Major League Baseball 2K8 360 Impressions

[Thadeus]

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

LOL at people who are planning to buy the game and someone on this forum says the framerate is bad so they don't buy it. Thank god I don't HAVE to have a game run at 60fps. I have a 1080p t.v. and the framerate doesn't bother me in the least. It's not great, but it's hardly unplayable. I love the new analog throwing.

[Heelfan71]

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

Heelfan, how are the pitch counts? Pitchers (you and CPU) getting to 100?

counts are low. Probably be fixed with sliders.

Very good question! Stamina as well . . .

not sure about that. Been playing 3 innings and starting over with different teams.

[reo]

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

Woohoo. Just read on MM that it sims very well! Sweet! Realistic numbers at the end of the season . . .

[Thadeus]

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

No way the Show is leaps and bounds better than 2K8. The fielding is much better in 2K8, I think the player models are much better as well. Give it more than 30 minutes to dissect a game.

[arichzona]

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

Agreed. The impressions thread has quickly become the "That's it I'm not getting the game anymore; I'm waiting until the demo" thread.

Very hard to determine who has the game and their impressions of it.

co-sign.

"impressions" please.....that is why we are reading the thread.

[The GIGGAS]

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

Well, I'm back at work and I got to play about 5 innings, and I must say I'm pretty disappointed, the graphics seem like they took a step backwards, there ok but not that good IMO, also From owing both games, there is no way 2K8 graphics come close to touching the Show's graphics. the sound is decent until you hear the bat hit the ball, I didn't notice a lot of choppiness, I saw some slow down, thats about it. Then player models I like the batting stances are mostly pretty well done. I was using the Mets and I don't know why there jerseys need to be blurred, I never understood why this is. Anyway I will give it another go when I get home from work. I'm glad I have 2 choices, I love baseball and thats why I own both games right now, I will say that The show is no doubt pretty much leaps and bounds better then 2K8, I'm not biased when it comes to baseball games, I just giving my honest opinion, thats all....At least I got a cool bobble head out of it. I will play it a bit more when I get home.

FF... what about the gameplay?

[bigfnjoe96]

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

No kidding. And if you are reading these posts and you aren't going to buy the game anymore, I'm sorry, but you don't have to announce it to everyone!

Thank You.. We get-it please move-on

[MikeB_20]

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

Would anyone say that the analog controls are enough to warrant a purchase over The Show or are they not that big of a deal?

[CS10029]

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

I got a friend that works at GS thats gonna let me buy the game and play it for the night. Its going right back tomorrow if it sucks though.

[scott4171]

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

LOL at people who are planning to buy the game and someone on this forum says the framerate is bad so they don't buy it. Thank god I don't HAVE to have a game run at 60fps. I have a 1080p t.v. and the framerate doesn't bother me in the least. It's not great, but it's hardly unplayable. I love the new analog throwing.

Yeah but why should I plunk down $60 for a game when Ben said the frame rate won't jump below 30fps. Now we have to switch to 760p to fix the frame rates choppiness thats just bullcrap. But like I said I am waiting for the demo.

[ComaFaction]

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

Played my first game -- Jays(me) vs. Braves.

I lost 10-1. Halladay, Jannssen and Chacin got knocked around. They hit two jacks...Overbay hit a solo bomb in the 8th for me. They hit me all over the park...doubles, singles, a triple from kelly johnson.

I'll just get my one big negative out of the way now -- the framerate. It's awful....I don't see any improvement over last year's, at least from the game I played...in fact at times it was worse -- players would glitch around (dissapear and reappear in new places) after cut-scenes and in transitions between plays. There was not a single replay, or celebration in any of the 3 homers...just a quick shot of the guy rounding the bases and, bam, right back to the next batter.

Almost all the transitions were glitchy -- really dissapointed me. Every play in the field was choppy, especially the ball's flight. The pitching and batting framerate is butter smooth...VERY NICE. You can really see the extra frames in the ball's flight from pitcher to catcher. Same when batting, you can pick up on pitches better.

Also, the new Jeanne Zelasko portions had very choppy transitions, they showed the wrong replays and talked about different replays....showed a homerun as a highlight for Smoltz being player of the game (!?) and would freeze up for a couple of seconds on every screen transition. I can't understand with the hit the fans and field textures took, etc. that the frame-rate is the same.

POSITIVES
Hitting engine seems awesome...going yard feels really nice. The throwing is great. The pitching is really hard, but I started getting a couple of K's toward the end.
Player models look just as good as last year, imo. The animations are nice -- Rolen climbed the ladder and made a great snow-cone catch for me. Lots of foul balls....many at-bats had multiple foul balls.

The game seems like it would be amazing if it ran smooth...but, to be honest, it really ruined the experience for me. I'm hoping it's my TV/console's setting -- as people seem to not be having this issue. But, I was very underwhelmed. That being said, if the frame-rate is ironed out, I'd probably give it an 8-8.5/10. Right now, I'd be around a 6. That's how much it detracted from my experience.

[Heelfan71]

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

I actually enjoy fielding more in 2k8 over the Show. Really like the throwing meters and throwing to the bases with the R Stick.

[Heelfan71]

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

There was not a single replay, or celebration in any of the 3 homers...just a quick shot of the guy rounding the bases and, bam, right back to the next batter.

A

Cpu hit a HR against me and they showed several replays

[Bill_Abner]

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

Hi Bill

Seems to be a concern with framerate issues. Are you experiencing this?

Seems much ado about nothing, really. There's some hiccuping but I haven't had any that made me want to forum vent. Haven't played online. Is it 60 FPS? Shrug. I have no idea. I don't see it as a problem yet, though. That said, I still very much dislike the fielding. It just feels weird and 2K has always struggled with this imo.

It doesn't feel 100% polished if that makes any sense (and yes there's sa LOT of recycled commentary) and for me I'll need to do a lot of base slider stuff because I really dislike the power settings (homers are indeed flying out of the park left aand right) and I'm still not sold on the runner speed/ outfield arm stuff.

One thing that is annoying is that in the games I have played today it's hard to draw walks because if the ball just nicks the strikezone the ump calls it a strike, so you basically have to swing at anything that's close.

Right now the draw for me is the new pitching UI.

[HK-47]

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

lol, I played a full season in 2k6, with rocket arms an all.I think I can handle framerate hiccups.

I can't get the game today though(360 still being repaired!)..My bro just picked up the Show though, so that will keep me busy.