After a week of screenshots highlighting some of the additions to My Player mode in NBA 2K12, producer Erick Boenisch has provided us with the fifth Developer Insight which goes into great detail about what we can expect of the mode in terms of new features and improvements to existing ones. Erick explains how you progress through the mode from the Rookie Showcase through to a possible Hall of Fame induction and everything in between, including another rundown of the pre-Draft interviews, mock Draft and the 2011 Draft itself, contract negotiations and paychecks that can be spent on increasing ratings and adding new dunk packages.
Of note, Erick also mentions that NBA 2K12’s My Player will feature “Key Games”, so you won’t have to play each and every game in the season but rather elect to play games that feature key matchups, rival teams or have playoff implications, with stats from simulated games still counting towards the Hall of Fame goals. He also touches upon the expanded endorsements, player abilities, dynamic goals, press conferences, drills, playcalling and the starting rating. Finally, we get a teaser of some Association information as Erick mentions that Adam Silver was brought in to record audio for the second round of the Draft, hinting that he and David Stern will be featured during the Draft in Association as well as My Player. It’s well worth checking out, give it a read and join in the discussion here in the Forum.
Ronnie has also mentioned on Twitter that the next week and a half will be all about gameplay, including a word from Mike Wang.
Imagine the epicness of Stern announcing some of the epic generic players “Andrew Andrew” or “Borislav Perko”.
Great times. Only downside will be that the cap rules in the game will be all out of whack compared to new CBA, but that’s understandable.
As I mentioned in the Forum, the only real concerns I have at this point are teammate AI and the player evaluation system being a bit too harsh, which won’t help if it’s harder to accumulate skill points. Everything else sounds top notch though.
Didn’t the guy over at OS mention that in the college all-star game that you were punished for missing shots if they were good shots? I hope that would indicate that playing good basketball (rather than Iverson version) helps and eases your concerns slightly.
I can understand where you are coming from, same thing annoyed me in FIFA 10 Be A Player.
Were or weren’t punished for missing good shots? In NBA 2K11 the good shot/bad shot selection seemed a little off and the penalty a bit too severe in my opinion. Not that it shouldn’t be challenging though but last year’s grading system was a bit unfair.
Sorry, meant weren’t punished.
Ah. In that case, sounds like they’ve cleaned that up a bit. Excellent.