Major League Baseball 2K10 Gameplay Video (Mets @ Cubs)

[500Feet]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K10 Gameplay Video (Mets @ Cubs)

- As others said, the numbers on the back of uniforms are noticably TOO BIG

- The outfield seems to be as long as the infield is

Animations look better than last year but swing animations are awkward looking sometimes

+ Hitting and pitching seem much improved

+ Noticed some field / ball physics on Soriano's ground ball

[Bahnzo]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K10 Gameplay Video (Mets @ Cubs)

Hitters eye activates WAY too much. They said it would only happen with the best hitters, and only a couple times during an at bat at most....but it happened every single pitch with one guy, and half the time with Fukodome (who didn't exactly have a great rating against lefties).

User pitching seems still too easy. Look at his ball/strike count...through 3 innings he's only thrown 4 balls.

I like the overall presentation, and as long as that weird batting view can be zoomed in some, things look good.

But again, I still get the feeling that 2K didn't spend enough time getting the gameplay basics correct.

[jeffy777]

Re: Mets vs. Cubs *1st Gamplay video Discussion (GameInformer)

I didn't find one positive out of that video.

Not one single positive? Wow.....

[Checmate101]

Re: Mets vs. Cubs *1st Gamplay video Discussion (GameInformer)

I love what I saw..the numbers could be smaller, but other than that, I'll be there for a first day buy. But I thought it was suppose to be 2 innings?

[natsfan93]

The graphics look much better this year from last last year, but the swing followthroughs look sooooooo bad

[bulls23]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K10 Gameplay Video (Mets @ Cubs)

Much improved from 2k9. Glad I preordered. Anything not liked about the gameplay can probably be tweaked with sliders, same goes for camera view.

A list of what I didn't like:
-Framerate a little choppy (may be gameinformer's converting of the video)
-Numbers too big on jerseys (could be fixed with roster update/patch)
-Jersey name font same for every team (prob can't be fixed)

[nld230]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K10 Gameplay Video (Mets @ Cubs)

And the bottom half of the inning....

Soriano first pitch single. Hittable pitch.

Theriot...sigh. He is not an elite hitter. He isn't even an elite SS. He sees every pitch with the batters eye. Again, hoping this is because of difficulty settings.

Would have drawn a 4 pitch walk had the user been realistically patient, which is nice. The hit and run works on a slow grounder which basically is a seeing eye single. Multiple hits in an inning is fine, but it has to be balanced out by innings with no hits. Hard to judge when you only get 1 inning of play. The range of hits per game was 8-10 last season; hopefully they used this statistic. A big problem with 2k9 was that it was too easy to get 20 hits a game (edit) and you never had games with only 5 or 6 hits. The end result was averaging 13 hits a game, which is way to high (edit)

Okay, I would have swung at that slider to Derrek Lee. 2nd pitch shows up on the batters eye out of the zone. a 4 pitch walk. Perez is pretty wild, and to have him get rattled with runners on is pretty true to life. And had it been me, I might have swiped at the first pitch.

User falls behind in the count with A-Ram and eventually GIDP. Very nice. CPU is smart enough to go 6-4-3 for the 2 outs and let the run score.

Marlon Byrd chases a pitch for a single. 3 hits and a walk in the inning.

User chases with Fukudome.

Batters eye is showing up a lot.

Not a lot we can go on from such a small sample, but as far as GAMEPLAY goes, I can already tell it's going to need sliders. But I figured as much.

[Wavebird99]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K10 Gameplay Video (Mets @ Cubs)

I came away with really mixed feelings about the video. The pitcher/batter matchup DOES look great, you can tell they really worked on that. Like alot. Huge improvement.

However:
- The animations... some are good, some are awful. The Double-play looked nice, but a regular ground ball to the SS had the "sped up" animation thing happen. That looks awful.
- Soriano pickoffs/diving back - WTF? That looked really, really bad.
- The hitting camera is atrocious, but adjustable so thats fine. I thought they said it would be easier to judge if the ball is low or high in the zone... yeah thats not true at all.
- The numbers are gigantic.

Overall, I'm going to rent from Gamefly first and decide if I want to buy or not.

[BrianFifaFan]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K10 Gameplay Video (Mets @ Cubs)

Can you mod uni's on the PC version? I saw a lot of good, but that really bugs me. I'm actually liking the batting camera. It could go up just a little bit, though. I'm pretty sure that can be moved with a mod. The oversped up fielding animations are something that they really need to see if they can patch. They are unnatural looking. All in all, looks pretty good. Haven't seen anything that really turns me off, save the uni's....

[Blzer]

Re: Mets vs. Cubs *1st Gamplay video Discussion (GameInformer)

Game looks miles ahead of 2K9, but still has that "rough around the edges" feel to it, almost like it's in beta form or something. I have so much to say both about the good and the bad (more bad than good on a non-comparative level), but I think the best thing that comes out of this is you can really tell that VC did a lot in a year-long development cycle, and it shows. I think this series is finally going in the right direction.

[DR Russell]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K10 Gameplay Video (Mets @ Cubs)

I liked the stats, broken down to counts after each pitch.

[Wavebird99]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K10 Gameplay Video (Mets @ Cubs)

Actually, a 2nd time watching this.. the animations dont look that bad. Maybe its the video player?

[nld230]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K10 Gameplay Video (Mets @ Cubs)

Hitters eye activates WAY too much. They said it would only happen with the best hitters, and only a couple times during an at bat at most....but it happened every single pitch with one guy, and half the time with Fukodome (who didn't exactly have a great rating against lefties).

User pitching seems still too easy. Look at his ball/strike count...through 3 innings he's only thrown 4 balls.

I like the overall presentation, and as long as that weird batting view can be zoomed in some, things look good.

But again, I still get the feeling that 2K didn't spend enough time getting the gameplay basics correct.

This concerns me, too. But, if you read Andrew's blog, he says that he found "all-star" too hard, and went back to pro. On "all-star" he was having trouble with pitching, at least in my player mode.

If this game was played at the default difficulty, and the batter's eye is lessened on harder settings, then I'm really happy with this game.

[cubsfan203]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K10 Gameplay Video (Mets @ Cubs)

Actually, a 2nd time watching this.. the animations dont look that bad. Maybe its the video player?

The video was choppy for me, so it was really hard to judge framerate and some of the animations.

[nld230]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K10 Gameplay Video (Mets @ Cubs)

One more thing (my eyes aren't that great). I noticed that the first 0-2 pitch to Fukudome was a defensive swing. Seemed to work really well.

Got me to thinking. We didn't see any homers, but I couldn't tell if he used the contact swing exclusively or the power swing.