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MLB 09 supports Rock Band mic, headsets for heckling

by Jason Dobson on Dec 19th 2008 1:00PM

There's more uses for your Rock Band mic than simply belting out off-tune renditions of Lump or clubbing your roommate as he reaches for a bite of your chili dog. ESPN reports that next year's MLB 09 The Show will allow players to record cat calls to be yelled out from the stands using a microphone or wireless headset.

Calling the feature Trash Talk 2.0, the article reveals that the game will mix your recorded chants or insults so they sound as if they are a part of the crowd and not just coming from a single overzealous fan with a booming voice. With this, virtual baseball competition will likely get a bit more personal when MLB 09 The Show arrives on March 3.

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Tags: baseball, mlb-09, mlb-09-the-show, mlb09, mlb09theshow, PS3, sony

Reader Comments (39)

Yes, let us all be douche bags together.

I'm not a Bonds supporter, but those guys look like jackasses.

let the floodgates open

That's pretty cool

Expect it to be abused 90% of the time though. I'm thinking mid-game rickrolls and the world's most racist crowds.

Sounds like a typical Mets home game to me.

They would only be rickrolling themselves, so they can do it all they want.

I wish there was a way to +1 Donald more than once. I lol'd.

omg this will be fuckin awsome

Umm yay?

Are you a robot?? Is that your only response??

Where is my rockband mic!!Come March I am going to heckle you so bad!!!

Thats fine heckle me...while i look up some gay porn "audio". My fans are ssspeshul.

Genius. It's going to be abused like hell, but genius.

Indeed. It's little ideas like this that make games memorable. Oh, and they gotta be at least decent.

Buttscratcher? Buttscratcher? Get your Buttscratchers here!

Buttscratcher!

I remember when Microsoft was first marketing XBLive and for some reason they thought , " talking trash" was a feature. Who likes hearing people curse them out? I've been playing on Live since Wolfenstein and I've always hated it.Thank god for the party system.

Now we're actually spending money and manpower to develop "asshole tech" in our games. Are developers retarded?

Then you probably love Smash Bros. and Mario Kart's take on communication.

I actually don't want communication when I'm playing games online. So, I do love Nintendo's 'lack' of communication in Mario Cart.

I genuinely feel sorry for you.

Especially when playing with friends, voice chat makes gaming 300% more fun. That's a scientifically proven fact, btw.

If I'm playing video games with friends, chances are they are in the house with me. If not, there's always a phone.

I hate Nintendo's lack of voice chat.
With a passion.

Nintendo seem to forget that some of the people that use their consoles are ADULTS.

If anything, give me voice chat and parental control to turn it off for when the kids are online.

What's Mario Cart?

What a useless feature.

Though, it would be funny to see a ball go flying and all you hear is, "GOOD HEAVENS ME THAT PARTICIPANT IS A OUTRIGHT HOOLIGAN. WE'LL TAKE NO MORE SHENANIGANS FROM HIM."

I read this and assumed it would be a local feature. Playing games at your home stadium you can record heckles to be yelled at the other team. Like how I was able to specify in NHL 09 that 2 Legit 2 Quit plays in the background when my Lowell Devils take the ice.

4-D GAMING

You're mistaken, this is clearly the fifth D. Though it isn't as good as Initial D.

My favorite D is a tie between Substance D (somewhere in the 400-D range) or Tenacious D (that's the 34th on the D-scale).

Ok ... forget it. My favorite is Double D ( hint: it's over nine thousand )

I don't know why you guys didn't report on the rest of the article, which has a lot more details on what's in the game. I can't wait to see how the new leagues will work out since they were a bit of a pain in the ass before.

Like calling a player a "lame white boy"?

Darryl... Darryl...

Relax mom, they're professional athletes...

Homer: You're Darryl Strawberry.
Darryl: Yes?
Homer: You play right field.
Darryl: Yes?
Homer: I play right field, too.
Darryl: So?
Homer: Well, are you better than me?
Darryl: Well, I never met you... but... Yes.

ha ha that could be funny with local multiplayer :)

nice simpsons reference guilty fart, didn't get it at first

Blatant racist trying to call other people racist is racist.

Looking over that ESPN article and seeing some of the new features in the game, I'm pretty pumped for it now! Yet this "heckler" feature is probably the one new thing I won't get around to using...at least probably not much beyond testing it out.

Who cares - computer and console baseball games are fun for about one day. Then you realize how stupid of a game baseball is to simulate.

Maybe they should introduce the "how to pay Dominicans $14 million while I struggle to make rent in a shitty economy" feature.

"Calling the feature Trash Talk 2.0..."

In which game was Trash Talk 1.0 featured? It was Zoids Assault, right?

MATTINGLY?! I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO TRIM THOSE SIDEBURNS!!!

I can you my Wii RockBand mic on my ps3 to talk to people on GTA 4.

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