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And it's another painful reminder about how off-seasons in sports games are just plain boring.
While teams have been wheeling and dealing, trying to figure out how to maximize their positions on draft boards many sports gamers have been going through a plodding set of menus with basic A + B = C functionality being given to them. Many of you who have read my blog through the years (and I thank you for sticking with me for so long) recall I have griped that off-seasons in sports gaming are rather lame in comparison to the real thing.
Even many text-sims seem to suffer from the linear progression of menu based interactions that sports video games suffer from. Of course, the unfortunate problem with sports games is that there may not be a better way to do front office type of work than through elaborate menu systems. But one thing sports games can start doing today is eliminating barriers which limit the gameplay choices available to players.
For instance, there have been built in trade limitations to several games, which basically limit the types of deals you can pull off. In other instances, the computer AI is just plain dumb and is a horrible negotiator, making it easy to exploit loopholes in the system which aren't there in real life. In NCAA Football, you are given several choices with recruits, but you can't deviate from the rules of the game. And yes, while this type of linear thinking is acceptable to gamers now, I'm wondering how long it'll last? Gamers want better gameplay on the field, but one can't help but wonder how long it will be until most are wanting something more off the field as well?
So perhaps you can grieve with me tonight, as deals are brought down and teams make important decisions that you just can't make in video games. I'm fascinated with the business ends of sports, and it bothers me I can't experience a true simulation of that aspect of things outside of a select few text-sims. I hate to be too idealogical, but we put a man on the moon in the 1960s -- I'd like to think we can make sports gaming offseason's a bit more dynamic and fun for those who might wish to partake in them.
But until that day comes -- because it isn't coming this release cycle I'm afraid -- I'll watch events such as the NBA draft and wonder: just how long will it be until I can try my hand at such an endeavor from the safety of my own couch?
Chris is the Executive Editor of Operation Sports and maintains this blog on the site. He is also a native Oklahoman and avid storm chaser. You can follow him on Twitter @ChrisSnr.
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jordankobewade7 @ Jun 24
One improvement I definetely believe would liven up the offseason is for specifically 2k to add their summer league featured in my player to the association.allow us to run our new picks with ours young guns out there for summer league during the offseason..that would definetely liven the offseason up alot
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jordankobewade7 @ Jun 24
One improvement I definetely would like to see in bball games and fully believe would liven up the offseason is for specifically 2k to add their summer league featured in my player to the association.allow us to run our new picks with ours young guns out there for summer league during the offseason..that would definetely liven the offseason up alot
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I'd really like games to bring the draft to life. We should be able to see the players go up on stage to greet the comissioner and put on the team hat. It would really intensify the situation when your sleeper pick just got picked up by another team instead of just seeing him name pop up on the screen.
There's endless possibilities to this, but it's all a matter of developers think it's important enough. We need to let them know that it definitely is.