MLB 2K11 Online Impressions

[Celtic34]

Are you talking about the stadium announcer or the announcer. I Was playing online the other night and they were talking about McCutchen at the plate and were announcing everyone that came up. I didn't even notice and knew who was up. I didn't notice if the background stadium announcer was there or not though. I didn't have any issues with determining who was at the plate though because the announcers each time were definately announcing it.

All the necessary stuff was there like pitch counts and the batters contact and power ratings so i'm not sure what you are talking about there. It didn't seem stripped down too much to me. I didn't even notice it.

Yeah they got rid of replays it seems like and the swing analyzer and help stuff doesnt pop up but who cares. Taht stuff is annoying anyways.

Online I'd think you'd want more smooth transitions and a smoother playing game wouldn't you?

I'm still kind of baffled by these critiques. This is the best baseball game I've played in years.

Why not write an article and totally pan Madden because Snickers pops up every 5 seconds and concentrate your review on that? Or is EA all too powerful to say such a thing. Madden 11 got a great score and this game is getting really nitpicked? Kind of strange. So you are being hard on 2k and demand perfection from it and that's a good thing but giving Madden a free pass isn't?

I'd be more inclined to buy this stuff if you were consistant. Most people here if they critique madden like you are would have been banned a long time ago. But yes constructive criticism. Please go on.

So Madden is good because it has all this unnecessary clutter and is somehow more sim?

[WaddupCouzin]

Maybe the time thing is a generational or the I'm in a different stage in my life thing, because I'm with the guys preferring the stripped down version of the game! I don't have an hour to spend with every signal nuance of the game. Online, I simply want a plug and play version of the game, (for me) no bells or whistles needed.

When my I played my friend over Xbox Live, the game was buttery smooth! No lag or anything.

[WaddupCouzin]

Quote: Originally Posted by Smokez4DAyz

This guy complains they dont know whos in the game, guess you dont know baseball players. I recognized my whole yankees roster. If you bring up the substitution menu it shows whos up to bat, so.scratch that paragraph of bad review, you are forcing yourself to bitch and gripe about things you would never comment about in the show.

I saw this too and I'm not quite sure where he's getting this because I was playing with the Rays and I knew all my players. Plus, I made substitutions all names were on the screens so I'm not quite sure what he means by this or maybe I'm not understanding what's being said.

[Ant13]

I just bought a PS3 2 days ago and i also bought mlb2k11. I wish i never did. I would rather have picked mlb the show which was right beside it on the shelf. MVP Baseball 05 for GameCube was alot better then this game. When will EA fix the Baseball video game market?
If your gonna do realistic graphics do them good. this game has horrible graphics.. Worst game graphic wise i have ever played.

[Ant13]

Also how do you even play online? all there is is online franchises. I just want to play 1 game at each time

[Hal Fowler]

Seriously? You can play a ranked game or a pick-up; game with friends. You can play in a league or tournament. If you play friends or leagues stuff, you can use custom sliders.

When I saw this thread resurrected, I thought someone was going to post about the really cool improvements to online play since the patch. It is the first online baseball game to have true pitcher/batter battles in which you throwing a balls is not cheap.

I get why the reviewer would complain abut the stripped down presentation, but it just isn't realistic to keep all of it. But games can take 90 minutes as it is.

Baseball is kind a bad online game to begin with. I'd give 2K credit for making it possible to enjoy the game online.

[Pappy Knuckles]

I'm not sure what this was like pre-patch, but I just had a really smooth game against Trojan man. No lag, just an enjoyable experience.

[PutridExistence]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ant13

I just bought a PS3 2 days ago and i also bought mlb2k11. I wish i never did. I would rather have picked mlb the show which was right beside it on the shelf. MVP Baseball 05 for GameCube was alot better then this game. When will EA fix the Baseball video game market? If your gonna do realistic graphics do them good. this game has horrible graphics.. Worst game graphic wise i have ever played.

If you're looking for good graphics, you shouldn't look to sports games. Yeah, The Show has good graphics, but the gameplay is pretty "meh". If you want good graphics, go play Halo.