MLB 12: The Show

[FirstTimer]

Ahh, I missed that the first time around. Any chance you could link the spreadsheet or something, I'm curious to see all the names. Never played the game.

I'll link them up once I'm done with the AL(Hopefully Friday afternoon)

 

[Handleit_44]

NEW FEATURES IN MLB 12 THE SHOW:

MLB The Show on PS Vita (PS Vita) – MLB 12 The Show is available on the PS Vita this year so users can enjoy all of the core modes of play found in the PS3 game, including Exhibition, Season, Franchise, Home Run Derby, online play, and Road to The Show, for users who want the personal experience of taking control of one player through his career starting in the Minors all the way to the Majors. PS Vita users will have the ability to use new touch screen controls within MLB 12 The Show using the front touch screen and the rear touch screen controls to throw the ball to specific locations, make pitch commands, and run the bases. MLB 12 The Show for PS Vita will provide a big league experience that players can take with them on road, anytime, anywhere.

Cross Platform Saves (PS3 & PS Vita) – New to MLB 12 The Show is the ability for users to share save files between PS3 and PS Vita. Players can now take their Franchise, Season, and Road to The Show save files up to the cloud where they can then access those files on either platform. Users are limited to one file per mode per PlayStation Network account, which can be overwritten as many times as you’d like. At home on PS3 or on the road with the PS Vita, fans can continue their seasons anywhere!

True Ball Physics (PS3 & Vita) – MLB 12 The Show now incorporates realistic ball physics and proper spin for balls that bounce off the bases, the pitcher’s mound rubber, and other surface on the field. The baseball now bounces realistically using actual math for a spinning ball hitting these surfaces. Therefore, the way the ball bounces in MLB 12 has changed a lot from previous versions. In order for hits to get through the infield, the ball counts on having top-spin so the spin of the ball off the bat is now accurate with realistic RPMs. The ball also bounces and loses energy like a real baseball does and is launched with the correct spin. This results in more hit type varieties, rising and sinking liners, more choppers, balls tailing away from the outfielders, and balls hitting off the bases.

TruBroadcast Presentations (PS3 Only) – Baseball fans demand an accurate simulation of reality and anything that detracts from this can shatter the feeling that you are playing in a real game. MLB 12 The Show makes the biggest leap forward EVER in this regard, truly blurring the line between reality and the in-game experience. With completely refined presentations combined with enhanced artificial intelligence (AI), revamped cameras, and expanded audio, MLB 12 is poised to deliver the most realistic baseball gaming experience to date.

Diamond Dynasty (PS3 Only) – Diamond Dynasty juggles aspects of team management, player progression, and online competition, with more creative freedom than any sports game to date. Gamers create a custom team complete with Team Name, Colors, custom Uniforms, and fully customizable Logos with up to 1000 layers of detail. Once created, the team is given a handful of MLB baseball cards and Dynasty baseball cards that, when activated, add the players to your team roster.

Full Move Support in The Show (PS3) – Control all aspects of The Show with the PlayStation®Move motion controller, including pitching, hitting, fielding, and running the bases. There are also custom meters on screen to compliment the experience. Imagine being at the plate and seeing the batters hands moving as you move. Move gameplay can be used in all modes.

Zone Analog Batting (PS3 & PS Vita) – MLB® 11 The Show™ introduced analog controls, now this year, MLB 12 will bring a combination of the old and the new with Zone Analog Batting. The right analog stick will still be used for the stride and swing, but now, if you choose to, you can control where you swing in the zone using the left analog stick. All the other analog controls are also being improved and enhanced.

Pulse Pitching (PS3 & PS Vita) – This is a new interface to the classic pitching style. Players still pitch using a simple “X” button press, but users must time the press with an on-screen display to ensure pitch accuracy. All other pitching methods are also being improved and enhanced.

Franchise Improvements (PS3 & PS Vita) – MLB 12 The Show introduces a number of Franchise mode improvements, including player generation logic has been tuned to provide more variety inside draft classes and more realistic pitch repertoires. The lineup logic has also been updated to give you closer to real-life rosters while in your Season, Franchise, and Road to The Show modes. Finally, the trade system has been revamped with improved logic based more on the real-life club’s strategy. Small market teams will behave as such, while the bigger fish will continue to go after the top players in the game. Also, highly touted prospects will remain just that and won’t be showing up in trades early on in their careers.

Road to the Show Improvements (PS3 & PS Vita) – This generation of Road to The Show brings a new assortment of training modes for base running and fielding to round out your Road to The Show player’s training experience. Also, your created player will now be “that” highlighted and touted prospect you think he is, by starting his career as a Double-A starter. The player creator has seen improvements as well, by offering a slew of new accessories to compliment the already extensive system.

Situational Collision Awareness (PS3 & Vita) – Players will now know where they and other players are on the field and understand when to avoid other players and how to react when other players are near. Although this sounds like a relatively simple concept, but it’s very important and makes the game experience feel more true to life.

New Tag Animation System (PS3 & PS Vita) – Players can now branch out of any tag throw animation and branch out of a tag animation to avoid it. There are also more animations and ways to tag runners out at the plate. This new system allows for more results (dropping the ball, new swipes, etc.) and the addition of new standing and run down tags, which creates a more dynamic and organic player integration on the base paths and at the plate.

Online Everywhere and Unified Settings (PS3 & PS Vita) – Online everywhere and Unified Settings will minimize, if not remove, the obvious line between offline and online in The Show via PSN. One of the most notable changes is the inclusion of online features and components in the main menus, especially the Exhibition > Team Select screen. That’s now the launching pad for offline Exhibition and online Play Now games. Users will also now be auto-logged in to The Show servers, making online features more accessible. Unifying user settings is a minor, but important feature. Users no longer have to set their offline and online settings – there will be one!

Play Now Plus (PS3 & PS Vita) – Similar to Play Now, Play Now Plus can be used through custom settings. This is as easy as selecting Play Now, setting your Play Now settings, saving these settings, then selecting Play Now type. There’s no need to set you Play Now settings again, unless you want to change them up. You’ll then be able to find an opponent to match your gameplay settings, without having to go through the challenge process.

SimulView™ Functionality with PlayStation®3D Display (PS3) – MLB 12 The Show will incorporate SimulView™ technology that allows two people to play head to head without seeing each other’s screen while playing on the PlayStation®3D Display. It uses the same technology as Stereoscopic 3D, but instead of sending image A to the left eye and image B to the right Eye, we send image A to player 1 and image B to player 2.

New Tutorial Movies (PS3 & PS Vita) – With all of the new features this year in MLB 12 The Show, we felt that it was essential to provide more tutorial movies to educate our fans. For example, these tutorial movies showcase and explain the new PS Move implementation for all facets of gameplay (hitting, pitching, fielding, and throwing). In addition, the five tutorials explaining the Pure features implemented in MLB 11 The Show have also been updated an improved, including Pure Hitting, Pure Pitching, Pure Throwing, and the fake throw system. Watch them in the frontend menus or the in-game pause menu.


- Over 500 new Presentation animations
- Over 300 new Fielding, Throwing, and Base running animations
- Over 150 New Batting Stances
- Over 75 New Pitching Animations
- Improved load times
- Completely new bat, ball and glove sounds
- New Bullpen Management options
- New player accessories (new sunglasses, protective gear, hat bills, etc…)
- New Pick off logic
- New player card including advanced baseball stats
- New Batter/Pitcher Attribute snapshot OSD (D-Pad Left)
- More fluid organic fielder animations from start to end of play
- Improved fielder routes on balls off the wall (more variety of pursuit angles)
- Dynamic fielding results and reaction (balls can now be dropped or missed by a fielder
anytime)
- Improved button fielding with difficulty levels
- New Pitcher Confidence Logic
- Increased and improved conversation among Matt, Dave and Eric.
- 14 New umpires
- Updated uniforms and stadiums for new and updated teams
- Updated jumbotron movies and stat layouts (still team specific)
- Updated LED Ribbon board art and movies
- Focus on interface and display presentation and flair
- Uniform select in all modes
- Frontend sound preview when assigning audio
-New Player Generation Logic
- New Trade interface and screen
- Improved Lineup Logic
- Co-op available in Season and Franchise modes
- Road to the Show career begins as a Double-A starter
- Move video tutorials
- New in-game tips
- Did You Knows on Loading screens
- Season and Franchise mode Co-op
- Base Running Training in RTTS
- Fielding Training in RTTS
- New Base Runner Awareness
- Online Gameplay Gets a Boost (better reaction, better experience) (PS3)
- www.TheShowNation.com Community Web Site Revamp
- Operating System supported Virtual Keyboard
- New Online Gamer Card (more information)
- Swing Analysis OSD Improvements and Profile Display Options
- “Free” 1st inning quit in Online Games removed
- Online Profile to use PSN Avatar
- PSN Profile utility support on Vita (Friend Requests)
- Game History showing XP gain/loss)
- Play online with your full profile settings (minus negotiated settings)
- Challenge of the Week is now free
- Online League Schedule improvements
- Online League Playoff improvements

 

[FirstTimer]

Good to read about prospects not being dealt as much.

 

[Sharkweather]

Good to read about prospects not being dealt as much.

Let's hope so, it was almost impossible to get through a 2011 season without Bryce Harper being traded.

If trade logic and lineup logic is fixed along with the ball physics and trubroadcast changes, I will be happy. There is some other nice things, but that is just gravy if those other things work properly.

 

[FirstTimer]

Let's hope so, it was almost impossible to get through a 2011 season without Bryce Harper being traded.

If trade logic and lineup logic is fixed along with the ball physics and trubroadcast changes, I will be happy. There is some other nice things, but that is just gravy if those other things work properly.

The free agency bug needs to be fixed too. They say it is..but we will see.

Apparently the big Franchise overhaul is coming next season.

 

[Sharkweather]

http://www.operationsports.com/foru...609-ratings-calculator-download-enclosed.html

I fucked around with that last year, it's not the best.

 

[Sharkweather]

Stickskills.com: MLB 12: The Show Franchise Mode Division Preview #1 – NL East

Atlanta Braves

The Impact Veterans: Chipper Jones, Tim Hudson, Brian McCann

The Young Guns: Jason Heyward, Freddie Freeman, Craig Kimbrel

The Scouting Report: One of the more balanced teams as far as established veterans and exciting young guys that you’ll find in MLB 12, Atlanta is instantly a very intriguing option. You’re set up pretty well to win now, and win in the future if you play it right. Chipper Jones is obviously aging, I would imagine the game will retire him on you after one or two years of your Franchise, but even after that you’ll have plenty of offense left with Brian McCann and a progressing Jason Heyward and Freddie Freeman. The Braves offense is well balanced, allowing you to pummel the ball with guys like McCann, Heyward, and Dan Uggla, but you can also steal bases to your heart’s content with Michael Bourn, who may be literally impossible to throw out in a video game.

The pitching staff loses Derek Lowe, but it’s still incredibly solid (as is tradition in Atlanta). Tim Hudson is the veteran of the staff, but every bit his equal is 26 year old Jair Jurrjens, who posted a sub-3.00 ERA last year on his way to a 13-6 record. Jurrjens forms part of a young core of talent in that rotation, as he’s joined by Tommy Hanson and Brandon Beachy, who are also very promising and in their mid-20′s. The back end is as solid as there is in Major League Baseball. Jonny Venters posted a 1.84 ERA in 88 innnings last year setting up for Craig Kimbrel, who took the league by storm last year, saving 46 games with a 2.10 ERA on his way to the National League Rookie of the Year award.

The Strategy: Win early, then keep on winning. You’ll lose Chipper Jones and Tim Hudson early in your Franchise, but the pieces are there for a dynasty in Atlanta if you manage them right.

The Conclusion: Blending the young talent needed to build a future winner with enough established impact veterans to win right now, Atlanta is a dream scenario for a prospective MLB 12 GM.

Miami Marlins

The Impact Veterans: Jose Reyes, Hanley Ramirez, Josh Johnson

The Young Guns: Logan Morrison, Mike Stanton

The Scouting Report: Miami might be a little more loaded than one would think initially. You can run your opponent to death with Reyes, Ramirez, and Emilio Bonifacio if you wish. Or, you could bash longballs with Ramirez, Morrison, and Stanton. The choice is yours. It’s really all about how you would rather play the game, because Miami is built to succeed with either strategy. This team is young, even the veterans I listed are all 28, so they’re built to be good for awhile.

Miami’s pitching staff is less exciting, but still pretty good. Josh Johnson was downright dominant last year before falling to injury, to the tune of going 3-1 with a 1.64 ERA. He’s 28, but fragile, and you’ll have to weigh that when deciding how much you’d like to pitch him in your season. Johnson is joined by Mark Buerhle, Javier Vasquez, Anibal Sanchez, and Ricky Nolasco. A perfectly adequate staff, with one very remarkable ace if you can keep him healthy. The backend now boasts Heath Bell, who figures to be one of the best in the game at his position. The rest of the bullpen might be a bit of an adventure, but at least you know you have a stopper at the end.
And finally there’s always the allure of a new stadium. Marlins Park makes it’s debut this year, and The Show has given it the virtual treatment in painstaking detail:

The Strategy: Your window is probably about 6 years with this team. Your superstars are in their late twenties, and if you can keep them healthy and keep them in Miami you’ll have a good chance at making some noise in a contentious NL East. Shrewd GM’s will use this early success to build to help grow your team and bring in some young promising prospects to compliment Stanton and Morrison.

The Conclusion: Blending speed and power, Miami will be a fun team to play as on the field. They’ll test your GM skills a bit in the future, but to start out you’re looking at a team with a nice lineup, good pitching, and a beautiful new ballpark (despite that… thing… in left center).

New York Mets

The Impact Veterans: David Wright and… oh boy. Johan Santana, maybe.

The Young Guns: Ike Davis

The Scouting Report: Well… at least you still have David Wright. There’s almost nothing else here. Ike Davis will probably be a pretty decent hitter. Daniel Murphy’s pretty decent. Jason Bay might be pretty good in the game (Keep on surviving on that name recognition, Jason!). But, man, this really is a depleted lineup. You’re going to struggle, there’s no way around that.

The pitching staff isn’t a whole lot better, either. Johan Santana will probably be good. Dillion Gee and RA Dickey might not suck. But what else is there? Mike Pelfrey? This whole staff is just… blah. There’s almost nothing to like here. If I need a staff to help me climb a mountain, I’ll probably call the Mets, but other than that there isn’t much here to like either.

The Strategy: Sell. There’s no reason to have David Wright at this point. Sell him for all the blue-chip prospects you can get to rebuild this team. You’re just wasting David Wright on a team that’s probably 4 or 5 years away. Just get rid of him now, take your prospects and look to the future.

The Conclusion: If despair and depression are for you, you’ve stumbled upon the right team. You’ll lose now, and you’ll lose in the future! Only a masochist would take this team, but we trust that a few of you will, so be prepared to rebuild from the ground up. This is the Legend Difficulty of Franchise Mode. If you can win with this roster, you deserve a job in an actual MLB front office.

Philadelphia Phillies

The Impact Veterans: Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, Ryan Howard

The Young Guns: Domonic Brown and Vance Worley

The Scouting Report: It’s really not fair that a team is allowed to be this good. Halladay, Lee, Howard, Rollins, Utley, Victorino, Pence, Hamels, Papelbon, the list goes on and on of elite players on this team. The lineup is as good as any in the National League, with the abundance of sluggers making up for a general lack of speed from everyone besides Pence and Victorino. You could hit 50 homers with Howard, and probably be in the neighborhood of 20-30 with Pence, Victorino, Rollins, Utley, and probably even Jim Thome if you play him enough. There probably isn’t a lineup in the NL more built to mash the ball out of the park than this one is. Scary, scary hitters in the 1-8 spots.

And then there’s the rotation. Two of the top probably 5 to 10 starters in the Majors in Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee, another elite starter in Cole Hamels, and a young up-and-comer in Vance Worley who posted a 3.01 ERA with 11 wins in 21 starts last year. Oh, and Joe Blanton. But I won’t mention him again if you don’t. An absolutely loaded rotation, and they have Johnathan Papelbon coming over from Boston to lock things down in the back end.

The Strategy: Win now. All of that great stuff I mentioned, it’s all got a bit of age on it. Outside of Vance Worley, nobody mentioned in that section is younger than 28 (Pence and Hamels), and the really elite guys are into their 30′s. With not a whole lot to speak of in terms of young blue-chip guys, you can win your World Series titles now, and rebuild in a few years when guys like Halladay and Rollins start retiring on you.

The Conclusion: A dominant team early. If you want to just win your World Series straight out of the gate, this is on the short list of teams for you. If you want a challenge as a GM, you may want to look elsewhere. Or simulate through the first 5 years.

Washington Nationals

The Impact Veterans: Ryan Zimmerman, Jayson Werth, Michael Morse

The Young Guns: Stephen Strasburg, Drew Storen, Jordan Zimmermann, Wilson Ramos

The Scouting Report: Washington’s lineup is pretty average, maybe slightly above average right now. Ryan Zimmerman is consistent and underappreciated, Jayson Werth is capable of great things (certainly much better than he showed last year), and Michael Morse knocks the cover off the ball with regularity. Outside of those guys, there isn’t much. Wilson Ramos is pretty good, and he’s young so who knows where his ceiling is, Roger Bernadina is a defensive highlight reel but a light hitter, and Ian Desmond is… well he’s perfectly okay. Not a great lineup, but you can score runs with it.

Any discussion of Washington’s pitching staff pretty much begins and ends with Stephen Strasburg. The kid is electric, with unlimited potential and the stuff to be one of the best pitchers in the game. He’s an injury risk, though, and a gamer taking control of Washington may want to put him on an innings limit or something to keep him from getting hurt again, though. You can pair Strasburg with another young burgeoning star in Jordan Zimmermann. Zimmermann was just 8-11 last year, but an ERA of 3.18 he showed plenty of promise and showed that he’s not the only potential star on the staff. An offseason trade also brought 26 year old Gio Gonzalez to Washington. Another young, promising arm who went 16-12 with a 3.12 ERA last year in Oakland and only figures to get better now that he’s entering the prime of his career. The rest of the staff is filled with guys who are disposable. Your John Lannans and Chien-Ming Wangs. The back-end sees Drew Storen, a young closer who’s only 24 but posted 43 saves last year with a 2.75 ERA. Tyler Clippard also figures prominently into this bullpen. The 26 year old goggled one posted a 1.84 ERA in 88.0 innings pitched last year. And finally, the Nats acquired Brad Lidge fresh out of Philly this offseason, solidifying a terrifying trio of relief pitchers that opponents will fear facing.

The Strategy: Win next year. All those young guns in the section a little ways back are fantastic prospects. Strasburg and his sure A potential will progress into one of the best pitchers in MLB 12, Zimmermann will become a frontline guy, and Storen will become a shutdown closer. A few savvy moves by a prospective GM will net you the offensive firepower you need to be a team that can not only contend in the East, but has the potential to win you a World Series.

The Conclusion: An exciting young team that allows you to play with a few of the best young players in the game. The lack of Bryce Harper hurts their playability a little, but if Harper makes Washington’s opening day roster in real life I would highly suggest waiting on starting a Franchise with this team until the first roster update. Harper’s presence gives you a blue-chip offensive prospect and a feared hitter to pair with Morse in the middle of your lineup. The offense can hit a little without him, but with Harper there it becomes explosive.

 

[Sharkweather]

Diamond Dynasty info revealed tonight on Spike on GTTV. 1am/12 CST.

Trailer:

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/episode-509-gt-tv/726614

 

[ryne candy]

wish The Show Vita would have used Virtua Tennis 4 feature of taking a picture of your face and incorporating it into RTTS. Don't know if you can start a RTTS on Vita and switch it to PS3....I know you can do vice versa.

 

[Bomberooski]

Diamond Dynasty looks to be my jam!!!

 

[Sharkweather]

Diamond Dynasty looks to be my jam!!!

It's starting to grow on me, since it is a little different than the Madden/FIFA modes.

The whole creating your own team/uniforms/etc. should be pretty cool. And the fact that you don't have to play online like the other Ultimate Team modes.

 

[Swarley]

Diamond Dynasty

 

[Bomberooski]

It's starting to grow on me, since it is a little different than the Madden/FIFA modes.

The whole creating your own team/uniforms/etc. should be pretty cool. And the fact that you don't have to play online like the other Ultimate Team modes.

Oh man. I love Ultimate Team!

 

[Sharkweather]

The logo creator is more like Forza :laugh::laugh:

Ohh boy. Never played Forza, but this sounds like good news.

 

[Swarley]

Ohh boy. Never played Forza, but this sounds like good news.

Forza logo creator is pretty damn awesome. Really hoping you can share or purchase other people's designs with in game credits or something, b/c I can never make the stuff I usually want.

Can't wait to watch GTTV tonight and see this mode.

 

[Sharkweather]

Skip to 9:40 for The Show/Diamond Dynasty.

http://www.gametrailers.com/episode/gametrailers-tv/145?ch=2

That logo creator looks bad ass.

 

[killgod]

Reminds me of the logo creator from Backbreaker.

 

[Townie33]

Seriously!

Marlins HR celebration.

But I can't look away...............and my eyes hurt.

 

[FirstTimer]

Got my spreadsheets updated. AL and NL completely done.

Threw in a few other players.

Now I have to start going through and refining some of the ratings for certain guys.

 

[MmmmBeeeeer]

Forza logo creator is pretty damn awesome. Really hoping you can share or purchase other people's designs with in game credits or something, b/c I can never make the stuff I usually want.

Can't wait to watch GTTV tonight and see this mode.

I've always been impressed with that in Forza, it is top notch. The designs people come up with are mind blowing.