Major League Baseball 2K8 360 Impressions

[mattstl77]

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Thanks for your impressions so far kiz.
One question:
How is baserunning this year?
Thanks in advance.

[kiz5]

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Okay I have a pretty basic question.

When pitching, when you release the analog stick is that the place the circle stops or when you get the analog in the right position?(i.e for a fastball you go straight down then up.) To stop the circle in the green do you hold the analog stick up until it gets in the green or what?

Thanks for the impressions Kiz

#1 = Power / Speed
#2 = Accuracy

So down until the power you want
Up for accuracy, and release when it's in the green

It's tough, and will take a while to get good at it.

[kiz5]

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Thanks for your impressions so far kiz.
One question:
How is baserunning this year?
Thanks in advance.

Things seem good so far. Only thing I'm noticing, is that if you're impatient, and keep pressing A (on 360), your runner will run home, rather than it speeding up the game. I've been thrown out a few times because of that! =( Lol.

[kiz5]

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Kiz, I have a question, does it look like they have players real salaries in the game? Could you look, thanks.

Everything looked about right.

Giambi makes $20M. Vernon Wells around $18M. I'm not sure if they're right on, or within the millionth, but it looked right.

[lived]

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What about the bat on ball physics. Do jammed hits still go the other way

And are there september call-ups

[RoyalBoyle78]

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Everything looked about right.

Giambi makes $20M. Vernon Wells around $18M. I'm not sure if they're right on, or within the millionth, but it looked right.

thanks, I'm hoping there right on.

[bigfnjoe96]

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Things seem good so far. Only thing I'm noticing, is that if you're impatient, and keep pressing A (on 360), your runner will run home, rather than it speeding up the game. I've been thrown out a few times because of that! =( Lol.

Kiz, is there a reason why your using the buttons to advance runners & not the ANALOG STICK?

[tj_oconnor06001]

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Correct.

Kiz- Are you saying that while in Franchise Mode you are able to edit the lineup of the team you are about to play against in a game?

I hope this is true. I hate playing against the Yanks in my Franchise for example when the CPU has Abreu leading off, Giambi batting 2nd and Jeter way down in the lineup at like 7 or 8.

[kiz5]

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Kiz, is there a reason why your using the buttons to advance runners & not the ANALOG STICK?

The left-analog is used to select the runner. When they're selected, you can press Y to go to 2nd, X to go to third, etc. It's great when you have a hitter like Reyes hit one into the gap, and you know you can take 3, and just pressing X to run for 3rd off the start.

[kiz5]

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Kiz- Are you saying that while in Franchise Mode you are able to edit the lineup of the team you are about to play against in a game?

I hope this is true. I hate playing against the Yanks in my Franchise for example when the CPU has Abreu leading off, Giambi batting 2nd and Jeter way down in the lineup at like 7 or 8.

Yeah, you can edit the lineup in the menu, when you're editing yours before the game.

[soldaderyan]

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wow i can´t wait

[boomhauertjs]

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Question on simmed games in franchise:
Can you jump in and out of sim games? Can I sim a game until I take over playing in the ninth inning? Can I jump out of a game that I am losing 10-2 in the fifth and the let the CPU sim the rest?
I'm pretty sure MVP had this. Never played 2k so I don't know.

[bigfnjoe96]

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The left-analog is used to select the runner. When they're selected, you can press Y to go to 2nd, X to go to third, etc. It's great when you have a hitter like Reyes hit one into the gap, and you know you can take 3, and just pressing X to run for 3rd off the start.

Really, I though base running was, the button represented the runner & the ANALOG STICK was used to advance the runner to the base you want that runner to go.

Thanks for the answer

[Pared]

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Really, I though base running was, the button represented the runner & the ANALOG STICK was used to advance the runner to the base you want that runner to go.

Thanks for the answer

I thought so also. He just described how The Show has been doing it for 2 years now. I'm surprised they adopted the same method of running.

Maybe he is confused? Either way it's a very intuitive way to run the bases.

[jim416]

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Blah! It's just trades. =(

I made the assumption it was the lineups / rotations, since that's the bigger issue.

So, it will then be up to the AI to ajust the lineups if, for example, a real life trade of Adrian Gonzales of the Padres for Matt Kemp of the Dodgers went down? If I manually made that trade I would NOT be able to go into those teams lineups at that time and set them? I'd just be at the mercy of whatever the AI chooses to do?