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R.B.I. Baseball 14 News Post

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

  10:36 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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Member Comments
# 321 sonnyleesmith @ 03/12/14 01:03 PM
"It's so real"
 
# 322 TheGMan77 @ 03/12/14 01:13 PM
Update:

http://feedly.com/e/FnWTmG_b

Includes 6 screens.
 
# 323 joedogg9999 @ 03/12/14 02:16 PM
God damnit. Guess I have to buy a ps4 now
 
# 324 habslover10_GoYanks @ 03/12/14 02:27 PM
Hahahahaha
 
# 325 ODogg @ 03/12/14 03:00 PM
Glad they are going for that look, I like it!!!
 
# 326 bluengold34_OS @ 03/12/14 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by ODogg
Glad they are going for that look, I like it!!!
Same here ODogg - I am very happy they have gone this direction with it.
 
# 327 PVarck31 @ 03/12/14 03:08 PM
This is pretty much what I expected so I don't think it looks bad at all.

I mean, it looks like an updated version of RBI Baseball. I think some may have expected too much.
 
# 328 Blzer @ 03/12/14 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by PVarck31
This is pretty much what I expected so I don't think it looks bad at all.

I mean, it looks like an updated version of RBI Baseball. I think some may have expected too much.
Some expected more for two reasons:

1) The video with them scanning Soriano's face (though apparently it wasn't really them).
2) The possibility of them just taking 2K's game and changing the name.
 
# 329 HustlinOwl @ 03/12/14 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by PVarck31
This is pretty much what I expected so I don't think it looks bad at all.

I mean, it looks like an updated version of RBI Baseball. I think some may have expected too much.
sorry, but the expectations from this community when it comes to Madden, NCAA, NBA, MLB2K, The Show, UFC, Tiger Woods on and on there is no way this can be appealing
 
# 330 PVarck31 @ 03/12/14 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Blzer
Some expected more for two reasons:

1) The video with them scanning Soriano's face (though apparently it wasn't really them).
2) The possibility of them just taking 2K's game and changing the name.
I thought we knew that head scanning thing was unrelated shortly after we saw it.

And the 2K thing was just pure speculation. We knew MLBAM was making the game, so why would that have anything to do with 2K?

Either way, I didn't mean to come off like a jerk. I Just think the desire for true competition and variety clouded some expectations.
 
# 331 Blzer @ 03/12/14 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by PVarck31
I thought we knew that head scanning thing was unrelated shortly after we saw it.

And the 2K thing was just pure speculation. We knew MLBAM was making the game, so why would that have anything to do with 2K?

Either way, I didn't mean to come off like a jerk. I Just think the desire for true competition and variety clouded some expectations.
Oh that wasn't me that expected those things, that was just what I read from people on the forums. I think it had to do with the Take-Two connection. I didn't see anything otherwise regarding the Soriano thing, other than the video was up.

I dismissed the "quality" of this immediately when I heard it was getting a mobile release. Very, very rarely would a game get so much attention to be two completely separate products in terms of quality when it was coming up as surprisingly as this title.

Now, if this was a PS4/X1 only title, I would be flabbergasted. Releasing this game just would not make sense.
 
# 332 bluengold34_OS @ 03/12/14 03:22 PM
Well this is a day one purchase for me. Pretty excited about the art direction they took, now I just need to see some true game play.
 
# 333 roadman @ 03/12/14 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by HustlinOwl
sorry, but the expectations from this community when it comes to Madden, NCAA, NBA, MLB2K, The Show, UFC, Tiger Woods on and on there is no way this can be appealing
To each their own, though.

I've said this in the other thread, if this game is as half as fun as when I played it and it's less than 20 bucks, I'm in.
 
# 334 bluengold34_OS @ 03/12/14 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by roadman
To each their own, though.

I've said this in the other thread, if this game is as half as fun as when I played it and it's less than 20 bucks, I'm in.
Could not agree with this more Road -
 
# 335 ODogg @ 03/12/14 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by bluengold34_OS
Well this is a day one purchase for me. Pretty excited about the art direction they took, now I just need to see some true game play.
Same here man....I was going to pass if it had MLB The Show type graphics, why own two of the same game? This looks like a complete change of pace and a great game to play with your not-so-serious baseball friends..
 
# 336 ODogg @ 03/12/14 07:01 PM
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Originally Posted by HustlinOwl
sorry, but the expectations from this community when it comes to Madden, NCAA, NBA, MLB2K, The Show, UFC, Tiger Woods on and on there is no way this can be appealing
It's not trying to be a Madden or MLB2K or such, it's trying to emulate RBI Baseball from the old days, fans of the series in the know about that game will like this direction I believe. I'm a graphics whore too but some games are not supposed to go ultra realistic to appeal and this is one of them. Part of the charm of it is the simplicity both in how it's portrayed and it's control.

You know, like the old days of gaming when graphics wasn't the number one thing about a game....gameplay and fun was..
 
# 337 24 @ 03/12/14 07:06 PM
Seems like a solid baseball fix for the newly introduced fan, or a fan of the RBI baseball series. If the price is under 20 I'll purchase it. Seems like a pretty interesting game.
 
# 338 HustlinOwl @ 03/12/14 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by ODogg
It's not trying to be a Madden or MLB2K or such, it's trying to emulate RBI Baseball from the old days, fans of the series in the know about that game will like this direction I believe. I'm a graphics whore too but some games are not supposed to go ultra realistic to appeal and this is one of them. Part of the charm of it is the simplicity both in how it's portrayed and it's control.

You know, like the old days of gaming when graphics wasn't the number one thing about a game....gameplay and fun was..
sure, Its not 1985 and Im not 8 years old anymore tell that to the xboxone crowd here that does not have a true baseball sim
 
# 339 CPT JPMorgan @ 03/12/14 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by joedogg9999
God damnit. Guess I have to buy a ps4 now
I know how you feel, joedogg! I didn't necessarily have any "expectations" for this game. Didn't know what the heck to expect, but I certainly HOPED for a "real" baseball game. I already told myself if this was a "real" game, I was going to get it no matter how good/bad. But as everyone suspected, it turns out to be a very cool reboot of an old NES game. Unfortunately, that's just not going to satisfy my baseball needs this year.

(by "real", I mean something close to 2k or the show. You guys know what I mean!)
 
# 340 ODogg @ 03/12/14 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by HustlinOwl
sure, Its not 1985 and Im not 8 years old anymore tell that to the xboxone crowd here that does not have a true baseball sim
Then buy MLB The Show, this is a retro game and part of a retro title is to capture what made the original series unique. And a big part of RBI was the simplistic graphics and simplistic play backed by a fantastic stats engine.

Let's face it, if they had went the super realistic, scan-all-the-players route, etc then everyone would have just screamed it was a crappier version of MLB The Show that was trying to trick people into buying by using an old school NES name.

It'd have been a massive failure and rightfully so...they made the right call on this..
 


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