Re: Decline in Quality of MLB 2k Baseball
Dang I slept through most of these post, spent all night reuploading the video in it's true larger HD file...Youtube compressed the death out of the last one. I posted the new on in the blog...
But I agree gameplay wasn't up to par with the newer titles! Graphics were better, and say what you will about the baggy Jerseys, as I recall the pants on big papi were just like that in that year.
The wind effects were overblown, no pun intended! But it was none the less an incredible feature that no other company has pulled off. Not to mention if you zoom in on a replay it had real grass, the gloves and jerseys are truly stitched, pads and accessories look 3D's and not 2D pasted.
From a visual stand point they should have moved forward from this game, not 5 years backwards.
I have no issues with the gameplay tweaks from 2k7 to 2k12 it plays better each year.
But say what you will about body proportions too, the way the guys were designed they ran better and not choppy, outfield animations and controls were great in 2k7. Some A.I. logic in outfield was broken, but patched. But it still played good.
And they didn't have as many options as today, so that isn't comparable..it was 2k7 and 5 years ago. That's why I make most of complaints and directions towards visuals, it's the biggest rewind and decline...that should be surpassing everything on the market at this point..
Oh! And BTW!!!
In the new video I just uploaded notice other things in the details, colors were correct...Red is Red, Blue is Blue...shades and tones are correct, etc.
Look at the skin textures and look at all the faces with real eyes, hair and so forth. Not the cartoon zombie stuff we have with 2k11 and 2k12.
Dang I slept through most of these post, spent all night reuploading the video in it's true larger HD file...Youtube compressed the death out of the last one. I posted the new on in the blog...
But I agree gameplay wasn't up to par with the newer titles! Graphics were better, and say what you will about the baggy Jerseys, as I recall the pants on big papi were just like that in that year.
The wind effects were overblown, no pun intended! But it was none the less an incredible feature that no other company has pulled off. Not to mention if you zoom in on a replay it had real grass, the gloves and jerseys are truly stitched, pads and accessories look 3D's and not 2D pasted.
From a visual stand point they should have moved forward from this game, not 5 years backwards.
I have no issues with the gameplay tweaks from 2k7 to 2k12 it plays better each year.
But say what you will about body proportions too, the way the guys were designed they ran better and not choppy, outfield animations and controls were great in 2k7. Some A.I. logic in outfield was broken, but patched. But it still played good.
And they didn't have as many options as today, so that isn't comparable..it was 2k7 and 5 years ago. That's why I make most of complaints and directions towards visuals, it's the biggest rewind and decline...that should be surpassing everything on the market at this point..
Oh! And BTW!!!
In the new video I just uploaded notice other things in the details, colors were correct...Red is Red, Blue is Blue...shades and tones are correct, etc.
Look at the skin textures and look at all the faces with real eyes, hair and so forth. Not the cartoon zombie stuff we have with 2k11 and 2k12.
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