OOTP 11 to be Released April 14th

[Sweed]

Originally Posted by Cras

Yhea, it is, but there are work arounds. Its the best baseball game I have ever played. But I should also say that I play out all my teams games, and it usualy takes me well into the winter to finally finish the season, so I really dont have any experience in off-season stuff at all. I have OOTP for that sort of thing.

The Show, no matter how people try to make it, is not built for simming and playing as a GM. There simply is no point in doing that. The game is built to play, and really play a full season everyday.

Agreed, OOTP gives me my GM fix and also much enjoyment playing out every game.

I buy The Show to play one season with my current Cubs. 09 played a great game of baseball but I have to say this years is much better. Not just the lighting and graphics but the feel of the games and the ball physics.

Don't know what it is but I must be seeing pitches better as I'm finally drawing walks in a video game. 09 I was thrilled to get one in a game and two was a real triumph. With 10 I've drawn as many as 6 and generally end up ~3. For the first time in all of my playing days I'm not last in the league in walks drawn, I'm 28th. Two teams have fewer walks than me.

Like any game MLBTS has it's issues but when using it in season mode I can't find anything that makes me want to put it down.

[Khrog]

Originally Posted by starship

If memory serves, the previous record holder Phillies had 16 straight losing seasons, went 2 games over .500, and then proceded have another 14 consecutive losing seasons. 30 losing seasons in 31 years is quite a record for the even the Pirates to shoot for.

Don't be shocked if they make it 30 for 30...I wouldn't hold my breath for a winning season just yet.

[spacer99]

Thanks Markus, I am looking forward to all the new features.

[Malleus Dei]

Originally Posted by Raidergoo

Sleep is for the weak.

People who don't sleep properly make themselves both weak...and sickly.

[Malleus Dei]

Originally Posted by megamanmatt

I think I may have said it once, but it's a testament to Markus at how great of a baseball game he makes with as little money and as small of team as he has for development. The simple fact a guy in Germany can put out a better game than companies with millions of dollar behind them, who also happen to come from the place that created the sport and claims it to be our national past-time is amazing.

As my Uncle Dietrich was fond of saying, "That's because we Germans are the best at everything."

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Cras

Its the best baseball game I have ever played.

I moan and groan occasionally, but this is true for me also. I don't want to think about how many years I waited for OOTP while playing stupid video arcade baseball games.

[szathkey]

Whatever you do, don't start using hand sanitizer. It is making our immune systems weaker by killing off germs we should be fighting!

Go ahead Markus, put the Purell down.

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

As my Uncle Dietrich was fond of saying, "That's because we Germans are the best at everything."

Yes, we of German heritage should get a discount hier, nein?

[Malleus Dei]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

Yes, we of German heritage should get a discount hier, nein?

Freilich!

[Cryomaniac]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

Yes, we of German heritage should get a discount hier, nein?

Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

Freilich!

*quotes Rammstein lyrics"

I really need to learn some German other than song lyrics...

[battists]

Originally Posted by cryomaniac

*quotes rammstein lyrics"

bang bang!

[Antonin]

Originally Posted by Cryomaniac

Definitely. As a British guy (albeit one with a thing for US culture) I maybe don't have baseball as ingrained in my psyche as Americans do, but it does still amaze me that a German guy with basically no corporate backing can make a better sim engine than guys with stupid amounts of money.

This has always surprised me. We Americans think of baseball as 'the national pastime.' As a truly, classically 'American' sport. And yet a man in Germany has managed to create the best ever simulation of what 'our' game is.

Every year I eagerly await each new version. I am never disappointed. OOTP brings me countless hours of fun, and helps distract me from the difficult parts of real life.

Thanks, Markus!

[Sweed]

Originally Posted by Cryomaniac

Definitely. As a British guy (albeit one with a thing for US culture) I maybe don't have baseball as ingrained in my psyche as Americans do, but it does still amaze me that a German guy with basically no corporate backing can make a better sim engine than guys with stupid amounts of money. Having said that I do know a bit about the industry (I should, since my college major is Games Computing lol) and I get that the bigger companies do have (and need to have) different priorities to someone like Markus.

Originally Posted by Antonin

This has always surprised me. We Americans think of baseball as 'the national pastime.' As a truly, classically 'American' sport. And yet a man in Germany has managed to create the best ever simulation of what 'our' game is.

Every year I eagerly await each new version. I am never disappointed. OOTP brings me countless hours of fun, and helps distract me from the difficult parts of real life.

Thanks, Markus!

I totally agree with both of you.

Here's the funny thing, I know of a guy that just can't stand OOTP because it is developed by a German who just doesn't get the nuances of the game because he didn't grow up with it Yet whenever I've asked for examples of what the hell he means I never get an answer, just wow.

[Cryomaniac]

Originally Posted by Sweed

Here's the funny thing, I know of a guy that just can't stand OOTP because it is developed by a German who just doesn't get the nuances of the game because he didn't grow up with it Yet whenever I've asked for examples of what the hell he means I never get an answer, just wow.

That just seems like hating for the sake of it, at best.

[Goody]

Originally Posted by Antonin

This has always surprised me. We Americans think of baseball as 'the national pastime.' As a truly, classically 'American' sport. And yet a man in Germany has managed to create the best ever simulation of what 'our' game is.

Every year I eagerly await each new version. I am never disappointed. OOTP brings me countless hours of fun, and helps distract me from the difficult parts of real life.

Thanks, Markus!

Yeah but Germans are like smart and stuff.

And maybe it needed an objective viewpoint.

And maybe our talented programmers were all snatched up by money hungry corporations and lost their mojo.

[cdheer]

Wow!

I pop in here after, what, months? A year? I know that work/personal issues dragged me away just as OOTPX beta testing started...and to my surprise, a new version is on the immediate horizon!

Preorder in. I was just thinking about how I wish OOTP starting coming out around opening day, and lookit!

Oh, I am ready, baby. I am FREAKING READY!

P.S. MD! Howarya?

[cdheer]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

I moan and groan occasionally, but this is true for me also. I don't want to think about how many years I waited for OOTP while playing stupid video arcade baseball games.

This. Or Mogul or somesuch nonsense.

[Malleus Dei]

What you did before doesn't matter. You found your way here, and that's what's important.