Underrated Aspect of the Show
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As infuriating as this game can be, it’s still head and shoulders above EA sports games like Madden for me. I love that there’s a legitimate debate between using a card like 97 Bryant vs using 99 Schmidt. If this were Madden, Bryant would be 25k and Schmidt would be 100k+ just because of a numerical advantage, and this would lead to ZERO team variety. I appreciate that there’s errors that only Reggie Jackson can seem to make, rather than the awful blocking that every offensive lineman in Madden seems to display. Tracking down a gapper with a 5 tool outfielder you’ve grinded for feels so much more rewarding than intercepting a ball just because your DB has a pulse. Even though baseball is such a number driven game, I’m glad the show isn’t high attribute numbers or bust.
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I quit playing Madden as soon as The Show 20 came out, and I've had no desire to go back. Now that I know that they are AGAIN not touching Franchise I might just get some updated rosters and play Franchise in 20 whenever I get the itch to play. I'm so tired of the lack of diversity in playcalling, who has fun running the same HB Stretch and whatever blitz is cool at the time over and over and over.
I like the lineup diversity, and how you can pitch however the hell you want and be successful without just copying how some streamer plays.
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@doomtrain69 said in Underrated Aspect of the Show:
I quit playing Madden as soon as The Show 20 came out, and I've had no desire to go back. Now that I know that they are AGAIN not touching Franchise I might just get some updated rosters and play Franchise in 20 whenever I get the itch to play. I'm so tired of the lack of diversity in playcalling, who has fun running the same HB Stretch and whatever blitz is cool at the time over and over and over.
I like the lineup diversity, and how you can pitch however the hell you want and be successful without just copying how some streamer plays.
Yeah this season was the least I’ve played madden since the ps4 launched. They ruined it with these arcade-like abilities and unbalanced gameplay. Youtube/ebooks definitely ruined online madden.
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@turtleopolis said in Underrated Aspect of the Show:
As infuriating as this game can be, it’s still head and shoulders above EA sports games like Madden for me. I love that there’s a legitimate debate between using a card like 97 Bryant vs using 99 Schmidt. If this were Madden, Bryant would be 25k and Schmidt would be 100k+ just because of a numerical advantage, and this would lead to ZERO team variety. I appreciate that there’s errors that only Reggie Jackson can seem to make, rather than the awful blocking that every offensive lineman in Madden seems to display. Tracking down a gapper with a 5 tool outfielder you’ve grinded for feels so much more rewarding than intercepting a ball just because your DB has a pulse. Even though baseball is such a number driven game, I’m glad the show isn’t high attribute numbers or bust.
Madden is terrible it’s made for casual people to be able to pick it up and have a chance. It’s all predetermined animations and fake science fiction abilities. Omg I’m so sad. They were headed in right direction with route combos and a chess match and scratched it 15/16. It’s all arcade hit a button flip a coin. Now they advertising dline moves to control dline lol
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This game seems to slowly becoming Madden in terms of content but it is still head and shoulders above Madden in terms of the user experience and in actual gameplay and this is coming from someone that actually does enjoy Madden still. People like to complain about this game but I think it's clearly the number 1 sports game around (or at least for the 4 major US sports)
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One thing I'd love to see in these sports game is the removal of overall ratings. Leave the tiers, but remove the OVR rating entirely and let players decide purely based on the attributes
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I grinded the f out of MUT this year and it was way more aggravating than anything in The Show. EA is one of, if not the worst consumer friendly company and MUT is designed around the packs and monetization. At least here for the show we get a bunch of fire content and a lot is free or a lot easier to attain. AND you can use any card to still have success, where is in MUT you need the best, highest cards to get the advantage
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@jonnydaman said in Underrated Aspect of the Show:
This game seems to slowly becoming Madden in terms of content but it is still head and shoulders above Madden in terms of the user experience and in actual gameplay and this is coming from someone that actually does enjoy Madden still. People like to complain about this game but I think it's clearly the number 1 sports game around (or at least for the 4 major US sports)
Idk man im starting to fear this game is slowly headed the same was. Especially when you're talking about pre determined animations ruling outcomes. I hope not cuz this is the last sports game i have faith in. Just hopping they clean up the animations and some of the rng in the future but im not holding my breathe.
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I can be NMS and leave this game for 2 months and come back to having a competitive team.
In MUT? lol you're dead after a couple weeks of falling behind
Oh and you have a 99 speed QB but you didn't spend the training and put an x-factor on your QB? Well he's going to move like Tom Brady behind the LOS
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I don’t even consider buying madden and 2k and I get this game every year for ten years. So yeah I agree it’s vastly superior. Yet the game still aggravates me more than any other.
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Agree 100 percent. The X factors/abilities have made it so much worse too. ea has obliterated any sense of a skill gap with the absurd animations and the abilities.
SDS definitely does a better job of getting a variety of legends in the game. Madden is the same legends every year and by midway through the year everyone has the same team of legends.
In madden putting together a good squad nms is an absolute grind. It’s work. Sometimes the rewards for things like time consuming solo challenges are laughable. At least in the show you can get some great players through the xp path and innings programs by just playing the game
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The Show isn't perfect by any stretch, but it really is a quality sports game. Especially when you compare it to a EA release. The ultimate p2w experience.
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Great post OP! Not going to lie, I was 20 times better on Madden than the show but I absolutely enjoy the Show more than I ever have on Madden. The e-books have completely eliminating any variety and I don’t know if you saw but someone won a Madden championship belt by using a punter at qb and running all game. Like what...
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They're both crappy in their own way, though I give Madden more of a pass because there's a crazy amount the variables at any given moment and plays well offline if you aren't aware of the cheese plays. Baseball is relatively binary when it comes to outcomes so should be 100x easier to program, especially since SDS doesn't even incorporate physics, which is absolutely crazy in 2020. You can almost see the 'if-then' statements firing off in the background.
I think the problem with both is that they're continuing to use legacy assets/code from the PS2 era, SDS especially (look at the field, batter's box "dirt", mid-swing animation, etc.). A total teardown is in order.
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