It’s NBA 2K16; that game that was free for PS Plus members during the summer of 16. Yeah that’s why I played it. And initially I hated this game and thought the gameplay was broken. Then I learned how it worked and played through an entire season over the course of a couple few months while jogging on the treadmill. Actually that’s a practice I still engage in to get the lion’s share of my exercise but with other games, and I owe it to this game for helping me discover that little life hack.
Let’s Play NBA 2K16:
Enough about the game though, let’s get to what really matters here. This game facilitated the introduction of one of the very few but my favorite LPWBrigands characters… T-Dizzle McDunk. The legend of McDunk has now spread far and wide, then come back home again to where I think everyone’s forgotten about him, but for a time his popularity grew to the point where subscribers were renaming themselves after him in the chat and during Drawful streams.
I still need to finish the Ballad of T-Dizzle McDunk at some point on Matt’s PS4 during a lazy Sunday sometime in the future, but when I played him on my PS4 during that season, I made him a 3-point machine.
Every skill point I had went into 3 pointers, and by the end of his second season he was averaging 40+ points a game. His apex was 81 points in a single game, and I absolutely loved the absurdity of this ridiculous looking white player setting what should be records left and right.
Ultimately I took him through the full season and the playoffs and we won the NBA Championship. I was pretty underwhelmed by the payoff for winning the title, making the very misled assumption that just because it took weeks and weeks to get to the championship in the game that they’d really do it up. It was pretty low key and disappointing.
Couple that with the fact that Shaq and Kenny The Jet Smith (or anyone for that matter) never made much of a big deal about the stats my player was putting up, I got disillusioned with the game and gave it up.
Still, it kept me engaged on the treadmill while it lasted.