Out of the Park Baseball lets me enjoy baseball even when the Mets suck
Out of the Park Baseball lets me enjoy baseball even when the Mets suck
《Out of the Park Baseball》：即使大都会队表现糟糕，我依然能享受棒球的乐趣
If you were to ask me what game or game series I’ve sunk the most time into, the answer would be easy: Out of the Park Baseball (OOTP). I have spent roughly 2,300 hours, according to Steam, playing various editions of the game. OOTP isn’t like MLB The Show or Super Mega Baseball. It’s not graphically impressive. It’s not a blast of simple arcade fun. It is basically a spreadsheet pretending to be a video game. It’s fantasy baseball, but without having to wait six months to see how disappointing that sleeper draft pick will be, because you can plow through an entire season in as little as a few hours.
如果你问我投入时间最多的游戏或系列是什么，答案很简单：《Out of the Park Baseball》(OOTP)。根据 Steam 的记录，我在该系列的不同版本上花费了大约 2300 个小时。OOTP 不像《MLB The Show》或《Super Mega Baseball》。它没有令人惊叹的画面，也不是那种简单的街机风格游戏。它本质上就是一个伪装成电子游戏的电子表格。它就像梦幻棒球（Fantasy Baseball），但你不需要等上六个月才能看到那个被寄予厚望的新秀表现有多令人失望，因为你可以在短短几个小时内就打完整个赛季。
You can play individual games and dig into play-by-play managing in OOTP if you want. But that becomes tedious. And frankly, it’s not where the game is the most fun. Instead, I think the game is at its best when you sit in the GM’s chair and maybe make some helpful “suggestions” about how to structure the lineup or bullpen.
如果你愿意，可以在 OOTP 中进行单场比赛并深入参与逐球指挥。但这会变得很乏味。坦白说，这并不是这款游戏最有趣的地方。相反，我认为当你在总经理的位置上，对阵容或牛棚的构建提出一些有益的“建议”时，才是这款游戏最精彩的时候。
The UI is complicated and dense. 90 percent of the time, you’re just looking at rows of stats and scouting reports. And the level of detail is deep. OOTP includes not just current MLB players, but historical MLB players, all minor league teams, Korea’s KBO League, and even the entire World Baseball Classic.
游戏界面复杂且密集。90% 的时间里，你只是在查看成排的数据和球探报告。而且其细节深度惊人。OOTP 不仅包含了现役 MLB 球员，还包括了历史上的 MLB 球员、所有小联盟球队、韩国 KBO 联赛，甚至整个世界棒球经典赛（WBC）。
There’s something thrilling about digging through all this info and trying to find that diamond in the rough during a draft. Someone who might become the new franchise player for your favorite team in this alternate universe. Deciding whether to bet on that prospect developing into a superstar, or to trade them for an undeniable big-league All-Star is stressful. And you even have to worry about fans abandoning you if you fail to re-sign their favorite player.
在选秀中挖掘这些信息并试图找到那块“沧海遗珠”的过程令人兴奋。那个人可能会成为你在这个平行宇宙中支持的球队的新基石球员。决定是赌这位新秀能成长为超级巨星，还是将其交易换取一位稳健的大联盟全明星球员，这过程压力巨大。你甚至还得担心，如果你没能续约球迷最喜爱的球员，他们会离你而去。
On my Mets, Brandon Nimmo isn’t just a good player, he’s a damned superstar. Kodai Senga has won three Cy Young Awards. I signed Juan Soto, but also traded a raft of mid-tier prospects for Ronald Acuña Jr., made the playoffs four years in a row, and eventually won a World Series. (Look, as a Mets fan, I need this fantasy world, don’t harsh my vibe.)
在我的大都会队里，Brandon Nimmo 不仅仅是一名好球员，他简直是超级巨星。千贺滉大（Kodai Senga）已经赢得了三次赛扬奖。我签下了 Juan Soto，还用一批中等水平的新秀换来了 Ronald Acuña Jr.，连续四年打进季后赛，并最终赢得了世界大赛冠军。（听着，作为一名大都会队的球迷，我需要这个幻想世界，别破坏我的兴致。）
Perhaps the best part of OOTP Baseball, though, is that it kinda lets you play however you want. It’s deeply customizable. You can manually play every game if you want. Or you can speed-simulate entire seasons in a couple of hours. Want an easier experience where players don’t get hurt? Turn down or off injuries. Don’t want to worry about budgets? Play in commissioner mode and tell the team owner where to stick it. And because it mostly just sits there, statically waiting for you, it’s easy to just leave it running in the background and dip in and out when you’ve got a few spare minutes.
不过，OOTP Baseball 最棒的地方在于它让你随心所欲地游玩。它的自定义程度极高。如果你愿意，可以手动打每一场比赛；或者你也可以在几个小时内快速模拟整个赛季。想要更轻松的体验，不想让球员受伤？那就调低或关闭伤病设置。不想担心预算问题？开启专员模式（Commissioner mode），直接无视球队老板的限制。而且因为它大部分时间只是静静地在那里等待，你很容易把它挂在后台，在有空闲时间时随时切入游玩。
OOTP Baseball is a cozy sim for a very particular brand of sports nerd. If you love fantasy baseball and wish you could play it year-round (and don’t want to deal with friends arguing about whether their bid for Alonso came in on time), or maybe you dig the idea of a cozy game like Tiny Bookshop, but wish they had a more Sabermetric bent, OOTP Baseball might be for you.
OOTP Baseball 是一款为特定类型的体育极客准备的“舒适型”模拟游戏。如果你热爱梦幻棒球，希望全年都能玩（而且不想处理朋友们关于“对 Alonso 的报价是否及时”的争论），或者你喜欢像《Tiny Bookshop》那样舒适的游戏，但希望它能有更多棒球数据分析（Sabermetrics）的元素，那么 OOTP Baseball 可能非常适合你。
The current version, OOTP Baseball 27, is available now on Steam or directly from the developer.
当前版本《OOTP Baseball 27》现已在 Steam 上架，或可直接从开发商官网购买。