Some MLB 2K13 Ratings Revealed, Along with a Few Shaky-Cam Videos and Impressions

[Mt Oread]

Quote: Originally Posted by MizzouRah

Thanks for the videos.. really appreciate it! Game looks much more vibrant to me. Still on the fence, but I'll await impressions on the AI before purchasing. I have a ps3 as well as an X360, but MLB 2k has always been a much more engaging game to me than The Show, even though The Show has so much going for it. If the AI and franchise mode has been improved, I'll plunk down the money for it.

Yeah, I'd love to see some videos of the last three innings, to see if the AI has been tuned up and improved regarding PH's and pitching changes.

[MizzouRah]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mt Oread

Yeah, I'd love to see some videos of the last three innings, to see if the AI has been tuned up and improved regarding PH's and pitching changes.

+1000000

This will make it or break it for me.

[Blzer]

Quote: Originally Posted by MizzouRah

+1000000 This will make it or break it for me.

If I can go there again, I'll do a full game or something. I'll make sure my battery is fully charged.

[rudyjuly2]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

Since we were previously on the topic of Miggy, tell him what his Batter's Eye showed him on this pitch.

Screw you!
I prefer the SF vs Detroit video earlier where Miggy blasted one. Too bad the game doesn't have Tim L's short hair.

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

This is why I would be okay with a Guess Pitch feature like The Show, provided there are zero offensive boosts and there isn't an indicator before the ball is thrown.

I love hitter's eye but hate Guess Pitch with a passion for three reasons.

1) Ratings have zero effect on guess pitch. A guy like Brandon Inge can guess just as successfully as Miggy. How good a pitcher is has no effect at all either.
2) You are 100% right all the time (no ratings involved). With hitter's eye (especially with a reduced slider) a great hitter might have the pitch tipped once or maybe twice an AB. A lousy hitter might never get tipped.
3) It ruins relief pitchers. Most relievers are two pitch guys, maybe three. A guy like Fernando Rodney is a fastball and change-up guy and is successful with two pitches. Using guess pitch you just guess fastball and you know 100% of the time what pitch is coming because if you are wrong you get change-up.


I understand you not getting tipped before the pitch is thrown and I would welcome an MVP type of system myself as long as it's ratings based and doesn't flash every time.

[MizzouRah]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

If I can go there again, I'll do a full game or something. I'll make sure my battery is fully charged.

Really appreciate all you've done so far.

Would like to see you down say, 3-2 in the 7th inning and the CPU has two men on base with the pitcher coming up to bat. In 2k12, the CPU would let the pitcher hit and would sometimes yank him the next inning even AFTER he hit.

Your videos look great though and the game definitely shows a new coat of paint.

[tvman]

Hitter's eye = The text you see indicating what pitch is coming, strikezone must be turned on for this to work (at least in 2k12). The frequency that you will see the "text" flash is controlled by the in game slider. Great feature replicating a batter identifying pitch type, only wish it worked with the strikezone turned off.

Batter's eye = The black circle that you aim to try and guess pitch location, this can be turned off in the controller section. I hate this feature and turn it off.

Batter's eye and hitter's eye are two entirely different things.

[Zombeels]

This is more lazily developed than ET :/

[Blzer]

Quote: Originally Posted by tvman

Batter's eye and hitter's eye are two entirely different things.

However it is we're defining/interchanging these terms (for all I know, a hitter's eye could mean a hitter's backdrop and a batter's eye could mean a batter's retina), from my end of things, neither feature is worth enabling unless it's done in a more authentic manner, and if actually done right they would be merged into the same game tool/feature.

I'm not saying it's "better" turned off or anything like that, but this kind of began with Mt Oread telling me that I'm not using 2K's game system to the best of its ability. It's not so much that I was disagreeing with what he said, but it was the way he said it like I've never given hitter's eye a chance or truly knew what it was accounting for with the hitters or anything, or like I kept the screen pure for purity's sake.