Improvements: crowds, announcers and the sights and sounds of The Show
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I've been a fan of the franchise for over a decade. In my opinion, over the last 3 to 4 years the Show has become very stale when it comes to the sights and sounds of the game.
My biggest ask is upgrades to crowd reactions during gameplay. A great example is when a double play is made The crowd reacts the same way to a Walk off home run in the bottom of the 9th to win the game. There's no variety of reaction based on the scale of what's happening on the field. This is why I feel it's important to go to live games and record the crowds. It's been done in games like EA college football 25 and 26, and would be a major welcome change to The Show.
Another huge change would be to bring in a new broadcast team. I know a lot of people end up turning off the broadcast team because it gets stale it's the same commentary every year, with a few new facts and phrases mixed in. Given that this year's game is the 20th anniversary, I feel like it's time for an upgrade. My personal suggestion is to bring in Joe Davis. As a Dodger fan, I'm spoiled when I get to listen to his commentary. But, as a baseball fan, when he gets the chance to call a postseason game, it's a whole different atmosphere than anyone else that I listen to. In my opinion, he has the chance to be the Vin Scully of my generation. I think Joe would do a fantastic job and bring some life and excitement back to The Show's broadcast.
The next thing that I would suggest is updated on the field sounds, such as enhanced bat sounds. The reason for this is because we've been told that the ball physics are going to change in this year's game. I feel like that warrants a change to the way the ball sounds when it comes off the bat. It's been talked about in the broadcast of the game in previous years, that when certain players hit the ball it just sounds different. It would be nice to have that match certain players builds. If a contact player hits the ball it's not going to sound as devastating as a power hitter like Aaron Judge or Bryce Harper. Along with updated bat sounds, I feel that it's time to also upgrade the pop sounds from the glove. My personal example of this is the catcher mitt. To me, it just doesn't sound authentic. There's not that snap that you would hear at a real ball game.
Overall, I'm excited to see the new features in this year's game, but as someone who really dives deep and truly enjoys listening to the sounds of the game, these are just a few things that I've noticed that would bring that much more realism and authenticity the game that I love and a title that I purchase every single year.
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@The_Brandon7711_PSN said in Improvements: crowds, announcers and the sights and sounds of The Show:
Another huge change would be to bring in a new broadcast team. I know a lot of people end up turning off the broadcast team because it gets stale it's the same commentary every year, with a few new facts and phrases mixed in. Given that this year's game is the 20th anniversary, I feel like it's time for an upgrade.
Fans screamed to get the Play by Play updated. So they did that a few years back and surprise the new team, even with a couple of years of development could not record nearly the number of voice lines that the previous team did.
No matter who they bring in, as long as they record static lines then we will always get massive repeats of some dialogue. The only way around that I can see would be to clone the announcers voices (which is possible today) and use AI to dynamically provide the script. I don't think the AI is responsive enough yet for that nor do I believe the PS5 has enough power to run the AI locally.
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@Dolenz_PSN said in Improvements: crowds, announcers and the sights and sounds of The Show:
nor do I believe the PS5 has enough power to run the AI locally.
We'll all have server farms in our backyard soon enough.
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Play by play and color have always been bad in sports games.I mute it after the first month except for the nba games where I mute it seconds after I've brought it.
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@the_brandon7711_psn I have another issue with MLB the Show but I am in the Nintendo Switch so this may vary. I have noticed that when I am in a minor league stadium playing as the home team in diamond dynasty, it literally sounds like the fans are going for the away team, not my team because they get a little happy when I am batting and get a strike or a swing and miss. They also don't sound like they appreciate the homeruns enough and no this has nothing to do with the crowd volume too. Like bro it seems like my team is the away team rather than the home team. San Diego Studios needs to fix this ASAP.
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@Dolenz_PSN
If they keep the original sounds it will suck. I am a Yankees fan. The siren from a homerun is not the accurate siren and the run scored is also not the accurate instrument. -
Also the homerun celebration music is pretty unsatisfying considering that in diamond dynasty, you can't even select your own music for when your team hits a homerun, its just sounds like a train horn for example that are selective. Then there are barely songs in the jukebox that actually fit for a team's homerun celebration song/music like previously the Dodgers with the magic number song (which is a song that fits the music and is in the game) and Chris Taylor until they released him and he went to the Angels. (I know Chris Taylor was a free agent after that, just letting you know that he resigned with the Angels.) And then the music just sucks, I wish SDS had the rights to real home run celebration music from MLB teams even though it would sound weird to hear El Sonidito in Coors Field. I wish at the very least that SDS improves the home run celebration music and add more good songs that would fit a team's home run celebration music. And then theres the game ending music, they need to add game ending music because the music you hear really isn't happening where the team is at if you think about it, because it is just the broadcasting sounds, not ballpark music. Music is a core part of MLB the Show I believe, and SDS has time to improve and add these specific assets I request for before the release deadline comes.
