I also miss the last time 2K baseball had a reasonable line-up and bench screen. Once you got the effectiveness up high, you risked losing it if you failed to hit such a precise location. I do think VC came up with a nice alternative in 2K12 for varying pitch effectiveness in the game based on success rate, but they payoff pitch really rewarded execution, and delivered a risk for going to your bread an butter too often. That helped to.īut man do I miss three step pitching and the Payoff Pitch mechanic. I don't think it was until November or December when Microsoft enabled saving games to the hard drive. But even the commentary between pitches was stuttery and a pain. You could hit and pitch fine, but once in play, it was a mess. It was pretty constant when it was released. Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2 I believe the frame rate was more In the field than it was when you batted? It did get much much better once it was patched. Total outlay should be 10 bucks and you'll get a flavor for what each developer was trying to do with the series.įorgot about the Frame rate issue. To get to the point I would get 7 and 11. I have the games on the 360 and have heard about possible problems on some of the PS3 games though not sure which ones. Being away from baseball gaming during the most of the past decade, I'm interested in seeing recent evolution of baseball games, and want to see where novel ideas have been. I'm currently most invested in The Show (and really like the approach the series is taking to simulate baseball) and very satisfied by the gaming experience itself, so I'm not necessarily looking for a game to immerse myself with. I'm most interested in baseball gameplay (i.e., how well the game simulates baseball). I might get/build a game-ready PC at some point later, but I don't have a Windows box right now, so I prefer a PS3 version. Obviously there are many versions due to the annual release cycle, but getting every single version is a bit excessive at the moment, so I want to start with what people recommend as the best representation of the MLB 2K series. My most recent hobby is to collect baseball games from recent past and I'm interested in getting one of MLB 2K games at some point.

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