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

[dave_sz]

Quote: Originally Posted by Eddie1967

One thing I noticed is that you have much more control when fielding. When the ball is in play you get no assistance from the computer, it's feels like your doing everything so you don't always grab the ball fast enough or correctly and it's challenging to make the throw sometimes. I found myself waiting for the computer to assist me in picking up or getting to fly ball. This is a very good thing to me.

that's strange cause I can see my fielders run towards a fly ball before I touch the stick. I can see them have a mind**** when I press the wrong direction and they do that awkward, stop, change direction, stop, change direction to get going in the right direction again...

[kGinGreen]

Quote: Originally Posted by sinkdog

With all due respect, what do you think ALL of EA Sports games AI is?

Well EA is just as bad. That's the thing. It's not just 2k. It's just the nature of the beast. Human beings even have flaws. Except me of course.... j/k. I am the biggest *** there is lol. But you can find flaws with anything if you look hard enough. That's the absurdity here. But I admit there are reasons why I sometimes prefer other companies over 2k. EAsports being one of them. They had years there where they were the worst though.

[Artman22]

Quote: Originally Posted by totalownership

I really like the direction that 2K is going with the game. From the demo it seems they have a good base to work with in the future. However, being that the wife bought me a PS3 for christmas I think I'm going to pass on this years game and go with the Show. Hopefully 2K10 will be the one that gets over the top. I notice people seem to like the faces but they look quite similar to 2K4 in my opinion. Griffey looks nothing like himself in this game.

I remember you saying 2k8 was the best ever

[spankdatazz22]

Really liking the demo. Demo doesn't go anywhere near far enough to explain the controls, but the more I play the more I get the hang of things.

+ Commentary is simply superb. Fantastic job
+ Like the scale of the field and players
+ Animations can be kinda wonky at times, but think they're very good for the most part. Glad they retained the OF catching. Seems to be sort of an auto-strafe on fly balls; would be nice to be able to do it on demand
+ So happy meatballs are gone. Kinda miss seeing how close I nailed the pitch motion though. Now that I'm being more effective by not trying to fire everything full blast, seeing some depth
+ Love the crowds and real-time atmosphere
+ Lots of hit variety
+ tv style presentation makes watching cpu vs. cpu games enjoyable (could be my imagination, but even seems like I'm noticing more "in the batter's box" anims than I see when playing the cpu for some reason)

- Lighting is better than 2K8, but still not as pronounced as I'd like. Graphics overall are clean but nothing mind blowing
- Almost certainty tweaks will be necessary to increase pitch counts
- Sig Styles don't stand out much in the demo
- lack of tutorial info in the demo

Overall it seems it'll be a very enjoyable game and a nice improvement over 2K8. The demo is somewhat gimped w/the lack of replays and other things; the full game should shine that much more with everything "turned on"

[dave_sz]

Quote: Originally Posted by XFactah416

One question: as someone who didn't buy MLB 2k8, can someone explain to me the pitching and how it works? Thanks.

very easy actually. You have the pitches on the side and each pitch has a start motion. For example fast ball is down then up(no need to press up at all though) so press and hold down til the circle gets as big as possible, then release to let the ball go. Left stick of course controls location....

[dave_sz]

Quote: Originally Posted by LAKE4742

Oh no! Already talks of needed slider tweaking? That's definitely not signs of a good game. Good luck.

Umm, every game needs sliders to make it play right for the specific player. Show is the same...

[~Guru~]

Dammm Price is the bomb...I am mowing em down with Price.....

THis demo is nice after you get use to the controls....


PS

do you guys run it on 720p or 1080p

I heard that games should always be run on native for best possible experience

[Eski33]

Quote: Originally Posted by dave_sz

very easy actually. You have the pitches on the side and each pitch has a start motion. For example fast ball is down then up(no need to press up at all though) so press and hold down til the circle gets as big as possible, then release to let the ball go. Left stick of course controls location....

In simpler terms, each pitch has a two step process. You no longer need to use step 2. Just press the direction of step 1. Hold it until that big yellow ball fills up and let go...