Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings
Outstanding baseball game that is a lot more than meets the eye. The pitching and hitting mechanics are as good as any baseball sim and it will scratch the itch of super casual and hardcore baseball gamers. It does lack a lot of the stat tracking and normal gameplay options you would find in normal baseball games (no pitch outs, no pick off moves, etc) but the things that are included are implemented, presented and executed at an above avg level.
What really makes this game appeal to casual and hardcore and all in between is the way difficulty is handled. You choose from 0-99 with 99 obviously being the toughest. A few points tweaked either way can mean the difference between a fair challenge, a walk in the park, or a flat out RNG laced tirade mixed with occasional rage quits. Luckily the sweet spot can always be adjusted as your skill level goes up even between in season games. This in my mind is groundbreaking and it should be adopted in every sports game in my opinion and it’s one of the main reasons there is so much replay value in this game.
– Real player with 294.1 hrs in game
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I like baseball games but I don’t like overly complicated baseball games so I haven’t bought a baseball game in years. I’ve played the Xbox 360 trial of RBI baseball and thought it was terrible.
After this came out on PS3 one of my friends snagged it and told me about it so I purchased it. Don’t let the cartoonish graphics fool you, this game is tons of fun.
They did a great job on the physics and took care to make sure base runners were the correct speed compare to throws and whatnot so double plays are realstically difficult and you’re not going to throw out a batter at first base from right field.
– Real player with 186.0 hrs in game
Super Mega Baseball 2
Unfortunately I had to change this to negative. Negative means I do NOT recommend this game. I’m not saying it’s bad. Here’s why:
The devs fell into the trap of “Fixing what’s not broken”. They nerfed pitching SO much that batting is a slugfest. You can literally pitch halfway into the other batterbox and have the reticle LITERALLY in the dirt, and power teams such as overdogs and sirloins will smashit. There is NOTHING you can do to stop it if the batter doesn’t mess up.
It’s such a sinking and resigning feeling when you KNOW 100% without a sliver of doubt that you can not stop a comeback or an onslaught. They have runners on base and thus are swinging at everything. If you approach the strike zone within like 2 ball lengths, it is smashed.
– Real player with 81.1 hrs in game
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I’ve been playing baseball games for 30 years, starting with a game called Color Baseball on my dad’s Coco 2 computer. Then, on top of my head, I played Baseball (Nintendo/Gameboy), the Bases Loaded series, RBI Baseball series, Little League Baseball, Baseball Stars, Hardball 3 and 4, World Series Baseball series, Super Baseball Simulator 1.000, Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball, Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball (and winning run), The Triple Play/EA MLB series, High Heat Baseball series, MLB 2K series, MLB the show series, and Super Mega Baseball 1. I’ve also probably played countless others that I can’t recall right now.
– Real player with 45.1 hrs in game
Trivia Vault Baseball Trivia
You get what you paid for, 5K achievements at minimum price. If you’re an achievement hunter looking to increase the number of achievements on your profile showcase, then I highly recommend buying this. Else don’t waste your money. This is not a game, it’s just a way of distributing achievements.
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game
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It’s a spam game, in which the main point is that you pay to boost your achievement count by 5,000. Steam is working to remove these games. Good riddance.
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Digital Diamond Baseball V7
The only real critirea to know whether you might enjoy Digital Diamond Baseball is whether you played and enjoyed APBA, Strat-omatic, or any one of the countless tabletop baseball games out there. If you said yes, I love some card and dice baseball, then you’ll probably have a blast with Digital Diamond.
Unlike Out of the Park, which attempts to be a management sim first and foremost, this game is geared toward the classic replayers, people who play specific games, match-ups, or seasons without getting into the financial or trading side of the game. This is fantasy baseball at its core. Matchups from any era can be played or regular season games with the exact schedules and lineups, your choice!
– Real player with 55.4 hrs in game
I played Stratomatic in the 80’s and 90’s. I played Out of the Park (and it’s predecessor Season Ticket) through about 2013. I also tried Diamond Mind and Baseball Mogul (along with MLB The Show and many, many other console games). I tried various board games from APBA to Deadball to History Maker.
None are as satisfyingly baseball-like as this one. I love it’s moddability. I love it’s straight-forward baseball sim style and the fact that it has all of the tools to make the game play the way that you want. I’ve been playtesting it all evening to try to break it. But it’s the first one that stands on its own.
– Real player with 23.6 hrs in game
Super No Crying in Baseball
Very interesting game! Hitting the ball while also balancing your emotions gets challenging fast in a fun way. It’s kinda like punch out if it were baseball and you were trying not to cry. They added a daily mode recently which makes the game 1,000,000 times better.
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
As someone who played baseball as a kid, I can tell you that this is pretty realistic.
Also let the Pog rain down from the heavens.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Out of the Park Baseball 18
Having grown up on MicroLeague Baseball in the mid-to-late 80’s, I was always waiting for the next “pure” baseball sim to come along that would rival the managerial joy of that first classic. The 90’s and 2000’s were filled with some great baseball games, but they were dependent upon you being able to hit “X” at the right time. OOTP’s early offerings were the first in decades to take the MicroLeague Baseball approach, giving you full control over both existing historical teams and leagues as well as the creation of your own fantasy teams and leagues from any era. Better yet, they’re completely stat driven, with the most “in game” influence (if you want) being your job as manager.
– Real player with 812.5 hrs in game
I own OOTP 15, 16 and now 18. I have over 1000 hours played in both 15 and 16, and am at about 400 hours on 18. While I like this game, and it is the closest thing to a baseball simulation (as opposed to other ‘Madden-style’ games that are just arcade games appealing to gamers and not really baseball enthusiasts). The biggest problems with this game seem to keep getting pushed forward into the next iteration, they never fix anything. The devs just update the years players, add some near-useless flash, and put it out as if it’s any different from the games you have already bought. Example: Challenge Mode, the ‘new’ addition to 18. It is virtually unplayable, as the injury level set is so over the top it’s laughable. Yes, injuries are part of the game, and injuries force you to provide depth to your roster, I get it. My team was so devastated by injuries my first season that I made sure I had 8 SP for season 2. 2 of them went down for the year in spring training, and 4 more were out at least 4 months by the 6th game of the season. Yes, 6 of my 8 SP were gone before the first week of the season was complete. This isn’t an anomaly, either, it’s typical. In 3 seasons I never had one single SP start more than 22 games. And my two aces averaged 8 starts a year. The injury levels for challenge mode (the one ‘new’ thing they added) makes it unplayable. The other problem with this game (that never gets fixed) is that the players have ratings that are supposed to represent their skill levels in various catagories, these skill levels mean almost nothing. You are just as likely to get some scrub pitcher without a pitching skill over 60 throw a shutout or lock you down as you are having Kershaw or Kluber do it. Got an 80 contact, 75 power and 75 eye rating? has this player hit 290 with 35 homeruns 8 years in a row? Doesn’t matter, he will hit .189 with 12 home runs for you, because in this game, the ratings don’t really matter, it’s virtually random who plays well in this game. I suppose this makes the game unpredictable and replayable to them? I don’t expect the players to be exact copies of their previous stats, but I do expect the excellent players to actually play somewhat close to excellent, even if they drop off a little. When you add in all of the passed balls (like 3 a game) wild pitches (also 3 or 4 a game) and HRs by the Dee Gordon’s in the clutch against the Kenley Janson’s, just to make the game more interesting (and less realistic). While this game bills itself as a simulation for baseball fans, it plays considerably more like an arcade game produced by math-guys who look at stats and think they know baseball. The game looks right, the box scores look realistic, but the game plays like a video game designed by sports hating nerds who have absolutely no clue about baseball outside of box scores. I will never buy OOTP again unless I confirm they have actually made changes, and not just repackaged the same old game in a new shiny box.
– Real player with 545.3 hrs in game
2D Baseball Duel
A baseball game like I’ve never seen before. The outwardly simple gameplay proves to be shockingly deep, and the uniquely clean art, witty writing, and catchy soundtrack complete the package. Well made all around and definitely worth picking up.
– Real player with 120.7 hrs in game
Disclaimer: I made the soundtrack for this game but I was otherwise uninvolved with its development.
This game is hilarious and good old fashioned arcadey fun. I don’t want to spoil anything, but you should play through the entire single player campaign. I was laughing the entire time. I could see the 2p mode catching on in competitive circles as it’s a great mix of mindgames + execution. With the crazy number of unlockable pitches + the breaking ball mechanic there is a ton of depth there to explore. It amazes me that this was all made by one person, from the programming to the game design to the art. Looking forward to future releases from Largemann!
– Real player with 27.7 hrs in game
Out of the Park Baseball 19
Review Version: 19.8.79
System: WIndows
Note: The recent patches were a little rough but the latest one (as of writing: 19.8.79) has cleared up the bugs and the slowness that some users (including me) were experiencing. Even on a nearly decade old laptop this game now runs like clockwork again.
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Out of the Park Baseball 19 (OOTP) is an amazing baseball simulation game that allows you not only to control any team of your choice of the past, present, or your imagination, but also allows you the freedom to define that universe to as granular detail as you can imagine. Yet, if you just want to let the AI handle everything while you sit back in the dugout or GM’s chair (or both) you can do that too and do it with ease. Since this is a simulation, you do not control the individual players swings or pitches, but you can tell them swing or not, pitch around, or some old-fashioned beanball if that’s your style. You are the manager instead of the player in this series of video games. That means for those of you like me who want to think things through and take five minutes between pitches, you can do that or just breeze through at-bats/innings/days/weeks/even years at a time.
– Real player with 1506.8 hrs in game
To put it simply, don’t waste your money on this game! It is unplayable “out of the box.” I’m sure you will see people talking about how you can go into the settings and change this or that, but you shouldn’t have to do that to get a playable product. If you are going to play with the Yankees, Chicaco Cubs, Dodgers, or Giants, you may have better luck. If not, expect to never have a decent season. I have played through two versions (OOTP 18 and 19) and have advanced to 2021 without any hope of seeing the offseason. Not because I haven’t aquired the players (all position players 4 star or better, Pitchers from 3-5 stars), hired the best coaches (all great or better in the beginning), or even drafted with a purpose. All of my 5 star players became 1 star or 0.5 star within a year of playing in the majors. After trading them, back to 5 star. None of my players have played a full season (always end up on the DL). All of my pitchers have had major elbow injuries, despite having a trainer focued on prevention and babying them through pitch counts. When you are finally winning, expect a 10-15 game skid where you lose your star players and are beaten badly by the worst teams in the league (and I mean swept in 4 games, not the occassional game). When you start a game by scoring 7 runs across 2 innings (allowing no hits, runs, or errors) and then lose your starting pitcher, best outfielder, and best infielder to season ending injuries, commit 10 errors, 5 wild pitches, 3 passed balls, and lose the game 18 to 7, there is something seriously wrong. If your owner goal says reach the playoffs in X number of years, don’t bother trying to build your team up before that time. You will be spending useless money. Oh, don’t forget the trade system. It is seriously broken. The AI teams want to trade 1 star players for a 4 star and a 5 star player. Want to trade your 5 star player for a 3 star prospect? NOPE. They will want two 5 star players and a 3 star player to make that work. Fill out a team need? Expect good people offered, except they will be end of career guys signed to massive contracts, and the AI will want at least one 4 or 5 star Major League player AND two 4 or 5 star prospects. Like I said in the beginning, don’t waste your money or time.
– Real player with 1095.8 hrs in game
Home Plate Baseball
very fun. I am a full time umpire and this is great just for calling balls and strikes when the weather is bad. wish you could a just tje strike zone as the high strike is called only at little league
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
gamesense
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Out of the Park Baseball 17
Now that I’ve put a few hours into this game, I feel qualified to give a competent review.
I have played baseball simulations my entire life. I played the Strat-O-Matic Baseball tabletop game as a kid, and I invested in the game on my Commodore 64. The limitation was that I could only buy one season at a time, and even back then, you could play a season pretty quickly on a computer. To keep playing, you had to buy additional seasons. That gets expensive in a hurry, and it’s one of the biggest reasons why Strat-O-Matic isn’t my game of choice anymore.
– Real player with 3643.4 hrs in game
Out of the Park Baseball (OOTP for short) 17 is a text based baseball simulation. It contains features for historical gameplay, single player gameplay, custom universe/leagues gameplay and online multiplayer gameplay. The game allows you to take an active role in developing rosters and teams, or managing them. This is done through being a General manager, a manager and even play as the commissioner(you are able to play all three at once, or any combination of the two).
OOTP 17 offers new features over previous editions. They now have full support from MLB and MLBPA(obtained through licensing), so you will have accurate rosters, faces(done through facegen models) and with no worries that they will disappear. Simulation speed has been increased as the new code is allowing the use of multicore processors, which is a huge benefit. The AI also has been enhanced to be smarter in how they draft players, manage players, and develop teams. They will also make decisions depending on your goals and strategy. These are just some of the major changes that OOTP has offered over previous editions.
– Real player with 2670.9 hrs in game