Major League Baseball 2K8 360 Impressions

**Pared** · 03-05-2008, 04:25 PM

Re: Major League Baseball 2K8 (360/PS3) Impressions

Originally posted by Sully

Thanks, Pared. I was wondering if the analog throwing was a straight rip from the NCAA series. I had the game at the top of my Gamefly queue, but swapped it with Army of Two once I heard the demo dropped. I plan on checking it out tonight.

The analog throwing is really nice once you get used to it. Pitching is... I'm still up in the air about it. It's nice but I hate the fact they even have something called a "meatball."

Most of the times it's an automatic homerun. Reminds me of that stupid SlamZone in the 2k baseball series (which many defended with their life back then as well).

There's too much stuttering/pausing and that is agitating as well. I don't recall 2k7 being that bad in this regard through camera transitioning.

What really annoys me about this game is they can make it out to be a good one... but there's just too much junk leftover from 2k6. You can see they're really trying to reproduce MVP with this game but they just... can't.

Maybe that's part of the problem... It just comes off as a 2nd rate MVP engine.

**Motown** · 03-05-2008, 04:30 PM

Re: Major League Baseball 2K8 (360/PS3) Impressions

Originally posted by jake44np

I think he is someone who is tired of listening to you bash MLB 2K8.

bashing???

nah man i ain't bashin' nuthin...' I believe I in fact mentioned that "this game will be IN my library...'cause i dig the HR Derby." i swear i'm wading knee deep
around defensive 2k fanboys.

**ehh** · 03-05-2008, 04:31 PM

Re: Major League Baseball 2K8 (360/PS3) Impressions

Originally posted by Sully

I don't remember seeing those exact words in his reply, but I'm sure 2k appreciates you coming to their defense for all things MLB2K8 related.

It's great news that there's a workaround. It's great news that it appears the issue can be fixed with a patch.

It's still terrible that the game shipped in this condition. It's still terrible that the demo didn't hit until after the game released. It's still terrible that you should have to sacrifice features to get the game working "properly", the way it was intended to.

I agree but tons and tons of negativity isn't going to accomplish a damn thing. I'm not going to sit around and cry for days about the demo release, that A doesn't work the way I want and B should have been improved. What is that going to help?

The game has been out about 36 hours and there's already a temporary fix for the frame rate and we haven't even gotten into the sliders yet. This game out-of-the-box is much better than 2K7 and all the work that went into 2K7 making it better made a big difference. 2K8 is starting ahead of 2K7 out of the box and I expect the same amount of improvements to be made from OS'ers and a patch as last year.

**sportyguyfl31** · 03-05-2008, 04:31 PM

Re: Major League Baseball 2K8 (360/PS3) Impressions

I'm going to pick this up on my way home..hope Im not disappointed.

**bowlerguy92** · 03-05-2008, 04:46 PM

Re: Major League Baseball 2K8 (360/PS3) Impressions

Wow, I just saw the DUMBEST homer I think I have ever seen before. Soriano basically leans over the plate and one hand swings at one almost in the dirt that he flicks 435 feet to center field...........The last game I played was a joke, their frigan batboy probably could have hit a homer blindfolded.

**ehh** · 03-05-2008, 04:48 PM

Re: Major League Baseball 2K8 (360/PS3) Impressions

Originally posted by bowlerguy92

Wow, I just saw the DUMBEST homer I think I have ever seen before. Soriano basically leans over the plate and one hand swings at one almost in the dirt that he flicks 435 feet to center field...........The last game I played was a joke, their frigan batboy probably could have hit a homer blindfolded.

Are you still on Pro or tweaking the sliders?

**bowlerguy92** · 03-05-2008, 04:52 PM

Re: Major League Baseball 2K8 (360/PS3) Impressions

Originally posted by ehh

Are you still on Pro or tweaking the sliders?

That last game was on Pro which is why it shocks me so much......I lost 10-5 against the Cubs using the Redsox. Just saw something cool though that I figured I would share. I got youk on first, Ortiz smokes a grounder to 2nd, the second baseman trys to tag Youk out but Youk evades it and winds up on second, everyone safe.

**ehh** · 03-05-2008, 04:54 PM

Re: Major League Baseball 2K8 (360/PS3) Impressions

Originally posted by bowlerguy92

Just saw something cool though that I figured I would share. I got youk on first, Ortiz smokes a grounder to 2nd, the second baseman trys to tag Youk out but Youk evades it and winds up on second, everyone safe.

Damn, that's definitely new!

Pro and Rookier are def a bit arcadish. I had a similar HR with A-Rod last night, a low-and-away pitch (off the plate) and I pulled it over the Green Monster. The swing looked awkward like it should have been a pop-out to third. Haven't seen it yet on All-Star but I've only played about 10 innings.

**bowlerguy92** · 03-05-2008, 04:58 PM

Re: Major League Baseball 2K8 (360/PS3) Impressions

I'm still working on doing something about sliders for myself on All-Star. The players have too much power out of the gate on All-Star for my taste. Mainly the CPU players hitting an obsene amount of bombs. Hell, Ehh we should correspond and make our own sliderset!

**dreihl** · 03-05-2008, 05:08 PM

Re: Major League Baseball 2K8 (360/PS3) Impressions

Can anybody tell me if Bonds( under a fake name) or Clemens is in the FA list for this game?

**phillyfan2578** · 03-05-2008, 05:14 PM

Re: Major League Baseball 2K8 (360/PS3) Impressions

Originally posted by dreihl

Can anybody tell me if Bonds( under a fake name) or Clemens is in the FA list for this game?

Bonds is usually under John Dowd or something like that.

**dreihl** · 03-05-2008, 05:24 PM

Re: Major League Baseball 2K8 (360/PS3) Impressions

Originally posted by phillyfan2578

Bonds is usually under John Dowd or something like that.

i understand that. what i was wondering is whether he and or clemens were on the free agents list? neither have officially retired, so my guess would be that they would be on there like clemens was last year. but i was just hoping somebody could confirm.

**Heelfan71** · 03-05-2008, 05:27 PM

Re: Major League Baseball 2K8 (360/PS3) Impressions

biggest issues for me is the pitch counts being really low and not enough balls being thrown by cpu or human. last game there were 120 pitches total for both teams. I keep lowering the cpu throw strike slider but it's not having much affect. Can't do nothing for the human side.

**DickDalewood** · 03-05-2008, 05:30 PM

Re: Major League Baseball 2K8 (360/PS3) Impressions

Gotta be honest, this "Aerial Cam" is pretty darn cool.

**yankito** · 03-05-2008, 05:33 PM

Re: Major League Baseball 2K8 (360/PS3) Impressions

I have a question , can you put the players bigger ?

Major League Baseball 2K8 360 Impressions

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