I have gotten some other baseball sim junkies into DMB. I am still experimenting with it in terms of pushing what I can do bit I love the game. I am sorry you left OOTP but I am happy you chose DMB. I don't like to play in silence so when I fire up DMB, I have Classic Baseball on the Radio (found on YouTube) going in the background. There is a charm about DMB as well that "feels" like old school baseball which to me is a very good thing. As for play by play, DMB has every other sim beaten. OOTP's animations and ballparks are gorgeous. And OOTP and DMB really provide such an amazing experience. Jrockne, to answer your question, in any sim I play, I choose a season and a team. OOTP and DMB are both VERY accurate games and both for so many reasons are superior to Strat. Obviously OOTP allows me MUCH greater latitude because all seasons are included from the majors and minors to the Negro Leagues and other international professional leagues. For some that's fun, for me? I want to immerse in the history of the greatest sport ever. No GM, no simming 30 seasons into the future. For me, it is an immediate baseball experience. I do season replays - especially Deadball into World War II - and I create special projects. The financial model is NOT the central focus of the game. That said, I think OOTP is rather misunderstood. Among many baseball sims I own are OOTP and DMB. I love many baseball sims baseball is the only sport I love. Now this may not seem like that noteworthy an example of the joys of the game, but the point is i could go to any day in the the season and pick out an example like this. What does he do - tosses a 7-hit, 1-0 shutout in the Bronx Zoo. With him still on the big club I ended up scheduling him to start at the MLB leading Yankees - and second guessed myself whether i was sabotoging the Twins with that decision. Darrell Jackson of the Twins has been terrible and I intended to send him down to the minors yesterday but it didn't fit in the moment with other roster considerations within the roster parameters I've set. I just auto-played Tuesday in my current season. I have a hunch I play out fewer games than most. Look through Replays & Great Games and you'll see evidence of the flexibility in creating your own baseball world as Spaceman is talking about. Welcome to the board, I hope you'll post here about your project, however you decide to play it. The game is flexible enough to work for many different approaches, and there is no "right" one. And of course you can take your time figuring out how YOU want to do it.Īgain, welcome and I hope you enjoy your journey into DMB-land.ĭaddyOh nailed it. Most don't do it the way I do, I suppose. I've invested a TON into my replay, and now it's coming down to crunch time. It takes a long time, about three to four years for me to complete a season, but I get the same sense as in real life about how an MLB season is a long, long grind, and the same sense of excitement when I finally get to September and then the last week of the season. You get a real sense of the season and the teams doing that. Me, I replay entire seasons playing out. As a manager, you face the same decisions as in real life, and the game situations and play just immerse you in the game. The DMB user interface may be dated, but nothing about it detracts from the game itself. It's the game of baseball that is front and center in DMB, and that's how I like it. But like you what I enjoy is playing out the games. OOTP has the more appealing interface, at least with regard to graphics. Long-time DMB-er here who never could take to OOTP despite trying to several times.
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