Follow-Up to MLB2K7 Post
I wanted to add a couple of notes to what I wrote yesterday--I had a ton of things to mention and a few got missed.First, while sunny games look photorealistic, late afternoon games look pretty poor. I understand that they wanted to show a contrast between shadows and light, but no major league games are played in semi-darkness. They have this remarkable invention called "lights," and they use them at the slightest provocation. There's no such thing as a low-light condition in a major league ballpark anymore, just different kinds of light.
Second, I mentioned team trading away the cornerstones of their franchises. It's not that the best player on a team never gets traded in real life, because they do, particularly on losing teams or when a player is in the last year of his contract. They don't, however, get traded for glass beads and doughnuts. So when I look for a deal and offer two players rated 77, I shouldn't be able to trade for a 92 rated center fielder in his late twenties who has two years left on his contract. Yet somehow, I did.
Actually, if those guys were both fresh out of high school, that might be a reasonable trade, but they weren't.
I only see that kind of deal rarely, but if a player of that caliber is on the block, surely another team would offer them a better deal than I did. A much better deal, actually.
The last note is that Ben Brinkman needs to do some interviews now. He was pimping the game all over the place before it shipped, but now that it has, he needs to man up and do some interviews about what's not working and what they're going to do to fix the problems. We need to somehow break through this Marketing Cycle of Bullshit where these guys at like rock stars for two weeks before the game ships, then disappear for the next eleven and a half months.
It's not just Brinkman, of course. Because of the annual release cycle, which is not the responsibility of the consumer, team sports games generally have very poor post-release support in general. But wouldn't it be refreshing for someone to step out of the muck and be different?
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