For any people thinking of buying OOTP 4

HolyCow98 · 03-31-2002, 06:02 PM

I have always been a big baseball fan, collected the cards, played all the old baseball games on the C64, and watch as many games as I possibly could. Never really find a game before that was any where close to being what I was looking, although I did have a lot of fun with Earl Weaver Baseball flexiblity on the Amiga 500. When I saw the review for OOTP on <a href="http://www.sportplanet.com." target="_blank">www.sportplanet.com.</a> I was like glued to my chair the game sounded so much like what I had been looking for. I was so frustrated with the High Heat Series that for the first time in years I really wasn't playing any baseball games which stinks cuz when I go to the games or watch one on t.v. I'm usually wanting to play something. I clicked on the link that eventually led me to this forum. I was thinking there is no way that this is going to live up to the hype that I feel reading the review and looking at the features and screenshots on the OOTP site. When I started reading the general discussion boards I was looking for people that were complaining or the dreaded uproar over some fatal bug or something, didn't really find any of that..I then went to the dynasty section and I started reading some of those posts..the more I read the more I wanted...still thinking I'm setting myself up for a big letdown..anyway I believe it was a post from the old board but I pretty sure it was a post from TigerFan that sold me on the game. It had the flavor of actual news from real-life baseball..I was like I gotta try this.. Over a year later I still play this game (although upgraded to OOTP4) and it still gets my baseball juices flowing and I still get quiet in the end of a run at the World Series that comes up short and renewed excitement when the offseason is over and its time to do it all over again. If your looking for a great baseball game this is for you...look at some of the post in all the sections and see what everyone is talking about but take it from me you won't be sorry dropping the 29$ for this game...is it 29 or 30$..I don't even remember and it doesn't matter..its worth every penny!!!

Tiger Fan · 03-31-2002, 06:19 PM

Glad I helped play a small part in your decision. This is without a doubt the most enjoyable game I have ever played and I am sure many others feel the same.

Recte44 · 03-31-2002, 07:41 PM

I too was a big Earl Weaver player....there always seemed like there was a lot missing with BBPro. Now, OOTP just completely blows every baseball simulation I have ever played or heard about out of the water.

DreamTeams · 04-01-2002, 07:20 AM

Gotta agree with this post. I stumbled upon this game with OOTP2 and have no idea how. I've tried to remember, but just can't. I do remember that I was looking for a replacement to BBPro.

Even after getting OOTP2 I was still looking for a BBPro replacement. Purchased HH and felt I'd found my replacement. What a fun game, for it's kind. Even after purchasing OOTP3 I kept fading back to it occasionally for it's on-field flavor. But, I've yet to play any other sports title since downloading OOTP4.

The new features added to the play-by-play and in-game of OOTP4 gives me the feeling of having witnessed a real game. I haven't felt like that about any sports sim since BBPro. Not even HH gave me that feeling. I love the tension of tight close games, and OOTP4 creates that better than BBPro did and better than HH. Even without sound and animation.

Also the customizability of OOTP4 allows me to use my baseball and league imagination to it's fullest. As BBPro did, it has taken my hobby of creating fictional baseball players and teams to another level.

LivnLegend · 04-01-2002, 08:35 AM

Amazing how many former Earl Weaver players are on this board and in the OOTP community! In high school, late 80's, my girlfriend had a PC and I had a Mac. I would try and get over to here house as much as possible to play my copy of Earl Weaver. She would get annoying sometimes, asking me to give her attention and whatnot, when all I wanted to do was play manage my Dodgers! It didn't take her long to figure out I was using her for her computer!

Later, as a freshman in college, I was able to secure a corner PC in the computer lab to play Earl Weaver undetected by the nosy room monitor.

DavidM · 04-01-2002, 08:54 PM

I have not had as much fun with a BB game since Weaver, as well. Larussa, and Front-Page failed to capture my intrests. Had some fun with computer version of Strat, but none have come close to OOTP.

RickJay · 04-02-2002, 09:52 AM

I've played them all, but OOTP4 tops them all. Only Earl Weaver (versions 1 and 1.5 - 2.0 was horrifying) and APBA Baseball for Windows were even close. APBA might still be good, but you have to pay about $150 to have a fully functioning game.

I tried Tony Larussa, and it was fun. I tried High Heat. Baseball Mogul. BBPro. But OOTP4 is the best, so far.

obaslg · 04-02-2002, 10:06 AM

Absolutely. It took years, but my quest for an Earl replacement - temporarily stalled by FPS - is finally complete. Forunately, I'm still friends with my old Weaving foe, and we're in an online league. The only thing I still miss is making the wacked-out stadiums.

Itching for a little action a la Pete Rose baseball, a great old arcade game, I recently took HH2k2 out of the closet (I found it!), but it didn't take long for me to remember why I put the bug-infested frustration factory away in the first place.

CBL-Commish · 04-02-2002, 10:51 AM

[quote]Originally posted by obaslg:
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The only thing I still miss is making the wacked-out stadiums.

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I missed the wacked-out stadiums from my Earl II league, too, so I did screen captures of a bunch of them and now use them as the background pictures in OOTP4.

evangel · 04-02-2002, 10:54 AM

Bring back memories anyone?

Dargone · 04-03-2002, 03:11 AM

The good old days...

Malleus Dei · 04-03-2002, 03:21 AM

"Amazing how many former Earl Weaver players are on this board"

Back in the days of OOTP 1 and 2, this board used to have what I think was the entire Earl Weaver beta test team on it, plus the guy who ran the biggest EWBB BBS that there ever was.

CardsRule · 04-03-2002, 04:35 PM

Computer baseball died with the end of EWBB....and has been resurrected with OOTP. 'Nuff said!

Civ2boss · 04-03-2002, 04:41 PM

High Heat and OOTP is really different from each other.
HH is fun to acually be the pitcher, be the closer, be the hitter in the bottom of the ninth with two outs in the seventh game of the world series against the best closer in the entire league.
OOTP is about being the Owner or being the GM.

[ 04-03-2002: Message edited by: Civ2boss ]</p>

Almost Famous · 04-03-2002, 04:45 PM

Give me both!
High Heat Optional Game Play powered by the brilliant OOTP Engine.
I can dream. Did anyone think a game like OOTP would be a reality as little as ten years ago.

Civ2boss · 04-03-2002, 04:51 PM

So you want to be the pitcher and the closer and the hitter in the bottom of the ninth with two outs in the seventh game of the world series against the best closer in the entire league while being the owner and the GM?

03-31-2002, 06:02 PM	#1
HolyCow98 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Douglasville, GA Posts: 2,735	For any people thinking of buying OOTP 4 I have always been a big baseball fan, collected the cards, played all the old baseball games on the C64, and watch as many games as I possibly could. Never really find a game before that was any where close to being what I was looking, although I did have a lot of fun with Earl Weaver Baseball flexiblity on the Amiga 500. When I saw the review for OOTP on <a href="http://www.sportplanet.com." target="_blank">www.sportplanet.com.</a> I was like glued to my chair the game sounded so much like what I had been looking for. I was so frustrated with the High Heat Series that for the first time in years I really wasn't playing any baseball games which stinks cuz when I go to the games or watch one on t.v. I'm usually wanting to play something. I clicked on the link that eventually led me to this forum. I was thinking there is no way that this is going to live up to the hype that I feel reading the review and looking at the features and screenshots on the OOTP site. When I started reading the general discussion boards I was looking for people that were complaining or the dreaded uproar over some fatal bug or something, didn't really find any of that..I then went to the dynasty section and I started reading some of those posts..the more I read the more I wanted...still thinking I'm setting myself up for a big letdown..anyway I believe it was a post from the old board but I pretty sure it was a post from TigerFan that sold me on the game. It had the flavor of actual news from real-life baseball..I was like I gotta try this.. Over a year later I still play this game (although upgraded to OOTP4) and it still gets my baseball juices flowing and I still get quiet in the end of a run at the World Series that comes up short and renewed excitement when the offseason is over and its time to do it all over again. If your looking for a great baseball game this is for you...look at some of the post in all the sections and see what everyone is talking about but take it from me you won't be sorry dropping the 29$ for this game...is it 29 or 30$..I don't even remember and it doesn't matter..its worth every penny!!! __________________ NPBL Enjoying its 60th season Georgia GM

03-31-2002, 06:19 PM	#2
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,541	Glad I helped play a small part in your decision. This is without a doubt the most enjoyable game I have ever played and I am sure many others feel the same. __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles Columnist- The Figment Sporting Journal MY FIGMENT LEAGUE BROOKLYN KINGS DYNASTY PAST DYNASTYS My History of Hockey Replay Tiger Fan's Sporting News : the mid 1940's Tiger Fan's All Sport Replay: The 1920s History of Sports 1901-15 Historical Tutorial and Feedback League My first fictional attempt The HOB4: The last of my series of history of baseball replays that go back to OOTP2 and the old message board.

03-31-2002, 07:41 PM	#3
Recte44 Global Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Oconomowoc, WI Posts: 2,754	I too was a big Earl Weaver player....there always seemed like there was a lot missing with BBPro. Now, OOTP just completely blows every baseball simulation I have ever played or heard about out of the water. __________________ Matt Rectenwald Commissioner, GM: Las Vegas Hustlers, The Brewster Baseball Association- fictional league (JOIN NOW)

04-01-2002, 07:20 AM	#4
DreamTeams Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 2,521	Gotta agree with this post. I stumbled upon this game with OOTP2 and have no idea how. I've tried to remember, but just can't. I do remember that I was looking for a replacement to BBPro. Even after getting OOTP2 I was still looking for a BBPro replacement. Purchased HH and felt I'd found my replacement. What a fun game, for it's kind. Even after purchasing OOTP3 I kept fading back to it occasionally for it's on-field flavor. But, I've yet to play any other sports title since downloading OOTP4. The new features added to the play-by-play and in-game of OOTP4 gives me the feeling of having witnessed a real game. I haven't felt like that about any sports sim since BBPro. Not even HH gave me that feeling. I love the tension of tight close games, and OOTP4 creates that better than BBPro did and better than HH. Even without sound and animation. Also the customizability of OOTP4 allows me to use my baseball and league imagination to it's fullest. As BBPro did, it has taken my hobby of creating fictional baseball players and teams to another level. __________________

04-01-2002, 08:35 AM	#5
LivnLegend Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: 100% pure adrenaline! Posts: 5,624	Amazing how many former Earl Weaver players are on this board and in the OOTP community! In high school, late 80's, my girlfriend had a PC and I had a Mac. I would try and get over to here house as much as possible to play my copy of Earl Weaver. She would get annoying sometimes, asking me to give her attention and whatnot, when all I wanted to do was play manage my Dodgers! It didn't take her long to figure out I was using her for her computer! Later, as a freshman in college, I was able to secure a corner PC in the computer lab to play Earl Weaver undetected by the nosy room monitor. __________________ Excess ain't rebellion. You're drinking what they're selling.

04-01-2002, 08:54 PM	#6
DavidM Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Diego Posts: 31	I have not had as much fun with a BB game since Weaver, as well. Larussa, and Front-Page failed to capture my intrests. Had some fun with computer version of Strat, but none have come close to OOTP.

04-02-2002, 09:52 AM	#7
RickJay Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Toronto Posts: 23	I've played them all, but OOTP4 tops them all. Only Earl Weaver (versions 1 and 1.5 - 2.0 was horrifying) and APBA Baseball for Windows were even close. APBA might still be good, but you have to pay about $150 to have a fully functioning game. I tried Tony Larussa, and it was fun. I tried High Heat. Baseball Mogul. BBPro. But OOTP4 is the best, so far.

04-02-2002, 10:06 AM	#8
obaslg All Star Reserve Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 887	Absolutely. It took years, but my quest for an Earl replacement - temporarily stalled by FPS - is finally complete. Forunately, I'm still friends with my old Weaving foe, and we're in an online league. The only thing I still miss is making the wacked-out stadiums. Itching for a little action a la Pete Rose baseball, a great old arcade game, I recently took HH2k2 out of the closet (I found it!), but it didn't take long for me to remember why I put the bug-infested frustration factory away in the first place. __________________ Realy good musition of many insterments, including the hyperbolic vitriol.

04-02-2002, 10:51 AM	#9
CBL-Commish All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Maryland Posts: 1,995	[quote]Originally posted by obaslg: <strong> The only thing I still miss is making the wacked-out stadiums. </strong><hr></blockquote> I missed the wacked-out stadiums from my Earl II league, too, so I did screen captures of a bunch of them and now use them as the background pictures in OOTP4. __________________ For the best in O's news: Orioles' Hangout.com

04-02-2002, 10:54 AM	#10
evangel Minors (Single A) Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Mesa, AZ Posts: 79	Bring back memories anyone?

04-03-2002, 03:11 AM	#11
Dargone Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Interwebs Posts: 2,862	The good old days... __________________ I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.-Margaret Mitchell

04-03-2002, 04:35 PM	#13
CardsRule Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 3	Computer baseball died with the end of EWBB....and has been resurrected with OOTP. 'Nuff said!

04-03-2002, 04:41 PM	#14
Civ2boss Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 39	High Heat and OOTP is really different from each other. HH is fun to acually be the pitcher, be the closer, be the hitter in the bottom of the ninth with two outs in the seventh game of the world series against the best closer in the entire league. OOTP is about being the Owner or being the GM. [ 04-03-2002: Message edited by: Civ2boss ]</p>

04-03-2002, 04:45 PM	#15
Almost Famous Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 4	Give me both! High Heat Optional Game Play powered by the brilliant OOTP Engine. I can dream. Did anyone think a game like OOTP would be a reality as little as ten years ago.

04-03-2002, 04:51 PM	#16
Civ2boss Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 39	So you want to be the pitcher and the closer and the hitter in the bottom of the ninth with two outs in the seventh game of the world series against the best closer in the entire league while being the owner and the GM?