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Last year, you “Lived the Dream.” This year you experienced your “Prelude” to greatness. Both of these modes in Visual Concepts’ NBA 2K franchise were supposed to acclimate and immerse you into the game’s premier mode, MyCareer. Both years had you assume a player whose visage and role you could create, but whose persona was already determined via the story mode crafted by Visual Concepts. I’m not here to talk about the merits of last year’s “movie of the week” presentation (personally, I liked it) or this year’s evolved version that grants you much more control over your player during your rookie NBA season.
I’m here to talk about something else. Just like last year, your guy. You. The President of basketball, aka Pres, flat out SUCKS!
Read More - MyCAREER Has a Realism Problem
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TOTALLY AGREE!
In fact, I walk out of the room during the cut-scenes and turn the commentary off during games because it just ruins the experience. It's not "MY Career" at all. It's "THE PRES's Career".
Not only that, I play on HOF (and I aint that good at it!). My dude is a rookie, 20th draft pick, getting about 10 minutes a game, averaging 3 points, 1 block, 5 rebounds 1.5 assists. Which isn't half bad in real life for a 19 year old rookie coming off the bench for ten minutes.
But the cut-scenes constantly refer to him being in a slump and playing really badly.
Social media is even worse. Half of them are tearing shreds off him as if he should be leading the team in all stats and he's the next coming of Micheal Jordan only getting a few points per game ... and the other half are asking when he's going to be on the cover of the next 2K18! WTF? Neither thing is appropriate.
There's two problems here:
1. The world around you all acts in a totally pre-scripted, "he's a superstar" way regardless of how you're actually playing.
The game is built with your player being "the star" as pre-scripted. Even if you play horribly you're still treated as "the star". You still get a starting spot at X pre-scripted point. You still form some dumb "orange juice" connection with another rookie coming off the bench. You still get major shoe deals. You still get selected to play for the national team. etc. etc.
There is no path in the game where you play as a guy fighting for a starting spot, or just fighting not to get cut from the team. And of course nobody
wants to be in that position, but actually succeeding and getting the starting spot, becoming the star or the super-star, etc. that will be all the more rewarding if it isn't your pre-defined destiny from day #1 no matter what you do.
FFS, I actually simmed through a rookie season as an experiment to see what would happen, and my guy still got selected in the bloody all-star team and the dunk competition even though my sim-stats were awful and he was still rated 55 overall!
2. When your stats are actually taken into consideration, your actual court time is not!
For example, you could play 6 minutes and score 4 points, 4 rebounds and an assist and this will be treated by the game as if your player is "in a slump". Your mum will text you and tell you how bad you're playing. lol. wtf? They're great stats for six minutes of play from a 19 year old rookie. Guys on social media will tear shreds off you for not passing more or something silly like that.