If this video looks familiar, it's a reupload from 2020. The older version didn't live up to my quality standards and I decided to sorta "remaster" it. Anyways, I'll be uploading an NBA 2K12 retrospective next!
This game legitimately started my love for baseball. I got addicted to game of baseball and the New York Mets for no reason other than I loved their stadium.
also thing that always amazed me about mvp baseball was how in depth the minor league systems were. could go play a single A, AA, or AAA if wanted to. and the trade machine was so damn realistic which shocks me so hard that madden current day still cant figure out. when they were able to do it great for mvp in 2005 and madden 04-2010
@John Asaro What world are you living in? Every sports franchise of today has less depth than they did in the 2000's. I grew up and lived through it all, I saw and played through these games and I knew everything was going down hill and your graphics argument holds no weight when there is visual proof that madden 2016 had better graphics than Madden 23. Gameplay and graphics are going backwards. It is pure laziness and greed.
I remember being absolutely addicted to this game when it came out, it scared me because I had no ambition in life other then to play this game for like 12 hours straight for months at a time, I would probably still be playing it if I were not forced to get a job
My father and I had a rocky relationship growing up but this was something we unknowingly bonded over. I was never into sports videogames but I would sit there and watch as he played for hours and hours just working on his players and playing single games. When I didn’t understand the stats he’d explain them to me and I think I know what little I do know about sports stats because of that. The music was awesome too. He’d leave the game idle while he went to take a break and the soundtrack would blast through the house. One of the few good memories at the time that I look back fondly on.
I once played 20 games in a row one night playing MVP baseball, and so many hours in the mini game mode. I wish EA put actual heart into their games like they did years ago, MVP will remain in my memories forever
@RedEyeJedi I think from 2010-2020 The Show was consistently great. The last few years have seen many fan favorite features stripped, gameplay has gotten repetitive (or arguably worse despite next gen) and Diamond Dynasty has become almost the entire focus of developers.
OMG when I saw the title of this video and the game cover I HAD to comment......I can't give you enough thumbs up for the video. I spent countless hours with my friends in the neighborhood, my step brothers and also my high school baseball team playing this game and watching this video makes me nostalgic as hell especially when I saw the albert Pujols in the powder blue cardinals uniform and the pitching meter. Oh man you made my day with this video haha. What you said about all the 2005 EA sports games is so damn true...I had this game, NBA Live with mello on the cover and the madden 05 with ray lewis and the tiger woods 05 was the first golf game I ever played and every single one of these games I went DEEP into careers with created players and my own mock drafts and also regular teams....The fact that the red sox (my favorite team) won it all for the first time in 86 years the year before this game came out and my fav player (besides Chipper Jones) was on the cover and it was the year I graduated high school just hits so many nostalgic spots for me that I will always love this game and the entire 05 EA sports lineup....Seeing names like Johnny Damon, David Eckstein, Alber Pujols, Manny Ramirez and JON DOWD LOL.....This was the first GREAT baseball game that would hold up today. OMG i miss this time frame, This was the last year or so that I knew every lineup and every pitching rotation for every team in the N.L. and the A.L. being MR. Baseball and having this game come out with all the bells and whistles was a perfect point in time for me....Love the video!!
Such good memories man. These were the days when sports devs cared about immersion and not how much they could make from loot boxes or card games. Maybe someday we can get back to this.
I always tell people about this game and no one ever knows it. I played this over every other sports game for years even after others came out. The mini games were amazing, just a perfect baseball game. The Show needs to take some notes from the Goat.
I remember waking up on the weekends and turning on mvp in the living room tv. My mom making delicious Mexican breakfast, and my dads family randomly showing up. You can smell the coffee aroma and hear the gossip all while playing mvp, nba live , or Nfl 2k5. Miss those days 😢
This and Ken Griffey Presents MLB were always my two favorite games from their respective generations. As for currently, idk if anything ever beat '05.
Dude this was my favorite game ever growing up. For some reason I stopped paying attention to baseball for years but I’m back following again and I love it
played it during my freshmen year in college...got into it so deep that took me quite a while to get back to the school. Created myself a pitcher with 20 wins and hitting 50 hrs...still remembering the happiest face I had seeing the stats.
MVP Baseball 2005 was absolutely amazing for its time. Unfortunately, as for many sports games we see today, companies remove features that existed in previous games and add them back in future games pretending like they added some new feature. It’s just pure corporate greed at this point. The fact that games almost two decades old are miles ahead of the modern sports games, besides graphics, is sad.
whats crazy, they would release games yearly and the game was great and complete. Now they release games and have to patch everything for weeks after release and the game still sucks!
And now Video games have fallen Off considerably... I'm talking about the gameplay suffering... But m v p 05 great graphics For that time... And they had that managerial mode... Where you play without playing the video part of the game, I would get a game done it for Fifteen or twenty minutes.... And finish a season within a A month and a half... Just simply a classic
@@dontbeasucka.61 Yea I remember when he PlayStation 5 came out I was so happy now I barley even play it. Only thing that’s gonna save video games honestly is GTA 6
Remember desperately wanting this game in the year 2004 just bc Manny Ramirez was the man! Never got the chance to buy as for my childhood this game was def expensive but just everyday wishing to own this game while i was living in Venezuela. So dope to see the reviews of this game decades later & hearing how it’s one of the best sports video game of all time.
I had it back when it came out on my GameCube in 05 . I was like 14-15 at the time and it’s so great to hear that my amazing memories of this game aren’t just that (memories) . I also love seeing people from other countries be so passionate about baseball as an American. It’s a fucking amazing game if you take the time to learn all the nuance and strategy. Much love from California!!
Glad I came across this video. I'm sure I've spend maybe half a years worth of time into this game between all the modes. I loved building my own ball Park and team and I had made my own Ohtani at the time by the name of “Jake McDougal”. This game is a core memory especially for any fan of the 90s-00s baseball the last great Era. What a video and trip down memory lane. Thank you.
I think I probably played this game more than any other sports game ever. I loved the color pitch indicator. That's such a great idea on how to give the player an ability to read a pitch. Plus it's semi-accurate to how you read a pitch IRL. Like you said, this game was SO ahead of its time in so many different aspects.
I'm remember playing MVP baseball 2005 back in the day as a kid its definitely one of the greatest sports games of time..I would still play it today if I could the game is legendary
A friend and I loved the MVP series, especially 04. Yet, we recognized how many issues 04 had and wrote down a laundry list of everything we wanted to see changed for the 05 release. We eventually sent the list US postage to EA sports, never to receive a reply. Yet, when we played MVP 05 every single suggestion we made, and improvement we wanted to see, made the 05 release. I have no clue if anyone at EA ever saw that letter, yet it sure felt like a developer listened. That EA sports is dead, buried, and it's corpse rotted. The memories however, are very much alive. God bless MVP 05. Man, I wish we could get remakes of vintage GOAT level sports games.
This video answered the question I always had about owning 04 as a teen. I knew it always seemed that Lefty batters had so much less power than righty batters. Glad to know I wasn't just going crazy, and just for some reason sucked at using lefty batters without realizing it.
I know! I thought the same thing! I am a left handed batter so I always wanted to feel like I could crank out home runs with my favorite team, the 04 Red Sox. But it was soooo much more difficult! I never bought 05 even though it had one of my favorite players on the cover. Not sure why I didn’t buy it. Probably because I spent so much money on the one the year before, I still have a ps2, maybe I will buy the game now and get a hit of nostalgia!
@@colewagner3435 Yeah it was a shame, there was a lot of lefties I really like. Always loved big Jim Thome, but he was basically unusable as a power hitter in 04 because he was a Lefty at the plate.
Oh yes. The times we didn't have cancerous microtransactions in video games. I've never been able to quite replicate that feeling with any other baseball game like MVP 05 did. I'm still playing on PC running a Dynasty mode with custom rosters. So many good memories with this game. Another baseball game I really enjoyed was All Star Baseball 2003 on the original Xbox. I believe it was the only baseball game with an expansion mode and was my favorite mode in a baseball game.
YES!!!! I loved this game. I remember throwing a no hitter in online mode with Sidney Ponson. No baseball game has ever felt so comfortable and controllable.
I was 13 years old when this game came out and I received the psp version as a gift. Some of the most fun I ever had with a baseball game, and that was the baby version since it was on psp! Still had most of the features and the gameplay was so freaking crisp especially for the time
I've played the PC version of the game almost every single day since it was released. I estimate that I've played this game over 15,000 times. It's the most awesomely-addictive game I've ever played.
Madden 05, MVP Baseball 05, NBA Live 05, and ESPN Football 2K5, was just a few of the best sports games of 2004. As a person who plays baseball games, I was broke in college that year in 2004, and was only able to get 5 games that year across several genres. It was a hard (yet later dumb) decision to skip this game. I couldn’t agree with this video more, as this was an outstanding take on a classic and masterpiece of a game!
I loved the game as a kid and still play it on my ps2 from time to time. I think sports games as a whole today feels so lifeless almost like the real product lol but seriously this game was gold. I miss those days of classic games day one.
In regards to your intro, NBA 05 WAS INCREDIBLE. I always stuck with EA basketball till the end based on that game and the nostalgia I feel towards it.
This game will forever live in my heart, I remember my mom taking me down to another Game Stop across the city to get it, it was 20% off and came out the same month but someone returned it I loved the way the games depth was, the minor league system was good, and the game play was solid, and the music pops into my head randomly, I even have a Playlist of it.
This game is very important to me, it made me learn about baseball and love the sport, and it's a lot of fun to this day and it's still a good game. And I started playing it this year.
I bought a ps2 a couple years ago just to play this game again. used to play it with my dad all the time as a kid and it still holds up today. I'd play this over the show any day
I'm playing the show 21 ,..as good as it is , it's making me miss that old 05 game , loved picking what promotional days you'd have during the season,even what they served at the food stands, and you didn't need to be online to create a stadium, still have it in the drawer
Words cannot describe how much I love this game growing up. This was the game that pretty much celebrated my favorite team, the Boston Red Sox ending and 86-year-old curse. The soundtrack of this game is phenomenal in my opinion, The gameplay is solid , The graphics at the time were amazing, With so many features and modes in the game, it’s kind of hard to get bored. I think overall if you just love the game of baseball game, You will fall in love with this game.
I played this game as a kid back when it came out and had no idea it was held with such high regard. To be fair it was fun though, so I should have known lol.
MLB Slugfest 2003, Nascar Thunder 2003, Madden 05, MVP bball 05 which was a crazy step up from slugfest as far as realism, NBA live 05, and super monkey ball 2 were my go to games on my GameCube when I was 7-12.. I mean just heaven sent games that me and my brother and friends played all night after baseball games during the summer. Vivid memories.
Agreed. I’ve played probably 40-50 different baseball games and this was the true goat. The mini-games were awesome. Excellent old characters and old stadiums. The create a character was incredible, made Koufax, Cool Papa Bell, etc with customizable styles and unique stats
Playing franchise and starting with a small stadium and building a huge one as you got better was just the best. Somehow, ea didn’t incorporate into its other games is just a massive tragedy, mainly fifa and ncaa football. I loved this game so much and it was the last baseball game I played for about 10 years.
It’s so funny, I can’t believe somebody else remembers John Dowd. This game gives me such nostalgia, being 19, in my first apartment, with a really fun job and being completely self-sufficient, with a girlfriend I was head over heels for, and on days she was in class late sitting in the 2nd bedroom of the apartment where the Xbox was set up with a big ass fan blowing on me, getting high and playing the Mets dynasty mode for 20 years. Waking up at 5AM, getting on the train to head to work all to come back that night and do the same thing. Nothing but optimism and light responsibilities, life just didn’t seem so serious, and this game along with Gun on the Xbox brings me back to those times.
The halcyon days of EA Sports. When shit really WAS in the game. Competition brought out the best in them...the 2005 (year 2004) releases are for my money, collectively the best ever.
I spent so much time playing this game and I knew so much about baseball then, not because I was a baseball fan, but just learned all the rosters from the game.
Used to come home after high school, pop on my MVP 2005 and wait till 7:00 PM to roll around and watch baseball. I even convinced my mom to buy the MLB package on Dish so I could watch anyone I wanted. Good times
Not gonna lie you are absolute right. This game has alot of memories with me we used to play on the game cube alllll day. Specifically 2005 too, this game was lit
I have this for PC. It's still my fave baseball game to play. I've played it this year lol. The Paterson cheat codes were ridiculous. Thank you for remastered vid.
Serious consideration for a very overlooked gem, World Series Baseball 2 for the Sega Saturn. That game was phenomenal and still enjoyable to this day.
I love MVP Baseball 2005 for the original Xbox. I played it for the 2020 MLB season and took the White Sox to the World Series in dynasty mode like they did in real life, and the game looks great in 720p on the Xbox version.
Baseball games were always ahead of their time. Even back to the first 3d baseball games like all star baseball, you had signature batting stances and pitching animations. You always had immaculate looking stadiums even dating back to 16 bit baseball games like ken griffey jr's winning run.
Loved this game so much. Played many seasons. Also used to download rosters and buy memory cards online that were updated rosters and faces and full minor league rosters. Such a great time!
I remember being in love with this game. I remember playing and wishing mvp 05 had a pitch count and i paused the game and there was the pitch count! Game was amazing. I learned a lot about baseball from this game. How to pitch. Easports needs to make a comeback with college football.
I loved this game. The hitting and pitching mechanics were so good. I remember making a dynasty mode team with players that had advantageous heat maps and just mashing.
Picked this up for 39 cents at a retro game store a couple of months back. I’m loving it, it’s taking me back to when I was a kid. I played a little bit of Owner Mode before switching to Dynasty, just playing GM. Seeing my players develop (or stagnate) and adjusting around that is really nice. There are gripes that I have, like having to play around matching salaries in trades, the CPU signing players after free agency ends and spring training begins, and certain players expectations being too high (a Triple A backup who’s never seen the majors won’t sign for anything less than MLB Indispensable? Really?) overall it’s an excellent experience and I’d really recommend it to anyone who is interested.
Totally Agree! I just bought this game for my nephews and they could not believe how great this game was. I gave them an original Xbox I found at a yardsale with this game and Burnout 3. Great Video!
I recall playing it at my buddy's house, and even though I'm not really into baseball, I had fun playing. I had no idea this game was so revered, even beyond MLB games and sports games! For the way that people talk about MLB: The Show, I figured that series of games held the honors of the best baseball games out there, followed by the 2k series on Xbox 360/PS3.
If this video looks familiar, it's a reupload from 2020. The older version didn't live up to my quality standards and I decided to sorta "remaster" it. Anyways, I'll be uploading an NBA 2K12 retrospective next!
Yes sir😊
yessir!!
I was so confused cause I literally just watched the og vid like yesterday lol
This reminds me of the MLB game with the game mode "King of the Diomand"
Why not NBA 2K11 since that’s the real GOAT basketball game.
This game legitimately started my love for baseball. I got addicted to game of baseball and the New York Mets for no reason other than I loved their stadium.
You sir ✌️💪
Being able to argue any call and balancing how much you wanted to push it or just full on get tossed from the game is still something unrivaled
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Picked this baby up for like $10 at a local game store and walked out like I just robbed the place.
I did this with NCAA football 14 back in 2016 or so, when it was just another sports game lol...I'd love to find mvp out in the wild like that too.
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I found espn nfl2k5 for $4 at an antiques store lol a gem, I never played it growing up
The owner of the local game store is laughing at you buddy 😆 🤣 😂
@@J.Wick. bro this cracked me up. You said that like he found a pokemon 🤣 thanks for laugh
also thing that always amazed me about mvp baseball was how in depth the minor league systems were. could go play a single A, AA, or AAA if wanted to. and the trade machine was so damn realistic which shocks me so hard that madden current day still cant figure out. when they were able to do it great for mvp in 2005 and madden 04-2010
NFL2k5 is better than any Madden game ever.
@John Asaro or not caring about micro transactions.
@@internet2055 so how did he gwt MVP 05 and Madden 06 on a Vita? I imagine they're the PSP versions ?
@John Asaro What world are you living in? Every sports franchise of today has less depth than they did in the 2000's. I grew up and lived through it all, I saw and played through these games and I knew everything was going down hill and your graphics argument holds no weight when there is visual proof that madden 2016 had better graphics than Madden 23. Gameplay and graphics are going backwards. It is pure laziness and greed.
I remember being absolutely addicted to this game when it came out, it scared me because I had no ambition in life other then to play this game for like 12 hours straight for months at a time, I would probably still be playing it if I were not forced to get a job
My father and I had a rocky relationship growing up but this was something we unknowingly bonded over. I was never into sports videogames but I would sit there and watch as he played for hours and hours just working on his players and playing single games.
When I didn’t understand the stats he’d explain them to me and I think I know what little I do know about sports stats because of that.
The music was awesome too. He’d leave the game idle while he went to take a break and the soundtrack would blast through the house. One of the few good memories at the time that I look back fondly on.
I once played 20 games in a row one night playing MVP baseball, and so many hours in the mini game mode.
I wish EA put actual heart into their games like they did years ago, MVP will remain in my memories forever
ea sucks.. hard (now)
I would regularly play the entire 162 game season without breaking a sweat. Goat game
@@Frank-qz8ut Me as well!
This game is a staple of my childhood. So many nights staying up playing this game
Can we appreciate its soundtrack too? Honestly one of the best sports game soundtracks of all time.
My favourite soundtrack in the game is Tessie Because it’s awsome
I can still hear honest mistake playing in my head
God the argument/ejection system was amazing. Felt so real
I still play this game to this day. I’m in about year 20 of Owner Mode. Game simply doesn’t age.
The show 2010-2013 were incredible but mvp 05 is the best baseball game ever made.
MLB the show 16 was elite too
@RedEyeJedi I think from 2010-2020 The Show was consistently great. The last few years have seen many fan favorite features stripped, gameplay has gotten repetitive (or arguably worse despite next gen) and Diamond Dynasty has become almost the entire focus of developers.
@@AsherFeltman every sports game gets “Madden’d” eventually
MLB the show 22 is the WORST sports title game of all time
@@XxXTank9000 any madden and fifa would like to have a word
I just bought and played MVP Baseball 2005 for my PS2…it’s addicting.
Best game you'll ever buy
Better than warzone ?
@@glock5610 Technically you don’t buy Warzone since it’s a free battle royale.
@@HankTheStank710idk the presentation is trash
@@greatestnitemare6626 it's a 2005 video game
OMG when I saw the title of this video and the game cover I HAD to comment......I can't give you enough thumbs up for the video. I spent countless hours with my friends in the neighborhood, my step brothers and also my high school baseball team playing this game and watching this video makes me nostalgic as hell especially when I saw the albert Pujols in the powder blue cardinals uniform and the pitching meter. Oh man you made my day with this video haha. What you said about all the 2005 EA sports games is so damn true...I had this game, NBA Live with mello on the cover and the madden 05 with ray lewis and the tiger woods 05 was the first golf game I ever played and every single one of these games I went DEEP into careers with created players and my own mock drafts and also regular teams....The fact that the red sox (my favorite team) won it all for the first time in 86 years the year before this game came out and my fav player (besides Chipper Jones) was on the cover and it was the year I graduated high school just hits so many nostalgic spots for me that I will always love this game and the entire 05 EA sports lineup....Seeing names like Johnny Damon, David Eckstein, Alber Pujols, Manny Ramirez and JON DOWD LOL.....This was the first GREAT baseball game that would hold up today. OMG i miss this time frame, This was the last year or so that I knew every lineup and every pitching rotation for every team in the N.L. and the A.L. being MR. Baseball and having this game come out with all the bells and whistles was a perfect point in time for me....Love the video!!
Now THAT is a great reply! God bless, from Canada.
Such good memories man. These were the days when sports devs cared about immersion and not how much they could make from loot boxes or card games. Maybe someday we can get back to this.
One of the greatest sports game ever! Glad you remastered this. This game is worth it.
MVP 05 - NCAA MVP 07 were goated games. Very fond memories of playing those games while stationed in Korea.
I always tell people about this game and no one ever knows it. I played this over every other sports game for years even after others came out. The mini games were amazing, just a perfect baseball game. The Show needs to take some notes from the Goat.
I remember waking up on the weekends and turning on mvp in the living room tv. My mom making delicious Mexican breakfast, and my dads family randomly showing up. You can smell the coffee aroma and hear the gossip all while playing mvp, nba live , or Nfl 2k5. Miss those days 😢
This and Ken Griffey Presents MLB were always my two favorite games from their respective generations. As for currently, idk if anything ever beat '05.
Bro you just blessed me with this comment on Ken Griffey jr on snes 🙏
this game was truly ahead of it's time.....let's appreciate the greatness of this game and how amazing it really was.
THEY ACTUALLY ROBB U I GOT FOR $4.99
Dude this was my favorite game ever growing up. For some reason I stopped paying attention to baseball for years but I’m back following again and I love it
Most definitely my favorite baseball game of all times. Thank you for this video. Ohhh what a fun memories!
played it during my freshmen year in college...got into it so deep that took me quite a while to get back to the school. Created myself a pitcher with 20 wins and hitting 50 hrs...still remembering the happiest face I had seeing the stats.
You made Shohei Ohtani before Shohei Ohtani became Shohei Ohtani
Great video. MVP 2005 was unbelievably deep and fun to play
MVP Baseball 2005 was absolutely amazing for its time. Unfortunately, as for many sports games we see today, companies remove features that existed in previous games and add them back in future games pretending like they added some new feature. It’s just pure corporate greed at this point. The fact that games almost two decades old are miles ahead of the modern sports games, besides graphics, is sad.
whats crazy, they would release games yearly and the game was great and complete. Now they release games and have to patch everything for weeks after release and the game still sucks!
This game was my childhood. Thank you so much for honoring such an amazing video game.
Dude your content is just rock solid.
I literally became addicted to sports games in 2005😭
-NBA live 2005
-MVP Baseball 2005
-NBA 2k5
-NBA street V3
-NFL 2k5
And now Video games have fallen Off considerably... I'm talking about the gameplay suffering... But m v p 05 great graphics For that time... And they had that managerial mode... Where you play without playing the video part of the game, I would get a game done it for Fifteen or twenty minutes.... And finish a season within a A month and a half... Just simply a classic
@@dontbeasucka.61 Yea I remember when he PlayStation 5 came out I was so happy now I barley even play it. Only thing that’s gonna save video games honestly is GTA 6
aren't exclusive licenses just so great? Never got any better than 2005.
I had this game and NFL 2k5. For probably 5 years or so, every fall I would play NFL 2k5 franchise and every spring I would play MLB 2005.
Remember desperately wanting this game in the year 2004 just bc Manny Ramirez was the man! Never got the chance to buy as for my childhood this game was def expensive but just everyday wishing to own this game while i was living in Venezuela. So dope to see the reviews of this game decades later & hearing how it’s one of the best sports video game of all time.
I had it back when it came out on my GameCube in 05 . I was like 14-15 at the time and it’s so great to hear that my amazing memories of this game aren’t just that (memories) . I also love seeing people from other countries be so passionate about baseball as an American. It’s a fucking amazing game if you take the time to learn all the nuance and strategy. Much love from California!!
@@mookiestewart3776 Much love from NYC brother!
I played more of this baseball game than any other. The mini games,the deep franchise mode kept me coming back. I miss this game.
Glad I came across this video. I'm sure I've spend maybe half a years worth of time into this game between all the modes. I loved building my own ball
Park and team and I had made my own Ohtani at the time by the name of “Jake McDougal”. This game is a core memory especially for any fan of the 90s-00s baseball the last great Era. What a video and trip down memory lane. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this! I put so many hours into this game growing up and it brought back wonderful memories!
I think I probably played this game more than any other sports game ever. I loved the color pitch indicator. That's such a great idea on how to give the player an ability to read a pitch. Plus it's semi-accurate to how you read a pitch IRL. Like you said, this game was SO ahead of its time in so many different aspects.
I'm remember playing MVP baseball 2005 back in the day as a kid its definitely one of the greatest sports games of time..I would still play it today if I could the game is legendary
But you can. What you afraid of people might think?
A friend and I loved the MVP series, especially 04. Yet, we recognized how many issues 04 had and wrote down a laundry list of everything we wanted to see changed for the 05 release. We eventually sent the list US postage to EA sports, never to receive a reply. Yet, when we played MVP 05 every single suggestion we made, and improvement we wanted to see, made the 05 release. I have no clue if anyone at EA ever saw that letter, yet it sure felt like a developer listened. That EA sports is dead, buried, and it's corpse rotted. The memories however, are very much alive. God bless MVP 05. Man, I wish we could get remakes of vintage GOAT level sports games.
This video answered the question I always had about owning 04 as a teen. I knew it always seemed that Lefty batters had so much less power than righty batters. Glad to know I wasn't just going crazy, and just for some reason sucked at using lefty batters without realizing it.
I know! I thought the same thing! I am a left handed batter so I always wanted to feel like I could crank out home runs with my favorite team, the 04 Red Sox. But it was soooo much more difficult! I never bought 05 even though it had one of my favorite players on the cover. Not sure why I didn’t buy it. Probably because I spent so much money on the one the year before, I still have a ps2, maybe I will buy the game now and get a hit of nostalgia!
@@colewagner3435 Yeah it was a shame, there was a lot of lefties I really like. Always loved big Jim Thome, but he was basically unusable as a power hitter in 04 because he was a Lefty at the plate.
I played this on PC for years. The absolute standard for baseball games. Its also the game that introduced me to Eagle Eye Cherry Save tonight.
I agree this was my favorite game. I love how it was modded and I played it for 5 years after it came out. I also love how you can argue calls haha
By far my favorite baseball game of all time. It’s not close either. This video was straight nostalgia. Thank you.
Oh yes. The times we didn't have cancerous microtransactions in video games. I've never been able to quite replicate that feeling with any other baseball game like MVP 05 did. I'm still playing on PC running a Dynasty mode with custom rosters. So many good memories with this game. Another baseball game I really enjoyed was All Star Baseball 2003 on the original Xbox. I believe it was the only baseball game with an expansion mode and was my favorite mode in a baseball game.
Are you on windows 10? How are you getting it to work?
YES!!!! I loved this game. I remember throwing a no hitter in online mode with Sidney Ponson. No baseball game has ever felt so comfortable and controllable.
I’m SO GLAD someone made this. I have been saying this for YEARS
I was 13 years old when this game came out and I received the psp version as a gift. Some of the most fun I ever had with a baseball game, and that was the baby version since it was on psp! Still had most of the features and the gameplay was so freaking crisp especially for the time
you hit the head on the nail with the sountrack. They ALWAYS had a great sountrack. an absolute classic is "morning star" from triple play baseball
I've played the PC version of the game almost every single day since it was released. I estimate that I've played this game over 15,000 times. It's the most awesomely-addictive game I've ever played.
Holy Shit thats awesome! Do you use the mods ove read about to keep it up to date or are you 100 years onto a franchise?
Tessie by the Dropkick Murphys was my absolute favorite song on that game. That game was so awesome. I need to get a PS2 just to buy that game
Madden 05, MVP Baseball 05, NBA Live 05, and ESPN Football 2K5, was just a few of the best sports games of 2004. As a person who plays baseball games, I was broke in college that year in 2004, and was only able to get 5 games that year across several genres. It was a hard (yet later dumb) decision to skip this game. I couldn’t agree with this video more, as this was an outstanding take on a classic and masterpiece of a game!
Played this on GameCube as a kid for hours loved creating my own ballpark
I loved the game as a kid and still play it on my ps2 from time to time. I think sports games as a whole today feels so lifeless almost like the real product lol but seriously this game was gold.
I miss those days of classic games day one.
In regards to your intro, NBA 05 WAS INCREDIBLE. I always stuck with EA basketball till the end based on that game and the nostalgia I feel towards it.
This game will forever live in my heart, I remember my mom taking me down to another Game Stop across the city to get it, it was 20% off and came out the same month but someone returned it
I loved the way the games depth was, the minor league system was good, and the game play was solid, and the music pops into my head randomly, I even have a Playlist of it.
Tessie by Dropkick Murphys, and "An Honest Mistake, are absolutely goated.
This game is very important to me, it made me learn about baseball and love the sport, and it's a lot of fun to this day and it's still a good game. And I started playing it this year.
I bought a ps2 a couple years ago just to play this game again. used to play it with my dad all the time as a kid and it still holds up today. I'd play this over the show any day
Bring back memories of my Sophomore year of college playing this game til damn near 2 in the morning 😂
This brings back memories. Spent hours loading custom rosters with all the hall of famers and updated rosters years and years later
Triple Play 2001 was my favorite baseball game. Just being able to play a home run derby as a tiny person in the middle of a living room was wild!
My favorite baseball game of all time. I really liked that you can play on old stadiums and with a lot of legends and other great features.
i play this still on my mac
I'm playing the show 21 ,..as good as it is , it's making me miss that old 05 game , loved picking what promotional days you'd have during the season,even what they served at the food stands, and you didn't need to be online to create a stadium, still have it in the drawer
Words cannot describe how much I love this game growing up. This was the game that pretty much celebrated my favorite team, the Boston Red Sox ending and 86-year-old curse. The soundtrack of this game is phenomenal in my opinion, The gameplay is solid , The graphics at the time were amazing, With so many features and modes in the game, it’s kind of hard to get bored. I think overall if you just love the game of baseball game, You will fall in love with this game.
I played this game as a kid back when it came out and had no idea it was held with such high regard. To be fair it was fun though, so I should have known lol.
MLB Slugfest 2003, Nascar Thunder 2003, Madden 05, MVP bball 05 which was a crazy step up from slugfest as far as realism, NBA live 05, and super monkey ball 2 were my go to games on my GameCube when I was 7-12.. I mean just heaven sent games that me and my brother and friends played all night after baseball games during the summer. Vivid memories.
Played this game last night, pretty fun ngl.
Agreed. I’ve played probably 40-50 different baseball games and this was the true goat. The mini-games were awesome. Excellent old characters and old stadiums. The create a character was incredible, made Koufax, Cool Papa Bell, etc with customizable styles and unique stats
Playing franchise and starting with a small stadium and building a huge one as you got better was just the best. Somehow, ea didn’t incorporate into its other games is just a massive tragedy, mainly fifa and ncaa football. I loved this game so much and it was the last baseball game I played for about 10 years.
It’s so funny, I can’t believe somebody else remembers John Dowd. This game gives me such nostalgia, being 19, in my first apartment, with a really fun job and being completely self-sufficient, with a girlfriend I was head over heels for, and on days she was in class late sitting in the 2nd bedroom of the apartment where the Xbox was set up with a big ass fan blowing on me, getting high and playing the Mets dynasty mode for 20 years. Waking up at 5AM, getting on the train to head to work all to come back that night and do the same thing. Nothing but optimism and light responsibilities, life just didn’t seem so serious, and this game along with Gun on the Xbox brings me back to those times.
Now that is what I call a Professional review!
The halcyon days of EA Sports. When shit really WAS in the game. Competition brought out the best in them...the 2005 (year 2004) releases are for my money, collectively the best ever.
I spent so much time playing this game and I knew so much about baseball then, not because I was a baseball fan, but just learned all the rosters from the game.
Used to come home after high school, pop on my MVP 2005 and wait till 7:00 PM to roll around and watch baseball. I even convinced my mom to buy the MLB package on Dish so I could watch anyone I wanted.
Good times
Such a quick mention of the “announcing duo” and not mentioning Kruk and Kuip’s great chemistry was a disservice.
Not gonna lie you are absolute right. This game has alot of memories with me we used to play on the game cube alllll day. Specifically 2005 too, this game was lit
I have this for PC. It's still my fave baseball game to play. I've played it this year lol. The Paterson cheat codes were ridiculous. Thank you for remastered vid.
Where do you find it? Please
The home run mini game was so fun. So many good memories playing this game and I don’t even watch baseball
Serious consideration for a very overlooked gem, World Series Baseball 2 for the Sega Saturn. That game was phenomenal and still enjoyable to this day.
I still play this great game on PC, with updated roster, uniforms, portraits, faces, you name it, thanks to a great group of guys over mvpmods.
I love MVP Baseball 2005 for the original Xbox. I played it for the 2020 MLB season and took the White Sox to the World Series in dynasty mode like they did in real life, and the game looks great in 720p on the Xbox version.
Baseball games were always ahead of their time. Even back to the first 3d baseball games like all star baseball, you had signature batting stances and pitching animations. You always had immaculate looking stadiums even dating back to 16 bit baseball games like ken griffey jr's winning run.
Never played the game but I played 04 on my old GameCube when I was younger and loved it so this games must be great as well
Loved this game so much. Played many seasons. Also used to download rosters and buy memory cards online that were updated rosters and faces and full minor league rosters. Such a great time!
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Thanks for showing Johnny here, real champ
I remember being in love with this game. I remember playing and wishing mvp 05 had a pitch count and i paused the game and there was the pitch count! Game was amazing. I learned a lot about baseball from this game. How to pitch. Easports needs to make a comeback with college football.
This game is the reason I still play my ps2. Gran turismo 2 is also a close reason, but this game is amazing. Subbed as I approve of this message
Yay, Softdrink is back 👏👏
I loved this game. The hitting and pitching mechanics were so good. I remember making a dynasty mode team with players that had advantageous heat maps and just mashing.
My favorite Baseball game was "Earl Weaver Baseball" on the Commodore Amiga. Played that a ton when I was a kid.
This is indeed one of my top 5 games of all time and have been playing the game for the past 20 years
High heat baseball 2004 was the best baseball game I’ve played at that time. That was a crazy baseball sim.
Picked this up for 39 cents at a retro game store a couple of months back. I’m loving it, it’s taking me back to when I was a kid. I played a little bit of Owner Mode before switching to Dynasty, just playing GM. Seeing my players develop (or stagnate) and adjusting around that is really nice. There are gripes that I have, like having to play around matching salaries in trades, the CPU signing players after free agency ends and spring training begins, and certain players expectations being too high (a Triple A backup who’s never seen the majors won’t sign for anything less than MLB Indispensable? Really?) overall it’s an excellent experience and I’d really recommend it to anyone who is interested.
Totally Agree! I just bought this game for my nephews and they could not believe how great this game was. I gave them an original Xbox I found at a yardsale with this game and Burnout 3. Great Video!
I recall playing it at my buddy's house, and even though I'm not really into baseball, I had fun playing. I had no idea this game was so revered, even beyond MLB games and sports games! For the way that people talk about MLB: The Show, I figured that series of games held the honors of the best baseball games out there, followed by the 2k series on Xbox 360/PS3.
THE 03 version with Randy Johnson is my ALL TIME favorite baseball game.
Without a doubt. I still think of this game.
One of the best video games ever, not just baseball. Spiderman 2 also up there. Just timeless.
Greatest MLB game for me remains World Series Baseball on Genesis due to nostalgic reasons.
That game is so underrated. Legendary game
At the age of 10 I learned the front office side of baseball from this game…. A true masterpiece..
I love how you can unlock then old
Jerseys and stadiums! Polo grounds!