Now create a player is the best feature in ANY game, in my opinion. It's 9/10 the first thing I do, create a custom player. 2k has made great strides over the years to bring better created player features, from 2k7 to around 2k11 you can see the biggest changes as far as last gen is concerned. 2k has also dropped the ball in many ways. NBA 2k17 was a huge disappointment when it came to creating a player. We had the same hairstyles, same tattoos, pretty much same EVERYTHING. This was almost as bad as NBA 2k14 on current gen when they took away create a player, PERIOD, like myself, I'm pretty sure it left long time fans of the game completely deflated.
2k definitely redeemed themselves with the release of NBA 2k15. They were heading in the right direction. With the release of NBA 2k16 there were even more new hairstyles, and we were finally able to have tattoos again. It seemed like NBA 2k's created player features were getting better with each new year. That's until September 2016, the release of NBA 2k17.
After hundreds of videos uploaded to youtube by the 2k community, millions of views world wide, begging for new EVERYTHING. 2k completely dropped the ball. We literally, I mean LITERALLY had the same exact hairstyles, tattoos, etc. Very little explanation aside from Ronnie 2k tweeting out, and I quote. "we are more than a barbie dress up game #ThisISNotAgame"
If that is not a lame excuse as to why they got lazy and basically gave us NBA 2k16 2.0, I don't know what is! Now that's just one of the many let downs within NBA 2k17, but that is a whole other rant. Let's stick to the topic. There is no real excuse as to why 2k did not add any new create a player features, let's be real, they just got lazy and comfortable! There was no competition, they were the only game out, and it's like they really didn't care how we felt about it either, for that very reason.
Now here we are present day, a couple months away from NBA 2k18. 2k can redeem themselves once again, just like they did with NBA 2k15. With EA making a come back with NBA Live 18, 2k definitely has to step it up. I'm predicting it right now, NBA 2k18 will be NEW and possibly ground breaking. If you look at the NBA 2k blueprint they do something new every 2-3 years, just remember where you heard it first!