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Originally Posted by Sweed
Triple dola?
Both games are great and IMHO are on an equal footing.
As to the original question I think OOTP does a better job of putting ME into the managers seat.
I think OOTP does a better job of putting the game on the field, keeping a statistical history over hundreds of seasons, and creating new players that come into the baseball world it has built. I simply don't have the experience with football to say that about FM. I do know there are tons of posts from those that grew up watching football on the FM boards complaining "this isn't realistic" and "that isn't realistic" to know there are problems. Too many headers going in, crosses score too much\too little (take your pick), etc. It is a great game and I love playing it but it is far from perfect and IMHO does not do a better job than OOTP.
As I said in your thread from a year or two ago what FM does better than any game I have ever played is leave you with the feeling you are dealing with people (and a lot of them) not simply a "bag of ratings". It is the area where FM is better than OOTP and is the direct result of having teams of coders and not just Markus and Andreas.
The bad thing about SEGA buying FM is they weren't interested in keeping the little guy, OOTP. OOTP under the SI\Sega umbrella would have certainly "borrowed" much of what makes FM great, IE the feeling you are dealing with human beings.
I don't feel entirely bad about Sega dumping OOTP as it has allowed Markus to continue to build his vision of the game without a beancounter getting involved. But Sega has done a pretty good job of letting FM be and so one does wonder what OOTP would be today if it had stayed with SI.
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I find myself wondering that all the time. I really do think the guys at SI don't have too many problems from SEGA when it come to the creative process. In fact, they may get more problems from the licensing aspect of what they do. Leagues, clubs etc..
I guess I wish I knew more about what the plan for OOTP is as far as the future goes. I am glad it is now a good tight game AI wise, player development wise etc... I am just starting to feel as though OOTP now needs to venture into some uncharted territory and really try to go to the next level. Finances, graphics, stadium models....these are all new and ambitious types of features, but I really do feel the time has come. I'd also like see a real working "world" with all the different leagues (independent, foreign, college, HS) similar to FM.
Markus doesn't seem to like to share where his head is however. I would never hold him to every idea he may discuss, and I realize he wants to see what is feasible, but it would be nice to sort of have a "long range planning committee to get an idea of what types of ideas Markus has.