More MVP NCAA Thoughts
Just a few actually. Right now, about 8 games into testing — this is a very good baseball game. There are walks! It’s rare when I do not walk at least once per game. Granted, I’m not issuing a lot of walks but I have not touched a slider yet so hopefully I can lower my control a bit. OSU picthing should not be this good. heh
Still, I am thoroughly enjoying myself.
I have two peeves right now. First, I like my baseball games to be fast paced. Get in, get out, no jacking around. MVP 06 has a lot of jacking around. I can turn off the replays, and the throwing of the ball back to the pitcher but I can’t stop the batters from going through their Carlton Fisk routine every at bat. It slows the game down something awful. I want each game to take no more than 35 minutes unless it’s an extra inning marathon or a game in which each team scores a lot. A standard game should take 35-40 mins tops.
Again, I use High Heat as the measuring stick. I could fast forward through everything; I could throw a picth every 3 seconds. I do not NEED to see the extra animations. This was a huge, huge, benefit to HH for me.
“Yes, looks nice, very good. Now let’s PLAY.”
My other issue is that there seems to be a lack of solid contact in this game which is not what college baseball is all about. Folks, the ball should LEAP off the aluminum bats. It doesn;t. I have no problem making contact but GOOD contact is tough. Again, I may just need practice (the CPU suffers here too though) and I have not touched a slider but each game I have played has been a pitcher’s duel.
More later — and still, despite all this stuff I am totally into the game right now, more than I have been into a console baseball game in a long, long time.
Can we get a PC version? No? OK, figured I’d ask..
January 23rd, 2006 at 12:15 am
How about you take some ADD medicine and relax and just f’n play!
Boohoo
January 23rd, 2006 at 7:25 am
The crap you have to deal with between pitches gets old. I also like to play a quick game. The only saving grace is that there is a 10 run rule and you can always sim to the end or manage to the end if necessary.
THe graphics are weird. I made a createe a stadium and may stick with that because I get a pretty nice picture at 720p with no slowdown. Some of the team specific stadiums really slow things down and the players look like hell. This can’t be an Xbox thing - EA either just ports from PS2 or have sloppy programmers who have no idea how to use the power of the xbox.
I also know what you mean about hitting. The one thing I hated about MVP last year was that every mistake pitch i threw was crushed. Weak middle infielders would crush mistakes like a pumped up Barry on the clear. This year even when my mistakes are hit, they don’t go flying out of the park. Same when I am hitting. It gives the game a lot more strategy, but is not true to real college bb.