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MyPlayer is not my favorite mode, but I'm surely going to give it another shot this year. This may sound strange to some folks, but aside from the AI improvements, my favorite MyPlayer upgrade at this point may be the unlockable clothing. One of my issues with MyPlayer in the past was running out of reasons to play. It was fun meeting my first milestones, then many of the rest seemed to be ones that'd take years to accomplish, leaving me with a lot of random playing with limited results. Being able to unlock something, anything over the long term has always tended to keep me going in the past. That's partly why the NFL 2K5 Crib worked so well for me. So I'm hoping things run deep enough to keep me motivated.

On the flip side, one of the additions I'm not really feeling at this point would be the social media aspect. This just may be a sign that I'm getting older. I was looking at the list, reading Pauly D, Vinny, Justin Bieber, Mac Miller, and Bow Wow and all I could think was, "Man, I'm out of touch." On the flip side, looking at the list again, I'm glad I know JB Smoove (Leon from Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Brian Baumgartner (Kevin from The Office), so I'll take that. Also, to be filed under "I mostly knew it wouldn't happen but I was kind of hoping", I was just a tiny bit bummed that all the legends listed on Twitter were guys already in the game last year. I was hoping for at least one surprise appearance there, like a Latrell Sprewell or Reggie Miller or something.