Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

[baseball88]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

A demo is a demo.

The final product will tell it all. This says it all

[DJ]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

Played a couple of games last night and while the game is a definite step-up from 2k8, there's not enough there to warrant a full-price purchase, IMO.

I thought hitting was way too easy. Taking out the step really made a difference as I could react super-late to a pitch and still drive it for either a HR or an extra-base hit.

I do like the re-worked pitching mechanics. Getting rid of the meatball pitch was a big plus.

Fielding was OK; I thought the camera was pulled back too far for some plays in OF but the R-stick throwing works well.

[mwjr]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

That's been in the series since 2K5, yes.

Oh, I know. What I wrote is an exact copy and paste of a review I wrote on 2K5. I didn't see it last year, so I'm really pi**ed that it's back in.

[mwjr]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

A demo is a demo.

The final product will tell it all. This says it all

I don't know. My experience is that the demos are pretty close to the finished product.

[Blitzburgh]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

We can laud the positive aspects of the game, but where does that get us on making sure the inaccuracies and deficiencies are corrected?
When MVP 2004 was released five years ago it had some issues, but it also had many features that are lacking in this game. If the ability for take-out slides was available in a game five years ago, then why is it not in this game?
When a player throws to a base, that layer should look at the base he is throwing. Again this was in High Heat back in the early part of this decade, but is absent here.
Collision detection should have been more refined. Some of the collision issues are terrible. A player just stands over home plate while another bats… this is unacceptable for a major company.
As I have pointed out, Wall height is not a nitpicky complaint; it’s a real game play issue. It’s lazy to let this pass.
Missing animation frames when a batter moves to put the bat on his shoulder is another feature that should have not been overlooked.

Then there are issues that many of you are calling nitpicky:
Clouds moving too fast
Ball being too big
Too many of the same ads
Adding in buildings for the sake of advertisement

Many of these issues seem small and insignificant, but games many years ago had these issues ironed out. For the sake of technological advancement this game should too. I don’t understand why people are giving this game and company a free pass to produce a game that is inferior to its counterparts of today and yesteryear.
If these issues are not voiced, 2K will have no reason to fix them and produce a more complete videogame experience. Seeing as they hold exclusive multi-platform rights to Major league Baseball, we can only hope they take our concerns and act on them. Avoiding the inaccuracies and deficiencies will only get the consumer another poor game for your $60 or even the $20 PC price-point. In this economy, I want a quality product for that kind of money. MLB 2K9 is not that product.

They are in this game- x slides and the L stick is for direction

[The Living Legend]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

Well after playing the Demo about 5 times last night i have to say i love it....

Graphics - I was pleasantly surprised maybe it was because all the low res video's and how crappy 2k8 was but i mean seeing all the different times a day, overcast, dusk, and night you can see the difference completely on the field and the lighting on the players i though the grass textures were pretty nice too. Player faces hit or miss but honestly i couldn't care less since i skip most of the walk-ups so i really do not get in to close. Uniforms are pretty good, and the stadium look pretty good overall, i guess to me it had a upgraded 2k3 feel for me like the camera and the slight cartoonist look for me which is ok since I LOVED 2k3.

Sound - Bat sounds, sound ok to me i mean i notice the difference depending on where and when the batter makes contact. Love the crowd noise umpires all those things.

Commentary - Best ever period NEXT.

Gameplay - This is a very tricky topic so i guess i will do my best. I love the pitching mechanics the yellow bar doesnt bother me actually it helps me know how much effort im putting into the pitch. Computer does swing alot but i dont mind to an extent, the AI does take pithes as well not as much as i would like to but its all good. The fielding is alot better since the game is running so damn smooth. I noticed little hiccups here and there but nothing major at all. And defintly nothing to effect gameplay all the weird animations are post play so i mostly skip that crap anyway. Love the meter for fielding though i might have to use that quick throw modifier cause sometimes havent had a problem yet with throws but know since someone mentioned it it does take a little long to throw in since the animation takes a bit but i will have to play more and havent run into that problem yet.

Hitting, i find it challenging maybe im not that good since i havent played a baseball game enough in 2 years. I played 2k7 pretty good but all the glitches and framerate i couldnt take it anymore. And 2k8 Fail. I find it hard to get alot of hits, out of the 5 demo tries i onl hit 2 homeruns and probably got 10 hits maybe out of all demo tries.

I dont know what to tell people i like the game i like what its going for maybe im not a true simulation junky and i like the little arcade aspects since that keeps it fresh and fun for me, but overall i can look over the little hiccups here and there since the glitches to me hardly show themself.. i applaud the effort of VC and look forward to see what the final game offers.

[ronnyballgame]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

So I finally got a chance to play the demo, I started downloading it yesterday, but I had to go to work, and finished it when I got home, but only sampled it, because I had to go to class. So this morning, I pulled one game of the demo, which was all the time I had, and needed to figure out MLB 2k9.

From those 3 innings, I felt that this game is heading for a direction I have been waiting for. I loved the commentary, the game itself felt so smooth, I loved the controls, last year I had them, but playing with the right stick is going to only make this game so much better. This game is leaps and bounds better than 2k8 and it may equal out to MVP 05 in my book once I get my hands on the retail version. I am a franchise guy, and the franchise sounds great. Less than a week.

So in my game, I lost 3-2 to Tampa, Burrell killed me with a 2 run bomb after I struck out 2 in the first. Cole's change up was sick, as it is in real life. I was on the edge of my seat the whole game. Wasn't fair they got to bring in bullpen guys, but I couldn't, haha. Good job VC!

[kGinGreen]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

Wasn't fair they got to bring in bullpen guys, but I couldn't, haha. Good job VC!

you can bring in bullpen guys. hit the directional pad down and use the right and left triggers to go through all your sub menus. you can sub batters as well.

[ronnyballgame]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

you can bring in bullpen guys. hit the directional pad down and use the right and left triggers to go through all your sub menus. you can sub batters as well.

Damn, you serious! That sucks, I had to hit with Cole, when I could have subbed him in, grrr. Now I know, thanks bro, I looked for it on the pause screen

[kGinGreen]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

No problem. 2k really should have released better instructions for the demo. They also should let you change the difficulty. But ah well.

[JT30]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

The game has potential, but obviously needs a lot of work.

Few things that happened to me....

1. I was in a rundown, and the CPU didnt make any effort to tag me out.. the CPU simply played catch and I was able to run back and forth for over 5 minutes before the CPU threw it away.

2. CPU had a guy on first and I threw a wild pitch.. the ball seemed to pick up some speed before it hit the back stop. My catcher went to the backstop, picked up the ball and promptly threw the guy out at second. It was Crawford who was thrown out at 2B.

3. I caught a fly ball in center field... about medium depth.. CPU tagged up at 3rd base and I threw to home, but I ended up prematurely hitting the button to stop the meter before it reached max.. so I ended up throwing a lollipop. That wasnt the problem. The problem was, the ball landed just outside 2nd base and then rolled all the way to home plate. I guess this game doesnt take into account friction from grass or dirt.

4. I had guys on first and second, 1 out.. and I hit what I thought to be a pop fly in the infield. IF fly rule should be in effect, but it wasnt called. However, the big problem was that the pop fly that I hit, didnt come down from the sky until both my runners advanced to home plate. Then the ball finally fell in the infield..right beside the second baseman.

5. I havent had an AB longer than 3 pitches, and either has the CPU.

6. I caught a fly ball at the warning track with no one on base, and for ha ha's I decided to throw it home... the ball landed just shy of the SS area, in the OF grass and rolled all the way to home plate.

7. Guy on first.. I hit a groundball to the secondbaseman and looking to be an easy double play. Well the secondbaseman tags my guy running to second, which was fine... however, the secondbaseman (after tagging the baserunner) still decides to throw it to 2B for whatever reason. SS catches the ball and doesnt even make an attempt to throw it to first.

8. I successfully laid down 3 bunts in a row for a base hit because the catcher and pitcher couldnt make up their mind on who was to field it... but when the pitcher finally did field it, he throw a lollipop to first... well after the runner reached.

9. Four times, I have had the pitcher try to catch a pop fly in the IF while my 3B was trying to make the catch. 2x, the ball just landed in between them.

10. I have counted 5x where a pop fly just landed next to a CPU IF.


Can't wait for the retail version

[Pared]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

I would have to agree on rundowns and bunt fielding. It's terrible in the demo.

You can actually time the rundowns and make it to a base safely. Just get the timing right and you can get there easily.

[MastorofPuppetz]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

Hitting to easy? The DEMO is on PRO, there are 3 higher difficulties as well as sliders???????? Too early to say that.

[MastorofPuppetz]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

I don't know. My experience is that the demos are pretty close to the finished product.

Not true, MLb 2K7 demo and final product was vastly different.

[JT30]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

Ya so basically, if you see you are gonna be thrown out stealing 2B for instance, you best bet is to get in a rundown...lol

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