What is the greatest baseball videogame of alltime

[Dubsonic]

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Tony LaRussa Baseball 3 96 Edition

[sportyguyfl31]

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High Heat from 02-04 where great..the first trpile plays I liked, until it became garbage...MVP 05, and I also think MLB Power Pros deserves a place on this list as well.

[Sabercatsfan]

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So two people now have mentioned All Star Baseball 06 and I've starting to question my sanity. There was an 06 version? I thought the series stopped at 05 and 06 got canned.

Of course, I'd love to be wrong about this, ASB was great!

Oops, typo on my part, ASB 05 was the last in the series.

[Pigskin11]

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MLB 08 The Show by far.

[maverick3176]

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Does anyone remember Hardball 6 for the pc? It may be nostalgia, but my older brother and his friends and I would play that game for hours on end. In this one game I was playing with the Astros, winning by 1 in the bottom of the ninth, playing the dodgers, man on 1st, Mike Piazza at the plate. The next thing I remember was Piazza trotting around the bases...

Hardball was sick dude....Tommy Euler had a nasty screwball...lol. That game was just plain fun

[TheLoafer]

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I'm glad I'm not the only old timer here (old timer? I'm 44!). Earl Weaver Baseball for the Amiga. Throw in also the Commissioner disk and you had quite a deep experience.

See here for more info on why it was so innovative:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Weaver_Baseball

One thing which still hasn't been duplicated, was the ability for the player announcer to say player names phonetically. Thus, if you wanted to create a japanese player with a difficult to pronounce name, you are screwed. Because the "talking" used the Amiga's "say" synthesised talking, the game provided the ability to override the grammatical name and just use phonetics. Very well done, if a bit robotic though. But since we could have every player named as they walked up to the plate and it all fit inside 1 meg, I call that "impressive".

One error on the wiki though. it states EWB was the first game to provide "single pitch mode" for the manager option. That would be incorrect, Micro League Baseball for the Apple II (and probably C64) had this option years before, early 80's I think. Micro League Baseball, that was another innovative game that all current baseball producers should bow down to.

On other systems, I have to say MVP was a great series, probably the most fun. I'm taken by MLB 08 right now but it's way too early to tell where it would fit in.

[davesandstorm]

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Hey anyone remember Ken Griffey JR. baseball for the SNES?

Ken Griffey Jr Baseball was great! I voted for it, because I still play it to the this day.

[tgalv]

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high heat then mvp

[jonpt]

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mvp 05 by far....only game ever I played an entire season with....and I went through 4 seasons.

[Heelfan71]

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I would venture to say that 90% of the people who voted for MVP do not own a PS3. The Show 08 is better than MVP in every single category.

and for the people who voted for MLB 2k8 as the best game of all time ? All time ? no freaking way, not even close.

[jonpt]

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I would venture to say that 90% of the people who voted for MVP do not own a PS3. The Show 08 is better than MVP in every single category.

and for the people who voted for MLB 2k8 as the best game of all time ? All time ? no freaking way, not even close.

you're right about my vote....haven't played the show(no ps3...just a 360 and ps2)...so I really can't say which is better between the two personally. I have thought about buying a ps3 for the game but just can't justify buying a gaming console for one game right now.

[brendanrfoley]

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Im surprised at the lack of love High Heat is receiving... but maybe that's because I'm getting too old. High Heat 2002 revoloutionized what people could expect in a baseball title. It was the first of the series to get heavily modded, and the on field results were just perfect.

High Heat greased the wheels for a lot of the baseball titles that followed.

My ranking...

1. High Heat (2002, mainly)
2. MVP 05
3. MLB The Show 07

Honorable mentions:

1. Homerun Kings (Gamecube) It had many issues, but to this day, it had some of the most gorgeous stadiums we've seen. It also had full followthroughs/swings for all the big stars, like Griffey Jr. and Bonds. Many games still don't do that!

2. Interplay Baseball (PS1) also played damn good, from what I rmeember.

[wsu_gb23]

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2K8 would definitely be last on the list. Considering is supposed to be next-gen, it is not even better than 2K7.... MVP 05 would be the best.

[Heelfan71]

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Im surprised at the lack of love High Heat is receiving... but maybe that's because I'm getting too old. High Heat 2002 revoloutionized what people could expect in a baseball title. It was the first of the series to get heavily modded, and the on field results were just perfect.

High Heat greased the wheels for a lot of the baseball titles that followed.

My ranking...

1. High Heat (2002, mainly)
2. MVP 05
3. MLB The Show 07

Honorable mentions:

1. Homerun Kings (Gamecube) It had many issues, but to this day, it had some of the most gorgeous stadiums we've seen. It also had full followthroughs/swings for all the big stars, like Griffey Jr. and Bonds. Many games still don't do that!

2. Interplay Baseball (PS1) also played damn good, from what I rmeember.

I have HH #3

1. Show 08
2. MVP 05
3. HH

[Altimus]

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Moving this to baseball other.