@ComebackLogic said in Just how bad are you at MLB the Show 20?:
It’s difficult to gauge exactly how good or bad you are at this game if you play online. You can’t judge your skill level by the quality of the opponent you lost to, or defeated, because the game doesn’t play fairly. You could consistently make better inputs than your opponent for nine innings and still lose, it’s not always based upon skill.
That said, I don’t think I’m very good at this game. I’d say my hitting is probably 3/10 and my pitching 7/10 on a good day when the ball doesn’t hang randomly and my opponent doesn’t yank everything out for an early homer using directional. I like pitching more than hitting because I understand pitching. I grasp the concept of setting up batters, inducing the kind of contact I want, as opposed to the kind of contact that my opponent wants. It even works as it should in game from time to time, unlike most of the hitting.
Sadly, the focus is always on who can hit the most home runs in this game, with strategy and tactics taking a backseat to swinging as early as possible and scoring mostly on home runs. Now, they’ve dialled it back a little, granted (earlier in the year all my SP had an ERA approaching 10 and I would often hear the line “break out the record books, back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back home runs!”), but it’s still not quite baseball in my opinion. It’s a shame, because there’s so much more to the game of baseball than just hitting the ball. With all these pace of play rules and garbage IRL, I doubt it will get any better in years to come, I don’t hold out much hope for improvement for next year and next gen.