MLB2K9 and the Braves
by BullManUGA on Mar 3, 2009 9:06 PM EST
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PrintI picked up the game earlier and noticed a few odd things about the Braves in the game. First, Tommy Hanson will never be good in this game. That can be said for alot of the prospects. For some reason one cannot edit the birthdays for the players. Hanson's fake guy is 29 years old. I didn't find dopplegangers for Freeman or Heyward either, but James Parr is in the game as himself since he appeared in a game or two last season. Sort of a bummer there.
The second strange thing is that the Braves wear their all blue hats with their away unis and wear all blue batting helmets. Was there a secret change made to the uniforms this year? Right now I'm chalking it up to an error on 2K's part.
Chipper is rated a 91 and Francoeur is in the 80s I believe. Hudson is a 78. Andruw is rated a 72.
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2K Sports sucks at making games
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I’m a 360 guy so its my only choice. I’m stuck with their horrible gameplay and apparently faulty rosters.
SubParr
2nd
This game doesn’t look nearly as bad as last year’s game in the 2 hours or so that I’ve played so far.
Second that.
Brian McCann is the future of our organization.
by GwinnettBraves on Mar 4, 2009 7:11 PM EST up reply actions
You are looking at the wrong guy. The is a guy on the AAA team whose initials are T H (the name is Japanese I think) but he has Tommy Hanson’s real birthday and he is a decent minor league pitcher already on there.
Frenchy is a 78 if I remember correctly
The game is pretty good so far from what I have been playing, I really enjoyed the difficulty in the pitching they had last year and I’m not as enthused about not being able to switch back to it from the new one. But aside from this the game is pretty enjoyable so far. The new pitching mechanism is a bit easier to use and the physics engine is great. If they could take the gameplay from this and combine it with the presentation from MLB 09 gamesthey would have the perfect baseball game.
Can you switch to the old school, simple controls in this version? I don’t like all the new-fangled stick crap.
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Yeah the timing control options are still there.
And one last thing that I like about this one is you can actually work the count! I have about 6 walks as a team through 5 team games. I’ve never seen a baseball game where you can actually get genuine walks. Also there is an entire section of Saber stats to look over in the Franchise mode.
I don’t think they can have real minor league names because they aren’t part of the MLBPA until they reach the majors. I know 2K9 has the live roster updates like the basketball games did this past season, so stats and rosters will be updated constantly during the season.
That is
exactly what it is. If they are a Top 100 prospect, the games usually put them at their appropriate levels with their initials the same but a different the name. For example, Jordan Schafer, JS = John Smith.
I miss...
the All-Star baseball series. ASB 99 for n64 was a GREAT game. Much, much better than the current mlb games.
"We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism,
but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism,
until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism." --Nikita Khrushchev
eh, they were fun but I hated the statistical problems in the games. it would stop tracking all kinds of different stats properly by about midseason. really annoying glitch that was never fixed in any iteration of the series
I usually played the game one at a time vs another player so that particular glitch wasn’t a problem for me. The game was too easy vs the comp but against another player, it was, imo, the best baseball game. EA’s were ok but I didn’t like the gameplay nearly as much
"We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism,
but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism,
until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism." --Nikita Khrushchev
And thus the New Rome will fall
by jeg on Mar 4, 2009 2:46 AM EST up reply actions
I’ve always been an EA Sports MVP 2005 guy, but the community only recently stopped releasing updated rosters and photos, so I haven’t played it much in a while.
I'll handle u in spring training - phil413
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"OBP is not a production number, and should not be used as something he achieved."
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I'll handle u in spring training - phil413
by mattdiaz4life on Mar 4, 2009 4:21 PM EST up reply actions
I normally go to BA’s or BP’s top-100 prospect list and take the time to edit the names of all the players that make it into the game. Last night I only found about 20 minor leaguers on the list (which is the lowest I’ve found in the last couple years), and the only one from the Braves was Shaffer. I don’t understand why Hanson wouldn’t be there when he’s, what, 22? They had Eric Hosmer, Tim Beckam, and Jarrod Parker…all 19…in the game. I guess because made they were high draft picks?
Anyway, the main reason I get the game is because my roommate and I like to do the franchise mode and fantasy draft our own teams. In this years game it appears as though the pitch location indicator doesn’t fade like it did last season, so it’s blatantly obvious where the pitch is going to be thrown when you’re playing on the same system. Sure, you still have to guess what pitch it’ll be but the first game we played last night was 12-10 cause the batters were just crushing every pitch.
Anyone know how to get rid of the stupid indicator?
I'm not not licking toads...
there should be an option in controls. If you look at the batting controls in the middle at the bottom of the screen is the option to switch back to classic controls and to switch on/off the indicator. If thats not right it will be under ‘prensentation’ in the options menu.
Checked all that…couldn’t get rid of it. Went to the 2k9 and 360 forums and was told that you can’t get rid of it. I think that’s ludicrous, and it puts a huge damper on the game in my eyes…but whatever.
I'm not not licking toads...
by Smoltz's Beard on Mar 4, 2009 12:18 PM EST up reply actions
Roster Oddities
In the Braves Minor League system, they don’t have Tommy Hanson, but they do have the following guys:
Greg Creek (Guy Cook)
Carl Loadenthal (Claudio Lian)
J.C. Holt (J.T. somethingerother)
Kala Ka’aihue (Karl Kapler)
Diory Hernandez (Desha Hidalgo)
Van Pope (Victor Pablo)
Javier Guzman (Jaime Gomez)
Matt Young (Mark Yan)
And that’s just with a quick perusing of the rosters.
Effin’ weird.
I heard a bunch of prospects were inexplicably in the free agent pool for some reason.
They found Beckham and LaPorta there.
Super…guess I have to check there as well.
I'm not not licking toads...
by Smoltz's Beard on Mar 4, 2009 2:53 PM EST up reply actions
I had the game on friday and almost all of the top prospects were where they should be on their respective teams but they did a roster update on launch day yesterday and it looks like everything is fubar now. My franchise has the right guys but the regular rosters.
Here is the workaround on the 360:
Go to your memory management and select the 2k9 file and find the roster save and delete it. The load the game while signed out of Xbox live and change one thing on the rosters and save the new rosters under a diffferent file name. that way you will have a hard copy of the original roster file that the game came with.
It would be awesome if he were listed as Christian Bale.
No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.
Have you guys run into the awesome OF glitch?
They will be standing under the ball and then the game won’t catch it. It usually results in an automatic triple.
Again....
Sorry if I get out of hand just trying to help with this. I found the Hanson clone in the free agent pool with the new rosters: Tim Harikkala: he is a 69 overall and born August 28, 1986. 6’ 5" yada yada. I guess when the roster update added Anderson it moved Hanson off in a spill down effect.
That’s funny, cause Tim Harikkala was a real life pitcher for a few teams in the Majors.
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Thanks, keep me updated if you find anyone else.
I'm not not licking toads...
by Smoltz's Beard on Mar 4, 2009 4:38 PM EST up reply actions
yeah 2k games suck at ratings.
im not sure but i think theyre the oens who put out MLB Front Office Manager, complete garbage, Brian Roberts is a 55. The jerseys are screwed up, check out the Red Sox away jersey, its grey with blue numbers and name, instead of red.
They normally have the give the player the same initials as his real life counterpart.
I'm not not licking toads...
by Smoltz's Beard on Mar 4, 2009 5:29 PM EST up reply actions
MLB 09 The Show
The game atmosphere when you play is better on 2k9 but the actual graphics, gameplay and Franchise mode is so much better on The Show. I actually am just about finished with the Braves AAA and AA rosters. Im gonna do all the teams. If anyone has any interest i might be able to get them out to ya.
-David
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