Any former High Heat players think that this is the answer ?

[baa7]

Re: Any former High Heat players think that this is the answer ?

This Spring I'm contemplating playing a full season again on HH 2004. Also wishing Microsoft would announce a surprise for PS3 and resurrect the series.

The Show on PS3 will make everyone forget about Microsoft, and High Heat (R.I.P.), and 2K baseball... mark my words.

[jim416]

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Consider your words marked.

[Blzer]

Re: Any former High Heat players think that this is the answer ?

The closest to High Heat? Not a chance.

Not a chance? I disagree. High Heat, unfortunately is gone. Long live The Show. Hope it gets better next year.

Will wait and see on MLB2k6.

IMO the closest to High Heat still is Interplay Sports Baseball 2000 on PSX... in terms of pretty much everything (except sliders).

[Pared]

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Glad to see all of the former HH'ers still around. I played HH2004 through the actual 2004 season, then switched to MVP last season. It was O.K. but a notch below HH.

This Spring I'm contemplating playing a full season again on HH 2004. Also wishing Microsoft would announce a surprise for PS3 and resurrect the series.

May have to try the Show.

You HAVE to try the game. It, IMO, is what HH would have become if they incorporated great presentation. On top of that, you can change the batter/pitcher interface so it matches High Heat... simply GREAT.

[brudjazz]

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The Show on PS3 will make everyone forget about Microsoft, and High Heat (R.I.P.), and 2K baseball... mark my words.

Well, The Show pretty much has decimated the 2K series already, but I don't think that The Show on PS3 will be as grand as you're hoping. Remember the cycle that all sports games go through on each cycle?

[baa7]

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Well, The Show pretty much has decimated the 2K series already, but I don't think that The Show on PS3 will be as grand as you're hoping. Remember the cycle that all sports games go through on each cycle?

Yeah, I predicted Jim would stop hassling me, and look how that turned out.

So then I'll just pick up Pro Yakyuu Spirits (and a "Learn Japanese" CD) seeing Sony announced PS3 games will be region free:

http://www.ps3land.com/news/article269.php

[kingdevin]

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I believe HH was the best re: gameplay. The Show is up & coming (I believe that Sony hired some of the former HH staff)and more similar to the HH style b/c of all the "little things" w/in the game. 2k6 has a different style so I dont think it is as comparable to HH.

[inkcil]

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IMO the closest to High Heat still is Interplay Sports Baseball 2000 on PSX... in terms of pretty much everything (except sliders).

You have no idea how right you are.

As far as console baseball goes, ISB 2000 (realesed in '99) was practically at the same level MLB the Show/2k/MVP is now (except 4 graphics and some presentation elements, of cousre). Just try to imagine if THAT series had continued. ISB 2006 would blow all other games away.

[hyacinth1]

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This year it's going to be hard for MLB to take the crown over MLB The Show. MLB the show is very polished and a solid baseball game.

But in comparison to high heat, nothing really comes close in my opinion. I really liked MVP last year, but it still didn't match that mix of gameplay, simulation, and fun that high heat had to offer.

BTW, will High Heat ever come back? I know Microsoft bought it, but will they be making baseball games for the 360 anytime soon?

[modore]

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BTW, will High Heat ever come back? I know Microsoft bought it, but will they be making baseball games for the 360 anytime soon?[/QUOTE]


I don't think that Microsoft has publicly announced any intentions to bring HH back. Many of us share your hope that they will.

[baa7]

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I don't think that Microsoft has publicly announced any intentions to bring HH back. Many of us share your hope that they will.

Mark my words: spring, 2007, PS3, The Show... A week of that game and people will be going: Microsoft WHO? High Heat WHAT?

[kingdevin]

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Dont know about that. The first installments of new gen sports titles are not usually knockouts until about the second or third year

[baa7]

Re: Any former High Heat players think that this is the answer ?

Dont know about that. The first installments of new gen sports titles are not usually knockouts until about the second or third year

Okay, then how about: "Microsoft and High Heat... Hmm, I vaguely recall something about all that."

[Lisa_Bonami]

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I have to chuckle at how much of a cult following High Heat has encapsulated over the years. So much in fact that the simple folk lore of the gameplay has far exceeded the actual game itself!
High Heat was indeed a good baseball sim but it is simply not it the same league as MLB the Show 06 in terms of actual gameplay and true baseball simulation. The Show captures such a realistic baseball without sacrificing fun video gameplay. I consider MLB the Show truely to be one of the greatest baseball video games ever designed on any platform.

I feel it has surpassed some of my all time favorites such as Earl Weaver Baseball on the Amiga, Front Page Sports Baseball 98 Pro, and World Series Baseball 98 on the Saturn.

Yes indeed High Heat was a good game but it certainly wasnt as great a game as many seem to think. The baseball sim engine was quite good indeed, but the gameplay was riddled with simplistic bargain basement progamming. that gave it a very cheap and amature feel. I remember the wiffle ball style pitching physics along with some very underdeveloped animations in comparison to it's competition.

To me, a great baseball game, or sports game for that matter, has to incorporate both tight and fluid gameplay along with a robust and detailed statistical engine.

[jim416]

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I think, and it goes without saying, that the magic of High Heat was the ability to mod it to your pleasure. And that you could do. I think most people don't mention that because it's just taken for granted that that was part of it's magic.