Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-12-09)

[jim416]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-12-09)

Gotta agree. Pretty pathetic, actually.

Looking forward to the upcoming vids as I enjoyed the pictures that were posted.
Outta here now.

[CarryTheWeight]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-12-09)



...DOUBLE facepalm. Where are these "screenshots" we speak of?

[ExtremeGamer]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-12-09)

This ends NOW.

Discuss the screenshots, no need to EVER mention The Show. NONE, NADA, ZERO.

Screenshots are the topic. They can look good, bad, or you can notice things in them. But no where did I notice anything stating MLB 09 The Show.

[HK-47]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-12-09)

Good grief. How old are you? You're the reason there are cross forum problems, geez.

I'm 22, and I only made 1 post in The Show section...And I didn't bash it, I just asked a question for my brother(who loves The Show).

[HK-47]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-12-09)

Hey Steve, how are the custom soundtracks?Does the away teams music still get played like in 2k8?..I hated that.

[jpup]

I like the camera options. The graphics kind of look outdated though. It appears they have went backwards since '07. Hopefully it will play well and we will have two options this season.

[phillyfan23]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-12-09)

graphics are fine to me....I'm never been a big graphics guy so I guess I'm not the best to judge, but they are fine to me. Not as good as 2k7, but good enough for my eyes at least.

I am more of a gameplay and if that is solid, I can overlook other deficiencies of a game such as graphics, accesories and all those good stuff.

From the screens, it really looks like gameplay can pretty much be altered to one's liking via the sliders, but let us see....hopefully we can

I've been giving the 2k series a fair shake since 2k6 and so far everyone of them didn't satisfy although 2k8 , even with framerate, i think was pretty decent.

This year , I will go through this upcoming demo with some of gameplay tests ....

1)how is hitting? is it organic? does it feel like you're pulling the ball when you're early or pushing when you're late? ( didn;t feel like this in past years). Are HRs over the top? how is extra base hits?

2) how is user pitching? can we give up walks? will our messed up pitches be mostly meatballs or just plain balls?

3) will players' ratings have impact on the field defensively ?

But I am really really looking forward to the demo because the lack of zone hitting in previous iterations just was a bummer, but they have it in this year so much better. Also, wow, the camera options are just awesome.....it WILL make hitting much better because 2k8's camera options were lacking and didn;t give the user the best view to judge balls and strikes.......

Plus we got all those sliders man...I really hope this game will deliver this year....we need 2 games going head to head.....that way we ALL win....

well all PS3 users at least....

[bigfnjoe96]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-12-09)

I wonder how the NEW Pitching Sliders are supposed to work cause from what I've seen it looks like they've remove the Balls & Strikes Sliders





IMO VC is taking a big gamble going that route making pitching totally depending on Inside Edge & Ratings to dictate how a pitcher is gonna pitch..

hmmm

[wsu_gb23]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-12-09)

some of those screenshots don't look too good...although I really like the camera options, especially for pitching...

[wsu_gb23]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-12-09)

what's with all the screens of pages of numbers? Couldn't we get gameplay screens instead?

[SoxFan01605]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-12-09)

what's with all the screens of pages of numbers? Couldn't we get gameplay screens instead?

If your talking about the black and white screens with the ratings listed, those are older. They were just a different format to show us all the ratings for each team.

all the ones of menus, Fenway, etc are the newer ones, mostly meant to show off the games options and certain features people were questioning, I'd imagine. I'm sure there is more to come.

[cubsfan203]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-12-09)

I wonder how the NEW Pitching Sliders are supposed to work cause from what I've seen it looks like they've remove the Balls & Strikes Sliders

The AI Strike Zone Tendency could be both the balls & strikes combined?

Lower = More Balls
Higher = More strikes

????

Idk, just a thought. I didn't get 2k8 so I'm probably way off.

[phillyfan23]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-12-09)

I wonder how the NEW Pitching Sliders are supposed to work cause from what I've seen it looks like they've remove the Balls & Strikes Sliders





IMO VC is taking a big gamble going that route making pitching totally depending on Inside Edge & Ratings to dictate how a pitcher is gonna pitch..

hmmm

this is a huge gamble IMO....it could potentially be a game killer for hardcore purists like me and some others here. Cubsfan mentioned that there is an AI strike tendency .....but even if this works for the cpu, what will make USER pitching challenging??

I've noticed that there is a meter pitching speed slider or something like that, but even at the highest difficulty, it could still be too easy for some after time with practice. I'm sure it will be difficult at first, but after you get the timing down , strikes might become too easy to throw .

but again, the demo will tell us more about this for sure.....

p.s-at least there is a pitch rating influence, so it's not TOTALLY dependent on user skill, but we will see if all these sliders can recreate a realistic and challenging user pitching experiencce....I hope so, because I am optimistic of this series' direction under VC.

[EnigmaNemesis]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-12-09)

I would like to extend you an apology for the way I reacted a couple of pages ago bro. Long day @ work coupled with my anxiousness for baseball gaming to start got the best me...

This apology also goes out to anyone else I may have angered

I hear you on that. No harm no foul. We are all passionate baseball fans (or we would not be here). And we all want the best out of these two companies we can get. And you are right, BASEBALL CANT COME SOON ENOUGH.

To come out apologize in a public forum speaks a lot about your character. You gained much respect from me. And I apologize as well if I got you upset in any way.

LOL @ the Sisko pic, was a good show.

Anywho, back on topic!

More pics of the new Yankee Stadium please!

[cubsfan203]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-12-09)

this is a huge gamble IMO....it could potentially be a game killer for hardcore purists like me and some others here. Cubsfan mentioned that there is an AI strike tendency .....but even if this works for the cpu, what will make USER pitching challenging??

I've noticed that there is a meter pitching speed slider or something like that, but even at the highest difficulty, it could still be too easy for some after time with practice. I'm sure it will be difficult at first, but after you get the timing down , strikes might become too easy to throw .

but again, the demo will tell us more about this for sure.....

p.s-at least there is a pitch rating influence, so it's not TOTALLY dependent on user skill, but we will see if all these sliders can recreate a realistic and challenging user pitching experiencce....I hope so, because I am optimistic of this series' direction under VC.

Again, I didn't really play last year's game, but there appears to be several things to make the user pitching more difficult.

Like you mentioned, the pitch meter speed would make it more difficult similar to how it did for MVP.

Lowering the Gesture Recognition would make you have to be extremely accurate with making the pitch correct or it would probably be a bad pitch. That probably would tie in with the Hold Timing and Release Timing sliders as well.

I think with a combination of those 4 things, you could manage to make pitching more difficult if needed.