My Three-Day Verdict (long, balanced, overall negative)

[yakimiiis]

Re: My Three-Day Verdict (long, balanced, overall negative)

I often fill the meter; but I mix speeds and locations, I don't throw exclusively to the cold zones, I'll try and get them to chase outside of their hot zones, etc.

My problem is that EA says that filling the meter and nailing it in the green zone on the way down means you'll throw great pitches -- I guess I just expect a pitcher who throws his best pitch perfectly, in a perfect spot, would get a strike past the batter fairly frequently. Like Randy Johnson with the high heat, or Robb Nen with a FB-slider one-two punch. In real life, when he's on, Nen will get two strikes on everyone. But I traded him in the first week because his FBs were ripped in every game.

[yakimiiis]

Re: My Three-Day Verdict (long, balanced, overall negative)

I often fill the meter; but I mix speeds and locations, I don't throw exclusively to the cold zones, I'll try and get them to chase outside of their hot zones, etc.

My problem is that EA says that filling the meter and nailing it in the green zone on the way down means you'll throw great pitches -- I guess I just expect a pitcher who throws his best pitch perfectly, in a perfect spot, would get a strike past the batter fairly frequently. Like Randy Johnson with the high heat, or Robb Nen with a FB-slider one-two punch. In real life, when he's on, Nen will get two strikes on everyone. But I traded him in the first week because his FBs were ripped in every game.

[DarthTedd]

Re: My Three-Day Verdict (long, balanced, overall negative)

What I find so strange about this game is that is so simple, but yet so difficult. You will have to pay attention just as though you were playing a real game.

[DarthTedd]

Re: My Three-Day Verdict (long, balanced, overall negative)

What I find so strange about this game is that is so simple, but yet so difficult. You will have to pay attention just as though you were playing a real game.

[yakimiiis]

Re: My Three-Day Verdict (long, balanced, overall negative)

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Anybody who reviews a game with cons and non-cons isn't very objective.

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Heh, heh. I didn't approach the game with two pieces of paper marked "Cons" and "Non-Cons." After playing it, and initially liking it, and really wanting to like it, I found that I didn't. So since my review was, overall, negative, I led with that throughout. Doesn't mean I'm not objective, in fact I think I'm quite fair.

[yakimiiis]

Re: My Three-Day Verdict (long, balanced, overall negative)

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Anybody who reviews a game with cons and non-cons isn't very objective.

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Heh, heh. I didn't approach the game with two pieces of paper marked "Cons" and "Non-Cons." After playing it, and initially liking it, and really wanting to like it, I found that I didn't. So since my review was, overall, negative, I led with that throughout. Doesn't mean I'm not objective, in fact I think I'm quite fair.

[CheckMate]

Re: My Three-Day Verdict (long, balanced, overall negative)

You have to throw the fastballs in the right situation. I was getting caught up loving the 4-seam heat as well, and I was getting cranked. It's not going to come out replicating real-life because only so much can be programmed into a game. You need to mix it up a bit more than Nen does in real life to succeed in MVP.

[CheckMate]

Re: My Three-Day Verdict (long, balanced, overall negative)

You have to throw the fastballs in the right situation. I was getting caught up loving the 4-seam heat as well, and I was getting cranked. It's not going to come out replicating real-life because only so much can be programmed into a game. You need to mix it up a bit more than Nen does in real life to succeed in MVP.

[CMH]

Re: My Three-Day Verdict (long, balanced, overall negative)

You need to also throw fastballs out of the zone occassionally.

YOU ARE NOT GONNA STRIKE SOMEONE OUT ON THREE PITCHES IN THIS GAME!

It's not gonna happen. You have to sacrifice some balls to get strikes. If I wanna throw some high heat to someone I usually set them up with a low fastball out of the zone. Yea it's ball one but next pitch I throw a heater high and tight and it's 1-1. Then you may go ahead and throw a hard slider/cutter the same place you threw the first fastball and you might have the guy foul it off, miss it, or take it. 1-2 all of a sudden. Then that third strike is where you gotta think. Maybe try an inside pitch. Somethin very different from the first three pitches. Maybe throw a ball to setup a strike.

Think like pitchers think.

[CMH]

Re: My Three-Day Verdict (long, balanced, overall negative)

You need to also throw fastballs out of the zone occassionally.

YOU ARE NOT GONNA STRIKE SOMEONE OUT ON THREE PITCHES IN THIS GAME!

It's not gonna happen. You have to sacrifice some balls to get strikes. If I wanna throw some high heat to someone I usually set them up with a low fastball out of the zone. Yea it's ball one but next pitch I throw a heater high and tight and it's 1-1. Then you may go ahead and throw a hard slider/cutter the same place you threw the first fastball and you might have the guy foul it off, miss it, or take it. 1-2 all of a sudden. Then that third strike is where you gotta think. Maybe try an inside pitch. Somethin very different from the first three pitches. Maybe throw a ball to setup a strike.

Think like pitchers think.

[RustedWalleye]

Re: My Three-Day Verdict (long, balanced, overall negative)

Throwing perfect is fine and dandy, but that also is throwing your best AND fastest stuff on each pitch. After a while they have to be expecting it. Mixing up the speeds is key to strike outs.

I actually like the flow of the game as well. Quicker to play a game of MVP than it is WSB. I throw about the same amount of pitches in each game.

[RustedWalleye]

Re: My Three-Day Verdict (long, balanced, overall negative)

Throwing perfect is fine and dandy, but that also is throwing your best AND fastest stuff on each pitch. After a while they have to be expecting it. Mixing up the speeds is key to strike outs.

I actually like the flow of the game as well. Quicker to play a game of MVP than it is WSB. I throw about the same amount of pitches in each game.