Let's talk Baserunning

[boondock]

Re: Let's talk Baserunning

I see it as every year developers keep reinventing a wheel that was perfected back in the 8- and 16-bit days, and they keep coming up with something inferior.

Just provide us a way of seeing where the runners are, then as a runner approaches a base let us press 'A' and the corresponding position on the stick/pad to advance (e.g., 'A' + left to round second and head to third). To go back to a base, 'B' plus the corresponding position.

And you'd input each runner separately. Ever since the so-called improvement arrived of either controlling separate runners or using one button to control all runners simultaneously, baserunning has been blunder-filled in every game.

The one thing your "perfect system" doesn't address is when Ray Lankford is struggling to get home with Albert Pujols hot on his heels (anyone ever see that in real life? LoL) If you want one runner to go home yet not the other, how would you distinguish the difference....and if a gamemaker wants a speed burst in the game, how better than to implement it...using 6 different buttons, they HAVE MADE THE BEST SYSTEM POSSIBLE given they want to have the speed boost, cue-up and other options.....

And for an example...i had an important runner on 1st today online and hit a ball that got by an outfielder....i hit "y" to switch to my 1st base runner...cued him to go home with 3 pulls of the left trigger....switched back to the batter by pressing "A" and told him to go to 2nd.....and then resumed mashing "y" to make sure that that runner was able to score.....I even tried moving the batter to 3rd and was tagged out just in time...wish i'd have boosted more...it's quite the mental workout (further evidenced by the whines above) but VERY rewarding when carried out fully.....it feels, no it IS work and GAMEPLAY to score those runs and think of it as rewarding a skilled player.....instead of how every other game lets you put down the controller and admire your piece of hitting as your batters round the bases, MLB 2K5 makes you work EVEN harder on the basepaths to achieve the desired result..>Bravo 2K5...

[boondock]

Re: Let's talk Baserunning

I see it as every year developers keep reinventing a wheel that was perfected back in the 8- and 16-bit days, and they keep coming up with something inferior.

Just provide us a way of seeing where the runners are, then as a runner approaches a base let us press 'A' and the corresponding position on the stick/pad to advance (e.g., 'A' + left to round second and head to third). To go back to a base, 'B' plus the corresponding position.

And you'd input each runner separately. Ever since the so-called improvement arrived of either controlling separate runners or using one button to control all runners simultaneously, baserunning has been blunder-filled in every game.

The one thing your "perfect system" doesn't address is when Ray Lankford is struggling to get home with Albert Pujols hot on his heels (anyone ever see that in real life? LoL) If you want one runner to go home yet not the other, how would you distinguish the difference....and if a gamemaker wants a speed burst in the game, how better than to implement it...using 6 different buttons, they HAVE MADE THE BEST SYSTEM POSSIBLE given they want to have the speed boost, cue-up and other options.....

And for an example...i had an important runner on 1st today online and hit a ball that got by an outfielder....i hit "y" to switch to my 1st base runner...cued him to go home with 3 pulls of the left trigger....switched back to the batter by pressing "A" and told him to go to 2nd.....and then resumed mashing "y" to make sure that that runner was able to score.....I even tried moving the batter to 3rd and was tagged out just in time...wish i'd have boosted more...it's quite the mental workout (further evidenced by the whines above) but VERY rewarding when carried out fully.....it feels, no it IS work and GAMEPLAY to score those runs and think of it as rewarding a skilled player.....instead of how every other game lets you put down the controller and admire your piece of hitting as your batters round the bases, MLB 2K5 makes you work EVEN harder on the basepaths to achieve the desired result..>Bravo 2K5...

[jdros13]

Re: Let's talk Baserunning

it's quite the mental workout (further evidenced by the whines above) but VERY rewarding when carried out fully.....it feels, no it IS work and GAMEPLAY to score those runs and think of it as rewarding a skilled player.....instead of how every other game lets you put down the controller and admire your piece of hitting as your batters round the bases, MLB 2K5 makes you work EVEN harder on the basepaths to achieve the desired result..>Bravo 2K5...

I agree. I am terrible at the baserunning at the moment (I have a terrible habit of double hitting the left trigger to tell my guys to advance) but when I concentrate on it it works really well. The thing you have to realize is that you have time to make your decisions, but you must make a decision...the cpu isn't doing it for you. At the moment I'm like Dale Sveum or Wendell Kim at third base...always making the wrong call! But I think that when I get the hang of this system it will make baserunning a huge part of the game, something that really hasn't been the case before.

Baseburner is going to need a lot of time to grow on me though...not a big fan of that yet.

[jdros13]

Re: Let's talk Baserunning

it's quite the mental workout (further evidenced by the whines above) but VERY rewarding when carried out fully.....it feels, no it IS work and GAMEPLAY to score those runs and think of it as rewarding a skilled player.....instead of how every other game lets you put down the controller and admire your piece of hitting as your batters round the bases, MLB 2K5 makes you work EVEN harder on the basepaths to achieve the desired result..>Bravo 2K5...

I agree. I am terrible at the baserunning at the moment (I have a terrible habit of double hitting the left trigger to tell my guys to advance) but when I concentrate on it it works really well. The thing you have to realize is that you have time to make your decisions, but you must make a decision...the cpu isn't doing it for you. At the moment I'm like Dale Sveum or Wendell Kim at third base...always making the wrong call! But I think that when I get the hang of this system it will make baserunning a huge part of the game, something that really hasn't been the case before.

Baseburner is going to need a lot of time to grow on me though...not a big fan of that yet.

[jim416]

Re: Let's talk Baserunning

it's quite the mental workout (further evidenced by the whines above)

Whose whinging? You've even said it's a mental workout. People are looking for help. You can do that by being objective. What you explained in your post is a chore and some people are having a hard time breaking old habits and looking for hints, not comments that they're whining.

[jim416]

Re: Let's talk Baserunning

it's quite the mental workout (further evidenced by the whines above)

Whose whinging? You've even said it's a mental workout. People are looking for help. You can do that by being objective. What you explained in your post is a chore and some people are having a hard time breaking old habits and looking for hints, not comments that they're whining.