Jump to content
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

Article: My Love for Video Games-OOTP '14

AJPettersen

Recommended Posts

ashbury Cooperstown

ashbury

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted

(Comments posted in the Community Blogs section don't seem to make it over here to the articles/forums area, so I'm re-posting here. Maybe RP can explain why this happens.)

 

I've played OOTP enough to love it, and eventually come to critique aspects of it that are too easy to exploit. One can put the setting to higher difficulty, of course, but that seems to make it unrealistic in a different extreme. Still, as an inveterate tinkerer, I found the game very very addictive for days at a time.

 

I've played Strat-O-Matic only as the dice-game version, starting way back in the 70's or so, and again when my sons were old enough to enjoy it. (Never got my daughter into it - or my wife for that matter - go figure.)

 

Before we discovered SOM, by brother and I devised our own randomized game based on our baseball cards' stats. Much cruder than the commercial products that we didn't know about yet, but for kids around 10 or 12 years old it wasn't bad.

 

All this is basically to say: welcome to the crowd. :)

Link to comment
Share on other sites
AJPettersen Draft Eligible

AJPettersen

Provisional Member
Posted
  • Author
Posted
Haven't yet tried out OOTP, but have played Baseball Mogul for a while (Sports Mogul Inc.). I'd guess they're very similar, though OOTP looks quite a bit more refined as far as presentation.

 

What song did you pick for your at-bat music this year, A.J.? Atmosphere "YGM"?!?! q;)

 

I was going to tweet at you, but I forgot. I went with your suggestion!

Link to comment
Share on other sites
snepp Ft Myers Mighty Mussels

snepp

Verified Member
Posted
Posted

I couldn't even begin to count how many hundreds of seasons I've run through OOTP, in dozens of leagues in all sorts of configurations. I never play with the MLB setup though, the structure, the teams, or the players, it's all about the fictional setup for me.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Alex Draft Eligible

Alex

Verified Member
Posted
Posted
No doubt it has more depth. I utilize mogul as an online interactive sim as opposed to single player. Single player mogul is a joke next to OOTP.

 

Online play offers the same kinds of experiences, too, but if you like Mogul, there's nothing wrong with that either.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
TheLeviathan All-Star

TheLeviathan

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted
Online play offers the same kinds of experiences, too, but if you like Mogul, there's nothing wrong with that either.

 

I tried OOTP solo and that's where the sheer overwhelming nature of OOTP turned me off. The user interface for that game was like a damn schematic to me at first and by the time I had it down some of the quirks of it just got annoying to me. It's one thing to make a game challenging to succeed at, it's another to make it mind numbing to even do menial tasks. I hear this was improved since I tried (3-4 years ago) so I might have to give it another crack.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
ashbury Cooperstown

ashbury

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted
I tried OOTP solo and that's where the sheer overwhelming nature of OOTP turned me off. The user interface for that game was like a damn schematic to me at first and by the time I had it down some of the quirks of it just got annoying to me. It's one thing to make a game challenging to succeed at, it's another to make it mind numbing to even do menial tasks. I hear this was improved since I tried (3-4 years ago) so I might have to give it another crack.

 

You do have to play it enough so that certain routine operations become rote. Which can become a circular argument, if you don't quite reach that threshold.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Alex Draft Eligible

Alex

Verified Member
Posted
Posted
I tried OOTP solo and that's where the sheer overwhelming nature of OOTP turned me off. The user interface for that game was like a damn schematic to me at first and by the time I had it down some of the quirks of it just got annoying to me. It's one thing to make a game challenging to succeed at, it's another to make it mind numbing to even do menial tasks. I hear this was improved since I tried (3-4 years ago) so I might have to give it another crack.

 

Yeah, I get that. You can have the computer manage a lot of things for you to start and then add in things you'd like to do slowly. If you get back into it, I can certainly give you some ideas if you need them.

 

As far as making it more challenging, I've found that the more realistic you make the game the more challenging it becomes. For example, make scouts less reliable and/or do a "stats" only type of league.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
RedBull34 Draft Eligible

RedBull34

Verified Member
Posted
Posted

Game is pretty fun, but I had to turn the injuries down to very low. I played as the Rangers and lost every starter except Darvish and Moreland to injury. Kinda weird that everybody would get injured for a long period of time, Mark DeRosa couldn't carry the slack...

Link to comment
Share on other sites
PseudoSABR Cedar Rapids Kernels

PseudoSABR

Verified Member
Posted
Posted
Game is pretty fun, but I had to turn the injuries down to very low. I played as the Rangers and lost every starter except Darvish and Moreland to injury. Kinda weird that everybody would get injured for a long period of time, Mark DeRosa couldn't carry the slack...
I think the classic setting works just fine. Like the Twins last year, your team just became crippled. I doubt the issue was league wide or from season to season.
Link to comment
Share on other sites
notoriousgod71 Ft Myers Mighty Mussels

notoriousgod71

Verified Member
Posted
Posted
(Comments posted in the Community Blogs section don't seem to make it over here to the articles/forums area, so I'm re-posting here. Maybe RP can explain why this happens.)

 

I've played OOTP enough to love it, and eventually come to critique aspects of it that are too easy to exploit. One can put the setting to higher difficulty, of course, but that seems to make it unrealistic in a different extreme. Still, as an inveterate tinkerer, I found the game very very addictive for days at a time.

 

I've played Strat-O-Matic only as the dice-game version, starting way back in the 70's or so, and again when my sons were old enough to enjoy it. (Never got my daughter into it - or my wife for that matter - go figure.)

 

Before we discovered SOM, by brother and I devised our own randomized game based on our baseball cards' stats. Much cruder than the commercial products that we didn't know about yet, but for kids around 10 or 12 years old it wasn't bad.

 

All this is basically to say: welcome to the crowd. :)

 

Strato makes life worth living.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
ashbury Cooperstown

ashbury

Old-Timey Member
Posted
Posted
Game is pretty fun, but I had to turn the injuries down to very low. I played as the Rangers and lost every starter except Darvish and Moreland to injury. Kinda weird that everybody would get injured for a long period of time, Mark DeRosa couldn't carry the slack...

 

I decided to try their historical feature, so I started with 1913. The next season Babe Ruth was available in the draft so I grabbed him. He wasn't real good that next season (age 19), and then the next season he got an injury that took a few days to diagnose. When the diagnosis mail came, it was a torn labrum, and "unfortunately it is a career ending injury." Oh well, easy come, easy go.

 

Kind of funny when you do those historical leagues to see a guy get injured and require Tommy John surgery that keeps him out for a year.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing
The Twins Daily Caretaker Fund
The Twins Daily Caretaker Fund

You all care about this site. The next step is caring for it. We’re asking you to caretake this site so it can remain the premier Twins community on the internet.

Become a Caretaker
×
×
  • Create New...