MLB 12 The Show Screenshots - Your New Default Camera View and Other Tidbits

[EnigmaNemesis]

Put in anything and everything you want...just allow us to toggle things on and off...including graphics.

The focus groups may be single year buyers or skip years. The audience here buys every year. Options and toggle on/off is the way to satisfy everyone.

They hear you. They are just saying "not this year more than likely", because they are in the bug and polish phase.

[Knight165]

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This is something I also want to know. Was there a cut-off date on that thread when you stopped with the requests? Just wondering if my name will make it in.

By the way, sorry for everyone's nitpickiness. You guys do a great job, and it's amazing to see you guys actually communicating with your fans on forums like this one. I personally can't wait for MLB 12.

I don't know if they added names this year or not....and I don't know if they had an actual cut-off date. That thread was kind of a "can't hurt" to compile it if they could get Matt the time to do it.

M.K.
Knight165

[decga]

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I have been reading some of these posts. This thread is an attention grabber. Some of the things that you guys called your opinion is rudeness and I perceived that way. I mean you guys are going out the way to say your not buying the game. That is your preference, but it won't matter the Show still has a million of us that will. So go check out MLB 2K products and I am sure you already have. It very nice game. It reminds you that you are watching ESPN Baseball Tonight. I take Tarzan(the Show) over Jane(MLB 2k) anyday....

[RedK]

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The 2K baseball games are terrible. I gotta see some gameplay for the show before i change my mind from a wait for the price to go down to a day one buy. So far there hasn't been enough for me to change yet.

[mjsonoma01]

I would like to think I am very passionate about the franchise mode. I play that mode from launch until launch. I do sim franchises as well as play out games....

I have found faults in the system and have mentioned them here, but the one thing that if you read my posts, I have said repeatedly...Is that the Foundation is here and makes this THE BEST FRANCHISE MODE AVAILABLE for any sport. Tighten them up add a little here or there.

Sure there are things that I would think would be cool if added, but to say it needs MASSIVE changes is false. I know alot of people were on board for a WHOLE new franchise mode. That scares me!! We know what we have now. When you make wholesale changes to anything and a problem arises there are many many many more variables to find the cause.

Saying nothing new was added last year....Trust me, some new things were added last year. I love the achievements section in franchise mode and I believe that is a start to bigger things.(I have no inside info) I thought trading was improved. More trades happened closer to deadline and many fewer earlier in the season.

Room to improve? Sure, but come on how can anyone program for human decisions? We talk all the time about certain players should never be traded or play for another team. I always counter with Griffey and A-Rod being traded. Pujols just left...etc. I like that it is in the game.

I hope that when I get to CD that I get a chance to, like I do every launch with the game, just sim and tinker with franchise mode until my eyes hurt. and I know they want to iron out the bugs and I am sure that most of them already have been.

I have been satisfied with the game last year and even with some workarounds it never detracted from my enjoyment.

And from reading here I see some new features that excite me with the Vita and the Show.

I trust in the direction that the Show has gone and honestly who can ever say they have not gotten their monies worth?

All I really want to be fixed in franchise is two thing. 1) Teams need to not go broke after 5 years because all these arbitration eligible players with ZERO major league service time making 5+ million dollars resulting in Felix Hernandez being a free agent in 2015 with no teams able to afford him. 2) the trade logic is unsatisfactory. I dont care that "Arod" or "Griffey" get traded, i am concerend with what they are traded for and the frequency with which trades take place. The Show 09 had it right.

Any word on those specific areas being worked on? Thanks.

[Pared]

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Enough about 2k's baseball game. Back on topic please.

[mjsonoma01]

The one request on this site that I have read all too often is the one where people ask for more batting glove options, more hairstyles, more jewelery, more shoes, different bats, socks, glasses, signature gear, face paint,,,,,the list goes on and on. To all those people I say this, send me your address and I will send you all my daughters old barbie dolls. Lets fix baseball issues in the game and quit playing dress up.

[Knight165]

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Since I'm more of a MoM player, most of the OSD's in the form you see in the pics don't apply to my mode of play so I'm just asking...

Can't you....
-turn of the baserunning windows
-have no feedback on the swing analysis
-shut off the strike zone and h/c zones
-guess pitch off(is there a no feedback on this one too?)

Wouldn't that just leave the pitch selection screen and the swing choice option on display?

M.K.
Knight165

[tnixen]

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The one request on this site that I have read all too often is the one where people ask for more batting glove options, more hairstyles, more jewelery, more shoes, different bats, socks, glasses, signature gear, face paint,,,,,the list goes on and on. To all those people I say this, send me your address and I will send you all my daughters old barbie dolls. Lets fix baseball issues in the game and quit playing dress up.

If people want to dress up the players with all kinds of accessories what's so wrong with that?

Everybody likes different things. And no matter what people keep requesting all the "baseball issues" what ever they may be do get worked on every year!

One has nothing to do with the other!

[southoakland16]

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By in no means am I trying to bash a great game like The Show. My problem with some people is that year in and year out we get a franchise that has MAJOR flaws, and we have to use numerous workarounds. THAT IS NOT FUN! Yet we continue to have the same problems year in and year out... I'm sure I will get bashed, but IDGF

[Blzer]

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As far as the new batting camera goes, I'll give it a whirl, but chances are I will try and recreate my MLB 11 camera angle. I do wish we could change the depth of field ourselves, but as Russell put it, it's not as easy as just "adding in the option." Hopefully there are a couple of more presets that bring us even closer to the action (pitcher and rest of the field is closer in a smaller field of vision) that I would probably work with.

The one request on this site that I have read all too often is the one where people ask for more batting glove options, more hairstyles, more jewelery, more shoes, different bats, socks, glasses, signature gear, face paint,,,,,the list goes on and on. To all those people I say this, send me your address and I will send you all my daughters old barbie dolls. Lets fix baseball issues in the game and quit playing dress up.

Are you implying that your daughter would play MLB The Show if these customization options were in the game?

[MLB Bob]

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Why does every info thread turn into a Q and A thread and people complaining about what wasnt mentioned or what hasnt changed? There are threads for that here, more so than most games. Respond to the features that are being discussed and released.

And to say that you're just tired of other people defending the game blindly...a lot of it is people using these threads properly and discussing or stating wheather they like a feature or not that has just been released ..its not letting other "flaws" slip by. but maybe it's because some crazy fan has already beaten it to death in every other info thread that turned in to a rant on whats wrong and/or hijacking it to go on about what features arent included before even half the features are released yet, all under the guise of informing people because it yet again was over looked.

Honestly, maybe Russel can say, how many things were over looked or fell through the cracks that wasnt brought up in the bug threads in proper manner and was truly fixed because a "fan" repeated their buying habits and ultimatums and dire concerns for something so simple that surely it could be fixed?

I personally dont like the idea of a pitcher to be farther away. Thats part of the intimidation of a 6'7+ pitcher on a mound he is close and towering, if you need more time to react guess better or slow the pitch down..but we have custom camera angles.

Also I like the idea of less displays but also like the fewer button presses/menu screens..I do wish for a pitch counter tho, sportsnet on rogers doesnt and Im always wondering what it is..I spend a lot of time looking at pitch counts so i can work starters.

[SoxFan01605]

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Since I'm more of a MoM player, most of the OSD's in the form you see in the pics don't apply to my mode of play so I'm just asking...

Can't you....
-turn of the baserunning windows
-have no feedback on the swing analysis
-shut off the strike zone and h/c zones
-guess pitch off(is there a no feedback on this one too?)

Wouldn't that just leave the pitch selection screen and the swing choice option on display?

M.K.
Knight165

Yes. That (for me, at least) is part of the frustration as there are options to turn some, but not all of it off.

I won't speak for anyone else, but for me, I've asked in the past for an option to turn off all of it (including pitch selection and swing choice). So when I saw there was actually more added to the screen while still not having the option to turn certain things off, I was a bit disappointed.

Now to clarify (since a lot of liberties are being taken in response to those who have pointed out such things) I am not saying this is a huge deal, not threatening to not buy the game, nor am I harping on it. I am simply responding to Knight's question and explaining that it's not a new request for me.

[Blzer]

Re: MLB 12 The Show Screenshots - Your New Default Camera View and Other Tidbits

Since I'm more of a MoM player, most of the OSD's in the form you see in the pics don't apply to my mode of play so I'm just asking...

Can't you....
-turn of the baserunning windows
-have no feedback on the swing analysis
-shut off the strike zone and h/c zones
-guess pitch off(is there a no feedback on this one too?)

Wouldn't that just leave the pitch selection screen and the swing choice option on display?

M.K.
Knight165

Yup! I turn them off myself, actually.

You'll notice that the big thing is when you watch the graphics appear/disappear on the screen. It's like, even if the small swing type graphic was the only thing on the screen, seeing it come on and off is almost every bit as distracting as having everything on the screen.

I'm not saying this is my problem, I'm just saying that I've seen it before with nothing on the screen, and it looks beautiful. If you go into your XMB after a pitch and wait for the post-pitch animations to play out, the game will freeze when it's ready to load up all of the icons. Back out of the XMB, and for the next pitch, you won't see anything on screen. This isn't always true for MLB 11 (sometimes the grayed out pitch options pop back up after the pitcher selects his pitch), but this was the case in MLB 10.

Anyway, just something to look forward to next year.

[ARoid1313]

Have there been any changes to the fielding cameras?