11:16 PM - February 20, 2009 by Steve_OSHere is another video from Major League Baseball 2K9. This one shows off the bottom of the 9th heroics from the Mariners.
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11:16 PM - February 20, 2009 by Steve_OSHere is another video from Major League Baseball 2K9. This one shows off the bottom of the 9th heroics from the Mariners.
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The walk off celebration stunk but I didnt see anything terribly off with that video. The AI is stealing 2nd which is a big positive.
Anybody notice that the blowing dirt is a little overexaggerated in the game? lol
Anybody notice that the blowing dirt is a little overexaggerated in the game? lol
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And yes, any play that you're involved in is putting yourself at risk for injury. You wonder why the catcher doesn't just throw the ball down on ball four while someone is stealing? They're also risking putting the ball (a live ball, mind you) in the outfield, but that's besides the point.
Ultimately I know what you're getting at though, and I attribute it to the game's programming. I bet it didn't program the fact that it's a "do-or-die" situation, and they cut off the ball to prevent the runner from going to second base. Little did the CPU know that the run crossing the plate ended the game.
At any rate, we can blame the CPU cutting it off, not the CPU throwing to the cutoff. He was throwing home, and they allowed it to be cut off. If you've played a 2K baseball game before, you know that you cut-off throws on the fly, where you first press the base you're throwing it to and press the L-trigger to cut it off, unlike The Show which has a designated button for throwing it to your cutoff. So essentially, he was throwing it home, but again, I think it was just a game design flaw for not recognizing the situation.
EDIT: Forgive the statements made in the last paragraph in italics. My memory on the play was fuzzy and I thought I distinctively remembered the player throwing it into the middle of the infield with it being cut off. Perhaps that was another video. Anyway, I'm keeping it up there because I just wanted to point to the fact that in past games you would throw to a base and then assign the cut-off man to take action should you wish. Either way, re-watching the video still shows that no sane player (even if not putting themselves at risk for injury) would have made that throw home. It simply wasn't close enough.
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Am I watching a different video....is Ichiro not coming home to score the winning walk off run in that case?
tmac...
If you're coaching your kids to hold onto the ball or throw to the cut-off man on THE LAST PLAY OF THE GAME...
I hope you have some good assistant coaches.
What the heck would you hold onto it for?...to bring it home to show mom?..."mom...look here is the ball the opposing team hit for the game winning single! I had them autograph it for me!"
Of course I'm half kidding here....but if the A.I. was "saying to itself" I have no chance at Ichiro....it looks bad that he threw to the cut off man.
You gotta make the attempt to throw home(who knows...Ichiro can trip...fall flat on his face halfway home
).....or just not throw and walk in head hanging.It just looks weird to see that throw w/2 outs bottom of the ninth....and the reasons you guys gave don't wash...no biggie
M.K.
Knight165
By the way, I really hope that it's only coincidence both games were 1 - 1 in these two Oakland vs Seattle games, because the "progressive lighting" shows that of a late afternoon time in the 8th inning, then a dusk time in the 9th inning.
What I find even more strange is Steve said he didn't notice any progressive lighting in this beta. What was he looking for if this isn't it? The SF/AZ game showed the same progressive lighting (and unfortunately, really dark really quickly).
Of course, it is only proper to reserve judgment until I get my hands on the retail game. Yet it still is a valid concern, much like anything else.
What I find even more strange is Steve said he didn't notice any progressive lighting in this beta. What was he looking for if this isn't it? The SF/AZ game showed the same progressive lighting (and unfortunately, really dark really quickly).
Of course, it is only proper to reserve judgment until I get my hands on the retail game. Yet it still is a valid concern, much like anything else.
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bigfnjoe96 @ 02/21/09 12:10 PM
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But it's not really about it setting properly, it's about a game going from 5:00 to 8:00 in a matter of an inning. This isn't a concern like it was in the demo for The Show, that was completely insignificant compared to this (and I know that will be fine for retail, so there's no issue there). I just also found it strange that progressive lighting should be more noticeable than ever when it's like this, and not one beta-tester was able to point it out.
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Give me a break, yeah I am sure I must not know the game considering I am 26 and have guided my school to a city finals and tournament victories.
There are much bigger things you can rip on your kids for in the game of baseball. Not even close at the plate, even if he does throw it? Am I supposed to pin the loss on the A's CF? Wow, relax and learn some fundamentals of the game.. Or, better yet, why don't you apply at 2K on the design team Mr. Know it all.
People like you ruin these boards with your put downs and negativity.. I said reconsider your opinion. I did not disregard it. There is no plate at the plate dude. Ichiro is way too fast and already rounding 3rd by the time he even picks the ball up. RELAX
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And remember, I'm giving the game more grief than it should get. I haven't played the retail version, so I can't judge one way or the other until then. I mostly made the post because I was surprised that no one playing the game has noticed it yet, and in fact saying the exact opposite that there isn't any.
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bigfnjoe96 @ 02/21/09 12:36 PM
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And again, it's the main reason I made the post. I was just surprised that something that noticeable was not only not noticed, but that they actually saw the opposite (static lighting).
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And of course, it could simply be nitpicking in general because I'm thankful for the things in the game that were incorporated, especially real-time. As nemesis said, there are bigger concerns in this game, though that doesn't mean the littler concerns can't be brought up/addressed too. Remember, it's the little things that immerse us in the game!
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SwinginAs12 @ 02/21/09 12:53 PM
Does any notice that EVERY A's player has the same batting stance? In the top 3 plays, and in Felix's strikouts shown at the end.
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I may be in the minority, but I would have much rather preferred seeing 50 generic stances added than 300 unique stances (300 generics wouldn't have been bad either). Besides, generic doesn't need to mean "normal looking" or what have you, it could just mean that it's non-specific... it wasn't targeted to look exactly like a player, even though it may represent a player quite closely. It doesn't need to have a slow moving bat, for example.
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SwinginAs12 @ 02/21/09 01:00 PM
Yeah has anyone checked out that new video of blue jays and orioles.....wayyyyyyyyyy too short.
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SwinginAs12 @ 02/21/09 01:03 PM
That quality of the new video is beautiful, i would like to see that in more videos.
Yet the audio is off... Or is that my comp?
Yet the audio is off... Or is that my comp?
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