05-25-2012, 10:25 AM
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Re: What Does MLB 13 The Show Need to do Next Year to Satisfy Your Baseball Gaming Ne
By far the best year of online in the series and continues to get better. There has been some minor mishaps, but nothing out of the norm considering online gaming.
It all becomes stale IMO no matter the sport, this is why I mute every sports game and would rather hear crowd with "Sounds of the Show"
Guess he failed to download the latest patch in preparation for the new game mode. I plan on setting up an OS online tourney come Monday, if anyone is interested. Let's hope that is an option.
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Do Something Revolutionary to the Sports Genre
That's a tall expectation but not impossible. If you look at the across-the-board unfulfilled wishes of sports video gamers, probably the top one is career-mode importation across release years. Nowhere is this more necessary than in baseball, where a player's career lasts longer on average and a Hall of Famer's—ostensibly the goal of Road to the Show—averages about 17 seasons. That's a hell of a lot of work to put in each year. I've never done it, and I've always started over.
It would drive sales of an annual sports title if a gamer knew he could continue his long-playing career—either as a single player, or as a franchise owner or season general manager—in the next title, with all of its upgrades and refinements. Sony San Diego told me two years ago they had seriously looked at this, but warned there are developmental challenges the average gamer may not readily grasp. They still need to make this happen, not just for what it would do for The Show, but also for the goodwill it would return in setting that as an expectation of sports video games, pushing other developers to adopt it.
Baseball does change year to year, but that's mostly in personnel. While the Rays and A's have plans for a new stadium, there are no certain dates of their arrival. No expansion is planned. The postseason format was changed this year. Even if there are future structural changes to the league—franchise moves, new stadiums, playoff changes—gamers would accept them as a retcon without complaint. This is the best time to pry the roster file out of Road to the Show, Franchise and Season, and make it importable into a future version of MLB the Show. I do realize that is much easier said than done. |
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ahh, here it is add more fluff for the sake of fluff. They did this already with Road to the Show and Vita cross platform how soon we forget.
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Steal MLB Today and Make It Better
There are a couple of things MLB 2K did well that The Show couldn't do without incurring the bad will of straight up copying an inferior competitor (or a legal action). But there's no copyright or software patent on facts, and a team's projected lineups and starting pitchers are published every day. MLB Today, especially with its "Season" addition this year, should have been an improvement. Instead, it was a broken, barely supported mess.
In the right hands, this is a great concept, especially when given the "rewrite history" context of MLB Today Season. But that mode, in MLB 2K12 only lets you play the current game on the calendar, a painfully limiting aspect. What I want to be able to do is play today's game and then play forward from that on my terms; or go back to a pivotal game, replay it, and alter my favorite club's fortunes that way.
I don't think gamers want to play alongside a 162-game season in real-time as much as they would want to jump into the middle of one 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. |
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I guess, but I have no desire to have my fantasy baseball season last a full season playing along side real MLB once again more fluff
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