Major League Baseball 2K9 Developer Diary: Gameplay

[bronco92]

MLB 2K9 Gameplay Producer, Jonathan Rivera, drops by today to blog about some of the new AI improvements and enhancements you'll find in this year's version of 2K baseball.

"Signature style is something that we’ve been doing quite a while now across our sports titles, and we expanded on that this year even more for MLB 2K9 with over 300 new signature animations. When we announced that Tim Lincecum was going to be our cover athlete, we were all pretty excited to have a Cy Young winner represent our game, but even more than that it was going to be a great opportunity to really nail his signature delivery."

[ohyeahbaby123]

Nice!

[The Bimmer]

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Sounds good to me. If it moves as good as it sounds i will have 2 games to play this year!

[baa7]

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"When evaluating the hitting system we knew that we really liked swinging with the right stick. We wanted to keep the same basic swing of pressing DOWN and then UP to time the actual swing. In MLB 2K8, we felt that most pickup and play users struggled with figuring out when to press down thus resulting in many poor hits. In order to fit our overall goal of making the game more accessible, we allowed the user to press down to “set” at any point during the at bat. We found that this not only made the game more accessible, it also made the game significantly more fun and allowed us to implement other aspects of hitting so that the user can focus more on pitch, and location of the pitch.

So let me get this straight. They removed the step influence feature, to make the game more "assessible" to "pick up and play" gamers. FAN-tastic...

[ExtremeGamer]

Sounds good. Looking forward to playing it and seeing videos of in game footage.

[DaveDQ]

That was a great read. I'm excited about the stealing, pitching and hitting. Alos, the ideas about atmosphere are great. Can't wait to see it in action.

[stlstudios189]

I will wait and see before I buy but, this is looking great

[baa7]

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I will wait and see before I buy

Always the smart approach.

[boomhauertjs]

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Sounds good so far.

[Checmate101]

Sounds good..Like what I read.

Still haven't read anything about after the game the players line up and give each other high fives.

[Maynard]

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lets hope we get an early demo this year.

[DocHolliday]

That sounded pretty promising. Ill wait and see though...

[wsu_gb23]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Developer Diary: Gameplay

It sounds as though 2K is a little more encouraged by their mlb product this year....everything in that diary seemed legit..doesn't sound like they are making false claims this year about their game...I actually think 2K baseball is back.

[Maynard]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Developer Diary: Gameplay

It sounds as though 2K is a little more encouraged by their mlb product this year....everything in that diary seemed legit..doesn't sound like they are making false claims this year about their game...I actually think 2K baseball is back.

yeah i hope so too. but lets not forget about last years turd pile and who can forget the 06 freeze glitch

07 was pretty dam good though so maybe this is an every other year thing

[HealyMonster]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Developer Diary: Gameplay

It sounds as though 2K is a little more encouraged by their mlb product this year....everything in that diary seemed legit..doesn't sound like they are making false claims this year about their game...I actually think 2K baseball is back.

well, no, you see after you release crap year after year, your not "back" after 2 teasers, a few pics, and a dev diary, thats stupid and not how it works.

anyway, im looking forward to gameplay vids or some ingame pics of the new presentation.