OOTP6 Preview in Progress

[SkyDog]

I'm not a beta tester, just doing a preview. I just got the beta yesterday, for the express purpose of doing a preview. I'm not treating this like I would if I were beta testing (although I've noticed a few things that I've passed along to Markus). I'm doing this level of work because I *WANT* this game to be better. When I say "I'm not a fan", I should expound: I love to play text sims, but I'm a "fan" of none of them. I'll jump ship in a heartbeat if someone else comes out with a better game, which is the way that I hope most gamers in the genre are.

[kq76]

Originally posted by graham5
I'm only jealous, but how has someone who thinks that an OOTP5 feature is a NEW OOTP6 feature, been selected as a BETA tester?

From what I understand SkyDog is a very big player in the sports simulation genre. Getting a good (p)review from him is like hitting the jackpot because a LOT of people are going to read, trust, and base their decision to buy on what he says.

Making a 15 year old who spends all day and all night playing OOTP and knows it inside and out but has no rep in the industry (EDIT: I'm not at all thinking of anyone in particular) a previewer is not going to help as much as someone like SkyDog will.

EDIT: That said, SD should know what's new and what's not if he's going to write a (p)review. Unlike Jonah though, he's already edited his work after being corrected.

[TLBOrioles]

My burning question: is there any way I can use the new ratings for hitters and the old-style ratings (avoid hr/bb etc) for pitchers?

[Dagrims]

Very minor comment about something I noticed in your preview (well done and informative so far):

Your first player card, on page 2, I think the guy's name is Lorusso: 'extension' is incorrectly spelled 'extention'. Not a big deal but it will be showing up often on player cards so figured that's a typo he might want to fix.

Apologies if this should have been posted somewhere else.

[kq76]

Originally posted by Dagrims
Very minor comment about something I noticed in your preview (well done and informative so far):

Your first player card, on page 2, I think the guy's name is Lorusso: 'extension' is incorrectly spelled 'extention'. Not a big deal but it will be showing up often on player cards so figured that's a typo he might want to fix.

Apologies if this should have been posted somewhere else.

The thread for that is at: ***Please post all spelling/typos/grammar errors here****

The typo that eats at me constantly is the "Broadcating" one in the financial reports.

[SkyDog]

Originally posted by kq76
The thread for that is at: ***Please post all spelling/typos/grammar errors here****

The typo that eats at me constantly is the "Broadcating" one in the financial reports.

I mentioned this one to Markus just this morning as a matter of fact.

[asamford]

hey Skydog, I'm right down the road in Snellville, can I come over and play?

[SkyDog]

LOL!

[Dagrims]

Originally posted by kq76
The thread for that is at: ***Please post all spelling/typos/grammar errors here****

Think anyone will look there? That's a ghost town thread - well, I'll give it a shot.

[asamford]

well i can't remember my password for my Cecil Fielder account over at FOFC so i can't log in from work (it was still logged in at home last night) so I can't comment there, but i would just like to say thanks to SkyDog for giving us such a great in depth preview. It is really getting me excited to play the game. I should've sent my damn money order priority mail so that I know that my ORDER-ID will be here when the game is released!

you know, i bet i do remember the password to my Kevin From Dell account over there at FOFC.

[SkyDog]

Originally posted by asamford
well i can't remember my password for my Cecil Fielder account over at FOFC

I can send it to you if you can check that e-mail now. Let me know.

[jbmagic]

skydog thanks for the preview of ootp 6...


have u come to a final conclusion what u think of ootp 6?


thanks

[SkyDog]

Originally posted by jbmagic
have u come to a final conclusion what u think of ootp 6?

Heck no. It'll be at least a couple of weeks after the first patch before I would even come close to making any sort of conclusions.

[asamford]

Originally posted by SkyDog
I can send it to you if you can check that e-mail now. Let me know.

the account is registered with my home e-mail and I'm at work, so i'll just wait until i get home, no biggie.

[ctorg]

Good writeup SkyDog. I'm really looking forward to the new release.

[CubsFan]

Any way to add "homeruns allowed" to the stat lines when looking at the career stats for a pitcher? The "career stats" section is the only place I know to get a good snapshot of a pitcher's consistency over more than a 1-2 year period, but the lack of HR's allowed has always been a problem to me.

[jbmagic]

i loving following your preview on ootp 6..its great...

just curious what your top football sim game u recommend total pro football or front office football?

and is CM any good for soccer?

thanks

[SkyDog]

Football: I personally prefer FOF2K4 to TPF, although I must admit that I haven't really tried out TPF 1.40 (latest patch). There are some pretty big stats anomalies with the latest TPF patch that prohibited me from giving it much of my time.

I don't do soccer, but from everything I've heard, CM is a *wonderful* game.

[SkyDog]

FYI, I've put some new stuff up this morning from letting the latest build run overnight.

[ejbucs]

Originally posted by SkyDog
I don't do soccer, but from everything I've heard, CM is a *wonderful* game.

CM is a top notch game.