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

[jyoung]

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Was that remake any good ?

Tecmo Bowl Throwback was terrible in just about every possible way.

There has not been a good Tecmo Bowl game since Final Edition on the Super Nintendo.

[Profit89]

Tecmo Bowl Throwback was terrible in just about every possible way.

There has not been a good Tecmo Bowl game since Final Edition on the Super Nintendo.

The PC guys have done a terrific job of keeping the original TSB up to date and alive. That's for sure.

[Profit89]

2K and Konami need to get together again and bring us Power Pros on all possible platforms.

[fistofrage]

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Was that remake any good ?

The gameplay was fine, the problem was it wasn't licensed so it lost its luster, this will be licensed so it may be awesome.

[dalger21]

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Wow...talk about coming out of nowhere. I loved R.B.I. baseball on NES. Baseball Stars 1 was better but I did love that game. Still, it would be a few years before I consider switching from "The Show". Actually not even Baseball Stars reemergence would get me to stop playing "The Show".

There has not been a good Tecmo Bowl game since Final Edition on the Super Nintendo.

I'm not sure if it gets better than Tecmo Super Bowl for NES.

[Lovesports]

Last RBI/Famista game was a few years ago for the 3DS in Japan. That game was an arcade game. RBI from "15 or 20 years ago" was an arcade style game. I think it's entirely reasonable to speculate that it will be an arcade style game, especially when the official Facebook page says: R.B.I. Baseball returns Spring 2014.

Like I say, I would be very surprised if they bothered to transform the game into a sim style game, and in fact I'm not so sure I'd want that because it would sap a lot of the fun from the game.

I got a chance to play Famista on the Nintendo DS a few years ago, the 2009 version I believe, and it was great. The AI could actually beat you on the hardest difficulty, and they had a season mode that tracked basic stats. I even managed to connect online and play against people in Japan from here in North America. The cool thing about that is that they were all playing small ball! Lol.

I'm not getting my hopes up, because my gut feeling tells me they are going the nostalgia route, which would probably mean old school RBI with play now games and online versus thrown in. I guess we'll find out soon enough.

My understanding is that MLBAM is developing the game which is not the same company that developed the previous titles, therefore I stand by my comments that there is no need for speculation just yet.

[bcruise]

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FWIW, these guys (MLB Advanced Media) run the MLB.com site and everything around it (like MLB.TV). It's not a development studio, and game developing is not their primary focus.

[nemesis04]

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FWIW, these guys (MLB Advanced Media) run the MLB.com site and everything around it (like MLB.TV). It's not a development studio, and game developing is not their primary focus.

That is why I am curious who is developing it?

[doubledeuceR6]

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Awesome news! Fingers crossed it's a an actual baseball sim.

[dalger21]

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Perhaps it will be a cartoonish arcade type of game then.

[Lovesports]

Perhaps it will be a cartoonish arcade type of game then.

Perhaps it won't

[statnut]

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FWIW, these guys (MLB Advanced Media) run the MLB.com site and everything around it (like MLB.TV). It's not a development studio, and game developing is not their primary focus.

They've also published these:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mlb.HomeRunDerby&hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.mlb.BallparkEmpire&hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mlb.FranchiseMVP&hl=en

Not saying there's a game studio, but they've made some mobile games, so they're not completely devoid of experience.

[Money99]

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That is why I am curious who is developing it?

Probably 2K, haha.

I wouldn't doubt if they hired some of the guys who worked on MLB2K to work on this title.
With MLB anticipating no 2K baseball, perhaps RBI is something that's been in the works for a while now.

[nemesis04]

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Probably 2K, haha.

I wouldn't doubt if they hired some of the guys who worked on MLB2K to work on this title.
With MLB anticipating no 2K baseball, perhaps RBI is something that's been in the works for a while now.

This project is ambitious, 5 consoles, phones and tablets. Talk about porting to the extreme.

[dickey1331]

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I think some people are setting pretty high expectations.