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  • Misfit
    All Star
    • Mar 2003
    • 5766

    #1

    High Heat Questions

    I had High Heat 2003 and thought it was a pretty good baseball sim, but had some noticeable problems. Now, I'm on the verge of buying a baseball game for this season and I'm down to WSB2k3 and High Heat 2004. I haven't played a World Series Baseball game since the original, so I'm not sure what to expect. I'm hoping I'll come to like cursor batting.

    Now, the only thing keeping me from going out and buying High Heat are some concerns I have. These are problems with 2003 that I hope have been fixed for 2004.

    For one, 2003 was way too easy. I played all 162 games on HOF setting with the Red Sox and won 116 games and swept the Braves in the World Series. Has this been addressed?

    Strikeouts were few and far between. My best performance was probably 14 K's against a friend who couldn't hit anything and I was using Pedro. Conversely, I rarely struck out. It was always easy to make contact on anything.

    Is it also just plain harder to get a hit? When I finished my season Nomar was hitting .412. The homerun numbers were pretty accurate but batting averages were inflated. I flirted with .400 with Johnny Damon, Rey Sanchez (only because there seemed to be a certain programming error where pitchers would 90% of the time through him a high fastball on the first pitch) and Jason Varitek.

    Has the Homerun Derbry been fixed to 10 outs instead of 10 pitches? And will Barry Bonds still hit all 10 of them out of the park unless the player is awful?

    I love the franchise modes in Madden and NFL2k3, is High Heat's any good?

    Are the rosters fairly accurate? Last year's wasn't. And do the teams actually have their 2003 schedules instead of the 2002 ones?

    Is it possible to hit a home run without using the guess pitch feature? Last year it was, but only rarely and with good power hitters. I like the guess pitch feature, but I felt like unless I used it I wasn't going to get a hit so unless I had 2 strikes on me I was always guessing. And also, is it possible to NOT get a hit when guessed correctly? Again, sometimes your player would not get a hit if he guessed correctly, but he usually did. This made most relief pitchers and some starters (anybody who only had 3 pitches) insanely easy to hit.

    Is the knuckleball actually effective now? Tim Wakefield was my only flaw for my season. It seemed impossible to use a knuckleballer effectively. It was also REALLY easy to hit a knuckleballer.

    Has the AI overall improved? It seemed I never had to worry about pitching to a guy like Ichiro. Whenever he got on base I just had to throw a pitchout on the first pitch because he would always run. And will pitchers still throw to first when a player has just a normal walking lead? I'd get irritated when my player would take the normal automatic lead and a pitcher would just keep throwing to first.

    Thanks to anyone who decides to answer my numerous questions. Hopefully it takes far less words to answer these questions than it did to ask them.
  • bad1550

    #2
    Re: High Heat Questions

    I have HH and I returned WSB2K3. (It played similar to last years titlle (IMO). I have the Xbox version so I cannot compare it to last year but I highly recommend it. The gameplay is awesome.

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    • bad1550

      #3
      Re: High Heat Questions

      I have HH and I returned WSB2K3. (It played similar to last years titlle (IMO). I have the Xbox version so I cannot compare it to last year but I highly recommend it. The gameplay is awesome.

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      • shadyridr
        Rookie
        • Feb 2003
        • 170

        #4
        Re: High Heat Questions

        I've had the game for PS2 since its been out. Here are my answers to your questions. Hope it helps.

        For one, 2003 was way too easy. I played all 162 games on HOF setting with the Red Sox and won 116 games and swept the Braves in the World Series. Has this been addressed?
        I don't think 2003 was that easy, but 2004 is tough as hell. I can win a lot of games on All Star but once I put it on MVP it becomes almost impossible to make solid contact and the CPU hits bombs off me. Plus there's mad sliders to make it more difficult. This is a very hard game.

        Strikeouts were few and far between. My best performance was probably 14 K's against a friend who couldn't hit anything and I was using Pedro. Conversely, I rarely struck out. It was always easy to make contact on anything.
        It is difficult to strike out the CPU. But the CPU strikes me out a decent amount of times.


        Is it also just plain harder to get a hit? When I finished my season Nomar was hitting .412. The homerun numbers were pretty accurate but batting averages were inflated. I flirted with .400 with Johnny Damon, Rey Sanchez (only because there seemed to be a certain programming error where pitchers would 90% of the time through him a high fastball on the first pitch) and Jason Varitek.
        A little tougher to get a hit. Last year Posada, Giambi, and Williams hit .400 for me. This year Williams, Giambi, and Jeter are hitting .350+ (nobody in the .400s). I lead the league in BA (.307) so its still easy to get hits but not as easy as last year. Once again if you change sliders/difficulty this will change. I also play on simulation 7 (I guess if you put it at 10 my averages will drop).

        Has the Homerun Derbry been fixed to 10 outs instead of 10 pitches? And will Barry Bonds still hit all 10 of them out of the park unless the player is awful?
        Same exact thing as last year.

        I love the franchise modes in Madden and NFL2k3, is High Heat's any good?
        Probably the worst franchise mode of any of the baseball games. But its not THAT bad. Its still effective. Trading is tough (although it seems most of the teams are over budget and therefore arent eligible to trade or sign players). I love the depth of the minor leagues but the contract system they have when you call up minor leaguers isnt real. Also, they can only keep 10 yrs worth of stats so career stats will never be correct after 10 yrs.

        Are the rosters fairly accurate? Last year's wasn't. And do the teams actually have their 2003 schedules instead of the 2002 ones?
        Rosters are accurate as of mid January. If you have PS2 you can download rosters from geekrosters.com. 2003 schedules are accurate.

        Is it possible to hit a home run without using the guess pitch feature? Last year it was, but only rarely and with good power hitters. I like the guess pitch feature, but I felt like unless I used it I wasn't going to get a hit so unless I had 2 strikes on me I was always guessing. And also, is it possible to NOT get a hit when guessed correctly? Again, sometimes your player would not get a hit if he guessed correctly, but he usually did. This made most relief pitchers and some starters (anybody who only had 3 pitches) insanely easy to hit.
        Very possible to hit HRs without guess pitch (I rarely use it) and I get out all the time even when picking guess pitch.

        Is the knuckleball actually effective now? Tim Wakefield was my only flaw for my season. It seemed impossible to use a knuckleballer effectively. It was also REALLY easy to hit a knuckleballer.
        Tim Wakefields knuckleball is devestating. It moves every way imaginable. I assume its very difficult to control though.

        Has the AI overall improved? It seemed I never had to worry about pitching to a guy like Ichiro. Whenever he got on base I just had to throw a pitchout on the first pitch because he would always run. And will pitchers still throw to first when a player has just a normal walking lead? I'd get irritated when my player would take the normal automatic lead and a pitcher would just keep throwing to first.
        AI is the best out there. Also, pickoff attempts are out of control in this game. Theyll throw over to 1st base 10 times in a row sometimes no matter the score or whos on base or the lead you take. Also they throw pickoff attempts to 3rd base, 2nd base alot too.

        Thanks to anyone who decides to answer my numerous questions. Hopefully it takes far less words to answer these questions than it did to ask them.
        Your Welcome

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        • shadyridr
          Rookie
          • Feb 2003
          • 170

          #5
          Re: High Heat Questions

          I've had the game for PS2 since its been out. Here are my answers to your questions. Hope it helps.

          For one, 2003 was way too easy. I played all 162 games on HOF setting with the Red Sox and won 116 games and swept the Braves in the World Series. Has this been addressed?
          I don't think 2003 was that easy, but 2004 is tough as hell. I can win a lot of games on All Star but once I put it on MVP it becomes almost impossible to make solid contact and the CPU hits bombs off me. Plus there's mad sliders to make it more difficult. This is a very hard game.

          Strikeouts were few and far between. My best performance was probably 14 K's against a friend who couldn't hit anything and I was using Pedro. Conversely, I rarely struck out. It was always easy to make contact on anything.
          It is difficult to strike out the CPU. But the CPU strikes me out a decent amount of times.


          Is it also just plain harder to get a hit? When I finished my season Nomar was hitting .412. The homerun numbers were pretty accurate but batting averages were inflated. I flirted with .400 with Johnny Damon, Rey Sanchez (only because there seemed to be a certain programming error where pitchers would 90% of the time through him a high fastball on the first pitch) and Jason Varitek.
          A little tougher to get a hit. Last year Posada, Giambi, and Williams hit .400 for me. This year Williams, Giambi, and Jeter are hitting .350+ (nobody in the .400s). I lead the league in BA (.307) so its still easy to get hits but not as easy as last year. Once again if you change sliders/difficulty this will change. I also play on simulation 7 (I guess if you put it at 10 my averages will drop).

          Has the Homerun Derbry been fixed to 10 outs instead of 10 pitches? And will Barry Bonds still hit all 10 of them out of the park unless the player is awful?
          Same exact thing as last year.

          I love the franchise modes in Madden and NFL2k3, is High Heat's any good?
          Probably the worst franchise mode of any of the baseball games. But its not THAT bad. Its still effective. Trading is tough (although it seems most of the teams are over budget and therefore arent eligible to trade or sign players). I love the depth of the minor leagues but the contract system they have when you call up minor leaguers isnt real. Also, they can only keep 10 yrs worth of stats so career stats will never be correct after 10 yrs.

          Are the rosters fairly accurate? Last year's wasn't. And do the teams actually have their 2003 schedules instead of the 2002 ones?
          Rosters are accurate as of mid January. If you have PS2 you can download rosters from geekrosters.com. 2003 schedules are accurate.

          Is it possible to hit a home run without using the guess pitch feature? Last year it was, but only rarely and with good power hitters. I like the guess pitch feature, but I felt like unless I used it I wasn't going to get a hit so unless I had 2 strikes on me I was always guessing. And also, is it possible to NOT get a hit when guessed correctly? Again, sometimes your player would not get a hit if he guessed correctly, but he usually did. This made most relief pitchers and some starters (anybody who only had 3 pitches) insanely easy to hit.
          Very possible to hit HRs without guess pitch (I rarely use it) and I get out all the time even when picking guess pitch.

          Is the knuckleball actually effective now? Tim Wakefield was my only flaw for my season. It seemed impossible to use a knuckleballer effectively. It was also REALLY easy to hit a knuckleballer.
          Tim Wakefields knuckleball is devestating. It moves every way imaginable. I assume its very difficult to control though.

          Has the AI overall improved? It seemed I never had to worry about pitching to a guy like Ichiro. Whenever he got on base I just had to throw a pitchout on the first pitch because he would always run. And will pitchers still throw to first when a player has just a normal walking lead? I'd get irritated when my player would take the normal automatic lead and a pitcher would just keep throwing to first.
          AI is the best out there. Also, pickoff attempts are out of control in this game. Theyll throw over to 1st base 10 times in a row sometimes no matter the score or whos on base or the lead you take. Also they throw pickoff attempts to 3rd base, 2nd base alot too.

          Thanks to anyone who decides to answer my numerous questions. Hopefully it takes far less words to answer these questions than it did to ask them.
          Your Welcome

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          • soxboy7
            MVP
            • Aug 2002
            • 1541

            #6
            Re: High Heat Questions

            shadyridr is right about most of what he said . But shady use the quote tool man. It was hard to read your reply

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            • soxboy7
              MVP
              • Aug 2002
              • 1541

              #7
              Re: High Heat Questions

              shadyridr is right about most of what he said . But shady use the quote tool man. It was hard to read your reply

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