NBA 2K16 Trailer - Livin' Da Dream, A Spike Lee Joint

[Cleve07103]

Don't really know why people are surprised with the nickname anyway. yall do realize Ray Allen's name was Jesus Shuttlesworth right

[804Scoe]

We're getting these awesome features related to My Career like, My Court, Offseason Sim, Pro-Am etc. but yall don't wanna play because of some nickname? Ok y'all got it.


Moving past this nickname nonsense. If i'm reading correctly, My Career will have 90 minutes of cutscenes, but that's just Spike's story? Spike's story ends when you make it to the league. If so, Good Gosh! I'm loving that!

[IAFootball3406]

Quote: Originally Posted by 804Scoe

We're getting these awesome features related to My Career like, My Court, Offseason Sim, Pro-Am etc. but yall don't wanna play because of some nickname? Ok y'all got it. Moving past this nickname nonsense. If i'm reading correctly, My Career will have 90 minutes of cutscenes, but that's just Spike's story? Spike's story ends when you make it to the league. If so, Good Gosh! I'm loving that!

Spike's story doesn't end once you hit the league. I've also read that on here and don't know why people are making that assumption. It's been confirmed you play a select number of games in highschool/college. Then you get drafted. You really think they are going to have 90 minutes of cut scenes to fill only 6 games? Also the dialog from the trailer wouldn't even make sense if the story ended before you made it.

I'm loving everything about this MyCareer. I actually got goosebumps watching that trailer. Next Friday can't come soon enough.

[Inzombniac]

I don't understand sometimes the lack of imagination people have. Like the whole being undrafted thing, that was a dealbreaker to some and people complained and complained about it. But if you thought about it, you could easily come up with some type of logical reason that you were undrafted even if you didn't like it.

Can you not do that with this nickname? Especially when we don't even know the story. Half the trailer talked about doing what you don't want to do, to make it. Maybe this is one of those sacrifices is that you have to take on the nick name someone wants who guarantees you a spot in the NBA. Even if that's not the case, why not just pretend?

If that's still not good enough then cool, ditch the mode but I just don't understand people automatically saying it's a no play due to that. There are modes in various games that don't seem appealing to me but even if they aren't I still try them out to see what I think instead of just automatically cutting it out.

[HowDareI]

I always liked the older version of MyCareer where you got drafted where you deserved, or even undrafted if you was a bum...where you had to grind to get a high overall, etc...

But, if they want to go the story-route than actually having a good story that's not like a Disney film than I'm okay with it. I was interested in the whole trailer and I wanna see what it's about. For the most part I play just to get my overall and badges for Pro-Am but if there's a cool backstory as well than it only makes grinding more fun...

Sad I can't bring back Mo "Money" Banks but hey I'll think of something lol

[VDusen04]

Quote: Originally Posted by Inzombniac

I don't understand sometimes the lack of imagination people have. Like the whole being undrafted thing, that was a dealbreaker to some and people complained and complained about it. But if you thought about it, you could easily come up with some type of logical reason that you were undrafted even if you didn't like it. Can you not do that with this nickname? Especially when we don't even know the story. Half the trailer talked about doing what you don't want to do, to make it. Maybe this is one of those sacrifices is that you have to take on the nick name someone wants who guarantees you a spot in the NBA. Even if that's not the case, why not just pretend? If that's still not good enough then cool, ditch the mode but I just don't understand people automatically saying it's a no play due to that. There are modes in various games that don't seem appealing to me but even if they aren't I still try them out to see what I think instead of just automatically cutting it out.

I think it stems from the small tug-of-war that still exists from what the mode was back in 2K10 and what it is now. With titles like MyPlayer and MyCareer, a lot of people expect more customization and control in all areas, not less. And for all we know so far, aside from the nickname thing, this year's mode may provide that.

Anyhow, generally speaking, this has been a full-fledged story mode for at least three years now and some people just miss its more realistic predecessor, where it truly seemed as if it was about each and every one of us carving our own path to the league, on our own terms.

It all requires a bit of an imagination to some degree, but I'm supposing everyone has their limits. For instance, I had no interest in even trying to immerse myself in the idea that I was the type of guy who'd yell at my agent for not getting drafted (as happened in 2K15) and then proceeding to act like a complete tool throughout "my" career.

If I had to guess, things will be at least a little different this year.

[etched Chaos]

Y'know what, how many single player modes allow you to start in HS, play HS games, pick the College you want to play for, play College games and then you get drafted into the league? None. So whilst some of you hate the nickname of the whole idea of a story, think about this, that story allowed 2K to bring Hs and College into a NBA game.

To me the fact we have HS and College should more than make-up for whatever negative you feel about a nickname or the story. No 'Sim' mode gives you that, no sim-heavy game has it, The Show? Nope. Madden? Not a chance in hell. NBA Live? No sir. NHL? Ha they wish.

[VDusen04]

Quote: Originally Posted by etched Chaos

Y'know what, how many single player modes allow you to start in HS, play HS games, pick the College you want to play for, play College games and then you get drafted into the league? None. So whilst some of you hate the nickname of the whole idea of a story, think about this, that story allowed 2K to bring Hs and College into a NBA game. To me the fact we have HS and College should more than make-up for whatever negative you feel about a nickname or the story. No 'Sim' mode gives you that, no sim-heavy game has it, The Show? Nope. Madden? Not a chance in hell. NBA Live? No sir. NHL? Ha they wish.

To play devil's advocate, there would have been no reason 2K wouldn't have been able to include those aspects in a simulation-based MyPlayer mode. But that's neither here nor there. We know so little of how this year's mode is going to play out that a lot of the conjecture remains moot at this point.