Major League Baseball 2K10 Demo Available, Post Impressions Here (360)

[Trevytrev11]

Quote: Originally Posted by baseball66

Well from the sounds of it there is no zone hitting, no pitchouts, hardly any user fielding and no slider to slow down the power arms i saw in the videos.

Just makes you scratch your head if this is true. Why remove so many things that a) people use and b) are mandatory parts of baseball.

Obviously they fixed (or are going to fix) the missing check swing, but why is there even thoughts to omit it to begin with? Same with pitch outs.

So much promise, yet so much frustration.

[Jamin23]

Did they really remove pitchouts?

[nemesis04]

Quote: Originally Posted by Trevytrev11

Just makes you scratch your head if this is true. Why remove so many things that a) people use and b) are mandatory parts of baseball. Obviously they fixed (or are going to fix) the missing check swing, but why is there even thoughts to omit it to begin with? Same with pitch outs. So much promise, yet so much frustration.

It makes you wonder how baseball savvy the people at the controls are. We are talking baseball basics here. Also, what are those list of players who are consultants doing? You play the game once and you know right away what is missing. I do not understand it.

[duke776]

Quote: Originally Posted by nemesis04

That is disappointing. Also, I am not seeing much risk/reward in the throwing meter. I am trying to throw the ball away on purpose and cannot seem to do it.

The throw will go offline, at least sometimes, when you go into the red area in the throwing meter. I haven't seen one overthrow yet though, so who knows if they're in the game.

Also regarding you issue of not having control of the cut off man, it seems as if that happens when the game decides that the play is over(usually when the cpu runner is done advancing) the cpu will take control of your player(any player, even outfielder) and throw it to the pitcher.

[nemesis04]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jamin23

Did they really remove pitchouts?

I can't find it and have been pressing buttons just to see if it is there and not listed which happens from time to time.

[Jamin23]

Quote: Originally Posted by nemesis04

I can't find it and have been pressing buttons just to see if it is there and not listed which happens from time to time.

That's a shame if it's not in the final version.

[nemesis04]

Quote: Originally Posted by duke776

Also regarding you issue of not having control of the cut off man, it seems as if that happens when the game decides that the play is over(usually when the cpu runner is done advancing) the cpu will take control of your player(any player, even outfielder) and throw it to the pitcher.

It is appearing that way but not liking it.

[Trevytrev11]

Quote: Originally Posted by nemesis04

It makes you wonder how baseball savvy the people at the controls are. We are talking baseball basics here. Also, what are those list of players who are consultants doing? You play the game once and you know right away what is missing. I do not understand it.

Every time there was a developer Q&A on the boards or someone was collecting questions to ask the developers, I would always ask what level of baseball experience the people making the game have...I never received an answer.

I just think it makes a difference. I'm sure a lot of the people on the dev team are baseball fans, but if you've never played it at a higher level, there is just so much that goes on that they likely just don't know about. To understand why a check swing is important, you kind of need to know how hitters approach their at bats.