Why Markus Rules - the patch policy elsewhere - Page 2

Malleus Dei · 04-03-2002, 10:18 AM

Hogan's Heroes trivia:

Werner Klemperer (Colonel Wilhelm Klink), John Banner (Sergeant Hans Schultz), and Leon Askin (General Albert Burkhalter) were all Jews who in real life had fled Nazi Germany. Klemperer served in the U.S. Army; Banner fled after being put in a concentration camp and posed as a young man for a recruiting poster for the U.S. Army. Robert Clary (LeBeau) had also been in a Nazi concentration camp as a boy.

Lucas718 · 04-03-2002, 10:36 AM

THE patch. Those are the 2 words I saw when I read the response from the 3DO guy. THE patch, as in ONE and ONLY ONE patch. After that you're stuck until next year. That kind of attitude is exactly why people are becoming increasingly negative towards 3DO and the High Heat series.

HH2K3 is really nothing more than a $30 patch of HH2k2 - AND IT'S STILL BUGGY !!!!! Commone sense would indicate that if you're going to take a year to work on a patch and then charge people for it, you better make sure all the bugs are worked out. Probably sometime in June they'll release the one and only patch and then wash their hands of it until next year. Gotta get working on the 74th version of Army Men. Whatever happened to making the game work properly no matter how many patches it takes??? Oh that's right - that spirit is still alive & well right here with Markus & OOTP.

Night2000 · 04-03-2002, 10:46 AM

Well that's why High Heat will lose customers and OOTP will gain many more! If you keep the customers happy, well you know the rest!
Thank you Markus!

ace of spades · 04-03-2002, 10:51 AM

This year's version of High Heat 2003 for the PS2 is very good. It takes a while to set the sliders in the game to suit your liking, but I have gotten some really realistic results. Its the best arcade style baseball game I've ever played and I've tried pretty much all of them back to the intellivision days. HH for the PC blows, I bought that first and it never ran right on my PC....

joshuaaaaaa · 04-03-2002, 11:03 AM

[quote]Originally posted by sporr:


I always liked Schultz...<hr></blockquote>

Geez, you guys stay inside too much. What about Hilda?

Or Helga, even (who, I think was cuter)

Edit: Hilda image wasn't working. New one inserted.

[ 04-03-2002: Message edited by: joshuaaaaaa ]

Linenoise · 04-03-2002, 12:50 PM

[quote]Originally posted by Kezzek:

As for all-time best arcade baseball--can't beat Baseball Stars on the NES!<hr></blockquote>

Was that the game where you had option to play some sort of SUPER baseball, with a stadium in outter space and the option to play with some funky power-ups? (like super speed, super power, super fastball, and so on)

Tree · 04-03-2002, 12:57 PM

No, but I remember the game you're talking about. Can't think of the name, though.

Baseball Stars was the first customizable game I remember playing. You could create a team and play other teams, earning money for each team you beat. Then you could invest that money into making your players better, so that you could play tougher teams and earn more money. It also had a league function where you could put whatever teams you chose into a league and have them play a balanced schedule of however many games you chose. Fantastic stuff, and way ahead of its time.

Hammer755 · 04-03-2002, 01:05 PM

[quote]Originally posted by Linenoise:


Was that the game where you had option to play some sort of SUPER baseball, with a stadium in outter space and the option to play with some funky power-ups? (like super speed, super power, super fastball, and so on)<hr></blockquote>

No, that was Baseball Simulator 1.000

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04-03-2002, 10:46 AM	#23
Night2000 All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Monroe, NJ Posts: 716	Well that's why High Heat will lose customers and OOTP will gain many more! If you keep the customers happy, well you know the rest! Thank you Markus! __________________ http://night2000.blogspot.com/ This post has the Al Bundy and Homer Simpson stamp of approval!

04-03-2002, 11:03 AM	#25
joshuaaaaaa All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 633	[quote]Originally posted by sporr: <strong> I always liked Schultz...</strong><hr></blockquote> Geez, you guys stay inside too much. What about Hilda? Or Helga, even (who, I think was cuter) Edit: Hilda image wasn't working. New one inserted. [ 04-03-2002: Message edited by: joshuaaaaaa ]</p> __________________ Baltimore Monarchs-GUBA Baltimore Orioles-ORB2 "One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do." ~Henry Ford ~

04-03-2002, 12:50 PM	#26
Linenoise Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 121	[quote]Originally posted by Kezzek: <strong> As for all-time best arcade baseball--can't beat Baseball Stars on the NES!</strong><hr></blockquote> Was that the game where you had option to play some sort of SUPER baseball, with a stadium in outter space and the option to play with some funky power-ups? (like super speed, super power, super fastball, and so on)

04-03-2002, 01:05 PM	#28
Hammer755 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,348	[quote]Originally posted by Linenoise: <strong> Was that the game where you had option to play some sort of SUPER baseball, with a stadium in outter space and the option to play with some funky power-ups? (like super speed, super power, super fastball, and so on)</strong><hr></blockquote> No, that was Baseball Simulator 1.000 .

04-03-2002, 10:36 AM	#22
Lucas718 Major Leagues Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 401	THE patch. Those are the 2 words I saw when I read the response from the 3DO guy. THE patch, as in ONE and ONLY ONE patch. After that you're stuck until next year. That kind of attitude is exactly why people are becoming increasingly negative towards 3DO and the High Heat series. HH2K3 is really nothing more than a $30 patch of HH2k2 - AND IT'S STILL BUGGY !!!!! Commone sense would indicate that if you're going to take a year to work on a patch and then charge people for it, you better make sure all the bugs are worked out. Probably sometime in June they'll release the one and only patch and then wash their hands of it until next year. Gotta get working on the 74th version of Army Men. Whatever happened to making the game work properly no matter how many patches it takes??? Oh that's right - that spirit is still alive & well right here with Markus & OOTP.

04-03-2002, 10:51 AM	#24
ace of spades Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Center Field Bleachers, Old Tiger Stadium Posts: 49	This year's version of High Heat 2003 for the PS2 is very good. It takes a while to set the sliders in the game to suit your liking, but I have gotten some really realistic results. Its the best arcade style baseball game I've ever played and I've tried pretty much all of them back to the intellivision days. HH for the PC blows, I bought that first and it never ran right on my PC....

04-03-2002, 12:57 PM	#27
Tree Minors (Single A) Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 80	No, but I remember the game you're talking about. Can't think of the name, though. Baseball Stars was the first customizable game I remember playing. You could create a team and play other teams, earning money for each team you beat. Then you could invest that money into making your players better, so that you could play tougher teams and earn more money. It also had a league function where you could put whatever teams you chose into a league and have them play a balanced schedule of however many games you chose. Fantastic stuff, and way ahead of its time.