MLB 15 The Show Gameplay Stream Details - Archive Available Now, If You Missed It

[spitoon]

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I think they have 15 scheduled streams. I could be wrong on the number, but they have a lot planned. They still have blogs coming as well.

I thought Ramone said they were going to one per week until release and probably even beyond release?

[Blzer]

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One thing I didn't directly see was if there was anything done with hits down the lines? I think the changes to ball physics and fielder speed/routes (and baserunner speed) might take care of this, but it always bothers me how most balls ripped down the lines end up being singles.

Outfielders hug the lines too closely by default, they still haven't changed this. They did mention outfielders will take deeper angles instead of being able to cut it off straight, but until they develop a true momentum system in throwing there will never be a reason for them not to pursue it at that straight angle.

Also, I know I'll be going straight for the outfielder speed slider when this game is in my hands. Probably just darting too fast out there.

By the way, anybody miss the PiP baserunning window?

[TheFlamingWeazel]

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Still not as cheap as Xbox one. You think Sony would at least match the price of its competitor

Good thing you don't run playstation..... X1 is already cheaper for a reason.... No one is buying it unless it is a lot cheaper then ps4. Sony had no need to drop yet, they are dominating ms especially worldwide.... All ms did was cause a temp spike in the US., Sony will drop it ww this year putting ms in an even worse position.

[lhslancers]

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Good thing you don't run playstation..... X1 is already cheaper for a reason.... No one is buying it unless it is a lot cheaper then ps4. Sony had no need to drop yet, they are dominating ms especially worldwide.... All ms did was cause a temp spike in the US., Sony will drop it ww this year putting ms in an even worse position.

I would really like to pick up one with a larger hard drive. Any word on when/if they plan on releasing the console with the terrabyte sized hard drive?

[HozAndMoose]

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I would really like to pick up one with a larger hard drive. Any word on when/if they plan on releasing the console with the terrabyte sized hard drive?

Doubt it will be anytime soon.

[TheFlamingWeazel]

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I would really like to pick up one with a larger hard drive. Any word on when/if they plan on releasing the console with the terrabyte sized hard drive?

You can easily replace the hard drive on ps4 with a larger one.

[TotesMaGotes]

It might of been me, but the live stream was underwhelming. I know it was the first one and they were talking about a bunch of technical stuff but we really didn't get to see "Gameplay" we got to see Solarte hit a ball to the wall for 15 minutes straight. I know it'll get better but from the look of it yesterday the game doesn't look any different from MLB 14. I'm buying the game no matter what, and it'll get better the closer we get to drop date, but yesterday was just underwhelming, honestly.

[TheFlamingWeazel]

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It might of been me, but the live stream was underwhelming. I know it was the first one and they were talking about a bunch of technical stuff but we really didn't get to see "Gameplay" we got to see Solarte hit a ball to the wall for 15 minutes straight. I know it'll get better but from the look of it yesterday the game doesn't look any different from MLB 14. I'm buying the game no matter what, and it'll get better the closer we get to drop date, but yesterday was just underwhelming, honestly.

Ugh again.... How do you expect and yearly baseball game that already plays ad close to real as can be expected to look much different? Did you expect a shooter to break out?

[Dolenz]

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Well, I knew there would be people nitpicking the stream and I wasn't wrong.

The bottom line as I see it is anything can be improved with unlimited resources, both in developers and hardware. Unfortunately no company has the unlimited developers and the PS4 is not as powerful as some want to believe.

So, decisions have to be made, priorities have to be set. The developers priority list may not match my priority list. My priority list may not match your priority list.

As a pretty avid gamer and visitor to more traditional gaming sites I can tell you that almost across the board peoples expectations of how much better the PS4 (and Xbox One) would be have been a little high. I can't count how often I have seen gamers complain about developers being lazy because they can't seem to hit 1080P and 60 fps for every game. Many, many games are sacrificing 60 fps and targeting 30 fps in favor of upgrading the graphics. Even Naughty Dog, the developer of some of the best looking PS games has recently stated that 60fps in Uncharted 4 may not happen. The game The Evil Within actually used letterboxing, supposedly to increase the cinematic quality in the game, but most believe it was to not tax the system.

Ramone mentioned that it took them many years to get the game looking as good as it did on the PS3 and that it would take them years to get the PS4 version as good as it can get. I believe him. I also believe that if you want better AI or uniforms that have more realistic textures or flap in the wind then something else is going to have to be sacrificed because at the end of the day the PS4, while more powerful than the PS3 is still not running top of the line hardware and still has limitations.

[HypoLuxa13]

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Well, I knew there would be people nitpicking the stream and I wasn't wrong.

The bottom line as I see it is anything can be improved with unlimited resources, both in developers and hardware. Unfortunately no company has the unlimited developers and the PS4 is not as powerful as some want to believe.

So, decisions have to be made, priorities have to be set. The developers priority list may not match my priority list. My priority list may not match your priority list.

As a pretty avid gamer and visitor to more traditional gaming sites I can tell you that almost across the board peoples expectations of how much better the PS4 (and Xbox One) would be have been a little high. I can't count how often I have seen gamers complain about developers being lazy because they can't seem to hit 1080P and 60 fps for every game. Many, many games are sacrificing 60 fps and targeting 30 fps in favor of upgrading the graphics. Even Naughty Dog, the developer of some of the best looking PS games has recently stated that 60fps in Uncharted 4 may not happen. The game The Evil Within actually used letterboxing, supposedly to increase the cinematic quality in the game, but most believe it was to not tax the system.

Ramone mentioned that it took them many years to get the game looking as good as it did on the PS3 and that it would take them years to get the PS4 version as good as it can get. I believe him. I also believe that if you want better AI or uniforms that have more realistic textures or flap in the wind then something else is going to have to be sacrificed because at the end of the day the PS4, while more powerful than the PS3 is still not running top of the line hardware and still has limitations.

(sarcasm)Oh, please, all they'd need to do to get all of the physics and textures we want would just be to have put in a separate Nvidia PhysX processor in. So elementary and cheap to do. Or even just overclock the existing hardware to "one point twenty one jiga-watts" (/sarcasm)

[ped3328]

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I watched the whole video last night. I didn't think I would be able to sit through it all, but it was somewhat fascinating. I don't think most people can really appreciate what it takes to achieve something like this. Seeing that goes a long way to explaining why its not easy to 'just' change something. Everything hinges on something else, when you change one thing, you might have no idea what impacts it will have on other aspects of the game. Great job SCEA. To be this open and transparent with us is fantastic.

One thing I didn't directly see was if there was anything done with hits down the lines? I think the changes to ball physics and fielder speed/routes (and baserunner speed) might take care of this, but it always bothers me how most balls ripped down the lines end up being singles.

Because outfielders are too darn fast. With separate sliders for infielders and outfielders, it will hopefully be more realistic.

[Factzzz]

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It looks like Justin Upton doesn't have a beard (although his batting stance is terrible), last year he did, which gives hope that SCEA went back and looked at players hair and beard and took away some of the beards that were unneeded.

So hopefully guys like Adam Jones, Mark Trumbo, and Colby Rasmus don't have full beards, and guys like Gerrit Cole have beards.

[HozAndMoose]

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Id pay 60 bucks just for a better Award winner formula. Been playing RTTS recently and Kershaw just won Cy Young (18-7, 2.49 ERA, 234 SO). Strasburg finished 2nd in MVP voting (16-8 with a 1.63 ERA and 275 SO). Wasnt even top 3 for Cy Young.

[ajblithe20]

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Watched parts of the stream again, and I think all the new equipment is really going to make this game look fresh and better. It seems like a really small thing to want a better looking batter's shin guard in the game, but having all this new equipment at once makes the game look more realistic. Looks less like a video game and more like the real thing now

[bronxbombers21325]

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Because outfielders are too darn fast. With separate sliders for infielders and outfielders, it will hopefully be more realistic.

This has me really excited. Infielder speed can stand to be turned down a little, as I feel they are able to get to balls that should get through. But outfielder speed needs to be turned all the way down in my opinion, to make it realistic. This should solve the problem I had last year, where I would turn fielding speed all the way down, and anything not hit directly to an infielder would get through.