I guess a first person view is higher on the priority list but why hasnt sports games ever had a feature where you only play as one guy. Create him, customize him, etc. Create his history and start in the draft. A whole sports franchise of baseball, basketball, football, etc. You may get drafted on a bad team, in fact that will be likely. Or maybe there would be an option to choose a team. Then you can only do as much as one man can to the effect of that one man.
Basketball for instance you may be a ballhog and thus you get triple teamed and start losing unless you pass. That still may be no gurantee you win either as you have to choose the teammates you believe to be clutch and trustworthy and those who suck. You can't create the roster of supporting casts either. Your stuck with them.
Baseball meanwhile you choose a position. If it's a pitcher all you can do is pitch well and hopefully make it through Triple AAA and such and make the team. Or you may just start on the team. That can be an option. But as a pitcher you work every 5 days or so and can only really effect that game you start. Or be a fielder or a DH. You may be benched some days also which you would have no ability to effect.
Then when or if you win a champinship you feel more satisfaction from the success being that you fought the odds and contributed to a team. Or that you beat the greatest individual teams and reached the pinnacle of your sport through your effort, of just one man.
I dont think its too ambitious and certainly not as impossible as some people's ideas for games. I do think however it would have to be done well as to not be annoying to play. Being benched at the wrong times when you dont have control and dont deserve to be benched and such. Also the game's AI would have to be extremely good and the differential in opponents if they're a good or bad team very evident or else it becomes repetitive with no challenge. Just play team ball right and you win against anyone.
I guess the problems lie in nobody knowing how to go about making such a game and if people would be interested and buy it. In my opinion though I'd certainly enjoy a game that livened up the sports genre for me
Basketball for instance you may be a ballhog and thus you get triple teamed and start losing unless you pass. That still may be no gurantee you win either as you have to choose the teammates you believe to be clutch and trustworthy and those who suck. You can't create the roster of supporting casts either. Your stuck with them.
Baseball meanwhile you choose a position. If it's a pitcher all you can do is pitch well and hopefully make it through Triple AAA and such and make the team. Or you may just start on the team. That can be an option. But as a pitcher you work every 5 days or so and can only really effect that game you start. Or be a fielder or a DH. You may be benched some days also which you would have no ability to effect.
Then when or if you win a champinship you feel more satisfaction from the success being that you fought the odds and contributed to a team. Or that you beat the greatest individual teams and reached the pinnacle of your sport through your effort, of just one man.
I dont think its too ambitious and certainly not as impossible as some people's ideas for games. I do think however it would have to be done well as to not be annoying to play. Being benched at the wrong times when you dont have control and dont deserve to be benched and such. Also the game's AI would have to be extremely good and the differential in opponents if they're a good or bad team very evident or else it becomes repetitive with no challenge. Just play team ball right and you win against anyone.
I guess the problems lie in nobody knowing how to go about making such a game and if people would be interested and buy it. In my opinion though I'd certainly enjoy a game that livened up the sports genre for me
