Alike Madden NFL 23 did with it The face of the Franchise career, NBA 2K23MyCareer’s mode cuts straight to the chase: You’re drafted, directly to the NBA team of your choice, and it all starts with your pro career. It’s as if both sports series this year are responding to perennial complaints about crushing tutorial-level games to be drafted by the same terrible team, with no college preamble. to NBA 2K CZK23no story about going back to high school.
However, the similarities end right there. During a preview discussion with game media last week, executive producer Erick Boenisch could barely contain himself as he described this year’s plot: Everyone hates you.
“Everybody in the City,” the central world that MyCareer shares with other modes, “and all professionals, everyone wants to [your team] to discuss this player named Shep. Shep Owens,” Boenisch said, adding another name to MyCareer pantheon of free NPCs. “So immediately, you go on stage, and [NBA Commissioner] Adam Silver has to shake your hand and the entire audience is booing. They don’t like you from the get go.
“They want Shep; Shep is college star, he’s a flashy guy, he’s a sporty guy, he’s a charismatic guy,” Boenisch continued. “And you will find that as soon as you go into the City, the people of the City want the Shep too.”
There will be Shep murals on the walls of City buildings; people will also wear Shep’s clothing labels. “So the main part of this year’s story is overcoming that adversity in terms of how people react to you and win over the citizens of the City,” said Boenisch.
I have to admit, I love this angle, and the writers and producers of Visual Con Concept made me believe they could pull it off. The NBA 2K career story, far and wide, is the best-written and best action-packed of any console sports simulation. It takes risks, as in NBA 2K19 send a drifter from China to the G-League to rebuild his career (alienated from the real-life city of Fort Wayne, Indianain process). NBA 2K20 dodged university licensing because the developers wanted to tell the story of a college player who dropped his program on principle when an injured friend lost his scholarship.
NBA 2K22The plot of the story is more traditional, but it still allows me choose a social media battle with the team that drafted me, record a diss track that calls out the Gameand got dressed up on TV almost a week ago angry grandfather Kendrick Perkins. So with this setup I expect NBA 2K23MyCareer’s to play with the tongue in the cheek equally, Better to die-style humor and prove-them-all-motivation wrong.
Boenisch said players will have several main and side quest channels to appeal to the skeptical public. Obviously, playing well in your NBA career is extremely important. But besides the hustle and bustle of the players who joined NBA 2K22 – penetrate into fashion design, music advertising and endorsement – give back to NBA 2K23, also. (The fashion mogul’s perspective “has improved a lot from last year,” Boenisch promises, for those who like to roll their eyes.)
“Only one [new] business section you can focus on; you can do all of them, you can’t do any of them,” Boenisch said. But in the end, they culminate in a finale in the City’s park, where all the people your players meet along the way get together, participate in a streetball tournament or cheer. from the sidelines. This somewhat echoes the missions and storylines of last year’s City Slam, where players battled the City’s four factions, overcoming a series of five challenges for each team to win everyone over.
“This is our biggest MyCareer story we’ve done in the past; it’s huge,” Boenisch swears. “We had a different actor in the mo-cap every day for six months. This year’s celebrity guests include hip-hop singer-songwriter and producer J. Cole, along with his Dreamville Records label, and Hall-of-Famer Kevin Garnett and famous seven-time star Tracy McGrady appear to mentor players, representing different professional paths players can choose from. Kendrick Perkins’ the ball hates the player returns, with ESPN’s JJ Redick and cover star Devin Booker as an analyst.
For the most part, Boenisch’s call to reporters and influencers was to reassure fans that, despite the immense nostalgia and hype for return of the Jordan Challengeand the first historic franchise regime, MyNBA ErasThe Visual Con Concept didn’t put its most playable mode on the rear burner.
“This is where our crowd goes; everyone plays MyCareer,” said Boenisch. “Some people switched to MyNBA [the franchise mode]several branches for MyTeam [the ultimate team mode], but in the end, everyone plays MyCareer. And we invested in it appropriately.”
