MLB 09 The Show Demo Available, Post Impressions Here

[johnnyg83]

Really? I love the replay angles ... especially the high press box ...

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by sask3m

Pared, i notice that there's no baserunner aggression slider this year, did the scea guys say why they removed it?

They mentioned the sliders were streamlined and added/removed to make sure they work.

Could've been breaking something in the game this year.

Trust me, the CPU baserunners are awesome this year! They actually make mistakes allowing you chances to earn the put-out. I had a play where someone went first to third and Ryan Church threw a one-hop beauty to David Wright to get the guy out by a step.

[HustlinOwl]

Thanks countryboy and nemesis for confirming that the umpires will rotate this year.

[Knight165]

Quote: Originally Posted by sask3m

Pared, i notice that there's no baserunner aggression slider this year, did the scea guys say why they removed it?

We didn't specifically ask this(at least I didn't)...but in speaking with Brian...they tweaked the attributes as well as the sliders...and I got the impression they wanted it much more attribute related this year.
I'm just guessing...but I think they were seeing with the aggression slider...way to many slow guys trying to both steal and take the extra base when they really shouldn't/couldn't.
So I think they touched on the aggression attribute as the driving force to extra bases and more aggressive basebath play.
The baserunner speed slider also sounds like it will increase the aggression overall.

M.K.
Knight165

[sask3m]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

They mentioned the sliders were streamlined and added/removed to make sure they work. Could've been breaking something in the game this year. Trust me, the CPU baserunners are awesome this year! They actually make mistakes allowing you chances to earn the put-out. I had a play where someone went first to third and Ryan Church threw a one-hop beauty to David Wright to get the guy out by a step.

thanks, yeah cpu runners seem just about right to me, i was just curious, but geez the hitting i'm down to rookie now and still having trouble , think it's tougher than HOF was last yr., can't get my timing and the breaks to the pitches are unreal.

[sask3m]

Quote: Originally Posted by Knight165

We didn't specifically ask this(at least I didn't)...but in speaking with Brian...they tweaked the attributes as well as the sliders...and I got the impression they wanted it much more attribute related this year. I'm just guessing...but I think they were seeing with the aggression slider...way to many slow guys trying to both steal and take the extra base when they really shouldn't/couldn't. So I think they touched on the aggression attribute as the driving force to extra bases and more aggressive basebath play. The baserunner speed slider also sounds like it will increase the aggression overall. M.K. Knight165

thanks for the update, i did find in 08 that if you upped the baserunning aggression to high then the cpu would just start running themselves into dumb outs, attribute related would be the better way to go.

[Jgainsey]

Does anyone else hate that one HR Celebration Cam where it goes straight to a close up of the batter's face? Why would I want to stare at Jayson Werth's ugly mug for an awkward 5 seconds when I could be watching the HR that he apparently just smashed off of the right field foul pole. I'd like to leave the HR Celebration Cam on, because there are some other angles that I like, but I just can't stand seeing the face shot while a ball is leaving the yard. Hopefully it gets scraped from next years game.

[countryboy]

one thing I'd like to see them add is the ability to see the previous pitch sequence to the cpu batter's without having to go thru the select button, pitcher/batter analysis.

When I bat, I can press R2 and see the previous pitch sequence, I'd love to be able to do that while pitching.

I know.....I'm lazy..