RBI 16 launching on March 29 for PS4 and XboxOne

[Baines]

Downloaded it last night and got in a couple quick games before bed.

It's pretty much like last year's with new rosters and a few subtle changes, which is fine with me. In my first game, I was thinking they had made it more difficult because I damn near lost to the CPU with the difficulty set on easy level. I was actually trailing 2-1 and down to my last out when I hit a walk off 2-run bomb with Tucker Barnhart.

However, I think my struggles can be attributed to getting a feel for the new game and the fact that the Reds are going to be a wretched shitheap of a baseball team this year. I dialed up a second game with random teams and walloped the Angels 10-0 with the Red Sox in five innings. I plan on getting in a bunch of games with the kids this weekend, and I'll post any thoughts/takeaways I come up with.

[BeefMaster]

Fired it up and gave it about four innings.  I am not in a good mood, although much of that is my fault.

PROS:
- Plays basically the same as RBI '14, for the most part.  That ended up being awful, because I haven't played that game in about a year and am horrifically rusty, particularly batting (I forgot that you can hit basically nothing off the plate, and my decades-honed RBI instinct is to swing at everything the CPU throws).
- They fixed the baserunning controls - you can now just hold the direction and X to round the base and head to the next one, rather having to hit X after you reached the previous base.  That was a HUGE pet peeve in RBI '14.
- Presentation is a bit nicer, generally - graphics are still simple but a step up from RBI '14.

CONS:
- The fly ball logic was written by Nazi sadists.  It'll grow on me after a few games, but I am having a HELL of a time tracking fly balls right now, even after getting pretty decent at it in RBI '14.  That is not helped by...
- The graphics are too high-res, and the ball and its shadow are hard to pick up, to the point that I'm not sure I'll be able to play it on the treadmill (where I'm a little farther away from the TV and off-center from my projection TV).
- Load times are a little longer between innings
- The roster is bullshit - they actually had an April 1 roster update that I grabbed, but the Twins don't have Byung-Ho Park even though they signed him in December, and they still have Tyler Duffy, who was cut a week and a half ago, instead of Ricky Nolasco (which I like, because Duffy is great and Nolasco is a bum).
- When a ball is unquestionably hit out of play, they don't even give you the opportunity to run after it.  This includes some home runs.

[VEGAS]

...I dialed up a second game with random teams and walloped the Angels 10-0 with the Red Sox in five innings....

Red Sox > Angels

[Gantry]

I'm thinking that the Red Sox > Angels

[Turd]

Thanks Vegas! Hard work goes into this thing every year. Being that we use brand new carts I don't see a large margin...but its ok. I love the game and it gets me all jazzed for baseball, and honestly helps me with my fantasy draft

I'll pick it up.  It's a good game for $20...

I paid $20 for RBI baseball on the ps4, but paid $55 for Turd's sweet RBI 2016 rom on a NES cart via tecmobowlers.

And I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Long live the original game. And if it gets Turd a few bucks for all his work on the rom then I'm super cool with that too.

[meat]

Anybody playing RBI 15 ??I just bought it for ps4.

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