What about a Scenarios mode?

[Cyaneyes]

For instance, your team is Chicago, 4th quarter, 44 secs left, Utah wins by 3 and you need to score (twice) and steal the ball. Well, I miss MJ from NBA Live 2004 and those historical teams -Celtics 86/87, Chicago 95/96.., etc- but another Roster Player would be ok, if they change his height from 6"4 to 6"6, I think. It would help a lot if Scenarios have their own difficult and sliders settings, to avoid cheaters.

I can imagine lots of possibilities here, is there any chance of it being implemented?... I think so, but sadly I don't expect much innovation from EA. I am profoundly dissapointed with EA this year, hope next year they bring new things to the table. I mean NEW things but not arcadish SS moves...

[Fitzy]

This belongs in the wishlist but i like the sound of that idea

[Pelao_Tuman]

that would be awesome! great idea
I remember Scenario Mode from International Superstar Soccer and was very fun to complete them all.

[Laxation]

sounds like fun for a little while, but not very long

could be a good way to unlock jerseys and stuff

[Andrew]

Funnily enough, it was a rumoured feature in NBA Live 2000 for a while there. Although it didn't end up in the final version the in-game saves function did allow users to re-create scenarios...with a little bit of work.

[Jona]

This would be a great feature, much like in Madden games were you could be the, I don't know, 1940 Lions and come around the Jets only by scoring 2 running and 1 passing touchdown.

In here, you could be T-Mac, doing the 13 points against the Spurs, or John Stockton against the Rockets. (Not mentioning MJ)

EDIT: Really old ABA games could be played in black and white.

[Andrew]

I suppose the main hurdle is the same as including Legends and whatnot; without permission to re-create those old teams, the scenarios might seem somewhat half-hearted.

[Jona]

No doubt about that, but remember, in Madden you had WHOLE TEAMS consisting of "#4s" or "#55s".

[Andrew]

If it were possible to edit players to rename them, that'd be a good alternative. Of course it can be done through dbf editing, but roster management on the console versions is severely limited.

[zygis1]

i don't really like that idea.

[Andrew]

Which idea is that zygis? Editing lookalike Legend/old-time players or the idea of a scenario mode in general?

[threatlockz]

psp-version has some kind of scenario mode in it.

[Jona]

What's that?
How is it!

[zygis1]

idea of scenario mode in general

[bigh0rt]

I'd rather just have better, more fluid, realistic, non-ice skating gameplay.

[Andrew]

That almost goes without saying these days (though we probably shouldn't stop saying it ). But if we're talking about things above and beyond that, scenarios would be pretty cool. Mind you, if we had in-game saves we could (with a little extra work) do that anyway, as folks used to for NBA Live 99 and NBA Live 2000.