Super Mega Baseball 3

Ridiculously in-depth team creation game with a fun little baseball minigame attached! All kidding aside, Super Mega Baseball is truly one of the greatest sports video game series ever and a worthy successor to the "Backyard Baseball" CD-rom games from the '90s and early 2000s. I might still consider Out of the Park Baseball the best baseball series on PC, but as far as actual gameplay goes, this one takes the cake. The third entry is a fine place to start if you're new, it's got the most refined gameplay and expanded features. Start a franchise, simulate a season or playoff bracket, design or download all your favorite teams, create your own fictional league with up to 32 teams, it's all up to you! The gameplay mechanics are tight, the customization is as open-ended as it gets and the fun is turned up to the max! SMB3 has the distinct advantage of having the best team creator tool in the series as well, I've really enjoyed creating all kinds of real life and fictional teams in the editor. A lot of the custom assets are not as useful for creating accurate real-life logos, but learning to use shapes and text characters to fit the puzzle can produce some surprising results in just 32 layers. Check out my Steam Guide for this game if you want to see some examples of what I've made. I highly recommend Super Mega Baseball 3 to anybody who loves sports or is curious about baseball in any capacity, it nails that balance between arcade and simulation feel with polish rarely found in non-AAA sports games.

do not buy SMB4, buy this instead

I've played most of the great baseball games through the years, both in the moment and retrospectively. From MVP 04 and 05, the mid 2000s MLB 2k games, and the late 2000s/early 2010s MLB the Show games as well as the current ones. I've also played a lot of the fun arcadey baseball classics like Super Sluggers and Backyard Baseball. I can say confidently that Super Mega Baseball 3 is the most fun I've had playing a baseball game ever, and it may even be my favorite sports game ever. No other sports game has such a good ai that makes singleplayer an actual challenge without being cheesy (well too cheesy anyways). Singleplayer game feel super tough and rewarding with the ai adjusting to your every move, this is paired with the EGO difficulty system which allows for precise modifications to the difficulty. This game also has a super fun franchise mode that isn't perfect but definitely works. This is also the most fun I've had in a sports game playing with friends. Going through the ups and downs of a season playing co-op with a friend on discord is some of the most fun I ever had gaming. This works great for both Co-op and VS your friends. And it works well with friends of different skill levels with each player being able to set an individual EGO level for themselves. The fiction players and teams are so fun and unique and give each team a personality. Me and my friends know these players and teams like the back of our hands and we all have our own opinions and run ins with some of this games best characters. The online competitive multiplayer is also amazing. Super Mega Baseball 4 has its early release tomorrow so I want to send this game off with a review, by far one of the greatest sports games ever. And SMB 4 looks to improve on it with a way more in depth francise, with better stat tracking, team chemistry system, player loyalty, and more. Heres to plenty more years playing Super Mega Baseball Shout out to Hammer Longballo

Hector Longballo is everything I aspire to be. Sirlon supremacy.

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Loved SMB1, skipped SMB2, have 80+ hours in to SMB3. I want to like it but I can't. Despite the devs and all saying there is no rubberbanding the fact that nearly EVERY time I start running up the score or have a team doing awesome in franchise, without fail, my players will start making errors left and right, can't hit anymore, and the opponent batters suddenly can hit everything exactly where my players can't get to it or out of the park. I've literally sat down with pen and paper to make sure my pitches aren't following patters, I've swapped pitchers when batters start anticipating, it doesn't matter. There is rubberbanding whether it's intentional or not. Dig around, I'm not the only one to notice this, ignore the fanboys who will rake anyone over the coals who suggests there is and will just blame your pitching or "♥♥♥♥ happens". I agree, stuff happens in baseball and sports, but when it always happens under the same circumstances regardless of team, pitcher, etc...it's not chance. It's a fun game, don't get me wrong, but it will frustrate you if you try to play a franchise or season mode game. One offs are ok but if you start destroying the competition in longer game modes you'll get the same effect.