MLB 2K11 Wishlist - rudyjuly2's Blog

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MLB 2K11 Wishlist

Posted on July 8, 2010 at 08:47 AM.

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I'm finding that MLB 2K10 is a very fun and very flawed game. I still enjoy it but there are plenty of areas where it could be improved. I only play one season, and I never get through a full one as I drop it for football when NCAA comes out, so I won't even touch on the franchise issues that others are reporting (player progression as an example). My only beef is that the patch ruined the proper displaying of player names on jerseys for edited players (they simply still display the old name).

The big ones I want to see added are errors, injuries and a slider to make pitching accuracy harder. Here is my full list.

� Add errors to the game. It�s an integral part of baseball.

� Add injuries! Managing a roster over 162 games is much more interesting when you have to use your bench/minors more.

� Remove the auto fielding. It needs to be in the user hands more. There are a ton of great camera options for batting and pitching but only one lousy one for fielding. Please provide a more zoomed out camera like 2K9 and hopefully more than one option.

� Tone down the opposite field power. Most major leaguers pull their home runs outside of the really big hitters. Johnny Damon shouldn�t be hitting 400+ foot HRs consistently to left center.

� There is too big a difference between the contact and power swing. Contact swings don�t result in enough power.

� User pitchers need to be less accurate but most importantly, provide sliders to help adjust this.

� Fix the fatigue. The DH position should actually rest your player a little. Pinch hitters need fixing too. A guy coming off the bench for one at bat should still get some rest for the next game instead of getting tired. Furthermore, shortened seasons like 50 or 100 games need to have the fatigue formula changed to reflect that. A day off in a 50 game season should equal 1/3 a day off. Otherwise you can play the same players every day and use a two man rotation.

� Base running AI is bad. They delay too often. Futhermore, everyone needs to take off running in certain situations like 2 outs on 3-2 counts. I�d like an option for auto baserunning or at least auto stealing as I suck at stealing bases.

� Better hit variety. It improved post patch but not enough choppers or infield pop ups.

� Better cpu roster management. They take starting pitchers out too quickly in NL games and the first reliever they bring in a game is usually left in far too long. They also need to manage the bullpen better for lefty/righty matchups.

� The game would benefit tremendously from extra sliders. Sliders needed include Throwing Power and Accuracy for fielders, fielder reaction time, injuries and errors (outfield errors, booted ball errors, throwing errors), pitcher accuracy (patch improved this but still too easy to hit our spots), cpu batter aggressiveness (to help adjust how often they swing at pitches out of the zone), separate fatigue sliders for starting and relief pitchers, wild pitches/passed balls

� Please give us an option to remove the HR indicator. I don�t like how it automatically gives away whether a ball at the wall is a HR or will hit the wall. I want to remove that arrow.

� Give us easy access to more stats in the game (pitch counts, fatigue of bullpen)

� Give us the ability to save our camera angles. Just add this to the option menu. I think another great addition would be to have stadium specific default camera angles as well (http://kotaku.com/5518531/broadcast-...-2k10/gallery/)

Comments

# 1 baseballcraze101 @ Jul 8

Yea, I agree. I feel like there needs to be more control over contracts in the career mode. Something that includes pay, years, options, incentives. There should be training beyond the game, like off-season workouts with coaches of your choosing, physical and baseball related training. It would be nice to have endorsements that a player can get. I would like to see players age in the game, because no one looks exactly the same 20 years later. When a player retires I would like it if he had the opportunity to coach, manage, be a general manager, part owner, or owner and make the decisions that go along with their position including the big decisions about improving the ballpark, changing parks, firing, hiring, concessions..etc. I would like to see a hall of fame ceremony for the players that did well enough to get in. It would also be nice if the all-star game could be a little bigger of a scene, with pre-game ceremonies and things that make it different from other games.

# 2 baseballcraze101 @ Jul 8

and of course i would like there to be more celebration after a walk-off, a no hitter, a perfect game, alds win, alcs win, and of course winning the world series. Making that a big deal and putting more hype into the game is definitely needed, because it gets boring pretty quickly.