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Quote from: missvalerie on March 03, 2009, 08:29:08 PM
Anyone have any ideas what happened?

No.

This game is, to use a technical term, not good.

I don't feel like going into loads of the bugs I've found in two whole games, but my favorite
is that about 1/3rd of the throws to first pull the 1B off the bag (including soft throws), and
even if the runner is out by 45 feet it's almost impossible to get the bag.  The franchise bugs
I'm reading about are pretty awesome too.

I don't know why I bother buying these shitty MLB2K games.

I think I'll end up getting the psp The Show for my baseball fix.

Quote from: Kermit, B. on February 26, 2009, 10:18:20 AM
Ugh.  One of the editors at O.S. found a franchise-killing bug already.  Apparently, the 30 teams have limited budgets, which causes a large number of stud free agents (Manny, Lincecum, etc.) to remain completely UNSIGNED after becoming free agents.  I usually don't play through multiple seasons, but you guys who do (Simmer?) BEWARE.  If the free agent signing logic is sound, I would think a patch that edited the budgets would fix it, but I wouldn't count on a patch from 2K, to be honest.

Um, Manny is unsigned.  It makes sense that teams have limited budgets, it probably just means they need to adjust free agents to take best available deals.

Quote from: Fork on February 25, 2009, 01:46:54 PM

Quote from: Eli on February 25, 2009, 01:45:23 PM

Quote from: Fork on February 25, 2009, 07:36:20 AM
Teen Wolf and the Karate Kid movies.

Thanks for the insight, Fork.  You're correct; Bill Simmons does sometimes reference both Teen Wolf and Karate Kid in his columns.

He actually has more tired jokes than I do. True story.

Don't sell yourself short.  He might have you beat in quantity, but I think you lap him with individual tiredness.

I was at the game, so if Bill Simmons has taught me anything, it means I'm
in a position to analyze the game.

Howard got a bunch of points early, but then Noah and Miller (or more likely
laziness) led to him taking a lot of shots where he was fading around the hoop
never squaring up and things weren't falling.

Mainly, though, the Bulls ran around like idiots and hit a ton of medium range
jumpers while the Magic were confused by the non-traditional Bulls defense
which primarily involved everyone looking around wildly to try and figure out
who they are supposed to be guarding.  The confusion (or something smarter
KD will talk about on his fancy pants web site) led to terrible shooting by
the Magic. 

Seriously, both teams just launched mid ranged jump shots non-stop and the
Bulls' fell.  Howard barely did anything past the first quarter.  I think my friend
DanNo got into his dome by posing whether Noah would be more or less ugly
if he cut his hair.  Something about Beverly Hills Cop 2 and THE BOSTON
CELTICS.

Quote from: MAD on February 24, 2009, 10:40:00 PM

Quote from: Pre on February 24, 2009, 10:09:48 PM

Quote from: MAD on February 24, 2009, 08:19:31 PM
If 50 bucks for an ounce is high, it'd be because it would be some real low quality schwag.

Depends heavily on where you are in the country.

Where in the country is an ounce of grass fifty bones?  1950landia?

My bad, I was reading ounce but thinking 1/8th.

Quote from: MAD on February 24, 2009, 08:19:31 PM
If 50 bucks for an ounce is high, it'd be because it would be some real low quality schwag.

Depends heavily on where you are in the country.

Quote from: Weebs on February 24, 2009, 12:10:45 PM
I can say the baserunning is pretty awful though.  I think to switch runners now, you have to cycle through them with the A button.  That's the only way I found to do it.  Also, I couldn't find a button to steal a base.  I had Crawford and Upton on, led off with them, and tried just about every button I could think of.  Nothing worked.  Was it some kind of combination of buttons you had to press in last year's game?

So, you don't even know how to steal a base, but you are ready to proclaim
the base running system is awful? 

Is it impossible to steal a base at all this year?

Perhaps you might want to wait until you learn how to play the game before
passing judgment.

I have no idea if the games any good.  I haven't played the demo yet as a start. 
But I'm pretty sure if we label everything that you are ignorant about as awful then
there's not going to be a lot of awesome in this world.  And a lot of us are going to
have to change our opinion on sex with girls.

Sure I'm drunk.  And I know you rarely get quality back for shit, but I'm happy
that Tyrus wasn't traded.  Kid can play*.

*belief subject to change if KD tells me I'm wrong.

Quote from: PenFoe on February 17, 2009, 03:34:38 PM
New Brewers manager Ken Macha said he's set to bat Rickie Weeks at the top of the order.

I'm sure some statfaggot will point out that Weeks has a .352 career OBP and tell me why this is a good idea for the Brewers.

Hopefully that person will also point out that Rickie Weeks completely blows and over the last two seasons has struck out 231 times in his last 884 ABs (which equates to 26% of the time.)

Weeks is probably as good as any other choice that isn't Fatty Fat Fat Fat.

Quote from: *In a Nutsack on February 13, 2009, 08:58:24 PM
Anyway, I'm still a little worried about the animations.  I'm not trying to rain on anybody's parade about the game, but if you pay close attention to the batting stances--for instance, when the batter walks to the plate it's smooth.  But, then there's this split second of hurry-up in the animation that looks herky jerky.  I didn't see any of that in the vids of The Show.  I know it's not a final build, and I'm going to reserve complete judgement until March 2.  I just hope that they iron that out.  Overall, though, that's my only real complaint along with the gloves. 

I haven't watched any videos, but SPOILER ALERT:

They won't iron out all the problems.  It will be a mediocre game.

Stupid upcoming wedding keeps this from being the year I buy a ps3 only for The Show (and Disgaea 3 'cause I'm a super nerd).

Quote from: Weebs on February 12, 2009, 07:25:02 PM
Zambrano hits better than Fukudome.  This instantly has become my favorite game of all time.

It wouldn't be surprised if that's not true of a lot of video games this year.
.337  .337  .554 vs .257  .359  .379

Quote from: Tank on February 11, 2009, 02:18:55 PM
I've been wondering something, Pre...

Do you compose your Desipio posts in Notepad with word wrap turned on or what?

Nope.



I was going to leave it at that since the answer is pretty lame, but basically there's lots
of text boxes out there which will turn your long fancy line-wrapped text into blocks
by inserting line breaks for you.  Then, if someone with a smaller window setup views
it, the text looks like shit.  A lot of early email clients were like that.  I really hate it when
that happens so I'm particular about keeping lines short and balanced myself.  After I
write something I manually balance all the line lengths.

Also, I write a lot of software and that tends to make people kind of particular about
formatting.

Quote from: Kermit, B. on February 11, 2009, 12:57:59 PM
I did, but only because I'm stunned that I agreed with pretty much everything Weebs said in it.

Now you made me read it, asshole.

So you agree with the part where Weebs tries to hide his long winded bragging about being able
to hit in a video game inside a flimsy analysis of the hitting systems?  I feel like we need a forum
topic for Weebs to brag about inane things.  Maybe we can trick Kurt into thinking it's also about
Canada.

Although, I guess I would agree that the longevity of almost every baseball game is ruined because
it is too easy to hit.

Quote from: Kermit, B. on February 10, 2009, 11:44:27 AM
I haven't played a cursor-based hitting game since All-Star Baseball.

I love cursor based hitting systems sooooooooo much.  If they just stole the ASB system (maybe with
a slider to change the average cursor zone sizes so as you get better you can make it harder to hit)
I would be happy.