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Massively Multiplayer Baseball
Next Gen is reporting on Netadmin's upcoming Ultimate Baseball title, which is designed to take the MMOG market into the sports genre for the first time. From the article: "We also looked at the MMOG landscape at the time. Everything was some variation on a fantasy theme. Kill the dragon, rescue the village and such. We were interested in the MMOG business model but looking ways to do things differently and sports just made sense..."
My brother played the beta. When you're in the field it's about as boring as you imagine it'd be, except the outfield chatter is replaced with "wtg lol" and there are about 700 fielding errors on any play. It's like watching Little League play with adults.
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For an approximation, join a weekend softball league that brings a keg to every game.
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"Even something like football - if you're not the quarterback or a receiver, is it really going to be fun?"
Short answer, yes.
Having other positions non-ai controlled allows more actions to be taken by those positions and I would love nothing more than a football game that lets you take control of a player besides the ball handler. I'm a former football player and nothing pisses me off worse in football games than the lack of depth in the number of actions that an ai controlled position can make, generally lineman. Personally, I would love a football game that would let me take control of an offensive lineman, let me control the way I block (fighting to gain helmet position for leverage, handfighting, sealing, turning out, cutblocking, timing your punch on pass protection, etc. etc.). Of course I'm probably in an extremely small minority here. But nonetheless I personally think playing another position in a fully online football would be fun.