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  • RaychelSnr
    Executive Editor
    • Jan 2007
    • 4845

    #1

    OS Roundtable: Have you Ever Completed a 162 Game Season?



    Total immersion is all gamers want these days. They want accurate stats, seedings and signings. Well, what better way to experience this total immersion in an MLB game than completing a 162-game season? It's one feat that many, even our staff writers, struggle with.

    So staff writers, have you ever finished a 162-game season?

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  • Knight165
    *ll St*r
    • Feb 2003
    • 24964

    #2
    Re: OS Roundtable: Have you Ever Completed a 162 Game Season?

    Good read.

    Matt Coe has some nice points about ASB2005. Very good game.
    I loved(LOVE) every minute of that game.
    The only thing holding it back was the clunky editor. That game would have lived forever if either
    A. They gave us an editor that was more open,.
    B. Someone(I'm looking at you Flyin' Finn....I offered you straight cash money for that editor!!!!) made a PC editor for that game.

    That being said....I've done many 162 seasons. Usually at least one(my second or third in the franchise...as I too like the off season to mold the team into my style)...but it's a bit easier for me as I play in Manage only Mode and can have the game playing while I do something else and only have to step in when I feel necessary. So there is that caveat.

    I think the Vita and cross platform saves is going to open up how many guys actually finish 162 game seasons.....so this staff pretty much touched on everything!

    M.K.
    Knight165
    All gave some. Some gave all. 343

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    • dbacks_Nation
      Pro
      • Jan 2012
      • 705

      #3
      Re: OS Roundtable: Have you Ever Completed a 162 Game Season?

      I've always finished my 162 game seasons, but they do take like 3-4 months..... I might sim 1-2 games a series this season though, speed up the process and get the best out of the OSFM.
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      • BIG CAROLINA
        MVP
        • Aug 2007
        • 1762

        #4
        Re: OS Roundtable: Have you Ever Completed a 162 Game Season?

        I am not even going to lie, I have not even come close to finishing a season ever. I always have intentions to finish, but, I never do mainly due to starting over my in-progress season and other games in the collection.

        This year I am really enjoying the game so hopefully this will be the year that I play (don't want to sim any games) all 162.
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        • CgyFlames
          Pro
          • May 2007
          • 625

          #5
          Re: OS Roundtable: Have you Ever Completed a 162 Game Season?

          Trying this year for the first time. Doing a 144-game AAA season with my local team, though. Pacing it at one game a day, and so far I'm on track with 22 in 22.

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          • Cardot
            I'm not on InstantFace.
            • Feb 2003
            • 6164

            #6
            I played 162 On ASB '05...BUT, I was using a generated 2-1 pitch count which really sped things up. So there is an * on this accomplishment.

            It isn't so much that I don't have enough video game time to play 162, but I am playing basketball and NHL games into June. And once August roles around, football games are taking a piece of the pie.

            The other issue I run into with 162, is that by the time game #80 rolls around, my skills are much different that they were at game #1. So then it becomes a whole slider/settings fiasco.

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            • EnigmaNemesis
              Animal Liberation
              • Apr 2006
              • 12216

              #7
              I finished several 162 game seasons every year in this game in RttS. But those are obviously a much shorter sample size of play time.

              I have yet to finish a full season in this series. Came close. Not that I don't want to, just sometimes time constraints come into play since I play a lot of RttS. I however feel I may achieve this with the Vita cross play as Knight mentioned.

              ASB however I finished many, as well as MVP. But I had way more play time back then, and less gameplay options such as (RttS, DD, etc).
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              • HustlinOwl
                All Star
                • Mar 2004
                • 9713

                #8
                Re: OS Roundtable: Have you Ever Completed a 162 Game Season?

                Finished a full year and a half in 11 with my Reds Franchise. Won the World Series my first year and began to fall off half way in year two.

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                • Mo
                  SSN
                  • May 2003
                  • 11425

                  #9
                  Re: OS Roundtable: Have you Ever Completed a 162 Game Season?

                  Yes, done it the last two years with the Show, playing every game, all 9 innings.

                  Did it with HH02 on the PC and HH04 on PS2 as well.
                  Don't you EVER read my blog? It's gotten a lot better.

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                  • Joey
                    Pr*
                    • Mar 2004
                    • 1836

                    #10
                    Re: OS Roundtable: Have you Ever Completed a 162 Game Season?

                    In '10 I finished a season using the Mets and my '86 roster set - got beat by the Blue Jays in the Series (Barfield and Bell were mashers). This year with the extra games I'll be able to get in on the Vita, I fully expect to finish a season with the Marlins (playing all 162 games) AND a full season using one of the classic roster sets. Probably will go with jemeyers '87 set.

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                    • ootherocoo
                      Rookie
                      • Mar 2008
                      • 105

                      #11
                      Re: OS Roundtable: Have you Ever Completed a 162 Game Season?

                      I've played a full 162 game season and a half of another in The Show '10.

                      This year I'm going to try an play a full 162 game season this year.....all while working a full time and planning my wedding!!....

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                      • Dogslax41
                        MVP
                        • Aug 2003
                        • 1901

                        #12
                        I usually play every game of the 162 in tune with the games in real life.

                        This can lead to some long catchup weekends as i generally try to make it to 30-40 games a year.

                        Once my first season is done, for any subsequent year I will play 2 games of each division series and 1 game of non division series unless it is a rivalry then I will play the entire series. Usually works out to about 70 games.

                        That let's me possibly get an additional season in before the next year comes out.
                        Last edited by Dogslax41; 03-28-2012, 01:26 PM.

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                        • Redacted01
                          Hall Of Fame
                          • Aug 2007
                          • 10316

                          #13
                          Re: OS Roundtable: Have you Ever Completed a 162 Game Season?

                          Depends on what we are talking. Completely play? No. But I've finished many a complete season in MVP 05 between playing and managing games.

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                          • saturn2187
                            Rookie
                            • Jun 2010
                            • 276

                            #14
                            Re: OS Roundtable: Have you Ever Completed a 162 Game Season?

                            I'm going to chime in. My friend and I did an online league last year, and we both played all 162 games. No simulations.

                            Simulated every single CPU vs CPU game as well.

                            We both made the playoffs.

                            We are doing it again this year.

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                            • sbmnky
                              #ITFDB
                              • Mar 2003
                              • 1206

                              #15
                              Re: OS Roundtable: Have you Ever Completed a 162 Game Season?

                              Good read.

                              I've only done once - HH 2001. I took the Dodgers to a WS title (the last one I've won in a video game) playing all 162 games. Dodgers swept the Yankees in the series. The only thing I remember from the season was Shawn Green hitting his 70th homer off the LF foul pole against John Rocker. I think that game determined home field throughout the playoffs.

                              I enjoy the simming aspect of the game now - especially with the rosters that are about to release. I figure I can get through 4-5 season in the same amount of time it would take me to play all 162 games of one season. That's much more interesting to me. This year, I plan on keeping my game to game stats on a spreadsheet.

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