[quote comment="16220"]Earl tells me everything that’s how I get all my information for dabirthdayboy.com, when the devs play online it will be fixed by then.[/quote]

guess dabirthdayboy isnt the best source of info after all lol

Pitch battles are awesome in 08, however way way way to many fouls. I even took sliders to their lowest setting for contact, power, foul percentage type slider, all that and the cpu still fouls a ton of balls. It is soooooo stupid and sooooo unrealistic. It’s like 5-10 fouls per AB for the cpu. It just seems like it, even though that’s overstating the problem. I do like it when the cpu fouls a bunch of balls in one AB, but not for every AB or even half of them as that happens far too often. It really ticks me off actually.

I also hate how the ball is totally white with no detail what so ever. In 07 it wasn’t as white as in 08 and to me had more detail because of that. I hate the way the ball looks in 08 when pitching. I don’t hate, but dislike very much.

These 3 things really bug me so much I am not playing 08 as much as I’d really like to. Remember this is just my opinion about the ball detail, pitch speed and fouls. Other then these 3 things I love the game and it’s AWESOME!

I want to like MLB2k8 also, but how they didn’t touch the commentary ticks me off so much I wanna kick their arses. Curse em out and just go off on em they’re so pathetic. Framerate hurt my eyes actually so I didn’t play the demo more then 5 minutes or so. And I HATE hitting and pitching if it is not classic 1 button type. This is just me how I like baseball games. The graphics sucked in MLB2k8 compared to 08 the show. I did like them ok though.

One thing very very cool in MLB2k8 was when Manny in left field jumped to catch a ball off the wall it was more realistic then any other game that I have seen jump catches in when a player jumps to catch a ball. The animation just looked way cool.

I totally dislike the GUI in MLB2k8 too. The text isn’t as good and clean looking as other games and it’s too small text size in my opinion. Not to small to read it, but in general I like the text a tiny bit bigger.

I’ll try MLB2k8 again in a lower then 1080i res on 360 and even lower the rest to 480p on the ps3 and see how it plays.

personally i couldn’t care less about 2k anymore since 2k8 sucks. what makes me the most mad is they didn’t even touch the commentary. pitching controls sucks in the demo as does hitting and framerate is unacceptable.

i have played 2k since the game right before 2k5. 2k6 was crap. 2k7 was better and when i first got it for 360 i thought i could play with it for a couple years as it was really cool i think. then i got the ps3 and 07 the show and now don’t like 2k7 anymore much. it’s still ok, but 07 the show is so much better i don’t play 2k anymore. if i do once in a while then.

tried 2k8 for 5 minutes and deleted the demo. i am so glad i didn’t buy it this year. 08 the show is still tons better then 2k8, but in some ways not as good as 07 the show. mainly the pitch speed and how the ball has no detail. i hate this so much i don’t even play 08 anymore. just 07 the show since it’s great. 08 the show didn’t touch the franchise sop I’ll stick with 07 probably more then 08, but I’ll mess with 08 once in a while. it’s a shame sony dropped the ball so hard for 08 the show in my opinion with a few things.

sony doesn’t need any mlb license since first party games can do anything they want. mlb should take it away from 2k and just not have any license. just let people make baseball games.[/quote]

The framerate on 2k8 360 at 720P is much better than the PS3 at 720P and of course the 360 at 1080. People should make the adjustment on their 360 to play it at 720P if they have a HDTV.

I have to disagree with the pitch speed on The Show 08. It is perfect for high level experienced players, very realistic. I am assuming it is too fast for you. I believe you can turn it down in the sliders. I dont have an issue with pitch recognition when batting(seeing the seems). Are you are using the default Catcher view when batting?

The pitcher/batter interface in MLB 08 is the best. Very intuitive with realistic results. Ball/strike ratios and pitch counts are about as realistic as I have ever seen in a baseball sim. Bat control is great and pitch physics and pitch recognition time are very close to the realism of on-field action. The Check-swing action is outstanding and absolutely blows the almost non-existent 2k series Check-swing away.

The ability to have real pitcher/batter battles and deep pitch counts by fouling off tough pitches and check swinging is the best it has ever been in a baseball game. You cannot do that if you have a poor framerate game and if you have online lag. The Show 08 delivers on both accounts.

It just amazes me that there are a few people that have actually played The Show 08, that still just dont get it. To each their own, but c’mon people, this is one of the biggest no-brainers in baseball gaming we have had in a long time. Common sense just isnt so common anymore.

This game scales to your baseball experience, meaning it is easy to pick up and play if you are a Little Leaguer, yet it will test you at every step if you are a Professional, with all the elements and thought processes that Professionals look for and use.

I believe if people play 10 games of The Show 08, they will be enlightened and never look back. The demo is great but I still wasnt sold 100% until I got the full version. It didnt take long to realize how special this game is. The Show 08 PS3 really is THAT good and everyone that I respect their opinion on baseball, loves this game.

2k8 has some innovative arcade elements, but if you want real baseball and results, there is only one choice.

personally i couldn’t care less about 2k anymore since 2k8 sucks. what makes me the most mad is they didn’t even touch the commentary. pitching controls sucks in the demo as does hitting and framerate is unacceptable.

i have played 2k since the game right before 2k5. 2k6 was crap. 2k7 was better and when i first got it for 360 i thought i could play with it for a couple years as it was really cool i think. then i got the ps3 and 07 the show and now don’t like 2k7 anymore much. it’s still ok, but 07 the show is so much better i don’t play 2k anymore. if i do once in a while then.

tried 2k8 for 5 minutes and deleted the demo. i am so glad i didn’t buy it this year. 08 the show is still tons better then 2k8, but in some ways not as good as 07 the show. mainly the pitch speed and how the ball has no detail. i hate this so much i don’t even play 08 anymore. just 07 the show since it’s great. 08 the show didn’t touch the franchise sop I’ll stick with 07 probably more then 08, but I’ll mess with 08 once in a while. it’s a shame sony dropped the ball so hard for 08 the show in my opinion with a few things.

sony doesn’t need any mlb license since first party games can do anything they want. mlb should take it away from 2k and just not have any license. just let people make baseball games.

In the future, people need to post what resolution they play at. People playing it on a standard defintion TV need not post at all, since this is the 21st Century.

Ideally for all baseball gamers, Major League Baseball should pull their exclusive license and give it to Sony, or better yet, not to have an exclusive license, so competition could bring out the creme of the crop. Oh, that’s right, it already exists in The Show!

Game, Set, Match!

Hey, it’s your website so you can dictate what’s “news” or not of course …

Just strikes me curious that a Prizes n’ Swag with chance to talk to developers weekend isn’t deemed “headline news”, but a “bad” review of a popular and well received baseball game is