Revisiting College Hoops 2K8

[Culture Rot]

Re: Revisiting College Hoops 2K8

i still don't understand how people prefer the newer gameplay to this. the players in this game feel so much more independent and alive. the movements are so much more real and it feels a hell of a lot more like basketball than the other games.

the only thing the new NBA games have over 2k8 is the different shot types, the fadeways and drifters, as well as the eurostep (although in the NBA games anybody can do the eurostep so its not like that even works well)

NBA 2k12/2k11 is so stiff and robotic, i don't get anywhere near as into those games as i do when i play 2k8

Stiff and Robotic? In comparison to 2k8? What game are you playing?

[LionsFanNJ]

BTW 2k doesn't have the rights to do college basketball. Ronnie's mentioned this in passing on his twitter. Sad but neither company's game sold well at all. That's why we have no college hoop game right now. I hate it.

[VandyRedskins21]

Re: Revisiting College Hoops 2K8

Yea most people typically care about college basketball in March unfortunately so sales aren't going to be great when you sell that game beginning in November. It just doesn't work. It's a great game but it doesn't have a big market like the NBA.

[smithdynasty]

Re: Revisiting College Hoops 2K8

I just posted this in a blog as well...

At this point my desire for college hoops 2k to return with updated gameplay is so great, I wrote this email to 2k's partnerships department. Let me know your thoughts....


To Whom it may concern,

I have an unprecedented "Never Been Done Before" opportunity for 2K
sports! As a member of the basketball gaming community, I would like to
begin a project on kickstarter.com (http://www.kickstarter.com/start)
to fund the resurgence of the College Hoops 2k series. Kickstarter is
a website dedicated to funding creative projects and initiatives.
Although not every proposed project is successful, many video game
projects have raised millions of dollars to fund their ventures. Just
recently "Double Fine" adventure game raised over $3.3 Million while
it only had a fundraising goal of $400K, with just over 87K backers
pledging various amounts of money
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...fine-adventure).

Based on my reading, it appears 2k chose to stop making this game
because the CLC licensing fees were extremely high coupled with the
lack of consumer interest in the game. I am aware that I cannot
validate this information, as I do not work for 2K. Personally, I
believe the consumer interest is there, especially if the "community"
helps spread the word (word of mouth is the best method of
advertising). With kickstarter.com, not only can you better estimate
the amount of consumer interest, but the super fans of the game (like
myself) can donate greater sums of money to push this project through.
I am beginning this venture with an email to 2ksports with
the following goals in mind:

1. Direction pertaining to who would be the best person to correspond
with for this inquiry

2. The minimum amount of money it would take for 2k to restart
production (this information is required by kickstarter as On
Kickstarter, a project must reach its funding goal before time runs
out or no money changes hands. That way, no one is expected to develop
a project with an insufficient budget)

Secondly, I would like to highlight why I believe this could be great for 2K.

1. PR- This is an excellence story! The passion of the gaming
community coming together to bring a game back. This would help kick
off the marketing of the game, as this has never been done before, and
2K would be front and center.

2. Over abundance - Games often raise much more than their funding goal.

3. Win-Win opportunity for 2k sports

[l3ulvl]

Re: Revisiting College Hoops 2K8

^^ I love it man, way to take the initiative

Would love to hear if/when they respond.

[woogie98]

Got it for $6 at GameStop....Those IDIOTS

[woogie98]

I just posted this in a blog as well...

At this point my desire for college hoops 2k to return with updated gameplay is so great, I wrote this email to 2k's partnerships department. Let me know your thoughts....


To Whom it may concern,

I have an unprecedented "Never Been Done Before" opportunity for 2K
sports! As a member of the basketball gaming community, I would like to
begin a project on kickstarter.com (http://www.kickstarter.com/start)
to fund the resurgence of the College Hoops 2k series. Kickstarter is
a website dedicated to funding creative projects and initiatives.
Although not every proposed project is successful, many video game
projects have raised millions of dollars to fund their ventures. Just
recently "Double Fine" adventure game raised over $3.3 Million while
it only had a fundraising goal of $400K, with just over 87K backers
pledging various amounts of money
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...fine-adventure).

Based on my reading, it appears 2k chose to stop making this game
because the CLC licensing fees were extremely high coupled with the
lack of consumer interest in the game. I am aware that I cannot
validate this information, as I do not work for 2K. Personally, I
believe the consumer interest is there, especially if the "community"
helps spread the word (word of mouth is the best method of
advertising). With kickstarter.com, not only can you better estimate
the amount of consumer interest, but the super fans of the game (like
myself) can donate greater sums of money to push this project through.
I am beginning this venture with an email to 2ksports with
the following goals in mind:

1. Direction pertaining to who would be the best person to correspond
with for this inquiry

2. The minimum amount of money it would take for 2k to restart
production (this information is required by kickstarter as On
Kickstarter, a project must reach its funding goal before time runs
out or no money changes hands. That way, no one is expected to develop
a project with an insufficient budget)

Secondly, I would like to highlight why I believe this could be great for 2K.

1. PR- This is an excellence story! The passion of the gaming
community coming together to bring a game back. This would help kick
off the marketing of the game, as this has never been done before, and
2K would be front and center.

2. Over abundance - Games often raise much more than their funding goal.

3. Win-Win opportunity for 2k sports

Amazing.. Well put out sir.. Tell us if 2k responds

[SonOfEd]

Re: Revisiting College Hoops 2K8

If you get their ear, maybe propose it being sold as a 2 disk set w/ NBA 2K. I always felt that would be a good way to carry the series w/ struggling sales.

[Dos Peninsulas]

Re: Revisiting College Hoops 2K8

With 2k Share we can update our own rosters. We've been able to make it all the way to College Hoops 2k12 so far creating our own rosters (well not me, but awesome people who I thank immensely). While they may not be 100% thorough, they work pretty well.

Honestly, because of 2k Share they could probably just make this game every three or four years and allow us to update the rosters in between. If anything, please just make one more version so we can have the 68 team tournament (and an out-of-this-world My Player mode) .

[R1zzo23]

Even if they just gave us the same game with 2k11 gameplay, updated conferences, updated tournament and some recruiting tweaks, we could keep the game going strong another six years easily!

[testorz]

I miss the College 2K series and wish 2k or someone would bring out a quality college b ball game ! I also miss EA's Triple Play/MVP baseball series as well ! I fire up my PS2 from time to time to play those games ! LOL !

[R1zzo23]

Re: Revisiting College Hoops 2K8

I miss the College 2K series and wish 2k or someone would bring out a quality college b ball game ! I also miss EA's Triple Play/MVP baseball series as well ! I fire up my PS2 from time to time to play those games ! LOL !

If I could play MVP 05 on my 360 with updated rosters, I would certainly still be playing that game.

[Sinner]

Re: Revisiting College Hoops 2K8

I wish I could play 2K College Basketball with My Player...I'm sure it would never happen but I can dream. Looking for this game also..hope to find it again. Never sold it..let a friend borrow it and it got messed up a few years ago and I was sick.

[ImaProblem]

2K8 is crushing NCAA BBall to this day! 2KSports for life!!!

[PS3rocks09]

if EA made NCAA Basketball again i would get it unless 2k made it too