Path to Greatness Preview (Polygon)

A full breakdown of the mode, courtesy of Polygon:
http://www.polygon.com/2013/9/13/472459 ... de-preview

The single-player mode, which is exclusive to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of NBA 2K14 — it won't be available on Windows PC, PlayStation 4 or Xbox One — breaks out the crystal ball for James. And why not? Basketball fans love to talk about him, to debate his accomplishments thus far and to predict where he'll go from here.

Path to Greatness provides two sets of answers to all those questions. It lets you choose from two vastly different career arcs for James, both with the same basic setup. You play into the future of James' career, progressing through a variety of scenarios — mostly full games, along with some partial games — and needing to complete each event to move on to the next one.

Both paths have the same overarching goal: to win five more NBA titles and thus eclipse Jordan's mark. You'll also have other objectives that you can complete to earn stars; that adds to your overall score for the mode, and you can compare your version of James' future with those of other NBA 2K14 players on a leaderboard.

Continue Heat Dynasty" is the simpler option and the shorter one. If you go down that road, you'll be presented with one game or so per season — usually Game 7 of the NBA Finals — as you attempt to win the championship every year. This path contains about 10 different scenarios.

Fantastic Journey is where the developers really go nuts in imagining the next seven years of basketball. Current NBA stars move around, fictitious young guns rise through the ranks and a number of older players even come out of retirement.

For this sequence, the developers create a star with a storyline: John Trice, who starts out as the No. 1 overall pick for the Washington Wizards and is touted as the next LeBron. The brash youngster crowns himself the new NBA king, and you repeatedly attempt to put him in his place and cement James' legacy as the greatest of all time. And the commentators mention the rivalry between the two, as well as plenty of other developments. Fantastic Journey offers about twice as many events as Continue Heat Dynasty, maybe more.

So it seems it isn't just Creating a Legend with a new coat of paint. If anything, it's very similar to some of the storyline modes that have been featured in WWE games in years gone by. I guess that's kind of different, but it also means that it's heavily scripted, with a few different forks in the road depending on whether you win or lose.

Also, confirmation that it's Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 exclusive.

This just gets better and better. Maybe no My Player or Association for PC next year?

Maybe one day you will get the PC data and all you have is a menu and videos of console games to watch

We shud be happy to be able to play on pc. 2k sacrifice for us, yes they cut half contest of game, but we still can play basketball on pc.

PC Master Race haha... Sounds like a pretty decent mode if you play on a fantastic path looking forward to trying it

Maybe one day you will get the PC data and all you have is a menu and videos of console games to watch

Or just a black screen with white text: "Buy a console". That might require a further drop in price, though.

Whoah! Though I wasn't planning on play the "path to greatness" mode but that's just absurd that it isn't available for the PC.

PC Master Race haha... Sounds like a pretty decent mode if you play on a fantastic path looking forward to trying it

It's not available for the next-gen consoles either.

PC Master Race haha... Sounds like a pretty decent mode if you play on a fantastic path looking forward to trying it

It's not available for the next-gen consoles either.

next gen got their next gen, current got additional modes
hehe but there is no single additional mode for pc and ofc no nextgen, third category players.

Maybe one day you will get the PC data and all you have is a menu and videos of console games to watch

Or just a black screen with white text: "Buy a console". That might require a further drop in price, though.

Sorry I will stop after this (off topic to a point) ...

I suspect next year will be a photocopy/scan of a console DVD stuck to the inner box, as you open it a voucher falls out for "20 percent off NBA2k15 with your console purchase" in the DVD box marked "PC version".

I guess that'd still be fairly generous of them.

Did anyone notice this?

"NBA 2K14 Path to Greatness Mode Coming to PC" on Operation Sports.
http://www.operationsports.com/news/662 ... ing-to-pc/

Find the art associated with path to greatness and mod it to be whatever player you want

beyond that, I want to edit the teams included too, we could have a lot of fun creating our own paths for different players

Did anyone notice this?

"NBA 2K14 Path to Greatness Mode Coming to PC" on Operation Sports.
http://www.operationsports.com/news/662 ... ing-to-pc/

yeah i did saw this one...

Did anyone notice this?

"NBA 2K14 Path to Greatness Mode Coming to PC" on Operation Sports.
http://www.operationsports.com/news/662 ... ing-to-pc/

yeah i did saw this one...

great news!

Seems there was a miscommunication with Polygon. While I'm still not that excited by the mode - though it's admittedly far more creative than just being Creating a Legend featuring LeBron - it's good that the PC version won't be missing out. I'll at least give it a look and it should be there for folks who are greatly interested in it, so yeah, good news.

YAY!!!!! Even though I'd rather have MyTeam, it's good that they aren't totally cutting us off. Even if you aren't a fan of the mode, it's still a step forward. Thank you Leftos!