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**dave_sz** · 06-05-2009, 12:47 PM

Re: Before I Buy, What are some of YOUR issues with the game?

Commentary is buggy, glitchy, repetitive and annoying.
What irks me a bit is that the 1st baseman is almost never at 1st base if the ball gets hit to the outfield. He automatically goes to edge of the infield/outfield and stands there.
Also the pauses between throws. Relays are fine for most part but when you wanna catch a guy off guard at any base after a play there is a good 1-2s pause between the catch and then the throw. I could easily tag the guys out if the pause wasn't there...

**moemoe24** · 06-05-2009, 12:49 PM

Re: Before I Buy, What are some of YOUR issues with the game?

The only issue I have is the lineup glitch and that was semi fixed with the patch. I love this game like no other I've ever played.

**xizi** · 06-05-2009, 01:00 PM

Re: Before I Buy, What are some of YOUR issues with the game?

I find that the outfield moves entirely to fast even with slider adjustments. alot of hits that should be extra base hits go for singles or outs.. also outfield assist happen way to much.. if you get aggressive on the base paths your gonna pay. Just my opinions.. but all in all its the best sports game i have played... and played alot.. my soon to be wife says she is taking it away after we get married.

**DarkFudge** · 06-05-2009, 01:00 PM

Re: Before I Buy, What are some of YOUR issues with the game?

This is fantastic to hear...in my opinion, what makes a sports franchise game great is how immersive the gameplay is but also how much distinction and style varies from player to player and from team to team to really give a game a true sensation of realism. I think alot of sports games lack this key element of really capturing all of the different attributes that give this variety to players and ultimately give different teams that different feel and style.

I love NBA 2K9 basketball for this reason because I feel like there is so much distinction between the different players, offensive, defensive and intangible abilities that it makes each game unique and exciting.

How well does The Show demonstrate different defensive characteristics?....One of the things I cant stand with MLB 2K9 is that regardless of a players defensive attributes and style, they all seem to play too much alike in the field only separated by the 'on rails feeling' canned animations for a given play. I dont get the sensation of seeing distinctions between a Reyes at SS or a 3rd stringer.

Also how are the intangibles in this game?

**xizi** · 06-05-2009, 01:18 PM

Re: Before I Buy, What are some of YOUR issues with the game?

well, i mostly play with the royals so there is not alot of difference between my first and third string :P

however, you can tell the difference in talent tho.. things like throwing accuracy really make a difference i have noticed. reaction speed etc..

I bought my ps3 for this game last year... You will not be sorry if you do as well!

**livnlegn** · 06-05-2009, 01:29 PM

Re: Before I Buy, What are some of YOUR issues with the game?

In my opinion (I make this clear because I think a lot of people here disagree with me):

Pros

- Pitching/Batting can be fun and realistic.
- The graphics are good enough.
- Some of the "little things" are really well done (probably too well done).
- The atmosphere works really well sometimes.
- Players do (at the plate) occasionally give you feeling that they are who they are (i.e. bases loaded and "Oh shoot, here comes Chipper".) I don't know if this is entirely appearance based or what, but it does feel like they occasionally perform like their real-life counterparts at the plate and on the mound.

Cons

- The franchise is in embryonic form.
- There are many problems with stats (compiling, accurately tracking, viewing).
- The franchise interface is terrible.
- Attributes are minimal and wrongheaded.
- Players perform similarly in the field.
- Progression is predictable and poorly done.
- There is rubber-band logic present (thus assuring the closure of this thread).
- Rather than canned animations, sometimes the game feels canned.
- Sliders have little (if any) effect.
- Yes, commentary is horrible
- Franchise-generated players are bland and incorrectly announced.
- The rendering of the ball traveling from P to C is probably the worst in any baseball game ever (i.e. Curves travel in a slightly nonlinear motion, hit a plate of glass and fall straight down at the plate).
- Baseball strategy is poorly done.

There is more good and bad.

NBA 2k9 is a better game, but MLB 09 is probably worth checking out. Especially, if you are not bothered too much by the above.

Stand by for alternate viewpoints. This is just one opinion of a longtime baseball nerd and once (and now again) video game geek. I did not play a single next-gen game until MLB The Show. Maybe my expectations were too high.

If you have the stomach for a straight-up text simulation of baseball, there is also a much better option: Out of the Park Baseball X, which was released today.

**moemoe24** · 06-05-2009, 02:38 PM

Re: Before I Buy, What are some of YOUR issues with the game?

The baseball strategy is one of the best parts of this game. If Josh Hamilton is leading offthe 7th inning I can safely say I always see a lefty. That's strategy isn't it??

Btw Fudge, don't listen to these naysayers. It's a great game, best sports game I've ever played and I've been playing for about 20+ years. There's a reason these naysayers hang around this board, you know.

**DarkFudge** · 06-05-2009, 02:55 PM

Re: Before I Buy, What are some of YOUR issues with the game?

Thanks all and LivinLgnd for that very specific and insightful laundry list of good and bad

Even having not owned this PS3 version, ( I did own MLB 07 the Show on the PS2) I feel some of your negative points might be somewhat exaggerated since I haven't seen them in the previous version's last gen game so I would expect that they certainly wouldnt be introduced in the Newer Nex Gen 09 version of the game.

Specifically, your comments about the Rubber band AI, game feeling too canned (this is how I really feel with MLB2K9...so I cant see how it could feel any worse) and the trajectory of pitched curve balls to the catcher. MLB the Show on the PS2 had very realistic pitched ball trajectories....did it get worse on the PS3 version?

Not trying to contest you but just find it rather confusing that The Show would have gotten worse since the PS2 versions.

Your point about terrible Franchise interface scares me because that was something in the PS2 previous versions that I felt needed to be improved also. And I do feel that MLB2K9 does this part well by keeping all your areas seperated neatly, logically, and within minimal clicks to get to where you need to go...for the most part.

Another note, Im not a fan at all of Matt Vasgergian or whatever his name is....he is just too dull and 'west coast' for my taste. Besides, He's getting played out, He's been in the game for the last 3 or 4 versions. We get sick of the same voice and phrases by now.

I think Gary Thorne is much more exciting and authentic to setting the tone. This is one area that I have to honestly say MLB 2K did right...

**moemoe24** · 06-05-2009, 03:03 PM

Re: Before I Buy, What are some of YOUR issues with the game?

Fudge, there are several posters here that for some reason hang around the boards, but never have anything good to say about the game. Out of the laundry list of "bad" stuff from the poster above, maybe 2 things were true.

The thing I keep in mind, as do most here is that this is a video game and all video games have glitches and bugs. If someone doesn't like this game, then I don't see how they will EVER enjoy any sim baseball game. IMO, the actual gameplay is 99% perfecto.

**livnlegn** · 06-05-2009, 03:11 PM

Re: Before I Buy, What are some of YOUR issues with the game?

I don't think "naysayers" hang around this board at all.

Baseball strategy?

- Letting the pitcher hit in the top of the inning and replacing him in the bottom of the inning.
- Pitching out with a pitcher who can not locate the strike zone.
- Stealing bases with a 3/4 hitter at the plate and two outs.
- etc.

Dark:
Everyone's experience will vary. I find that the pitches are extremely unrealistically rendered. Maybe you won't.

The franchise mode is a little bit of a mess. I never played MLB 2k9, but NBA 2k9's interface absolutely destroys MLB 09's. The interface is cumbersome, superfluous, intrusive, etc.

This "naysayer" recommends the game. I've just always had high standards.

**ChubbyBanana** · 06-05-2009, 03:13 PM

Re: Before I Buy, What are some of YOUR issues with the game?

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...pressions.html

You can find your answers there as well...

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