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Post by mickaleenne on Sept 12, 2017 18:29:27 GMT -5
Take a good look at this game if you really enjoy baseball! It is very easy and fun to play, both in the way the play of it is set up and the visual treat actually seeing a full screen stadium that your players are shown playing in. The names of the players can be color matched to your teams' logos thus having unique colors for each of your teams when displayed on your screen. You can go out into the internet and retrieve new 'logos' along with stadiums, thus giving you visual variety for every home game that is played. I have over 500 logos I can use and over 200 stadiums. I have worked on both of these files using 'paint' to give me more variety for the teams I am setting up and playing. I have changed outfield walls, outside backgrounds of plants, buildings and sky, flipped the stadiums horizontally to change that perspective and adjusted the bleachers for the fans. That part of this game is also very enjoyable, easy, fun and interesting to be involved in to make your baseball games more visually attractive. I have set up 13 fantasy 1950 associations using historical players, multiple years for several of them, spread across the associations. My associations have 30 teams in 2 leagues with 3 divisions each of 5 teams. I have changed the game schedule for the 1st one that I have played into June 1950 so that all my teams play each other during the season - 18 games against 4 teams, 6 games against 10 teams, 2 games against 15 teams. All these things I have done are easily accomplished because of the way the game and its files are set up. When I get done it will be interesting to see how 13 different Babe Ruths from different years of his career have fared in the 13 associations he will be playing in. I also have 13 Roy Hobbs in the 13 associations, but I have made him right handed, I again used 13 different year records of Babe Ruth, changing his name and batting stance for Hobbs. It is just one of the interesting things that can be easily done in this PureSim Baseball game that makes it so very enjoyable to play. I am sure that you will discover many reasons to try it besides the ones I shared. If you truly do love baseball, the simplicity of the game play and the visual treats of the full screen stadium and its setup will delight you completely.
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Post by mickaleenne on Sept 15, 2017 16:42:18 GMT -5
Another thing that I really like about this game is that all the position players are rated defensively (hands, range and arm) at each of the 8 positions on the field. So if you have a position, say catchers where none of them are batting worth a darn and you do have 2 first basemen that are and one of them has fair ratings at catcher on defense but with a good arm, you could use him instead of a regular catcher hoping his better hitting will help you and his weaker defensive skills, hands & range, will not hurt. These extra position ratings give you a lot of managerial maneuverability that games which only rate a player at 2 or 3 of the 8 positions do not. I believe this is another good reason to play Puresim Baseball!
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Post by mickaleenne on Sept 18, 2017 20:53:45 GMT -5
When you are setting up your association's teams, you get to use a variety of ball parks you can get, you then set batted ball paths (grounders & flies) how far they go and position the defensive players (names) along with the runners on the bases. This allows you to use stadiums that are not standardized in size to the screen, yet you can adjust the players' names and ball flights to fit correctly into the infield and outfield of those ball parks you chose to use.
Another thing that you can change are the sub-screens that show on the stadium picture when playing the game. When you set up your ball park, you can change where these screen show up while you are playing a game. They are the play-by-play, line-up, scoreboard, current batter & pitcher screens. I have my set-up so that when you click to start the at-bat for a player all these sub-screens disappear except for the play-by-play so you get a nice view of the stadium field with all defensive player names, runners and the batter. I think it really helps you feel like you are at a game looking down from the bleachers behind home plate.
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Post by mickaleenne on Sept 27, 2017 22:37:59 GMT -5
I was looking at a competing computer baseball game. It uses a partial screen playing field diagram for showing players, but has no ball paths shown during the at-bats for the batter. The company says it does not show those balls hit because they do not want to show i.e. a fly ball that is caught in the outfield with a path that ends up in the bleachers. So they chose not to have that animation on their screen.
Part of the fun and angst in playing PureSim is seeing the ball park, actually seeing it, with the ball going somewhere on the field. If your team is behind, will you get a rally started? If your ahead, can you make the double-play to get out of the inning and retain the lead.
This game utilizes your perception and imaginative knowledge of the game of baseball to immerse you in the feeling of actually attending a big league game in some beloved ball park, rooting on your favorite players - all you need is the peanuts and crackerjacks.
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Post by mickaleenne on Oct 19, 2017 15:21:03 GMT -5
Something else that is very nice in the game is its "game log", which is a batter by batter recap that PureSim has color coded for ease of reading. The heading noting the inning portion is in black type; also the out(s) and bases situations are also black type. Blue type details the pitcher and which batter he currently faces. Black type then tells how many pitches are thrown to that current batter. Green type shows a successful at-bat with red type describes an out. Base runner actions are described in black type, but a steal attempt result is in yellow type. Violet type shows the team's name and their score at that point in time, this is shown when there is a change to the score. Dark violet type also shows how the current batter has done after his first at-bat. There are other notes that are shown in color. It is a nice feature that helps very much if you are interested in looking at the game's play detail.
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