MLB Network Presentation Confirmed For MLB The Show 17

[Caulfield]

I wouldnt mind it if, come April 1, Ken Harrelson and Tim McCarver were announced as next years commentary team.

[vegasmike]

Quote: Originally Posted by Chad0034

I noticed in this video or another gamespot video, there was Inside Edge saying (4-8 against Arietta)...Hoping that we get cool presented statistics on more moments like that.

it would be cool if this was dynamic as the season goes along?

[Jon Arbuckle]

MLB Network graphics will be great. Anything to make the game look more like a TV broadcast AFAIC. But the color commentary is irrelevant to me. It's bound to repeat and become irritating quite quickly regardless of how good the delivery/writing is. I'd personally love a 'solo booth' option that eliminated any lines delivered to the color guys and an emphasis on improving the PBP.

Vasgersian is fine in general and honestly quite good in a solo booth when you mute the other guys but I would be beyond thrilled to have Vin Scully come in and record lines for a solo booth mode. Hey, he's got the free time now, right? Or they could just go through his half century of game calls and just record all the dialogue they need from that.

[Blzer]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jon Arbuckle

Vasgersian is fine in general and honestly quite good in a solo booth when you mute the other guys but I would be beyond thrilled to have Vin Scully come in and record lines for a solo booth mode. Hey, he's got the free time now, right? Or they could just go through his half century of game calls and just record all the dialogue they need from that.

For Vin Scully, pick up a PSX and play any of the older versions of the game when 989 was running things.

Not that this is what makes Vasgersian better in person, but calls like these are completely absent from the game, and I do wish there would be a little more feeling of spontaneity/excitement depending on the situation:

[Caulfield]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jon Arbuckle

Vasgersian is fine in general and honestly quite good in a solo booth when you mute the other guys but I would be beyond thrilled to have Vin Scully come in and record lines for a solo booth mode. Hey, he's got the free time now, right? Or they could just go through his half century of game calls and just record all the dialogue they need from that.

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

For Vin Scully, pick up a PSX and play any of the older versions of the game when 989 was running things. Not that this is what makes Vasgersian better in person, but calls like these are completely absent from the game, and I do wish there would be a little more feeling of spontaneity/excitement depending on the situation:

I think instead of having whoever does the PBP, rather than have them come in a read some prefabricated lines, it would be better to sift and lift through whatever games they called IRL and put those lines in game. This would be more difficult and sony would probably also have to pay whoever owned the broadcast rights to said PBP (or sony could compensate them with free in-game adverts) but it could potentially be far more rewarding than fake commentary.
You might even get better commentary culling from Vasgersians XFL, poker, UFC and Olympic stuff than most of the phoney-baloney he currently "reads". Santa Maria!

[bcruise]

Quote: Originally Posted by Caulfield

I think instead of having whoever does the PBP, rather than have them come in a read some prefabricated lines, it would be better to sift and lift through whatever games they called IRL and put those lines in game. This would be more difficult and sony would probably also have to pay whoever owned the broadcast rights to said PBP (or sony could compensate them with free in-game adverts) but it could potentially be far more rewarding than fake commentary. You might even get better commentary culling from Vasgersians XFL, poker, UFC and Olympic stuff than most of the phoney-baloney he currently "reads". Santa Maria!

I'm not going to try to claim I know more about audio recording than I do (which isn't much). But I believe the studios invest in those recording booths for a reason. When all the sound is recorded in the same place you control the acoustics, and everything comes out at a consistent volume/tone/pitch. When you start pulling pre-recorded lines from other sources you have no idea what the conditions were for those recordings. I'd imagine MLB broadcast booths have very different acoustics from SCEA's studio recording booth.

Anyway, what I'm getting at is that the lines aren't going to sound consistent if you pull them from different sources, even if it's the same person's voice. And trying to normalize audio from a bunch of different sources would probably require far more development time than it would be worth.

And that's just for basic PBP, describing events as they happen on the field. I don't even want to think about splicing in player names in an environment like that.

[batflip666]

Quote: Originally Posted by El_MaYiMbE

Nice find!....MLB Network! They switched to another game that did not have it, so maybe it is only active for like the game of the week or its a selectable package?

Saw a rumor that theres more then 1 presentation option this year so it would be easy for them to go into options and select another score box.

We'll know for sure Monday I think.

[bcruise]

Quote: Originally Posted by batflip666

Saw a rumor that theres more then 1 presentation option this year so it would be easy for them to go into options and select another score box. We'll know for sure Monday I think.

That's no rumor - they actually went through and changed it on stream (had to because it was set on MLB Network by default, before they wanted to reveal it). There were actually multiple (3) presentation styles last year too, although you couldn't choose - they were based on the home team market size, I believe.

Time will tell whether it's a selectable option this year (for both play now and franchise) - It was there in the menu but that's no guarantee it isn't a special dev option.

I suspect we'll find out for sure on this next week - perhaps as early as Monday with the Gamestop video centering around presentation.