R.B.I. Baseball 14 Announced For Current and Next-Gen Consoles, Mobile Devices Too

[pietasterp]

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The last time I played RBI baseball, it was in a Pizza Hut on one of those table-top games covered with the thick clear plastic, and I was using Willie Hernandez to 1-hit the Carlton Fisk-led BoSox. And I was like 9 years old.

It would be great if they included the original game with the new release.

[Culture Rot]

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Still skeptical about this. Probably will be an arcadey game, a few levels below the last MLB 2k's even.

[GruffyMcGuiness]

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Probably will be an arcadey game, a few levels below the last MLB 2k's even.

Impossible.

[pietasterp]

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I agree that The Show gets a pass on a lot of things due to it's aesthetics.
And it does a lot of good things on the field as well, but I always had more fun with 2K.
I've said it before that if 2K looked and moved like The Show, it would be the one everyone's talking about.

I agree with this completely. If 2K had The Show's graphics, it would have sold much better and be much better received. For as much as people claim visuals are less important in this day and age, I would argue that 2k had for a long time the much-superior pitcher-batter interface, which is ultimately what 90% of baseball boils down to.

Anyway, if it's done right, aracadey baseball can be fun. I loved Ken Griffey Jr. baseball on SNES, and the original RBI was one of the best games ever. Of course, for my money, the original "Bases Loaded" and "Hardball" on C64 are among the best baseball games ever...

[pistolpete]

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If this is fun that's all I need. Baseball Sims are like second jobs.

[HustlinOwl]

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If this is fun that's all I need. Baseball Sims are like second jobs.

lmao, said no one ever

[KBLover]

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And if it is arcadey, if it's fun it may be well worth it's sticker price.

Heck, I still play Baseball Stars.

Whatever I paid for that like 20 years ago is still paying off now

[Money99]

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Heck, I still play Baseball Stars.

Whatever I paid for that like 20 years ago is still paying off now

Was Baseball Stars the one where it showed a press conference after a big signing?
I loved that game too!

One of my favourites was Baseball Simulator 2000. Yes, there was a stadium on the moon and you could earn special powers like super speed, or super jump.
But that game was a lot of fun too. It had a pretty deep stats package, standings, etc.

I'm completely ignorant to how much money it takes to produce a game these days, but man, back in the 80's, it was great being a baseball fan.
There were oodles of games to choose from.
It'd be nice to have more than 1 or 2 options to choose from.

[GnarlyKing]

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I have no idea what it's going to be, but I know that I'd much rather have it be a quick, simple and fun old-school baseball game than a game that tries to be The Show and comes up short. Of course, I'd still rank the NES Baseball Stars as my favorite baseball game ever. I miss games like that.

[fistofrage]

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I agree with this completely. If 2K had The Show's graphics, it would have sold much better and be much better received. For as much as people claim visuals are less important in this day and age, I would argue that 2k had for a long time the much-superior pitcher-batter interface, which is ultimately what 90% of baseball boils down to.

Anyway, if it's done right, aracadey baseball can be fun. I loved Ken Griffey Jr. baseball on SNES, and the original RBI was one of the best games ever. Of course, for my money, the original "Bases Loaded" and "Hardball" on C64 are among the best baseball games ever...

Hardball was revolutionary back in the day. It was a bummer though when I realized that the guys place in the lineup determined how fast he was, power he had, etc. That and I think that Barnes guy for the blue team could run faster than the ball.

[KBLover]

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Was Baseball Stars the one where it showed a press conference after a big signing?
I loved that game too!

One of my favourites was Baseball Simulator 2000. Yes, there was a stadium on the moon and you could earn special powers like super speed, or super jump.
But that game was a lot of fun too. It had a pretty deep stats package, standings, etc.

I'm completely ignorant to how much money it takes to produce a game these days, but man, back in the 80's, it was great being a baseball fan.
There were oodles of games to choose from.
It'd be nice to have more than 1 or 2 options to choose from.

Yep, it had the press conference when you signed a Free Agent, the sad scene when you released a guy (and the funny part is you could build up the "ghost player" still but then sign a FA to replace him too LOL). Created teams, player development, earning money for said development when you win and based on your prestige and your opponent's (which was based on each individual player's prestige rating - so you could have a good guy who's a jerk and no one likes - or a team full of said players and have a hard time earning cash).

It was also the first game on the NES I played that had trading, visible player ratings (with no "overall", just the player's skills), and league play (division standings, a schedule grid) and some stats tracking and leaderboards. Probably were others but that was the first game I had run across that did it.

I agree - games back then were plentiful and baseball seemed like the most common sport done. Some of these games seemed really ahead of their time. Hard to find an innovative feature and game mechanic now. Funny how player development budget just showed up a couple versions ago in OOTP and I first saw more money = more development back in Baseball Stars!

[pietasterp]

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Hardball was revolutionary back in the day. It was a bummer though when I realized that the guys place in the lineup determined how fast he was, power he had, etc. That and I think that Barnes guy for the blue team could run faster than the ball.

You know, I never realized that a guy's place in the lineup determined those stats. As in, just now when you told me that is the first time I ever knew that. Learn something new every day...would have been useful for me to know 20+ years ago, but I guess when I was 9 or whatever, I wasn't that sophisticated. I do, however, know that the blue team was better, and in no small part because of "Barnes" or whoever, who was like Ichiro and could beat out hot grounders to short that were cleanly fielded...

Honestly, I'm serious when I say I want the original RBI game included in the new game. I understand w/ player union issues they might not be able to have all the original names, but even the game w/ filler names or modern names would be fine. I mean, how big could that game possibly be? 150-200k? Probably half a MB at most?

[mlblover15]

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Actually RBI Baseball 94' was the last in the games line and it was on the Sega Genesis. It was made by Tengen,

[pietasterp]

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Actually RBI Baseball 94' was the last in the games line and it was on the Sega Genesis. It was made by Tengen,

I vaguely remember this...but I only really care about the original one, with the short/fat/round characters that looked like Cartman from "South Park".

[jyoung]

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Actually RBI Baseball 94' was the last in the games line and it was on the Sega Genesis. It was made by Tengen,

Yeah by the time the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo came around, RBI Baseball just wasn't an appealing series anymore.

Sports Talk Baseball (Genesis) and Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball (Super Nintendo) were both way better games.

Sports Talk Baseball in particular is one of the most underrated games from that era:

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