MLB 2K11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS3/360)

[swaldo]

re: MLB 2K11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS3/360)

Your sample pool is way way way way oh yeah and way to small.

I dunno, if I was a MLB manager and watched my leadoff hitter pop-up on a 3-0 count I'd only need one sample

But in general I guess the jury is still out - I'm just noting what I saw.

[tvman]

re: MLB 2K11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS3/360)

It's likely hard to do any sort of AI testing until we have the retail version of the game.

I do like some things to be weird and wonderful as there are a lot of strange happenings in baseball, don't like a game that is totally "by the book".

[Trevytrev11]

re: MLB 2K11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS3/360)

Your sample pool is way way way way oh yeah and way to small.

It is, but the logic has been faulty forever, so even though it's not 50 or 100 batters, etc. it still shows, even in such a small sample size, that it doesn't look to be right. I'd put my money on the fact that if he did the same thing 100 times, the results would be close to what he just experienced.

As far as all of the logic in every other facet of the game, some very basic logic could be input to make the results of this seem very realistic. We could probably come up with 5 quick rules that, if put into the logic of the game, could fix the issue for 95+% of the situations. (I would guess that Juan Pierre has swung at less than two 3-0 pitches in his MLB career)

[tvman]

re: MLB 2K11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS3/360)

I dunno, if I was a MLB manager and watched my leadoff hitter pop-up on a 3-0 count I'd only need one sample

But in general I guess the jury is still out - I'm just noting what I saw.

Might be time for your leadoff hitter to be ridin' the pine for a while after that incident. By the way was it Torres?

[BearClaw]

re: MLB 2K11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS3/360)

So far I'm fairly pleased. Hitting and pitching are still solid. I noticed the framerate issue seems to only be when a ball is popped straight up and out of the field of view of the camera but I'm assuming that will get fixed. Also, I'm really getting tired of a player's body not facing the direction they are throwing. For instance at an Andres Torres will field a ground ball with his head and body facing first and will throw the ball to second while his head and body are pointed still towards first.

edit: Just saw that baserunners still move in slow motion during a pickoff.

[JayhawkerStL]

re: MLB 2K11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS3/360)

I do have a major beef to pick here though. What's up with all the flashy stuff? Every time an info box appears on screen it needs to make an elaborate exit with exploding bright yellow flashy colors It even appears on fixed portions of the screen - such as the long rectangle box at the top which displays the score & inning. Before a pitch that also has to flash - along with the strike zone, why?

It's making me crazy, please get rid of it! It's like that Justin Beiber video before last years World Series - this is baseball, it just doesn't belong! It might be better suited to NBA 2K because that sport is more "Showtime" or whatever. Big time baseball fans like me are slower paced people - the number cruncher types. That's why you still hear organ music playing in some ballparks. I don't want to feel like I'm playing a slot machine in a Vegas casino! These HDTV's are bright enough as it is, my eyes are going to hurt after a full 9 inning game.

If you want to add a little presentation "pop" here & there go ahead, but can you tone it down please or give us the option to turn it off?

Rant over, onto Top Spin...

Am I the only one that finds it humorous that a guy complaining about unnecessary flashy stuff uses those flashy and unnecessary emoticons? I can tell you that I find those emoticons 100x more annoying than anything in the demo.

[DrPhibes]

re: MLB 2K11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS3/360)

Outside of the previously mentioned choppiness, the demo feels marvelous. Love the new batting camera and love that there is now some suspense when hitting. At times you think the ball is gone, but it's just a warning track shot. Others you just know by the sound of the bat, the batter's animation after he hits it, or the outfielders animation (hit a monster HR with Cruz and Burrell was just standing still, but you can see his head following the ball over his head and way way back into the seats).

Not sure if it has been mentioned/addressed within the confines 19 page, but the only thing that sucked was not having the option to check swing/get warm up swing in before the pitch. I'm sure it's just a demo thing because afterall this IS just the demo, but w/e. Also hope that in the full game pitchers will be ejected for hitting too many batters (no big deal)

Now if only it has the Rockies black vest alternate jersey then I will def go pick it up

[School Yard Pro]

re: MLB 2K11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS3/360)

Pros-
camera angle when the ball is put in play
pitching control feedback
hitting seems easier
field and throwing errors

Cons-
no commentary
no slider options
only 3 innings
no subs
frame rate issues
crowd looks terrible
animation was off. (had the 3rd base coach call for a slide into 3rd after I had already throw the runner out and he was on his way to the bench)
and...
I hit a grand slam with Tommy Hunter...seriously

Releasing a demo of this quality is unacceptable. Graphically speaking I expected better from 2k11.. especially on the heals of such a successful NBA 2k11 release. This demo still doesn't look as good as MLB the show 09. We deserve a better looking baseball game on Xbox

That being said.. I'll still purchase it so I can have my baseball fix

[p00p1]

re: MLB 2K11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS3/360)

I was all over the place with Sanchez, probably because two of his pitching motions are relatively challenging, and his control is not great so even hard to paint with fastball.

Not too happy with Sanchez, he should have a split change not a circle change. And they got rid of his slider?

[HHHBigFan]

re: MLB 2K11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS3/360)

Idk...seems a lot like last years.

[serialmke]

re: MLB 2K11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS3/360)

Idk...seems a lot like last years.

Thats the beauty of it. Its alot like last years which was ALOT of fun except the bugs are fixed and fielding has been updated to match the excelling pitcher batter, hitting pitching interface.

[Spongedaddy]

re: MLB 2K11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS3/360)

I went to Gamestop and pre-paid for my copy. The demo sold me so I guess it did its job.

[swaldo]

re: MLB 2K11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS3/360)

Might be time for your leadoff hitter to be ridin' the pine for a while after that incident. By the way was it Torres?

I was switching & pitching with both teams - it was Andrus.

Am I the only one that finds it humorous that a guy complaining about unnecessary flashy stuff uses those flashy and unnecessary emoticons? I can tell you that I find those emoticons 100x more annoying than anything in the demo.

If 2K is going to to subject me with yellow flashes, then they can get some yellow man.

[TeixeiraFanatic]

re: MLB 2K11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS3/360)

I just found a big bug. I haven't looked through the entire thread so someone might have already said it.

Anyway. First inning as the Rangers. They get two quick outs. Hamilton hits a homerun over the right field wall then Cruz follows that with a triple. Adrian Beltre up. He hits one deep into centerfield. I see the fans 6 rows back stand up. Andres Torres goes through the wall and catches it but it counts as a homerun and an out. So I'm up 3-0 going into the bottom of the first having only got out twice.

[jeffy777]

re: MLB 2K11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS3/360)

Anyone who thinks the pitching is still to accurate, try pitching with Barry Zito...wow....I'm all over the place with him and did walk one guy so far.

I also thought it was nice how it told me that Torrealba is a bad matchup vs. Zito, so that was a confidence booster