Heidi Watney... More like Why-di Watney

[mlblover15]

from what I'm reading here is that I may be the ONLY one playing this game that has NO PROBLEM with this feature at all.

I don't know how many of you are aware that recently SDS has changed their ogo and been put into a much larger studio. however, it is not sure since they did this for what I have read and heard for a new IP to come out fo that studio.

I'm hoping that this also means that the team for this IP will be growing as well so that we may see some more additions/expansion to this mode...

if you guys continue to throw mud at the dev team for this kind of stuff it just says to them that we don't appreciate what they are doing. which in turn could cost us franchise players more in the future...

[Drty_Windshield]

The only thing I don't like about her just as with the commentary in general is the lack of diversity in dialogue. It would be a cool feature if it wasn't so repetitive.

[jrnlgrn]

They should also give her injury update duties instead of some random text on screen. There's a lot of records and milestones in baseball and they could throw some of that dialog to her as well. Having her segments randomly throughout the game also would help break up the repetitiveness.

[moemoe24]

Quote: Originally Posted by HarlemYankee

I know it’s low hanging fruit to get mad at virtua-Heidi, but holy hell man they really couldn’t have her record more lines? Never mind that sideline reports are the worst part about mlb broadcasts, but if there’s nothing to talk about why force it down our throats? Just played a game and had a no hitter through 7.... Bottom of the 6th “I had a chance to catch up on the state of the Braves offense... and overall he’sh really happy at their approach at the plate” then talks about how they’ve had six full counts. Imagine a manager telling a reporter in the sixth inning that he’s really happy that his team was getting no hit because they worked six full counts lol. I mean come on!

I’ve never hated anything on a video game as much as her on this. I have the remote handy to mute

[JoshC1977]

The recorded lines ARE a bit repetitive, but that's true of commentary for all sports games (heck, it's true of commentary for real life sports broadcasts sometimes ). But I think that Heidi could be a major key to the growth of franchise mode. Franchise mode isn't in the menu screens - it's in-game. They need to massively expand her role as a conduit to provide us with information of the happenings around the league. We shouldn't have to go to some sterile menu screen outside of the game for that, she can tell us about the latest trade rumors or injuries, etc. going on around the league while playing the game. I actually love that they pull in-game data for her blurbs and I see no reason why they can't expand on that in the future. I'm hoping that they can get her to record the player name database for next year's game - that could open-up a lot commentary possibilities for her.

[TheWarmWind]

Quote: Originally Posted by JoshC1977

The recorded lines ARE a bit repetitive, but that's true of commentary for all sports games (heck, it's true of commentary for real life sports broadcasts sometimes ). But I think that Heidi could be a major key to the growth of franchise mode. Franchise mode isn't in the menu screens - it's in-game. They need to massively expand her role as a conduit to provide us with information of the happenings around the league. We shouldn't have to go to some sterile menu screen outside of the game for that, she can tell us about the latest trade rumors or injuries, etc. going on around the league while playing the game. I actually love that they pull in-game data for her blurbs and I see no reason why they can't expand on that in the future. I'm hoping that they can get her to record the player name database for next year's game - that could open-up a lot commentary possibilities for her.

As much as I hate to contradict you on this, I have to disagree. Franchise mode is in the menu. Ok, not entirely, but the out of game side of the mode is what has stagnated the most. Franchise is in serious need of improvements and overhauls, and while getting Heidi more involved in the league would be nice, it could not be lower on my priority list.

Side note: remember when we used to be able to change the volume of individual announcers? That was nice. Now I just have to watch Heidi awkwardly mouth silently into a microphone in an unskippable cutscene because I find Dan and DeRo make me see red. Never even knew she was repetitive, I never gave her the chance.

Wanna know the most annoying thing about turning off the announcers is though? It also turns off the recordings of baseball calls from last year. Boneheaded, but I refuse to change it back. Dan and DeRo are that bad.

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[KnightTemplar]

I don’t listen to any of them. Matt needs to be gone, Plesac needs to SHUT UP! Geez, balls in play and he’s still rambling, Dero is just annoying and Heidi....at least let us skip her. Less would actually be good, but what do I know.

[Blzer]

I neither adore it nor have a problem with it. I do question how finite their resources become eventually if they throw in the development time and memory to fit her lines into there (not like it's a world of storage being taken up, but you know what I mean). I do think it was about time to have sideline reporter representation in this game, but I'm also hoping to get a two-man booth of Matty V. and Smoltz someday soon.

Killer thread title, though.