MLB The Show 20 is by far the worst The Show version
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I stand by the statement of 18 being far worse.
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@ComebackLogic said in MLB The Show 20 is by far the worst The Show version:
Yeah, I’m grinding showdowns because online play is awful. It’s all a waste of time though. Why bother obtaining cards if there’s no decent online game mode to use them in?
There are LOTS of offline players who still collect the cards because they enjoy collecting and playing with those players.
Do we need an all diamond team to beat Conquest or the CPU in a 9 inning game? No. But that does not mean we still don't enjoy collecting and using an all diamond team.
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@Dolenz said in MLB The Show 20 is by far the worst The Show version:
@ComebackLogic said in MLB The Show 20 is by far the worst The Show version:
Yeah, I’m grinding showdowns because online play is awful. It’s all a waste of time though. Why bother obtaining cards if there’s no decent online game mode to use them in?
There are LOTS of offline players who still collect the cards because they enjoy collecting and playing with those players.
Do we need an all diamond team to beat Conquest or the CPU in a 9 inning game? No. But that does not mean we still don't enjoy collecting and using an all diamond team.
That’s fine, but I personally stopped buying games to play vs cpu about 5 years ago. If a game doesn’t have online multiplayer, I’m out. The last game I played offline was the story mode to GTA 5 and although I’ve briefly played single player only titles that I’ve appreciated, such as Mafia 3, it feels like you’re only getting half a game these days if it’s offline only. Unfortunately, times have changed and so have the tastes of gamers. I’m going to play the offline modes in MLB ‘20, because I’ve already purchased it. Had I known RS would be in the state it’s in, I wouldn’t have purchased ‘20 at all, because that’s the mode I mainly play. That’s the mode I spend thousands of hours in every year and that’s the only mode I’d even consider spending real money on upgrading my team for. Any card will hit well offline, the game plays completely balanced and fairly outside of diamond dynasty, sadly it’s just extremely boring and pointless to me personally. A never ending grind with zero sense of reward, playing infinite franchise seasons and so on. With RS everything comes together, it’s a nine inning game, as baseball should be. It allows you to use any of the cards you spent vast amounts of time and money collecting to build a team and face another human doing the same thing. It has a sense of progression, in terms of climbing the divisions and also in the sense that each season has a start and end point, once it’s over, it’s over. You do what you can in the time you’re allowed. It also has tiered rewards, which feed into the sense of achievement and progression as you play. There’s no other mode that incorporates these crucial aspects together. Not online nor offline. That’s the game I want to play.
I’m sure if they removed RTTS, or broke it completely, players who only play RTTS would feel the same way. Anyway, in light of the fact that SDS have made a terrible game two out of the last three years, broken my only game mode of choice and they don’t seem to even realise it or attempt to fix it, I won’t be around for another dose of the same medicine next March. -
@Ikasnu said in MLB The Show 20 is by far the worst The Show version:
I stand by the statement of 18 being far worse.
It was fun if you liked RS seasons as HR derby
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@ComebackLogic said in MLB The Show 20 is by far the worst The Show version:
That’s fine, but I personally stopped buying games to play vs cpu about 5 years ago. If a game doesn’t have online multiplayer, I’m out.
I am the exact opposite. I just don't have the patience to deal with competitive online play. I only play solo games, where my enjoyment cannot be ruined by others. As a certified old man at this point I don't see that changing.
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18 was actually depressing to play. 19 was notably improved, and this game plays like 19 but with more errors and more random pitching/hitting outcomes. All three are pretty bad compared to the online gameplay in 16 and 17. Those games had their issues as well but there was far less randomness.
That seems to be the chief complaint among veteran players is the high frequency of random results and the appearance of forced competitiveness where the guy who pops up and strikes out all game is always just a bloop and a blast away from winning vs the guy who hits 10+ line drives.
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@Dolenz said in MLB The Show 20 is by far the worst The Show version:
@ComebackLogic said in MLB The Show 20 is by far the worst The Show version:
That’s fine, but I personally stopped buying games to play vs cpu about 5 years ago. If a game doesn’t have online multiplayer, I’m out.
I am the exact opposite. I just don't have the patience to deal with competitive online play. I only play solo games, where my enjoyment cannot be ruined by others. As a certified old man at this point I don't see that changing.
Maybe that’s my issue here. I’ll be 39 this summer and I think I’m just mentally stuck in between being too old for this [censored] and wanting things to work how they always did in the past. The sooner I progress to full on “old man yelling at clouds” status and accept it, the better off I’ll be.
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@Captain_Chegster said in MLB The Show 20 is by far the worst The Show version:
@LeftyJefe said in MLB The Show 20 is by far the worst The Show version:
I've actually gone back and started playing MLB 19. I then played a few games of 16. 16 hitting was clean.
Are there any people online or did you only play offline?
I changed my PSN username several months ago so my old MLB 16 profile and cards got wiped out. I tried to get a BR game in (really late at night), but stopped searching after several minutes so I just played Conquest on high difficulty with the free bronze and silver cards (rookie A-Rod) that the game starts you off with. As of right now, according to the MLB 16 community market, there are 742 players online for MLB 16 which isn't bad for a 4 year old game. Pitch speeds were good, they had replay challenges in this game (no option to turn them off though), and umpires had different strike zones. Some blatant strikes would be called balls and some obvious balls would be called strikes with no option for perfect umpire. Fielding felt smoother too in the infield. Seems like the more animations SDS introduced in the later games, the more the game felt sloppy. The main thing is that I'm actually having fun with MLB 16 rather than MLB 20 where thinking about MLB 20 is more fun than playing MLB 20.
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The game is playing exactly as intended.
Let it sink in first....
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too funny a lot of you werent around in 12, 13, 14 days where online guy was busy making paranormal activity instead
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I'm glad I read this before attempting online play. I'm having enough fun playing moments or grinding showdowns RTTS and March to October..
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@Ikasnu said in MLB The Show 20 is by far the worst The Show version:
I stand by the statement of 18 being far worse.
18 was horrendous. I literally quit playing. Just terrible.
My favorite is still 17 even though menus were painfully slow. Online stat missions created so many diverse lineups and that Griffey program was such a beast but so rewarding.
I think 18 had the flip a billion hats and jerseys thing too. So bad.
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I dont understand the hate for the hat and Jersey exchanges. They were the easiest stub making scheme ever. I wish they would bring them back.
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