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Originally Posted by soldaderyan |
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Hello guys, ive always been a 2k guy because I had 360, NOW im getting a ps4 mainly for The Show 15.
But im starting to doubt about getting the game, a have never played a single inning in the show, but im worried about the fact that the game seems almost unchanged since 08 or something, for me the game is just a eye candy nothing more, the game lacks immersion with the lack of stats or franchise depth, fake contracts, messed up budgets, wierd retirings, they just add superficial stuff, forgetting the most important part of the game, the stats, milestones, injuries, contracts, budgets...
Plz guys tell me if im wrong, maybe you can change my mind!
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Let me give you my MLB: The Show testimony.
I've played just about every baseball video game that's ever existed. I remember playing it on an Apple computer back in the day when the screen was black and everything else was green. No real players, no real teams, nothing. I played Baseball Stars, Bases Loaded, Tony Larussa, you name it. I always enjoyed it and each year games seemed to get better and better. I remember Sports Talk Baseball, oh, how cool it was that they had announcers. And then came the love of my life, MVP Baseball 2005. The greatest sports game ever... for a little while. But after 2K bought out the exclusive third party rights my heart was broken. I turned to MLB 2K6 and let's just say that I was more disappointed with that game then I was after the 2003 NLCS.. well, perhaps that's a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the point. MLB 2K was awful in every conceivable way. I even bought MLB 2K 7 hoping that there would be some remarkable turnaround but after only a couple games I realized that my baseball video game playing days were over.
I had, however, heard of MLB: The Show. But it was only on Playstation and I was an Xbox owner with no desire to own a Playstation. But then it started happening. I got the itch to play a good baseball video game again so bad that I went out and bought a Playstation 3 just to try MLB: The Show. I had, in fact, never played it either. But I was willing to not only buy the game, but buy an entire system for the chance that I'd be able to enjoy a baseball game again.
Let me tell you, it was arguably the best (non-essential) decision I've ever made. It took a little while for me to realize just how good the game was because I was still stuck on MVP but after MLB 08, then 09 and all the way up until 14, I realized that this was the best baseball video game I've ever played (and that's ever existed) and to be honest, it really isn't even remotely close.
So the moral of the story is, if you're looking to play a baseball game I promise you that you cannot go wrong with MLB: The Show. That is of course as long as you're looking for a realistic, simulation-style game. And if you play the game and don't like it, there can be only one of two things that is true. First, you may have not given the game enough time, and secondly, you might not really know what a good baseball game looks and plays like.
If you think it's stale and the same game since 2008, well that's partly true but mostly false. And this is precisely what SCEA does better than most other sports game developers. They made the decision to stick with their engine year after year and tweak it. And that's a decision I appreciate. It's the old saying, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The Show plays great and re-inventing itself for the sake of re-inventing itself would not be good for people who love the game and love baseball.
Just my two cents.