What Does MLB 13 The Show Need to do Next Year to Satisfy Your Baseball Gaming Needs?

[Sportsflibs]

Re: What Does MLB 13 The Show Need to do Next Year to Satisfy Your Baseball Gaming Ne

Stop adding new features. Fix what's in the game.

- Fix progression in Franchise so ten years in the whole league isn't 30 and older - younger guys can become superstars.
- Fix trading so teams who should be in "win now" mode don't trade away superstars.
- Fix trading so teams in rebuild mode rebuild..seek A and B prospects for aging, expensive stars.
- Fix trading so rebuilding teams don't trade away their young, cheap superstars.
- Fix trading and lineups so teams don't have two or three superstars or stars at one position.
- Improve the pitcher/hitter dynamic so sometimes guys swing and miss at balls off the plate, and so pitchers have to throw out of the strike zone to work outs.

[MLB Bob]

Re: What Does MLB 13 The Show Need to do Next Year to Satisfy Your Baseball Gaming Ne

Probably mentioned but I would love more minor league teams with full roster spots. I dont want them playable..so as A ball is now. I just want more spots so you can really develop players. The draft can be longer and so on.

I would also like pitching tendencies such as Vs. RHB, Vs LHB, GB/FB % have these as attributes so you can really build different players. And some adjusting in position player attributes like speed not increasing as a skill. Have certain base attributes that can affect other specific attributes..

[UK0wnag3]

Re: What Does MLB 13 The Show Need to do Next Year to Satisfy Your Baseball Gaming Ne

In franchise mode, get rid of the newspaper. It's 2012! A website similar to 2K's would be great, so you can see news from around the league and for individual teams. The franchise mode can feel like such an enclosed space at times, another team could throw a no-hitter and I'd never even know.

[AC]

Re: What Does MLB 13 The Show Need to do Next Year to Satisfy Your Baseball Gaming Ne

I LOVE photography, especially in baseball. Every time I go to a game at the Rogers Centre, I take my camera and make sure to get some photos.

What I would pay for is having a stadium-tour kind of thing, you could see the entire stadium. I'd love to see the concourses at Yankee stadium, or be a fan sitting where Bueller sat at Wrigley. Watching the baseball game on right now as well, I just saw them showing the stadium from the 500 level outfield, with a beatiful view of Harbourfront in the back ground, and I thought, "It'd be awesome if they could get the surroundings of the stadium withing maybe a kilometre or 2 (miles, for you Americans )." Also, revamped franchise with more in depth scouting and prospect development. And I'd like them to have every level of baseball for franchise and RTTS, all of them playable. Heck, maybe just buy the minors while you're at it! It'd save Knight some work, hehehe.

[tytyboogie]

Re: What Does MLB 13 The Show Need to do Next Year to Satisfy Your Baseball Gaming Ne

Can we PLEASE cutoff a ball in the outfield...how this is not in a game that promotes the little things (and this is a BIG thing) is beyond me.

Bring over the MLB2k announcing crew..they are great (I say this and I hated Gary Thorne for the NHL series)

Retractable roofs and rain delays (c'mon this was in All Star Baseball)

MLB 2k scouting reports (But don't make us pay for them...all MLB teams in real life have scouting reports on all players)

Broadcast view is still too zoomed

Corner outfielders still play too shallow

MVP Batter's eye

A lot more Franchise stat and situational overlays

Fix the weird helmets in PIP baserunner view. It is evident with teams with light colored helmets (e.g. DBacks, Nationals, etc). Real players and unis would also be nice.

MLB 2k baserunning control system..or at least the ability to control runnners even with autobaserunning enabled

.OBP as a dedicated stat when showing stats after 1st at bat (like avg, HRs, RBIs) Every team in MLB does this..the little things. Please also replace slugging % with .OBP on jumbotrons and stat boards in stadiums. Again..no one excludes .OBP.

Live look-ins/highlights would be great in Franchise

PLEASE give option to start season with 25 man roster if you skip spring training or at least to revert back to starting 25 man if you play spring training

Weather and attendance should be based on historical info..Not sure it is..or if it is it doesn't work real well
Better field degradation..especially during rain games.

More dynamic and responsive stadium crowds..still don't get the right feel of being at ballpark. Rivalry games should have more amp'd crowd than non-rivalry games. Fans should be more excited when big name pitcher is on mound or batter is at plate...as well as big scoring opportunities.
#
Better distance imaging...Very hard to see stats on scoreboard because focus is on pitcher batter duel. Scoreboards are great if we can read them. For example, can't see stats on scoreboard from home plate at Orioles Park or Yankee Stadium..and I have 1080p HD monitor that is crisp.

your tv has nothing to do with not being able to clearly see the jumbotron stats..its the antiglazing idea.they want it to be harder to read cuase of the distance

[RobD4477]

Re: What Does MLB 13 The Show Need to do Next Year to Satisfy Your Baseball Gaming Ne

I would love to see three team trades and the ability to have more than 6 players involved in one trade like possibly 5 players per team

[tlobster12]

Re: What Does MLB 13 The Show Need to do Next Year to Satisfy Your Baseball Gaming Ne

I would like to see more equipment options like having a set of accessories for a player to wear during away games and home games.

It would also be nice to be able to use custom cameras online and to be able to export any player

[brindlerednoze]

Re: What Does MLB 13 The Show Need to do Next Year to Satisfy Your Baseball Gaming Ne

like to be able to play online co-op or my league games with custom camera angles without "traffic delays"

[TGov]

Re: What Does MLB 13 The Show Need to do Next Year to Satisfy Your Baseball Gaming Ne

Players to honor there contracts...

ARod retired after the 2012 season for me due to age, same with Jeter... Don't get me wrong I'm managing the Red Sox but I like to have the competition realistic and competitive, and most of all... ARod and Jeter are under contract past 2012, I believe, at least ARod is... Same thing happened with Mariano Riveria...

[Edmond]

Re: What Does MLB 13 The Show Need to do Next Year to Satisfy Your Baseball Gaming Ne

One thing I would like to see is more realistic reactions to throwing errors during stolen bases.

Example:

If you steal a base and the ball is thrown into the outfield, your guy will take his time dusting himself off instead of popping up to see if he can take another base.

[LastActionHero]

-Saving exhibition games

-Fully customizable HUD (options to not show certain things)

-Upload created uniform/team to the vault

-Upload custom camera to the vault

-Never been a fan of the interface.
Hoping for a complete overhaul next year. The basic menu structure has been the same for years with little
changes from year to year.
More user friendly please!

-while pitching give us the same pitch history option by pressing R2 as you can while batting

-Use created DD team in exhibition/season/franchise

-crowd ambiance improvement (they're standing up way to much!)

-4pm starting times

-(Out)fielders interacting with foulballs coming/rolling right next to them instead of ignoring them completely

-Strike 3 foult tip in glove out?

-Ditch the cut-off man after the throw? Holding L2 button to cut-off and release when you want the reliever to let the ball pass him.

-add a difficulty to cathing fly balls, right trigger or R3 stick to raise your hand/glove

-Make dives in the outfield a little easier. It was ok in 08 and 09 but since 10 its almost impossible!

-Finally give us full control over slidings

-Highlite the player's name when there's an overlay for him. I always have to do a quick scan. Such an easy touch!

-On a homerun the base runners still start to jog right after the ball is hit which gives away that its a homerun even before it goes over the fence. Same with balls in the gap that could be caught by the CPU where the baserunners allready tell you the outcome by stopping half way or keep running.

-Full manual option for pickoffs so that it's not completely based on ratings but more on your own reaction time if you get back on time or not.

-After a linedrive is caught by an infielder he stands there as if there is another play to make. When there are runners on base this makes sense but they almost always go to this animation. This is not necessary when the bases are emty or there are 2 outs.

-Let the pitcher (from time to time) turn his head to check the runners on base before the pitch. Always wondered why this isn't in.

-Field chatter

-weather changing from overcast to sun for example. Game starts out with overcast and then it opens up in the 6th with some sunbeams or the other way around. That would make the game feel even more dynamic.

-the possibility to jump into the middle of a season and take it from there, or in September—six months after release—use it as wish fulfillment when their team starts to fade. That type of functionality would properly differentiate this from MLB Today, and turn it into a pick-up-and-play season mode that can deliver the full context of a pennant race.

-add baggy (oldschool) uniform style

[Urban Achiever]

Re: What Does MLB 13 The Show Need to do Next Year to Satisfy Your Baseball Gaming Ne

Even more animations added for plays would be a start, as well as even further tweaking of the ball physics (which I love this year)

More crowd diversity.

The option to tweak trades in RttS (Franchise mode options here)

The option like in FIFA to be a "player manager" - basically you play your RttS character but also run the franchise you're on without controlling other players, just trades subs, etc.

[redsoxfan25]

Re: What Does MLB 13 The Show Need to do Next Year to Satisfy Your Baseball Gaming Ne

The ability to set injuries to what league you want. This was an option in MVP Baseball and would be cool to see in here.

For example, you could set injuries to MLB only, MLB/AAA, MLB/AAA/AA or All.

[JJFurr29]

Re: What Does MLB 13 The Show Need to do Next Year to Satisfy Your Baseball Gaming Ne

For RTTS:

- Hire an agent, someone who gives you info on what the team thinks about you, what other teams think, and the best value you can receive..

- Add another level (ex. Class A)..

- When my player is a pitcher, stop giving me goals that involve hitting! And really I'd think that instead of goals they just promote you based on performance.

- be able to upload a picture for yourself and have that for your player pic.

[redsoxfan25]

Re: What Does MLB 13 The Show Need to do Next Year to Satisfy Your Baseball Gaming Ne

be able to upload a picture for yourself and have that for your player pic.

I second this. Would be very cool.


One other thing I'd like to see, the ability to change the numbers on your first and third base coaches.