There are basically two purposes to this post
1) to show how far baseball games have come in only the decade or so.
2) to try and figure out why it was so hard to pick up pitches in MLB 2K7. I don't know about all, but I know a lot of people had trouble picking up both pitch type and pitch location in last years game.
I'm not sure if it's a function of the games physics or just the camera view. I can't put my finger on it, but I don't think (I'm positive) that I haven't had as much trouble picking up pitches in a game ever.
As far as cameras go, I think the camera is just too low. It's as if you are batting from the catchers view and because the view is so low, you really can't see the movement in a ball. You don't see the hump on a curveball, you don't see the downward angle on a fastball and you don't see the bend of a bad slider.
As far as physics go, it seems as if almost every pitch started out down the middle and didn't really break, but just kind of fell or veered off outside of the zone....not sure how to explain it. But to me, I would think the pitch was going to be a fastball towards the middle third of the plate and it would end up in the dirt or way out of the zone.
I found it very much to be a guessing game when hitting. I would take until I got a strike, but once I had 2 stirkes, I was toast if the pitcher threw anything other than a pitch out or a beab ball (I sometimes found myself swinging and being saved by the cut scene
). I also think part of it had to do with a lack of a functional check swing. Sometimes I would actuall recognize the pitch, but it was too late.
It's just something that had never been an issue before 2K7 and I can't really pin point why. I know others have had problems and I know others that say that they had none. Just curious to see what others thought or if they experienced the same things...
1) to show how far baseball games have come in only the decade or so.
2) to try and figure out why it was so hard to pick up pitches in MLB 2K7. I don't know about all, but I know a lot of people had trouble picking up both pitch type and pitch location in last years game.
I'm not sure if it's a function of the games physics or just the camera view. I can't put my finger on it, but I don't think (I'm positive) that I haven't had as much trouble picking up pitches in a game ever.
As far as cameras go, I think the camera is just too low. It's as if you are batting from the catchers view and because the view is so low, you really can't see the movement in a ball. You don't see the hump on a curveball, you don't see the downward angle on a fastball and you don't see the bend of a bad slider.
As far as physics go, it seems as if almost every pitch started out down the middle and didn't really break, but just kind of fell or veered off outside of the zone....not sure how to explain it. But to me, I would think the pitch was going to be a fastball towards the middle third of the plate and it would end up in the dirt or way out of the zone.
I found it very much to be a guessing game when hitting. I would take until I got a strike, but once I had 2 stirkes, I was toast if the pitcher threw anything other than a pitch out or a beab ball (I sometimes found myself swinging and being saved by the cut scene
). I also think part of it had to do with a lack of a functional check swing. Sometimes I would actuall recognize the pitch, but it was too late. It's just something that had never been an issue before 2K7 and I can't really pin point why. I know others have had problems and I know others that say that they had none. Just curious to see what others thought or if they experienced the same things...
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