Major League Baskeball 2K9 Features List

[EnigmaNemesis]

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In The Show, you influence your swing with the right stick prior to the pitch. Even if you aim down to make contact, you still have an uppercut influence. And he's right... it's rare that you get a fly ball out of it.

There has also been plenty of pitches I have swung over or under as well.

[Blzer]

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There has also been plenty of pitches I have swung over or under as well.

Que?

Maybe I jumped in the wrong part of the conversation. Back up.

[Benz87]

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There was nothing that really cought my eye and got me excited, just a bunch of simplifying for easy "pick up and play", not necesarily what I wanted. I like depth and having something to set my skills apart from somone else. Still not enough information to make any assumtions though. It will get a purchase wether good or not by default.

[EnigmaNemesis]

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It will get a purchase wether good or not by default.

Things like this just plain confuse me. If it is not good, then why reward them with a sale?

[Skyboxer]

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i think that is a mistake about the show having zone hitting, at least i sure don't see it, getting back to 2k9 having zone hitting i hope its like espn2k4 where it was a true zone hitting (variable) and not simplistic zone hitting like hh had (9 zones).

Yep. The Shows zone hitting is not really zone hitting.

[Skyboxer]

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I know if a pitch is pretty low in The Show, and I try to "influence" a fly ball, 99% of the time I hit in in the dirt for a ground ball.

True. What I'm saying is about 2K9. If it does have influence then hopefully it's done right.

[EnigmaNemesis]

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True. What I'm saying is about 2K9. If it does have influence then hopefully it's done right.

Well exactly.

The Show did it right for their system, where as a low ball, chances are depending on the batter, pitcher, count, etc., the ball will be driver into the dirt, same for high pitches with pop-ups.

2K better do it right with their system, and not have it where, okay I aimed low in the zone because the pitch was there, so *bam* I made solid contact. When 99% of the time in baseball, it will be driven into the dirt.

[nemesis04]

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Yep. The Shows zone hitting is not really zone hitting.

The Show still has zone hitting, the system is askew basically because of the bat coverage. They made it the size of a beach ball. That is why you do not have to use the left stick to aim because in the neutral position the bat covers the whole zone. If they allowed us to adjust it with a slider, the problem would be solved very easily.

[johnnyg83]

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90% of that stuff has no appeal to me ... but I'll happily play the demo. If they can impress me, I'll buy.

[Skyboxer]

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The Show still has zone hitting, the system is askew basically because of the bat coverage. They made it the size of a beach ball. That is why you do not have to use the left stick to aim because in the neutral position the bat covers the whole zone. If they allowed us to adjust it with a slider, the problem would be solved very easily.

I disagree. In zone (Correct me if I'm wrong) if I aim low and in and swing...the swing is low and in. With The Show if I aim low and in the swing will be wherever the ball is. Even if you do not move the stick to aim swing (The swing then should remain in the middle) the swing animation still goes to where the ball is.

I agree though that the coverage is way to big.

[nemesis04]

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I disagree. In zone (Correct me if I'm wrong) if I aim low and in and swing...the swing is low and in. With The Show if I aim low and in the swing will be wherever the ball is. Even if you do not move the stick to aim swing (The swing then should remain in the middle) the swing animation still goes to where the ball is.

I agree though that the coverage is way to big.

Not to hijack a thread but put the bat coverage indicator on. If you leave it idle and swing, it will not move towards the ball.

[therizing02]

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"The catcher will call pitches based on the hitter's weakness"

In a way this is good, but it could blow up in a hurry and be IMO a game killer.

My point is that if I'm batting and I'm weak low and away will I be able to possibly make adjustments and will the CPU pitch the same to every batter all the time?

Additionally, if I'm pitching will hitters adjust their approach from at bat to at bat?

[sportsdude]

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I like the list of features and am glad they didn't try to add a new mode or anything.

I'd be perfectly happy if they tightened up the gameplay and found a steady framerate. And if the graphics improved a bit I wouldn't complain either.

[bigfnjoe96]

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Example of Zone Hitting in 2k3. What I loved about this was the higher the difficulty the smaller the circle got. If we are getting a more updated version of this I will be

http://s.xboxmovies.ign.com/xbox/video/wsb_012803-001-0001003.mov

http://s.xboxmovies.ign.com/xbox/video/wsb_012803-001-0002002.mov

[Skyboxer]

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Not to hijack a thread but put the bat coverage indicator on. If you leave it idle and swing, it will not move towards the ball.

But the animation does. If I swing inside and the batter swings outside due to that being where the ball is then thats bad. It was just implemented poorly IMO. I guess I'm used to HH etc that the swing mirrors what I am doing.
Just needs tweaked


Ok back to 2K9: here's hoping they deliver.