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NBA 2K14 My Career Mode Makes and Misses

11:33 AM - December 9, 2013 by DustinT

Of all the PlayStation 4 sports games, NBA 2K14 is the one I have played the most. I have almost exclusively played the new-look My Career mode, where you create an avatar and guide him through the cliché ascent from unknown street baller to NBA champion.

While the premise itself is stale, the mode's presentation is fresh, plus its scope is larger than any previous sports gaming story mode. You'd have to go all the way back to Midway's retired NBA Ballers and Blitz: The League series to find a sports game that put anywhere near as much work into crafting storylines and choreographing cutscenes.

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# 81 CyberRudy25 @ 06/20/14 07:05 AM

RPG are now open world. GTA, Watch Dog and Skyrim. If NBA2K want to be successful at RPG they need to do it as an open world. With all 30 teams. Each city has the real staduim on the street there on so you can drive there, Hotel for your resident,/ suburbs if you're a veteran signed long term, Airport, Practice facilty, Sports store, Car delearship, You should be able to watch highlights on a sports centre type theme at your resident. Or taven/Sports Bars,

# 82 VDusen04 @ 06/20/14 10:13 AM

Looking back on this article months later (now that the thread has been bumped by the person above), I do not believe cut scenes would have fallen in my "Makes" category. Each time I've seen a clip, it's an immediate immersion killer. I think I'd rather assume or pretend in my head as to how an interaction may go between MyPlayer and LeBron, instead of seeing something as awful as this firsthand:

# 83 kadzier @ 06/20/14 10:31 AM

Yeah the cutscenes dialogue is pretty subpar quality, and some of the scenarios themselves just totally miss the realm of plausibility. There's no way Lebron would take time out of his pregame warmup to teach some random rookie on the opposing team signature dunks, that's crap that might happen in a kid's cartoon, not the actual NBA.

Also those scenes with Jackson Ellis where you all come up with stupid bets that inevitably involve ball hogging, I hate them so much. If an actual coach found out you were forcing up shots in an actual NBA game because of a bet he'd bench you real quick.

# 84 Gosens6 @ 06/20/14 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by kadzier


	Yeah the cutscenes dialogue is pretty subpar quality, and some of the scenarios themselves just totally miss the realm of plausibility. There's no way Lebron would take time out of his pregame warmup to teach some random rookie on the opposing team signature dunks, that's crap that might happen in a kid's cartoon, not the actual NBA. Also those scenes with Jackson Ellis where you all come up with stupid bets that inevitably involve ball hogging, I hate them so much. If an actual coach found out you were forcing up shots in an actual NBA game because of a bet he'd bench you real quick.

Just chiming in here, Iv'e come to live with the fact that this is the type of stuff the majority of the gamers out there want.

It's sad what the 2K franchise has come from. Hell, just 8 years ago they probably put out there best title in NBA 2K8. Now we're here. VC, "Diamond" playing cards, a childish fantasy MyPlayer "Career" mode where absolutely NOTHING is within the realm of possibility. I haven't posted on her in a while, I've essentially stopped playing sports games aside from MLB: The Show, because the direction the rest are going in, and have been stuck in for awhile, I just can't stand anymore.

To all you guys upset about seeing that VC is going to be in 2K15, what did you honestly expect? It's there cash cow, people spend real money on it, it's not going anywhere as much as I hate to admit it.

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