Fact or Fiction: Baseball Games Cometh Edition

[ehh]

Yeah the notion that MVP '05 had perfect and/or overly realistic gameplay is a bit of a stretch. For those who need realistic pitch counts and walks, MVP definitely wasn't for you. MVP '05 was on the arcade side of the fence to me but insanely fun and realistic enough.

[GTheorenHobbes]

I think MVP was vastly overrated. It didn't even have signature styles, for crying out loud. Any baseball game without signature styles keeps my attention for 20 minutes or so, tops.

[Full_Collapse]

Hit varieties and ball physics in MVP 05 were what made it great. Pitch counts and walk totals weren't overly-accurate, for sure, but in terms of gameplay, it's as close to real baseball as I've played.

[ehh]

Quote: Originally Posted by GTheorenHobbes

I think MVP was vastly overrated. It didn't even have signature styles, for crying out loud. Any baseball game without signature styles keeps my attention for 20 minutes or so, tops.

LOL, MVP '05 had sig styles my dude.

[Artman22]

The pitching/batter dual is best in the show. The show also give accurate pitch counts as well. It's a beautiful game to look at. I just think the show needs to work on hit varieties imo.

[Artman22]

Quote: Originally Posted by ehh

LOL, MVP '05 had sig styles my dude.

It didn't have a lot but the ones it had were on point.

[-Sonnenschein-]

Well, yes MVP 05 had problems: it was too easy on the lower difficulty levels and too hard on the higher ones (without adjusting sliders) and I hit a lot of HR:

but: at least they had a stadium creator, which had the problem that you needed many seasons to max it out and I had to sim most of it and you couldn't really determine much. But it could've been used for other games to implement a mode like CREATE your dynasty together with a game creator. I'm not the Be A Pro/ Road to the Show guide so I don't care about these modes in Fifa/ MLB 08.

And though presentation might surpass anything we have seen yet (except commentary which seems totally boring in The Show) I doubt The Show will surpass MVP 2005 just yet. Maybe next year, but for this they'll have to include more modes. They haven't really progressed on that since 2007: all they have done so far (seemingly) is presentation and sorry but I'd rather stay with lame graphics compared to The Show but have a fun time playing ball in MVP 2005.

What I do think is good for both MLB 09 + MLB 2k9 is that they both have practice modes now!

But yes, it can be debated if MVP is really that great. I do think so

[-Sonnenschein-]

oh: and The Show still needs to improve pitching so it actually looks like pitching! It still looks sooooooooooooooooo off, which kind of annoys me and takes away from the realism and fun