The Line Drive 3/7

Yo Pasta, I'm not into the whole “You're a Fanboy” type of thing but it is kind of weak you didn't have a blog highlighting the garbage that is supposed to be Franchise mode and rosters on MLB The Show. Seeing as how you detailed the weakness of MLB2K10 online I don't see how these issues warrant their own posts.

I know the whole “Sony is working on it” crap is going to come out, but that doesn't excuse this shit one bit. Yeah the game plays good on the field, but “the best sports game out” should providea little more. Regardless man , I enjoy the blog and keep doing what you do.

…”don't warrant their own posts” I meant to say. You get the picture

Was mentioned here…
http://www.pastapadre.com/2010/03/02/mlb-10-the...

And will be talked about in the impressions if not a post of its own coming up. 2K10 is the more enjoyable (though probably not “better”) offline game right now IMO, The Show the better online game.

thanks

Fair enough, maybe I just missed it (hard to imagine considering this site get's me through the boring lulls of the day). I”m not hating on the game, but this weak sauce needed to be highlighted.

BTW I like this sites “free to speak, keep it real mentality”

Understandable. I'm frustrated with a few things about The Show this year. I'm just trying to put enough time into the games before posting up my full thoughts.

why you`re frustated about the show? tell us

I really hope EA's MMA game can push UFC Undisputed to new heights. Competition is so important for sports games, especially young games. I don't want to see innovation squashed. I'm digging the dev blogs though.

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yea i did notice after i got the roster update march 2nd that for some reason Curtis Granderson is at SS in the lineup and Derek Jeter is at CF, a minor annoyance as you can fix it, but how did that happen?

thats in the show

The whole March 2 roster update is garbage…the Yankees, Twins and Tigers rosters are messed up. But the bigger issue is the potential rating problem. Lots of good, younger players have C or less potential ratings causing them to have their skills decrease year over year in Franchise mode. Thankfully, they caught that and will be fixing it in the March 8 update.

i hope EA gets the updated kits in the game for World Cup. USA wont have the ones in that screenshot.

I find it hard to believe people could have already pitched a Perfect Game, It's a hard task (Well at least for me) I've been trying for a while. Last game I made it to the 8th Inning with 2 Down, Got beat by a slow roller up the middle It was like pouring salt in an open wound. They have some bogus rules, they claim you have to use the starting pitcher set to start the game in real life, yet it randoms the starting pitcher in the game. Why not just automatically make it select the correct starting pitcher?

probably stalling for people to get the perfect game. keeps people playing. i get real tired of the weak singles in late innings. especially when u throw a 12-6 out of the zone and its somehow a blooper…go figure

I guess hard work doesn't pay off. I would have thought that skipping College and living in my mom's basement to perfect my gaming skills over the past 28 years would have gotten me something. Screw you 2k!

Man the Show's roster update is trash too!!! They still aint fixed all the bullshit minors with high potential and positions are still fucked up. This game is the most bug filled game I have ever purchased. This shit is TRASH!!!!

Are you talking about today's (March roster update? If so, this will upset a lot of folks – me included.

yeah man the one today. 148 players in the minors with “A” potential. Ryan Zimmerman is still a “D” potential. Still some fucked up positions (Damon in CF) and after a simmed Franchise season, Pujols punk ass got traded for 3 prospects. ROFLMFAO this is pathetic.

Wow…not good. I have been toying around with some of the “workarounds” out there for Franchise mode, so I don't get my players traded by the CPU any more. But it's still strange that they can't get the lineups correct in the roster update…

i was wrong on zimmerman but the rest of the issues i mentioned remain the same

Maybe it's all the bugs that come packaged with the game year in and year out. Last year there was the bug where you couldn't even finish your RTTS player because it wouldn't let you get past a certain date. This year there seems to be the same issue in some instances.

The first time I tried to sim through a season just to check out how things simulate in franchise, the game won't let me get past August 12th! Can you imagine if I had found this out after playing out all the games up until that point? Did someone not even catch these issues or see the possibility of this occurring like it did last season in RTTS?

There's just a lot of little things that add up to a lot of frustration. Don't get me wrong, the gameplay is still top notch as well as the graphics, so I'm sticking to just playing in season mode and have fun with the game that way. Too frustrating to mess with all the other issues in the other modes unless they patch it and fix it eventually. Sad to say, after many hours I'm also disappointed with The Show's overall package. They really need to fix these issues with next year's game or with a patch, or I might have to pass purchasing it day one next year. Sad to say it's turning into a Gamefly first title for me.

Not that anyone asked my opinion . Just thought this was a good chance to throw my two cents in.

+1

So sick of how all anyone ever talks about is how great The Show is, but completely ignores that is has MAJOR issues.

Man the Show's roster update is trash too!!! They still aint fixed all the bullshit minors with high potential and positions are still fucked up. This game is the most bug filled game I have ever purchased. This shit is TRASH!!!!

Are you talking about today's (March roster update? If so, this will upset a lot of folks – me included.

yeah man the one today. 148 players in the minors with “A” potential. Ryan Zimmerman is still a “D” potential. Still some fucked up positions (Damon in CF) and after a simmed Franchise season, Pujols punk ass got traded for 3 prospects. ROFLMFAO this is pathetic.

Wow…not good. I have been toying around with some of the “workarounds” out there for Franchise mode, so I don't get my players traded by the CPU any more. But it's still strange that they can't get the lineups correct in the roster update…

i was wrong on zimmerman but the rest of the issues i mentioned remain the same

Maybe it's all the bugs that come packaged with the game year in and year out. Last year there was the bug where you couldn't even finish your RTTS player because it wouldn't let you get past a certain date. This year there seems to be the same issue in some instances.

The first time I tried to sim through a season just to check out how things simulate in franchise, the game won't let me get past August 12th! Can you imagine if I had found this out after playing out all the games up until that point? Did someone not even catch these issues or see the possibility of this occurring like it did last season in RTTS?

There's just a lot of little things that add up to a lot of frustration. Don't get me wrong, the gameplay is still top notch as well as the graphics, so I'm sticking to just playing in season mode and have fun with the game that way. Too frustrating to mess with all the other issues in the other modes unless they patch it and fix it eventually. Sad to say, after many hours I'm also disappointed with The Show's overall package. They really need to fix these issues with next year's game or with a patch, or I might have to pass purchasing it day one next year. Sad to say it's turning into a Gamefly first title for me.

Not that anyone asked my opinion . Just thought this was a good chance to throw my two cents in.

+1

So sick of how all anyone ever talks about is how great The Show is, but completely ignores that is has MAJOR issues.