What Baseball Games Are Legendary?

[BunnyHardaway]

World Series Baseball '97 (Sega Saturn)
MVP 2005 (Xbox)

[joshuar9476]

Quote: Originally Posted by joshuar9476

MVP 2005 ... one of the best modded baseball games. if it let you play a contracted schedule i'd still be playing to this day.

Quote: Originally Posted by daflyboys

If you mean on the PC, it does.

unless it has been recently fixed, the schedule freezes when you get to the end of the regular season and you can't advance. it has something to do with the minor league teams.

[jazzchamp]

Quote: Originally Posted by rudyjuly2

My brother loved Griffey and MVP was huge for me as it got me back into baseball gaming. Going back to the past, Star League Baseball was a lot of fun on the Commodore 64 (I think that's what I used) and Baseball Simulator 1.0000 was the first game that tracked a ton of stats for me.

I used to play Star League Baseball almost daily with my friend growing up on our Atari 1200XL. We got so good at it, we would play to 1-0 or 1-2 games all the time and when a game winning hit was made, there were tears and jubilation! The game was very simplistic by today's standards, but the memories are great ones.

[spaceg0st]

It's ALLLLLL about Major League Baseball Feat. Ken Griffey Jr on the N64. That game was the all time greatest in baseball gaming. The Hitting reticle had been done several times before but none did it as good as ken griffey junior baseball.

With the reticle, getting a hit was really in your hands. You could see where you missed the ball, or just got over it, under it etc. With games nowadays, i can't tell you how many times i've sworn to hit the ball perfectly only to hit a duck fart or chopper. Hitting was not only challenging, but fun in that game.
If MLB the show would only include an option like that to turn on or off, they'd not only be appealing to the hardcore baseball fans, but to the casual arcade baseball fan as well. I miss it and want it back.

Overall that game was just really well done. There weren't game altering glitches. You could tell where the ball was off the bat and get a good enough jump to make diving plays or big plays. There wasn't lag, or pre-rendered animations where the computer takes over your player as he gets close to the ball.

That's one thing i don't like about THE SHOW. Sometimes i miss judge a ball and dive when i shouldn't. But by that time my character has already started the pre rendered animation and nothing happens. I WANT to have control over my players. I WANT to miss the ball by diving past it. At least i'm responsible for any great or terrible plays.

I remember playing griffey with friends and often it would come down to one or two plays in that game that meant winning or losing. It was so well crafted that each player was really in charge of whether they won or lost. I miss those days.

[spaceg0st]

Steven Bartlett!!! How do we convince someone at MLB 09 to update a patch with a reticle or something? We NEED one. Imagine Griffey on the n64 with the current SHOW graphics.

[JohnDoe8865]

Quote: Originally Posted by Stoud

I'm amazed it's only been mentioned once: All Star Baseball 2005. Specifically for the Xbox, this was the first Baseball game to feature customizable soundtracks with music on your hard drive. It was also the first Baseball game to feature the game from the point of view of the fielder, followed in a way by MLB: The Show with their RTTS feature. It was also the first baseball game I believe to let people play in retro stadiums that have long since been destroyed, as well as giving people a look at the designs for suggested new ballparks, including the new Yankee Stadium. Included with that amazing amount of ballpark detail were all the extra parks designed specifically for use in the Expansion mode, a game mode that has yet to be seen in any other baseball game and allows you to create your own expansion team. All Star Baseball, especially the last iteration, was just always on the ball and always made FOR THE FAN. So yeah, I'd have to say that DEFINITELY belongs on the list.

YES! This game is legendary and it is mostly forgotten.

Others I'd include besides ASB 2005, in no particular order :

High Heat 2004
Front Page Sports '94
MVP 05
OOTP 5 or 6 (can't remember)
WSB 2k1 (Dreamcast)

[Ridonkeykong]

Quote: Originally Posted by Redlegs

Dusty Diamond Softball

Definitely! I still play that with an emulator.

[ggazoo]

No one has mentioned Sports Talk Baseball for the Genesis yet? my friends and I would play that game for hours. Was it the first to have play by play?