MLB '09: The Show Review

[allgames]

Quote: Originally Posted by Yankees_CT

Wow...you might as well just return the game then....if you can't appreciate this game for what it is and how well it captures the sport then you should go grab a copy of the arcade game created by 2K...I hear their online home run fest plays very smoothly.

What are you talking about? Why are you telling me to go play 2K? It's not about 2K it's about THIS GAME. You're acting like 4 Major League games without a single home run being hit is realistic. Why did you have to change the slider to get it "realistic".
Your narrow minded opinion of the game is just that, narrow. You obviously don't care about online options and act as though people who do, only want "home run fests". You are entitled to your opinion but disregarding the criticism of features that are SOLD as working, but are not, only shows you to be a narrow minded customer. If the online was perfect but your franchise mode sucked, I think you'd have a different opinion. If you feel good about yourself beating the computer AI instead of a thinking individual then great. I like to challenge real human beings who do things that a computer might not be programmed to do. It's 2009, every sports game has online, there are shooters that support 32+ players at the same time. Baseball is one of the SLOWEST sports on the planet up there with Golf. This is not a trivial element of gameplay for many people who enjoy playing against human beings instead of AI.

To the above poster
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Maybe you should re-read it. I didnt say the car was falling apart. I said there were features that didn't work and limited enjoyment of said purchase. You can replace it with a book that costs 60 dollars and some of the chapters have paragraphs so smudged you can't read it. Or maybe there are pages missing or stuck together.
But I guess for you as long as you get the few chapters that have your titillating sex scenes you'd be a happy customer.

And yes, I rented it and will return it. I am done rewarding either one of these studios for releasing games that don't perform as they say in their "previews"

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by jim416

And please stop the $20,000.00 car analogies that fall apart after warranty, lol.

The worst analogy that gets abused here at OS.

[Yankees_CT]

Nevermind, please continue your banter, it's quite riveting. You will obviously never see the game the way most do and thats a shame.

[EnigmaNemesis]

Quote: Originally Posted by allgames

And yes, I rented it and will return it. I am done rewarding either one of these studios for releasing games that don't perform as they say in their "previews"

You will never be happy in the gaming world it appears.

[ehh]

Quote: Originally Posted by allgames

I can't understand how someone can give this game a 9.5 and call it the best sports game ever

Name a better sports game.

[allgames]

By all accounts that would be NHL 09

[mgoblue678]

I think the people saying NHL 09 is very realistic need to watch hockey a little more. It isn't even close to being a true sim like The Show for a number reasons.

1. There is no board play whatsoever in NHL 09 this is a large part of hockey.

2. Every pass is tape to tape unless intercepted, that is not hockey.

3. Faceoffs are extremely simple lack any kind of fighting for the puck.

4. The goalie play in 09 is pretty far from being realistic.

5. I should not be able to make the same kind of dekes with Kirk Maltby as I can with Pavel Datsyuk. Player attributes need to be better at seperating player skills.

6. This is the biggest one. There is absolutely no neutral zone play in NHL 09. You can skate into the zone without any resistance whatsoever most times. Show me the last real hockey game where you saw that. There is a ton of resistance in the NHL when trying to enter the zone. The NHL is primarly played in the neutral zone except on powerplays. In NHL 09 most of the play is in the offensive zones.

7. The puck has an overall magnet behavior to players sticks. Obviously this much different in real life.

NHL 09 is a fun game but I cringe every time I hear somebody call it realistic. The Show 09 by a wide margin is better at replicating the sport of baseball and what we see in MLB.

Not to be overly harsh but I think only casual hockey fans or non hockey fans would consider NHL 09 realistic. The people who know a little bit more about hockey and watch it more on a regular basis can see the important things that are missing.

^^^Bro if you think The Show is a bad game, I say good luck enjoying any sports game. Then again maybe you just don't care for games that are true sims or maybe you don't like baseball. Either way your loss.

[bkrich83]

Quote: Originally Posted by allgames

By all accounts that would be NHL 09

By all accounts? Hardly.