Check out Pharrell Williams in NBA 2K15

[vito100]

Let's just make it go back to menus and no cut scenes.. As a matter of fact so there is no cheese let's make it like turn based RPGs while we're at it. I would love it then. Final Fantasy Basketball 2k15!!!

[kadzier]

Quote: Originally Posted by NxckBrxdlvy

I'm not tryna make this too much about race, cuz I definitely don't think it intentional. But every time I see a dialogue scene with 2K, it always sounds like someone tryna sound black lol. It's annoying. Like so so annoying as a black guy myself to constantly have to cringe watching these unskippable scenes while the acting totally misrepresents us and how we are. You guys can let me know if I just sound crazy but I'm sure I'm not the only black guy who's ever felt "mocked" by most of the dialogue in 2K. Again, not tryna make things racial but i can't help but notice my culture poorly represented and I'm sure guys from other races would like to have their culture represented too. No more white/Asian/Hispanic guys with black voices man. Please What y'all think? I'm trippin???

I personally think you can chalk up any feeling of "trying" to sound black to the subpar voice acting. As far as the actual dialogue and word choice goes, seems pretty accurate for a young, and most likely hip NBA player, I know plenty of black and non black dudes who talk like that.

[ImaFreeThinker]

Quote: Originally Posted by Lesbierin

Who the **** is Pharrell Williams, never heared of that guy.

One of the few truly talented, diverse pop/R&B producers in the mainstream. Doesn't excuse the poor execution of his appearance in 2k15 though.

[Sundown]

Quote: Originally Posted by VDusen04

It kind of reminds me of the LeBron skits I saw last year. Was there a realistic way of a MyPlayer interacting with LeBron James? Absolutely. I think there were an endless amount of directions that could have gone realistically. Instead, they opted for something out of the realm of, "I am LeBron James. You look to be getting good. Looks like we are the only one's warming up before the game. All our teammates are gone. Let me show you a dunk I do, then after you watch, you will then have that dunking ability as well."

Wow. Is that really how it went? An interaction with Lebron James should go like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzldVQeR30M

[VDusen04]

Quote: Originally Posted by kadzier

As far as the actual dialogue and word choice goes, seems pretty accurate for a young, and most likely hip NBA player, I know plenty of black and non black dudes who talk like that.

Not to pile on, though I suppose it's all generally the same issue, but I think I struggle with the idea of MyPlayer being forced into a personality and exaggerated speech patterns that bear absolutely no resemblance to me.

I think there's room for a little bit of rope (I could handle being given the choice of answering press conference questions in a manner that most resembled who I am and/or who I wanted to be) but I do not particularly like having myself (and with the addition of facial scanning, using oneself seems to be the point) being forced to act as if the important things in my life are Twittering a lot, meeting with stars and over-dramatically berating my lame agent with awful dialogue. What if I want to be David Robinson, a guy who just wants to modestly do his job and keep his distance from all the extra-curricular?

I know, the answer is, "If that's what you want, then this mode's not for you." But I just wish the variability still existed to allow that. Much of the immersion from the original MyPlayer was the ability to go on my own journey. I thought it was most satisfying to mirror my real life self, a guy who'd just try to hang on and get the job done via hard work. And then, if my brother wanted to create a young and brash virtual Jalen Rose for his MyPlayer, he could do that too (and he did). Choices are neat.

[lakers24]

Quote: Originally Posted by kadzier

I personally think you can chalk up any feeling of "trying" to sound black to the subpar voice acting. As far as the actual dialogue and word choice goes, seems pretty accurate for a young, and most likely hip NBA player, I know plenty of black and non black dudes who talk like that.

It's bad voice acting and also not having an actual person who fits that role playing it, which is why it sounds like trying to hard. I'm 22 and I don't speak that way. I'm not saying they should swear(I know that's not happening), but they are missing a lot of mannerisms and slight slang or accents for a young person. Right now you have someone imitating a script someone wrote of how they think a young player would talk.

[VDusen04]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sundown

Wow. Is that really how it went?

Brace yourself.

[The 24th Letter]

Quote: Originally Posted by King_B_Mack

I hate what OS and video gaming in general has become. Granted the VO work could be a lot better, but it's a basketball video game. This isn't the Halo series or Metal Gear, it's a basketball game. I saw people complaining about the coaching thing in the other thread. Like seriously? They took the time to add in some extra stuff that are nice little touches to the career mode and we're finding reason to complain about it? If they left it the same we'd be bitching about them not doing anything to improve the mode. They improve the mode with some of this stuff and we still bitch about it. We've just seemed to reach this point where there's nothing they can do to get a positive response out of some people.

Well, even Metal Gear fans can appreciate the fun little thing's Kojima put's into the series. You don't see many detailed breakdowns of how his penchant to put some odd things into the game are ruining the genre or taking the game in a bad direction. It's amazing that a sport's game like NBA 2k is taken so much more serious. it was the same thing in the beard commercial thread...It's a bit disconcerting. If this attitude represents the niche that 2k has supposedly gone away from....I can't say I blame them.