Baserunning is Still my Achilles Heel

[Pappy Knuckles]

I'm in the same boat w/ baserunning.

[sput]

I play MLB 2k8 and half the time I feel like I'm running with the Bad News Bears. On the average I get in about two or three pickles a game. I think the problem is that baserunning controls (as Blzer's post above demonstrates) aren't always terribly complicated, but are overly complicated for the period of time in which you use them. Think about it, in baseball managing the running is probably the most excitable period of time and, therefore, the most difficult to have complete control over your faculties.

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

-J

[wsu_gb23]

That's why I go with auto-baserunning.....

[Heshi]

I suck at baserunning as well. Big time. I thought it mainly was because as a Euro kid that didn't grow up playing baseball video games all day I just wasn't used to the very fast and accurate controller shredding that you need to guide your guys around the base paths.

Now I know it's the game's fault. Thank you.

[Jgainsey]

I usually suck at b-running, but I like the new controls for the show. When I first purchased the game I went through the usual growing pains, but I think the new controls are pretty intuitive. I can't even remember the last time I was screwed over by the base running.

[stretch45]

2k8 baserunning is simple
use the left stick to control the runner
and face buttons to the bases
right stick slide

but I would like know how the MLB08 baserunning is
classic baserunning i suck at

[Jgainsey]

Quote: Originally Posted by stretch45

2k8 baserunning is simple use the left stick to control the runner and face buttons to the bases right stick slide but I would like know how the MLB08 baserunning is classic baserunning i suck at

Sounds like it's about the same. The left stick selects the runner and the face buttons tells the runner which base to go to. R1 and L1 control multiple runners and the right stick can control sliding.

[tril]

Through out my baseball gaming career I have lost many games cause I cant run the bases well.

My main problem with base running in MLB for me is that after I hit along fly ball into the outfield, I tend to watch the ball. What should eb a double or triple usually winds up being a single, or an out cause Ill still try for two even after I realized I only made it to first.