Major League Baseball 2K9 Video: Orioles @ Bluejays (Hits)

[ShowTyme15]

Quote: Originally Posted by CarryTheWeight

The LED boards in the outfield at Dodgers work: You'd think they'd include the same animation as the LCD ribbons in Rogers (the team logo scrolling). But leaving them blank is pretty weird-looking.

it's like what one of teh Mods said. Stuff will probably show up on the LED's in franchise and the Blue Jays videos are probably in exhibition so that might be the reason for them being blank.

[Chad Rogers]

Quote: Originally Posted by dickdalewood

My thoughts exactly. Why not just put some static scores up there? The scoreboards look ridiculous completely empty like that. EXACTLY. And that picture ends the argument. The fact that people will still try to defend it just shows a blind loyalism, which gets SO OLD, and seems to be more rampant than ever in these 2K forums. We can't even discuss the positives and negatives in a civil matter anymore without a handful of characters (usually the same ones) bombarding the thread with "What are you talking about, this game is beautiful!!! You clearly are a Show lover!!" Blah blah BLAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. As so many have said already, THE GAME LOOKS IMPROVED, no on has said it doesn't... but it still has blatantly obvious flaws (ex: this homerun). I think everyone with the common sense to view things with a level head agree that VC looks to be taking it in the right direction, it's just not quite there yet.

That might be the most nonsense I have ever seen written. If you don't think a guy with solid power can take a low and away pitch if he were looking for it there and drive it out of the park occasionally you are nuts. To say the game is not there yet having never played it or seen anything of it beyond a pre-demo release is also nuts. Let's wait a couple of weeks before we decide if it's there or not yet.

Quote: Originally Posted by Chad Rogers

That might be the most nonsense I have ever seen written. If you don't think a guy with solid power can take a low and away pitch if he were looking for it there and drive it out of the park occasionally you are nuts. To say the game is not there yet having never played it or seen anything of it beyond a pre-demo release is also nuts. Let's wait a couple of weeks before we decide if it's there or not yet.

Haha, it's like talking to a brick wall...

[sirwoodz]

Quote: Originally Posted by Chad Rogers

That might be the most nonsense I have ever seen written. If you don't think a guy with solid power can take a low and away pitch if he were looking for it there and drive it out of the park occasionally you are nuts. To say the game is not there yet having never played it or seen anything of it beyond a pre-demo release is also nuts. Let's wait a couple of weeks before we decide if it's there or not yet.

- we're dealing with people who play baseball video games, and probably don't watch the game in real life, and almost certainly have not played the actual game of baseball themselves....

a guy with power and also a good hitter (like Markakis), is going to drive that pitch the other way in the bleachers...i've seen manny PULL some balls low and outside for homeruns in real life, I can even remember seeing pete incaviglia(sp) hitting a ball out of the stadium for a foul ball once - hell, TODD HELTON hits almost ALL of his homeruns like this...but let these things happen in a video game, and our baseball "experts" here would argue unrealism...

this whole discussion has become downright cartoonish...

[Jamin23]

Quote: Originally Posted by sirwoodz

- we're dealing with people who play baseball video games, and probably don't watch the game in real life, and almost certainly have not played the actual game of baseball themselves.... a guy with power and also a good hitter (like Markakis), is going to drive that pitch the other way in the bleachers...i've seen manny PULL some balls low and outside for homeruns in real life, I can even remember seeing pete incaviglia(sp) hitting a ball out of the stadium for a foul ball once - hell, TODD HELTON hits almost ALL of his homeruns like this...but let these things happen in a video game, and our baseball "experts" here would argue unrealism... this whole discussion has become downright cartoonish...

People go out of their way to find things wrong with this game

[sirwoodz]

now, FF to 3:21 in this video...tuffy rhodes playing in japan now, hits a homerun EXACTLY like markakis did in this video, pitch is in the same location and everything...and this ball didn't just barely clear the fence either...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqsiZ2fPfbA

are we going to argue that real life has bad programming too? will this even DEAD the argument? I doubt it. carry on kids.

[bubba4]

I think it's a given that the devs do watch this board from time to time. After reading the last few pages about low-and-away-out-of-the-strike-zone hr's being hit, I am sure that they probably come here for comic relief.

I know we all take our sports games seriously (ahem... maybe a bit TOO seriously), but I hope that the game makers will continue to take us seriously. Even if we sometimes OVER ANALYZE things a bit much.
Bubba4

[BadKermit]

Quote: Originally Posted by Padgoi

That doesn't look CLOSE to a strike. It's WAY outside and tailing. End of the bat . . . NO ONE hits that over the left field wall, let alone over the bullpen.

This picture really doesn't give you a good indication of where the pitch was, though. It looks to me like the ball has already connected with the bat, and is heading out to left. Meaning the pitch could easily have been on the outside corner.