Major League Baseball 2K9 Video: Tigers @ Indians

[boomhauertjs]

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Thanks for showing the Jake (it will always be Jacobs Field to me - I refuse to call it by that other name).
I'm glad Steve showed that you can speed the game up. I sometimes enjoy watching the Real Time stuff, but if I'm in hurry to get a game in, it's nice to be able to skip all of that.
I'm a little concerned about the flyball/groundball ratio. Controlling infielders is one of my favorite parts of a video baseball game, so I'll be disappointed if the ratio is out of whack.

[ehh]

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So, I guess you can remove all the graphics for pitching? The gesture selection and big circle graphic is nowhere to be seen in this video. That'd be nice.

In 2K8 I think you could press one of the triggers to hide the pitching menu, can't remember for sure though.

[Trevytrev11]

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Really liked seeing Verlander struggle there. He was trying to be too fine and fell behind in a lot of those counts. Very realistic...a lot of drawn out at bats and a lot of pitches thrown by Verlander.

[thornie]

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Really liked seeing Verlander struggle there. He was trying to be too fine and fell behind in a lot of those counts. Very realistic...a lot of drawn out at bats and a lot of pitches thrown by Verlander.

I agree, that's what I loved about this video. On the downside, baa is right, too many looping flyballs that drop and no ground balls through the hole.

[Jimbo68]

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What I would really like to see, but I didn't was when there were multiple baserunners, Verlander NEVER even turned his head towards any baserunner. Not even to keep them honest. Perhaps he was just super focused on the batter?!

[baa7]

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What I would really like to see, but I didn't was when there were multiple baserunners, Verlander NEVER even turned his head towards any baserunner. Not even to keep them honest. Perhaps he was just super focused on the batter?!

Has any baseball game had that?

[Trevytrev11]

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I agree, that's what I loved about this video. On the downside, baa is right, too many looping flyballs that drop and no ground balls through the hole.

Yeah, I noticed that too. It was only one inning, but it's been one inning in several different games now.

[Trevytrev11]

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Has any baseball game had that?

Not that I can recall...at least with any purpose, but as I think about it, it's something that could be added to provide some additional reality to the game.

Thinking out loud for a one player game:

During the pitcher vs. batter sequence, instead of showing the picture baserunner as well as the little stick figure guys in the diagram, why not close all of that stuff off and force the pitcher to check runners and then force the game to show visuals to let both parties know what is going on (in real life a runner typically knows when a pitcher is looking at him).

Don't show the picture in pitcure base runner unless the pitcher presses a button. This would then pop up that box, the pitcher would turn his head and it would be semi-realistic...or maybe the picture in picture is always there but very fuzzy or unclear until the pitcher turned and looked.

For a runner at second, It'd be pretty cool if when you turned to look at the runner on second, the camera would pan/zoon out as the pitcher turned his head 180 degrees.

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread on this topic.

[baa7]

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Thinking out loud for a one player game:

During the pitcher vs. batter sequence, instead of showing the picture baserunner as well as the little stick figure guys in the diagram, why not close all of that stuff off and force the pitcher to check runners and then force the game to show visuals to let both parties know what is going on (in real life a runner typically knows when a pitcher is looking at him).

Very awesome idea. Not pick-up-and-play friendly though for, you know, casual gamers.

[ehh]

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Has any baseball game had that?

I don't think the CPU has ever done it.

I remember when the user could first do it 2K3/4, it was so damn cool. I would check the runners before every pitch, just looked so cool especially when pitching from the behind-the-pitcher cam.

I was also funny as hell to do the the look-over with Mussina while he was doing his stupid dip thing from the stretch, he looked like he was auditioning for a role in the Exorcist, lol.

[Maynard]

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i didnt see any called strikes in that video. i also am not liking the fielding view. I hope that changable because i keep seeing the same view. i do like the hit variety, but i dont like the outs i am seeing. seems like alot of fly ball outs in this game. the players faces dont look good either.

the stadiums and graphics look real good though and the game looks smooth. But if there is no demo prior to the release then i will not buy this game.

No demo means something is wrong.

[The Riddler]

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No demo means something is wrong.

Yea.. Did the game even go gold yet ?

[baa7]

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No demo means something is wrong.

No demo today means there's no demo yet. No demo in two weeks means there's something wrong.

[Maynard]

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No demo today means there's no demo yet. No demo in two weeks means there's something wrong.

i agree....if it comes next week then its a good sign. i keep going back to 2 games that didnt have a demo before release. 2k8 and rainbow six vegas 2. Both had so much promise based on the previous years game, and both were a huge let down for various reasons. i made the mistake of buying both on their release dates

[The Living Legend]

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Well for me i liked video, i mean it a mere video and nothing more.. I mean ive seen plenty of real baseball games were there was nothing but flyballs. and the fact its to hard to see if there is going to be ridiculous amount of grounders or fly balls cause there is to much to influence on the user.