My Gameplan for 2k Football - CreatineKasey's Blog

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My Gameplan for 2k Football

Posted on June 22, 2009 at 02:51 PM.

2k Sports Football - freedom and competition and its finest

The game would come initially with a fictional league and "Create-a-League" mode

. That'd give us that 100% customizable league we've all been screaming for. Allow straightforward roster fileshare. Allow leagues of up to 200 teams (NCAA!). With community efforts we could create every football league under the engine of 2k football - but player abilities (no ratings

) are under our guidance.

It'd be really easy to use APF's build. I'd be whistlin' dixie with some DB interaction touch-ups and non-star hands to be slightly improved.

- Limit the 11 stars, 2 g, 3 s, 6 b to an online lobby and maybe a certain style of league mode. Maybe call it "legacy" mode or "True Balanced Mode". Otherwise what I'd suggest to do is leave the customization more wide open: No limit or minimum on legends.

- For non star/legend players, I wouldn't give them abilities, I'd just allow for us to customize their strength. This means you could have a deep threat generic and possession generic on the same team. This would allow for the same style of football they created, but kind of customize the team to what we are trying to emulate. It'd be fun to make college teams with this - Top teams may have 4,5 golds and some 1AA team might just have 3 bronzes TOTAL! I really like the possibilities.

- Fix the substitution screen

- Add in some college football plays - not too difficult I'd imagine. Options, more tricks, more wide open. Leave the NFL plays (fix power O out of near/far

).

- I'm sure we couldn't get an online dynasty, BUT an online franchise option would be very possible. Even if there wasn't a draft function - it could be left to the user to add/drop players on our own (ideally through a website OR xbox). We could draft outside of the game. Progression/Regression - not sure either. Maybe 2k could put some magic in this area and give us something spectacular. I envision much more fun with off-season functions without straight numbers to decide things.

- Allow us to port the legends from APF

. We could have insane historical leagues that are spot-on accurate. We could have current NFL. We could make a college league. We could create our old high school conference. All in the same game. The key would be to make customization and player creation EASY and FUN. Probably the linchpin to this idea. Any mistakes in customization and it's over.

- Have technology that lets us upload pictures of faces that are emulated in the game. I believe it has been done before already. Imagine if all we had to do was go to NFL.com, take a picture - hold it up to our webcam to scan the picture and voila we'd get the face of the player.

- Vary gamespeeds to match what we want - Fast NFL, Med. College, slower High School. Change sliders - tab on/off for rules and challenges.

- Make lobbies separate for each roster file. This is another do-or-die aspect. If we could make lobbies where only the NFL roster, for example, was usable and a ladder was created with this - we'd have a game to enjoy for years.

- This would be a bi-yearly title AT MOST. 2k could get away with selling upgrades and keeping the same base game for multiple years because their gameplay is that good.

- The burden of success would come to the hardcore user base. We would have to create these fictional leagues. We would enjoy every second of it. Debating abilities. Once the groundwork was laid, individual users could edit the file to their pleasure and use it on their own. I think a capitalist mentality would end up deciding which lobby becomes popular. The most realistic NFL league creation would soar atop the others and through competition to play our own personal creations - the best, most fun leagues would arise.

Comments/Suggestions are appreciated. There is a huge football market for 2k to steal.

Comments

# 1 Hendrick4life @ Jun 22

Like seriously, All 2K needs to go do, is make a AFL or UFL Football game. Then we can play football again

# 2 elgreazy1 @ Jun 22

Another suggestion is allow community sharing. College Hoops 2K8 allowed gamers to save & upload roster files, dynasties & settings for people to be able to swap & save. On top of that, they allowed gamers to rate said files so that others coudl sift through what files are good & which are bad.

# 3 CreatineKasey @ Jun 22

Without NCAA or NFL - customization and file sharing is the only option I see available to 2k.

# 4 bamaCT12 @ Jun 23

please 2k,
it's now time for a college football 2k game!
NCAA sucks this year!!

# 5 blazer003 @ Jun 23

bama: EA has the license. I'm sure there's some legal limitations, but I think 2k should just make a game called "College Football" and have teams like oregon coastal State and University of Southern Oregon. Just make up a bunch of teams but allow you to customize them with art and jerseys so we can make them into real teams. Then make rosters with all the college players. EA and the NCAA couldn't say "Hey, your making rosters of real players," because then they're admitting that they are doing it as well, and making money off college athletes. Or just do what the OP said and make a fully customizable general football game.

# 6 CreatineKasey @ Jun 25

Give us the power to edit and exchange information. That's all we need.