MLB 2K11 Preview (New York Post)

[Saberq]

The New York Post has posted their MLB 2K11 preview.

"Another change that has been made is that 2K11 has polished and tuned the pitching system. This year they will be bringing back the old system of pitching, based on the right thumbstick, and they have fine-tuned the control system. Now if you continuously miss a pitch, you will not be able to know where it will wind up, just like in real life, if you miss badly, the pitch may end up anywhere in the zone."

[Flaxseed Oil]

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I must say, that Roy Halladay model looks amazing. I hope this game allows you to hit from the 2k7 hitting perspective, zoomed way in!

[Saberq]

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I must say, that Roy Halladay model looks amazing. I hope this game allows you to hit from the 2k7 hitting perspective, zoomed way in!

I am sure they will last year we had 3 different hitting perspectives plus you could customize it further....

[JayhawkerStL]

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Okay, I've read enough of the previews. When are the gameplay videos coming?

At this point, the previews are just saying the same things we have already read. So now we need to see the game in action to see if the changes are what we think they are.

[bigfnjoe96]

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Okay, I've read enough of the previews. When are the gameplay videos coming?

At this point, the previews are just saying the same things we have already read. So now we need to see the game in action to see if the changes are what we think they are.

Personally I'm waiting on the Fielding & Franchise Insights. GP Videos are always a plus, but I wanna hear directly from development on what they've done to improve these 2 aspects of the game.

[Saberq]

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Personally I'm waiting on the Fielding & Franchise Insights. GP Videos are always a plus, but I wanna hear directly from development on what they've done to improve these 2 aspects of the game.

Does anyone have an idea when the Insights should be coming?......Also will we have developers videos like last year?

[jeffy777]

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They said they're planning to release one Developer Insight each week up until the game is released. I think they also said there wouldn't be one last week because of all the previews, so we should see one this week.

[bigfnjoe96]

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Does anyone have an idea when the Insights should be coming?......Also will we have developers videos like last year?

I would think since this is the LAST week in January, we'd be getting an Insight this week, but who knows. My feeling is Insights may go like this:

FIELDING
PITCHING/HITTING
FRANCHISE/ONLINE FRANCHISE
PRESENTATION/PLAYER MODELS

[Saberq]

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I would think since this is the LAST week in January, we'd be getting an Insight this week, but who knows. My feeling is Insights may go like this:

FIELDING
PITCHING/HITTING
FRANCHISE/ONLINE FRANCHISE
PRESENTATION/PLAYER MODELS

Yeah that sounds about right....I sure hope that they release they second insight this week because man we need more info....All previews so for covered the same bases(no pun intended)....

[bigfnjoe96]

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We'll it looks like 2k is still capturing signature styles..

"Neftali Feliz @ MLB Studio 42"

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[Saberq]

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Haha that looks great dude......But does anyone think that it is a little late for this things at the end of January?

[Trevytrev11]

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Now if you continuously miss a pitch, you will not be able to know where it will wind up, just like in real life, if you miss badly, the pitch may end up anywhere in the zone.

Just analyzing this statement:

Is this basically trying to replicate a pitcher who just loses feel for a pitch one day? When sometimes you just don't have command of a pitch and no matter what you try and do to adjust, you just never develop a feel for it?

If so, I applaud that. I think that is a pretty good idea. I know when I pitched, sometimes you just couldn't get the feel for a curve and as hard as your tried to bury one down in the zone, you'd leave it hanging.

I like this idea IF you are continuously missing a lot with a given pitch. Somtimes you will be nailing 3 of your 4 pitches, but that one just keeps getting away.

However, I also like the fact that in the past, if you over throw your curve (carry your r-stick slightly past the release point), it would act like you over threw it and miss down and away. And if you let go too early, you would miss up and in. I thought this, in principal, was a realisitic cause and effect for missing pitches. Release too soon, ball goes up and in, release too late, ball goes down and away.

I hope they stick with this as the rule and only throw in the new aspect in the event that you keep missing a certain pitch and your pitcher basically loses confidence in that pitch.

I think these two ideas together make for a solid pitching platform.

I just don't like complete randomness because usually when you are on, as a pitcher, you can usually throw a pitch knowing that you are either going to nail your target or miss in a given direction. In other words, when a guy is up 0-2 or 1-2 on a hitter and tries to paint the outside corner, he's going to either hit that corner or make sure that if he misses, it is on the outside part of the plate.

I like to know that when I throw a pitch, that if I miss, I am going to miss to the safe part of the zone (usually to the direction of the target).

[Artman22]

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We'll it looks like 2k is still capturing signature styles..

"Neftali Feliz @ MLB Studio 42"

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This is great!!

[kraken613]

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I really hope to hear more about My Player and Franchise mode soon. Overall all these previews give me some hope though.

[CincinnatiRedlegs]

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I really hope to hear more about My Player and Franchise mode soon. Overall all these previews give me some hope though.

That's certainly what I'm looking forward to. These articles are awesome and the new features sound great, but I'm chomping at the bit to hear some My Player and Franchise updates.