Major League Baseball 2K8 360 Impressions

[CMH]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jistic

The most HR's I've given up in a game is 3. That includes from the moment I fired up the game. Practice More. With all of the throw strike sliders at 0, if you aren't walking, you're just not good at hitting. I started out with all of them at 0, then turned them up because I was walking too much. There is no issue with the CPU throwing stikes, the issue is with human batting.

This is good to hear. I suck offensively and a part of me believed that it was the reason why I wasn't seeing as many balls.

The game that I walked four times I scored 6 runs on 6 hits.

Ever since then I've mustered four hits in two games with one walk. I have to believe that my lack of base hits has a lot to do with my lack of success in drawing walks.

That being said, those two games the CPU starter went 9 innings (why not? They shut me out) and they threw 98 and 95 pitches respectively. Not a bad total pitch count for a 2-hit shutout.

I'll take your word for it and I wouldn't doubt it because you are usually level headed with this sort of thing.

[Jistic]

Quote: Originally Posted by YankeePride

This is good to hear. I suck offensively and a part of me believed that it was the reason why I wasn't seeing as many balls. The game that I walked four times I scored 6 runs on 6 hits. Ever since then I've mustered four hits in two games with one walk. I have to believe that my lack of base hits has a lot to do with my lack of success in drawing walks. That being said, those two games the CPU starter went 9 innings (why not? They shut me out) and they threw 98 and 95 pitches respectively. Not a bad total pitch count for a 2-hit shutout. I'll take your word for it and I wouldn't doubt it because you are usually level headed with this sort of thing.

Here's the thing. If the pitcher difficulty slider can't be jacked up. Just around 50 is fine. Otherwise, the top pitchers rarely throw balls.

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by YankeePride

? Why are you throwing so many meatball pitches? Once you get the hang of pitching you won't see this happen. My last two games I haven't given up one meatball pitch for a homerun. The homeruns I've given up were on poorly placed pitches. I agree that the meatball pitch is terrible. But it isn't as bad as people who obviously haven't played enough games are making it out to be. If you're giving up 8 meatball pitches to the first 10 batters then I'd have to question how much you've been playing or whether you actually understand the new pitching system.

It has to do with the meter just randomly losing track of your motions. This has been mentioned by many throughout the forum.

Quote: Originally Posted by ehh

It absolutely drove me crazy, I gave up 15 runs and 20 hits in five innings because everything was a meatball. I went in to the pitching tutorial and never saw the problem in there. I do not know if it was w. men on base or not, I didn't pay attention to it.

[Metsui]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

It has to do with the meter just randomly losing track of your motions. This has been mentioned by many throughout the forum.

Could this be a PS3 thing? I play on the 360 and rarely throw a meatball. I've also never had an issue with the motion with men on base or otherwise.

[Pared]

I've read 360 owners saying it so I'm not sure.

[ehh]

Quote: Originally Posted by baa7

-- I fire up my first game without touching sliders. The CPU proceeds to hit 8 HR's with the first 10 batters it sends to the plate. The infamous meat pitch programming, wow. And this is supposed to be 2K's sim answer to The Bigs? -- After a few innings of batting, I notice the CPU seems to be throwing nothing but strikes. So I decide to test things out. I fire up a game against a certain team and pitcher. The CPU pitcher starts the game off by throwing 9 pitches for strikes, and my guys go down in order. So I adjust the sliders, lowering all three AI Throw Strike sliders to 0. I fire up another game and the CPU pitcher proceeds to throw 9 pitches for strikes, mowing my guys go down in order. So now I go in and edit that same CPU pitcher's Strikeout, BB and individual pitch control ratings to 0. This guy should be throwing nothing but balls and wild pitches. Result: strikes out the side on 11 pitches. This is basically the game killer for me, this bit of (non)programming.

For some reason it seems like in the first inning of most games the CPU pounds the hell out of the strike zone. After that I see a lot of balls thrown especially if you chase pitches, they will keep throwing pitches off the plate. Also, if you want a ton of balls adjust the corner slider too, that helps.

[sportyguyfl31]

Ive played 6 games of my mets franchise and am having a heck of a lot of fun. I do not want to change a thing. I am seeing more pitches by the cpu, by waiting for the type of pitch I want to hit, instead of just going up there and ripping away at the 1st strike I see. Now if they throw a pitch I feel like I can drive on the 1st pitch and I got Beltran up, then I am hacking.

the game plays at a nice pace this way for me..I dont want to make the game so sim that playing through 1 game takes forever.

Ive gotten pitching down pretty nice and my meatballs are waay down..but I do notice one thing still remains that I do not like. The dang hot/cold teams. I played a series against Atlanta when they were "hot" and it was an absolute pain in the behind. I felt like I was pitching to 8 Barry Bondses. Mark Texeria hit an opposite field homer off of Johan Santana on a fastball that I deliberately threw neck high...and Chipper Jones was fielding like he was Brooks Robinson. That's just absurd.

[orion523]

Quote: Originally Posted by sportyguyfl31

Ive played 6 games of my mets franchise and am having a heck of a lot of fun. I do not want to change a thing. I am seeing more pitches by the cpu, by waiting for the type of pitch I want to hit, instead of just going up there and ripping away at the 1st strike I see. Now if they throw a pitch I feel like I can drive on the 1st pitch and I got Beltran up, then I am hacking. the game plays at a nice pace this way for me..I dont want to make the game so sim that playing through 1 game takes forever. Ive gotten pitching down pretty nice and my meatballs are waay down..but I do notice one thing still remains that I do not like. The dang hot/cold teams. I played a series against Atlanta when they were "hot" and it was an absolute pain in the behind. I felt like I was pitching to 8 Barry Bondses. Mark Texeria hit an opposite field homer off of Johan Santana on a fastball that I deliberately threw neck high...and Chipper Jones was fielding like he was Brooks Robinson. That's just absurd.

Yeah,the hot/cold thing is way overdone.I turn it off.Using the hot/cold feature also nullifies custom sliders because thats how the cpu get the teams "hot" and "cold" it uses slider adjustments.I highly recommend turning this feature off