SMB4 sucks!

[Huck Farris]

copy / paste from SMB3. No new customization to speak of other than new heads. Reeks of EA's cess pool.

[peterk]

Parks look pretty good from the screenshots. it's only been about a year, that's probably where the effort went.

[BigRowdy]

Originally posted by Buck Fiden:

copy / paste from SMB3. No new customization to speak of other than new heads. Reeks of EA's cess pool.

I agree. Runs fantastic on my rig though it shouldn't. Old i7 2900 and 1060 3GB. But many games run far better than they should on my rig... I dunno why. besides shutting down processes and services....

EA was VERY CLEAR you did not buy the game but the service.... and they can revoke at anytime. So yeah EA stink all over it. RIP Metalhead.

Instant replay? Nope.
EA menu music..yep. But not good like in the old days.

I sure don't foresee 'overwhelmingly positive' in the reviews... 'mixed' if they are lucky.

It's not terrible but it sure ain't worth the EA price tag.

[6Taylor4]

I'm convinced there is NO reason to get smb4. Big mistake there, EA.

[edesignspl]

Originally posted by 6Taylor4:

I'm convinced there is NO reason to get smb4. Big mistake there, EA.

But...but...they added "legendary" players and new fields!

Agreed, it's just SMB3 with some extra fields, actual players that were baseball greats (bfd), and some minor things for franchise or something. Maybe optimized the graphics a bit, I get the odd stutter at times on a 5800X with 64 GB of RAM and a 3080. I'd blame it on running it on Linux via Proton but plenty of Windows users have reported the same thing, but that's a minor issue easily solved by dropping the crowd variety a tad.

They had a prime opportunity to add depth to season and franchise modes and didn't. Took the easy and cheap route then wanna charge AAA game price

Save your money, as much as SMB3 has characteristics that frustrate me to no end, it's still a decent game albeit a bit limited. Nothing about SMB4 is worth $50 (edit, had $60, I misread haha) to me. Or $40. Or $20. Maybe in a year or three I'll pick it up on a deep discount but yeah, EA and full price, no way.

[SweeTARTS Candy]

I told y’all.

[Aerooooooo]

Originally posted by 6Taylor4:

But...but...they added "legendary" players and new fields! :spacemarineskull:

Agreed, it's just SMB3 with some extra fields, actual players that were baseball greats (bfd), and some minor things for franchise or something

Too bad they're missing so many of those greats. No Cobb, Musial, Berra, Kaline, Mantle, DiMaggio, etc, etc. It's bad enough they glamorised something you could do yourself if you really cared to (I know I did, I made gender swapped versions of those very same legends for a laugh on SMB2, imported to 3) but to miss out on key legends for a bunch of literal who's (not to take anything away from their careers, but c'mon, Brett freakin' Butler over Stan Musial?) and a couple obvious can't misses (Ruth, Mays)? And the effort was so lackluster, too. They don't look like the legends, the stats are all wrong (what they did to the Say Hey Kid is a travesty), they don't have their unique quirks, their names are butchered by the announcer...what was even the point? It'd be like Super Mega Basketball, but instead of Tim Duncan, you put in Kwame Brown.

[MaskMcgee]

Originally posted by BigRowdy:

EA was VERY CLEAR you did not buy the game but the service.... and they can revoke at anytime. So yeah EA stink all over it. RIP Metalhead.

Go read the steam T's and C's. guess what you don't buy any games on steam you buy a right to use them Steam can revoke at any time.

[6Taylor4]

Get the MOD for '23 - it's amazing! Every MLB player! It's brought new life into the game. Highly recommend it!

[Aerooooooo]

Originally posted by 6Taylor4:

I'm convinced there is NO reason to get smb4. Big mistake there, EA.

Well, sure there is. You can blame a player for farting in the locker room!

[6Taylor4]

There's also an All-Time MLB DLC - all the greats are there! An Amazing MOD! Kudos to the maker!

[recon64bit]

So this may be an opportunity to just skip SMB4 and wait and see for SMB5. But in the mean time just continue playing SMB3.

[rouxela317]

I believe the makers of this game should remove the ( press LB button when press just at the time a pitch is done allow players to see the ball will be " not fair . Baseball is to know where or what is coming . Not the control cheat I hate it and never use it .

[Exia Of War]

The only thing I like out of SMB4 , from a franchise only player perspective, is that extra pitching roster slot, and the fully announced names for generated players.

Other than that SMB3 is all I need. Being able to clap a baseball right into a pitchers gonads is all I need out of a sports game and this is after years of FiFA / NHL / Madden / The Show. HAHAHA!

[6Taylor4]

Originally posted by rouxela317:

I believe the makers of this game should remove the ( press LB button when press just at the time a pitch is done allow players to see the ball will be " not fair . Baseball is to know where or what is coming . Not the control cheat I hate it and never use it .

They will not.
There is no support/update/concern/care for this game. We are on our own, it will never change, it is what it is. Sorry, that's the reality.

[Monocle Gentlesir]

I mean, this one is pretty ass as well...