MLB 2K11 Video - Boston Red Sox vs. New York Yankees (Shaky Cam)

[JayhawkerStL]

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[Hopeful Cubsfan]

Re: More Gameplay (Shaky Cam): Yankees vs. Red Sox - 10 mins

Does this mean there is zone hitting?!
Sorry if I'm late to the party.

[TimeBombTown]

Re: More Gameplay (Shaky Cam): Yankees vs. Red Sox - 10 mins

*sigh* that jumbotron with that generic graphic looks so bad...

I do like the pitcher being shown warming up at the beginning though.

[JayhawkerStL]

Re: More Gameplay (Shaky Cam): Yankees vs. Red Sox - 10 mins

Does this mean there is zone hitting?!
Sorry if I'm late to the party.

No. If you guess the right location, you get a bonus of some sort.

I did like that even though the kid hitting clearly didn't know what he was doing, he was still able to intuitively pull off two check swings.

I have no idea what he is doing that sends his runner to third on a single. But that wasn't in the demo for the 360.

It's hard to tell, but the game seems pretty solid for the PS3.

[Hopeful Cubsfan]

Re: More Gameplay (Shaky Cam): Yankees vs. Red Sox - 10 mins

No. If you guess the right location, you get a bonus of some sort.

I did like that even though the kid hitting clearly didn't know what he was doing, he was still able to intuitively pull off two check swings.

I have no idea what he is doing that sends his runner to third on a single. But that wasn't in the demo for the 360.

It's hard to tell, but the game seems pretty solid for the PS3.

I kinda thought that's what zone hitting is, you guide the dark spot to mimic where you want the bat to swing, and it gives you a better chance at hitting the ball. The better the batter, the bigger the spot, right?

[SPTO]

Re: More Gameplay (Shaky Cam): Yankees vs. Red Sox - 10 mins

The game looks pretty good. The kid playing definitely doesn't know what he's doing at times but it's nice that it seems for the most part the pitching interface is a bit more forgiving.

[xunleashed]

Re: More Gameplay (Shaky Cam): Yankees vs. Red Sox - 10 mins

Bad base-running animation to say the least.

Most of the other animations look smooth. These guys really suck at playing.

[The Bimmer]

Re: More Gameplay (Shaky Cam): Yankees vs. Red Sox - 10 mins

That was good stuff. I wonder why in both videos the throws from the infielders are ground balls to first? Is this slider related or maybe part of the patch?

The hitting view is definitely better then the demo imo, plus I really like how that commentary flows.

These guys must not of been happy with the 2K11 roundtable impressions thread, with their comments about the show.

Thanks Jayhawker

[Segagendude]

Re: More Gameplay (Shaky Cam): Yankees vs. Red Sox - 10 mins

The game looks pretty good. The kid playing definitely doesn't know what he's doing at times but it's nice that it seems for the most part the pitching interface is a bit more forgiving.

He doesn't know how to operate the focus button on his camera either....

[JayhawkerStL]

Re: More Gameplay (Shaky Cam): Yankees vs. Red Sox - 10 mins

I think the ground ball throws are the result of bad timing and not letting the fielder get set. I think there is a big advantage to not pre-loading a throw on a routine groundball, or even one into the gap.

We are not going to get the rockets as a guy leaps backwards from third and short like we saw last year unless the guy has a legit rocket arm.

[JayhawkerStL]

Re: More Gameplay (Shaky Cam): Yankees vs. Red Sox - 10 mins

He doesn't know how to operate the focus button on his camera either....

LOL! What's funny is that I think he had autofocus on, and the camera was refocusing based on the camera shot in the game.

[drterb]

Re: More Gameplay (Shaky Cam): Yankees vs. Red Sox - 10 mins

Overall, it looks good, bordering on great.

The two nitpicks I have are with the 3-1 play by the CPU (3:33) and the off balance throw by Scutaro (9:20).

Teixeira should not have thrown wildly off his back foot while Garcia was still 40+ feet away from the bag. Stop, pivot, begin moving towards first base and either underhand or overhand the ball to Garcia depending on how close he was in relationship to him.

From what I've seen so far (demo and videos), the plays involving pitchers at 1B need a lot of work (at least from a CPU AI standpoint).

Scutaro made the proper throw (animation wise) to 1B based on his momentum. If the user would have stopped Scutaro's momentum, he could have made a better throw to 1B. It's nice to see rocket arms on these types of throws are gone. However, there's something off about the way the ball made it to the first basemen. I don't think it bounced high enough and I don't think the grass slowed it down as much as it should have. The David Wright throw in the Mets/Nats video was even worse IMO.

I'm anxious to read the release day patch notes and I can't wait till Thursday!!

[jeffy777]

Re: More Gameplay (Shaky Cam): Yankees vs. Red Sox - 10 mins

I'm anxious to read the release day patch notes and I can't wait till Thursday!!

You mean Tuesday?

[Rules]

Re: More Gameplay (Shaky Cam): Yankees vs. Red Sox - 10 mins

Here they are talking about the commentary in the game and how great it is. Now if only they would have shut up so that we can enjoy it instead of their crappy yack yack in the background then it would have been great!

[tvman]

Re: More Gameplay (Shaky Cam): Yankees vs. Red Sox - 10 mins

Is it just me or did the swings and misses he had using Youkalis looked much better than in the demo, the bat appeared to some weight to it.