[moemoe24]

Quote: Originally Posted by heroesandvillians

If "solid" contact, more often the not, resulted in base hits, simply mastering the timing of how to hit would pillage the game of all statistical realism for hardcore players. These hardcore players are certainly the demographic MOST looking for realism. We can't have it both ways. A purely timing based hitting system, and statistically solid long term play. I don't know, maybe it can be done. All I know for sure is that to baseball fans, numbers matter.

I'm not saying timing should be the only factor in hitting, of course players ratings need to have a lot of influence. My beef with the hitting system or the one mentioned in this article is you shouldn't be able to flick your stick(that sounds funny) up or down and be able to hit a fly ball or ground ball based off that. Your timing and left stick should determine the balls flight. The way it is now, I can flick my r stick up and hit a ball at my shins in the air or vice versa and hit a ground ball.

If you are talking about realism, a hitter goes up to the box needing to hit a fly ball he is going to be looking for something up...... he needs to move a runner over he's looking for something on the outside part of the plate. The right stick just makes it too easy to manipulate where you are hitting the ball.