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What happened to the NBA Street series?

I feel like EA could do an "indie" version of NBA Street and release on PS3/PS4/ect

Keep the cel shaded/cartoon style, keep the graphics relatively simple (the art style will help w/ this). Then release the game as an "indie" title for like $20 over PSN. No retail release.

Keeping the game graphical "simple" by using the series trademark art style could help to keep costs low. I also think it help EAs reputation to open/support some indie studios and have them work under a "EA indie" banner or something. I'm sure they put together a decent indie team to tackle reviving Vol.1 & 2 into something fresh and fun while staying true to the core of those games, I also believe this could do done rather "cheaply" (as in, less cost/risk then a AAA game).
 
I don't do sports games but NBA Street is my shit. Vol 2 is a classic in my book. That reminds me, I'm still pissed at EA for what they did the Def Jam series.
 
If I were to make a list of the greatest "stupid, over exaggerated brilliance" sports games, it would be something like this.

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Vol 2 was amazing. Loved the retro atmosphere of that game. 3 wasn't nearly as good as 2 and the Homecourt was a disaster like most last gen sequels
 
boutdown said:
If I were to make a list of the greatest "stupid, over exaggerated brilliance" sports games, it would be something like this.
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NBA Jam is a historic game, I played this in the arcades growing up. It clearly inspired the street series. definitely a game that deserves respect.

I remember NFL Blitz too. When the local arcade got the machine, there was a crowd around it for like 2 weeks, non-stop. I was a kid so I had to wait to play, only getting to play every once in a while, making me enjoy the rush of the game even more.

fuck,
I miss arcades now
 
fastballspecial said:
NBA Sreet Vol.2 is one of the best sports games to date on consoles. It really defined fun.
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I must have poured over 400 hours in that game. It was the go-to sleepover game. I don't know why they changed the controls up in V3. It was perfect the way it is.

NFL Street 1 was awesome too.
 
I miss these over the top sports games so much. SSX, NBA Street, NHL Hitz, NFL Blitz, Tony Hawk... those were the days, and it has nothing to do with nostalgia.
 
Loved those games. None of my friends could beat me, they would even go so far as to bet me a new game if they could beat me in a best of 3 series. They'd focus too much on those super moves and I'd just score and defend the crap out of them. I really do miss those games.
 
I remember reading somewhere that the NFL put the kibosh on the NFL Street brand because they didn't like the image of street play or something like that. As a replacement, EA released the very unspiritual successor, NFL Tour, which ended up being the fat camp of sports games and bombed horribly.

But as for NBA I have no idea. Hopefully they revisit it in the next gen. I loved the series and I'm not even a huge sports gamer.
 
Nba street 2 was incredibly special. I still think about it from time to time. I miss other ones like Nba hangtime and more from the old days.
 
This thread made me want to crack out NBA Street Vol 2 again...so I read up on Dolphin and oh my, it looks amazing...


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I wish they'd make a new one and do it justice
 
nfl street was fucking dumb because with a full out special meter there was no way to stop a touchdown. you could run around the field for 5 minutes because you were untackleable. i'm p sure you could still block gamebreakers in street or people could fuck them up. regardless a few points in basketball isn't nearly as bad as an unstoppable touchdown.

street letting you goaltend was too broken for us to play PVP tho. with jam it was always fun, but with street goaltending being allowed was just too easy to exploit. got to the point where we actually had games where people would win by sinking half court shots before any defender had time to run to the hoop to block them. you could hit runners from half court at just a tiny lower percentage than from the 3pt line. vs cpu it was a great game tho
 
slapnuts said:
It is a shame isn't it? Not many mid tier games anymore. It was what birthed so many new IP's back in the day. I have a good feeling that PS4 will bring back this mid tier library with a vengeance though.
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I hope so!

Most non-AAA sports games were super duper fun. Even the racing ones, like Beetle Adventure Racing!. N64 had a plethora of racing games.
 
NBA Stret Homecourt happened.
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not NBA Street but still a pretty good game
slapnuts said:
It is a shame isn't it? Not many mid tier games anymore. It was what birthed so many new IP's back in the day. I have a good feeling that PS4 will bring back this mid tier library with a vengeance though.
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how is this going to work? PS4 games will still be expensive to develop.
 
NBA Street Vol. 2 was one of my most played games growing up. Everything about the game was perfect and the soundtrack was pretty sweet for it as well
 
EA ruined them both. NBA Homecourt and NFL Tour killed the franchises imo. I'd buy HD remakes/updated versions of both NBA Street Vol 2 and NFL Street 2 immediately if they released them. Like day fucking 0!!!
 
Street 3 took everything awesome about Street 2 (Just Blaze, Art Style, Gameplay) and pretty much threw it in the trash can. The series was taking a serious nose dive.

I'd like another one but I fear it would try to build off of Street 3 when what I really want is just some Final Fantasy nonsense like NBA Street 2-II. I wouldn't pay $60 for it but if they could just modify the Street 2 engine to run in 720p and do a roster update, that would be more than good enough for me and I'd pay $20-$30 for it. It'd probably be a hell of a lot better than what they're going to give you with NBA Live, which was an ass quality game ever since it moved off the Genesis and got so terrible that even EA realized they'd be better off by not releasing it for the past 3 or 4 years despite them developing it and having a full game done.
 
I loved this series. The NFL street too, but to a lesser extent, because Blitz was just so much fun. It was so easy to pick up. In one game you'd done figured out how to break off some amazing moves. And wasn't there kind of an achievement system? Single and head to head, this game delivered. I might go play it tonight.......
 
The NBA give licenses to EA and Midway to make "Arcade style" B-ball games on alternate years. But neither license could push the other to make substantially better games. Add in Midway's financial situation and the fact that Visual Concepts subverted things by making a "complete" game which included pick up games and you have a dead license.
 
Would love a HD remake of Vol. 2 but that's it. Didn't enjoy the sequels as much. Also the NBA Jam reboot is a great game that was fucked up by EA's release plan for it (full game on Wii, bonus clipped version with NBA Elite, seperate downloadable game on 360 & PS3).
 
I don't get it, I love NBA Street 1, 2 and 3. Homecourt wasn't even that bad, just lacking in features like most early next gen games. Sure none of the games had the sense of style 2 had, but they were all good games!
 
Last gen had great EAbig games, and

SSX Tricky
NBA Street Vol. 2

are classics. They will never release better games. Look at how shitty SSX was this gen.
 
Why are you guys reminding me how much I loved NBA Street Vol. 2 and Def Jam: Fight for NY?

*sigh* EA...
 
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