What Are the Best Video Game Pitching Controls?

[Trevytrev11]

Quote: Originally Posted by dogoreo

To be the best possible make it like MVP baseball 2005.

You didn't think it was too easy to pinpoint your pitches in MVP? Once I got the timing down, It was like throwing darts for me. I could pinpoint almost every pitch unless my pitcher was very tired.

The one thing I appreciate about this system, though it needs to be tweaked big time, is that both timing and movement impact the final outcome instead of just timing.

[nemesis04]

Quote: Originally Posted by Trevytrev11

You didn't think it was too easy to pinpoint your pitches in MVP? Once I got the timing down, It was like throwing darts for me. I could pinpoint almost every pitch unless my pitcher was very tired. The one thing I appreciate about this system, though it needs to be tweaked big time, is that both timing and movement impact the final outcome instead of just timing.

I enjoyed the pitching in MVP but you are correct, it did get easy over time. I do feel with a little fine tuning though they were more on track with a nice pitching feel than the one in 2k8. It just felt you were doing things just to make it more difficult with 2k8.

[sask3m]

i hate meters, i find that my eyes are always fixated on some stupid meter instead of getting to watch the players, to say nothing of meters getting to easy over time.

[EnigmaNemesis]

"Sony’s game, however, has the more fun pitching system."

I agree with this assessment totally.

I tried out the 2K and it felt too gimmicky and unnatural. But some will obviously like it, I rather did not.

[Trevytrev11]

Quote: Originally Posted by EnigmaNemesis

I tried out the 2K and it felt too gimmicky and unnatural. But some will obviously like it, I rather did not.

When you say unnatural, do you mean the movement you make with the controller is unnatural to the movement to what a pitcher makes or do you mean that the movement you make just feels unnatural when you are doing it?

[wookie48]

User involement plays a big must for me. Physics and sim wise SCEA has the huge edge. Organic wise I love the right analog as a user control method of batting a pitching. Hate the way it plays out though with the meatball pitch and the errors that happen.