Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by MastorofPuppetz

The problem some of the impressions are BS. Obviously some have an agenda against 2k and MLB. The amount of nit-picking and flat out BS in this thread is amazing. The game has some issues (What game does not), but it is leaps and bounds better then 2K8.

This is the internet. You are always going to have individuals exaggerate things in these threads. That doesn't give you the right to attack them.

There are some individuals who solely post negatives here on OS. Others only find positives. You take the good with the bad. You begin to learn what user's opinion is worth listening to and others who aren't worth the $.02.

Just ease off on the attacks. That's not what we're about here in the OS forums.

[dave_sz]

Quote: Originally Posted by HaloChamp

Here is a video of the first inning which was posted over on the 2k forums http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJvka9IQ4SA

watching that video reminded me of how awful that intro guy is, where they show the team logos. He just sounds so out of place....

[MastorofPuppetz]

Do people realise that when pitching, they bigger the circle, the better the pitch? Not letting it get smaller? There was confusion about this on the 2k boards, and it was causing some people wondering why they gave up HR's and the CPU did not take many strikes.

The first motion it gets bigger, then, the second, do not let it get to small or the quality and power get worse.

[Kane182]

I've yet to play the demo, but I am looking forward to trying it later today/tonight. I've noticed some posts about hitting being too easy. I imagine when the retail releases there will be a pitch speed slider at the very least and that should hopefully make things more difficult.

I'm hoping they kept a lot of the sliders from last year because once you tinkered with strike/ball frequencies not everything was down the pipe and the cpu didn't swing at everything in the zone either. We'll see.

[Houston]

I can remember when 2k7 came out it was a huge pick up from all the problems 2k6 had. Alot was impressed just by the demo but the game played 95% better than the demo did. DEMO'S are not the actual game and obviously theres alot of things you can fix with SETTINGS/SLIDERS to balance out the gameplay. My point is that theres to much bashing over a DEMO when its not the actual game. The DEMO is nowhere perfect. I talk to christian from 2ksports on a daily basis and have been for the past year and I already knew what to expect with this DEMO. Again the demo is simply what it is a DEMO.

[MastorofPuppetz]

Quote: Originally Posted by Houston

I can remember when 2k7 came out it was a huge pick up from all the problems 2k6 had. Alot was impressed just by the demo but the game played 95% better than the demo did. DEMO'S are not the actual game and obviously theres alot of things you can fix with SETTINGS/SLIDERS to balance out the gameplay. My point is that theres to much bashing over a DEMO when its not the actual game. The DEMO is nowhere perfect. I talk to christian from 2ksports on a daily basis and have been for the past year and I already knew what to expect with this DEMO. Again the demo is simply what it is a DEMO.

Exactly, there was a big difference in the 2k7 demo and final game. Also, the final version will have sliders and more options.

[ExtremeGamer]

Quote: Originally Posted by MastorofPuppetz

The problem some of the impressions are BS. Obviously some have an agenda against 2k and MLB. The amount of nit-picking and flat out BS in this thread is amazing. The game has some issues (What game does not), but it is leaps and bounds better then 2K8.

People are still allowed to dislike it, it's not an agenda. I've seen pretty fair impressions so far, I highly doubt that anyone really feels the need to make fake impressions to hurt the game.

It's a demo, some like it, some won't, not much more than that. No reason to go off the deep end about it. Take a deep breath and relax.

[Glenn33]

My impressions:

The Good
- Gameplay. I love it. Really love it. The swing stick (which I HATED before) feels great and the pitching feels great. Really great. The fielding controls were good but not great. Overall the game felt organic - not scripted. Yippie.
- The animations are great.
- The atmosphere. Very next gen. Announcing, transition scenes, crowd...all good.
- Smooth as silk. No hiccups. No slowdown. No issue.

The Bad
- Graphics. I know this is a matter of taste, but these graphics well "nice" just are not up to par with 2K7. And to me that should be the standard. It's hard for me to put aside the fact that 2 years later the game looks worse - not better. It's MUCH better than 2K8...but still - I just don't like it.
- The fielding controls at time are quirky..in particular how/when you switch to a different player on the field. I also do not like the fielding camera. It's just too far up for me and I feel a little bit removed from the action.

The Ugly
- Player faces. This is part of my gripe with the Graphics. I just don't like em and the faces to me look particularly bad.
- The ivy on the back wall of the stadium...it looks painted on. Bleh!

If I could ignore the graphics whore on the inside - I must say this is a FINE game. 360 only people should breath a sigh of relief. Baseball on the 360 is back.