Giving the fans what they want
I’ve had lots of requests lately for more CPU vs. CPU gameplay videos on the YouTube channel. My goal has been to archive a full game of real human gameplay for every baseball title ever. To me, CPU vs. CPU isn’t really how people play these games 98% of the time, so the “encyclopedia maker” side of me doesn’t consider it any progress.
But if it’s what the people like, it’s what the people get. I can see part of the charm: There’s a laid-back background noise quality to them with a more consistent pace. And there’s no room to get frustrated at how I play a game if it’s just a simulation.
There’s a new playlist on the YouTube channel dedicated to CPU vs. CPU games, and I’m populating it more lately with some new videos on Interplay Sports Baseball 2000, Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2019, and MLB The Show 23 later today (4K videos take a long time to process on YouTube!).
I’m still a little conflicted on doing these. But let me know via email or a comment on my YouTube if this is the content you crave or if regular human vs. CPU gameplay is still the king (or even human vs. human sometimes?).
A Suda51 baseball microgame idea
Suda51 (Goichi Suda) is the auteur game dev behind games like killer7, No More Heroes, and a Kinect baseball game I haven’t played yet called Diabolical Pitch:
In the latest A Profound Waste of Time magazine of game essays and interviews, Suda contributed a baseball-themed microgame suggestion to a part of the magazine about WarioWare:
Baseball keeps coming up every now and then across Suda’s career. No More Heroes has enough baseball connection to have a Baseball Prospectus article about it. I hope the guy can make the arcade baseball game of his dreams someday.