MLB 09 The Show Demo Available, Post Impressions Here

[JT30]

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Anyone know what the pitch stick (R stick) is for? I can't seem to use it or figure out how to use it?

[brunnoce]

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I agree with you on the check swings....it feels much more realistic and rewarding when I actually check my swing this year...in 08 it seemed like I could check swing way too much...great job SCEA...

yeh it just got to a point where i could layoff anything i wanted..just too easy...i would barely never swing and miss cause of that...

i like how its working now

[Pared]

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Hope this is just in the demo, but when you turn off guess pitch swing analysis is not available.

Nope, that's how it is. Leave it on but don't use guess pitch.

I am noticing that when there are shadows on the field I cannot see a ball shadow. I prefer to play with no indicators on but I don't see how that is possible now. Did the version played at the community event have some shadow for the ball even if shadows were cast on the field from the stadium?

I also noticed in the outfield I cannot see the catch region indicator if there are shadows. But I can in the corners on the dirt.

Yup, mentioned this at the community event although we liked the extra challenge it brought.

not trying to sound like a smartass but have you looked through the Strategy Guide thats in the game? I haven't looked through it myself, but was thinking that maybe it might give the detailed answer in there.

My take on it is that after he displays the pitch he wants, he'll then ask for location and when I played it was palm down for low and palm up for high. I haven't noticed that in the game as it seems he's always calling for the pitch down in the zone. After that, he'll indicated whether it should be inside or outside, by gesturing his hand towards that particular side.

I hope that made sense Tater.

The catcher doesn't actually get up for a high strike. Asked for this as well.

[PhantomPain]

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Am I the only one that is having the ps3 lock up when trying to exit the game or is this a widespread issue? If there is a way to keep this from happening then I would love to know.

THANKS.

[jim416]

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First inning. Experimenting on All Star/all aids off/Classic pitching/default sliders except pitch speed to 0.

Bartlett had back to back errors in the first inning, one thrown in the dirt past first, the other over the head, showed the ball hit amongst the fans. Game is 1-1 in the first. Thank you Mr. Bartlett.

Struck out Pena on a nice change up in the strike zone, low/away.

Kazmir was throwing back on Rollins on second 3 of 5 times I took an early lead. So I waited until the pitcher started his windup, tapped L1 to get the lead.

Checked swing with Rollins twice, it worked. Had a harder time with Utley.

Seems you have to move the left stick a little more to pick you location (on classic), which feels better to me.

Man, I just love the feel of fielding.

Rollins just threw one in the dirt past first, catcher there to back up. THREE ERROS IN AN INNING AND A HALF. WOOO HOOO.

Checked swing with Feliz on change up. Sttttttttrike three!!!! NIce cut scene to show him with his bat over the plate and the ump ringing him up. Check swings work.

1-1 after two full.

[Pared]

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Rollins just threw one in the dirt past first, catcher there to back up. THREE ERROS IN AN INNING AND A HALF. WOOO HOOO.

That's great to hear. I hadn't seen any errors in all the games I played at the CD.

[RogueHominid]

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Poster formerly known as Trojan Man here . . . Damn you all. I love you guys and hate you all at the same time.

I sold my PS3 on a lark and thought I could make it by without The Show. In my boredom I read this thread, and now I'm thinking that there's gotta be a way I can move a couple bricks and find the quid for another PS3 and The Show 09.

J/K about the bricks, but man, this game sounds incredible. It was already the premier game of its kind, but now the lighting is better, it's even more subtle in terms of the little things, and it seems that the hitting sliders actually work.

Damn. I'm gonna go get set up and put some impressions of my own down pronto.

Thanks to those who did the community event. And to Countryboy and the 100 game log. Are you posting that game by game, or in chunks?

[adam42381]

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Just finished up my 4th game with the demo and I'm finally getting the hang of it. I played 3 last night with the third game going 13 innings before I finally scored. Final 1-0 Phillies.

I am having a lot of trouble hitting because I'm early on almost every pitch. I played a ton of 08 so that may be my problem. I was the Phillies again this time and I allowed no hits in 4 innings with 4 K 0 BB by Hamels. I only managed 1 hit but it was a HR by Howard in the 2nd.

Everything looks amazing (although I am noticing a small framerate issue like everyone else - my tv is a Philips and the PS3 is set to 720p).

I noticed one issue which may just be demo related - in the 4th inning Dave Campbell said something to the effect of, "now lets take a look at last year's NL leaders in ERA...you can clearly see that Hamels is at near the top of the list." The problem is, the list they showed was the 2007 NL leaders and Hamels wasn't on the list. I just wanted to see if anybody else has noticed anything similar to this?

[Motown]

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A few more impressions here. 1st the bad: last night when i played...smooth as silk. today, pretty choppy for some reason...the framerate's almost like an ole time movie. I'm playin' on a 42" Toshiba SDTV Svideo

Now some pretty cool animations. Victorino hit a laser down 3rd...only to be robbed, & he ran half way down the line...then he realized he got robbed lol...then he slammed his bat down in disgust lmao...glarin' @ the 3rd baseman. Kaz pointed to 3rd, went back to the mound... took his glove off & reached down to tie his shoe.

*edit* CANNOT HIT A SLIDER TO SAVE MY AZZ!!!

[slickdtc]

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I like it.

Haha. That's about all I can say. I just got a PS3 a few weeks ago and only have 2 games, neither of which are MLB The Show. I did download the 08 demo and liked it. This 09 demo is a step up and further in the right direction. But the demo is such a tease! We all know the gameplay will be great because they didn't fiddle around with it, but rather just added and tweaked elements that needed fixing. Now I want to play around with the extras they have in there!

[Blzer]

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So I played my first game on Hall of Fame mode, and let's just say that I need to get some work done with my offense. At the same time, I shut them down all day too. Here was the ending box score (I was the Phillies):







Yep, that just happened.

[jim416]

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Man, Upton just went after a high hard one out of the strike zone.

Tried a bunt with Rollins, good bunt, pitcher pounced on it and threw him out at first.

Struck Pena out again.

Damned Kazmir's slider. Gonna have to learn to be more patient this year as pitch recognition IS easier.

1-1 after 4.

TB 1-2-1
PH 1-0-1

[Pared]

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I noticed one issue which may just be demo related - in the 4th inning Dave Campbell said something to the effect of, "now lets take a look at last year's NL leaders in ERA...you can clearly see that Hamels is at near the top of the list." The problem is, the list they showed was the 2007 NL leaders and Hamels wasn't on the list. I just wanted to see if anybody else has noticed anything similar to this?

I brought it up at the CD and it should be fixed.

[theaub]

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The catcher just gave me the closed fist (pickoff) signal, and I almost got Rollins at first. I like that feature a lot.

Unfortunately, I'm also still getting that up the middle fielder running by the ball stuff that was in last year. Hopefully that's a non-final build thing.

[adam42381]

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I brought it up at the CD and it should be fixed.

Ok, sounds good. I figured little things like that would be tweaked before the final build.