MLB The Show - General Discussion

[Meacon Keaton]

It's out! I'm downloading it now. Probably won't play it until the morning. Woo hoo!

I'll be carrying over my guy from MLB 14, that I carried over to MLB 15, but I am interested in the whole new scouting thing, so I'll probably create a closer or someone new to play with. Fingers crossed they fixed the online, so I don't have to share-play with my chums like last year.

[Draevyn]

I need to tell myself that I don't need this game. I bought 15 and never played it much but I tend to get the new hockey and baseball game each year.

[Cactus Drags]

I didn't bother with 15 as I got 14 and barely played it, but I want to support Sony's continued decision to release in the UK, think it's great as there's no physical release. And £40 isn't a bad price. Has much changed over the past two years? 

[Toe]

I'm going to spend my lunch time from work going out and getting the game. I'm pretty excited, despite not paying attention to any of the new features or anything.

[The Buscher]

I was going to give it a skip this year (not because it didn't sound good but because I played MLB 15 far less than I would have liked) but knowing the Mets will actually be boss in this game without needing to fiddle the ratings and giving us a workaround to add custom music to the game through PS4 sold me.  Especially since I only paid like $13 or so after cashing in on some Christmas gift cards I couldn't figure out what to do with.

An authentic Noah Syndergaard coming up to the Game of Thrones theme like in real life

[Toe]

Got the game - now I just need to finish work at 5, and drive home for 90 minutes, then wait for the game to install! 

[KevinStorm]

I just recently picked up 15 again and I really want 16, but this is the part of the year where I start to become broke.

[Your Mom]

I love Baseball but I don't see anything that makes it worth upgrading. I can continue my franchise just fine in 15

[Mx. Canadian Destroyer]

I am pretty pumped to get this when I get home later this week. 

[The Buscher]

I love that the batting camera goes from foul-line to foul-line now.  It's a small touch but it just looks great.

I never seem to get deep enough into franchise to warrant carrying my saves over so I'll be starting anew.  I will wait until the Operation Sports' Full Minor League rosters are out, probably will take a couple of weeks.  In the meantime I'll probably start a new RTTS since the idea of being in the minor leagues with a bunch of fake players doesn't bother me.

Also Operation Sports have already posted ZIP folders (one for each team) containing the walk-up music for just about every player in the league as well as team-specific songs, etc.  Saves a lot of hassle of manually downloading MP3s off of YouTube or something.  

[Meacon Keaton]

Where would we be without Operation Sports? That's awesome.

And yeah, I'm going to be playing RTTS until their rosters come out. Having the real life minor leaguers makes franchise a billion times more fun.

My carry-over from '14/'15 is a center fielder, so I decided to go with a catcher in this one. So far I'm hitting over .400 with 13 jacks in my first two months of Double-A. I like that I've not been called up yet. I feel like in last games, if I was doing well for a month, I'd get called up to Triple-A almost immediately. It probably helps that I got drafted by the Tigers and they have three catchers in the bigs. I suppose they aren't in any rush to call up an 18-year old that could just be a flash-in-the-pan. 

[The Buscher]

Yeah Operation Sports does such great work.  I doubt I'll download every teams' songs but I will make sure I have all of the Mets stuff in the game and probably my division rivals' songs too because I'll play in their buildings a ton.

I think the only time I ever even made it to the big leagues in RTTS was a few years ago.  I was a closer in the minor leagues and wound up being traded to Boston and debuting with them as a middle reliever.  But it just feels like every year I wind up eventually getting sucked in to franchise and losing focus of my RTTS.  Last year I was a left fielder for Texas and got promoted to Triple A straight away.  Was tearing the cover off the ball but committing errors at every turn as I invested no points at all into fielding or speed.  I think my goal was to see if the game would naturally make me a DH but I never stuck with it long enough.

[Maxx]

Definitely buying it (thanks Meacon!) to help justify my continued ownership of a PS4, but not for at least a week or two.  OOTP17 has me covered for a baseball game at the moment.

[Toe]

Good way to start my franchise - Two huge home runs by Edwin Encarnacion. Felt great too, because I pulled the pitches down the line both times on purpose. 

[Bobfoc]

How's the difficulty this year? I haven't played since 14, but I thought that was more or less ideal for my level.

[The Buscher]

Dynamic difficulty is still available, so the game will basically adjust to how good/bad you are the more you play.

I usually reach the point where I'm cruising on the mound but then end up hitting a wall because I always try to get strike 1 and I'll give up like 4 first-pitch hits in a row.

[Toe]

My biggest pet peeve in the game is facing pitchers with sloooooow pitching mechanics. They slow the game down so much. I'll try to take an early walk or a quick hit, just to get them out of the wind-up.

[Bobfoc]

I've read that this year's PS4 version has the custom music feature that previous current-gen versions lacked. I'm quite tempted to pick this up, although the download would take me days.

[The Buscher]

Started my RTTS as a closer since I figured that would be the quickest possible way to the majors as I wait for the OSFM rosters so I can do franchise.  Gave myself a fastball, cutter, and screwball.  Dumped the max number of points into velocity and the rest into control.  Then I get to the prospect showcase and find I'm throwing nearly 100 MPH heat with pinpoint control of the screwball.  Ended up getting drafted to Arizona in the first.

Pro:  They have an old closer who is also one of the lowest rated in the league
Con:  Once I debut I'll have to pitch in those hideous new uniforms for 6 years

[METALMAN]

On 30/03/2016 at 15:13, Buschan Danielson said:

I think the only time I ever even made it to the big leagues in RTTS was a few years ago.

I've never even made it out of AA.

But I'm dreadful though.