Comments on: Chew, Spit, Manage: MLB Front Office Manager

By: Pace

Pace — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:06:15 +0000

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:04:00 +0000

For an left-of-Baukinin guy, John’s got a total hard-on for USA pop culture.

By: phuzz

phuzz — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:53:40 +0000

I’ve always wondered John (Walker), how come you know anything about baseball?
(it’s just quite unusual for a brit is all)

By: zor

zor — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:19:46 +0000

OOTP got popular because it was the best. PureSim provided stiff competition though, and Sullivan is at work on a new baseball title now he has joined Gary Gorski’s Wolverine Studios team.

I do agree OOTP has been destroyed by the brief tenure under the SI banner, but if you go back to the final version before the change of direction you’ve got a superb example of a baseball text sim.

By: LEEDER KRENON

LEEDER KRENON — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:37:56 +0000

i think OOTP is popular because there are no other options. it’s like if someone said “hey, today we are going to kick you in the nuts, or kick you in the nuts, which would you prefer?”

like football manager, the game has gotten bloated on irrelevant new features instead of tuning the old ones. the developer listens to people who shout louder than everyone else on the forum.

By: Jason Moyer

Jason Moyer — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:50:05 +0000

I’ve always wished FOF would team up with Markus at OOTP to work on an interface overhaul, because the game has always been utterly brilliant as an American football sim.

As far as MLB:FOM goes, I’m going to give it a try because it looks interesting. I really doubt it will hold a candle to even the older line of OOTP (1.0 to 6.5) but it certainly looks better than Baseball Mogul or something.

FWIW, I wouldn’t take mainstream reviews of the game seriously, as most of the complaints I’ve been seeing so far are things I’m basically expecting, like an Xbox review complaining about the menus – can anyone honestly imagine trying to play something like OOTP with a gamepad? I’d gouge my eyes out.

By: DAL

DAL — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:07:36 +0000

This has gotten terrible reviews. Check it out on metacritic. It ain’t looking good. OOTP is still the undisputed king of baseball management sims, I think.

By: leeder_krenon

leeder_krenon — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:12:21 +0000

Where can you get this in the UK?

There is an NFL manager game, Pags already mentioned it -

http://www.solecismic.com

It’s decent but has needed an interface haul for about, ooh, 6 years now. This game and OOTPs interface would be great. OOTPs game and FOFs interface would be the equivalent of stabbing yourself in the eye with a splintered baseball bat.

By: RealHorrorshow

RealHorrorshow — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:09:27 +0000

“A post for our American readers there.”

Nobody watches baseball outside of a few select markets like Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, NYC, etc. If you want to pander to the rogue colony, I’m sure there’s a(n American) Football manager out there somewhere.

By: The Poisoned Sponge

The Poisoned Sponge — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:52:21 +0000

Oh, you’re loving this aren’t you John. This is like ambrosia for you. A game about baseball? You’re so there.

(Disclosure: User may or may not have been drunk while writing this comment.)

By: Pags

Pags — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:36:56 +0000

At first I thought this might have something to do with Solecismic Software’s Front Office Football, but uh… it doesn’t. Hopefully 2K don’t start flexing their wallet at Solecismic when they see another American-sports sim with a similar name doing well for itself.

By: Oak

Oak — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:34:08 +0000

Mattingly! Shave those sideburns!