Top Five MLB Games of the Last Decade

[Altimus]

MVP Baseball 05
MVP Baseball 04
MLB 10 The Show
ASB 2003
MLB 2K3

[MSUHitman]

Mine would be:

5. High Heat 04
4. High Heat 03
3. MVP 05
2. MLB The Show 08
1. MLB The Show 10

High Heat 04 gets the nod over MLB The Show 09 and High Heat 02 because of fewer bugs vs. Show 09 and High Heat 02 was just SO much uglier than the other games out there. I'd give the other honorable mention to MLB 2K7.

I should also note I've only had a PS2, 360, and PS3 in the decade, did not have a PC that could really play games on for most of it.

[jkeefeholmes]

Having played bb sims thru all these years, I agree that High Heat should definitely be on this list. Was very surprised to see it wasn't. But the games you chose were great too.

[nike31]

still got my MVP 05(PC) to date, play it every once in awhile......MLB10 is far better than 07......

[rudyjuly2]

I would put MVP 05 on the list because that was the game that brought be back to baseball gaming. I would never put it #1 though. The Show 06 continued that in a big, big way for me. I would definitely say the Show 09 was better than the Show 08 - opposite field power was toned down and it was just better imo.

[tril]

Quote: Originally Posted by choadler

I agree Rondoman. MVP 05 didn't become one of the greatest until I played the PC version that was modded. Unmodded MVP 05 is nowhere near as good as MLB The Show 7,8,9, or 10. In fact, High Heat might surpass MVP 05 unmodded.

cosign what Choadler said. MVP05 is great on the PC because of all the modding.

[Pared]

You know, I typically feel Christian's content is so off-the-mark when it comes to the sports genre, but this isn't that bad as a list. The exclusion of HH though is just... head-scratcher, close to being number 5 or not.

HH pushed sim-style gaming harder than most other baseball titles did out of the box.

Quote: Originally Posted by bcruise

To be fair, HH was never all that good either without its extensive modding (yes, I consider the tune file to be that), out of the box it played as exaggerated and arcadey as any game has. Try throwing a good curveball on the default settings...LOL. So it's not really fair to hold that against MVP, IMO. But I still think at least 1 version of the Show has to be #1 - it doesn't even require mods and is easily my favorite sports series of all-time.

Strongly disagree. The game had a sim slider for a reason. They left it up to the user to decide.

While some tweaks were nice, I could change minor things to my liking because I wanted less reliance on my input and more reliance on ratings... which were typically very well done. Players performed like you expected.

Quote: Originally Posted by GaryT531

Those early 2000's 2k baseball games were crap. All of them. Dreamcast, PS2, XBOX...

You don't know what you're talking about. WSB 2k3 was right up there with realism compared to HH.

Sure, it had an issue where all the catcher's arms were over powered making steals difficult. But you always had realistic results, and players performed how you would expect right out of the box.

[Juiceman]

Are text-sims automatically excluded here? Because there is absolutely no other reason for Out of the Park to be excluded in this list. Easily the most accurate representation of baseball on the market.