A great new mode idea...

[Malfa]

I would love to see a mode where you start out with a guy rated about 40 and it all goes where you have to train to get better. Maybe play in NBDL and get signed to 10 day contracts on NBA teams...??? Then maybe for the whole season...

[J@3]

Moved to Wishlists section... that is a cool idea, I don't know how far away it is from being implimented though.

[Malfa]

MVP Baseball has the double A and A teams. So I think the Live series or even 2k series should put NBDL. That would get me to buy it for sure.

[Anthony15]

In Madden 06 there is a Superstar Mode where u start out as a rookie and play for a team, pretty much same thing u r talkin about!

[Malfa]

In Madden 06 there is a Superstar Mode where u start out as a rookie and play for a team, pretty much same thing u r talkin about!

Sort of...that is saying that you're already really good. What I was getting at is that you went undrafted or something. But yes...superstar mode in NBA Live would be better than what I was thinking. I forgot about superstar mode...

So to EA Sports...PUT SUPERSTAR MODE IN NBA LIVE DAMNIT!

[End Boss]

I've been talking about this stuff for years.. and ppl throw vegatables at me and spit on me..

this (the individuals experience of the NBA) and online leagues where people participate as 1 player and form teams and compete just like clans have been doing in first person shooters since '95..

I've been thinking about this for atleast 5 years, probably longer.. and I've come to the conclusion that the iterative development model used by EA to make sports games (and the other unfinished shite they pump out), just won't give the Live dev team the creative space to do nething like this until they have to do it to be competitive at which time they will proclaim "WE ARE TEH INVENTORRS OF REVLUTONAIRY GAEMPLAYS!!!"

no EA sports games will go online in any significant way until there is so much online momentum that tetris has its own MMOG (massively multiplayer online game)[/rant]

as for the single player thing NBA '06, developed by sony's sports dev team, will be doing basically exactly what you described.. it'll be lower budge and for this year limited to the PG position.. but atleast they're making in roads..

It's beyond me as to how we've gone so far along in basketball simulation and yet only now is a low end dev team developing a basketball experience from the individuals perspective.. as opposed to the god mode that controls 5 players

and if ur wondering why madden gets to have more innovative features it boils down to this simple series of equations:

larger audience = more revenue
more revenue = larger insentive to sustain the audience for a game that is released on a yearly basis
desire to sustain large audience = more money into dev + more creative freedom
more money into dev = more man hours worked per yearly cycle
more man hours worked per yearly cycle + more creative freedom = better games

[Malfa]

Yeah right..no way in hell I'm getting NBA '06. Plus I'm going Xbox360. They've got to put superstar mode in NBA Live...

[End Boss]

well the bad news is that you're in for a long, embittered wait

the good news is that if you start now you can make the game urself and play it before nba live gets around to implementing said feature

[Andrew]

I'm not a huge fan of this idea as I prefer the concept of the current Dynasty Mode, but seeing as though Madden has implemented it without removing the traditional "main" mode it should be possible to do it in NBA Live as well. Being a fan of Dynasty Mode, I'd prefer they enhance that first but a single player career mode would seem like the logical next step once there's not much to do with Dynasty Mode.

[Malfa]

I'm not a huge fan of this idea as I prefer the concept of the current Dynasty Mode, but seeing as though Madden has implemented it without removing the traditional "main" mode it should be possible to do it in NBA Live as well. Being a fan of Dynasty Mode, I'd prefer they enhance that first but a single player career mode would seem like the logical next step once there's not much to do with Dynasty Mode.

Well, I'm not talking about removing regular dynasty mode....


I just would f'ing love that feature as I love basketball..and football..eh. I mean I love football but as video games football doesn't hold my attention unless I'm playing a friend.

[Andrew]

I understand that, however the suggestion has been made in the past that the current Dynasty Mode should be removed or ignored in favour of the single player career mode. While I prefer the Dynasty Mode concept, I'd be intrigued by the career mode and definitely try it out; I'd just prefer it not to come at the expense of Dynasty Mode.