Major League Baseball 2K8 360 Impressions

[thornie]

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

Thats the thing that is bothering me the most. Every single pitch in the strike zone is hittable every time. This goes for both the computer and user. Even when expecting a change and you see a fastball you still hit it.. As long as the pitch is in the zone you will practically see zero strikeouts.

In real baseball there are plenty of times a batter expects a fastball and still can't hit it..this is not the case in the game since there is no real aiming to hit. It is basically just timing and the pitch speeds don't vary enough to keep someone from hitting the ball.

Right now its driving me alittle crazy.

Hmm. I'm not having this problem. After getting creamed in my first 2 games, I spent a good hour in that pitching tutorial until I felt good enough to pitch an actual game. First game after that, I struck out 9 in 7 innings with Oliver Perez against the Braves. On 'pro' difficulty, I have yet to goto a higher difficulty... There are plenty of times I throw a fastball on the corner at about 74% gesture and the guy swings and misses. Same with other pitches.

[Bwnarrow3]

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

Are you sure you have the batters eye option on?
This option is not on with default settings.
It will still show the circle but the option is off.

Well, this might be good news. How do you turn it on?

[Bat]

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

Hmm. I'm not having this problem. After getting creamed in my first 2 games, I spent a good hour in that pitching tutorial until I felt good enough to pitch an actual game. First game after that, I struck out 9 in 7 innings with Oliver Perez against the Braves. On 'pro' difficulty, I have yet to goto a higher difficulty... There are plenty of times I throw a fastball on the corner at about 74% gesture and the guy swings and misses. Same with other pitches.

Well honestly I need to edit it alittle i haven't spent too much time against the computer. I am mainly talking from user-user. My friend and I try to throw mostly strikes.. and when doing so no matter the speed or movement if its in the zone you will hit it.

[thornie]

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

Well honestly I need to edit it alittle i haven't spent too much time against the computer. I am mainly talking from user-user. My friend and I try to throw mostly strikes.. and when doing so no matter the speed or movement if its in the zone you will hit it.

Oh! Then yes I agree. You can really mash everything, once you get the timing down.

[DickDalewood]

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

OK, why does the 360 instruction manual tell me I can pull back and release for a contact swing with the swing stick 2.0???

I thought it was just pull back and push forward no matter what this year??

[Sportsforever]

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

I just had a great game. Cleveland @ Detroit(me) with Fausto vs. Dontrelle. Carmona was nasty all game, striking out 13 in 7 innings and only allowing 1 hit. Dontrelle was good, but it was 3-0 Indians going to the bottom of the 9th.

Borowski comes on and proceeds to walk the first two hitters and then hits Granderson. He then walks Polanco to drive in a run. Ordonez hits a soft grounder to 2nd that scores a run and it's 3-2 with runners at 2nd and 3rd. Borowski intentionally walks the next hitter and Sheffield hits a slow tapper to 1B that scores the tying run and puts runners at 2nd and 3rd again. Borowski intentionally walks Guillen to set up a force at any base and Aaron Fultz comes on to face Renteria.

Renteria gets down 0-2 before working it to 2-2, and then hits a very slow bouncer to 3B...Blake comes charging, fields, throws...and it's a high throw that Garko has to stretch for and can't get his foot down. Renteria is safe, runner scores from 3rd..game over with Tigers winning 4-3. Crazy thing...I ended up with only 1 hit on the game and still won helped by 5 walks, 1 HBP, and the error.

[Bat]

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

OK, why does the 360 instruction manual tell me I can pull back and release for a contact swing with the swing stick 2.0???

I thought it was just pull back and push forward no matter what this year??

It is pull back and forward every time. The guide is wrong. That method is for the classic hit stick (or whatever last years was called)

[Bwnarrow3]

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

I just had a great game. Cleveland @ Detroit(me) with Fausto vs. Dontrelle. Carmona was nasty all game, striking out 13 in 7 innings and only allowing 1 hit. Dontrelle was good, but it was 3-0 Indians going to the bottom of the 9th.

Borowski comes on and proceeds to walk the first two hitters and then hits Granderson. He then walks Polanco to drive in a run. Ordonez hits a soft grounder to 2nd that scores a run and it's 3-2 with runners at 2nd and 3rd. Borowski intentionally walks the next hitter and Sheffield hits a slow tapper to 1B that scores the tying run and puts runners at 2nd and 3rd again. Borowski intentionally walks Guillen to set up a force at any base and Aaron Fultz comes on to face Renteria.

Renteria gets down 0-2 before working it to 2-2, and then hits a very slow bouncer to 3B...Blake comes charging, fields, throws...and it's a high throw that Garko has to stretch for and can't get his foot down. Renteria is safe, runner scores from 3rd..game over with Tigers winning 4-3. Crazy thing...I ended up with only 1 hit on the game and still won helped by 5 walks, 1 HBP, and the error.

How realistic!

[RoyalBoyle78]

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

well guys I think I'm done with the game, if that what you wanna call it, I just played another game, I'm on lunch from work, I thought the framerate was ok, but it really bad, plus the game just does not feel like baseball, more like a chore to play, anyway, I'm think I'm selling on eBay soon. I mean the game seems so freaking dark, why I pick play in the day time and the game is dark, just not good, not good at all, I mean I'm having framerate issues in the menu screen, now when I saw this toady, I said wow, good bye 2k.

[ehh]

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

Well it seems we have a fix for the frame rate issue which is very exciting. It does come with a few cons but at least you can make a decision. This is posted in the frame rate thread but I'll put it here as well. This works for exhibition as well but more importantly we can do this in franchise mode.

As for the presentation options, play around with them and see what works best for you. (Replay, cutscenes, etc). Try with them all off and then turn on certain things to see if you can maintain the frame rate.

The two cons people will be concerned with...

Your VIP will be disabled which means:
1) No achievements can be unlocked or user stats kept.
2) No adjustments made by the CPU against your tendencies.

At least people have a choice now if they want a completely smooth game.

Alright, the very simple work-around I thought would work in franchise does indeed work.

The HD being attached has no effect on the framerate, it's all the 360 profile/VIP. Same idea in terms of constantly saving replays, but it's the profile/VIP that's doing the damage and not the HD. If there's no VIP nothing can be saved anyway.

Here's what I did...

- Started my 360 with HD attached
- Load menus came up, my VIP, settings and roster were auto-loaded
- I started a franchise and started my first game
- Before the first pitch is thrown, I tap the middle button on the controller to bring up the blade from the left that controls your profile. I signed out of my profile (and in turn out of my VIP as well) and got the error message saying "Progress Won't Be Saved" blah blah blah. That's a lie, wahoo!
- I played three innings (don't have time to finish, need to get back to the office) and then simmed to the end of the game. I won 8-3.
- Back at the main menu of the franchise I tapped the middle button of the controller again and logged back in to my 360 profile/VIP. I went to the save menu, saved my franchise and viola! No problems.

So we should be able to play franchise mode immediately without any framerate issue, good news!

[RoyalBoyle78]

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

Well it seems we have a fix for the frame rate issue which is very exciting. It does come with a few cons but at least you can make a decision. This is posted in the frame rate thread but I'll put it here as well. This works for exhibition as well but more importantly we can do this in franchise mode.

The two cons people will be concerned with...

Your VIP will be disabled which means:
1) No achievements can be unlocked or user stats kept.
2) No adjustments made by the CPU against your tendencies.

At least people have a choice now if they want a completely smooth game.

does this work for PS3 users?

[ehh]

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

does this work for PS3 users?

Not sure, can you sign in/out of your profile similarly to 360?

[CS10029]

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

Im pretty sure putting it on Aerial, 720P and taking the ball trail off does enough where is absolutely playable.

Im loving the game so far. The frame rate bothered me for a few innings in my first game, but i think that had a lot to do with what I've read.

First game was tough gave up like 7 runs, and only scored 1.

Since then I've had very low scoring games, and realistic for the most part. The frame rate is so overblown people seem to be nitpicking.

Problems I have had is both my franchise games with the sox against the A's Harden and Balante (sp?) were just pounding the strike zone and there was nothing I could do about it. Touched up some of the sliders to get some more balls and the game feel in to a more realistic groove. Also was having a tough time picking up on pitches so I lowered the pitch speed a few clicks.

Really liking the game after a few games. Gameplay wise its top notch, and in my opinion thats whats gonna keep this in peoples systems.

[ehh]

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

Im pretty sure putting it on Aerial, 720P and taking the ball trail off does enough where is absolutely playable.

Are you on 360? If so, please try what I posted above in regards to signing out of your 360 profile/VIP after you have started a game and let me know the results.

EDIT: Also turn off cutscenes and replays to start.

[thornie]

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

Well it seems we have a fix for the frame rate issue which is very exciting. It does come with a few cons but at least you can make a decision. This is posted in the frame rate thread but I'll put it here as well. This works for exhibition as well but more importantly we can do this in franchise mode.

As for the presentation options, play around with them and see what works best for you. (Replay, cutscenes, etc). Try with them all off and then turn on certain things to see if you can maintain the frame rate.

The two cons people will be concerned with...

Your VIP will be disabled which means:
1) No achievements can be unlocked or user stats kept.
2) No adjustments made by the CPU against your tendencies.

At least people have a choice now if they want a completely smooth game.

Thanks a ton dude, works great! Wow. This is why i love this place, haha.