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Originally Posted by Hooray Saturday
I've probably spent more time playing OOTP than I have any other baseball game/sim....... been playing since OOTP3.... and I've played a lot of different baseball game/sims.... on my hard drive now I have OOTP 11, PC Replay, Mogul 11, PureSim, and Diamond Mind 10. All of these games are fun, addictive, and relatively immersing, and if any one of them were the only PC baseball simulation I could ever play, I could live with it.
However, no baseball game has captured my attention and sparked my excitement like Front Page Sports Baseball did back in the mid 90's.... and that was because the graphics were great and the stats were decent enough.
Before that it was Micro League.
All you'd need is Micro League level up to Front Page Sports level of graphics on top of OOTP's engine and you will have the greatest baseball game possible on any system on any platform, period. In my humble opinion, of course.
Like any other option, if you don't like it, turn it off.
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I like FPS and all but the thing you have to remember about it is that the stats the game generated were closely tied to the physics of the engine. It was a cool game, I agree, and I'd probably even still be playing it today if there was an updated version (that, for example, took plate discipline into account - strangely enough I think it *did* do the stuff addressed by DIPS). But it's a fundamentally different game than OOTP. And as much as I enjoyed Microleague and Earl Weaver Baseball, I think Markus and co. would actually make the game less popular with unitiated gamers by adding graphics of that level.
I do think that eventually some sort of graphics should probably be in there, but that point is not next year and not the year after either. Beyond that... well, lots of things could happen.