MLB 09 The Show Demo Available, Post Impressions Here

[scooteristkai]

... it is an exhibition matchup....

Quote: Originally Posted by Lewis160

i noticed that at my last at bat the crowd cheered for like 3 seconds then quiet down and then loud again on my next pitch ..it should be loud the whole at bat not for a short time... Also in the demo it showed that there were 23,000 people in the stadium,,impossible after being the world champs

[Openroad_7]

I've played many games of the demo so far and yesterday saw a few things that bothered me.

I was playing as the Phillies and hit a weak ground ball to first. That was a good thing. The Ray's 1st baseman missed the ball, animation wasn't pretty, but it was clearly an error. What happened next disturbed me, the 2nd baseman ran over to where the ball was, however did not pick the ball up. The 1st baseman ran back to the edge of the outfield to pick the ball up and throw to 2nd base, my runner was standing on 1st at the time.

The other issue was with a foul ball that was hit on the 1st base side near home plate and a pop-up on the 1st base side of the pitchers mound. My 3rd baseman ran over and caught both of these balls, my catcher and 1st baseman stood and watched.

My last experience was strange, but not sure if it as meant to be a base running blunder. Playing on Legend the CPU had 1st and third one out, a fairly deep flyball was hit to centerfield, I thought it was deep enough to score the run and I would have attempted it, however the runner on 3rd went back to the base to tag up, but never came home. Here is where the strange thing occured. His 3rd base coach came over to the runner on 3rd and started to yell at the runner, extending the arms as he spoke, this is were I am not sure if it was a random base running error.

[ElroyJetson]

wow my last 4 at bats with ryan howard = 2run homer, solo shot , 3run homer , and a double

[twiztiddarkangelman]

What difficulty shorty???

[ElroyJetson]

Quote: Originally Posted by twiztiddarkangelman

What difficulty shorty???

2 of them were veteran just because of the fact my timing was so off and i couldnt hit until lately and the last 2 the homer and double are all star(the double was a check swing blooper into centerfield tho)

[mgoblue678]

I have to say I am pretty disappointed in the fact they didn't make collision detection a bigger priority espcially at second base. This seems like way too big of a part of the game to ignore.

I just slid straight through a player on back to back at bats trying to break up the double play. Very annoying.

Like I said I don't see how this wasn't made a top priority. Lots of exciting things can happen on broken up double plays.

I know this may sound harsh but to me for a baseball game on these advanced consoles in 2009 to not have collision detection is not acceptable at all. Alot older baseball games on far less powerful systems had this. PLEASE FIX THIS FOR NEXT YEAR.

[DodgerFanatic2K3]

Lets not forget were playing a build from early Dec

It's very possible that most if not all of these issues have been addressed and fixed

[DodgerFanatic2K3]

Quote: Originally Posted by Openroad_7

I've played many games of the demo so far and yesterday saw a few things that bothered me. I was playing as the Phillies and hit a weak ground ball to first. That was a good thing. The Ray's 1st baseman missed the ball, animation wasn't pretty, but it was clearly an error. What happened next disturbed me, the 2nd baseman ran over to where the ball was, however did not pick the ball up. The 1st baseman ran back to the edge of the outfield to pick the ball up and throw to 2nd base, my runner was standing on 1st at the time

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OK I'm confused...... are you more disturbed that the 2nd basemen didn't pick up the ball or that your runner didn't advance to 2nd base with nobody apparently staying to cover 1st or 2nd ????

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My last experience was strange, but not sure if it as meant to be a base running blunder. Playing on Legend the CPU had 1st and third one out, a fairly deep flyball was hit to centerfield, I thought it was deep enough to score the run and I would have attempted it, however the runner on 3rd went back to the base to tag up, but never came home. Here is where the strange thing occured. His 3rd base coach came over to the runner on 3rd and started to yell at the runner, extending the arms as he spoke, this is were I am not sure if it was a random base running error.

This I think was just an example of the runner on 3rd making a BIG mental error...Hence the cut scene afterwords