Sorry if this is the totally wrong forum, but like I said this is probably the only place to get an unbiased opinion.
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I know this may be the wrong forum, but I want a non-bias opinion...
I would like to get a baseball game and am trying to decide between MVP 2003 and ASB 2004. Just looking for something fun and fairly realistic to play for awhile. The more realistic the better, but fun is what I am looking for.
Sorry if this is the totally wrong forum, but like I said this is probably the only place to get an unbiased opinion.Tags: None -
Re: I know this may be the wrong forum, but I want a non-bias opinion.
Stoud just gave you inaccurate advice. WSB is probably the worst of the three at replicating a major league game. Identical player models, poor physics, lots of repetitive cutscenes, dayglow colors, awful hitting animations, no collision detection, etc. However, WSB is a very good pick-up-and-play game and has a franchise mode with some really neat features.
MVP's more of an arcade-style challenge. ASB is the deepest and most realistic but has a very steep learning curve.Comment
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Re: I know this may be the wrong forum, but I want a non-bias opinion.
Stoud just gave you inaccurate advice. WSB is probably the worst of the three at replicating a major league game. Identical player models, poor physics, lots of repetitive cutscenes, dayglow colors, awful hitting animations, no collision detection, etc. However, WSB is a very good pick-up-and-play game and has a franchise mode with some really neat features.
MVP's more of an arcade-style challenge. ASB is the deepest and most realistic but has a very steep learning curve.Comment
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Re: I know this may be the wrong forum, but I want a non-bias opinion.
Stoud just gave you inaccurate advice. WSB is probably the worst of the three at replicating a major league game. Identical player models, poor physics, lots of repetitive cutscenes, dayglow colors, awful hitting animations, no collision detection, etc. However, WSB is a very good pick-up-and-play game and has a franchise mode with some really neat features.
MVP's more of an arcade-style challenge. ASB is the deepest and most realistic but has a very steep learning curve.Comment
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Re: I know this may be the wrong forum, but I want a non-bias opinion.
It really depends. Many people will say HH's the most realistic, or ASB or WSB. I know what I like in a game, but it might not be what other's enjoy or feel is the most realistic.
So with that, I'd say rent and then buy. That way you won't be dissapointed in what you get.Comment
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Re: I know this may be the wrong forum, but I want a non-bias opinion.
It really depends. Many people will say HH's the most realistic, or ASB or WSB. I know what I like in a game, but it might not be what other's enjoy or feel is the most realistic.
So with that, I'd say rent and then buy. That way you won't be dissapointed in what you get.Comment
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Re: I know this may be the wrong forum, but I want a non-bias opinion.
It really depends. Many people will say HH's the most realistic, or ASB or WSB. I know what I like in a game, but it might not be what other's enjoy or feel is the most realistic.
So with that, I'd say rent and then buy. That way you won't be dissapointed in what you get.Comment
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Re: I know this may be the wrong forum, but I want a non-bias opinion.
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cub said:
Stoud just gave you inaccurate advice. WSB is probably the worst of the three at replicating a major league game. Identical player models, poor physics, lots of repetitive cutscenes, dayglow colors, awful hitting animations, no collision detection, etc. However, WSB is a very good pick-up-and-play game and has a franchise mode with some really neat features.
MVP's more of an arcade-style challenge. ASB is the deepest and most realistic but has a very steep learning curve.
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WSB proves that it's the little things that matter. Many of the animations are more accurate to real life, and the balls don't just end up in 5 or 6 parts of the field when hit, but more like 40 or 50. There's always a new amazing and close double play to turn. Always a fan yelling "YOU'RE OVER-RATED, JETER!". Always a chance that your pitcher could hit a hot streak and pitch a shutout. Speaking from experience, pitching a shutout on WSB has been one of my most exciting experiences with a Baseball game EVER. Why you may ask? Because it was a 5 hit complete game shutout, with 10 k's from....RICK ANKIEL. He refused to even use his sinker in that game. It's the variances that create the chances that you're pitcher will go out there and pitch an amazing game or a crappy one, in most other games they don't really have that. You control the outcome completely, whereas in real life pitchers just don't have their stuff, or are just getting pounded off of sometimes. I've played full seasons on ASB with Pitchers like Javier Vasquez and ended the season with about a bajillion shutouts, an ERA under 1.00, and 300+ k's. That's not realistic. When you win a game on WSB, you feel as though you've EARNED it. THAT is REALISM.
At least, that's my opinion. To say I gave innacurate advice is really unfair. While ASB has about 10x the features of al the other games, it also has inaccurate player models, the hits to the same parts of the field all the time, constant games where you hit 3 doubles each with 6 players....on the highest difficulty...I mean COME ON! I LOVE the features of aSB, and personally I think ASB 2005 will be the best of the year, but until it's released, my vote for most realistic baseball game goes to WSB2k3.Comment
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cub said:
Stoud just gave you inaccurate advice. WSB is probably the worst of the three at replicating a major league game. Identical player models, poor physics, lots of repetitive cutscenes, dayglow colors, awful hitting animations, no collision detection, etc. However, WSB is a very good pick-up-and-play game and has a franchise mode with some really neat features.
MVP's more of an arcade-style challenge. ASB is the deepest and most realistic but has a very steep learning curve.
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WSB proves that it's the little things that matter. Many of the animations are more accurate to real life, and the balls don't just end up in 5 or 6 parts of the field when hit, but more like 40 or 50. There's always a new amazing and close double play to turn. Always a fan yelling "YOU'RE OVER-RATED, JETER!". Always a chance that your pitcher could hit a hot streak and pitch a shutout. Speaking from experience, pitching a shutout on WSB has been one of my most exciting experiences with a Baseball game EVER. Why you may ask? Because it was a 5 hit complete game shutout, with 10 k's from....RICK ANKIEL. He refused to even use his sinker in that game. It's the variances that create the chances that you're pitcher will go out there and pitch an amazing game or a crappy one, in most other games they don't really have that. You control the outcome completely, whereas in real life pitchers just don't have their stuff, or are just getting pounded off of sometimes. I've played full seasons on ASB with Pitchers like Javier Vasquez and ended the season with about a bajillion shutouts, an ERA under 1.00, and 300+ k's. That's not realistic. When you win a game on WSB, you feel as though you've EARNED it. THAT is REALISM.
At least, that's my opinion. To say I gave innacurate advice is really unfair. While ASB has about 10x the features of al the other games, it also has inaccurate player models, the hits to the same parts of the field all the time, constant games where you hit 3 doubles each with 6 players....on the highest difficulty...I mean COME ON! I LOVE the features of aSB, and personally I think ASB 2005 will be the best of the year, but until it's released, my vote for most realistic baseball game goes to WSB2k3.Comment
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Re: I know this may be the wrong forum, but I want a non-bias opinion.
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cub said:
Stoud just gave you inaccurate advice. WSB is probably the worst of the three at replicating a major league game. Identical player models, poor physics, lots of repetitive cutscenes, dayglow colors, awful hitting animations, no collision detection, etc. However, WSB is a very good pick-up-and-play game and has a franchise mode with some really neat features.
MVP's more of an arcade-style challenge. ASB is the deepest and most realistic but has a very steep learning curve.
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WSB proves that it's the little things that matter. Many of the animations are more accurate to real life, and the balls don't just end up in 5 or 6 parts of the field when hit, but more like 40 or 50. There's always a new amazing and close double play to turn. Always a fan yelling "YOU'RE OVER-RATED, JETER!". Always a chance that your pitcher could hit a hot streak and pitch a shutout. Speaking from experience, pitching a shutout on WSB has been one of my most exciting experiences with a Baseball game EVER. Why you may ask? Because it was a 5 hit complete game shutout, with 10 k's from....RICK ANKIEL. He refused to even use his sinker in that game. It's the variances that create the chances that you're pitcher will go out there and pitch an amazing game or a crappy one, in most other games they don't really have that. You control the outcome completely, whereas in real life pitchers just don't have their stuff, or are just getting pounded off of sometimes. I've played full seasons on ASB with Pitchers like Javier Vasquez and ended the season with about a bajillion shutouts, an ERA under 1.00, and 300+ k's. That's not realistic. When you win a game on WSB, you feel as though you've EARNED it. THAT is REALISM.
At least, that's my opinion. To say I gave innacurate advice is really unfair. While ASB has about 10x the features of al the other games, it also has inaccurate player models, the hits to the same parts of the field all the time, constant games where you hit 3 doubles each with 6 players....on the highest difficulty...I mean COME ON! I LOVE the features of aSB, and personally I think ASB 2005 will be the best of the year, but until it's released, my vote for most realistic baseball game goes to WSB2k3.Comment
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Stoud said:
WSB proves that it's the little things that matter. Many of the animations are more accurate to real life ... While ASB has about 10x the features of al the other games, it also has inaccurate player models, the hits to the same parts of the field all the time, constant games where you hit 3 doubles each with 6 players....on the highest difficulty...
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Wha? All of the player models in WSB are the exactly same size (Randy Johnson is the same size as Eric Young), faces look nothing like the actual player, there are a tiny number of batting stances (even Sosa doesn't have his real batting stance), balls disappear in midair, hitters swing the bat like their wrists are broken, there are a handful of cutscenes (featuring players going through each other) that repeat two to three times an inning, and on and on. I preordered it, got it the day it was released, and the on-the-field experience was so ugly inaccurate that it was literally difficult to play. And don't even get me started about cursor hitting.
ASB did have its problems, but the photorealistic player faces, scaled bodies, and (literally) hundreds of authentic batting stances and pitching deliveries were not among the problems. It really looked like the actual player out there, whereas in WSB it looked like a bad cartoonish polygon video game model on the field.
Pitch control was a little too accurate in ASB04 and starting pitcher stamina was a little too good (though I'd hardly call it a game killer) but that's being addressed for 05. I didn't experience a hit variety problem, but I used the High Heat "zone" style hitting system and people who have that problem seem to use another system.
ESPN still looks basically like WSB (graphically). And I don't mean that as a compliment.Comment
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Re: I know this may be the wrong forum, but I want a non-bias opinion.
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Stoud said:
WSB proves that it's the little things that matter. Many of the animations are more accurate to real life ... While ASB has about 10x the features of al the other games, it also has inaccurate player models, the hits to the same parts of the field all the time, constant games where you hit 3 doubles each with 6 players....on the highest difficulty...
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Wha? All of the player models in WSB are the exactly same size (Randy Johnson is the same size as Eric Young), faces look nothing like the actual player, there are a tiny number of batting stances (even Sosa doesn't have his real batting stance), balls disappear in midair, hitters swing the bat like their wrists are broken, there are a handful of cutscenes (featuring players going through each other) that repeat two to three times an inning, and on and on. I preordered it, got it the day it was released, and the on-the-field experience was so ugly inaccurate that it was literally difficult to play. And don't even get me started about cursor hitting.
ASB did have its problems, but the photorealistic player faces, scaled bodies, and (literally) hundreds of authentic batting stances and pitching deliveries were not among the problems. It really looked like the actual player out there, whereas in WSB it looked like a bad cartoonish polygon video game model on the field.
Pitch control was a little too accurate in ASB04 and starting pitcher stamina was a little too good (though I'd hardly call it a game killer) but that's being addressed for 05. I didn't experience a hit variety problem, but I used the High Heat "zone" style hitting system and people who have that problem seem to use another system.
ESPN still looks basically like WSB (graphically). And I don't mean that as a compliment.Comment
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