NBA 2K9 - Developer Diary (by Erick Boenisch, Lead Feature Designer)

[Nodima]

Re: NBA 2K9 - Developer Diary (by Erick Boenisch, Lead Feature Designer)

I sold it because it wasn't fun to play, but all the coaches were the real coaches at least for the coordinators, if they had positional coaches they were all real too if I remember. So if 2K had the same, the assistant coaches would all have names, and whatever free agent coaches are still in the coaching union would be available to step in I think.

And retired players could become coaches (at least if it was like, say, Madden 2005) and be good at various things based on their backgrounds (same with the old coaches).


I might be overrating it but there were basically a lot of real, not generic coaches in all positions. Maybe because of NFL Head Coach

[DC]

Re: NBA 2K9 - Developer Diary (by Erick Boenisch, Lead Feature Designer)

And retired players could become coaches

I have been pushing for this for a while in NBA 2K. Hopefully my voice will be heard for 2K 10

[mars blackmon]

Re: NBA 2K9 - Developer Diary (by Erick Boenisch, Lead Feature Designer)

I know you will be able to run plays in practice mode, not sure if you will be able to run plays in practice mode in association. You would think though if it was in the regular mode, it would be in Association

i'm with you ryan this is very important to me being that i play association so heavily...we should be able to practice while in association.


i would have to export team, leave the mode, load my exported team and then enter practice mode...that's not a good look.


and say that i make a trade, like i'm using the bobcats and trade gerald wallace for josh smith? i now have to export a whole new team all over again and this goes for every single transaction i may make, it's very frustrating for a practice-holic like myself lol....

[mars blackmon]

Re: NBA 2K9 - Developer Diary (by Erick Boenisch, Lead Feature Designer)

lol @ being a complainer in the wake of being given this great info...hehehe i wouldn't be a true 2K fan if i didn't right?


this was excellent information steve and i truly appreciate it. the complete overhaul of the financial aspect of association especially has me intrigued. hopefully this includes being able to see what every team in the league's cap room situation is at a glance.


editing contracts is big too, trust me whether they touched association or not i was going to play it regardless because i'm a franchise junkie. but now i am truly excited to have all these new features, respect due to 2K and their staff for such outstanding work.

[ProfessaPackMan]

Re: NBA 2K9 - Developer Diary (by Erick Boenisch, Lead Feature Designer)

Sounds good.

[JDK]

As someone who almost exclusively plays Association (that and an occasional Slam Dunk competition with friends), I'm glad to see all these improvements. Funny thing this:

is what got me most from that article

Me too.

In earlier games if you had multiple picks you couldn't tell if you were trading away the third overall pick or the 30th.

[kenzil]

Love the read and love the new features but I cannot be too happy as I am a little disappointed that it is likely that choops players will not be able to be imported. This is something I had been hoping for since choops was canned.

For those that play both games, we have had endless fun importing rookies and watching what they become in NBA 2k8. I was hoping they would allow this because this association 2.0 would make the gaming experience that much better.

Although you can edit prospects, its just not the same. I have played about 6 seasons in both choops and NBA 2k8 importing rookies throughout. I have an attachment to the players imported. As I have said in other posts about this, these two games have become my sports RPG (role plaing game).

Again, love the new features but slightly disappointed. Although my hope is fading (and darn near gone from all the vids that show it not being an option), I am still hoping that importing draft class will make it in the game.

[7stringking]

The biggest improvement they could have made to Association would be to allow you to play against VIP profiles, like they do allow in Exhibition games.Playing against VIP in NBA2k8 was a beautiful thing, but it didn't have the extra drama that it needed since it was only an Exhibition game.

[Rhymologist]

Thats wats shabalizin, im glade to hear many improvements are done to the Asso this year. Now the boy just waiting for the game to drop.

~WhaWhoM~

[ronyell]

Re: NBA 2K9 - Developer Diary (by Erick Boenisch, Lead Feature Designer)

lol @ being a complainer in the wake of being given this great info...hehehe i wouldn't be a true 2K fan if i didn't right?


this was excellent information steve and i truly appreciate it. the complete overhaul of the financial aspect of association especially has me intrigued. hopefully this includes being able to see what every team in the league's cap room situation is at a glance.


editing contracts is big too, trust me whether they touched association or not i was going to play it regardless because i'm a franchise junkie. but now i am truly excited to have all these new features, respect due to 2K and their staff for such outstanding work.

u took the words right outta my mouth, i couldn't have said it better myself

[Vast]

Re: NBA 2K9 - Developer Diary (by Erick Boenisch, Lead Feature Designer)

Love the little things. +/- stat in the game makes me very happy!

What does this exactly mean? if his ratings go up you see a +??

[Nodima]

Re: NBA 2K9 - Developer Diary (by Erick Boenisch, Lead Feature Designer)

I have played about 6 seasons in both choops and NBA 2k8 importing rookies throughout. I have an attachment to the players imported. As I have said in other posts about this, these two games have become my sports RPG (role plaing game).

I feel for you, from the 2002 (Mad and CF 2003) to 2006 (Mad and CF 2007) on PS2 I played that many seasons every year just to import my juniors and seniors into Drafts, try to draft some of them if I could and watch them shine in the NFL. That (along with IMO perfect gameplay during the 2003-2005 years) made those games number 1 for me every year.


They still have taht feature available, but the games are so bad I can't even get to either off-season unless I just sim everything. So I basically don't get that experience anymore either.

[Stumbleweed]

Re: NBA 2K9 - Developer Diary (by Erick Boenisch, Lead Feature Designer)

+/- ratings track how many pints the team goes up or down when a certain player is on the floor. So (for example), the Hornets play much better with CP3 on the floor than without him -- you can look at his +/- numbers for the season, and the Hornets were a full 479 points better with CP3 on the court than without. Paul Pierce was the league leader in that stat last season, mostly due to the crazy margins of victory that the Celtics had most of the season.

Here's the link to the "Lenovo Stat", which is the official name for the nba.com Plus/Minus stat: http://www.nba.com/statistics/lenovo/lenovo.jsp

[RAZRr1275]

Nice stuff. Do you think you could have an Assotiation Q&A soon though? There are still some questions unanswered

[ghettog]

Re: NBA 2K9 - Developer Diary (by Erick Boenisch, Lead Feature Designer)

I wondered last year if I was the only one that spent a lot of time trying to fix certain players contracts. Fixing contracts last year involved me editing the ratings then releasing the player to fa then resigning him then saving the roster then going into association mode to check what kinda contract he got. If the money per year wasnt right I would have to edit the players ratings till it got close to it. And if the years werent right I would have to release the player again and sign him over and over to try to get the years right.

I mainly did this for my favorite team and the big time players in the league along with some small ones. Well it was a pain. I liked to play association with the real contracts.

I am very happy I will be able to edit players contracts easily now. To say the least.