Any old farts good at this game?
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I’m 50 !! I’m ok … but struggling with pci movement for years !! Also playing all-star level for years…
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I'd love to get a league of older guys, 40 and up to play some real simulation baseball. This nonsense of all of the on screen aids and speed pitching (2-3 seconds in between pitches) takes away from the game. Every league does it. EVERY league. People just don't have patience any longer and enjoy the beauty of the game. Everyone's in a hurry and can't enjoy the experience. Sad, really, with generally such a good looking game.
But if anyone is a true simulation player, let me know. Classic pitching, no onscreen batting aids. As pure as it can be done.
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I'm 65 and play it. I started out with strat-o-matic baseball in the 70's and just two years ago decided to play on a Playstation. I did play in the early 200's with High heat, Triple Play but once it moved away from the PC I stopped all gaming until 2 years ago.
Now, I am excited about the NCAA football game, and hopefully next year a Nascar game that can be as good as N2003 from Sierra/Papyrus.
I play franchise mode and RTTS mode. I finally got to a 99 in my RTTS, as a 1B with the Astros that drafted me in the 5th round.
In franchise mode I am playing the the Baltimore Orioles and neck and neck with the Yankees for the division lead with a little over a month to go in the season. I will make the playoffs but I do not know if I will have to go in as a wild card team.
I play simulation, with pitching on Legend and batting on All-star. -
50 years old here and one thing that helped me out was 1.5 x magnification reading glasses (easier to see the type of pitch coming out of the pitchers hand immediately at release) and those foam controller rings. A colleague of mine uses 2.0 x magnification reading glasses but that's a bit too much zoom for me lol.
Costco sells the reading glases for roughly $20, amazon probably cheaper. -
Dollar General has them for $2.
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I’m 51 and have played very casually since the first show game. My favorite is online rated and really tired of quitters. Usually when I’m up by 2-3 runs they disconnect. The only way I get a full game in is if I lose or hit a walk off home run lol. I try to play SIM and mix up the pitches while trying to hit the black and corners. I think I have a decent eye for detecting balls and strikes. There is no way I can play zone im too slow to move the cursor and hit at the same time lol but I’ll play directional and timed and I see acceptable results.
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I'm 68 years old and have been playing since 2014. I never played a video game in my life because I was busy coaching college football. I had a young son who loved video games and I wanted to spend more time with him. I love baseball so we purchased MLB the show 14 and soon I was playing without him. I've bought the game every year since and now that I'm retired I have improved a great deal. For several years I played online DD and faired very well , winning about 70 percent of my games. I got very frustrated with the mentality of the online fan so I only play offline franchise. I play hall of fame hitting and legend pitching and beat the breaks off the CPU. I hit over 300 and pitch with an era around 3.00. I have learned how to overcome some of my reactionary and visual deficiencies that come with age by using my dual sence remote (200 bucks worth) and playing with a monitor. I play well over 350-400 games a year and generally win the World Series with the San Francisco Giants. This next year I'm giving legend hitting a whirl because my BA has been too high for the last 2 years.
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I’m 72 and I gave up on the game two years ago. I got tired of being beaten after I’d really played hard. It also just wasn’t worth it to me that if I wanted a really good team, I had to buy it because I wasn’t good enough to get the really top level cards by playing a game I had so much trouble winning. I missed it at first, but not anymore.
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55 here
I enjoy playing DD with a team rated around 85.
I like playing with not perfect types vs the cpu on legend difficulty.Online is too much cheese and lag on my big tv.
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I dont think anybody actuality plays this game now. You need a slide rule and a part time accountant to figure if so anso can play which afinity you in what boost who got , who a glitcgh and wo power charged . Click your heels 3 times and wisper " theres no place like Madden. You dont play this game no more you calculate it . Its MLB the Algebra Show. Who got time to practice unimportant stufff like swings and pitches
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