The duel between the batter and the pitcher is the meat and potato's of any baseball game. The majority of game time is spent on either side of this battle. But it feel's like so much of the outcome is left up to randomness that the battle feels often times out of your control.
As a hitter, sometimes you time the pitch perfectly and you miss. Sometimes you hit it over the fence and sometimes you roll over on a pitch and ground out to the short stop. Some times the pitcher make a great pitch, you make a bad swing and still hit a home run.
As a pitcher, even in real life, once the ball leaves your hand, things are out of control, but it feels even moreso like this in 2K. Too often the results are just unrealistic as if the game is playing toward a certain outcome for that AB than reacting to the actual circumstances.
Typically in real life as a pitcher, you get hit hard when you leave balls up in the zone and/or out over the plate. Pitchers goals are to a) keep the ball down and b) keep it on the corners. If you do this, more likely than not you will have success....however, in this game, it often doesn't seem like it matters. The pitcher (or his rating) seems to be more responsible for the outcome than the actual pitch...If you hit a corner with Sabathia, there is a good chance the hitter will swing and miss or hit the ball weakly. If you throw that exact same pitch with Daniel Cabrera, and the hitter takes the same swing, there seems to be a better chance that ball ends up in the gap, when in reality the only difference in the pitch was who threw it.
It just feels like there is too much randomness in a battle that should be decided on merit and skill. If you get fooled on a pitch, you should pay the price. If the pitcher is on his game and is hitting his corners and expanding the zone, your swing is going to have to be perfect to hit the ball hard.
While things don't feel as random as 2K7, they still don't feel controlled.
I think if anything this screams that this game needs some form of directional/zone/cursor hitting. Where the input to hit the ball square is more than just blindly swinging. And as far as AI hitting goes, something needs to be adjusted as well to make the game react better physically than it does. Often times the result doesn't add up to the pitch+swing and it always should.
Does anyone else feel that while they are "in control" so much of what happens is out of their control?
I'm not saying hitters don't occasionally hit perfect pitches over the fence, but it happens too often by guys it shouldn't happen to. Pedroia is a guy who will crush a mistake over the monster, but he's not going to get fooled and put a bad swing on a ball and still get it out of the yard. Pujols or A-Rod may get lucky everyonce in a while, but they are the exception to the rule.
As a hitter, sometimes you time the pitch perfectly and you miss. Sometimes you hit it over the fence and sometimes you roll over on a pitch and ground out to the short stop. Some times the pitcher make a great pitch, you make a bad swing and still hit a home run.
As a pitcher, even in real life, once the ball leaves your hand, things are out of control, but it feels even moreso like this in 2K. Too often the results are just unrealistic as if the game is playing toward a certain outcome for that AB than reacting to the actual circumstances.
Typically in real life as a pitcher, you get hit hard when you leave balls up in the zone and/or out over the plate. Pitchers goals are to a) keep the ball down and b) keep it on the corners. If you do this, more likely than not you will have success....however, in this game, it often doesn't seem like it matters. The pitcher (or his rating) seems to be more responsible for the outcome than the actual pitch...If you hit a corner with Sabathia, there is a good chance the hitter will swing and miss or hit the ball weakly. If you throw that exact same pitch with Daniel Cabrera, and the hitter takes the same swing, there seems to be a better chance that ball ends up in the gap, when in reality the only difference in the pitch was who threw it.
It just feels like there is too much randomness in a battle that should be decided on merit and skill. If you get fooled on a pitch, you should pay the price. If the pitcher is on his game and is hitting his corners and expanding the zone, your swing is going to have to be perfect to hit the ball hard.
While things don't feel as random as 2K7, they still don't feel controlled.
I think if anything this screams that this game needs some form of directional/zone/cursor hitting. Where the input to hit the ball square is more than just blindly swinging. And as far as AI hitting goes, something needs to be adjusted as well to make the game react better physically than it does. Often times the result doesn't add up to the pitch+swing and it always should.
Does anyone else feel that while they are "in control" so much of what happens is out of their control?
I'm not saying hitters don't occasionally hit perfect pitches over the fence, but it happens too often by guys it shouldn't happen to. Pedroia is a guy who will crush a mistake over the monster, but he's not going to get fooled and put a bad swing on a ball and still get it out of the yard. Pujols or A-Rod may get lucky everyonce in a while, but they are the exception to the rule.
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