I'm getting very frustrated with baseball gaming. I own some shooter types (Call of Duty on the PC, Half Life, Halo XBOX), but basically only play baseball. Don't play the football, basketball, hockey games.
I'm beginning to think that these developers leave out stuff or don't fix glitches by design.
The first thing we do as gamers when these baseball games come out is a "wishlist" for the next years games. Developers see this, but they also know we are going to buy their games, regardless. We hope something gets fixed in next years game and we buy it in anticipation of that. If they fix stuff, whose going to buy their production, in anticipation, next year? If I had ONE game that I could play over and over I probably wouldn't need to buy a new game every year. Producers of these games don't want that.
My take on this years games, in a nutshell.
ESPN...plays a good game of baseball out of the box, but MAN is it boring after a couple dozen games. Graphics took a step back, not forward.
MVP....What a beautiful MESS. So many things wrong with this game.
ASB....My opinion, a mess out of the box. I had to tweak it and tweak it to get it to play a game of baseball. Acclaim has had people harping on them about the animations for how many years? They still haven't fixed them.
MLB....A decent game of baseball that falls short.
Ah, next year.
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