. Straight away you're hit with a ton of pretty unhelpful menus and options, which look like something out of a default created website, all while being bombarded with loud obnoxious music. Even in game the music constantly breaks in as well, while the menu navigation is pretty awful. I'm sure I'll get used to it and also turn off all the music, but it's probably the ugliest UI I can recall the SHow having, while the music seems even more in your face than normal?

Only played a couple of moments, but visually on Xbox Series X it looks pretty much just like the Show 20 but with slightly different lighting. You could tell me it's the same game and I wouldn't be surprised. Hopefully the gameplay is an improvement, as otherwise, this looks like a very sideways at best entry

I have to agree with you on the location of the menus. Even in the past you had to scroll all the way to the right to access menus and this time around the drop down menus are located in places that don't make much sense at all..

[RunN1st]

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Just downloaded the Xbox One Gamepass version and seeing what people are saying about the framerate on xbox one being pretty bad. Any fix for this? And I'm talking about offline too.

Is this happening even after the game fully installs? Keep in mind, the game will let you play as it installs but the frame rate is bad as the game runs the install to completion.

[Archie56]

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So I have both the PS5 and Series X versions, and I have noticed that the PS5 version plays alot smoother. Framerate on the Series X dips alot during hits down the line and quite a bit during cut scenes. Anybody else notice that too? Hopefully that is something that can be patched for Xbox in the near future.

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[apclr]

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Am I the only person that plays the game in Fast Mode? All the in game animations and cut scenes do nothing for me except slow the game down and make it unnecessarily longer.

[hyacinth1]

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Is this happening even after the game fully installs? Keep in mind, the game will let you play as it installs but the frame rate is bad as the game runs the install to completion.

ya even after full game installs. i have it on an external hd, would moving it to internal hd help much?