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Originally Posted by sprague
So I just sim along chunks of years at a time, day by day in the playoffs. The management stuff is really good, the baseball sim element is really good. The historical element is getting finally the boosts it needs to make it a much more exciting experience.
In a few years to be able to play out real, historical, fictional worlds in a game by game mode with excellent graphics...where just like today all we can do is make management decisions and watch the chips fall as they may...
That would be my dream
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I'd love to see the graphics too (obviously, as it was the first dream I listed), but I still do enjoy playing out some of the games to make the managerial decisions. And for me this is the first season the 3-d graphics engine has offered me enough that I use it. They've even improved it throughout the season, so there are very few plays that look really bad at this point.
When I get invested in winning the game, it's exciting even now, and for that matter even when I was just watching in 2-d.
Still, it would be that much more fun to play out the games and actually watch fully realistic and detailed looking plays that completely look as if I were watching the game on TV. Whether that's eventually coming, I don't know. Given the improvements in the 3-D engine now compared to 2 years ago, I can imagine if it keeps improving at that rate that 4 years from now we might have it.
It certainly would be great for immersion without needing (or wanting-- I want realistic stats) to control players video-game style. One thing they need for that to fully work is more pitches (because we'd be watching them come in), including arm angles, so watching a given pitcher in the game work would be unlike watching any other pitcher in the game, just like in real baseball.
Watching the plays themselves develop as we can now (with much more detail and precision than we now have) will be great if we reach that point, but a great part of it for me will also be watching unique pitchers work.