Possibly the weirdest game I ever played
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So I haven’t played ranked in a while. I’ve been working a lot and playing Franchise occasionally.
Tonight I decided to bust out the Mariners theme team for $hits. I’m somewhere in the 400’s this season, and I match up with a guy who has a record of like 80 wins and 120 losses.
Castillo carves him up first inning and I am hitting. Julio goes deep to CF only to be robbed by his Griffey jr.
Next inning, after not making contact on a single pitch and swinging wildly at everything, he hits a no doubter with Finest Rutschman. Ok.
He is pitching Potm Zac Gallen and throwing changeup after changeup. Edgar goes deep this time and yes, my opponent robs it AGAIN with Griffey jr in CF.
He continues swinging away and striking out with everyone until the fourth where he grounds one up the middle with Pujols, then, you guessed it, another no doubt home run with Rutschman.
So now I’m down 3-0 despite having homered twice and struck him out 6 times.
Eventually Cal RALEIGH leads off with a knock so I pinch hit Vogelbach for Castillo and hit a foul home run and another foul line drive before homering. 3-2. Thank the baseball gods.
He adds a solo shot on the first pitch from my reliever and the score stays 4-2 until bottom 9 despite my guys hitting line drive outs and warning track fly balls.
Santana pinch hits to start the last ups and homers to right. 4-3. Julio singles and he goes to the pen. This time MY Griffey jr homers and… he dashboards.
I’d forgotten how bad the gameplay can be online. I thought Franchise vs cpu was bad but boy…Good Times!
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@halfbutt_PSN said in Possibly the weirdest game I ever played:
So I haven’t played ranked in a while. I’ve been working a lot and playing Franchise occasionally.
Tonight I decided to bust out the Mariners theme team for $hits. I’m somewhere in the 400’s this season, and I match up with a guy who has a record of like 80 wins and 120 losses.
Castillo carves him up first inning and I am hitting. Julio goes deep to CF only to be robbed by his Griffey jr.
Next inning, after not making contact on a single pitch and swinging wildly at everything, he hits a no doubter with Finest Rutschman. Ok.
He is pitching Potm Zac Gallen and throwing changeup after changeup. Edgar goes deep this time and yes, my opponent robs it AGAIN with Griffey jr in CF.
He continues swinging away and striking out with everyone until the fourth where he grounds one up the middle with Pujols, then, you guessed it, another no doubt home run with Rutschman.
So now I’m down 3-0 despite having homered twice and struck him out 6 times.
Eventually Cal RALEIGH leads off with a knock so I pinch hit Vogelbach for Castillo and hit a foul home run and another foul line drive before homering. 3-2. Thank the baseball gods.
He adds a solo shot on the first pitch from my reliever and the score stays 4-2 until bottom 9 despite my guys hitting line drive outs and warning track fly balls.
Santana pinch hits to start the last ups and homers to right. 4-3. Julio singles and he goes to the pen. This time MY Griffey jr homers and… he dashboards.
I’d forgotten how bad the gameplay can be online. I thought Franchise vs cpu was bad but boy…Good Times!
I would’ve quit. I uninstalled the game yesterday after some event games were pure BS. I was playing once or twice a week but nah and still raging. This game is just bad.
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Yeah, I’m not playing much. I feel you.
I’ve kind of reached the point where nothing surprises me, and then something like this does.
Playing a bunch of Franchise really showed me how this game is intended to play, and it’s clear that user input is a pretty minor factor.
Oh well! Only three months until pitchers and catchers report!
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@halfbutt_PSN said in Possibly the weirdest game I ever played:
Yeah, I’m not playing much. I feel you.
I’ve kind of reached the point where nothing surprises me, and then something like this does.
Playing a bunch of Franchise really showed me how this game is intended to play, and it’s clear that user input is a pretty minor factor.
Oh well! Only three months until pitchers and catchers report!
I’m done with the franchise. I started DD in 2020 and played a lot due to pandemic while I was getting better, I improved a lot from 2020 to 2021 and started to notice all the bs that I benefited from as a rookie because it was haunting me then, 2022 was hesistant but bought the game a few days after launch, not again until the hitting engine is completely new and user input determines good results.
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Yeah, I waited on 22 until after the all star break. It was getting harder to find a game on 21.
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Gameplay cant be taken too seriously. I just played a LOT of The Show this past week, and there are just too many "off PCI" that are hits and "Good" PCI and timing that leads to easy outs, pop-outs etc.
Once you get closer to that 700 range in RS, those PCI's are getting tiny. At that point, gotta load up your team with the highest rated players and hope RNG treats you well once you finally are able to time up a pitch.
I stopped trying TOO hard and decided to buy Tatis Jr. for fun and have been starting him at 2nd base. A lot of strikeouts there lol
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@halfbutt_PSN said in Possibly the weirdest game I ever played:
So I haven’t played ranked in a while. I’ve been working a lot and playing Franchise occasionally.
Tonight I decided to bust out the Mariners theme team for $hits. I’m somewhere in the 400’s this season, and I match up with a guy who has a record of like 80 wins and 120 losses.
Castillo carves him up first inning and I am hitting. Julio goes deep to CF only to be robbed by his Griffey jr.
Next inning, after not making contact on a single pitch and swinging wildly at everything, he hits a no doubter with Finest Rutschman. Ok.
He is pitching Potm Zac Gallen and throwing changeup after changeup. Edgar goes deep this time and yes, my opponent robs it AGAIN with Griffey jr in CF.
He continues swinging away and striking out with everyone until the fourth where he grounds one up the middle with Pujols, then, you guessed it, another no doubt home run with Rutschman.
So now I’m down 3-0 despite having homered twice and struck him out 6 times.
Eventually Cal RALEIGH leads off with a knock so I pinch hit Vogelbach for Castillo and hit a foul home run and another foul line drive before homering. 3-2. Thank the baseball gods.
He adds a solo shot on the first pitch from my reliever and the score stays 4-2 until bottom 9 despite my guys hitting line drive outs and warning track fly balls.
Santana pinch hits to start the last ups and homers to right. 4-3. Julio singles and he goes to the pen. This time MY Griffey jr homers and… he dashboards.
I’d forgotten how bad the gameplay can be online. I thought Franchise vs cpu was bad but boy…Good Times!
This is similar how my last ranked game went. I had my opponent at 60+ pitches in the 3rd and was losing in the 4th 3-1 bc he swung at every pitch and when he finally made contact it was a homerun...
MLB 22 is to my the WORST mlb the show ever released. -
@Weshill627_PSN said in Possibly the weirdest game I ever played:
@halfbutt_PSN said in Possibly the weirdest game I ever played:
So I haven’t played ranked in a while. I’ve been working a lot and playing Franchise occasionally.
Tonight I decided to bust out the Mariners theme team for $hits. I’m somewhere in the 400’s this season, and I match up with a guy who has a record of like 80 wins and 120 losses.
Castillo carves him up first inning and I am hitting. Julio goes deep to CF only to be robbed by his Griffey jr.
Next inning, after not making contact on a single pitch and swinging wildly at everything, he hits a no doubter with Finest Rutschman. Ok.
He is pitching Potm Zac Gallen and throwing changeup after changeup. Edgar goes deep this time and yes, my opponent robs it AGAIN with Griffey jr in CF.
He continues swinging away and striking out with everyone until the fourth where he grounds one up the middle with Pujols, then, you guessed it, another no doubt home run with Rutschman.
So now I’m down 3-0 despite having homered twice and struck him out 6 times.
Eventually Cal RALEIGH leads off with a knock so I pinch hit Vogelbach for Castillo and hit a foul home run and another foul line drive before homering. 3-2. Thank the baseball gods.
He adds a solo shot on the first pitch from my reliever and the score stays 4-2 until bottom 9 despite my guys hitting line drive outs and warning track fly balls.
Santana pinch hits to start the last ups and homers to right. 4-3. Julio singles and he goes to the pen. This time MY Griffey jr homers and… he dashboards.
I’d forgotten how bad the gameplay can be online. I thought Franchise vs cpu was bad but boy…Good Times!
This is similar how my last ranked game went. I had my opponent at 60+ pitches in the 3rd and was losing in the 4th 3-1 bc he swung at every pitch and when he finally made contact it was a homerun...
MLB 22 is to my the WORST mlb the show ever released.I actually enjoyed it this year. Aside from the normal BS things.
When you see the player literally swinging at everything, just keep thowing balls in the dirt. Pitch sequencing is huge too. Yes, it's different hitters, but it's the same player holding the controller. Gotta change the pitching strategy on almost every batter or just keep using whatever is working.
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This is true, but ultimately, I have found it doesn’t matter. Sooner or later, your opponent will hit one out, and it has nothing to do with sequencing or his/her swing.
As posted above, it’s really best not to take the gameplay too seriously because there is parity programmed in.
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