NBA 2K14 My Career Mode Makes and Misses

[emelki1968]

I am done.
For the first time ever I had to sell an NBA2k videogame because I can't play it. The old association and now MyGM is what I always play the most. Now, after four tries I decided to stop. Everysingle time, MyGM stop and freeze with one of the conversation with the trainer (I think). A guy in my office, the music as a background and nothing works. I have to quit shutting down the console. Sorry, but although the gameplay and the graphics are just amazing, I can't play the game, as simple as that.
Sold on Ebay, thank you very much 2K.

[tstig78]

I hope this next patch that is being released addresses playing defense in MyPlayer mode. My rating is 85 for on ball defense and my guy still plays defense like he's on skates.

[JazzMan]

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I personally like the mode. It gives it a fresh feel to it. Ever since 2k11, it's been the exact same game mode every time with tiny little renovations to it. Everyone was asking for something that would make the mode interesting.

Well, you got it. They gave us storylines, cutscenes, etc., which keep me more interested in the mode than the old way, which was just playing a game and having a press conference afterwards.

I don't really care if it's cartoonish, or hell, I don't even care if some of the games are scripted for me to shoot poorly, because in the past games, I could do just about whatever I wanted on the court every game. This adds a nice variety to it, which in a way, is more realistic.

[da ThRONe]

Re: NBA 2K14 My Career Mode Makes and Misses

I personally like the mode. It gives it a fresh feel to it. Ever since 2k11, it's been the exact same game mode every time with tiny little renovations to it. Everyone was asking for something that would make the mode interesting.

Well, you got it. They gave us storylines, cutscenes, etc., which keep me more interested in the mode than the old way, which was just playing a game and having a press conference afterwards.

I don't really care if it's cartoonish, or hell, I don't even care if some of the games are scripted for me to shoot poorly, because in the past games, I could do just about whatever I wanted on the court every game. This adds a nice variety to it, which in a way, is more realistic.

I'm certainly never in favor of telling people what they should or shouldn't like. However I take exception to some things in this post.

Adding a story mode bascially locks every player into the samething regardless if thats the story I want to be apart of or not. The minute you do that you turnoff a certain % of players.

For me the story mode kills any replay value. After you played the mode once what's the point of playing it again when you know how everything unfolds?

Scripted events should never effect the results of gameplay.

At this point there are very few things that are realistic about this mode. IMO the only unrealstic aspect of MyPlayer should be the fact that I'm adding myself to the game. That where the fantasy aspect should start and end.

[MavericksFan1989]

Re: NBA 2K14 My Career Mode Makes and Misses

I personally like the mode. It gives it a fresh feel to it. Ever since 2k11, it's been the exact same game mode every time with tiny little renovations to it. Everyone was asking for something that would make the mode interesting.

Well, you got it. They gave us storylines, cutscenes, etc., which keep me more interested in the mode than the old way, which was just playing a game and having a press conference afterwards.

I don't really care if it's cartoonish, or hell, I don't even care if some of the games are scripted for me to shoot poorly, because in the past games, I could do just about whatever I wanted on the court every game. This adds a nice variety to it, which in a way, is more realistic.

When I first heard there was gonna be cutscenes in the game, I didnt think it was a bad idea, but the cutscenes should NEVER affect gameplay. It makes me cringe when I have to be missing open shots with perfect release just so I can get a stupid cutscene about my shooting or when I score 32 points with 14 assists and 5 rebounds with an A teammate grade and get a cutscene saying how the team lost because of me. Hopefully in 2k15 they either take out cutscenes or make the cutscenes be based off how you play instead of the other way around.

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[VDusen04]

Re: NBA 2K14 My Career Mode Makes and Misses

I personally like the mode. It gives it a fresh feel to it. Ever since 2k11, it's been the exact same game mode every time with tiny little renovations to it. Everyone was asking for something that would make the mode interesting.

Well, you got it. They gave us storylines, cutscenes, etc., which keep me more interested in the mode than the old way, which was just playing a game and having a press conference afterwards.

Like da Throne, I completely respect your personal preference in enjoying the mode.

However, I'm not sure if it's completely accurate to sum up people's MyCareer requests as, "Everyone was asking for something that would make this mode interesting. Well, you got it." I do not subscribe to the, "Add anything you want, as long as it's different" policy. I feel there were a lot of ways people felt MyCareer could have been improved within the scope of an NBA basketball simulation title, but I'm not sure that included forced linear storylines and player mimes.

I don't really care if it's cartoonish, or hell, I don't even care if some of the games are scripted for me to shoot poorly, because in the past games, I could do just about whatever I wanted on the court every game. This adds a nice variety to it, which in a way, is more realistic.

Again, regarding your personal preference, I have absolutely no issue. Still, I'm not sure I'd agree that scripts forcing one to shoot poorly could be construed as being more realistic. I believe there's a right way to introduce variety and a bad way. I feel scripts would fall into the latter.

[RangersCruz]

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I'm certainly never in favor of telling people what they should or shouldn't like. However I take exception to some things in this post.

Adding a story mode bascially locks every player into the samething regardless if thats the story I want to be apart of or not. The minute you do that you turnoff a certain % of players.

For me the story mode kills any replay value. After you played the mode once what's the point of playing it again when you know how everything unfolds?

Scripted events should never effect the results of gameplay.

At this point there are very few things that are realistic about this mode. IMO the only unrealstic aspect of MyPlayer should be the fact that I'm adding myself to the game. That where the fantasy aspect should start and end.

Well in the past years just go into the showcase and game after game
Win a ring and then what? its pretty much it boring and not even worth wasting time on it

I like this yrs new MyCareer mode which i was surprised they even switched it up for Next gen it could have been done much better take out the showcase put you through college for 1-2 seasons or have a option to play over in europe or somewhere else then come into the draft as a top prospect

[da ThRONe]

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Well in the past years just go into the showcase and game after game
Win a ring and then what? its pretty much it boring and not even worth wasting time on it

I like this yrs new MyCareer mode which i was surprised they even switched it up for Next gen it could have been done much better take out the showcase put you through college for 1-2 seasons or have a option to play over in europe or somewhere else then come into the draft as a top prospect

Hey MyPlayer has been the only mode I've played the past 2 or 3 years. I'm not sure if there's a person here that was more frustrated with how stagnant the mode had gotten. However there's a laundry list of things that should have been in the game and IMO a scripted fairtale theme should have been on that list.

They could have expanded on player roles that alone would have done wonders for the mode. Not to mention the one feature that's a must for me and that's natural progression.

[terome1]

My 5'10" point guard has logged more minutes as a shooting guard than he has at his natural position, as my coach frequently matches me up against taller, stronger players like Kobe Bryant (6'6") and Dwyane Wade (6'4").


This could just be because the team is overloaded with pgs and there are only 2 sgs.

my point guard (6'2) got moved to starting center guess how fun that is (PS3) it basically broke it for me

[BA2929]

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I enjoy this mode with all the cut scenes. However, the replay-ability is about zero, since each player you make has the same rival, same cut scenes, the same agent, etc. Also, I'm not a fan of how the game forces you to suck at certain intervals of the season. Like "you're going to suck at FTs this game for the cutscene" or "You're going to shoot 24% this game so we can cut scene in a drill".

I do enjoy 95% of the rest of the cut-scenes and actually find myself disappointed when a cut-scene doesn't happen after a big game I just finished.

Pretty good job for the first game on a new console. Lots of room to build from here.

[CyberRudy25]

RPG are now open world. GTA, Watch Dog and Skyrim. If NBA2K want to be successful at RPG they need to do it as an open world. With all 30 teams. Each city has the real staduim on the street there on so you can drive there, Hotel for your resident,/ suburbs if you're a veteran signed long term, Airport, Practice facilty, Sports store, Car delearship, You should be able to watch highlights on a sports centre type theme at your resident. Or taven/Sports Bars,

[VDusen04]

Re: NBA 2K14 My Career Mode Makes and Misses

Looking back on this article months later (now that the thread has been bumped by the person above), I do not believe cut scenes would have fallen in my "Makes" category. Each time I've seen a clip, it's an immediate immersion killer. I think I'd rather assume or pretend in my head as to how an interaction may go between MyPlayer and LeBron, instead of seeing something as awful as this firsthand:

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[kadzier]

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Yeah the cutscenes dialogue is pretty subpar quality, and some of the scenarios themselves just totally miss the realm of plausibility. There's no way Lebron would take time out of his pregame warmup to teach some random rookie on the opposing team signature dunks, that's crap that might happen in a kid's cartoon, not the actual NBA.

Also those scenes with Jackson Ellis where you all come up with stupid bets that inevitably involve ball hogging, I hate them so much. If an actual coach found out you were forcing up shots in an actual NBA game because of a bet he'd bench you real quick.

[Gosens6]

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Yeah the cutscenes dialogue is pretty subpar quality, and some of the scenarios themselves just totally miss the realm of plausibility. There's no way Lebron would take time out of his pregame warmup to teach some random rookie on the opposing team signature dunks, that's crap that might happen in a kid's cartoon, not the actual NBA.

Also those scenes with Jackson Ellis where you all come up with stupid bets that inevitably involve ball hogging, I hate them so much. If an actual coach found out you were forcing up shots in an actual NBA game because of a bet he'd bench you real quick.

Just chiming in here, Iv'e come to live with the fact that this is the type of stuff the majority of the gamers out there want.

It's sad what the 2K franchise has come from. Hell, just 8 years ago they probably put out there best title in NBA 2K8. Now we're here. VC, "Diamond" playing cards, a childish fantasy MyPlayer "Career" mode where absolutely NOTHING is within the realm of possibility. I haven't posted on her in a while, I've essentially stopped playing sports games aside from MLB: The Show, because the direction the rest are going in, and have been stuck in for awhile, I just can't stand anymore.

To all you guys upset about seeing that VC is going to be in 2K15, what did you honestly expect? It's there cash cow, people spend real money on it, it's not going anywhere as much as I hate to admit it.