Major League Baseball 2K8 360 Impressions

[Knight165]

Quote: Originally Posted by Rios.n.company

OMG are you serious......? its a v-i-d-e-O-G-a-M-E get over it.

He does have a point though.
When recording the audio....there is only one thing to get correct..and that's the pronunciation.
Heck....there is a game out there that says my name....it's not easy to pronounce looking at the spelling(just about every teacher who first called it out got it wrong!)....all they asked for was the phonetic spelling and they got it EXACTLY right.
Attention to detail....makes a big difference. Being sloppy doesn't show much pride in your product.

M.K.
Knight165

[longshadow11]

The more I play, the more I like. I'm getting the hang of pitching and it is very satisfying striking batters out. Graphics aren't as bad as people are saying except on PS3. 360 looks better; it seems brighter and maybe better textures. 2K8 is fun and I'm liking some aspects of it more than The Show. I can't believe I just wrote that.

[pistonpete]

i'm glad you guys are enjoying this game, but as much as i hate to admit it, i can't get past the underwhelming graphics. and it just feels arcadey to me. i can't put my finger on it, it just does. i play on a 1080p pj, and mlb 07 looks amazing on it. i just can't accept the graphical hit this game took after seeing last years game. anybody that says its beautiful this year is being a bit too forgiving. its not ugly, but 2K really spoiled me with last years graphics. so much so that this game is going to be traded in or put on ebay. i'd rather play last years game and the show 08. i know some here will call me crazy, but that's the way it is. the graphics downgrade is compounded by the almost photorealistic (yes, i said it) look of the show 08. not to mention the solid gameplay of the show. again, these are my impressions, not a bash on 2K's effort or a lovefest for the show; i am glad the framerate workaround makes the game a blast for you guys, especially those that don't have a ps3. btw, the framerate workaround works for 2K7 as well. anyway, enjoy.

pete

[jonesymojo]

Quote: Originally Posted by Rios.n.company

OMG are you serious......? its a v-i-d-e-O-G-a-M-E get over it.

Here's the thing. These guys are starters. Not bench riding specialists or middle relief-goatee-clones. In fact, Aramis is one of the top 7 or 8 third basemen in the game. So to have his name mispronounced two years in a row is, in my mind, a massive oversight.

[Marino]

i have to say at first this game was so frustrating that i went to gamestop to see how much a ps3 was...but then i thought better of it and now personally i think mlb 2k8 is the best baseball game i have ever played and top 5 all time behind cod and ff and mgs of course...i just love this game and hopefully the patch will fix the framework so i can actually watch replays during the game and stuff lol

[Direblaze]

Quote: Originally Posted by marino13882

i have to say at first this game was so frustrating that i went to gamestop to see how much a ps3 was...but then i thought better of it and now personally i think mlb 2k8 is the best baseball game i have ever played and top 5 all time behind cod and ff and mgs of course...i just love this game and hopefully the patch will fix the framework so i can actually watch replays during the game and stuff lol

Lol yeah i skip right to the gameplay(which is more fun then it people make it seem) it took me twelve games in allstar to win my first. And just won my second . This games would be way better with a framerate pacth.

[michaeldu]

Quote: Originally Posted by pistonpete

i'm glad you guys are enjoying this game, but as much as i hate to admit it, i can't get past the underwhelming graphics. and it just feels arcadey to me. i can't put my finger on it, it just does. i play on a 1080p pj, and mlb 07 looks amazing on it. i just can't accept the graphical hit this game took after seeing last years game. anybody that says its beautiful this year is being a bit too forgiving. its not ugly, but 2K really spoiled me with last years graphics. so much so that this game is going to be traded in or put on ebay. i'd rather play last years game and the show 08. i know some here will call me crazy, but that's the way it is. the graphics downgrade is compounded by the almost photorealistic (yes, i said it) look of the show 08. not to mention the solid gameplay of the show. again, these are my impressions, not a bash on 2K's effort or a lovefest for the show; i am glad the framerate workaround makes the game a blast for you guys, especially those that don't have a ps3. btw, the framerate workaround works for 2K7 as well. anyway, enjoy. pete

Couldn't agree more. I just attemted to play a 7:00 p.m. game in Washington, but it looked so cartoony, I just could not play it. I'm so disappointed. I played 2k7 up until about a month ago. I stopped because I was so excited for 2k8 with the new pitching and hitting and thinking it was going to be so much better. I got this game on Tuesday and I'm so close to saying forget it and just play 2k7 again. I'm trying so hard to like this game, but the graphics are so not up to par with 2k7.

[Marino]

personally for me i can take a graphics hit bc i base it on gameplay...and plus this game looks better than mlb 07 the show on ps2 from last year...mlb 2k7 was hard for me to play bc although it looked nice it didnt seem realistic...hopefully 2k9 will b the total package and get rid of the crappy announcers as well...or at least new material