Out of the Park Baseball '20 Release is tomorrow...love this game...even though year to year improvements are only incremental... Of course every year they also have updated MLB rosters.
I am a baseball history kind of guy, so I usually just play historical games. OOPB has a wonderful set of historical rosters and mechanics. The 1906 World Series is my recent mini-obsession.
So I don't buy it for the new rosters. But I do love the incremental improvements to the package every year.
I will be opening my wallet tomorrow on opening day.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/831980/Out_of_the_Park_Baseball_20/ (https://store.steampowered.com/app/831980/Out_of_the_Park_Baseball_20/)
1906, Chicago Cubs vs. the Chicago White Sox. Tinker to Evers to Chance.
Still waiting on their football game :'(
I played very little of ootp 19. Not really sure why, because I love this franchise. Will buy 20, if only to support the game's continued development.
edit -- hmm, according to Steam, I played 29 hours of ootp 19, which is more than I would've guessed.
No subsequent version of the game has managed to absorb me as completely as ootp 14 did. I don't know how many hours I sunk into it. Way more than 29, I'm sure!
I have bought all versions and probably in total did not spend more than 10 hours playing them all even though very nice game. The only version where I really played it a lot was like version 6...it was before it exploded with a million options and huge universe....maybe sometimes simple is better:(
Get into an online league. I'm in a league that sims everyday. It's super fun and the seasons go by fairly quick. Most of all I've gotten way more out of the game than whatever money I spent.
I haven't played a baseball game since the Commodore 64. I'm only here because the title made me grin: my brother's fraternity in University of Tennessee Knoxville were the semi-official hecklers of the college baseball matches! They were REAAALLLLYYY organized about it, being business majors I guess. As a reward, the coach would send them boxes of free pizza at the 5th inning every game.
On days with good weather if I didn't have anything more specific to do, I'd go out to enjoy the show. :D They were never filthy or super-insulting about it, mainly they were trying to be funny for everyone and make the other team laugh, too. Just, y'know, strategically. >:D
Quote from: KyzBP on March 22, 2019, 04:04:24 AM
Get into an online league. I'm in a league that sims everyday. It's super fun and the seasons go by fairly quick. Most of all I've gotten way more out of the game than whatever money I spent.
That sounds very interesting. I may try that
I just noticed one of the new features:
LIVE services - start a new MLB game any day during the regular season with up-to-date rosters, standings, stats and player ratings, or to update player ratings in your current game based on their current performances.
That is something I will probably use a lot.
Quote from: JasonPratt on March 22, 2019, 08:23:47 AM
I haven't played a baseball game since the Commodore 64....
C64 "Hardball" I bet...:)