OS Roundtable: The 2K and NFL Are Back Together, What Do You Expect?

[Steve_OS]

The 2K and NFL are back together. Even though it's just "non-simulation" for now, what do...

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[VCdolphin]

It's better to have 2K back in some capacity with the NFL than not at all.* I do wonder if the rumors of an XFL game got the NFL to cut a deal with 2K Sports though?* Hard to refuse to give someone any license and also ask them to NOT create a videogame for another football league.* Or maybe the NFL wants to create a bidding war between 2K and EA?* All of the above?*

In any event, things just got way more interesting in the world of videogame football.*

[ToughJuice]

Variety is the spice of life, but, this isnt the same 2K from 15 (15!!?!) years ago. hell, its not the same 2K from 5 years ago.* Anything will be better than the incredibly stagnant Madden but my interest in a non-sim football game is almost zero.

[TheBleedingRed21]

Until we figure out exactly what “non-sim” means, hard to even know.

I don’t think 2K will take this lightly, this is a huge opportunity and I’m sure it won’t be wasted.

[Hooe]

Quote: Originally Posted by Josh Houtz

Until this day, there has not been an NFL game that could compare to NFL 2K5, and while that says a lot about just how great the game was, it makes you wonder why EA has become so complacent over the last 15 years.

You really put this bile on the front page of the web site?

[SpectreBugg]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheBleedingRed21

Until we figure out exactly what “non-sim” means, hard to even know. I don’t think 2K will take this lightly, this is a huge opportunity and I’m sure it won’t be wasted.

On-board with this.. We need more information. Also agree that 2k will take this as seriously as they are allowed to. What I mean by that is, we don't really know exactly what the terms of the agreement are. Are we looking at a situation where they have to keep their distance from the standard football experience, or is it less specific. Obviously we aren't looking at a day 1 madden competitor in terms of "what you see on sunday".. but right now we don't know if we are going to get something like 3 on 3 nfl blitz, or maybe something we can work with like a backbreaker sort of game.

[SolidSquid]

I see way too much hype. We know literally nothing at this point besides it won’t be a “sim game”.

3 on 3, 5 on 5, 7 on 7 isn’t football to me. I’m also not looking for a casual experience.

Is it really gonna be a 2k if it doesn’t have tiered play calling on defense? What made 2k great was that it was real football while madden was video game football. Are they just going to give us a shell of 2k?

Also everyone is so hyped up about the exclusive deal ending in 2021, but this has happened in the past and EA renewed it.

I for sure will be checking here every day for some news on what they are going to give us.

[ElectricAggie]

I would hope that it's essentially the Super Mega Baseball of the NFL. Take 2K's football engine, but make cartoony versions of the NFL players to get around the "sim" label. The game would play as a realistic version of football, but the visuals would keep it from being full-on simulation football.

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