After 250 games, MLB The Show '18 feels as new as it did on launch day

[Bgmoneyt77]

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What difficulty are you playing on?


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[dowie]

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Are there any sliders I can use to make my franchise have more of a baseball sim style authencity?? Sent from my iPhone using Operation Sports

Armor and Sword - if you stray off default these are your best option IMO.

Dowie

[DJ]

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I'm on All-Star across the board, with Directional hitting, Classic pitching and Auto field/Manual throwing. Default sliders.

[engrishbwudd]

My Rockies are 4-10 to start the season and it's infuriating. I've made some questionable bullpen decisions that blew leads and lead to losses (putting Oh in against lefties = bad time for the boys in blue), squandered so many chances with runners in scoring position, and started prospects over safe veterans to give them experience which hasn't panned out. Each one of our losses could've ended in a win, but ugh.

Honestly though, this is the most fun/most invested in a sports game (outside of possibly OOTP) that I've ever been and I love it. I've blown huge leads and made a few big comebacks and it's been such a joy to play. I never feel cheated when my SP craps the bed because that's baseball. It's beautifully heartbreaking. I do understand the frustration and how it leads to the always endearing "comeback code™!!!" mantra because you're spending a bunch of time in these games and if you do things right, you feel like you've earned a win and it's infuriating when it doesn't play out that way. This is why I love the show, though. You can be a guru on the sticks, but struggle to play over .500 if your team is trash. This is what sets it apart from every other sports game on the market. That's sim.

[soamazen23]

Totally agree. I was talking to my brother about this the other day. No two games feel alike. I mean down to how you need to pick the ball up from a left handed pitcher during your first two AB but by the time your third AB comes around the sun has passed to a point where you can see the pitcher’s release point better. I’ve played 2 and a half seasons and both times I won 100 plus games but lost in the playoffs to Cleveland and Houston. (I play with the yankees). The more you play the more you realize how good this game can be. I havent played madden since 2010 And I took NBA 2k18 off due to all the problems it had. But I cannot think of another sports video game that I’ve enjoy more than the show 18

[BULLKID]

Couldn't say it better myself even with slight if not more better commentary

[Caulfield]

Some of the pitch types are under-utilized like screwball, among others (I did a list of 'em awhile back but I'm too lazy to dig it up). Anyways, another thing to keep it fresh, in my Braves carry over, I edit a few players from other teams, I edit some newly drafted pitchers to include screwball and such, in hopes of eventually seeing those pitches in the future. That slurve is absolutely deadly so its always a challenge to face it.

[countryboy]

This what I love about the Show and in turn baseball.

In the game I just played against the Mets I had a total of 5 hits. 4 homeruns and a double. We lost 10-5.

In my 6 game winning streak prior to this loss, I didn’t hit 4 homeruns combined, but averaged just under 9 hits per game.

Baseball/Show....what a weird but yet beautiful sport/game.




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