[bkrich83]

Quote: Originally Posted by ThatRadioGuy

.. Chris .. I urge you to tackle a mid-season review of OOTP. A "second look" of some nature to revise the review that OS originally posted as it has now become very, very .. well, let me put this in the best light I can .. "questionable" on the integrity of that review. This game is flat broken in so many different ways. Because it is a text sim and so deep, it takes a couple months of long, long playing to see where it is and how very broken the product was at release and is still broken several months later. It's so bad, Chris, that you cannot finish a season properly. There's lots of posts on the OOTP forums .. but I am not an OOTP forum freak .. I only came to it because I went searching for it. I mean, there are DOZENS of just flat broken concepts and features. In addition, there are some real, real problems with the engine. This game is .. I don't like to be real negative but .. my goodness, after reading your review and seeing what I am seeing .. the only thing I could think was, "Steve & Matt got their pockets lined for that review. Because it's just flat WRONG". Now, I'm somebody who was reviewing OOTP when it was version 2 and 3 and 4. I love Markus and I root for him to succeed. But, ya gotta call a spade a spade. The most glaring of these problems, in a nutshell, is the incapability to finish a season! The playoff rosters are broken in the game .. and evidently, according to the OOTP forum postings that I found .. it's HARD CODED in the game .. as in .. no patch can fix it. So, you just "disable" playoff rosters to get around the problem except .. there's a glitch there too! The option to disable playoff rosters disappears from the program! You have to go on with 21 guys or something on your roster for the playoffs. And there's no way to patch it. And there is no workaround because of the glitch in the programming. And that's just *ONE* thing. As somebody who has reviewed at least 1,000 games (for a weekly salary) since 1997 .. I'm looking at this and thinking "WOW. WOW. How did the reviewer here miss this avalanche of malfunctions?". I mean, a text sim where you can't review the graphics or the audio or the online gameplay or .. and you can't finish a season right? Holy smokes. I got out of the game reviewing business when I took over The GA Sports Network as General Manager for eUniverse. So, I've been in your position, Chris, where you have to take a look at somebody and say, "Dude .. seriously? How could you miss this stuff?" And, sadly, on more than one occasion I found out about a game company that got to my reviewer and I had to dismiss him, and spread the word about him if somebody ask when he referenced us trying to get a job at another site. Just for the journalistic integrity of the situation. If I had to throw some ideas I'd say, "OOTP at The All Star Break" or something. When playing this game, I just sit there and say, "Man, if I wrote this thing it would be dead honest and, unfortunately, brutal." But I've spent enough time with it now that I could make quite a list to discuss in that review! Send me a private message if you need to. I have always been a big OOTP fan and a Markus friend. Heck, check the manual in OOTP 3 .. I have a designer credit for the OOTP Online portion of the game. Because I was really trying to help Markus and be a friend. And my history at Operation Sports is from Day One of its existence so I'm not some jackass trying to blow your skirt up. This is some serious stuff and take it from a professional game reviewer and a gaming network executive .. your boy there flat blew it. Hardcore. ..

Apparently someone has multiple axes to grind.