No wonder this game can't move forward
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Hardball III and Nolan Ryan's Baseball here EDIT - oh yeah, Roger Clemens MVP Baseball & Cal Ripken Baseball too. So many choices back in the '90s.
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@Easy_Duhz_It__PSN, RBI was pretty advanced... I started with this as a kid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSjwLGdDGLw
I agree that the graphics are fine (individual blades of grass blowing in the wind would be neat, and all, but...). I think the biggest leaps, now, will come by focusing on better physics and dialing in the speed with which players move relative to the batted ball and the size of the field.
Fewer HRs, more balls landing on grass.
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@The_Joneser_PSN said in No wonder this game can't move forward:
@Easy_Duhz_It__PSN, RBI was pretty advanced... I started with this as a kid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSjwLGdDGLw
I agree that the graphics are fine (individual blades of grass blowing in the wind would be neat, and all, but...). I think the biggest leaps, now, will come by focusing on better physics and dialing in the speed with which players move relative to the batted ball and the size of the field.
Fewer HRs, more balls landing on grass.
Definitely agree with fewer HRs. Id prefer to actually play baseball and not every game turning into a HR derby. I think the worst thing SDS ever did was giving everyone 125 power. Should be capped at 99 and on those rare occasions for someone like Judge or a Raleigh milestone card, give them 100.
Thats why when i play RTTS i put more into contact and fielding than i do power. I dont wanna hit 1000 HRs in my first 10 seasons.
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@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS said in No wonder this game can't move forward:
I’m a million years old. I grew up playing Ken Griffey Jr’s Winning Run on SNES.
Given that you're in your early 40's, I'm 1,000,020.
I played SNK Baseball Stars for years on the NES (not even "Super"). I loved that game, and must have played it for thousands of hours. Diving, climbing (and sometimes falling over) the fence to rob home runs. Editing rosters. Playing with women softball players who actually pitched underhand. Stat-keeping. Secret menus. I mean... it had it all. I managed to find an NES emulator back in 2015, and found a USB NES controller on Amazon. Fired it up and... AWESOME.
My belabored point... even as much as I loved that game, MLBTS is pretty amazing. I do wish SDS would upgrade the graphics to "next gen" to see what the new hardware is really capable of. In the meantime, I'm still pretty happy with what we have. Like you said, as long as they keep making incremental improvements, I'm OK with that. I like playing DD of course, but also delve into the market economics, download data using the APIs for analysis, and run over to RTTS with my fleet-footed 245lb shortstop "Bubba Blue" from Louisiana. It entertains me for 9 months a year. So yeah... worth my $99 (but I got the 10% discount, so even better).
My wife just reminded me that we have a concert to go to down in Miami on the 14th. Which means we'll be driving down on Thursday night. I'm going to hide my Xbox in my luggage... my son has a monitor in his apartment... so... I'm still good to go for opening night.
Finally... talking about Baseball Stars... I now have all these songs stuck in my head. SDS, if you can find a way to add these to the soundtrack this year, I'll pay extra:
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Baseballs Stars is legendary. First sports game with seasons and created players. Adding the RPG elements to improve your team was so ahead of its time. Tecmo Super Bowl gets all the credit for being influential, but Tecmo Super Bowl was itself influenced by Baseball Stars
As for the original topic, while I think there is some tweaking to be done with the outcomes in the hitting engine, there is no change SDS could ever make to avoid people whining loudly about the game being unfair when they lose.
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This was the first BB game I remember putting much time in.
Star League baseball for the Commodore 64
Would I be upset if SDS updated the graphics? Heck No. But the issue is not make or break for me. Prettier graphics do not suddenly make the gameplay experience better or more compelling.
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I loved playing Tony Larussa baseball on my old 286 (top of the line), and setting and managing the all-time greatest line-ups. But i am older than most of you. I can barely remember being 42!
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Man, ya'll are young. I've been playing since Atari Home Run came out. I'd prefer to see expansion and development of franchise mode again then anything else. Sure graphics are nice, but there are already pretty good.
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@xRatedGProdigyx_PSN said in No wonder this game can't move forward:
Hardball III and Nolan Ryan's Baseball here EDIT - oh yeah, Roger Clemens MVP Baseball & Cal Ripken Baseball too. So many choices back in the '90s.
Hardball was fantastic for the depth of stats it had. One underrated game that played exceptionally well for the time was VR Baseball. I never see people talk about it. That was what the game people want today. Visuals were real good, but the game play felt real authentic and playable too.
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@bostondirtdog21_PSN - Man, I don't know if that would ever have come back to mind had you not said it, but I remember really enjoying it, and thinking that VR Baseball was a much better game than its competitors. And then it was gone.
Good memory. Thank you.
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@bostondirtdog21_PSN I was actually playing online in 1999/2000 Hardball 6 PC cant beleive commish has had this up for 26 years!!!! http://redozone.com/hardball.html
