MLB 2K11 - Xbox Controller Essential

[Ravno]

For anyone out there considering trying to play this game w/ any controller other than an X-Box controller, save yourself the headache.

I was slogging along using a PS3 controller (via MotionInJoy) and the game felt like it was fighting me every step of the way. The controls didn't make sense, the prompts for which buttons to hit didn't make sense, and it took me about a week to feel comfortable w/ the controls at all.

I finally gave in and bought a cheap 3rd part X-Box controller, and it's a different game. The button prompts are correct, it immediately detected it, and to top it all off it gave me a mini-tutorial on how to do everything the first time I played through w/ the new controller.

It seriously feels like a new game. It's sad that they didn't put in the extra effort to make other controllers as easy.

Other than this (albeit significant) issue, I'm loving 2K11

[TheRedRisky]

I've been using the PS3 controller and managed to figure it out eventually. I still can't figure out how to try to take a wall catch, but otherwise I've figured out how to play it. I don't know how different an Xbox controller would be mind.

None the less, controller is certainly needed as trying to use the keyboard is an exercise in futility

[scott_gc]

With keyboard play you can reduce the game to single button timing game by making fielding and baserunning automatic and using the classic version of pitching and hitting.

With these setting you just select and aim the pitch, when you select the pitch you hit the button twice in time for the expanding circle to overlap. For hitting, you just hit the space key at the right moment if you believe the pitch is a stike or do nothing to take a ball.

In this way you can at least enjoy the graphics and the player information with just a keyboard. See my other post for a complaint about the accuracy of the team roster information. Due to that issue I am not inclined to buy a controller just for this game.