Re: My Career improvements for 2k17
There's tons of possibilities for the mode in fundamentals, not just tweaking.
- Roster/trade influence. Bring back the GM talks, let us influence the team building, who plays more and who plays less. Let us have a say in who gets traded and who to pursue. It's fine that you have to be a superstar to do this, more incentive to play longer. After a while into season three, it's really boring now.
- Better feedback. How you are perceived when your a superstar, media feedback after good or bad games. Not the Twitter thing, which is only silly. I'd rather have less feedback with more meaning/content. It could be text based for all I care (like a newspaper/web"site"/TV/whatever), anything but the twitter-like fools with their gibberish. And it should react to your status, not only the trip-dubs and the usual suspects. The accolades are better this year (really, who honestly got 100 FTs in a row last year?), but too VC-oriented and doesn't really motivate you to become a great player if you don't use it for online play. Induction into Hall of Fame is a pretty poor reward for your long-time achievements, anyone who have played Civilization knows what I mean.
- A "player rating" towards you would be fun. Make friends or rivals. That could make the connection thing useful. Make something matter. If you assist a teammate 10 times, this rating will rise. Never pass to him (unless part of the play), and it will decline. Make bad press conferences, give poor feedback, throw him under the bus, it will decline. High rating could influence willingness to pass and how well he plays with you. Could even substitute on court coach, which is a pretty unrealistic badge (although I like it). And willingness to play with you or trade to your team, like the "form a big three" from 2K15 but with, you know, meaning. The twitter praise also had potential, but it was executed so poorly that it made absolutely no sense. You didn't say what you meant to say, and you got really weird answers most of the time. Make this affect the teammate->you rating.
Better coach logic. The coaching/rotation in the game is thoroughly head-scratching. And as mentioned, once you become a superstar, let us have a little bit of saying in the rotation. Of course you shouldn't have this option as a scrub.
- More reactions on the court. Ability to lay into teammates after poor play, or pick them up/praise. Make arguing with referees and celebrations user controlled, or lose them altogether. Maybe let you complain yourself into a technical? User controlled flagrant fouls. Even to give a shove would be nice, could be optional in the menu in case of minors :-)
- Bring back something like, but not necessarily similar to the crib. Something to build upon, representation of progress, anything. Maybe connected to the MyCourt? Build your own Terminal [insert number here] in stages by achivements, not by VC. I don't know, but don't let the mode revolve around the games only, there's plenty of modes that cover that. The game goes really stale when you have won the MVP and a ring.
And of course: gameplay, gameplay, gameplay. Make it worthwhile to play defense as well as offense.
This is just off the top of my head, it's doable and it could make this the best game mode in any sports game. Make it My CAREER, not just My Endless Stream of Games. The mode has so much potential it's unreal.
Last edited by Hooperport; 11-26-2015 at 03:55 PM.
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