NBA 2K14 | Create player with real face

[Barbatrucco]

Hi 2Ksports,

The most frustrating aspect in NBA 2K is the auto-generated players from the Draft. You, 2K, spend a lot of time for graphics and what happens? After just two years of Association enter as many as 120 auto-generated players . And they have an horrible graphic. After two years of association, we find 120 players graphically horrific and this ruins the game's graphics. I call these players, the droids. After four years of Association 240 droids are in the game and NBA 2K becomes unplayable graphically, it turns into a game without licenses.

So my one-wish-thing for NBA 2K14 is:

2K, find a way to create player online, in your web-site, with the possibility to put a real photo of the player. Once this is done, our created player goes straight into 2Kshare and we can download it for consolle. By this way we can build Draft Class with real faces players and finally we didn't see anymore those orrible plastic droids that bringing down all the graphics of the game.

We don't care anything about having Justin Bieber or Vince Guadagnino in the game. We want the opportunity to create players with real portraits and this is only possible by having the possibility to create them on the 2Ksports site.


@CoachZenBarba

[beast10]

This would be cool

[ThunderDan56]

No doubt, I agree 100 %

[kokaine]

Well, I'd be satisfied with 2k just making the CAP genetics a little bit better. What I would suggest is adding all player hair cuts and face attributes to the CAP process. Because idk if it's me, but any amount of customization within the CAP process, it still leaves the player looking like just what he is, a created player.

[JazzMan]

With the acquisition of the WWE franchise, I think 2k will finally be able to make the CAP feature significantly better. WWE's Creation Suite is amazing.

[zniv]

Quote: Originally Posted by kokaine

Well, I'd be satisfied with 2k just making the CAP genetics a little bit better. What I would suggest is adding all player hair cuts and face attributes to the CAP process. Because idk if it's me, but any amount of customization within the CAP process, it still leaves the player looking like just what he is, a created player.

This is what I've been hoping they would do since forever. Winning Eleven (Pro Evo Soccer in the US) have had this exact way of creating custom player faces since the PS2 and they all look great in-game.

[Streaky McFloorburn]

If/when they do address this issue, I hope they realize that consistency in graphical fidelity and art style is the most important aid to maintaining immersion.

For example, even though the Fight Night series is just as limited as NBA 2k in terms of customization options for CAPs made from spare parts (probably more so), they still look as relatively lifelike as the licensed boxers or those generated from photos. If you mixed 120 randomly created boxers and 120 made with "Photo Game Face" into the regular roster, then showed the game to someone who knew nothing about the sport or its athletes, they might find it odd that so many guys had similar grooming habits but wouldn't be able to immediately identify which method produced each of them.

Simultaneously rendering fewer characters may make it somewhat easier in a boxing game, but the closer camera position also means that the gap in detail between gameplay and cutscenes/replays is much smaller. In any case, it should be possible to have visual continuity between player types, even without (costly?) added elements like being able to use existing players' facial features/hairstyles.
It seems like the basic appearance of CAPs in this series has changed very little over the years, so perhaps an artistic overhaul would be more valuable than a technical one in this regard.

[BallIsLife2]

I think that all 2k needs to do is refine the CAP process, really. Some rookies come out looking absolutely random and ridiculous and the names are just GOD awful.

Maybe 2k should also think of creating their "Official" Draft Classes for MyPlayer mode (a la Madden) so that they can oversee the process themselves and ensure that no one's draft classes are messed up.