Worst thing about R.B.I.

[Burnzky]

  I know everyone here loves R.B.I., but i want to know what everyone thinks the game could have been made without .  I'd have to say that i hate when you try to turn a quick double play and u dont get the out at second.  It somehow always costs me a run.  And i always try to trow the ball quick when a runner is tagging up, the only problem is that when u try to throw while u catch u drop it a lot.

[Gantry]

Though it sucks to get burned by them, I would rather have BOPs and glitches in the game.  It adds a little variety to the games, constrast that to the arcade version where there are no BOPs and glitches.  A bit more boring...

I can easily say the worst part is the music, it's terrible and oh so repetitive...

[king_jason]

the music is annoying. i wish the rosters were bigger, at least a couple more pitchers.  i other baseball games i play i run thru players like a spring training game

[GPines]

The Bops and glitches are definately part of the game that makes it great, and having only 4 pitchers is what makes it challenging, especially in curve style, you have to know when to use your curves and when to let them hit it. Or your pitcher will only last 3 innings.

I personally like the music, I wouldn't listen to it in my car but it doesn't bother me playing, its classic.

The thing that bothers me most is probably hitting the HR down the line that is fair but called foul, it always seems to happen when I really need it. But that is part of the game.

[Gwynn3k]

it seems to me that the tengen umpires have really been plagued by their ability to differentiate between fair and foul balls.   anything down the line is questionable... if it looks fair it will probably be called foul whereas those balls that look foul down the line are called fair.  

another issue i have with the game is the fact that 80 percent of the players cant get to second on a ball hit to the wall.  

[Burnzky]

   Ya its tough sometimes to get to second when u hit a gapper.  Especially with Armas because he drills the ball to the wall in the air.  Then there is no way he will ever make it 2 second unless the outfielder trips.

[B]

i think the only thing bad about the game would be the lack of teams...i wish it had all of the teams....i understand that this reduced amount of teams lets us get to know everyone...but i wish we had some more...i love every other quirk of the game...

[Burnzky]

   I agree it would be nice if there was more variety because after a while u get used to the teams.  But correct me if im wrong, but i think rbi was the first game to use real players, so it might have been too expensive to use all the teams.  So taking the top 2 teams in each division was a good way to go.

[Gwynn3k]

do you remember major league baseball,  after the ball was hit the screen would go green for a split second...  that game sucked.  they didnt even have names,  they just gave you positions and their numbers...  

another problem with the game is that you cant advance to the next base if a slower runner in front of you hasnt gone on to the next base.   this usually happens on a ball hit to the wall with runners on second and third...  if a guy like coleman is following pena,  coleman cant go home until pena scores even though coleman is to third by the time pena is reaching the dirt.  

[Burnzky]

  Ya i think we got that game,  that one is pretty terrible,  its not much fun when u dont have any names of players of even made up names.

[king_jason]

one thing i hated about fielding in the rbi games is how a guy always automatically went to cover each of the bases. so if a guy hit a grounder just left of 1st or right of 3rd, you couldn't move the fielder to get the ball.

also, with the of's, p, and ss always moving together instead of independently, if you chased a fly and missed it, then instead of the next closest of being able to go for it, he'd be way out of position

[Burnzky]

  Ya that stupid 1st baseman has some reason for covering the base with a man on.  Then you get a lefty hit.  I dont like how everyone moves together either.  I always missjudge flyballs, i go with my shortstop and realize i cant get it and its too late for my outfielder to get it.  I also dont like how the field is slanted.  If the ball goes over your head u have to chase it till u get to the wall.  Thats also how u can get a homerun on a bunt because the computer chases the ball to the fence.

[Gwynn3k]

the computer will chase it until it gets close to the outfielder that is running into the fence... at that time they will switch to him and usually limit your runner to third.  i think the computer assistance is a plus because it it makes it possible for choppers to go through the infield... other wise, there wouldnt be any lazy hits which are a big part of baseball.  so whether the programmers intended it this way or not is academic... all i know is that it works well.

[GPines]

anyone remember Cal Ripken baseball on SNES, I played that one for about 10 minutes then tossed it, they had names in it like Cecil Praire, and Tim Trout. That game was bullshit.

the only baseball game I ever played for awhile was Bottom of the Ninth for playstation, they had sequels, but the first bottom of the ninth was a solid game. you had to move the X cursor to hit the ball properly. it kept stats and had season mode, it was fun for awhile, but I always come back to RBI Baseball.

[Gwynn3k]

the only thing rbi is missing is a season mode.  
as it is, there is no equal to the gameplay.

hey, the padres finally scored a run... it only took them three games.

[B]

the other game we played was ken griffey jr baseball for snes...that was pretty good....they had all the real players, but they all had fake names...and i liked when they caught the ball cause they did some cool thing with their gloves...but that was in my college days when no one else would participate in rbi with me...

[Burnzky]

  Ya we have that game,  its really fun to play.  I like when you hit a home run and the little guys jump on the plate and the big guys just walk.

[B]

i forgot about the strut to the plate....toronto was unstoppable on that game....and in some ways i wish that the rbi guys could jump and dive...but that would once again go against the simplicity of the game

[Gwynn3k]

all i have to say about griffey is opposite field homeruns...  that game was notorious for them...  and what was the maximum for a homerun... 465?  i think it was...  when i first bought that game, i spent an entire weekend going through the teams giving them their proper names.  unfortunately, about a month into playing, they memory was erased... another sad day for me.

[Dill]

There are a couple of things I would like to see in RBI.  One, there are too many hits between the 3/4 and 5/6 holes.  I would rather see more hits go up the middle instead of always going between the same infielders.  And how the hell does the pitcher catch and/or knock down every damn ball up the middle no mattter how hard it is hit?  I am a big fan of doubles, so I would rather see some of the groundballs down the lines get by the 1st or 3rd basemen.  They seem to be hugging the lines too much, while the middle infielders are shaded too close to the second base bag.  If they were to move the corner infielders farther from the line, and move the middle infielders a bit from second, all my problems would be solved (more balls down the line, less hits through the holes, and more singles up the middle).