I know we live in a graphics first sort of world. The Show and Sony have done an outstanding job showing off their hardware. I'd be lying if I wasn't a bit jealous. I've had a ps3. I just couldnt bring myself to keep it for some reason though. I've played the show every year and compared both games to death.
The Show looks great. Plays great and has rock solid gameplay. Thing is I still prefer 2k. It's not the provebial, I'm a 360 owner and my only choice thing with me. It's a choice I made. I know people like to spin it or play it that way though. Hey you just have a 360 so you are stuck with this as your only choice. Go play your crappy game poor boy. It's not that. I appreciate those comments though.
I've owned both systems. The ps3 just was not worth it to me for some reason. I bought it specifically for the Show. I found myself still playing 2k more and I wasn't sure why.
3 things. Presentation, The control scheme, and inside edge.
MLB 2k12 gets overlooked imo because graphically it's not keeping up. But it has a better control scheme out of the box. With the Show, you either have buttons or they have tried other ways and failed. 2k has the best control scheme to me. Both games have similar feature sets as far as physics. 2k added the same ball physics this year. Better presentation and commentary. The features and modes are better like mlb today and a more functioning online play system which is one advantage of lesser graphics. I'm going 2k again. Call me silly or whatever. The Show obviously looks better dealing with one system and proprietary hardware that is the ps3 where they can load it up. But to me and what I like in a baseball game, 2k is a more in depth experience.
I've heard those 2k is a good pick up and play game comments too. I don't think that is true either. Like the Show is somehow more whatever.
I think pulling back on the stick and pushing forward is a natural swing motion. Same with the gesture system. I hate playing the show for this reason because 2k feels so much more natural.
Sony has done a nice job of taking care of their hardware and showing it off, but they've also dropped the ball in areas and really haven't separated themselves as far as gameplay, and modes. The stats and presentation that 2k gives you is also miles better as far as batters weak spots, pitch types etc. It's much more relevant. Inside Edge is a stat lovers dream. I've always considered the show a somewhat shallow experience for that reason. 2k gets this stuff right.
Audio and camera angles is also an area that 2k has focused on that gets overlooked. This is under the covers sort of stuff. But they have always had a strong focus on camera angles and the amount of audio they put in their game and how relevant it is. Instead of the more quirky comments of teh show, you have audio that is actually relevant and not trying to be something else. Gamers like me appreciate this.
Obviously as far being graphically authentic as far as vendors and crowd and player detail the show blows 2k away. But thats about where it ends.
It's a shallow world we live in and obviously people are going to want the latest and greatest and best looking game to show off to their friends. That's just how it is. People don't think that deep. I'm not saying that's a bad thing either. HAving great graphics and presentation is also a big part of what makes a game fun. I still can't fathom how 2k's baseball game doesn't have vendors.
Still 2k gets torn apart graphically when if you compare to another multiplat title nba 2k its not that different if you really look at them this year. Yes their mlb counterback struggles with consistency in areas, but yet nba 2k is heralded as the best basketball game ever and considered graphically stellar.
One other thing 2k does very well is it gives the gamer a sense of space or freedom. I don't know if it's the hit variety or physics. Both are rock solid in this area and offer the same features and improved ball physics this year. But even still the Show can feel scripted to me or like it's on rails. Something about 2k's hit variety and gameplay just seems to give me more space or freedom where there is more randomness within the gameplay. The Show's gameplay is tight, which is it's biggest strength, but it's also it's biggest flaw. 2k on the other hand just feels loose. IF you want to use the girl analogy here that's fine. But The Show is like that perfect girl on the surface who just might not be willing to experiment with certain things or go that much deeper. 2k on the other hand might not look that great on the surface and you might need to have smoked something to really appreciate and might look a bit slutty and unfinished but might be willing or more open to different things. The Show is a tight pristine girl. 2k12 is slutty this year.
I think this year these games are so close as far as being polished and end of cycle where 2k has caught up in the solid department where you don't have those glaring ommisions and bugs so much anymore. Both games are pretty much rock solid in the gameplay department at this point. But yet both games have kind of taken a different direction. 2k had 3 things going for it coming from 2k8. It's presentation, control scheme, and inside edge. I think they are a smaller publisher and were looking at a multiplat title that wouldn't be able to keep up with a game that was designed specifically to show off the ps3. There is no way they could do that. But I think underneath it all, if you get past the surface stuff, I think 2k did a nice job playing to it's strengths. I think the Show has had graphics wrapped up, but has really struggled to find that little extra something as far as gameplay or modes to win people like me over. It does amazing things and is rock solid at its core, but it's not all roses as it seems. There are drawbacks to that as well. I think 2k has always had that something in their games as far as gameplay where they have that certain genius or idea that win people like me over that other developers just don't have. They also keep it and don't let other developers have it and it can't be duplicated.
IT may sound like I'm panning the show when I'm really not. I appreciate what the Show has done. They have done the same things to 2k in ways and shown how dated 2k can be. 2k can sit on a dated graphics engine and take their sweet time releasing bugged after bugged version of games because they don't have the proper funding because of their own business decisions. While gamers suffer beta testing these games every year paying full price. 2k isn't all roses either. Their baseball games have been crap for years to get to the point of actually releasing a game worth purchasing.
This is also why it's important that there are more than one developer out there making a certain game as well imo. Because there are different ways to do things and as a gamer I hate being stuck with one choice.
The Show is obviously a graphically superior game. It's not even close, but if you look past that you might realize 2k is doing some pretty cool things this year.
The Show looks great. Plays great and has rock solid gameplay. Thing is I still prefer 2k. It's not the provebial, I'm a 360 owner and my only choice thing with me. It's a choice I made. I know people like to spin it or play it that way though. Hey you just have a 360 so you are stuck with this as your only choice. Go play your crappy game poor boy. It's not that. I appreciate those comments though.
I've owned both systems. The ps3 just was not worth it to me for some reason. I bought it specifically for the Show. I found myself still playing 2k more and I wasn't sure why.
3 things. Presentation, The control scheme, and inside edge.
MLB 2k12 gets overlooked imo because graphically it's not keeping up. But it has a better control scheme out of the box. With the Show, you either have buttons or they have tried other ways and failed. 2k has the best control scheme to me. Both games have similar feature sets as far as physics. 2k added the same ball physics this year. Better presentation and commentary. The features and modes are better like mlb today and a more functioning online play system which is one advantage of lesser graphics. I'm going 2k again. Call me silly or whatever. The Show obviously looks better dealing with one system and proprietary hardware that is the ps3 where they can load it up. But to me and what I like in a baseball game, 2k is a more in depth experience.
I've heard those 2k is a good pick up and play game comments too. I don't think that is true either. Like the Show is somehow more whatever.
I think pulling back on the stick and pushing forward is a natural swing motion. Same with the gesture system. I hate playing the show for this reason because 2k feels so much more natural.
Sony has done a nice job of taking care of their hardware and showing it off, but they've also dropped the ball in areas and really haven't separated themselves as far as gameplay, and modes. The stats and presentation that 2k gives you is also miles better as far as batters weak spots, pitch types etc. It's much more relevant. Inside Edge is a stat lovers dream. I've always considered the show a somewhat shallow experience for that reason. 2k gets this stuff right.
Audio and camera angles is also an area that 2k has focused on that gets overlooked. This is under the covers sort of stuff. But they have always had a strong focus on camera angles and the amount of audio they put in their game and how relevant it is. Instead of the more quirky comments of teh show, you have audio that is actually relevant and not trying to be something else. Gamers like me appreciate this.
Obviously as far being graphically authentic as far as vendors and crowd and player detail the show blows 2k away. But thats about where it ends.
It's a shallow world we live in and obviously people are going to want the latest and greatest and best looking game to show off to their friends. That's just how it is. People don't think that deep. I'm not saying that's a bad thing either. HAving great graphics and presentation is also a big part of what makes a game fun. I still can't fathom how 2k's baseball game doesn't have vendors.
Still 2k gets torn apart graphically when if you compare to another multiplat title nba 2k its not that different if you really look at them this year. Yes their mlb counterback struggles with consistency in areas, but yet nba 2k is heralded as the best basketball game ever and considered graphically stellar.
One other thing 2k does very well is it gives the gamer a sense of space or freedom. I don't know if it's the hit variety or physics. Both are rock solid in this area and offer the same features and improved ball physics this year. But even still the Show can feel scripted to me or like it's on rails. Something about 2k's hit variety and gameplay just seems to give me more space or freedom where there is more randomness within the gameplay. The Show's gameplay is tight, which is it's biggest strength, but it's also it's biggest flaw. 2k on the other hand just feels loose. IF you want to use the girl analogy here that's fine. But The Show is like that perfect girl on the surface who just might not be willing to experiment with certain things or go that much deeper. 2k on the other hand might not look that great on the surface and you might need to have smoked something to really appreciate and might look a bit slutty and unfinished but might be willing or more open to different things. The Show is a tight pristine girl. 2k12 is slutty this year.
I think this year these games are so close as far as being polished and end of cycle where 2k has caught up in the solid department where you don't have those glaring ommisions and bugs so much anymore. Both games are pretty much rock solid in the gameplay department at this point. But yet both games have kind of taken a different direction. 2k had 3 things going for it coming from 2k8. It's presentation, control scheme, and inside edge. I think they are a smaller publisher and were looking at a multiplat title that wouldn't be able to keep up with a game that was designed specifically to show off the ps3. There is no way they could do that. But I think underneath it all, if you get past the surface stuff, I think 2k did a nice job playing to it's strengths. I think the Show has had graphics wrapped up, but has really struggled to find that little extra something as far as gameplay or modes to win people like me over. It does amazing things and is rock solid at its core, but it's not all roses as it seems. There are drawbacks to that as well. I think 2k has always had that something in their games as far as gameplay where they have that certain genius or idea that win people like me over that other developers just don't have. They also keep it and don't let other developers have it and it can't be duplicated.
IT may sound like I'm panning the show when I'm really not. I appreciate what the Show has done. They have done the same things to 2k in ways and shown how dated 2k can be. 2k can sit on a dated graphics engine and take their sweet time releasing bugged after bugged version of games because they don't have the proper funding because of their own business decisions. While gamers suffer beta testing these games every year paying full price. 2k isn't all roses either. Their baseball games have been crap for years to get to the point of actually releasing a game worth purchasing.
This is also why it's important that there are more than one developer out there making a certain game as well imo. Because there are different ways to do things and as a gamer I hate being stuck with one choice.
The Show is obviously a graphically superior game. It's not even close, but if you look past that you might realize 2k is doing some pretty cool things this year.
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