I'm not going to talk about 2k5 because that was last gen but when they got to this gen it has been all up hill...
I remember patiently anticipated 2k6 for the 360. I figured, with all this power and the way PGR2 (I believe?) looked, I thought these stadiums have got to come to life and look just as photo realistic as that game did. Boy was I wrong!
Then came 2k7 and I was like ok there getting somewhere now! It wasn't the greatest and it definitely had it's issues but this was the game that 2k6 should have been IMO. It was by far their best looking baseball game and quite frankly 2 iterations later, still is.
2k8 was IMO just a real mess in almost everyway. The best thing they did was set the ground work for the pitching & throwing mechanics. Graphics went backwards, game play was boring, announcing was stale and the same etc...
So, that brings me to 2k9 and VC taking over! I was like finally, I am going to have the game I have wanted for the past 3 long years! Ah, no again! I'm like you have to be kidding me. While graphically an improvement over 2k8 (gee that was a tuff one to accomplish) they cleaned up SOME of the frame rate hiccups when panning the field, added some really cool camera adjustments, attempted some nice presentation cameras and made pitching with the stick more user friendly and adding top notch commentary. The problem is in doing so the game does not play a fun and realistic game of baseball. I can't even get through a full 9 inning game anymore without some stupid AI hiccup ruining the experience for me. Whether it's me or the AI letting the ball hit them in the head, hitting to many or not any HR's (depending on the team you are using & sliders), the cpu going through some sort of god like at bats where it's impossible to get them out all of the sudden or the extremely irritation stuttering that happens if you don't play it on "hurry up". The players don't know if they should walk slowly, or fast, jog, sprint, turn or stop..... so they just do them all in one animation sequence! That really kills it for me!
Sorry for the rant but every year I look forward to the spring and summer nights, after a long days work to kick back, have a beer and play some good ole baseball. It's been like 5 years since I enjoyed that!
Blitz
I remember patiently anticipated 2k6 for the 360. I figured, with all this power and the way PGR2 (I believe?) looked, I thought these stadiums have got to come to life and look just as photo realistic as that game did. Boy was I wrong!
Then came 2k7 and I was like ok there getting somewhere now! It wasn't the greatest and it definitely had it's issues but this was the game that 2k6 should have been IMO. It was by far their best looking baseball game and quite frankly 2 iterations later, still is.
2k8 was IMO just a real mess in almost everyway. The best thing they did was set the ground work for the pitching & throwing mechanics. Graphics went backwards, game play was boring, announcing was stale and the same etc...
So, that brings me to 2k9 and VC taking over! I was like finally, I am going to have the game I have wanted for the past 3 long years! Ah, no again! I'm like you have to be kidding me. While graphically an improvement over 2k8 (gee that was a tuff one to accomplish) they cleaned up SOME of the frame rate hiccups when panning the field, added some really cool camera adjustments, attempted some nice presentation cameras and made pitching with the stick more user friendly and adding top notch commentary. The problem is in doing so the game does not play a fun and realistic game of baseball. I can't even get through a full 9 inning game anymore without some stupid AI hiccup ruining the experience for me. Whether it's me or the AI letting the ball hit them in the head, hitting to many or not any HR's (depending on the team you are using & sliders), the cpu going through some sort of god like at bats where it's impossible to get them out all of the sudden or the extremely irritation stuttering that happens if you don't play it on "hurry up". The players don't know if they should walk slowly, or fast, jog, sprint, turn or stop..... so they just do them all in one animation sequence! That really kills it for me!
Sorry for the rant but every year I look forward to the spring and summer nights, after a long days work to kick back, have a beer and play some good ole baseball. It's been like 5 years since I enjoyed that!
Blitz
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