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03-13-2006, 10:42 AM | #21 |
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I had bought High Heat I think in September of 2002, and I had liked previous versions of High Heat because of the stats and career play. But in that 2002 version I was playing and the double play numbers were really really screwed up. The stats were so freaking off in that way I couldn't stand it.
I did some searching on the net in hopes of finding a sim with decent statistical output, but I'm also thinking that someone over at the civfanatics forums mentioned playing OOTP when not playing Civ3, which I was into bigtime at the time. I came over to the OOTP4 website and looked at the screenshots, and the player stats, and was like, "Wow, this looks good." It also mentioned that you could replay history using Lahman's and that was enough to make me go for it. From there on in, I was hooked. |
03-13-2006, 12:38 PM | #22 |
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Markus was a talented utility program writer for Diamond Mind Baseball, so when he finally wrote his own game I automatically bought it.
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03-13-2006, 12:39 PM | #23 |
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I played Strat-O-Matic and most of the Avalon Hill Statis Pro titles as a kid (Title Bout was one of my favorites too). A few years ago, a fellow sports nerd and I were talking at work about how we wished we could find a computer game that replicated the realism of those tabletop games of our youth. That got me to do some searching online which led me first to a demo of Strat-O-Matic and then to PureSim. From the PureSim forums, I saw all the chatter about OOTP and decided to buy OOTP3 - not too long before v4 came out as I remember. I've been hooked ever since, and OOTP turned out to be something of a gateway drug that led me to the heroin of sports sims, Football Manager.
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03-13-2006, 12:42 PM | #25 |
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I went from playing games I made with baseball cards and computer games like Hardball to FPS Baseball to High Heat. After High Heat died off, I went on a binge of trying a bunch of games to replace it. All the graphical ones were terrible so I went to the text games. I found OOTP and it was pretty much exactly what I wanted.
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03-13-2006, 01:42 PM | #26 |
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I think it popped up in a web search. Can't really remember as this was in 2001, I think. I guess OOTP 3 was my first experience.
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03-13-2006, 03:33 PM | #29 |
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Like some of the others, I was looking for a replacement for FPS:BB98. I found a copy of Season Ticket Baseball in an EB store close to my house. It was a toss up b/n that and Mogul, and since ST allowed you to actually play games, I bought it. Got my brother hooked too.
Now we are habitual users.
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I came across STB at the public library, of all places. I discovered STB's "true nature" soon afterwards, and here I am - jumped right from STB to OOTP5, in fact.
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It's not too late CalvinHobbes. If you take nothing else from this thread let my example serve as a cautionary tale for you and your brother. Friends don't let friends play addictive sports sims.
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i'd been playing high heat since around the sammy sosa cover days and i couldnt find too many updated roster sets at the 3do site. someone directed me to BBSC (back when it was baseball simcentral) and the place had mods galore... i then joined a high heat league and met the community there. then i found out most of this community had more active leagues but they used this software called OOTP. I joined a league without ever having touched the software (you couldnt play custom league files in the demo). curiousity got the best of me one day and i spent an entire weekend downloading ootp (i only had 56k at the time) and ended up playing ootp for as long as i was allowed. I even recall formatting my computer to play it even more. a week later i shelled out the money and purchased the full version.
ive been hooked since and am now in like 213414 leagues.
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I was playing the Baseball Mogul demo and saw OOTP4 mentioned somewhere.
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