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kowalskisan · 11-05-2016, 09:59 AM

I stand by my assertion that OOTP 17 is a very poor product. There is no way I could tolerate playing hundreds of games on this fiasco to get a better sample size, the PbP alone is enough to drive me nuts. In OOTP 17 there is rarely a routine play, almost every out has someone diving, crashing, lunging or leaping to make a sensational play - that is not as IRL. In OOTP 17 every popup in the infield is handled by the catcher - that is not realistic but maddening. I went though my PC and found I had bought OOTP 13 some time ago but never used it. I installed it and set up a league with the same 32 teams and after few games clearly OOTP 13 is realistic, as versions 6 and 8 were, but OOTP 17 is being written off as $10 wasted. I do like some of the new features in OOTP 17, but the gameplay reeks. I've been playing tabletop/computer baseball games since my first Strat-O-Matic I got for my birthday in 1967, so I don't need a huge sample size to tell if a product feels "right" or not. I also used the same 32 teams in OOTP 8 and did play hundreds of games with very realistic results, so the comment about the poor results being due to mixing teams from different eras is not really valid. Clearly OOTP rushed 17 out without much quality control.

11-05-2016, 09:59 AM	#7
kowalskisan Bat Boy Join Date: Nov 2016 Posts: 2	Installed OOTP 13, games are much more realistic. I stand by my assertion that OOTP 17 is a very poor product. There is no way I could tolerate playing hundreds of games on this fiasco to get a better sample size, the PbP alone is enough to drive me nuts. In OOTP 17 there is rarely a routine play, almost every out has someone diving, crashing, lunging or leaping to make a sensational play - that is not as IRL. In OOTP 17 every popup in the infield is handled by the catcher - that is not realistic but maddening. I went though my PC and found I had bought OOTP 13 some time ago but never used it. I installed it and set up a league with the same 32 teams and after few games clearly OOTP 13 is realistic, as versions 6 and 8 were, but OOTP 17 is being written off as $10 wasted. I do like some of the new features in OOTP 17, but the gameplay reeks. I've been playing tabletop/computer baseball games since my first Strat-O-Matic I got for my birthday in 1967, so I don't need a huge sample size to tell if a product feels "right" or not. I also used the same 32 teams in OOTP 8 and did play hundreds of games with very realistic results, so the comment about the poor results being due to mixing teams from different eras is not really valid. Clearly OOTP rushed 17 out without much quality control.