12:50 AM - February 27, 2008 by rm217
Vetzballin.com has posted their Major League Baseball 2K8 Game of The Week: Red Sox vs. Rockies, which includes some screenshots and a video clip showing a full 9 innings of play.
MLB 2K8 News Post
12:50 AM - February 27, 2008 by rm217Member Comments
Kushgamer said they got rid of most of the old code and re-wrote it.
One thing that worries me. A lot of singles and homeruns. The CPU had over 10 hits yet only managed 3 runs.
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Just want to calm a few people down
This is a preview build, I've stated that many times...any quirks you see now will not be in the final build
The vids were compressed, converted and whatever transitions they go through before being posted on the net......I would not judge the game based on the quality of those videos.....
I will post some HD videos later this week, but they will be super short....
DJ Rhude
This is a preview build, I've stated that many times...any quirks you see now will not be in the final build
The vids were compressed, converted and whatever transitions they go through before being posted on the net......I would not judge the game based on the quality of those videos.....
I will post some HD videos later this week, but they will be super short....
DJ Rhude
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Now, I do not think that it's a lost cause so to speak. They can tweak and patch and rewrite a lot of the code to get it up to snuff, but it seems like they're doing this every year. MLB 2K7 was supposed to be "A Whole New Ball Game," which was an obvious reference to that MLB 2K6 was a horrible mess, and 2K7 was the re-emergence of the series, however aside from many of the basic flaws being fixed and the game being cleaned up, core aspects of the gameplay were goofed up (those that I mentioned above), which made for other elements to be overlooked (the broken manager mode where you could not substitute players, roster management, etc).
Most reactions to MVP 2003, the first, were of surprise. Triple Play was such a poor game that nobody was expecting EA to rebuild and completely revitalized their series... and they did. 2K7 did not ditch 2K6, which I think that it had to do to really move forward. 2K8 seems like they've started to ditch 2K6, by dumping a lot of the old code that Brinkman mentioned in interviews. However, it's three games deep into the next gen series... how long do we have to wait until they're back up to the quality of the products made four years ago? And by then, are we going to switch to the new batch of consoles and then the same excuses will be made? When MLB 2K11 appears on the Playstation 4 and the next 360, is it going to be the same story as MLB 2K6, where the game inexplicably falls in on itself and then we have to have another "three year project," before the game is up to the bar set three or four years before?
Now, I don't want to sound like I'm trashing 2K8... I'm not, I am hopefully optimistic for 2K8. However, 2K7 wasn't the "whole new ball game" that was talked about, it was an improvement of a really bad game from the year before, but when you're building on a shakey foundation (which we can all agree, 2K6 was a shakey foundation), adding more floors is not going to necessarily make anything better. With 2K8 trashing a lot of the old code, this game may be the solid foundation that the series needs, but it will be depressing to know that MLB 2K10, or whatever it is called then, will be the next baseball game to capture what another series did some five or six years previously.
Hopefully that explains my position a little bit better, and I don't want to sound like I'm trashing the series. I have a strong fondness for Brinkman, having had the opportunity to get to tap into his mind a little during the development stages of MVP '06.
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FYI,
I noticed a few people mentioning that they were not sure what difficulty these games were played at and I didn't see anyone chime in so I looked at the description on the main video page and the author said they are all on All Star.
"...See the entire game which was played at All Star difficulty using the aerial and dynamic camera views, in the following videos."
This surprised me a little as it did seem a little too easy to strike out the batters. Last year in 2K7 it was much harder to strike out batters, especially good batters like Big Papi and Manny.
I realize this is just a preview build so it may not represent the difficulty we will see with the final build, we'll see.
Overall, I like what I'm seeing as this does appear to be an improvement over 2K7
I noticed a few people mentioning that they were not sure what difficulty these games were played at and I didn't see anyone chime in so I looked at the description on the main video page and the author said they are all on All Star.
"...See the entire game which was played at All Star difficulty using the aerial and dynamic camera views, in the following videos."
This surprised me a little as it did seem a little too easy to strike out the batters. Last year in 2K7 it was much harder to strike out batters, especially good batters like Big Papi and Manny.
I realize this is just a preview build so it may not represent the difficulty we will see with the final build, we'll see.
Overall, I like what I'm seeing as this does appear to be an improvement over 2K7
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You really can't put your thumb on the cause of it, is it because most gamers don't sacrifice and play small ball? Or is it because there aren't enough slow-rollers and dribblers that allow runners to advance? I honestly have no idea, but I honestly can't think of a game that didn't have this problem to a certain extent. Those 14-hit, 2-run games are always annoying.
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I can't wait to hear them talking about A-Rod's 2005 season again every freaking time A-Rod comes to bat.
Like other mentioned, the best bet is to turn commentary off.
I'm hoping (wishing, praying, ect.) they go with a whole new commentary team next year to hopefully go with all new presentation.
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I was controlling the center fielder Taveras and you noticed I drifted too close to the left fielder?
Once I did that the ball indictar disappeared on the field and I lost track of where the ball was landing
I nudged Taveras a little bit too far to the left trying to guess and the ball landed to the right of me
"I got it, no you take it"
Nice touch of realism because in reality if two fielders came together, confusion would arise about who was going to catch the ball
The call off button is your friend.....
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The ball indicator disappearing? Hmm, I like that if it's done right.
I know we heard about this with guys moving back on flyballs they couldn't see but we don't know how deep this new feature will be.
I know we heard about this with guys moving back on flyballs they couldn't see but we don't know how deep this new feature will be.
Just watched the first 3 innings and not sure why some are complaining so much. Really like the throwing meters for the fielders, like the new cams too. Lots of foul balls too.
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When a ball is hit over your head and you have to turn your back to it and run to the spot where you think it will land, that's when the ball indicator disappears
It will reappear once you turn back around and relocate the ball in the air
That makes sense because we've all seen fielders put their head down momentarily taking their eye off the ball, get on their horses to try and track balls hit over their heads
It's really a nice touch and makes catching those long drives a bit trickier
Not sure about the rain in domed stadiums Pride
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stealyerface @ 02/27/08 04:36 PM
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