BREAKING... (The official RBI '14 Thread)

[Johnny Tecmo]

I found something really lame a week ago. You can play a 1 inning game in exhibition mode and add to your win total. So basically you can be all star team versus worst team and rack up 10 wins in 10 mins.

[VEGAS]

Hey RBI Empire. Are you keeping your own stats? Or does does the game keep them and reveal them from time to time? Or can they be looked up?

[RBI Empire]

I keep my own. I take a pic with my phone after each game and then enter the data on a spreadsheet and add it up every 10 games. It sucks that they don't have stat tracking on there.

[ryno]

Downloaded the game tonight. I suck at pitching.  My first homer was with Jose fuckin veres. The pitcher!

[BeefMaster]

I've misplayed a couple fly balls into triples, but I don't think I've ever hit one yet.  Still REALLY station-to-station most of the time.

Got my Twins season back to 5-5 today with a win over the Orioles.  Haven't had much time to devote to the game the last week or so, and still struggling with keeping the opponents' hits in the park - I won today's game 10-8.

Did you see my pitching tips that I posted before? I don't have the best ERA, but if you're scoring 10 runs then you should be doing okay if you can follow those a bit.

The pitching side is getting at least a bit better - I try to nibble the corners as much as possible, which usually keep the homers down and gets me a strikeout every inning or two (I pretty much always throw a drop ball with two strikes).

I found something really lame a week ago. You can play a 1 inning game in exhibition mode and add to your win total. So basically you can be all star team versus worst team and rack up 10 wins in 10 mins.

I'd never looked at the leaderboards, but that sucks for people who take them at all seriously.

[Gantry]

RBI Baseball, sewius business:

[RBI Empire]

The leaderboards on RBI 14 are a joke. It blows my mind that they didn't think to at least put games played requirements for each category.

[RBI Empire]

Western suburbs of Chicago!? I lived in Bolingbrook as a kid for about a year. My dad was working in Aurora for the railroad back in '85-'86. I lived there when the Bears won the Super Bowl. It was awesome!

[RBI Empire]

I was in Kindergarten at the time. I have 2 older brothers. I can't remember what schools they went to but one would have been in 4th grade and the other would have been in 7th. My older brother is Brian, not that it really helps. We moved from an apartment to a house in spring of '86. The house was in Essex Ct off Old Stone Road. It's really close to Bolingbrook HS.

[RBI Empire]

Small world indeed. Will do!

[BeefMaster]

Question: Does anyone know whether the RBI Challenges (the things that unlock the retro jerseys) can be done in Postseason mode instead of Season?  I'd like to see if I can knock out a few of the single-game ones (two homers with one player, hit for the cycle as a team, two homers in an inning), but I am 12 games into my season with the Twins, and you can't have more than one season in progress at a time (which is yet another poor design decision).

I nearly got the Twins' challenge, back-to-back shutouts - got a 2-inning 11-0 slaughter against Cleveland, then kept the Tigers scoreless until they got back-to-back doubles to lead off the bottom of the 7th.

[RBI Empire]

I thought about this too. I haven't tested it though. It's opening baseball season for our 11 year old this weekend, so unfortunately I don't think I'll have time to test this. Let me know if you get to it before I do.

[BeefMaster]

I'll be out of town to go to a Twins game this weekend, so I'm not going to be able to do it, either.  I'll start a postseason when I get back and give it a shot, most likely with one of the "two homers with one player in a game" or "two homers in an inning" teams, because those seem like the easiest.

[malnuboy]

RBI Baseball, sewius business:

I have the same reaction to that video I imagine a three year old would. I just start giggling.

[fknmclane]

Love me some this is sewius.

[Turd]

It's time fo some celewee!

[BeefMaster]

I'll be out of town to go to a Twins game this weekend, so I'm not going to be able to do it, either.  I'll start a postseason when I get back and give it a shot, most likely with one of the "two homers with one player in a game" or "two homers in an inning" teams, because those seem like the easiest.

Started a playoff series with the Braves (two homers in an inning), and managed to sit six home runs in the Wild Card Playoff... all in different innings.  Three of them came with no outs in the inning, and the one in the 8th was followed by two warning track fly balls.  DAMMIT.

Also, I discovered in my regular season that you do not get credit for the perfect game achievement in a slaughter, which I kind of assumed but had not confirmed (unless it HAS to be combined, like the description says; I only used one pitcher because it was a two-inning game).

[BeefMaster]

I'll be out of town to go to a Twins game this weekend, so I'm not going to be able to do it, either.  I'll start a postseason when I get back and give it a shot, most likely with one of the "two homers with one player in a game" or "two homers in an inning" teams, because those seem like the easiest.

Just confirmed that the RBI Challenges do not appear to work in postseason games - had three two-homer innings in Game 2 of the NLDS with the Braves, and it did not give me credit even after the game was over.  I guess that means I have to play another 40 games with the Twins (which hopefully will manage to include two consecutive shutouts) before I can start getting any other teams' retro uniforms unlocked.

[RBI Empire]

Man, that's kinda crappy. It would have been nice to be able to unlock jerseys that way. Hopefully they fix that in the next version.

[BeefMaster]

I guess it does say "Season Mode", but if they're going to do that, they should allow for parallel seasons.  I guess I could try and work around it by creating a new save on the memory unit or cloud instead of my hard drive, but I assume the unlocks are tied to the save, not to my profile, so I wouldn't actually be able to use them.