In reading these posts, it seems like there are two distinct camps of unsatisfied customers:
1) those that are worried about gameplay (they say it's too arcadish, the AI aggressiveness at bat, lack of walks when CPU pitches, timing for the cursor hitting, 1st baseman errors, franchise bugs, inadequate sliders, ect.)
and
2) those worried about some form of visual miscue (incorrect fonts/shades of color on uniforms, missing patches/badges on uniforms, empty restaurants at stadiums, player faces that look inaccurate compared to The Show's, missing clock hands on stadium clock, lack of customizable accessories;
(editing batting stances and windups falls somewhere in between the two i think, although I still don't think they have a large impact on gameplay)
Which do you fall into? I know there will be overlap of people who say the want both (we all do), but which is the most important to you as a video game consumer?
I'll come out and say, while I truly don't mean to offend anyone, it baffles me how many posts I've seen where people are fuming because the alternate away helmets have the wrong shade of blue, ect. I just don't see why that would get anyone so worked up. After all, it's a baseball game, so shouldn't the gameplay come first? Isn't that kind of detail better served by a hobby such as figurine collection, or the like? I'll be the first to admit I am not a diehard baseball fan, so maybe that's my problem, but are these details really worth more than things like realistic box scores and balanced gaming mechanics?
So what do you think? I'm either going to find out that I'm the lone idiot who just doesn't get it, or hopefully find out that most of us want to see the series focus on gameplay first, then details.
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