The buy nba 2k20 mt franchise has
gotten so large that it services niche fanbases as much as it tries to
appeal to the masses. Some players grind out progress and chase the
badge meta of MyCareer, others rebuild the NBA as they see fit in
MyLeague, and then there’s the never-ending card collecting of MyTeam.
All are rightfully NBA 2K fans and deserve to get joy from their
favorite basketball title.
This, however, puts developer Visual Concepts in a tough position
because if you try going in different directions at once you risk going
nowhere at all. This is nothing new for the franchise, which has not
only become the preeminent basketball title, but some argue the best
sports title period. Visual Concepts has responded in recent years to
this pressure by adding new features to many of its modes. NBA 2K20 does
this like its predecessors, but as much as it tries to carry the
franchise forward, it is burdened by the past.
A prime example of this is MyCareer, which lets players loose in the
open world-ish Neighborhood area to grind their player up the ladder.
NBA 2K20 tweaks how you make your MyPlayer, letting gamers choose their
hard attribute caps within templates of preset strengths and weaknesses.
Your abilities are broken out into the finishing, shooting, playmaking,
and defense/rebounding buckets, which also house the all-important
badges that confer bonuses.
Grinding to increase your attributes through the VC currency (earned
throughout the game and buyable with real money) is a central part of
the experience, and although you can create multiple builds, each one
starts over at 60 OVR and any VC you’ve earned cannot be re-allocated to
the new build. This exposes the illusion of freedom of having different
builds in the first place, and given how important having the
appropriate attribute levels, badges, and even physical features are in
multiplayer, you must choose carefully.
The mode’s grind itself is exacerbated by an infrastructure that needs
updating. You still have to wait in real-time for MyPark games and
training stations, and there is no matchmaking in the mode. This
significantly dampens my incentive to take my lumps against players who
may have paid real money for VC to expedite progress.
Thankfully MyCareer also lets players grow through NBA games against the
A.I., providing a different outlet for your character. This is
bolstered by cutscenes along the way, including the well-done Prelude
story put together by Lebron James’ SpringHill Entertainment that
advocates players embracing what agency they have in power structures
that preferred they didn’t.
MyGM also surfaces the needs of players via the conversation system, but
it drags down the mode. The action-point system driving what you can do
in a day isn’t interesting when you have to spend it constantly chit
chatting with players to hold inane, repetitive conversations about
waffles just to keep up their morale. You also have to constantly fend
off their requests for minutes. Unlocking GM abilities like training and
scouting is understandable, but I don’t like that it’s tied to
objectives that might not make sense like signing lots of veteran
players at the behest of the team owner. The actual skill tree itself,
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