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Simmons: NBA meets GTA

CaptainABAB

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I know this was just posted in the NBA thread, but since it is game related, I thought it should go here as well...

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/050127

Q: I think EA Sports should add a feature to NBA Live: 2006 that would allow players to attack the fans. Imagine being the Heat and taking Shaq into the crowd to kill 15 people?
--Dan, New Brunswick


SG: Couldn't they just merge NBA Live and Grand Theft Auto and set it in Portland? Not only could you try to win the NBA title with the Blazers, but you could have missions between games: Raise pit bulls to fight against Qyntel Woods and his dogs; steal pot from Damon Stoudamire; fight the Portland police when they catch you asleep in your car at 4 a.m.; frame Ruben Patterson for a felony assault; switch your urine with the ballboy's urine before an unexpected drug test; assassinate Dick Bavetta before he referees your game against the Knicks; and so on. And during games, you could inexplicably charge into the stands and start punching spectators -- it would be just like randomly attacking people in Grand Theft Auto. Of course, the ultimate goal would be to overthrow David Stern and take over the league.

(By the way, I think I would pay like $3,000 to play this game.)

:lol :lol :lol
 
On another note: if I was Visual Concepts and the NBA had just signed an exclusivity contract with EA !AFTER! the next season, would you not add in a feature into NBA 2K6 that caused a random brawl in the stands - as a reward after a player has put in a hundred hours or so into the game - what a way to give the league a FU on the way out!!
 
Haha, Bill Simmons is awesome. Anyone watched his "The Sports Guy" shorts on espn.com's Page 2? They're hilarious.
 
Sp3eD said:
As a blazer fan that lives in Oregon I can't help but laugh at that :lol

I would add then the extended driving sequences where Zach Randolph drives around in his Escalade with like 20 LCD TVs inside it and almost swerves into your lane in the Terwilliger Curves as he talks on his cell phone.

Just a theoretical scenario...
 
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