This is the state of modern gaming, an obviously flawed product is released to the public, the public posts negative feedback, many others in the community mock the negative poster, so nobody fixes the game because enough people express satisfaction despite its objectively mediocre quality.

It’s not fair that they exclude Mets legends like timo Perez and Luis Castillo. At least make a Bobby bonilla card that costs 10k stubs up front and 1k every week afterwards.

I’m sorry but the developers really need to investigate their idea of what makes a game fun to play.

There are too many things that happen that are out of the player’s control, and that seriously detracts from the enjoyment of playing MLB.

Perfectly executed pitches either miss the strike zone or float right down the middle regardless of the pitcher’s control and bb/9 attributes, outfielders make way too many errors that you cannot prevent from happening, and contact outcomes are all over the place - sometimes balls in the center of the pci are ‘okay’ and other times it’s a perfect, while balls on the fringe of the inner circle may get ‘good’ contact results. Then the actual outcome from those contact results seems even more arbitrary, square ups and goods are outs too often, okays and jam shots too frequently wind up resulting in soft hits.

These frustrating parts of the game even carry over to offline play, which in previous titles used to provide a reprieve from all the online nonsense. There’s no escape anymore, now the game will aggravate you no matter what mode you choose.

For those of us who have bought MLB the Show every year for the ps3 and ps4, I cannot imagine how you aren’t disappointed in what it has become.

The legendary sinkerballer Mariano Rivera is the obvious choice. His sinker was so good that it became the only pitch he ever threw. When you think of Mariano Rivera you think of the sinker.

Either way I’m sure he will throw a nice sinker.

So I klubered a couple of games in the event and hit a kluber off of his kluber and the guy disklubered so I got the W. Second game my outfielder klubered a routine fly ball so that was frustrating but then his kluber hung a cutter and I klubered it. A fun session of klubering.

Online play has been disappointing for the past three years. Not sure how that can be debated

Well that’s baseball, sometime you hit the ball on the nose for a lazy fly out, and sometimes your very existence gets nullified by unknown powers and you take the L

Please cripple people who dashboard during your home runs. Please do this.

A two hopper that travels straight into the shortstop’s glove, often occurs immediately after hitting one out single.

It’s another year where I do the LS collection, POTM, and the collection rewards, looked at my team of legends, and turned the game off instead of playing Random Seasons with all these new cards

Have you ever watched whose line is it anyway? Everything’s made up and the points don’t matter

Down in NJ. I feel like a sucker for preordering this game every year

It’s been years with this. Please either eliminate overall restrictions on events or update your lineup/rotation generator so that it makes a team that does not have an overall rating that exceeds the event restrictions.

I did actually intend to play the event in order to warm up and maybe get an edge in Battle Royale since it's on lower difficulty. Three games later and I'm on the whinging boards. Guess it really is a me problem.

Yeah that happens in baseball but it's probably the least fun thing about the sport. Why incorporate that into a video game? Why is the reward for all of this John Olerud?

@killerpresence4 said in Game is Trash. Worst show ever made. Been slowly declining since 17.:

@chickun_legs_psn said in Game is Trash. Worst show ever made. Been slowly declining since 17.:

Hitting the ball hard for an out is probably the least fun thing about baseball, and they put that in the game for the sake of realism, while also allowing lots of unrealistic nonsense like pinpoint pitching, pci coverage of the entire strike zone, random bunt outcomes, random stolen base outcomes, R2 pausing, perfect timing foul balls, etc etc

Either make it fun or make it realistic. Lately this game is a half measure of both.

Freddie Freeman says hi. .228 ba, his xbaobip is .300!! 45% barrel rate and 75 outs on balls hit over 95 mph.

Is it bad luck or are all those barrels going straight into the shift?

“Some base hits by low speed players are hard line drives to RF. I've had the ball in hand and gunned to 1st to get the batter. 0 speed batter vs 99 arm RF, and you would have him by 1 or 2 steps minimum and for whatever reason the 1st baseman isn't on the bag, he is just milling around where he would have been trying game play and this is on gold glove defensive 1st Basemen.”

They did this on purpose because hitters would get thrown out from right field before reaching first base on a regular basis a few years ago. Instead of actually fixing the game engine (making batters run out of the box faster, speeding up swing follow through animations, adjusting throwing speeds, throwing animations, etc) they just programmed the 1B to stand there like a zombie on base hits to right field.

I always liked the cutter in / curve low combo with drob vs left handed batters, but I guess this year they’ll just foul off the curve over and over

@cjhanz84_psn said in Perfect/Perfect... Foul?:

@joshjays44_psn said in Perfect/Perfect... Foul?:

@cjhanz84_psn said in Perfect/Perfect... Foul?:

Most of the time I hit a perfect perfect it is right to someone. Most of the time the CPU hits it, it’s a hit. When they first introduced the perfect perfect they said it was something to reward you.

Perfect perfect doesn’t feel rewarding. And now it’s become something I try to avoid and something that should be rewarding is not something you should try and avoid

You DD casuals loves getting a pat on the back eh?...I don't know why most of you guys don't play more of RBI Baseball to get that arcade experience.

I’m sure a lot of people feel this way about perfect perfect but just because I don’t play ranked seasons and usually only play vs the CPU doesn’t make me a casual. I’ve been playing this game for years. Casual implies barely playing the game. I try and get at least 10 games in a day, usually more and usually complete the programs on those games well under time. The next time you go to say something ignorant to someone, think for a minute and then politely STFU

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