Redo - Just my opinion.
I have played baseball video games since the NES days. I, like many of you have owned a baseball game every year that I have owned a console. I, like you have bought systems in hopes for new versions of baseball games that promise new levels of realism and fun.
I, like many of you was also extremely disappointed when I finally got my hands on World Series Baseball for the Dreamcast. Why do I bring this up? Because I, like you am a hardcore fan of video game baseball. My favorite all time baseball games came from the Genesis and the Saturn in WSB. I have followed the 2K series since it first came to be. With the huge disappointment WSB was on the DC I wanted a redo, a retake on the sport and we saw it in the 2K series. Since then the 2K games quality have been a see-saw of bad to average. I, like many of you migrated to the MVP series which came from the average to bad Triple Play games and MVP is a baseball game I truly love. This isn’t about the amazing MVP games, its about the 2K games.
In my opinion, the 2K games need to be redone from the ground up MVP style. No not in the same play style as MVP (although many people would love it) but the same way EA did right by redoing TP into MVP, MLB 2K needs to be redone, and rewritten as “something else” 2K. When I first heard 2K had the exclusive rights to MLB for 3rd parties I was very upset but I gave MLB 2K a chance, and after 2 tries I almost quit on them. I found MLB The Show which I think is fantastic. I digress this is not about what The Show does right it’s about what MLB 2K does wrong.
Having the exclusive right to the MLB license can be a great thing if the games were better. I admit the game today does look better than the last version and that one was better than the one before it but the game still has deep flaws with the way the flow of the game is presented. Maybe it’s the awkward flight of the ball, or the animations that seem old to me. I believe it would be in 2K’s best interest, to take a brand new team (with Brinkman included I have trust in him) and begin a brand new series. From the ground up. It’s time for a rebuilding year, and I mean total re-haul, new dialog, new animation, new physics engine, new art style, new mo-cap new modeling,, new camera angles, new everything. Maybe next year 2K gives 2K9 to the old team and lets them do a port with a few experimental features meanwhile this new team gets started now on making a brand new game, and they can use the 2 year window to their advantage. I think it will be a great service to us. Right now it can be as polished as they want, with a few great ideas for bullet points it will always be held back by the spirits of the old series.
Maybe I am crazy, maybe the sales of baseball games don’t allow the type of cash to have 2 different teams working on a baseball game. From watching all the videos so far, and 2 innings of video today. There is something fundamentally wrong with the 2K series, and deny it if you will but if you are as hardcore baseball fan as I am you know it needs a rebuilding year from the ground up.
I have played baseball video games since the NES days. I, like many of you have owned a baseball game every year that I have owned a console. I, like you have bought systems in hopes for new versions of baseball games that promise new levels of realism and fun.
I, like many of you was also extremely disappointed when I finally got my hands on World Series Baseball for the Dreamcast. Why do I bring this up? Because I, like you am a hardcore fan of video game baseball. My favorite all time baseball games came from the Genesis and the Saturn in WSB. I have followed the 2K series since it first came to be. With the huge disappointment WSB was on the DC I wanted a redo, a retake on the sport and we saw it in the 2K series. Since then the 2K games quality have been a see-saw of bad to average. I, like many of you migrated to the MVP series which came from the average to bad Triple Play games and MVP is a baseball game I truly love. This isn’t about the amazing MVP games, its about the 2K games.
In my opinion, the 2K games need to be redone from the ground up MVP style. No not in the same play style as MVP (although many people would love it) but the same way EA did right by redoing TP into MVP, MLB 2K needs to be redone, and rewritten as “something else” 2K. When I first heard 2K had the exclusive rights to MLB for 3rd parties I was very upset but I gave MLB 2K a chance, and after 2 tries I almost quit on them. I found MLB The Show which I think is fantastic. I digress this is not about what The Show does right it’s about what MLB 2K does wrong.
Having the exclusive right to the MLB license can be a great thing if the games were better. I admit the game today does look better than the last version and that one was better than the one before it but the game still has deep flaws with the way the flow of the game is presented. Maybe it’s the awkward flight of the ball, or the animations that seem old to me. I believe it would be in 2K’s best interest, to take a brand new team (with Brinkman included I have trust in him) and begin a brand new series. From the ground up. It’s time for a rebuilding year, and I mean total re-haul, new dialog, new animation, new physics engine, new art style, new mo-cap new modeling,, new camera angles, new everything. Maybe next year 2K gives 2K9 to the old team and lets them do a port with a few experimental features meanwhile this new team gets started now on making a brand new game, and they can use the 2 year window to their advantage. I think it will be a great service to us. Right now it can be as polished as they want, with a few great ideas for bullet points it will always be held back by the spirits of the old series.
Maybe I am crazy, maybe the sales of baseball games don’t allow the type of cash to have 2 different teams working on a baseball game. From watching all the videos so far, and 2 innings of video today. There is something fundamentally wrong with the 2K series, and deny it if you will but if you are as hardcore baseball fan as I am you know it needs a rebuilding year from the ground up.
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