Currently doing the Nexon PEAK Post Challenge

https://peak.nexon.com/post/1878

What even is a ya-bba. Just somebody who likes baseball? Like, someone who actually drags themselves to the stadium to watch in person? Someone who never misses a broadcast?

No, that’s just a functional adult who happens to like baseball. which already rules me out

To me, a real ya-bba is the person who gets tilted by a player booting a play or the team dropping game after game, starts swearing, flips the channel or just rage-quits the broadcast, pounds beer at the stadium while talking reckless, declares they’re done with baseball forever and then still goes hunting for baseball posts and still can’t quit watching games and keeps forcing themselves through it anyway. The kind of person who suffers the most on Mondays with no baseball, and in the winter can’t handle the withdrawal so they end up watching Australian baseball on the literal other side of the planet... that’s a ya-bba.

And yeah. That’s me.

My team is the Lotte Giants.

I didn’t start liking them because they were good, I just somehow ended up here. if it hadn’t been for manager Royster and that No fear baseball era back then I seriously would not have ended up this cooked

But as everybody knows, that team put up such a magical second half last year that they didn’t even get to see the ㄱ of fall baseball, and even now, after pulling the whole this year is different! thing......

When reality sucks, people try to escape it. I’m the type who does that through games, so I figured I’d use this chance to try a sports game. I installed 2026 Com2uS Pro Baseball, which I’d been force-fed through ads during every broadcast, proudly picked Lotte, and then not long after realized something.

I am, very clearly, way more built for RPGs than sports games.

No but the player condition thing... yeah, sure, condition affects games, obviously. But there has to be a limit to how badly these supposed starting pitchers can fail at managing themselves, right? Like, enough for performance drops drastically?

AREN’T Y’ALL PROFESSIONALS??????????

Would be nice if real life worked like that too and an energy drink could fix everything...

Then I actually started playing and the pitcher wouldn’t listen either. I was absolutely trying to put the ball inside the square, and somehow it still flew off to who knows where. So I can’t command pitches in the game either? While your stamina is still full HP? Is this realism? why are you doing all this to me

And the hitters are no better. I watched the ball all the way in and timed it right too. I definitely got the bat on it. And then it’s just a pop-up or a grounder. Good timing, solid contact, garbage result. I guess the other pitcher’s stuff is just that disgusting. So yeah, this part feels realistic too.

Then I hit the player card collecting section. If you want good players, you have to pull cards. And even if you do get a good one, if he’s from another team then it’s a total brick.

And even when you finally manage to get one, that’s not the end of it. You still have to develop him. And that’s RNG too.

Cards are RNG.

Development is RNG.

Baseball is already a probability game, sure, but the game itself has to be this much of one too?

I’d honestly rather just play an rpg. Like Mabinogi Mobile, which I’ve been glued to lately.

Weapon enhancement, outfit rank-ups, pet rank-ups, yeah, those have RNG too, but but is this REALLY 30%?????

At least the time I put in actually leaves something behind and turns into growth. I also like that there’s a relatively smaller chance of me crying because one completely cursed roll decided to wreck everything.

And more than anything, RPG characters are pretty.

Unlike sports games where you have to keep staring at ugly caddies based on the real-life ugly players’ faces, you can actually customize how they look, which is a real advantage.

Sports games definitely do have their strengths. A match is decided within one game, and you can see the result right away. If you play well, it’s a rush, and if you don’t, it pisses you off. So you go okay one more game... and then just keep going.

RPGs, on the other hand, don’t suddenly change that much in a day or two. You build things up little by little, and when you look back later, you’ve grown. That’s just more my thing.

So yeah, go play Mabinogi Mobile.