You should also get full privs from the beginning, like starting, minutes, trade influence, free agency. I don't understand why not. It's time to open it up, game has been out awhile!
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My first dude somehow didnt have to do the skate stuff and beyond, i really just wanna play nxt game. Add story rewards like loot boxes or some crap i dont care but dont force me to play a 4 ft girl in horse, design shoes etc be in a fashion show. Wew. I was cool w the hot dog quest tho. I still wear it. The hot dog represents the struggle.
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The crazy thing is that one of the producers came out and said unprompted that the best thing about the story mode is that you don’t have to participate if you don’t want….but unlike last year you literally can’t start games before completing some quests..
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I also heard it got high marks for story and it’s kinda interesting minus all the walking and being benched, would be cooler if there were branching options, but I want to puke the second time around. It’s as you said, just an obstacle to playing games. Basic game theory is don’t prevent people from playing your game haha.
Even if u had to play in some bot rec league, I just wanna play gms and lvl up and I don’t always wanna run w people.
O well it’s ok cuz we know multiplayer mc coming next year!
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Rebirth needs a skip story option. I can’t stand the free throw quest. One of the worst especially if you have a big.Comment
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It took me awhile. I have late onset free throw anxiety haha. And both my players can miss full greens. But yea somehow I just became un-automatic from ft line. Shooting legit like 40% in rec haha. Still the quest gives u pts even if u lose. That’s one thing about it, u can farm badges and Vc in a lot of them. Still it’s wack.
Finally got in rhythm after like six tries tho and blew that girl off the court.
My friend was using one of the quests to lvl up. I’ve always preferred games. I don’t even like practice etc if the games are going well. Need to get to regular play, sim to playoffs, and get some bball I can get immersed in. Even v bots, playoffs!
I mean I laid the blue print or helped spread it about how to get starting, get into max territory, sim season, sign 1k 1.1 contract and get paid. So no reason to waste time practicing. Kinda like how i mentioned u can farm sim cast live and they’ve continually slowed down the x6 speed.
I think it’s fair to hold us back the first time, tho I dislike the mini game quests too. They should be rewards not gates. But I understand that they wann keep us from entering optimal farm land. However, second time nooo. Some year they had unskippable cutscenes and removed those late so I’m hoping they can do me a favor. I usually try c, pf, wing as my guys but I dono if I can stand 3rd. Just barely sloggin thru second.
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Bumping this. Like 2k patched in cut scene skip one year, let’s get this before the next game plz.
I wanna play games with my player!
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There's definitely a way to write the story in a manner that doesn't become a complete farce when rebirth gets introduced, but 2K evidently decided that it's not enough of a concern to put any effort into actualizing that. As a result, in 2K23, your first playthrough might make some sense... sorta (the utter ham that is the story itself is baked in at this point, surely), but with rebirth the story makes more sense as some sort of coma delusion where your player character can so easily outclass Shep Owens even with the ridiculous badges Shep starts with from the first G-League game you play that it feels like the "feud" makes about as much sense as John Hinckley's obsession with Jodi Foster, you know, before he went and shot Reagan to "win her love". By the time my second build was about to play in the playoffs I was half convinced that Shep was going to shoot my coach or something, which would actually be a macabre but also brilliant twist... if this weren't a game where so many of us play because we just want to hoop, dammit. Even on your first build you can be so far ahead of Shep (or really just about any 'designated villain in a 2K story) that the story quickly becomes something more like "middling NBA draftee attempts to trash talk Steph, or Luka, or Jokic and also lives in a world of mass delusion or a Truman Show like scripted universe where the ludicrous is taken as the mundane", except without a whiff of the self-knowing wink such farce tends to show at some point, even if it's retconned.
Think Tommy Wiseau and The Room. It's a patently ludicrous story that would be a passing curiosity if the cast and crew didn't realize just how off the rails the movie's final cut was that they ended up embracing it more or less as explicitly farcical. It obviously worked well enough - I went to two sold-out showings of the movie with an equally ridiculous Q&A session afterwards - once in Boston and once in LA. For some time while living in Boston after graduating college I fell in with some local filmmakers in Boston who kind of got into a deliberate referential relationship with long time presidential candidate Vermin Supreme - in fact we organized the carpool that took him to the debate where he glitter bombed candidates of both major parties - which we then worked into a local public access show except with even more exaggerations that is explicitly self-referential and with a smirk acts as if 'free ponies for all who want ponies' is a legit political platform. 2K can easily not only fundamentally make the story less of a joke by merely recognizing just how much of a joke it is if taken straight at face value, but also create enough room between the "hooping" and the "running around doing tasks totally unrelated to hooping" so that if 2K really insists on putting in a lurid story, they can do that without making it forcibly indispensable from the actual basketball in a way that suddenly in order to play the next NBA game you have to run around with a hot dog hat, while giving you the option to do so if you're the kind of person who enjoys the idea of an NBA player is casually running around while wearing a hot dog as a hat and Meeting Jake from State Farm will never leave your quest screen no matter how you try to ignore it.
I'm pretty sure they don't teach how to write this sort of thing in school - I went to a college almost entirely focused on writing and the humanities (which got bought out or merged with an art school during the pandemic which created its own farcical situation where my BA in History now technically comes from an art school, although thankfully nobody cares about your BA after you graduate as it turned out) and there were more courses on Dadaism in theory and context (one) than how to write humor (zero). It is probably something that needs to be learned on the job, but 2K is really quite unique in that it has a gaming franchise that mission-creeped so hard that it manages to have too much story instead of too little, and put too much effort into attempting to appear self-aware that it achieved the exact opposite and so, seems to have accidentally created a meta-comedy out of a basketball game. But just as it's easier to sculpt a block of ice down to a figurine instead of vice versa, they are at least in a position to fix it, if only they cared enough and had the sort of awareness necessary to parody a parody. If only they cared.Comment
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I am almost there, I just gotta get a few more B teammate grades. BUMP!!!
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After it's scrolled way off? No, I infact did not know that. I had not read that. "Sorry Officer, I didn't know I couldn't do that." Except in this case it's real.
THANKS THO. Good lookin.
Edit: I didn't wanna bore you guys with the struggle of slogging thru 5 my player games in a row in order to progress your character. I only put bump because it was something that was old. I'll stop posting for awhile hehh.
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