Major League Baseball 2K8 360 Impressions

[Money99]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K8 Impressions

I saw that also.

Ugh! Would someone with the freakin' game just post some early impressions?
How's the hitting? How's the pitching? Is the crowd realistic? Is the CPU AI smart?

Sorry, I just hate these threads. The first 16 pages is "I want this game", "I hope to have this game tonight".

[kiz5]

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Ugh! Would someone with the freakin' game just post some early impressions?
How's the hitting? How's the pitching? Is the crowd realistic? Is the CPU AI smart?

Sorry, I just hate these threads. The first 16 pages is "I want this game", "I hope to have this game tonight".

Page 24 or 25 is when my impressions start, fwiw.

[bowlerguy92]

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The continue them Kiz. Everyone is waiting for you to post more information.

[mikedad]

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Guys,

I heard that in franchise it says "Edit CPU rosters' is that giving us the ability to change CPU lineups/rotations or just the ability to make cpu team trades??

[kiz5]

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Guys,

I heard that in franchise it says "Edit CPU rosters' is that giving us the ability to change CPU lineups/rotations or just the ability to make cpu team trades??

Blah! It's just trades. =(

I made the assumption it was the lineups / rotations, since that's the bigger issue.

And random things...
- Franchise Slider progression settings -- was that in there before? I never played Franchise last year, and didn't notice that. Hitter / Pitcher progression rates, as well as Hitter / Pitcher regression rates.

- This fielding with the right analog for throwing is absolutely amazing. For the first time in a baseball game, I actually threw one bullet, that bounced, and went into the crowd. I'm used to overthrows / bad throws, that are grabbed by whomever is backing up the play, but to actually have the ball go into the stands was nice to see.

- Home run celebrations ... don't exist, or not yet at least. Home run, replay x2 or 3, show pitchers disgust, show next batter coming to the play. Maybe when the games matter, they'll show it? Not sure though.

- Meatballs are going to have to be adjusted through the sliders for almost everyone. They get blasted a lot of the time.

- I changed the game from HDMI over to the component + optical cable, and the audio just got a lot better being over 5.1. It makes sense for baseball to be one game that takes advantage of surround sound, and it does it a lot better this way. Sucks for those with HDMI, but what can ya do.

- Catchers ratings seem to matter a lot more this year, with blocking passed balls from happening. Good defensive catchers are keeping it in front more than the lesser quality catchers.

[sask3m]

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i'm interested in whether or not there is much difference in frame rate between 360 and ps3 but i guess that will be hard to tell unless you see them both in action.

[boomhauertjs]

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Kiz, how long is a game taking you to finish?

[Bat]

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- Franchise Slider progression settings -- was that in there before? I never played Franchise last year, and didn't notice that. Hitter / Pitcher progression rates, as well as Hitter / Pitcher regression rates.

That is awesome!

I am very interested in some franchise questions..

-Does the computer have good lineup AI? No more Greg Zaun leading off.
-When a new season starts are there still good players left in FA?
-Does the computer do a good job in the fantasy draft? In previous years alot of teams would take weird picks and their team would be pretty bad.

I know you are prolly trying a bunch of stuff out, but if you get a chance that would be great thanks.

[sask3m]

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That is awesome!

I am very interested in some franchise questions..

-Does the computer have good lineup AI? No more Greg Zaun leading off.
-When a new season starts are there still good players left in FA?
-Does the computer do a good job in the fantasy draft? In previous years alot of teams would take weird picks and their team would be pretty bad.

I know you are prolly trying a bunch of stuff out, but if you get a chance that would be great thanks.

i thought i had read there was an option to adjust cpu lineups and rotation before the game starts, maybe not though.

[kiz5]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K8 Impressions

That is awesome!

I am very interested in some franchise questions..

-Does the computer have good lineup AI? No more Greg Zaun leading off.
-When a new season starts are there still good players left in FA?
-Does the computer do a good job in the fantasy draft? In previous years alot of teams would take weird picks and their team would be pretty bad.

I know you are prolly trying a bunch of stuff out, but if you get a chance that would be great thanks.

Things look good, at least after the fantasy draft.

Glancing through, the worst team seems to be Tampa, but they also have BJ Upton, and Cano, so they probably drafted for potential.

One thing I noticed, was that the "No Budgets -- budget will be 110% of payroll after the draft" doesn't exactly work. I drafted the most expensive players, and had a payroll near 400 million. Budget was still "only" set at 175 or so, so it's not perfect with what it says.

Still trying out a lot though.

[kiz5]

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Kiz, how long is a game taking you to finish?

Not sure right now. It takes a bit of time. Maybe an hour or so? I haven't timed it, or even paid attention to time while playing it.

I'll pay attention next time. I also don't really pay attention to cut scenes / replays / etc., and get through them when they come up.

[kiz5]

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i thought i had read there was an option to adjust cpu lineups and rotation before the game starts, maybe not though.

Correct.

[Motown]

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i'm interested in whether or not there is much difference in frame rate between 360 and ps3 but i guess that will be hard to tell unless you see them both in action.

Kush mentioned that the PS3 & 360 are pretty much identical w/ gfx,framerate, progressive lighting,animations,responsiveness,etc...

[TeixeiraFanatic]

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Okay I have a pretty basic question.

When pitching, when you release the analog stick is that the place the circle stops or when you get the analog in the right position?(i.e for a fastball you go straight down then up.) To stop the circle in the green do you hold the analog stick up until it gets in the green or what?

Thanks for the impressions Kiz

[RoyalBoyle78]

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Kiz, I have a question, does it look like they have players real salaries in the game? Could you look, thanks.