If You Could Resurrect One Sports Game Series (Roundtable)

[DaReapa]

For me, it's NFL 2K and it's not even close. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be any end in sight with this exclusivity deal between EA and the NFL.

[R1zzo23]

The three that immediately come to mind were College Hoops 2k, NCAA Football and MVP Baseball. MVP is more nostalgic for me because it brings back my college years, but it would probably rank 3rd for me. College Hoops had the best dynasty/franchise experience that I've ever played and there has never been a game that I have played more (in terms of hours) or as long (in terms of real life years), but I think my one vote would go to NCAA Football. Football gaming just rules all and an updated NCAA game would be amazing!

[doubledeuceR6]

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Has to be NCAA Football but would love to see NCAA Baseball again as well.

[da_centa_fielda]

MVP Baseball or NBA and NFL Street.

[ToughJuice]

2K College Hoops. 

[Herky]

NCAA Football and College Hoops 2K.

[Cardot]

I am in the same boat....toss up between CH2K, NFL 2K and NCAA Football.  

This Thread just reminds me how awesome the 2003..ish timeframe was for sports video games.  The golden age as far as I am concerned (And I go back to Atari & Mattel handheld games).  So many choices, and online hadn’t yet taken over the landscape.

[horrormaster]

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College football. I'll take a 2K College Football game, especially if it's on PC like NBA 2k is. I can't pick MVP because of EA. I can just see it being about Ultimate Team just like Madden is. A new Fight Night would be great too although haven't played it since 3 on PS3.

[BQ32]

FIGHT NIGHT is the game that desperately needs a revival. All these other games listed might have a passionate fan base but at least their sport has a good alternative representation where as boxing has nothing outside of some gimmicky mobile or vr offerings. And their is tremendous enthusiasm for it to come back as well. Just bought champion again once it was backwards compatible, jumped on line to find hundreds of players still online playing that game. 

[Junior Moe]

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College Hoops 2K.

Copy and paste legacy mode from CH2K8 and have it mirror MyLeague where we can edit any and everything.

Have MyCareer mode with/without the story where you can play for your school for up to 4 years. Then export to NBA 2K or become an assistant coach in college where you can start out at a small school and work your way up.

MyTeam mode that features NBA players during their college years. Also allow us to purchase players to add to our team if we like. How cool would it be to have an 18 year old LeBron or KG and add hem to Duke or Ohio State? What about college greats like Len Bias and Hank Geathers? The options are endless!

Online they could make it where you take your MyPlayer to different campuses and play against the best players in that state.

Take the NBA 2K engine and tweak it to the college game like they did back in the day.

Fictional rosters from a likeness perspective, but have the teams modeled after and play like their real like counterparts.

[tinpanalley]

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NHL 2K. But specifically a mixture of what you would have gotten if the series had kept the ESPN presentation (or if it had moved on to NBC or whoever else after that) and the gameplay of 2K8. If those two had combined and continued developing, I sincerely think we'd have something that would be so good it would be uttered in the same breath as "NHL94".

[SHAKYR]

Fight Night

[tonysnow45]

I say College Hoops 2k and NCAA. I just another besides EA could make NCAA. EA is garbage.

[JHamilton9]

Front Page Sports Football series.
It would have been about 20 years since the last game was released, and I can only imagine what could be created with it. In the game itself, you had the NFL teams and players, but you could also create 8-, 10-, 12-, 18-team leagues. Also back then, the community-created mods allowed you to adjust player traits, create an annual guide, a records book, schedule maker, weather conditions, and a bunch other other mods.
It would be the sports equivalent to Cities: Skylines - with the main game created and distributed by the designer and all the mods created by the community.

[esdot404]

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Fight Night is a good choice.
I’d also say Pro Yakyuu Spirits from Konami. Had the chance to import the 2013 version and absolutely loved it. Yes, the language was difficult, but after some time using some of the communities translated sites for the game it was a blast. I still think gameplay wise, PSY was always better than the Show. It’s just a shame that Konami decided to stop PYS version and not bring it to PS3. I’d always wonder how awesome that game would have been/looked on PS4. They are still producing Power Pros, so there is still some hope hey can bring it back in future.