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bronco92 · 02-10-2009, 07:44 AM

MLB 2K9 Gameplay Producer, Jonathan Rivera, drops by today to blog about some of the new AI improvements and enhancements you'll find in this year's version of 2K baseball.

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	"Signature style is something that we’ve been doing quite a while now across our sports titles, and we expanded on that this year even more for MLB 2K9 with over 300 new signature animations. When we announced that Tim Lincecum was going to be our cover athlete, we were all pretty excited to have a Cy Young winner represent our game, but even more than that it was going to be a great opportunity to really nail his signature delivery."

ohyeahbaby123 · 02-10-2009, 07:55 AM

Nice!

The Bimmer · 02-10-2009, 07:59 AM

Sounds good to me. If it moves as good as it sounds i will have 2 games to play this year!

baa7 · 02-10-2009, 08:45 AM

"When evaluating the hitting system we knew that we really liked swinging with the right stick. We wanted to keep the same basic swing of pressing DOWN and then UP to time the actual swing. In MLB 2K8, we felt that most pickup and play users struggled with figuring out when to press down thus resulting in many poor hits. In order to fit our overall goal of making the game more accessible, we allowed the user to press down to “set” at any point during the at bat. We found that this not only made the game more accessible, it also made the game significantly more fun and allowed us to implement other aspects of hitting so that the user can focus more on pitch, and location of the pitch.

So let me get this straight. They removed the step influence feature, to make the game more "assessible" to "pick up and play" gamers. FAN-tastic...

ExtremeGamer · 02-10-2009, 08:50 AM

Sounds good. Looking forward to playing it and seeing videos of in game footage.

DaveDQ · 02-10-2009, 08:54 AM

That was a great read. I'm excited about the stealing, pitching and hitting. Alos, the ideas about atmosphere are great. Can't wait to see it in action.

stlstudios189 · 02-10-2009, 09:03 AM

I will wait and see before I buy but, this is looking great

baa7 · 02-10-2009, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by stlstudios189


	I will wait and see before I buy

Always the smart approach.

02-10-2009, 07:59 AM	#3
The Bimmer Far from perfect OVR: 16 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Treasure Island Posts: 1,238	Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Developer Diary: Gameplay Sounds good to me. If it moves as good as it sounds i will have 2 games to play this year!

02-10-2009, 08:45 AM	#4
baa7 Banned OVR: 26 Join Date: Jul 2004	Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Developer Diary: Gameplay "When evaluating the hitting system we knew that we really liked swinging with the right stick. We wanted to keep the same basic swing of pressing DOWN and then UP to time the actual swing. In MLB 2K8, we felt that most pickup and play users struggled with figuring out when to press down thus resulting in many poor hits. In order to fit our overall goal of making the game more accessible, we allowed the user to press down to “set” at any point during the at bat. We found that this not only made the game more accessible, it also made the game significantly more fun and allowed us to implement other aspects of hitting so that the user can focus more on pitch, and location of the pitch. So let me get this straight. They removed the step influence feature, to make the game more "assessible" to "pick up and play" gamers. FAN-tastic... Last edited by baa7; 02-10-2009 at 09:02 AM.

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02-10-2009, 07:55 AM	#2
ohyeahbaby123 Pro OVR: 16 Join Date: Apr 2007 Blog Entries: 2	Nice!

02-10-2009, 08:50 AM	#5
ExtremeGamer Extra Life 11/3/18 OVR: 70 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 35,320 Blog Entries: 32	Sounds good. Looking forward to playing it and seeing videos of in game footage.

02-10-2009, 08:54 AM	#6
DaveDQ 13 OVR: 34 Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NC Posts: 7,672	That was a great read. I'm excited about the stealing, pitching and hitting. Alos, the ideas about atmosphere are great. Can't wait to see it in action.

02-10-2009, 09:03 AM	#7
stlstudios189 MVP OVR: 41 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Toledo, OH Blog Entries: 26	I will wait and see before I buy but, this is looking great

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