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R.B.I. Baseball 14 Announced For Current and Next-Gen Consoles, Mobile Devices Too

09:36 PM - January 14, 2014 by woz411

Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) has announced R.B.I. Baseball 14 for current and next-gen consoles, as well as mobile devices, arriving this Spring.

With 2K Sports confirming no baseball game, it didn't look good for Xbox 360 and Xbox One fans, but it now looks like we will see a baseball game for Microsoft gamers after all.

Time will tell what kind of game this really is, but in the meantime you can keep track of the game on Twitter, Facebook and their official website.

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# 181 kehlis @ 02/09/14 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Money99


	I believe RBI is also the first baseball game to have real players. So you're right in that it was considered sim in it's day. Only time will tell what kind of game this will be.

Having real players makes a game sim?

We have different definitions of a simulation game then. I believe NBA jam had real players too. Do you consider that sim?

# 182 habslover10_GoYanks @ 02/09/14 12:54 PM

I just want a screenshot!

# 183 KBLover @ 02/09/14 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Sportsforever


	Yup�I haven't understood the 'is it sim/arcade' question from the beginning. It's like if they announced they were bringing back Super Mario Bros and folks wonder if it's going to be a sim role playing game.

To me, that doesn't mean it can't be realistic.

It can be simplified in that you don't pitch and hit like you do in The Show, but that doesn't mean a .300 hitter can't hit better than a .240 one and more or less be in that ballpark (if you/the game tracked the stats) assuming good user input.

That would be realistic, but still could be "arcade" in that it's a simplified game interface/mechanics with more abstractions as a result.

It is possible to merge both worlds - it's not always either/or, imo.

# 184 falcons2003 @ 02/09/14 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by KBLover


	It is possible to merge both worlds - it's not always either/or, imo.

Ya I would say RBI was probably a merge I guess, but it was different times back then.

When I think of arcade style styles for Baseball I'm thinking the Bigs or MLB Slugfest with power ups, stuff like that, the original RBI really wasn't like those.

My guess would be we are going to get something like those titles if it is arcade. I am hoping for something along the powerpros/bobblehead games. Wishful thinking I know, but that's all we got to this point

# 185 bcruise @ 02/09/14 02:22 PM

I see now why you guys were calling RBI a sim - because it's a different game than the one I was thinking of. I never played an SNES RBI - only the 3 NES games and while they were good for their time, I wouldn't have called them sims ("realistic" was the term I used back in that time) even back in that day. Both of the first two didn't have season modes or all the teams, and were really just you playing against every other team in the game. This series underwent some big changes over the years, and 3 is when things started to get more realistic. But apparently this SNES RBI was a big step up in the realism department, including the season and playoff modes you guys mentioned. Not surprising, since it would have been following Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball which despite the outwardly cartoony appearance of its characters was the first game I felt a shift into sports games becoming more realistic and true to their respective sports.

So RBI does have a history that I didn't know it had, apparently. But the development team will also be very different from back then - who even knows who "Gray Matter" is anymore?

# 186 bkrich83 @ 02/09/14 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by kehlis


	Having real players makes a game sim? We have different definitions of a simulation game then. I believe NBA jam had real players too. Do you consider that sim?

Or more recently the Bigs.

I wonder how many here besides a few of us, actually played the original RBI baseball or the actual arcade game it was based on?

# 187 bkrich83 @ 02/09/14 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by steveeee


	yeah I agree and I actually would probably prefer to play that over the Show if done right which I'm sure is not very popular to say around here. to me rBi baseball was sim it was sim before sports talk baseball that i liked as well. It's not as sim as lets say HH but so what. RBI baseball had that great fun gameplay and especially human vs human pitching and batting interface fun. It's not like there was anything way unrealistic that i remember about it. RBI baseball had the fun aspect mixed with sim for baseball game... kind of like MVP and the old world series baseball games which i think also have that perfect balance. the show is a great sim and great sports game but I would prefer to play more of a mix which I hope RBI will be like. ps. yeah bcruise Ken Griffey had great gameplay controls as well for a baseball game and was fun as well.. forgot about that one actually

Loved Ken Griffey that game was just plain fun.

# 188 falcons2003 @ 02/09/14 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by bkrich83


	Or more recently the Bigs. I wonder how many here besides a few of us, actually played the original RBI baseball or the actual arcade game it was based on?

My guess would be all the old timers definitely have..lol. I just remember how my friends and I played non stop, it was great having MLB teams and players. Those first baseball games on intellivision, and atari weren't much of a baseball game.

Before RBI we played Star League baseball for the Atari computer. Had to load up the game on a cassette tape took like 10 min to load..lol. Then we played the generic Nintendo baseball alot until RBI came along.

# 189 bkrich83 @ 02/09/14 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by falcons2003


	My guess would be all the old timers definitely have..lol. I just remember how my friends and I played non stop, it was great having MLB teams and players. Those first baseball games on intellivision, and atari weren't much of a baseball game. Before RBI we played Star League baseball for the Atari computer. Had to load up the game on a cassette tape took like 10 min to load..lol. Then we played the generic Nintendo baseball alot until RBI came along.

I had Star League on my C64. I had it on floppy though.

# 190 THESHAMISASHAME @ 02/09/14 07:07 PM

RBI Baseball back in 1994 was cutting edge for me and just a blast and I still have the manual as I filled in all the missing unnamed players !!!
I really hope it has great graphics and fun to play but a truly interactive sim game with real results depending heavily on your own skill and player stats without all the over done programming some sports game seem to force these days , almost like your not even playing at times .
You know something you cant put down and are excited to pick it up and play win or lose anytime without all the rituals of crossing your T s and dotting your I s and games under 2 hours while all holding some type of sim result .

# 191 TheShizNo1 @ 02/09/14 09:11 PM

I had one of these on SEGA. I was nowhere near into baseball, but still had a lot of fun with it. Not sure it means anything about sim versus arcade, but I'm interested.

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# 192 thaSLAB @ 02/09/14 11:10 PM

My stance is it doesn't matter of it's sim or arcade. It's baseball, so there's a 98% probability that I'm getting it... along with The Show and PYS 2014.

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# 193 Azbronco @ 02/10/14 01:30 PM

I'm one of those who doesn't really care if it's sim or arcade. Ken Griffey was my favorite as a kid, and I love The Show, but I usually set games to 5 innings for the sake of time. I have a 3DS, so an arcade baseball game I could pull out for 30 minutes on that would be awesome.

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# 194 falcons2003 @ 02/10/14 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Azbronco


	. Ken Griffey was my favorite as a kid, and I love The Show, but I usually set games to 5 innings for the sake of time. I have a 3DS, so an arcade baseball game I could pull out for 30 minutes on that would be awesome. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ya time can be a factor in games, especially if you don't have alot of video game time to play.

One of the things I really liked about the High Heat console series and the PowerPro / Bobblehead series, was the ability to play a very good game of realistic baseball in around 25 mins.

# 195 joedogg9999 @ 02/10/14 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by kehlis


	Having real players makes a game sim? We have different definitions of a simulation game then. I believe NBA jam had real players too. Do you consider that sim?

You have to look at it relatively. Having real players in a baseball game at the time of rbi baseball on snes is considered a sim feature. Please explain how rbi was an arcade game? Lets not compare it to the show because you are not going to habe real time ball physics and real life unique player animations on the snes

# 196 Motown @ 02/10/14 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by joedogg9999


	You have to look at it relatively. Having real players in a baseball game at the time of rbi baseball on snes is considered a sim feature. Please explain how rbi was an arcade game? Lets not compare it to the show because you are not going to habe real time ball physics and real life unique player animations on the snes

Because you could throw 30ft breaking balls, the players were 3ft tall & the ball made a whistling sound when pitched & hit

# 197 TheMatrix31 @ 02/10/14 06:47 PM

Here's hoping this game is simple and fun as hell. Sports games have gotten way too complicate in recent years. Haven't bothered playing them in a while. Just too overwhelming.

# 198 kehlis @ 02/10/14 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by joedogg9999


	You have to look at it relatively. Having real players in a baseball game at the time of rbi baseball on snes is considered a sim feature. Please explain how rbi was an arcade game? Lets not compare it to the show because you are not going to habe real time ball physics and real life unique player animations on the snes

As I said, Bases Loaded was far more of a sim on an inferior system.

Relatively speaking, BL was a sim and RBI was arcadey.

My post and argument though was not to get into the "RBI was an arcade game" discussion.

It was to say that having accurate names does not make a game sim by itself.

# 199 THESHAMISASHAME @ 02/10/14 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by TheMatrix31


	Here's hoping this game is simple and fun as hell. Sports games have gotten way too complicate in recent years. Haven't bothered playing them in a while. Just too overwhelming.

Exactly !!! alot of sports games try to mimic a sport to the T and while it can be accurate its little to no fun as theres no true interaction at key times as the AI/programming overrides things to force a sim like result so at that point why even play ?

# 200 Motown @ 02/10/14 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by THESHAMISASHAME


	Exactly !!! alot of sports games try to mimic a sport to the T and while it can be accurate its little to no fun as theres no true interaction at key times as the AI/programming overrides things to force a sim like result so at that point why even play ?

Most people prefer Sim over Arcade tho...& I'm one of 'em

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