Well 1st and foremost, im dead serious. After listening to that podcast with Mike Wang, i realized that if the focal point moving forward in this next generation of gaming is going to be on gameplay, why not take advantage of this while you can?
With Next generation formats, you can easily fit more content into the games. If 2k trumps itself this year by saying they added over 3500 new animations, how could a few more hurt? Didn't Mike Wang Just say in that interview that "
he's been a gameplay guy since day one and that every year his focus is to try and translate everyone's signature playstyle over onto the video game aspect of basketball to make the games as realistic to the actual players counter-parts are in real life"
I definitely remember one of the guys at 2ksports...maybe Mike Wang or Zach Timmerman, or one of the other devs were speaking and saying how guys (NBA PLAYERS) stop throughout the season and ask the devs to add their free throw routines in the game, or certain signature moves they do...maybe a jumpshot, a celebration.
I remember that CHH2k guy starting a thread about motion capture in january or february and asked the community what dunks we wanted to see in the next game. If this happens around all-star weekend, although this could make for the busiest mo-cap session ever, i could see 2k managing to bring all the people i stated above in for some MOTION CAPture. Eve if they couldnt get them all in february, theres always the offseason. I'm sure Derrick rose, Rajon Rondo, Michael Jordan, Paul Pierce, Carmelo Anthony, Tyreke Evans John Wall, Kyrie Irving, Kobe Bryant and Ricky Rubio could all set aside time between all-star break and the summertime for a few moments so we as fans can see their true style on display for years to come.
ANd to answer your question about why put in veterans? Because, they didnt become veterans for no reason, and their style of play warrants that respect. I mean no in the league plays like Paul Pierce...He's unique in that regard...Kobe bryant, even though he's 35, is in a class by himself...and essentially everyone in my wish list is, and some of their moves can only be captured by them. I cant see derrick rose being motion captured and mimmicking kobe bryants play style. I cant see rondo being captured, and mimmicking allen Iverson's plays style...do you get where I'm coming from?