F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

Imagine you've got an entire holodeck at your disposal to create almost any variation of baseball simulation. Want to relive a particularly good year for your favorite MLB team? Want to run an historical season from the 1930s to see if you can change history? Want to create an entirely new league with new leagues?

You can do all of it with Out of the Park Baseball. OOTP is one of the most unique games I've ever played as it gives players complete freedom over anything and everything baseball. If you're a statistical junkie and want to dig into facts and figures to make the Mariners (for example) a championship team, you can control every aspect of the team, including finances. If you're more like me and a fan of baseball but not particularly knowledgable about all the nuts and bolts, you can play as a commissioner and create a new league out of whole cloth. Watch entire games unfold on your screen (recent versions of OOTP have 3D graphics with pretty realistic action) or run through entire weeks or months of time in the current season; it's all completely up to you.

I'm on year twelve of simulating a league I created. My style of playing the game is to set up various characters from fiction as players: Bugs Bunny, Hyacinth Bucket, Jean-Luc Picard, etc and watch them battle it out on the ballfield. I don't go for 'serious' baseball so much as 'what would happen if Jaws from James Bond was a pitcher' screwing around. Most other OOTP players seem to stick to managing real-life teams like the Red Sox. Both are equally valid ways to play the game because, like so many games on the market today, there isn't one "correct" way. That's one of the things I like the most about this game. It's not for everyone, but if you're a baseball fan, it might be worth a try.