The Top Five Console Baseball Sims Not Named The Show

[ty5oke]

Very good list. I never played HH but the other 4 got played a lot.

[Profit89]

I don't understand why Microsoft purchased the rights to High Heat when 3D0 went under and then never did anything with it. Would've made a great XBLA game with updated rosters, unis, etc. every year.

As a non-PS3 owner, I'm still playing MVP 05 on my PC with the great mods over at mvpmods.com. If only it had HD graphics...

Same here. MVP 05 with mods is fantastic !!

[Eyeman79]

I can't argue with any of your choices, although I always though HH2003 was so much better on the PC it made playing the console version less fun.For honorable mention I might add: Baseball Simulator 1.000 and Tony LaRussa 95. Although again Tony was much better on PC.

[inkcil]

Interplay Sports Baseball 2000 on PS1 (the follow up to Vr baseball 99) had the best fielding engine until MVP 05 game along...

Also, I loved Triple Play 98 on PS1...Bases Loaded on NES...RBI baseball on NES & MVP 06 NCAA baseball on Xbox...I still love the sound of those aluminum bats.

[Robschina]

Please...don't forget World Series 98 (Sega Saturn).

[KBLover]

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Baseball Stars qualifies as a sim game?

I don't know about that - but it is a very good game.

If EA did revive the MVP series - it would have to be better than MVP13 or else...why buy?

That might be a tall order since MVP 05 was solid and the mods just made it better.

[Ryan97]

High Heat single handily restored me lost love for baseball. The console version sucked and by that time the series had already peaked.

[speedtrucker]

EA MVP '06 NCAA college world series was actually better than MVP '05.

MVP'06 introduced Precision load'n'fire throwing in the field and load'n'fire batting.

[Blzer]

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After reading the qualifications, I can tell this is not about the top five most realistic games (or you know, regarding stats and what not).

Making the list exhaustive and varied, as far as simulation baseball games go, here are my top five favorite not named The Show:

- World Series Baseball '95
- Interplay Sports Baseball 2000
- All Star Baseball 2003
- ESPN Major League Baseball 2K5
- MLB Power Pros

[inkcil]

Ha ha Blzr I remember 9 years ago how we used to "argue" about 2k5. I think that might have been when you posted your infamous batting swing "tif" in the thread to defend the batting stances in the game (correct me if I'm wrong). Anyways, how could i ever guess that you were going to put that on your top 5 (xtreme sarcasm). But seriously that game had more undelivered promise and potential than any other baseball game in history (except for when World Series Baseball on dreamcast released a game with NO MANUAL USER FIELDING).

At the time MLB 2k5 on Xbox was the prettiest sports game ever, especially the lighting. Sound was great too. Gameplay was eeeehhhhh...

[NEBULUZZ]

I remember playing a full 162 game season of MVP 2005.....best baseball game ever.

[joker232]

Maybe I'm old but I'm surprised not many are mentioning the first Tony Larussa game for sega genesis. It was the ultimate sim. The game play the exact right way with real lifetime generated stats. Big problem was the game saved your game results during a season but not the stats which was a real shame. Tony Larussa baeseball and high heat have to be the first ones on the list IMO.

[Scribe1980]

It's nice to see ASB 05 get some love. That was an underrated game that did not quite play as well in the field as MVP 05, but was incredibly deep. My favortiie part was actually the ballpark tours, narrated by Thom Brenneman. Very cool. You could tell the Acclaim guys loved baseball. Another game snuffed out 2K's revenge deal with MLB. 05 was pretty good year for ball.

[KBLover]

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Maybe I'm old but I'm surprised not many are mentioning the first Tony Larussa game for sega genesis. It was the ultimate sim. The game play the exact right way with real lifetime generated stats. Big problem was the game saved your game results during a season but not the stats which was a real shame. Tony Larussa baeseball and high heat have to be the first ones on the list IMO.

I never played it on a console, but I did have one version for the PC and loved it. An awesome game and was probably the first "real sim" baseball game I played. I then moved into FPS: Baseball Pro (PC), and High Heat (played on PSX and PC) - I forget which version I had for PSX but I remember playing the heck out of it.

[Blzer]

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Ha ha Blzr I remember 9 years ago how we used to "argue" about 2k5. I think that might have been when you posted your infamous batting swing "tif" in the thread to defend the batting stances in the game (correct me if I'm wrong).

It was the swing follow-throughs. They were the worst things ever seen, I was pissed about them haha. I was like: "This is physically impossible to do!"

What's sad is that I obviously didn't have a camera that could slow down to 400 FPS, so I just tried to swing at the exact same slow-motion speed as that replay shot lol. Slow-motion swings don't work as well as fast-motion.