Some MLB 2K13 Ratings Revealed, Along with a Few Shaky-Cam Videos and Impressions

[DirtyJerz32]

Every year we as gamers want companies to make their sports games better instead of adding new things. Maybe this is the approach 2k took with 13. I really liked 12 and hopefully 2k improved the game under the hood.

2k13 and Tomb Raider... Tuesdays gonna be crazy!

[Pappy Knuckles]

Quote: Originally Posted by DirtyJerz32_OS

Every year we as gamers want companies to make their sports games better instead of adding new things. Maybe this is the approach 2k took with 13. I really liked 12 and hopefully 2k improved the game under the hood. 2k13 and Tomb Raider... Tuesdays gonna be crazy!

I'm really looking forward to both games on Tuesday as well. When I preordered 2K the other day, the cashier was looking at me like I was a ghost or something. "You sure you wanna get that man? You know The Show is coming out right?!" I got the same treatment when I got Pro Evolution Soccer last year as well. The guys at my local Gamestop trip me out.

[DirtyJerz32]

I got the same look when I po 2k13, those GS employees crack me up.

[Blzer]

Quote: Originally Posted by DirtyJerz32_OS

Every year we as gamers want companies to make their sports games better instead of adding new things. Maybe this is the approach 2k took with 13. I really liked 12 and hopefully 2k improved the game under the hood.

Unfortunately, even if that was their intention, they really had no choice with the short development cycle. The other thing is they didn't spend time taking care of some of the smallest things to appease people. I'm almost sick of checking my e-mail for the updated YouTube comments on my channel, because they're all about the player pictures not being updated. Look, I know that 2K doesn't have monkeys working over there, and this is apparently a big deal to some. I can't see how 2K lets this thing go by so many years. It's not just the pictures, but they just now got the scoreboards fixed last year too. It's kind of embarrassing how long these visual things get ignored, when they really do seem like simple fixes.

The only other thing that frustrates me with VC is they will claim to do something new and exciting and kind of lay down the groundwork as if it's here to stay, and when it is only in its early stages after its first year or it gets panned critically, they dump it instead of improving on it. I'm not just talking about modes, I'm also talking about certain hitting/pitching/fielding systems and other options. Heck, I would have even loved if they continued working on a legitimate first person camera feature that was introduced in 2K4. Yeah, it was half-assed... but keep it up, and it really could be something. But they don't go all in, hear some downsides, and give up on it. That's why the game is where it's at right now, and it has presentation options called "2K10" instead of building on what they thought could and couldn't work.

I really wish them the best in the future, but only if they are serious about making more baseball games, interact with their most loyal fanbases, and try to make it based on their own principles and valiant efforts. That also includes a stronger marketing scheme which promotes the game and its finer points. If people do believe that the hitter's eye is what makes the game, then by all means they should sign Miguel Cabrera to a cover contract and tout that feature in early trailers, demos, and commercials. I think there's more that can be done with the feature personally, but I hope they don't throw it away just because it could be panned by some.

Anyway, I think they have to truly look at their product and ask themselves what things are beyond ridiculous. I'll name three for them that they can't disagree with:

1) Player photos not being updated
2) Sounds in the stadium (umpire calls, ball off bat, etc.)
3) Later in the year, modes which are no longer tended to or don't work (MLB Today/Season, zero patch work or announcements from the team, supporting one console and not the other, etc.)

[Mt Oread]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

I'm not saying it's "better" turned off or anything like that, but this kind of began with Mt Oread telling me that I'm not using 2K's game system to the best of its ability. It's not so much that I was disagreeing with what he said, but it was the way he said it like I've never given hitter's eye a chance or truly knew what it was accounting for with the hitters or anything, or like I kept the screen pure for purity's sake.

It's all good. I did assume it was for aesthetics, and I was wrong.

I see the value in batter's eye, and you see it as a liability. I don't think either of us are right or wrong. It's just how we play the game.

[econoodle]

Quote: Originally Posted by Zombeels

This is more lazily developed than ET :/

You said the exact same thing earlier in this thread
What's your glitch?

[Hockeynut99]

That is funny because around here they tell me to get 2K over the Show. Go figure.

[audbal]

Went to Walmart for groceries, decided to check out the game section. They had the game on the shelf, had it in my hand, being rung up at the register and then I hear the long beep of the register and I'm like oh crap!...then I hear, "Sorry, we can't sell it to you"...someone needs to get fired!