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

[Equinox831]

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I haven't, but I plan on knocking one out this summer on The Show. Right now, I normally play at least one game per series so that evens out to around 50+ games a year. I really wish I had the time to play more right now.

[Vechi8]

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Not even close. I would continue to play with sliders and get obsessed with finding the perfect settings and eventually would restart the chise. I have found the set this year that works and plan not to only hit 162, but achieve multiple years.

[DaReapa]

I came within one month of completing a full season in MLB 08 The Show, but couldn't pull myself to carry on. So far, MLB 12 seems to be the best in the series, so I may be compelled to try and pull off the feat this year.

[Seltaeb9091]

I have completed a 162 game season for almost every MLB game I've ever owned since 1999... All-Star Baseball 2000 & 2001, ASB2003-2005 (PS2), MVP 2005 (PS2), MLB The Show from 2006-2008 (PS2) and The Show 10 and 11 (PS3). The only exceptions were 2002 (upgraded to a PS2 late that summer) and 2009 (late summer PS3 upgrade). Although I own Triple Play Baseball (PS1), I can't remember if I finished a season on it or not.

I always make sure to play every single game in each season. I rarely sim games, I only do so if a game I just completed somehow crashes the game before I can save. In my younger years, I'd also play every spring training game, but the older I get, the more impatient I am, so I may play one or two and then advance to the regular season.

I have also completed full seasons in both SNES Griffey games, a 165 game season in Baseball Simulator 1.000 (probably Super BS 1.000, can't remember), and whatever the max was in Baseball Stars.

One thing I remember about the first SNES Griffey title (aside from the glitch that erased your home run totals) was completing a dominating season with the Giants only to get swept by the Twins in the World Series. Talk about a deflating feeling. But I also remember grabbing an old issue of USA Today's Baseball Weekly with year-end stats to manually change every single name in the game to their real life counterparts. The lone exception was Will Clark, who had just went to the Rangers, and I plugged in my name instead (even though I'm not a lefty). And despite all this, I sold this game at a used game store for reasons I can no longer remember. I just hope whoever bought it didn't reset the names by accident.

[Armor and Sword]

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MVP 2005 I played 3 straight seasons all 162 games with the Florida Marlins and won back to back World Series. Amazing. Year three I lost in game 7 of the NLCS to the Giants. I played MVP 2005 from 2004-August of 2009 and then I bought my PS3 and picked up the Show 2009 and played a full 162 games with the Yankees in year one and lost in the ALCS, played 100 games in year 2 and lost again in the ALCS.

In 2011 I did not play all 162. I think I only played 85 games in year one of my Yankee chise and played 70 games in my 1987 Chise. I had way too many other games going with NBA2K11, Madden 12, NCAA 12 and other non sports games.

Before that I never played all 162 on games like High Heat 2002 and Triple Play 97 and 98.

This year I am determined to playing all 162 games of both my Marlins chise and my new 87 Yankees chise. I have no plans to purchase any new sports titles this year. It will be The Show all day, all night...all the time.

Baseball fever is back.

[Jgainsey]

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I honestly can't remember the last time I didn't play a full season with a yearly baseball title.

I actually ended up playing two full seasons last year... thanks in part to a few months of unemployment.

[metal134]

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I've never done it. When I was younger, I could have done it and was in fact, eager to do it. But the problem is that if I were to do it, I wanted a game that presented statistical realism that was indistinguishable from a true MLB season. If it doesn't offer that, it's boring as hell to me. At the same time, it also had to have a full, deep franchise mode. High Heat had the realism, but lacked a real franchise mode. MVP and All-Star Baseball had the franchise modes, but lacked statistical realism. Back then, I had the time and inclination to do it if a game that met all the criteria were available. But it wasn't. Now, The Show meets all those criteria. But I no longer have the time. Now, I'm 30 and have a full time job. But it's sort of bitter sweet because there's something else that compounds the problem. Because I'm 30 and because I have a full time job, I have more money than I did back then. Then, I had to pick and choose what games or books to buy. Now, if I see it and I want it, I buy it. So I have way more material to occupy far less free time. One day, though. One day, I will complete a 162 game season.

[decga]

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Yes I have. Its been awhile since I have accomplished the feat. It was actually the High Heat series. During my the Show years has difficult to complete a 162 game season. I was working a lot.

Now I am only working part-time. It is truly my goal to play all 162 games on the Show 12' with the Braves. Whether I win or lose I am going to finish a 162 game season.

[tbook24]

in road to the show i can complete multiple 162 game seasons because i dont have to play every pitch. but i did it once playing every pitch on ken griffey jr baseball the original one on snes

[JohnBoy227]

I did mlb10 3way tie for the divison, but for some reason the playoff format wouldn't work. So the cpu got the tiebreaker with no one game playoffs, real bummer.

[brettryantalley]

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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.

Oh man, i can't tell you how much i wish the show would have a generated count feature!

[cygm314]

Did it once in MLB The Show 10. I used the Oakland A's and made it to the playoffs. I upset the Red Sox in the ALDS in 5 games, but ended up losing the next round to the Yankees in 6. Even after the elimination game, as upset as I was, there was a sense of pride that I had made it through 173 games.

[FreAk47]

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Did it once in MLB The Show 10. I used the Oakland A's and made it to the playoffs. I upset the Red Sox in the ALDS in 5 games, but ended up losing the next round to the Yankees in 6. Even after the elimination game, as upset as I was, there was a sense of pride that I had made it through 173 games.

I gotta give you credit...if I put that much effort into playing the whole season I definitely wouldn't go down in the playoffs. I'd restart games until I won them.

I've never done it, never even considered trying actually. I usually play RTTS for the simple fact you can get through many seasons without having to play the game for hours on end. When I play franchise mode I usually 2 out of 3 games or so...and the ones I play sometimes I only bat, or only pitch etc...

[LowerWolf]

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Back in high school, I used to knock out 2-3 seasons of Bases Loaded during the summer (of course, these weren't full 162-game seasons).

But I think the last time I played a full 162-game season was on one of the 989 MLB games on the PS1.

I really am optimistic that changes this year though.

[CujoMatty]

MVP
I was so addicted to the whole stadium building aspect. I remember looking at my profile and seeing I had completed 224 games. The depth of animations for the time also kept me going. I remember seeing new things half way thru the season.