Has anyone played more than me?

[nonnel]

I'm currently in the middle of my 3rd season of my franchise, playing every single game. Made the playoffs both years and got knocked out in the first round.

Last year I got through 2 full seasons but just didn't have the juice to continue. I love this game so much it's ridiculous. Perfectly competitive.

[Knight165]

Re: Has anyone played more than me?

That's a heck of a lot of games.
Kudos to you....that's dedication!

I'm through 1 full season of Manage only Mode(playing every game)...plus 2 months into a second season(different franchise).

M.K.
Knight165

[CarrotJuice]

Re: Has anyone played more than me?

ive played through about a seasons worth of games myself, but it's been broken up with multiple teams.

I love the game. My only problem over time is I just cant get the perfect offensive settings for me. I play analog batting only cause I love it. Veteran is too easy and I cant draw enough walks. All star is too hard but I can draw walks because of the way the AI pitches to you.

What hitting settings do you use after all those games?

[nonnel]

Re: Has anyone played more than me?

ive played through about a seasons worth of games myself, but it's been broken up with multiple teams.

I love the game. My only problem over time is I just cant get the perfect offensive settings for me. I play analog batting only cause I love it. Veteran is too easy and I cant draw enough walks. All star is too hard but I can draw walks because of the way the AI pitches to you.

What hitting settings do you use after all those games?

I use the default sliders. Timing hitting and meter pitching. All-star level. To me, that gives the most realistic results. It took me a little bit to decide on timing hitting, cause I thought it might feel cheap, but player talent SHOULD have a big effect on hitting, not just user talent. Just my opinion.

[antilowpe]

Re: Has anyone played more than me?

I'm currently in the middle of my 3rd season of my franchise, playing every single game. Made the playoffs both years and got knocked out in the first round.

Last year I got through 2 full seasons but just didn't have the juice to continue. I love this game so much it's ridiculous. Perfectly competitive.

The answer is YES and his name is (was) CountryBoy.
He usually played with the Cards through 4-6 seasons.

But congrats, you are very dedicated.

[crques]

Re: Has anyone played more than me?

I'm currently in the middle of my 3rd season of my franchise, playing every single game. Made the playoffs both years and got knocked out in the first round.

Last year I got through 2 full seasons but just didn't have the juice to continue. I love this game so much it's ridiculous. Perfectly competitive.

Congrats on having the time and dedication to play that many games. Just curious, what sliders are you running with and how many times have you tweaked them during this run? Sliders are killing me!

[coolguy124]

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i actually got 11 the sow a few weeks late cuz i was havinf a blast with rangers 2010 2nd year but eventually it put 10 down to get 11 but it was so much fun working with that subpar pitching staff

[aktransplant007]

Re: Has anyone played more than me?

I'm currently in the middle of my 3rd season of my franchise, playing every single game. Made the playoffs both years and got knocked out in the first round.

Last year I got through 2 full seasons but just didn't have the juice to continue. I love this game so much it's ridiculous. Perfectly competitive.

Exactly..feeling is mutual...that's great for you though! I have played a lot of games with '11 and possibly not even 2 seasons worth, but I keep switching teams to use in Franchise and do too much starting/stopping in that mode with multiple teams.

It's a combination of things, getting the right settings for realistic results..maybe I watch a game and/or highlights and get the thought..'I wanna do that with that guy or even that team'..the stadiums look great and definitely the graphics are just amazing! Makes it at least difficult for myself to 'pick a certain team to dedicate to'...I'm working on it though..lol

May I ask what team you use? or possibly same team from last year?

[ckarlic]

Re: Has anyone played more than me?

I'm currently in the middle of my 3rd season of my franchise, playing every single game. Made the playoffs both years and got knocked out in the first round.

Last year I got through 2 full seasons but just didn't have the juice to continue. I love this game so much it's ridiculous. Perfectly competitive.

Wow...that is awesome. Im hoping I can get through about a season and a half (im at the current day in my yankees franchise..it was by coincidence though)

My issue is that I have 2 kids and they chew up most of my time and when i do have time, im too tired to even play. I get most of my playing time in on the weekends.

[Russell_SCEA]

Re: Has anyone played more than me?

I'm currently in the middle of my 3rd season of my franchise, playing every single game. Made the playoffs both years and got knocked out in the first round.

Last year I got through 2 full seasons but just didn't have the juice to continue. I love this game so much it's ridiculous. Perfectly competitive.

That's a ton of games man, feel free to pm me your observations and anything you want to see changed, added, or tweaked for franchise mode. Or just the game in general.

[Blzer]

Re: Has anyone played more than me?

In MLB 09: The Show I was at about two full seasons in, until I had to get a new PS3 and my files were corrupted when they were transferred over.

Most I've played in a baseball game was over 500 in my MLB 2K5 franchise, so I was in my fourth year on that with my Reds.

Haven't done that with The Show '11 though. No small feat! Keep it going!

[nonnel]

Re: Has anyone played more than me?

Exactly..feeling is mutual...that's great for you though! I have played a lot of games with '11 and possibly not even 2 seasons worth, but I keep switching teams to use in Franchise and do too much starting/stopping in that mode with multiple teams.

It's a combination of things, getting the right settings for realistic results..maybe I watch a game and/or highlights and get the thought..'I wanna do that with that guy or even that team'..the stadiums look great and definitely the graphics are just amazing! Makes it at least difficult for myself to 'pick a certain team to dedicate to'...I'm working on it though..lol

May I ask what team you use? or possibly same team from last year?

Last year I used Pittsburgh, this year using Seattle. I like taking bad teams and making them good.

I too had trouble dedicating to a franchise. I do the same thing every year. I'll usually start over 2-3 times with different teams because I didn't like the setting, or the team itself just didn't keep my interest (I believe I played 10-20 games with Baltimore and then Washington before I finally started on with Seattle and kept it this year).

The thing is though, the difficulty is so perfect with this game that actually WINNING becomes the obsession. I want to win the World Series, and I can't do that if I keep starting over. So occasionally you dredge through when you get in some boring stretches, because the payoff is so good.

I lost last season after winning 90 games in the first round to Boston. Game 5... extra innings... Jed Lowrie takes me deep to right over the short wall in Fenway. A video game shouldn't make a grown man feel as sad as I felt that day.

[jimmytheking]

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Currently 101 games into my second season with the Rockies. Finished two full fantasy draft seasons last year. Haven't simmed one single pitch. My wife may leave me due to extensive time spent in the game room, but whatever, I fn love this game.

[Heroesandvillains]

Re: Has anyone played more than me?

Nonnel,

Do you share updates in the Franchise Progress Thread?

If so, I'd like to follow you.

[mlblover15]

Re: Has anyone played more than me?

If it wasn't for my work schedule, and my late start into 11 i would be much farther into my franchise than i am... (7 games in) I had gotten this game on release day but being that i didn't play this series due to not having a ps3 (stolen nye 10) so the last game i had played was 08 to any extent.

I hadn't expected this game to take such huge leaps and bounds in difficulty over the next three installments. So when i got 11 i was extremely intimidated by it and had to run back to 08 for some comfort. However as much as i loved going back to 08 the feeling over it was gone.

So here i am back in the game so to speak. happy to be back. Can't wait to see what surprises they have in store for us franchise folks in 2012.