Out of the Park Baseball 17

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User Score
3.3

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 241 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 68 out of 241
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 241
  3. Negative: 162 out of 241

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  1. dnu318
    Apr 13, 2016
    1
    This is a game that had a lot of promise and potential, unfortunately ignored glaring issues persist and new issues appear.

    The major pluses: licensing has allowed use of all major and minor league players and logos. You can create real life organizations from the Major Leagues right down to short season A ball. A major plus! The 3D engine has grown by leaps and bounds and the    This is a game that had a lot of promise and potential, unfortunately ignored glaring issues persist and new issues appear.

    The major pluses: licensing has allowed use of all major and minor league players and logos. You can create real life organizations from the Major Leagues right down to short season A ball. A major plus!

    The 3D engine has grown by leaps and bounds and the graphics presentation is enjoyable. Gove are the days of OOTP being strictly a text based sim.

    Then there are the issues, which don't seem to get taken seriously unless you have some predetermined number of posts on their message board. In "Historical Exhibition" mode I had the AI play a relief pitcher at second base. I also had the game totally ignore the fact that a relief pitcher made it into the game. You could see he was in the game by go9ing to the screen that shows the current pitcher. You could see he had fatigue from pitching. But he didn't appear in the box score. The response from the head developer: This problem does not exist.

    The Fantasy draft is completely broken. It doesn't display starting pitchers. If you go to a league in the first round of the daft and have the system sort starting pitchers, there are none. I started a season in 1994. If I go to the fantasy draft, like I said no starting pitchers. If I do a search for guys like David Cone, Randy Johnson or Jimmy Key, the come up in the search field. Try to draft them... nope, not happening. I have tried this several ways: with the most recent patch, uninstalling and reinstalling an earlier version or even going all the way back the beta version, which I secured by pre-ordering the game and the problem still persists.

    I guess if somebody who has a couple of thousand posts in the forum ahs these problems they'll be addressed. Right now the game gets a low rating but the one saving grace is they do patch frequently, so maybe this issue will actually get fixed.... we'll see.    … Expand
  2. mastah50
    Jul 21, 2016
    0
    It's obvious this game isn't what the fanboys say it is. Still has the same problems as past versions of OOTPBB. Basically it's just another money grab with a few new perks like the animation on the field which most didn't want anyways but the idiot (imho) developer put it in anyway Now he's suffering with bad reviews of the game. Trading isn't really improved as the AI is just as dumb asIt's obvious this game isn't what the fanboys say it is. Still has the same problems as past versions of OOTPBB. Basically it's just another money grab with a few new perks like the animation on the field which most didn't want anyways but the idiot (imho) developer put it in anyway Now he's suffering with bad reviews of the game. Trading isn't really improved as the AI is just as dumb as ever. AI managers/coaches aren't unique as I see the same strategy every one I play against. Recommend: DO NOT BUY anymore ootpbb versions until he fixed the AI extremely better than it is.… Expand
  3. Kluge
    Dec 26, 2016
    2
    It's a very complex game with great detail, but you know there's something wrong when right out of the gate, they're telling you all about God mode - and you'll need to use it, because the simulation breaks every few hours without making adjustments for when things go wrong and the game errors out.

    It required far more time and patience than I was willing to give it, and after 4h, I was    It's a very complex game with great detail, but you know there's something wrong when right out of the gate, they're telling you all about God mode - and you'll need to use it, because the simulation breaks every few hours without making adjustments for when things go wrong and the game errors out.

    It required far more time and patience than I was willing to give it, and after 4h, I was still unable to figure out the results of most of my choices. Feedback is very weak. Both the games I played through, I was stopped because my team had weak leadership and I couldn't figure out how to resolve it. Leadership is not a stat which was ever presented to me. After some Googling, you're apparently supposed to look through players bios to see who likes to play pranks, because they're leaders and prevent bad team chemistry. ??? Bad feedback systems.

    Actual baseball games lack any excitement, which is about how I remember real baseball. You're there to improve averages, so games don't count for much given how many there are (the primary benefit of micromanaging games is it sort of helps you understand how numbers translate to play - but again, feedback is very weak), and once they're boiled down to a fatalist game of probabilities, it feels particularly hollow.

    I've never encountered a game demanding I do so much observing and testing for such great lengths of time for so little mechanical information. -But it's the best sports simulator I've played, by far, and it reminded me a lot of the fun I had when I was using NREL's System Advisor Model, given they have a near-identical GUI.    … Expand
  4. Fortifier
    Dec 31, 2016
    0
    How the heck did a broken baseball simulator beat "The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine"?

    This game lacks proper coding and design, making it utterly frustrating to play most of the time.
  5. HotLawyer
    Aug 10, 2016
    1
    No multiplayer = no game. Who plays single player games anymore, besides chess? This isn't 1990. Include multiplayer, this is the INTERNET AGE, no one wants to play games alone anymore.

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Metascore
92

Universal acclaim - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. GameGrin
    Jun 30, 2016
    80
    While I'm not a fan of baseball or sport micromanagement games, I can still appreciate Out of the Park for what it is, a solid game that has a butt load of features. Anyone who is a fan of baseball or games like Football Manager should definitely check this game out.
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  2. Gaming Age
    Apr 21, 2016
    91
    It'll really only appeal to you if you've got an insatiable appetite for the deepest minutiae of baseball stats, but if you've ever debated WPA, wRC+, or fWAR vs. bWAR, then OOTP 17 will once again be occupying a significant chunk of your time this summer.
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  3. Brash Games
    Apr 17, 2016
    90
    A very deep game that has so much to offer to those who enjoy the strategic and managerial part of baseball. If you have always wondered what it would be like to control a baseball franchise you will absolutely love this game. If you have ever dreamt of having the greatest teams from different eras play against each other you will be able to live out those dreams.
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