On launch day for the XBox One, I picked up two games – Dead Rising 3 and NBA 2K14. I absolutely love Dead Rising 3, but that’s not what we’re going to talk about. Oh no. We’re taking this motha down Kurtis Blow style.<\/p>\n
After the jump, I’m talking basketball<\/strong><\/p>\n NBA 2K14 has a career mode and I, if nothing else, am a sucker for this feature in games. I love the nerdier side of sports games that comes along with building a character. The game itself is frantic and fast-paced, but underneath all the commotion is the cold heart of a processor crunching through lines of code, rolling virtual dice and making me hit or miss my shots.<\/p>\n I haven’t played an NBA 2K game in quite some time, so I was in the bushes pretty quick on this one. Gone are the days of “hit X to shoot the ball.” Now I have to maneuver through a field of very realistic defenders, make a bit of space and then take a shot that maybe I hit. The shots you can take are varied and all have bonuses for different situations, and all require a different movement of the right stick. Not knowing what you’re doing in a very technical game can become frustrating in no time. After a missed shot and a turnover, I end up fouling another player accidentally while trying to prevent his fast-break goal. Sometimes you just gotta foul a guy.<\/p>\n As the opposing player was about to take his shots, I got another whistle. A technical foul! For those of you who aren’t into basketball, a technical foul is a foul that isn’t caused by physical contact. So, as an example, a coach can get a technical foul by back-talking a referee. The foul was resolved, as all technical fouls, by the opposing team taking a free throw shot with all other players behind the half-court mark. I was kind of dumbfounded by the call, but I moved on and quickly forgot about it.<\/p>\n Later that day, I get hit with a personal foul and another technical. Not sure what’s going on at all, I stare at the screen. The only thing out of the ordinary is a microphone symbol at the top right corner. Curious. Later on I foul again and get yet another technical foul. I’m starting to get a bit irate by this point so I concentrate on the series of events that led up to the foul. Opposing player fast break that leads to the other side of the court. I chase him down and jump to try to block the shot. I get called for a foul. I get called for a technical. Something is missing.<\/p>\n I racked my brain. Nothing I could come up with made sense to me. I didn’t hit any buttons. I didn’t get angry. I just said, to myself, “oh bullshit,” then I get a technical foul. That’s when it hit me.<\/p>\n You see, since NBA 2K13 came out after Microsoft released the Kinect, they put a fun bit of code to make the game slightly more realistic. If you get fouled in the latest 2K basketball games and let slip a curse, the game will slap you with a T.<\/p>\n While really cool in a fun, novel sort of way, I immediately disabled this feature in the options. It’s good this is a recent thing. I’m pretty sure I would have scarred my PS2 for life during the San Andreas RC missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On launch day for the XBox One, I picked up two games – Dead Rising 3 and NBA 2K14. I absolutely love Dead Rising 3, but that’s not what we’re going to talk about. Oh no. We’re taking this motha down Kurtis Blow style. After the jump, I’m talking basketball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":28134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"yoast_head":"\n