MLB 2K Series is Likely Dead

[ExtraWhistle]

Quote: Originally Posted by redsrule

Hopefully EA gets in the game, MVP 05 is still my favorite baseball game. It would be amazing if they just updated graphics/ teams and kept the core from that game in. Maybe add a my player mode too.

Agreed. I played MVP 05 for GameCube and I still miss it, especially owner mode.

[CrackinBacks]

Quote: Originally Posted by woz411

don't bother wishing, its a PS3 exclusive, like Halo is to the 360

Well with Sony's huge financial troubles, it wouldn't be surprising, they'd listen to any opportunity to make some money. But I doubt MS would pay for the rights to have it ported to 360

[horrormaster]

PC gamers are now doomed for eternity to play MVP 2005 or MLB 2k12

[SpartanBaller]

Bring back MVP!!

[inkcil]

2k baseball was terrible, plain and simple, especially on the PS3...for years it looked grainy and splotchy compared to the 360 version. In an alternate universe where the Show was on both consoles, 2k baseball would have died long before now.

[fearwhatnow]

MLB 2k12 is a very good game especially on pc with all the mods.Previous years versions where mediocre-bad, but this year the game is great.I find myself playing both games (Show ps3-2k12 pc) and 2k12 a little more because of the mods+crisp graphics.
Well, it seems 2k12 will be in a few years a new MVP2005 for pc.

[Yeats]

Quote: Originally Posted by Scribe1980

In retrospect it sure seems a puzzling business decision by Take Two to offer up exclusive third-party rights to MLB Properties to gain the necessary licenses, then not devote their full time and resources to hiring the very best people possible. They let the series rot, in effect, until it was too late. With seven years of hindsight, it seemed to be little more than reactionary response to EA's napalming of NFL 2K5, something along the lines of "oh yeah,well we can play that way, too." And then they had it, and didn't do what was needed to compete in the marketplace. Just a very strange way to run a business.

Great post, and I've been saying that about 2K as a company for years now. All very true; however the game was coming around the past couple of years. Which makes it even stranger they'd pull the plug now.

[Yeats]

Quote: Originally Posted by jeremym480

MLB 2k gets a bad rap, but it's not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. I would venture to guess that half the people who are trashing it probably haven't played it in years.

Heh, when a game dies, the forum vultures come out to pick over the bones. Bottomline, MLB 2K on the PC was a very good game the past two years. I stopped playing The Show four years ago due to the lack of lack of player rating and slider responsiveness. 2K games allow you top edit ratings and tweak sliders and get the game playing the way you want it to. That's what I look for in a game, first and foremost. To each his own, but for what I'm wanting in my sports video games, 2K usually delivers. Now, I admit MLB 2K definitely isn't as pretty as The Show if that's what people are comparing.