Major League Baseball 2K9 Video: Cardinals @ Cubs Top 1st

[Eddie1967]

Quote: Originally Posted by Renegade44

wow, im very unimpressed with the videos. the presentation seems to have taken a step back, the pregame intro is ridiculous. gameplay looks to be about on par with last years and the bat sound will get annoying after, well it already is annoying.

Hmm, I'm starting to smell something here.

[baa7]

Quote: Originally Posted by Renegade44

the presentation seems to have taken a step back

Why are you saying that? The commentary is much better, the cutscenes/live action is so much better... I don't get it.

[brendanrfoley]

Quote: Originally Posted by Renegade44

wow, im very unimpressed with the videos. the presentation seems to have taken a step back, the pregame intro is ridiculous. gameplay looks to be about on par with last years and the bat sound will get annoying after, well it already is annoying.

I needed a good laugh today. Thanks!

[krazzed]

Quote: Originally Posted by Renegade44

wow, im very unimpressed with the videos. the presentation seems to have taken a step back, the pregame intro is ridiculous. gameplay looks to be about on par with last years and the bat sound will get annoying after, well it already is annoying.

I only agree with you on one thing, which is the bat sound, which I can deal with. I'm just curious, what was so bad about the presentation? I thought it was amazing. The gameplay looked better than last years, and I hope that it plays better as well.

[Blzer]

Quote: Originally Posted by Woodweaver

I figured it was probably user error. But, don't you normally stop at the base when you are stealing even if you don't slide?

I remember when MLB 2K5 first came out and I couldn't for the life of me figure out why it was my players would keep running. I figured that the only fix was to slide at the base that I wanted to stop at.

I turned out that you can press the L & R triggers a specific number of times to pre-determine the number of bases that you want to go, with a number indication of which base it was you were going to (1, 2, 3, H). So if I hit a shot in the gap and I want to go for third, I would press L once (2) and L a second time (3). If I decided that I only wanted to hold up at second, regardless of where I'm at (say I'm rounding first), I would just press the R trigger (2) to reassign where I want to go.

I believe that this year baserunning is assigned to the right analog stick in the same fashion, only you can predetermine it with one input. So if you want to go all the way home, you press down on the right stick. Chances are what happeend with Steve is that he was mistaken for a second that the right analog stick was for sliding (as it has been since 2K5), and he could have pressed the button left or down, thus setting that "pre-determine number of bases" thing in motion. If he did either of those, the baserunner would automatically round second and head toward third.

That's my explanation, which IMO is as good as any.

[AJD114]

Look at how the players can go into the dugout unlike in MLB the show. The Show needs to fix the little thing that matter and make it more real feeling.

[wsu_gb23]

Quote: Originally Posted by brendanrfoley

My first, gut reaction (before having time to really digest the vids) is... WOW. The real-time world and Virtual Director is friggn' incredible. The cuts/cameras look like a televised broadcast.

agree...I wish both MLB games would gather ideas from each other to make the perfect baseball game...

[AJD114]

But I do hate 2k's stadium announcer voice a lot. Sounds very corny.