Major League Baseball 2K9 Video: Tigers @ Indians

[BigH2k6]

Excellent news

[BigH2k6]

Quote: Originally Posted by sandmac

SLOW DOWN!!! We'd like to see the presentation as much as the game play. Please allow the broadcast elements to play out for those considering the game! The user just buttons through every cut-away.

Take it easy. There has been other videos that show the living world atmosphere. I'm pretty sure the objective of this vid was to show as many at bats as possible without creating a monster of a video. Therefore, Steve may have skipped over these intentionally to shorten the video.

[BigH2k6]

Quote: Originally Posted by baa7

I think I saw one strike where the batter watched it go by, the rest were swinging strikes. Nice to see deeper pitch counts. But the real problem remains flyballs. Four flyballs, zero groundballs in that vid. It looks like Steve lowered the Power slider, resulting in "looping" flyballs. But as I said before, this is the #1 issue with this series, and there's no fix for it other than lowering ratings. Sliders won't do it.

Actually, it was 2 .

one was in the first at bat I beleive and one in the last

[rudyjuly2]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

And is Steve Phillips Canadian? In every video I've seen, I swear that he's slipping into an accent a bit. It sounds just a wee bit different from how he sounds on TV, that's all.

Do you mean he's sounding more awesome?

I can't view this video at work and I'm dying to see some Tigers footage of any baseball game. Maybe Steve could put this video on the OS TV link on the main page? I can actually view those.
Edit - I'm an idiot. It IS on the OS TV now (am I blind or did it just change). Thanks Steve!

I do LOVE the pitching camera angle from the Lincecum videos. Hopefully the Show can add a camera angle like that next year.

[DaveDQ]

Quote: Originally Posted by BigBlue

Please correct me if I'm wrong. But I believe the only reason you didn't see the gesture selection and big circle graphic was because Steve was not controlling the pitching. It was AI vs AI. It certainly would be nice to be able to pitch this way as well. We'll see. BigBlue

I agree.

[tmac55]

Great to see the Tigers in some videos, unfortunately Verlander continues to give up runs lol

The video was nice and a couple of the batters took some pitches very close to the strike zone, so like Steve said, we should be able to tweak that along the way.

[boomhauertjs]

Thanks for showing the Jake (it will always be Jacobs Field to me - I refuse to call it by that other name).
I'm glad Steve showed that you can speed the game up. I sometimes enjoy watching the Real Time stuff, but if I'm in hurry to get a game in, it's nice to be able to skip all of that.
I'm a little concerned about the flyball/groundball ratio. Controlling infielders is one of my favorite parts of a video baseball game, so I'll be disappointed if the ratio is out of whack.

[ehh]

Quote: Originally Posted by DaveDQ

So, I guess you can remove all the graphics for pitching? The gesture selection and big circle graphic is nowhere to be seen in this video. That'd be nice.

In 2K8 I think you could press one of the triggers to hide the pitching menu, can't remember for sure though.