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Most popular community and official content for the past week. Well about the interface The interface is so clunky. It is offered on PC but then gives you no clear PC keyboard control options. Also I was trying to sign players and saw nothing really about keeping them on the team and suddenly I lost a top pitcher to free agency. Clearly this is a controller only game and also reminds me of why I used to like the way games would give you a freaking manual that meant something and you could buy the game in stores.

Honestly the game looks good for one of these sports sims that are pretty in I have logged almost 4, hours played and still counting. This is a great game. Sense of History: If you are going to offer a game that enables someone to play for up to 30 years, there should be a way to reminisce about the history you have created.

All the Small Things and Bugs: This goes for any game, but it needs to be said: please limit the bugs, and please also include all the small, fun details that die-hard fans like to find and gush about. They will look for them, and they will appreciate them, which will increase their enjoyment with the game. The marriage of two separate entities, the sports text-sim and the 3-D console sports game, could be a match made in heaven.

But as MLB fans know all too well, no prospect is a sure thing. With a month to go until FoM is released, there is still more news to come and additional details to uncover. But in the end, I certainly hope that a unique game such as this succeeds. But if it does not, at least the Hot Stove will keep us warm until the real baseball season begins. Creating your digital alter-ego should be fun.

The on the field action won't be too terribly in-depth it looks, but that's not part of being a GM. Member Comments.

I've said before, but I'm stoked for this. As for presentation -- I'd be satisfied with only "highlights" 3D and looking decent with basic 2D for the rest of the game. I'm sure 2K will figure out a way to ugly it up though. Hopefully there'll be "edit player" function for MiLB players -- and even more better yeah, I said it , someone on here does all the work to rename them!!! Go OS. As I mentioned in my hype score. I am very interested in a more interactive on-field GM game. My only concern is 2K.

If they can deliver a relatively bug free product compared to their other sports titles as of late this gen, then it is very promising. It looks very interesting and promising, I will definitely be checking it out, since I am already fixing for some serious MLB! Imagine the above, but with historical play, full minor league support and players, complete customization with respect to all leagues, etc.

I've got my copy preordered. MLB 09 will probably own my soul too much to spend a lot of time on this one though. They're gonna need a huge effort to compete Quote: Originally Posted by Double Deuce As has been said in numerous other threads, the games are being developed by two completely different developers. This game does not affect 2K9 in any way. This game has me more excited than any game in a really long time.

I hope it doesn't disappoint. I must admit that I hope that this goes off really well. I hope that they do a game that will also allow for us to not see the ratings. I want to be real about things and just see stats. Good to see a new addition to console baseball gaming. Could be a great game, if 2K gets it right. Good article On the console I'm not sure im into it Online 30 team fantasy draft for sure would be great with a solid base of OSers.

I wish a company would make a game like Statis-Pro Baseball by Accolade, which released on the Commodore That game had limited visuals but the stats were ludicrous. What I look for from a game like this is to be able to have accurate stat tracking and to complete a game within minutes. I'll keep an eye on this but OOTP 9 still has me playing all ther time. I'm sure if this game compares at all to OOTP in realism then the fact that you can watch the games will still some gamers, but I'm not holding my breath.

As somebody else said, I must have been asleep because this just came at me out of the blue! Will definately be keeping an eye on this one. I wish I knew more about the on the field mode. I miss having a manage only on the field baseball game. Only OS members can post comments Please login or register to post a comment. It reminds me of a NYY game. I ran into a girl from around the corner growing up. Her husband is a sweetheart, but not a drinker, and I could see the stress in his face trying to herd the girls.

Fortunately for him, I had one of my equally derelict friends. I had one of my best ideas ever. It worked out really well. After the Rockies season, I am heartened they are keeping their General Manager and Coach as they have totally rebuilt this team. This coming year should be a return to the Halcion days. In retrospect it seems the Twins won the ALC for a few years because all the teams went into some sort of rebuild.

When some of the juice was taken out of the ball going into , those teams shortcomings were exposed. I watched the new Twins FO begin to turn over the rebuilt team in their image instead of building on it.

Starting with stripping its leaders Dozier in particular. A terrible situation. Its stark: the lack of Fundamentals in fielding.. Rooker, Larnach neither belong in the outfield.. Pitching is Defense… the difference between the top defensive teams and the bottom defensive teams runs between. Guys that make plays behind him so that he can pitch relaxed. Look at the small market teams such as the Rays, Brewers and Guardians that always outperform perceived expectations.

The Giants and Dodgers are large market teams that put a priority on D as well. I post I see something.. Maddon use to be underrated because he thought out of the box. But now I think he tries too hard to think out of the box. BB is not that complicated. I think CL needs to decide on a direction.

If they are going to continue to focus on maintaining a. That said, even smart people need physical health PSA to America. I understand why Girardi was fired by the NYY. Donnie Baseball is my favorite Yankee ever, but he needs to start winning. He went through hell with the re-build and got that team to consistently overperform their talent level and not just either. The Phillies stink. Their owner should have bit the bullet and hired a young brainiac instead of Dombrowski and let him re-build that team right.

Same thing there — MacPhail got a little bounce in Baltimore, then moved onto Philadelphia. The owner — John Middleton — got talked into doing a rebuild al la the Astros and Cubs. Unfortunately, the kids MacPhail brought in were so far over their heads it was pathetic to watch — playing around trying to do groundbreaking creative things with no understanding of the how or why. The Phillies were in the situation that the Twins are now and the Pirates before them — how does the owner go to the fans and tell them they need to do another multi-year rebuild when the fans sat through the last one and got butkis?

Unlike Minn-St. Paul and Pittsburgh, Philadelphia is a major market. Middleton had to do something quickly as spending the better part of rebuilding for 10 years pretty much kills a good portion of the fan base and Philly sports fans are extremely demanding. He got a proven manager in Gerardi and a proven GM in Dombrowski. Hiring Dombrowski just delayed the inevitable.

Zaidi at SF. Both will have sustained juggernauts. The Mets will eventually get the right POBO and never lose again, but Cohen will spend billions to win until then anyhow.

The Cubbies could have their brain now in Hoyer, jury is still out. And then we have the Phillies. Once Cashman is finally gone the Yankees will get the right brain. I spent my career in the computer field — and I studied what came before me. That happened. However, in time as the costs of computers came down drastically and home computers could be tied together in local area networks, computer usage became commonplace.

In the same way we can discuss the use of analytics in baseball. I knew that when the cycle completed those with analytic tools would realize the same things as the greybeards they forced out after a lifetime in the field had. Dombrowski knows how to use them, Eppler as well.

There is no longer resistance or a mystique. Making fun of Tommy Lasorda for coming up with the double switch when pinch-hitting for a Pitcher was stupid. It was a lot more than that. But today AL teams — starting with the Rays and moving onto the Astros and others — have learned to use bench players to their advantage as a part of game strategy, even with the DH.

Putting bench players in during the 4th and 5th innings happens quite often with many teams. So having a DH no longer impedes strategic moves during a game. Doing way with the Pitcher hitting is fine. Critics of advanced analytics think these things just happened.

Jimmie was a dead-pull lefty with prodigious power and a loop in his swing. Never throw him a low FB and never play anyone on the left side. Computers help, but we mostly knew where to play. I worked for an engineering organization, so we had a mainframe, but no one had a desktop computer.

When they finally arrived, they bought three for the accounting group, and I got one of them. Creating everything from scratch is X better learning tool than inheriting something that someone else built.

And believe me, there was nothing out there. I got to write everything. Bud Selig Fan Hiring Dombrowski just delayed the inevitable. They were a win team in , with some interesting kids, like Nola, Crawford, Kingery, Hoskins. So they hired Santana and Arrieta. So they added Realmuto and Segura, which again made the better, but not good, and more expensive and older. This is just like with Preller.