MLB 09 The Show Demo Available, Post Impressions Here

[JT30]

Does anyone know what the pitch stick (R stick) is all about?

[Seahawk76]

After a freaking 8 hour download I finally managed to squeeze one game in this morning before I had to get ready for work. Everything looks and feels great except for me. I'm a little rusty after not playing The Show in about 6 months.

Also I'm seeing no choppiness at all and I play on a Samsung. I doubt the TV model is the problem for those having one.

[callmetaternuts]

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

lol... No problem man, and please don't think I was trying to "talk down" your question because that certainly was not my intention. I didn't know about the strategy guide until someone posted it here. I knew it was there, but didn't know its why's and whatfor's.

No worries, im stuck at work, so was just hoping someone could shed some light ont his. It's hard to be stuck in the office when everyone else is playing what could be the greatest sports game ever.

[wookie48]

Quote: Originally Posted by wookie48

Ok so I know this is a demo so all the framerates and other crap doesnt bother me a bit. Here are some pro's and cons to what I think about the game. If its early build stuff then someone from SCEA stop me as to I have no idea what yall fixed and didnt. Pros Great hit variety-loved the different strokes in the game. Pitch Break- Finally! A 2sfb that is nasty. Great tweak guys! Crowd noise- much more realistic this year Atmoshpere is upgraded to. All the defensive gripes I had from last year are gone, much better on the sense of urgency. Good to see a better attempt at batter/oitcher mocap! Pitching was aweosme for me...loved the new meter Cons While some stances are right on, others are not really good. Longoria - Think stephen drew and your pretty close- espicially with the abt movement, the one in the game is off. http://tampabay.rays.mlb.com/media/v...631811&c_id=tb Navarro- has a tapping motion with his bat and he doesnt lean as much. http://tampabay.rays.mlb.com/media/v...536563&c_id=tb With pena I know he changes it but he always keeps the hands closer to the body. In the game its kinda far away and looks weird Utley taps his bat at the last second The rest were good 2. Player models were off quite a bit as far a actual meat on their bones. Ryan Howard and evan longoria are skinny dudes in the demo but in real life they are huge. At tleast put them as having muscualr physiques. (This might be just an early build deal) When in doubt, the golden rule is a 6'3 215+ dude is now way skinny.Make them look athletic. These are really my only gripes. For me it big and hopefully fixable but if not no biggie. Great game it seems this year and cant wait for the final build

Can any SCEA dev or someone who went and played a more up to date version help out with this?

[Tovarich]

A few things I didn't like. My CF caught a flyball, and right after he caught it to end the inning, he promptly ran through the guy who was out there to back him up. Second, I had a runner on 2nd, and hit a sharp, but certainly not a laser ground ball at the SS. The SS fires it in to 2nd, where my guy would've been out by 3 feet, but he didn't apply the tag, just turned and fired to 1st where they got the runner. The end result is correct, anyone would've gotten back to 2nd with no trouble at all with such a small lead, but I didn't like the way it happened. Animation was a tad choppy, but I expect that in a demo I guess. They've earned the benefit of the doubt though. Third, the OF fielding, I hated it in the last version, but when an OF is catching something on the run, they run past the ball and then just stick the glove back behind them for a 'routine' catch. It looks horribly unrealistic. I didn't notice on a popup or a flyball where if I ran under it, as the circle got smaller, the guys used to just zone or slide over without moving their feet, but I really hope that's fixed.

Progressive lighting was awesome. Everything was very nice graphically, even without me having HD. Pitching was harder to hit the corner, which I liked, because I think my ERA online last year was in the 1.5-2 range because I could paint the corner and I played way too many 2-1, 1-0 type games because runs were hard to come by I thought. I had some 6-4 types, but that was the exception, not the norm. Hitting seems a bit harder. I never hit the AI all that well though. I was a much better hitter against humans last year, so we'll see. The dynamic strike zones don't seem new to me. Last year my 'circle' of where the ball hit would be entirely in the zone sometimes, and they wouldn't call it, and I would want to throw something, and then the circle wouldn't even be touching the zone and I'd get the call. That seems the same to me. I don't know how I feel about the IF fielding yet. Iwamura backhanded a ball he had more than enough time to get in front of and field normally. The transition from fielding to throwing to 1st didnt seem entirely smooth to me. That could be a demo thing, I don't know. I've only played 2 games, so I'm sure I'll run into a lot more, but those are the basics for me so far.

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by brunnoce

man , this is gonna be a great season! just played an 8inn game batting for both teams, look what i got: Rays: 0R 2H 1E Phillies: 1R 1H 0E Kazmir: 7.2inn 1H 0ER 3BB 8K Hamels: 8inn 2H 0ER 4BB 7K Thats using contact, timing and solid hits sliders at 0, power at 3 cause on default i was hitting HR bombs in every squared ball i had. (all those on LEGEND level btw) finnaly i have a chalange getting hits!! gonna have to focus and put some effort now, no more cheap singles!

Can I add "told ya so?"

Seriously though, this "Legend" difficulty is cake compared to what we played at San Diego Studios. Yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Mmm.

[DirtyJerz32]

I played 2 games last night and I am truly amazed. I didn't think it could get much better than 08 but, I was pleasantly shocked at the demo. I played 08 demo and 09 demo to see the difference between the two. Although I didn't notice much in terms of game play I did notice the lighting and over feel of the game has been tuned.

Top of the 4th Rollins on 2nd and Utley comes to bat. 2 balls 2 strikes. I get a slider away but, catches enough of the plate to take a swing. I press X just to see if I can get Rollins over. To my suprise I make great contact and as soon as I hit it I could tell I nutted it. 357 feet later Utley is rounding 3rd and I have a 2 run HR. I'm going nuts. Why, you may ask. Well there are a couple of reasons.

1. I liked that the cpu was trying to hit the outside corner on a 2/2 count. Trying to make me think about getting the bat off my shoulders.

2. Only pressing X and putting the LS down and to the left and knowing I made great contact.

3. Hitting a HR only pressing X on Ledgend difficulty

4. And the probably the most important. The crowd went crazy and remained crazy until the Rays got another out.

5. The WOW factor. I didn't think they would be able to make a better game than 08 and (Demo's only) I think they have.

Very impressed Sony. Now, only if you could get your basketball franchise even half as good as The Show and bring back some football. Sorry, I got side tracked.

Keep up the impressions guys. At work til 5. The fiance is going out with the girls for happy hour so I'll have a solid 4 to 5 hours of play time in tonight and I can't wait.

[ThreeKing]

Quote: Originally Posted by ~Guru~

that is why you must play on game mode or in the case for the show 08 and 09 put it at 1080p and rename the slot hdmi 2 to pc mode and you wont see any input lag

Guru, exactly how do I do this?