Operation Sports MLB 2K13 Community Impressions Thread

[audbal]

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" I just don't get bored, and I'm sorry I can't say that for all other games of baseball."

that's it, right there. You nailed it. I rented the other game twice, trying to give it a chance, but I kept turning it off. I haven't turned this one off once.

[babythug23]

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I know this is a impressions but I want to ask if someone played both games. Is this one more fun to play? I rented the show for 2 days but couldn't get into it. When it comes to baseball i got to have some kind of fun factor. I see yall say it'd like 2k12 but last 2k I own was 2k10.

[econoodle]

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I know this is a impressions but I want to ask if someone played both games. Is this one more fun to play? I rented the show for 2 days but couldn't get into it. When it comes to baseball i got to have some kind of fun factor. I see yall say it'd like 2k12 but last 2k I own was 2k10.

This is the most fun american baseball game, IMO, this gen.

[Money99]

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I know this is a impressions but I want to ask if someone played both games. Is this one more fun to play? I rented the show for 2 days but couldn't get into it. When it comes to baseball i got to have some kind of fun factor. I see yall say it'd like 2k12 but last 2k I own was 2k10.

I will 2nd econoodle's comment.
I bought MLB 13 this year and I'm having a lot of fun with the co-op feature so I can play with my son.
But I'm seriously jonesing for 2K13 right now.
I had both games last year and after 6 innings of The Show '12, 2K12 went in and never came back out.

IMO 2K is way more fun and addicting. As soon as the price drops I'll be picking 2K13 up and MLB 13 will be used only for co-op purposes.

[babythug23]

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Before i go look did they come out with a demo this year?

[ADG24]

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What's up everybody?

First of all, I must give you guys some background on my baseball gaming experience in the past. I have owned both a PS3 and a XBOX 360 since the systems first came out and since day one I have been a devoted MLB The Show consumer. I believe I bought MLB 2K7 to play with my older brother who came to visit from the Dominican Republic and since I had two controllers for that system and the game was cheap I decided to give it a try. Since then I have not owned a MLB 2K series game, even though I do download the demo every year just to see what 2K has to offer.

Approximately 6 months ago my PS3 died on me and I have refused to pay to get it fixed especially with the PS4 just around the corner. Coming into this baseball season I knew that I was going to rely on MLB 2K13 in order to get some baseball action. I have been reading reviews left and right and man for a second I could not believe that the game could be this bad. I went to RedBox and rented the game for a couple of days and I liked what I saw, so against all of those people writting bad reviews I chose to pick up the game.

I picked up the game on Saturday and I have been playing non-stop ever since. I have started a couple of franchises (fantasy and real teams) and so far I am enjoying the game even more than I have enjoyed the Show before. I do not know how to explain it, but the game is simply fun to play. I know that many people are saying this is the exact same game as MLB 2K12 was, but for someone like me who did not play the MLB 2K series in the past, this game is great! I have downloaded the most up to date rosters I was able to find and as I previously stated I am loving this game.

Now, let's get one thing clear; you cannot compare the graphics to MLB The Show. The Show is a BEAUTIFUL game and that is one thing that I miss, but once you get past that, there is not much else to miss. I honestly feel the gameplay offered by MLB 2K13 is more fun to that of the Show, but I cannot figure out yet what it is that makes it more fun. Not even when MLB The Show firt came out was I able to play three or four games back to back, I simply got tired / bored and I ended up calling it a day with it. With MLB 2K13 I have been playing all weekend and I cannot wait to go home today after work and play some more.

Anyone else in here who has not played the MLB 2K series in recent years and is enjoying this game?

[DJ]

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Before i go look did they come out with a demo this year?

No. They had a playable version at Best Buy.

[elfdutch]

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Just picked this up today and played only a few games sofar.
Man, i love this game!!
I own 2k10 and 2k11, but skipped 12. So, for me this is a huge improvement. I'm playing it on the ps3 and the lighting on night games has improved drastically.
Everything is so much smoother. Pitching is also much better then in 11.

I do see some of the same stuff that is not so good, and was in previous versions like the outfielder stuck in animation glitch, but not very often.

Right now i'm playing an exhibition game with Miami against the Rockies. Score is 3-3, we are in the 13th inning.
Had to save the game cause the kids just came home. Cant wait to continue it again.

With my kids i have much less time to play games, so the mlb today will be what i play most.

Really happy that i bought this game!

[econoodle]

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here's why i love this game, and how it doe the important 'little things'.

14 games into my franchise and Cano is beasting.
hitting 481 with 8 homers.
He comes up in the 5th with a runner on third and 1 out, with the yanks leading 5-2. he already hit a 3 run homer earlier.

I figured he get a free pass, but no they are pitching to him.
I was like wtf.

Well the first two pitches were obviously junk and they were trying to see if i wouldt bite. I didn't and ran the count to 2-0.
He then mid at-bat, gave me the intentional walk.

[Profit89]

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Had this game come out on PC, with a few mods here and there to improve faces and graphics, this game could be a 7.5 or even 8.0

It's fun, just graphically very very poor and could have benefited loads from some mods (faces, stadiums, uniforms, etc).

[DJ]

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here's why i love this game, and how it doe the important 'little things'.

14 games into my franchise and Cano is beasting.
hitting 481 with 8 homers.
He comes up in the 5th with a runner on third and 1 out, with the yanks leading 5-2. he already hit a 3 run homer earlier.

I figured he get a free pass, but no they are pitching to him.
I was like wtf.

Well the first two pitches were obviously junk and they were trying to see if i wouldt bite. I didn't and ran the count to 2-0.
He then mid at-bat, gave me the intentional walk.

Really? That is pretty cool. Don't think I've ever seen that before in a baseball game.

[babythug23]

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Got to rent this today. I played 2 games and had a blast. One thing I like that I didn't like with the other game. Is power hitters feel like power hitters. Love the pitching but I suck at it. The game is just fun makes u want to play it. The other game wasn't for me I was forcing my self to finish 9 innings. Wish the game look better its no on par with other games at all. But I care more bout having fun when it comes to games. I rented it for 360 is the game worse looking on ps3?

[Mt Oread]

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Really? That is pretty cool. Don't think I've ever seen that before in a baseball game.

I had an intentional walk after one pitch the other night, too. I think they did do some AI work. I think a lot of this stuff was there in 2K12, but it was not activating. They had claimed to have done AI work, but we didn't see it.

I will say that despite drastically better use of the bullpen and PH's, I still needed to go in and switch sides in a game today when SF was down 2-1 in the 8th, and their pitcher was leading off. Then I proceeded to walk Torres, and he stole 2b on me. But I got out of the inning.

But other than that failure to PH, my late innings match-ups have been fantastic. The CPU is even doing a better job of matching left/righty this year.

[econoodle]

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Really? That is pretty cool. Don't think I've ever seen that before in a baseball game.

Yea, I was pissed when it looked like they would pitch to him.
I mean its not like you HAVE to walk him there, but it was the Dbacks at Yankee Stadium, and you figure they'd do whatever they can to stay in it and win it.

What happened after that?
Tex popped out.

[pitchleague]

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I had an intentional walk after one pitch the other night, too. I think they did do some AI work. I think a lot of this stuff was there in 2K12, but it was not activating. They had claimed to have done AI work, but we didn't see it.

I will say that despite drastically better use of the bullpen and PH's, I still needed to go in and switch sides in a game today when SF was down 2-1 in the 8th, and their pitcher was leading off. Then I proceeded to walk Torres, and he stole 2b on me. But I got out of the inning.

But other than that failure to PH, my late innings match-ups have been fantastic. The CPU is even doing a better job of matching left/righty this year.

Granted, I am still playing 2k12 and playing on PC, but I've had plenty of times when the AI chooses to go to the intentional walk mid-at-bat. Usually after I work a 2-0 count or so, but I've seen it in other counts as well.

Slightly off-topic, does anybody know how to do the intentional walk when you're pitching? Short of just throwing four pitches outside the "manual" way, that is? I use PC and the Logitech Rumblepad 2. I've googled it but come up empty.