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Originally Posted by Dale And Eli's Dad
In your opinion.
I can see circumstances where such a thing could enhance the OOTP experience for many of the gamers. Take, for example, an audio play by play system.
If Markus put a basic system in place where you could get an optional download to give you audio play by play of a game while you sim it, what's the harm? Perhaps someone could find a voice archive of Vin Scully or Ernie Harwell or Harry Calas and suddenly you'd have a great baseball announcer calling your sim games. You really think OOTP fans wouldn't like something like this?
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An audio pbp is a pain, I think it was High Heat that had pbp by a real announcer, and it sucked bad. It was fun for about three games, then it was a joke. Tone differs, it sounds chopped... you think pbp in 2006 was bad an audio pbp would really be bad.
Take it piece meal and it could really be cool. On a Home run have the sound kick in and play a home run call from an audio file, then you find a voice archive of those guys and get some famous home run calls... that wouldn't be bad. Simple audio of fan noise and strike and out calls like there was in OOTP5 wouldn't be bad... of course they need to make sense.
A 2D engine wouldn't be all that bad, but no further than that. There's plenty of work to do before it could get there anyhow, although it would be fun to see the popfly behind the catcher and watch the dot for the right fielder run in and catch it.