10 Ambitious Video Games With Immensely Disappointing Stories
3. NBA 2K16 (Livin' Da Dream: A Spike Lee Joint)
When you attach a big name actor to your game, you better have a good story to tell.
Though, when you attach a big name to write the story to your game, you better have the courage to tell him that his idea sucks.
Spike Lee is one of the best modern movie directors, with classics like Do The Right Thing or Clockers in his filmography. Because he made arguably the best basketball movie of all time, He Got Game, Lee seemed like the perfect man to create a deep and emotionally engaging story mode for the best basketball video game franchise of all time.
Awfully predictable, boring and with no emotions attached to it, the worst feature of the NBA's Story Mode was how detached it felt from the actual experience.
Creating yourself in the game and becoming basketball's next best thing is one of the coolest features of NBA 2K. The fact that you were forced into a certain narrative, which revealed the same scenes no matter your on-court actions (your player could suck, but he was still compared to LeBron James by the commentators), didn't let you actually enjoy them.
Good thing it was over after the rookie season.