MLB 11 The Show Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[Scooter3]

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What did I get myself into?
It's going to take about 29 hours to download using my Verizon Wireless.
I don't think I will be able to keep my signal that long.

keeping fingers crossed
scooter...

[Tommyklaid]

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I see a lot of people happy about balks being in, but I do want to point one thing out that has already been confirmed from community day:

The AI won't balk.

It was put it primarily to combat quick pitching in online play, but it is for this reason that I'll be turning it off for my singleplayer games this year. Hopefully that can make it in next year, but there's definitely going to be some heavy coding involved to determine whether an AI balk could happen - and if I know SCEA SD, they won't settle for it just being a random event - they'd tie ratings into it somehow.

Awww...bummer.

I guess I missed that on C.D. - ah well - it's a step in the right direction and I realize why they put it in. It doesn't happen often, but it'd be nice to incorporate the A.I. next year.

[B_rad13]

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Can we use the classic controls in the demo?

[Skyboxer]

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Ok fellas, what camera do you use for hitting and pitching.

I can't settle due to having many options.

I like the graphics more when I pitch from catcher view but the trajectory of pitches are better in behind the pitcher cam

What do you guys use for both

I use a slightly modified Minn broadcast cam for pitching and Catch Cam zoomed in for hitting right now.

[Skyboxer]

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Can we use the classic controls in the demo?

Yep. Under gameplay options. This is impressions thread though. There's a Q/A thread for questions.

[misterkrabz]

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What do you mean, stats? Like HR and RBI? or Contact and Power? You can just hit select and see it in a second.

I'm hoping they changed Miguel Cabrera's stance. Because Andres Torres from SF has the same stance as Cabrera had last year. They don't have similar stances at all.

I want the stats on screen, don't want to hit any extra buttons. I want to see pitch counts, batting averages, HR's, player attributes, who's on deck, who's in the hole, give me speed stats (player attributes and stole bases) of my guys who are on base, what's the status of my guys warming up in the bullpen? The on screen display is just so bland and boring...Get me engaged in the situation by giving more information. I don't want to slow the game down with pauses and digging through menus screens. How many times to you position your players? Me, never because it's a pain the butt. It shouldn't be and it doesn't have to be. I don't know all the attributes of all Major League players and I may be missing opportunities, for example, to steal because I have no idea how fast a guy is. Maybe the catcher has crummy accurancy/arm and my guy has marginal speed, is it worth the risk to steal? I have no idea because I'm not going to pause the game and dig through stats for 5 minutes for every situation. The game is slow enough already. Relevant stats and attributes should be in your face, all the time. The game would be so much more engaging.

[B_rad13]

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Yep. Under gameplay options. This is impressions thread though. There's a Q/A thread for questions.

Sorry I know, as soon as I posted this I saw the other topic.

[Skyboxer]

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Sorry I know, as soon as I posted this I saw the other topic.

It's all good. Just wanted to make sure you knew

[wajahat]

The demo has impressed me a lot.The graphics are so crisp, the transition from late afternooon to evening is supberb.The player models are very good, certainly improved from mlb 10.The gameplay as usual is excellent.I have one lil problem though.Why is check swing there when you press the power swing button?Now this has caused me some problems.I liked the way it was in mlb 10 the show.Check swing was only available as an option when u pressed the contact swing button, and was not available when u pressed the power swing button.If any one knows how to turn off the check swing option when using the power swing button, plz lemme know.

[Knight165]

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I want the stats on screen, don't want to hit any extra buttons. I want to see pitch counts, batting averages, HR's, player attributes, who's on deck, who's in the hole, give me speed stats (player attributes and stole bases) of my guys who are on base, what's the status of my guys warming up in the bullpen? The on screen display is just so bland and boring...Get me engaged in the situation by giving more information. I don't want to slow the game down with pauses and digging through menus screens. How many times to you position your players? Me, never because it's a pain the butt. It shouldn't be and it doesn't have to be. I don't know all the attributes of all Major League players and I may be missing opportunities, for example, to steal because I have no idea how fast a guy is. Maybe the catcher has crummy accurancy/arm and my guy has marginal speed, is it worth the risk to steal? I have no idea because I'm not going to pause the game and dig through stats for 5 minutes for every situation. The game is slow enough already. Relevant stats and attributes should be in your face, all the time. The game would be so much more engaging.

If you really want all that on-screen...I think you need to be playing OOTP.(I'm not even sure THEY have all that on-screen).Seriously.
I'm sorry, I won't even say I only disagree with you here...I'm going against one of my own rules to say that you're just flat out wrong on this one. There is already ENOUGH clutter in games....Sorry.

M.K.
Knight165

[TNKNGM]

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I like the analog additions for pitching and hitting.....but for my franchise I will probably go back to Meter Pitching and Zone Hitting and Button Throwing

[Skyboxer]

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If you really want all that on-screen...I think you need to be playing OOTP.(I'm not even sure THEY have all that on-screen).Seriously.
I'm sorry, I won't even say I only disagree with you here...I'm going against one of my own rules to say that you're just flat out wrong on this one. There is already ENOUGH clutter in games....Sorry.

M.K.
Knight165

Totally agree. I even wish there was a way to use the new analog meter BUT have it not show up and go off of pitcher motions. What I plan to do is just make it as small as I can.
I want to be totally into the game and not have a constant reminder I'm playing a video game.

[misterkrabz]

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If you really want all that on-screen...I think you need to be playing OOTP.(I'm not even sure THEY have all that on-screen).Seriously.
I'm sorry, I won't even say I only disagree with you here...I'm going against one of my own rules to say that you're just flat out wrong on this one. There is already ENOUGH clutter in games....Sorry.

M.K.
Knight165

Don't know if I'm "wrong". Maybe a difference in opinion I suppose. I just think it would be nice. It would make the game more interesting for me. I don't really understand why someone would think the screen is too cluttered, there's nothing on it besides the batter and the pitcher. take that away and what do you have? Nothing. Look at OP's article on the 8 bit baseball games:

http://www.operationsports.com/featu...aseball-games/

Those games have on screen stats, does it seem cluttered to you?

[DickDalewood]

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If you really want all that on-screen...I think you need to be playing OOTP.(I'm not even sure THEY have all that on-screen).Seriously.
I'm sorry, I won't even say I only disagree with you here...I'm going against one of my own rules to say that you're just flat out wrong on this one. There is already ENOUGH clutter in games....Sorry.

M.K.
Knight165

Absolutely agree with you here Knight... hell, I'd be happy if they could find ways to put even LESS clutter on the screen.

[thaSLAB]

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I want the stats on screen, don't want to hit any extra buttons. I want to see pitch counts, batting averages, HR's, player attributes, who's on deck, who's in the hole, give me speed stats (player attributes and stole bases) of my guys who are on base, what's the status of my guys warming up in the bullpen? The on screen display is just so bland and boring...Get me engaged in the situation by giving more information. I don't want to slow the game down with pauses and digging through menus screens. How many times to you position your players? Me, never because it's a pain the butt. It shouldn't be and it doesn't have to be. I don't know all the attributes of all Major League players and I may be missing opportunities, for example, to steal because I have no idea how fast a guy is. Maybe the catcher has crummy accurancy/arm and my guy has marginal speed, is it worth the risk to steal? I have no idea because I'm not going to pause the game and dig through stats for 5 minutes for every situation. The game is slow enough already. Relevant stats and attributes should be in your face, all the time. The game would be so much more engaging.

If by engaging you mean, cluttered and not being able to see it... then yes, LOL. Seriously tho, it only takes a second to see (press select ---> look to the left for pitcher stats, look at the right for batter stats. or press L3 to look at pitch sequence overlay when pitching or hitting) its all there and it only takes a second (literally) - look at 0:08 and again at 1:17 of this video. I basically pressed select for a second and I knew the new batters hot and cold zones, or pitch count or pitcher energy or whatever info I may have been looking for:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-DmIemXoKQ

notice I do it for every batter (or pitcher) - now granted in '10 the base runner attributes showed up on the start menu, but this year I believe they are all on the same screen, as well as on the base running windows.