Last month, I got MLB 2K7 for my xbox 360 system. I hadn't played it much right away, but lately I've played a few exhibition games and started a team in franchise mode.
I selected 'fantasy draft' and redrafted the entire league. I figured that since this would be a multi-year franchise, I would avoid most of the high-priced players, and concentrate on young, cheap talent. I only ended up spending about 35 Million out of a $134 Million budget. Here are my starters:
C Johjima (injured in 1st game, out for season)/ R. Paulino
1B Broussard
2B Kinsler
SS H. Ramirez
3B Zimmerman
LF C. Duncan
CF Baldelli
RF Delmon Young
SP B. Webb
SP Bedard
SP Sheets
SP Hendrickson
SP Gorzellany
CL J. Frasor/T. Coffey
So far, we have played 2 games in franchise mode as the Cubbies. In our first game, we broke out the whippin' sticks and hit 15 SOLO HOME RUNS to beat the Reds 15-8. I was hoping that hitting that many home runs was just a fluke. However, in my second game, I hit 10 more dingers, but lost 21-19! I have the game on PRO difficulty setting. How in the world do I get this game to behave more realisitically? Hanley Ramirez has 7 home runs in 2 games! Broussard has four, and D. Young has five!
I know that my pitching is not good, and I re-read the manual last night & figured out why I'm throwing so many meat pitches and wild pitches. So, I'm sure I can fix my pitching. But that hitting is just out of control!
If anyone has any tips for a more realistic experience in franchise mode, let me know. I'm afraid to raise the difficulty level because I'm not very good yet...
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I don't know why, but they haven't invented a baseball video game yet that can hold down the number of home runs.
So, I got my pitching squared away (sort of), and figured out how not to throw wild pitches and meat. I won my last two games 11-9 and 13-6. Most of my runs still come via the long ball, though.
It would be nice if someone would put kick-ass video to a game with a realistic outcome generator, like DMB. Of course, any time you allow the player to swing for himself, you're going to get unrealistic results (or have a game that only about 10,000 people in the world have any chance of being good at)
I read online somewhere that the best thing to do is keep it on "Pro" difficulty, and change the game sliders. I'll have to try that, because in my last game, my bunch of misfits hit 20 home runs.
Also, I had the privilege of watching opposing right fielder, Brad Hawpe, get stuck in the right field bullpen during a play. Neat!
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