MLB 2K13 Announced with Cover Athlete David Price, Arrives March 5th

[lavy23]

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This is my expectations for MLB 2K13:
New Astros Uniforms
Updated Roster

and that's it

[rudyjuly2]

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You're right, I think this is what I meant to say.

They once said that it would be a disservice to hit power with contact hitters, and contact with power hitters. That leaves me saying "What the hell, man?" That's going to give power hitters more home runs than they should, and contact hitters less. It would be more appropriate to just have a "one button swing," which is why I like to use classic swinging (the X button).

The problem is that I think that option chooses what kind of swing for you, but oh well...

Totally agree. I like the analog swing myself but in 2K10 and 11 it led to too many HRs for my power guys while guys that hit less than 10 HRs annually would hit 0. The problem isn't the system but that there is too big a difference between the contact and power swing. The one thing I do like about the contact swing is that I feel this was the only game that made that slappy hitter valuable. Most baseball games made the low average, high power guy like Marcus Thames a good baseball player. And high average low power guys generally sucked but this game does it fairly well. Just need to tune that gap a bit closer IMO.

[snaz16]

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This is my expectations for MLB 2K13:
New Astros Uniforms
Updated Roster

and that's it

Well if you decide to buy it then you should be pleasantly surprised when the Astros are in the AL and the new playoff format is in also

[NeinNeinNein999]

Re: MLB 2K13 Announced with Cover Athlete David Price, Arrives March 5th

*screams out oh happiness*

[destructocid]

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I'll probably get grilled for this,but 2k should go back to mlb2k7, update the rosters and faces, implement the new controls and so on. 2k7 at the very least is a great place to start. It would be a great foundation to build on to and I don't understand why everything fell apart after 2k7. And why not take the million dollar marketing gimmick and put it into producing a better product?

[shogunofharlem3]

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I understand the glitz and glimmer of 2k7 but it really wasn't a great game. I prefer 2k12 miles more than 2k7. Just my opinion.

Yes, 2k7 graphics were great but gameplay wasn't there. As a matter of fact I tried to play about 2 weeks ago, ugh. Went back to 2k12, much much better game of baseball, albeit, ugly at times.

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

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Definitely going to approach this game with a wait-and-see approach. I bought 2k12 and barely ended up playing it. Just couldn't get into it this year for some reason.

[Money99]

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I'll probably get grilled for this,but 2k should go back to mlb2k7, update the rosters and faces, implement the new controls and so on. 2k7 at the very least is a great place to start. It would be a great foundation to build on to and I don't understand why everything fell apart after 2k7. And why not take the million dollar marketing gimmick and put it into producing a better product?

I've heard so many people rave about 2K7, but never played it myself.
I was wondering what that game did right? What made that game so great?

[Cardot]

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I've heard so many people rave about 2K7, but never played it myself.
I was wondering what that game did right? What made that game so great?

It looked great. I enjoyed it, but it was too long ago for me to rememeber much else. I think it also had rain delays. It did some things right.

But a big drawback was that hitting was very random. A developer for a 2K8 even admitted as much.

[Behindshadows]

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I've heard so many people rave about 2K7, but never played it myself.
I was wondering what that game did right? What made that game so great?

People rave about 2k7's visuals...and wondering why the games graphics too such a large decline after Kush left...and why they didn't keep the same graphics processors and tools, instead of going for the cartoon look it has today....

No one can tell us different.....we never said the gameplay was perfect, as they've improved on that aspect every year since......But look at the screenshots attached and tell me why did we not improve from this point.

[tonadom]

Re: MLB 2K13 Announced with Cover Athlete David Price, Arrives March 5th

I'll probably get grilled for this,but 2k should go back to mlb2k7, update the rosters and faces, implement the new controls and so on. 2k7 at the very least is a great place to start. It would be a great foundation to build on to and I don't understand why everything fell apart after 2k7. And why not take the million dollar marketing gimmick and put it into producing a better product?

They can't "go back" to MLB 2K7. MLB 2K7 was developed by Kush Games and when they left - unfortunately - MLB 2K7 left with 'em ( this is also a reply to the post above wondering why the graphics declined ). Things changed after MLB 2K7 because I'm guessing 2K and Kush had a disagreement.

[tonadom]

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I've heard so many people rave about 2K7, but never played it myself.
I was wondering what that game did right? What made that game so great?

It really can't be put into words. You have to play MLB 2K7 on the 360. It can't be on the PS3. They're not the same game.

[MVP9072]

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People rave about 2k7's visuals...and wondering why the games graphics too such a large decline after Kush left...and why they didn't keep the same graphics processors and tools, instead of going for the cartoon look it has today....

No one can tell us different.....we never said the gameplay was perfect, as they've improved on that aspect every year since......But look at the screenshots attached and tell me why did we not improve from this point.

wow i looked up some 2k7 vids and those were great graphics if only 2k12 had those

[SoxFan01605]

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They can't "go back" to MLB 2K7. MLB 2K7 was developed by Kush Games and when they left - unfortunately - MLB 2K7 left with 'em ( this is also a reply to the post above wondering why the graphics declined ). Things changed after MLB 2K7 because I'm guessing 2K and Kush had a disagreement.

lol...someone clamoring for Kush to return. That's a first!

Actually, Kush didn't "leave" they were closed. Kush (which was actually renamed to "2KLA" before it closed) was owned by Take Two when it developed these baseball games. And people have a skewed memory of this series it seems. Kush did more to put this series in the mess it got in than VC when they took back over.

Kush was sloppy and had no focus which is part of why the series had to be rebooted by VC in 2K9 and 2K10 to begin with (To be fair, Brinkman leaving was a big part of it too, though he was part of the messy transition from 2K7 to 2K8). They had all these issues while the license was still a priority for 2K to boot.

The reason 2K8 (still developed by your beloved Kush, which wasn't closed until they had already begun work on 2K9) looked like crap is because they didn't build a solid foundation with 2K7. They built from the outside-in and made it a great looking, well-presented, choppy, and simple game. When they went in to address issues with game play and frame rate, they realized they couldn't get it running properly with 2K7's visuals and had to scale back...way back. They were too ambitious with the visuals in 2K7 (admitted by them, I believe) and 2K8 in all it's ugliness was born...lol.

[Behindshadows]

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lol...someone clamoring for Kush to return. That's a first!

Actually, Kush didn't "leave" they were closed. Kush (which was actually renamed to "2KLA" before it closed) was owned by Take Two when it developed these baseball games. And people have a skewed memory of this series it seems. Kush did more to put this series in the mess it got in than VC when they took back over.

Kush was sloppy and had no focus which is part of why the series had to be rebooted by VC in 2K9 and 2K10 to begin with (To be fair, Brinkman leaving was a big part of it too, though he was part of the messy transition from 2K7 to 2K8). They had all these issues while the license was still a priority for 2K to boot.

The reason 2K8 (still developed by your beloved Kush, which wasn't closed until they had already begun work on 2K9) looked like crap is because they didn't build a solid foundation with 2K7. They built from the outside-in and made it a great looking, well-presented, choppy, and simple game. When they went in to address issues with game play and frame rate, they realized they couldn't get it running properly with 2K7's visuals and had to scale back...way back. They were too ambitious with the visuals in 2K7 (admitted by them, I believe) and 2K8 in all it's ugliness was born...lol.

Actually 2k8 was made by someone named Blue Castle...Kush was gone after 2k7....And yeah I can agree and disagree with the way it played, because they tried the analog stuff with 2k7 and it wasn't good...I switched back to classic and it was fine. I do know you had more control on the outfield in 2k7 and the cutscenes didn't stick like they do in the later games. 2k7 had it's issues.

But other titles of BB Games I won't mention here have proved you can get graphics and gameplay.

No reason after 5 years they couldn't get back to 2k7 level of visuals and have current control systems. Also Kush got the color palettes right! Why is it no matter what game VC puts it's hands on, Red becomes Pink...and so forth...Navy Blue is grey, etc?

We just want the best for this series, and one reason competition is considered so much better is because of the lack of the visual attraction. Gameplay is good, Presentation is Perfect / Flawless, and gameplay modes are plenty....Even the PC version's online was great.....

But visually it's a ugly bitch with a nice personality.....lol

We need that portion to be fixed.