Comments on: Go Phillies: Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo

By: Headwoünd

Headwoünd — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:39:35 +0000

What do you mean you feared “hearing the same awkwardly shouted, peculiarly clipped phrase appear inappropriately for the third time in the last thirty seconds”?
That’s the only reason I still play International Superstar Soccer 64 on the – you might have guessed it – Nintendo 64!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Vyg-0PeIQ

GOOOOAAAAAAAALLLLLL!!!1 He finished that beautifully!

God I love it, that was the peak of soccer video games, ladies and gents. ^^

By: inle

inle — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:36:24 +0000

Awright, a Phils fan!…though I’m finding it hard to believe anyone would voluntarily choose said fandom. Is bile and failure part of your upbringing, Mr. Walker? (Or perhaps, more seriously, the magical summer of 1993?)
Anyway, you’re dead wrong about Hamels’ bat–it was the lumber of Mr. October himself, Brett Myers…

By: RealHorrorshow

RealHorrorshow — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:53:54 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbIVUgW0t0o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN3cGmtm81g

http://i40.tinypic.com/315ldep.gif

Can’t say whether or not the game’s good or not, but these made me laugh my ass off.

By: Chris Livingston

Chris Livingston — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:41:41 +0000

Is a 360 controller absolutely required? Or just favored?

By: MooseDrool

MooseDrool — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:31:15 +0000

Baseball and Fishing are the two things that get me through the shitty winters here. I picked this up for PC for $19.99, can’t go wrong there. I don’t mind it not having living rosters and online play, don’t want to play against some whiny kids anyway.

The mod community has already started improving on this title at mvpmods.com It’ll take a little bit to make some tools and editors but once they do I think that this game will be the new MVP, I know big words but with the shiny new graphics it’ll get a large following. IMHO

By: Jason Moyer

Jason Moyer — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:34:04 +0000

Oh yeah, re: PC baseball, I hope you guys do a little coverage of OOTP 10. I think the whole German-guy-making-the-best-baseball-sim-in-existence part of the series fits well with RPS’ coverage of innovative and groundbreaking games.

By: Jason Moyer

Jason Moyer — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:31:44 +0000

Is it possible to actually get realistic pitch counts and walks? Because if not I’ll just stick to MVP05 and High Heat 04.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:44:28 +0000

Wow, a decent sports game on the PC? What is the industry coming to? :P

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:18:46 +0000

I’m with baseball where I am with many sports that I “don’t like”. No interest in watching them on TV whatsoever but I’d like to go and see a big game. Same reason I can go and sit in the cold and rain at some miserable little bumhole of a football stadium and enjoy myself. Attending sport is usually good fun when you’re there, be it because of being closer or the atmosphere or whatever.

By: Cigol

Cigol — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:14:03 +0000

MLB 09: The Show on the PS3 is one of the best sports games around, but you do have to import it from America/Canada. You can get a demo of it off of the American PSN if you’re not convinced.

…and it uses the exact same features as the great (if now ancient) MVP Baseball on the PC leading me to believe they are the same game – but wikipedia doesn’t back me up on this and nobody else seems to mention it… so hey maybe it’s just a coincidence?

By: John Walker

John Walker — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:06:30 +0000

I went to see a game when I was 21 (at Wrigley) and fell in love.

Edit: Wait, that’s a giant fat lie. That’s what confirmed it for me. It was when I’d failed my A Levels, and was stuck in Guildford when all my friends were at university, and Channel 5 started… well Channel 5 started that year. They showed ESPN’s Weds night and Sunday night games, with the wonderful Tommy Boyd in a studio in the UK with a Canadian baseball expert. As C5 didn’t have to go to commercials as often as the US feed, they’d cut back to the studio and Boyd, who knew nothing about baseball, would ask Todd what had happened, why that guy was out, what an RBI was… I learned as Boyd learned. It was an amazing way to be introduced to the sport.

By: phuzz

phuzz — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:47:50 +0000

John, I’ve always wondered, where did you get your interest in baseball from? I don’t think I know any brits who even knows the rules of base to ball, let alone watch it.