Major League Baseball 2K8 360 Impressions

[JT30]

Quote: Originally Posted by MizzouRah

Yeah.. that's the one thing that bothers me. I was hoping most "off" pitches would be passed balls and balls in the dirt.

Ya I hear ya.. I am concerned that with a screw up with the pitch stick, a meatball will be thrown and then jacked out of the park.

[Knight165]

Quote: Originally Posted by MizzouRah

Yeah.. that's the one thing that bothers me. I was hoping most "off" pitches would be passed balls and balls in the dirt.

Could be that he was making mistakes by grooving them too, right?

M.K.
Knight165

[JT30]

Quote: Originally Posted by Knight165

Could be that he was making mistakes by grooving them too, right? M.K. Knight165

I dont know.. it didnt sound like it from his post...

"if you don't accurately hit the analog directions correctly, you'll throw a "Meatball" pitch that will more then likely end up outta the park"

The whole meatball thing resulting from analog stick error is just stupid. I dont understand it.

[pdawg17]

Quote: Originally Posted by MizzouRah

Yeah.. that's the one thing that bothers me. I was hoping most "off" pitches would be passed balls and balls in the dirt.

The only thing I would hope for is that he was missing incorrectly the same every time, thus causing pitches up in the zone...

It's only one guy giving a review but when comparing to the Show, I see very few - if any - "ho-hum" reviews about that game...

[HK-47]

kiz5 said he was playing on the pro difficulty.Maybe thats why there was so many home runs.

[jfsolo]

Quote: Originally Posted by MizzouRah

Yeah.. that's the one thing that bothers me. I was hoping most "off" pitches would be passed balls and balls in the dirt.

We'll see soon enough, but the meatballs probably come from the I don't know what the hell I'm doing "off" pitches. If after a couple of days of playing the game, a large number of people are still giving up a ton of homers, well then maybe its a problem.

[JT30]

Quote: Originally Posted by HK-47

kiz5 said he was playing on the pro difficulty.Maybe thats why there was so many home runs.

He was playing on All Star according to his post.

[BBondsRod]

Quote: Originally Posted by JT30

6-7 HRs in 2 innings off meatballs? You gotta be kidding me

I think I might be the only one who actually likes this...I want to feel some punishment for messing up. Baseball games in the past seemed to have arbitrary results -- sometimes I would throw a perfect pitch, and the other team would hit a homer, and other times I would throw a horrible pitch, and they'd swing and miss. So, I guess what I'm saying is that I'm happy there is a punishment-reward system for an individual's mastery of (or lack of) the controls.