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

[Baines]

MLB PR just tweeted a few minutes ago that they're coming out with an RBI Baseball 14.

I mean, who knows, it very well might suck and will probably not be as good as an updated ROM of the original, but I just thought that was something I should put here. I could put it in the RBI forum, but I haven't really looked at it in probably six months.

[Baines]

Also looking at the mentions of #RBI14 is pretty entertaining. Lot of fucking RBI fans out there.

[BDawk]

http://rbigame.mlb.com/rbigame/home.jsp

Will be on consoles and mobile.  What a perfect Iphone/Ipad game

[Not Gantry]

http://extramustard.si.com/2014/01/14/new-rbi-baseball-mlbam/
http://rbigame.mlb.com/rbigame/home.jsp

[fathedX]

I'm in

[Baines]

RBI Baseball is trending right now. So good...

[Brookensrules!]

This is big news, unfortunately I have no fancy devices to play, maybe it will suck though.   Latest technology is Wii.

[BeefMaster]

This will be on my Xbox minutes after it comes out.

[Turd]

Damn I was just going to post this. Awesome.

[brahmy]

Sweet!

I'd love to see this reinvigorate interest in the classic ROMs, maybe this will drive a bunch of traffic to the RBI hacking community!

I'm also pretty pumped to play a modern arcade style baseball game. Just hope they don't incorporate pay-to-win or pay-to-unlock style features that are too common in modern multi platform games.... Give me a sweet game, charge me once and leave me alone!

[Turd]

Agreed.

Things I'd love to see:
something like the Pro Yakuu Family Stadium games with updated rosters.  Same classic gameplay, updated rosters, and maybe a few fixes like diving/jumping, stadiums, DH.  Season play.  League option for playing vs. friends. "Classic" mode like Tecmo's redux did where you could play with the original graphics.  Actual player names and cities (I don't need logos or real team names, though that would be cool).

Things I don't want to see:
Drastic overhaul of the graphics or gameplay.  Powerups mode where you get something like a "super shot" or "split multiple balls pitch." I doubt they would, but sometimes that's how they refresh things.  Pay-to-win/unlock as brahmy mentioned.  This would be stupid.

[Slims]

I was just about to post this here but I figured I should check "breaking" because this is big news. So fkn happy right now. This will be a perfect 3ds game to play online. I hope they keep the 3ds version like the japanese family stadium was on the ds. It was awesome.

[Gantry]

Fantastic news, though I remember an XBox version that was supposed to come out before and never made it.

[Gantry]

You can give them your email address on that page for updates, I highly recommend that everyone do that so they see some interest.

[BeefMaster]

This sounds a lot more promising than the rumored one from a couple years ago.  In that case, I don't know that there was ever a formal announcement - someone spotted an ESRB registration, and the development studio confirmed that they were working on it... and then it basically just disappeared.  This one sounds like it has a more firm release date and is being a bit more heavily publicized.

[Gantry]

Absolutely, the fact that MLB has a hand in it makes me hopeful

[BeefMaster]

Things I'd love to see:
something like the Pro Yakuu Family Stadium games with updated rosters.  Same classic gameplay, updated rosters, and maybe a few fixes like diving/jumping, stadiums, DH.  Season play.  League option for playing vs. friends. "Classic" mode like Tecmo's redux did where you could play with the original graphics.  Actual player names and cities (I don't need logos or real team names, though that would be cool).

Since it was announced by MLB Advanced Media, I'd assume real team names are a given.  You'd think that they'd have the MLBPA on board as well for something like this - I don't know that they've worked separately since Griffey (MLB but not MLBPA) and RBI (MLBPA but not MLB).

All the stuff you've suggested, though, are right on with what I'd expect.  Basically, I'd like RBI with updated rosters, ideally some historical teams (an "original rosters" option would be phenomenal), and Baseball Simulator-style season mode.  Retro graphics would be cool, and if they were really ambitious, maybe multiple gameplay modes - original RBI, RBI 3, and "modern" (based more heavily on Pro Yakyuu).

Things I don't want to see:
Drastic overhaul of the graphics or gameplay.  Powerups mode where you get something like a "super shot" or "split multiple balls pitch." I doubt they would, but sometimes that's how they refresh things.  Pay-to-win/unlock as brahmy mentioned.  This would be stupid.

Christ, I hope they don't go free-to-play - I would much rather just pay my $10 and get everything (although I didn't terribly mind having to unlock the historical players in NBA Jam), rather than have to grind or feel like a tool for paying for stuff.  Not a fan of that model at all.

Power-ups were occasionally fun in Baseball Simulator, but I'm in agreement that they don't have a place in RBI.

Very strongly agreed on the "changes to the gameplay" part, particularly the pitching/hitting model - I never have cared for the "move the reticule to the spot where the pitch is going" behavior that's been the standard in baseball games since the N64 era.  I wouldn't mind them adding diving and jumping, like you said - they had that in very early RBI sequels, so it's not really counter to the spirit of the game.  In my above scenario, you could just enable that in "RBI 3" or "Family Stadium" mode.

[japetus462]

Agreed.

Things I'd love to see:
something like the Pro Yakuu Family Stadium games with updated rosters.  Same classic gameplay, updated rosters, and maybe a few fixes like diving/jumping, stadiums, DH.  Season play.  League option for playing vs. friends. "Classic" mode like Tecmo's redux did where you could play with the original graphics.  Actual player names and cities (I don't need logos or real team names, though that would be cool).

Things I don't want to see:
Drastic overhaul of the graphics or gameplay.  Powerups mode where you get something like a "super shot" or "split multiple balls pitch." I doubt they would, but sometimes that's how they refresh things.  Pay-to-win/unlock as brahmy mentioned.  This would be stupid.

Totally agree on all points.

[The Good Brother]

RBI Baseball is trending right now. So good...

What is #KrollShow

[fathedX]

MLB is losing a lot of licensing money now that the 2K series has announced they will no longer make a baseball game, so it's in their best interest to try to push this.  Hopefully they get the playability right.  The RBI series went to shit went it got to the Genesis generation, pushing for more reality and hurting the actual fun of the game.  Keeping my fingers crossed...