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  • RaychelSnr
    Executive Editor
    • Jan 2007
    • 4845

    #1

    Super Mega Baseball is a Throwback of the Good Kind (PS4 Review)


    If you’re an older sports gamer, than you probably have fond memories of past baseball games such as Ken Griffey Jr.’s Winning Run, R.B.I Baseball (Classic version) and Baseball Stars. What do all of these games have in common? Well, that would be a simple, engaging, and fun approach to America’s past time. While games like this are a rarity these days, the ambitious developer, Metalhead, aims to bring a small piece of that era back, with Super Mega Baseball. Did they succeed?

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  • Stormyhog
    All Star
    • Feb 2004
    • 5304

    #2
    While not a full online experience shareplay if it works could help in that area.
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    • addybojangles
      Rookie
      • Feb 2005
      • 99

      #3
      How much is this? Sounds like a solid $15 purchase, a little spendy at $20 and a no-brainer at $12 or less...

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      • bluengold34_OS
        Content Creator
        • Nov 2004
        • 7346

        #4
        Re: Super Mega Baseball is a Throwback of the Good Kind (PS4 Review)

        Originally posted by addybojangles
        How much is this? Sounds like a solid $15 purchase, a little spendy at $20 and a no-brainer at $12 or less...

        It's $19.99 and worthy of every cent IMO
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        • HustlinOwl
          All Star
          • Mar 2004
          • 9713

          #5
          all videos Ive seen for this game it is tailored for the casual sports fan and an average title at best 5-6 for me and may purchase, but not likely

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          • rspencer86
            MIB Crew
            • Sep 2004
            • 8806

            #6
            My biggest question is:

            Can you play multiplayer online via SharePlay?
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            • HustlinOwl
              All Star
              • Mar 2004
              • 9713

              #7
              Re: Super Mega Baseball is a Throwback of the Good Kind (PS4 Review)

              Originally posted by rspencer86
              My biggest question is:

              Can you play multiplayer online via SharePlay?
              from videos Ive seen it has not been available yet, so not sure

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              • bluengold34_OS
                Content Creator
                • Nov 2004
                • 7346

                #8
                Re: Super Mega Baseball is a Throwback of the Good Kind (PS4 Review)

                Originally posted by HustlinOwl
                from videos Ive seen it has not been available yet, so not sure

                We tried to but no go - but spoke with Dev team and they assured me this would available.
                Twitch - bluengold34_os

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                • Money99
                  Hall Of Fame
                  • Sep 2002
                  • 12694

                  #9
                  Re: Super Mega Baseball is a Throwback of the Good Kind (PS4 Review)

                  bluengold34_OS, are there ratings for every defensive position?

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                  • bluengold34_OS
                    Content Creator
                    • Nov 2004
                    • 7346

                    #10
                    Re: Super Mega Baseball is a Throwback of the Good Kind (PS4 Review)

                    Originally posted by Money99
                    bluengold34_OS, are there ratings for every defensive position?
                    Each positional player has a rating for arm and fielding. Nothing specific like Acc or Jmp, but they do have ratings.
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                    • Turbojugend
                      MVP
                      • Sep 2013
                      • 2242

                      #11
                      So from the sounds of it you can customize every player, both name and appearance? If so, I'd buy it just to recreate a bunch of legends and make a "Field of Dreams" type scenario.
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                      • Money99
                        Hall Of Fame
                        • Sep 2002
                        • 12694

                        #12
                        Re: Super Mega Baseball is a Throwback of the Good Kind (PS4 Review)

                        Originally posted by bluengold34_OS
                        Each positional player has a rating for arm and fielding. Nothing specific like Acc or Jmp, but they do have ratings.
                        Thanks Blue!
                        So will that mean they're ranked in various positions? (eg. SS, 2B, 1B, OF, etc)?

                        I loved Bad News Baseball because they had defensive ratings for every position.
                        In one season, my starting SS got hurt and I was forced to put in a player who was C+ at short.
                        It made things really interesting as this player made several errors while my starter was out.
                        I liked that added strategy needed when tackling injuries.
                        I was hoping SMB might have something similar.

                        I'm 99% sure I'll be getting this game. I LOVE that I can play with my boys on the same team. And I know they'll love customizing all the players.

                        Looking forward to seeing and reading more on SMB.

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                        • nemesis04
                          RIP Ty My Buddy
                          • Feb 2004
                          • 13530

                          #13
                          Re: Super Mega Baseball is a Throwback of the Good Kind (PS4 Review)

                          This is an area that SMB struggles a bit, as it only offers up two modes: Season and Exhibition. While season mode does give the user the option to choose a season length, difficulty, number of innings, it is simply one season and you’re done.
                          Nice write up!

                          Can you clarify the bold. I thought in reading some of the developer responses there was season carryover? I know some stats carried and some did not but you could do multiple seasons.
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                          • bluengold34_OS
                            Content Creator
                            • Nov 2004
                            • 7346

                            #14
                            Re: Super Mega Baseball is a Throwback of the Good Kind (PS4 Review)

                            Originally posted by nemesis04
                            Nice write up!



                            Can you clarify the bold. I thought in reading some of the developer responses there was season carryover? I know some stats carried and some did not but you could do multiple seasons.

                            I will have to double check to confirm Nem - but my impression was one season only - give me a bit to confirm
                            Twitch - bluengold34_os

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                            • allBthere
                              All Star
                              • Jan 2008
                              • 5847

                              #15
                              Just watching a video on youtube confirmed my buy - it's so smooth and clean and tidy! looks like fun, I would play a season mode maybe edit a few players and do 5 inning games which from the looks of it you can play 15min/per game = perfect!
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