MLB 09 The Show Demo Available, Post Impressions Here

[sask3m]

Quote: Originally Posted by TNKNGM

What batting / pitching views are you guys using? Difficulty? Sliders Changes?

i was playing on HOF, i bat and pitch on catcher view (which is default), only slider i changed was pitch speed (global slider) upped it by 2 clicks as i'm always early.

[sask3m]

Quote: Originally Posted by twiztiddarkangelman

How do you make a snap throw to first???

soon as your catcher has the ball press the 1st base button.

[sask3m]

Pared, i notice that there's no baserunner aggression slider this year, did the scea guys say why they removed it?

[twiztiddarkangelman]

Thanks

[agentlaw13]

has anyone else seen this? first pitch of the game i hit a homer with iwamura off hamels. iwamura stood and watched as it soared over the right-center wall.

first pitch to the next batter, upton, was high and inside, brushing upton back. next pitch, upton grounded out to short. in the cutscene following, upton and hamels were jawing at each other as upton passed the pitchers mound on his way back to the dugout and the announcer mentioned how upton wasnt too happy about the inside pitch earlier. Man! these are the things i love about this game! freakin awesome!

If this has been mentioned earlier, i apologize. i was just amazed to see this and thought i would share. hope everybody is enjoying the demo as much as me

[davewins]

well i just played the most realistic 4 innings of video game baseball in my life. I am on Legend and honestly with sliders default I was still having a problem with hitting being a little bit too easy. Note that I said a little bit too easy.

Well I moved contact all the way to the left and everything felt much more realistic to me. I didn't even touch other hitting sliders yet so that is awesome. Here's the box score.

Rays 0 2 0
Phillies 1 3 0

I pitched great with Hamels too. I wasn't able to get the CPU to K that much before but that wasn't the case in this game. I was really concentrating on hitting the meter release point perfectly. Here is Cole Hamels (the player of the game) line.

4.0 IP 2 HITS 0 R 0 ER 1 BB 5 K

I hit a HR with Werth that I timed perfectly. It was a mistake by Kazmir that caught too much of the plate. It went 407ft to dead center into the bushes/trees whatever they are lol.

The only thing I would like to add as I feel it right now and it's not really a big deal but I think it would be nice is to have the option to when turning HR celebrations off to completely go off because on the HR I hit with Werth in the corner of my eye I saw him in the basepath window slowly jogging. It's certainly not that big of a deal but it does take away from the excitement of the HR. I would like to hit it and really not be sure if it's out or not and see the centerfielder go back and keep going back and when I see he gets to the wall then I know it might go out and then watch the CF look up over the wall as it clears the fence. Something about the long ball to me is very special and I love the suspence of the last 2 or 3 seconds before it clears the wall. Just thought I'd add that while its fresh in my head.

I would also like to add that one thing that's very realistic about the hitting is how the HR's are hit on mistakes by the CPU. Fat pitches that catch too much of the plate. I'm not hitting HR's on 2 seamers that are low and away on the corner. That is a very tough pitch to do much with and I think this game captures that very well. I think I hit 3 HR's overall and all of them were on mistake pitches that caught too much of the plate. Very realistic.

[dodgerblue]

Quote: Originally Posted by jim416

I think pitching is going to be tougher this year. I got Howard to chase a pitch out of the zone, so I think we're going to have to mix it up this year. And remember there are sliders.

I definitely agree with this. In '08 with my Dodgers, I was consistently holding teams to 3 runs or less on all star. In this years demo using Hamels, I keep getting shelled in only 4 innings on all star.

[idesign2]

After playing a couple of games I'm gonna go on record as saying a really don't like many of the replay camera angles. In fact, I absolutely HATE how the camera keeps zooming in on the ball on flyouts. Many times the camera is still pointing at the sky as the player makes the catch.

Amazingly enough, MLB 2K8 did this also. It would be nice to get an explanation from the developers why these replay angles aren't as good as they should be.

All of that said, though, I really enjoy playing this game.