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Originally Posted by Coxmeatsandwich
I was not really sure where to make this, but I figured the suggestion thread was not the right place, because I know a lot of this stuff is not realistic, but if you had full control, and the ability to do whatever you wanted with a new version of OOTP, what would you have to change and/or create in order for the next version to be the game of your dreams?
For me personally, the only thing that I would love to add is a 3D engine that had good enough graphics to where it would be like watching an actual baseball game. My dream version of OOTP would be a game where I could create my fictional universe, and sit down and watch a full baseball game with fictional uniforms/caps/people the whole shebang. Just imagine being able to watch the events unfold in your league with the visuals of MLB the show(although I would gladly settle for PS2 level graphics). If OOTP added these graphics, and allowed for you to control what you see, and how fast the game simulation is, I honestly don't think I'd ever play another game.
I would also love to be able to record my own commentary, or maybe have OOTP hire professional commentators to do all of the voice over work to go along with the new graphics, so it would be more like an actual baseball broadcast. On the other hand, I'm kind of glad OOTP isn't this visually realistic...my life outside of OOTP is hanging on by a thread as is.
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My dream is for Markus to sell OOTPB to EA and retire a millionaire, so they could add graphics to his great management programming... but I know EA would ruin the game if that happened.
I just recently posted this same thought that you have somewhere in a thread on this forum... I just want to watch the game play out with realistic animation of the players and a guy with a good voice doing the broadcast... don't need but one announcer in the booth... ESPN has ruined the broadcasts with three people who are constantly talking and telling me all the mechanics of batting and pitching and anecdotes about the players, most of which I could care less about... just let me watch the game... actually ESPN broadcasts would be much improved if they would just use one camera showing the whole field and cut off the sound... I get so tired of seeing the players in the dugouts picking their noses and eating some kind of seeds... and watching a game from behind the pitcher's mound, which is a bad angle... I now watch the game with the sound off.
I never saw it, but Earl Weaver Baseball reportedly had fine graphics and commentary in the 90s... I had a copy of Front Office Baseball and it also had pretty good player animation... this was in the early 2000s... but it wouldn't work on my new computer and didn't have a career mode... don't think Earl Weaver had career mode either.