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Re: Ben Brinkman is about to answer some real questions
I'm not gonna say the framerate is perfect all of the time, but it was definitely THE emphasis for the graphics guys this year.
Any amount of compression is going to lose frames and detail. There was a large .wmv format movie posted somewhere. That one was the most accurate. Any other format compresses the data, so you shouldn't draw any framerate conclusions from that.Comment
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Re: Ben Brinkman is about to answer some real questions
Kush, there's some panic starting to form among the fans here because we haven't seen a demo yet and the marketing hasn't been great. The Show demo has muddied things as well. There appears to be a whole lot new to this year's game, but fans feel left in the dark. Some are even going on baseless speculation that not much was done to this year's game and the reason for the quiet is because 2K isn't happy with the product. What can you say to address claims like that? Or can you even say a thing now that you are out of the company?Comment
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Re: Ben Brinkman is about to answer some real questions
As someone pointed out in another thread, the demo for 2K7 was released the day before the full game. I'm hopeful that it will be out a little earlier than that this year. But to say 2K is trying to hide the product because they are not confident is ridiculous. If anything, that would push them to market it more, to try to garner more sales based on marketing alone, since the game wouldn't sell itself. Anyway, we were obviously proud of the leap the game made from 2K6 to 2K7, yet the demo was released the day before it shipped. So speculation is nothing but speculation by uninformed pessimists.
gameplay is my main concern. i love pro yakuu spirits and admire The show last year was my first REAL leap into 2k baseball. i liked the pitched A LOT myself though i thought the hitting was very uninspiring. I thought that meter wise the game needed to follow more the cursor model and rely more on button presses along with matching up stuff the way the pitching did. This year you guys decided to go with thumbstick control,so i'm hoping it's something that might actually have MORE fun with. One thing i do not like in the next gen games IS the lack of polish. lack of smooth playing games and games that seem to hiccup or struggle to run the way a computer struggles if the computer doesn't have a strong enough graphics card. though visually last year 2k7 was great amazing at times I despised the lag(lag that was EVEN present in pro yakyuu, so i am not bias) This lag was in cutscences in animations(as if the branching wasn't done remininscent of NBA Live 08/07) in rain games in stadiums with ceratin lighting etc etc. I SERIOUSLY will call out the games producers if this still is in there. I've heard that there were graphical comprimises to get the framerate "better" which i really hope it has. A demo will solidify my purchase. heck WE can all afford the game it's justa matter if it's worth it...Brand New Tomba Slider sets ready for Next Gen Versions of NBA,Madden and Fifa Stay Tuned...Comment
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Re: Ben Brinkman is about to answer some real questions
Yeah man. I want the demo to come out too. I haven't been able to bear playing 2K7 since about a month after it was released. And now that I've been out of the 2K offices for a few weeks I am really jonesin to play some baseball. There's only so much Madden I can take and I just cant seem to get gung-ho about BioShock. NBA's not doin it for me either, I NEED BASEBALL!!Comment
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Re: Ben Brinkman is about to answer some real questions
Yeah man. I want the demo to come out too. I haven't been able to bear playing 2K7 since about a month after it was released. And now that I've been out of the 2K offices for a few weeks I am really jonesin to play some baseball. There's only so much Madden I can take and I just cant seem to get gung-ho about BioShock. NBA's not doin it for me either, I NEED BASEBALL!!Comment
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Re: Ben Brinkman is about to answer some real questions
Yeah man. I want the demo to come out too. I haven't been able to bear playing 2K7 since about a month after it was released. And now that I've been out of the 2K offices for a few weeks I am really jonesin to play some baseball. There's only so much Madden I can take and I just cant seem to get gung-ho about BioShock. NBA's not doin it for me either, I NEED BASEBALL!!
I want this game to be good so badly, but everything in my head tells me that won't be the case. Not when you had to start swinging in 2k7 BEFORE the ball left the pitcher's hand, which means you can't realistically take pitches or even adjust the timing to the type of pitch.
They can throw out all the beautiful screenshots they want, but if the batter/pitcher duel isn't fixed, and if you still can't even see the ball once it's hit into play this year, why does it matter?Comment
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Re: Ben Brinkman is about to answer some real questions
Kush, When I'm batting, IMO the home plate is not lined up straight towards the mound (camera angle?) when a right hand batter is facing a right handed pitcher and it really drives me crazy! haha
When a lefty comes up to bat facing a right handed pitcher them the camera angle is perfectly straight to the pitcher. Has this been corrected or was it done on purpose?
One more, I heard mentioned early on about a new defensive camera? Is that true? Can we field the ball from a 3rd person view? I have been wanting that since All Star baseball died.
Thank you!
BlitzburghComment
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Re: Ben Brinkman is about to answer some real questions
Kush, When I'm batting, IMO the home plate is not lined up straight towards the mound (camera angle?) when a right hand batter is facing a right handed pitcher and it really drives me crazy! haha
When a lefty comes up to bat facing a right handed pitcher them the camera angle is perfectly straight to the pitcher. Has this been corrected or was it done on purpose?
One more, I heard mentioned early on about a new defensive camera? Is that true? Can we field the ball from a 3rd person view? I have been wanting that since All Star baseball died.
Thank you!
Blitzburgh
No 3rd-person "behind the back" cam. We added a more aerial camera option this year.Comment
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Thanks for clearing that up for me."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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Re: Ben Brinkman is about to answer some real questions
That camera angle is intentional. On certain stance / delivery matchups with same-handed players, the batter's elbow would sometimes block most of the flight of the pitch. So the slight offset was put in to correct this.
No 3rd-person "behind the back" cam. We added a more aerial camera option this year.Comment
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Re: Ben Brinkman is about to answer some real questions
Kush, one more before I have to get going for an appointment...
I know the pitching mechanics have changed but has the physics on the ball being pitched changed? There is something about the ball physics when pitching that just does't seem right to me. Maybe it's because I feel that the behind the pitcher camera needs to be a bit further away from the batter or something.
I don't own a PS3 so I have never played the show but both the Show and MVP seemed to have the pitching physics seem very realistic. Any thoughts?
Thanks again.
BlitzburghComment
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Re: Ben Brinkman is about to answer some real questions
Kush, one more before I have to get going for an appointment...
I know the pitching mechanics have changed but has the physics on the ball being pitched changed? There is something about the ball physics when pitching that just does't seem right to me. Maybe it's because I feel that the behind the pitcher camera needs to be a bit further away from the batter or something.
I don't own a PS3 so I have never played the show but both the Show and MVP seemed to have the pitching physics seem very realistic. Any thoughts?
Thanks again.
Blitzburgh
We also moved the default camera a little farther back for better depth perception, but kept in last year's camera, and also added another camera that's even further back, similar to The Bigs.Comment
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Re: Ben Brinkman is about to answer some real questions
We did do some work on the pitched ball physics. I think its still not quite right, but it is certainly more accurate to actual physics than it was before.
We also moved the default camera a little farther back for better depth perception, but kept in last year's camera, and also added another camera that's even further back, similar to The Bigs.Comment
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