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  • Freelance
    Banned
    • Jul 2002
    • 7021

    #1

    Did EA solve one of baseball game's biggest flaws?

    By placing the camera right off the outside edge of the plate, has EA finally found a solution - or at least a better solutiion - to the timing problem of baseball games.

    Judging the speed of a pitch is so tough from the view directly behind the plate, yet in the games where they move you outside, you lose the plate location.

    It seems like you get a better judge of both by this slight variation on the camera angle.
  • Heelfan71
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    • Jul 2002
    • 19940

    #2
    Re: Did EA solve one of baseball game\'s biggest flaws?

    I agree, I like how it looks too.
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    • Heelfan71
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      • Jul 2002
      • 19940

      #3
      Re: Did EA solve one of baseball game\'s biggest flaws?

      I agree, I like how it looks too.
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      • Shaver
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        • Jul 2002
        • 10148

        #4
        Re: Did EA solve one of baseball game\'s biggest flaws?

        Again, another intriguing aspect of MVP. I'll be interested to see how it feels. (Hint Hint - EA Send OS a Beta!)
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        • Shaver
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          • Jul 2002
          • 10148

          #5
          Re: Did EA solve one of baseball game\'s biggest flaws?

          Again, another intriguing aspect of MVP. I'll be interested to see how it feels. (Hint Hint - EA Send OS a Beta!)
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          • Graphik
            Pr*s*n*r#70460649
            • Oct 2002
            • 10582

            #6
            Re: Did EA solve one of baseball game\'s biggest flaws?

            Whatever EA may be doing, their heading in the right direction. I just wish ppl stop bickering about little details and pre-beta flaws before even playing the game. When the game comes out, they'll be the first ppl asking for impressions.
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            • Graphik
              Pr*s*n*r#70460649
              • Oct 2002
              • 10582

              #7
              Re: Did EA solve one of baseball game\'s biggest flaws?

              Whatever EA may be doing, their heading in the right direction. I just wish ppl stop bickering about little details and pre-beta flaws before even playing the game. When the game comes out, they'll be the first ppl asking for impressions.
              http://neverfollow.biz (Independent Music Group)

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              • cdastros
                Rookie
                • Jan 2003
                • 148

                #8
                Re: Did EA solve one of baseball game\'s biggest flaws?

                This view is nothing new to the baseball video games. Remember sega wsb2k1. To me that was one of the best pitcher batter interfaces of all time and after looking at MVP it looks like wsb2k1 still is. I cant get over the fact that the hitting in MVP is just timing.

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                • cdastros
                  Rookie
                  • Jan 2003
                  • 148

                  #9
                  Re: Did EA solve one of baseball game\'s biggest flaws?

                  This view is nothing new to the baseball video games. Remember sega wsb2k1. To me that was one of the best pitcher batter interfaces of all time and after looking at MVP it looks like wsb2k1 still is. I cant get over the fact that the hitting in MVP is just timing.

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                  • CMH
                    Making you famous
                    • Oct 2002
                    • 26203

                    #10
                    Re: Did EA solve one of baseball game\'s biggest flaws?

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                    I cant get over the fact that the hitting in MVP is just timing.

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                    from what I've read it's a little more than timing. I mean timing will help you make contact, but bat placement will help you actually get a solid hit.

                    From the movies I've seen, it appears as if there are a fair amount of foul balls in the game. (YAY!) So timing seems to play a role in making contact. But placement might best determine whether or not you hit a foul ball, a bloop, or a solid single, or more.

                    By placement I mean pushing the left analog stick to the left on an inside pitch. If you try to push to the right on an inside pitch, you'll probably end up breaking your bat, which should result in a soft hit in the infield or a smooth blooper over the infielder's heads.

                    But then again, I haven't played the game. I'm just reciting what i've READ about the game.
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                    • CMH
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                      • Oct 2002
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                      #11
                      Re: Did EA solve one of baseball game\'s biggest flaws?

                      </font><blockquote><font class="small">Quote:</font><hr />
                      I cant get over the fact that the hitting in MVP is just timing.

                      <hr /></blockquote><font class="post">

                      from what I've read it's a little more than timing. I mean timing will help you make contact, but bat placement will help you actually get a solid hit.

                      From the movies I've seen, it appears as if there are a fair amount of foul balls in the game. (YAY!) So timing seems to play a role in making contact. But placement might best determine whether or not you hit a foul ball, a bloop, or a solid single, or more.

                      By placement I mean pushing the left analog stick to the left on an inside pitch. If you try to push to the right on an inside pitch, you'll probably end up breaking your bat, which should result in a soft hit in the infield or a smooth blooper over the infielder's heads.

                      But then again, I haven't played the game. I'm just reciting what i've READ about the game.
                      "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

                      "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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                      • Graphik
                        Pr*s*n*r#70460649
                        • Oct 2002
                        • 10582

                        #12
                        Re: Did EA solve one of baseball game\'s biggest flaws?

                        I bet all of my pocket lent that aiming for a hit really does'nt matter. Just like in HH you could aim for a hit, but 8 times out of ten you just swung without aiming and got the same results. In all the EA baseball games have been the same. Hold up for a pop up, etc, etc. And it really never made a diffrence if you used the feature or not b/c you can get a opposite field single based of timing in stead of aiming.
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                        • Graphik
                          Pr*s*n*r#70460649
                          • Oct 2002
                          • 10582

                          #13
                          Re: Did EA solve one of baseball game\'s biggest flaws?

                          I bet all of my pocket lent that aiming for a hit really does'nt matter. Just like in HH you could aim for a hit, but 8 times out of ten you just swung without aiming and got the same results. In all the EA baseball games have been the same. Hold up for a pop up, etc, etc. And it really never made a diffrence if you used the feature or not b/c you can get a opposite field single based of timing in stead of aiming.
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                          • CMH
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                            • Oct 2002
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                            #14
                            Re: Did EA solve one of baseball game\'s biggest flaws?

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                            I bet all of my pocket lent that aiming for a hit really does'nt matter. Just like in HH you could aim for a hit, but 8 times out of ten you just swung without aiming and got the same results. In all the EA baseball games have been the same. Hold up for a pop up, etc, etc. And it really never made a diffrence if you used the feature or not b/c you can get a opposite field single based of timing in stead of aiming.

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                            true. I wonder what aiming will really do then.
                            "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

                            "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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                            • CMH
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                              #15
                              Re: Did EA solve one of baseball game\'s biggest flaws?

                              </font><blockquote><font class="small">Quote:</font><hr />
                              I bet all of my pocket lent that aiming for a hit really does'nt matter. Just like in HH you could aim for a hit, but 8 times out of ten you just swung without aiming and got the same results. In all the EA baseball games have been the same. Hold up for a pop up, etc, etc. And it really never made a diffrence if you used the feature or not b/c you can get a opposite field single based of timing in stead of aiming.

                              <hr /></blockquote><font class="post">

                              true. I wonder what aiming will really do then.
                              "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

                              "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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