Spike Lee Writes, Directs Story for NBA 2K16 MyCAREER Mode

[Roger_Black]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sportsworth

Who cares?... Its a sports game not a gritty telling of thug life the way Spike Lee likes to write things. This is a complete joke... Just make a basketball game about basketball...keep spike Lee away, the guy is a joke and a Knicks fan on top of it.

Wait a sec…

Spike has made over 45+ feature films & documentaries (and counting).

But only 1 movie of his even had ANY characters that could even be considered ’thugs’ in it. (And that was a movie called ‘Clockers’ that he made 20 years ago, which had NOTHING to do with any sports)

Spike has Written, Directed, or Produced quite a few SPORTS-RELATED projects, which include:

- Hoop Dreams
- He Got Game
- Kobe: Doing Work
- Love & Basketball
- Jim Brown: All-American
- Michael Jordan / Nike TV Commercials
- When We Were Kings (Muhammad Ali Documentary)
- Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks

Are these tv commercials, films & documentaries about Michael Jordan, Kobe & Reggie Miller…. the “gritty telling of thug life” you are referring to?

Is this your concept of ‘thug life’?
Really?

[coolcras7]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sportsworth

Who cares?... Its a sports game not a gritty telling of thug life the way Spike Lee likes to write things. This is a complete joke... Just make a basketball game about basketball...keep spike Lee away, the guy is a joke and a Knicks fan on top of it.

Pleas keep your narrow minded views to yourself.

[testudoaubreii]

Quote: Originally Posted by lakers24

People are upset over the name pretty much since there is no other info(I'm laughing myself) but I think they'll calm down. My biggest issue as some others have said is the fact they are year by year taking away what mycareer/myplayer was at its core. I think the best solution would be to have a purely story mode like this and a separate mode that is essentially NBA 2k11's MyPlayer. I do like the idea of a documentary style mode where you start from highschool though for a story down the road.

The bolded section of your comment is something I have been hoping for since 2K11.

[rbfn04]

People really rather have the old "play game after game after game while nothing else happens" MyCareer over having some kind of story?

[NHL Kid13]

Quote: Originally Posted by rbfn04

People really rather have the old "play game after game after game while nothing else happens" MyCareer over having some kind of story?

Yeah I honestly don't understand how someone would want the mode to be stripped down to bare bones boredom. You can only play so much until you get bored of the game and it becomes stale. Even in my second season I look forward to new cutscenes and dialogues that makes me want to play the game more.

[Taer]

Quote: Originally Posted by NHL Kid13

Yeah I honestly don't understand how someone would want the mode to be stripped down to bare bones boredom. You can only play so much until you get bored of the game and it becomes stale. Even in my second season I look forward to new cutscenes and dialogues that makes me want to play the game more.

The ironic thing here is that there are no new cut-scenes or dialogue available on later years in this years implementation. I still get the "I can't believe a rookie is going to study film" cut-scene after winning 3 NBA Championships and there are no new endorsements, you can't change sneakers... so what exactly is new that keeps your interest past the first two years?

Have you actually played more than 2 years in MC?

Edit: As Spike Lee in his "Be the Story" clip acknowledges: the drama, the story and the excitement is on the court during the time you play the game.

It is not getting a McMansion, or getting a Sprint commercial. Those things are neat but it is all about the basketball. That is why some of us play every game in a 82 game season and love playing game after game. It never grows boring to us.

I'm going to say one more thing here: Spike Lee did some really good work in his Kobe and Reggie Miller pieces. I am no way hating Spike Lee.

Simballer asks me to wait, so I will.

[Ward13]

Quote: Originally Posted by NHL Kid13

I just want to give you guys a perspective from a new NBA2K fan. The story mode is the reason this game has gotten so big. You guys might have not noticed but the fanbase of this game has grown incredibly in the past few years and it's largely based on the (what I find to be) most amazing career mode in any sports game on the market. It actually blows me away that so many of you hate this mode and where it's going, because the reaction from every non-OS person I've talked to or met, have ranted and raved about how great the mode is. If you venture off into any other sport games forums, you'll see that they all want one thing for their career modes, and that's to emulate what 2K did with it. They basically reinvented the wheel when it comes to how a career mode is played and it's worked amazingly. From the cutscenes to the storylines, it's all so new and fresh from what has been done in other games. So while most of you might hate where this mode is going, I can tell you that there are probably a hundred times more people who are happier with this direction and are looking forward to an even more in depth story. Myself included.

To be honest that's the problem lol 2K has gotten too big for the company's own good now they feel as if they can do whatever with the game and people are going to buy it regardless. I love the story lines I just want them to re-implement the things they stripped away from the mode for the past 4 years in addition to the story lines; that would really make it a TRUE NBA career experience IMO. I mean we went from having a FULL NBA draft including the 2nd round, to having the ability of being the #1 overall pick in a draft without a 2nd round, to playing a fictional HS All American game with rookies who were already drafted, to our player not even being drafted at all lol on top of losing key elements in which we could utilize to develop our attributes more organically than purchasing VC for upgrades. I miss the CH2K8 hunger when the company wasn't so mainstream and cared more about the depth of their product vs the high profile names on the cover. You mean to tell me they could create something like CH2K8 and pull out all the stops on last gen consoles but they can't give us a true to life replication of a game in which they had on the right path 4 years prior on next gen consoles? I still remember me and the bros creating our characters and placing them in the ABL and going at it for hours at a time, and that was just HS/AAU. After that we would wait and see what our rankings were and what schools were recruiting us! I mean it was the depth of that game that kept us addicted/devoted even to this day. I just want more variety so the mode doesn't grow stale after two seasons of play and I don't think cutscenes alone can prevent this from occurring. We need layers ie: mini games, drills, daily/weekly practices with incentives, offseason workouts/generic summer leagues/tournaments, a preseason for crying out loud smh. There's just so much these guys at 2K could do with this mode but they just don't seem to want or don't have the capability to do so...


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[SPRINGS03]

Quote: Originally Posted by rbfn04

People really rather have the old "play game after game after game while nothing else happens" MyCareer over having some kind of story?

Since when do people play sports games for story instead of wanting to play them for the actual gameplay? I mean if you get bored playing games(you know, the meat and potatoes of sports games) you might be playing the wrong game.