@softdrinktv

An independent voice covering the past, present, and future of sports gaming and technology

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Joined July 2022
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God is real and I love being alive
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Madden's main menu screen, then versus now 🫤
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Don't forget being forced to select "free pass" whenever you open the game! Love the evolution over the years...
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Still waiting for a SOFT DRINK company to sponsor me. It could be the official soft drink of SOFTDRINKTV! Incredible business opportunity 🤑 Tag your favorite soft drink companies below. I'll start @pepsi
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Here is my full interview with Marcus Matthews (@GaTechAlum_IE92) the executive producer of the first NBA 2K and NFL 2K games at Sega Sports. Enjoy! (Also uploading to YouTube and Spotify)
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Timestamps 00:00:00 Coming up 00:01:02 What went wrong with NBA 2K? 00:02:32 How should 2K decide its future? Whales vs casual players 00:05:00 What "disruption" means for sports games 00:06:41 Did he see this future of sports gaming coming? 00:08:11 Quick break: SOFTDRINKTV on Spotify 00:09:28 Marcus's 2021 tweet and the original NBA 2K design doc 00:13:45 Do developers actually read reviews? 00:19:18 Sim vs arcade: where should a sports game sit? 00:30:59 Did Sega expect the Dreamcast to take over? 00:40:58 One animation engine for NFL 2K, NBA 2K and NHL 2K 00:44:13 A day as a sports game executive producer 00:48:24 How much NFL 2K and NBA 2K focused on CPU AI 00:49:32 Building NBA All-World at Niantic 00:52:10 EA's exclusive NFL license and the end of NFL 2K 00:55:04 NBA Live Mobile shutting down 00:57:33 Are over-monetized sports games losing money? 01:00:02 When did NBA 2K abandon its recipe? 01:03:09 Why modern NBA 2K pleases nobody 01:07:22 Which fan voices should studios listen to? 01:09:46 AI and small teams making AAA games 01:14:29 The AI backlash: do the critics have a point? 01:16:45 Concerns about AI's future 01:19:40 The NBA 2K17 Revival servers and modding old games 01:22:01 Fortnite, Roblox and games made by players 01:22:47 If Marcus ran 2K: what he'd change for NBA 2K28 01:23:27 Can an indie studio win without a license? 01:26:22 Sliders: can one game be both arcade and sim? 01:28:10 Why the NBA Jam copycats weren't fun 01:31:47 Marcus's favorite sports games of all time 01:35:37 Advice for building your own sports game with AI 01:37:28 A message to Visual Concepts today 01:39:12 MyNBA Eras and the modern features he loves 01:45:20 Has passion been replaced by business people? 01:47:57 Why the underdogs sweat the details 01:49:49 Big ideas that never shipped 01:52:12 NBA and NFL predictions 01:55:10 Closing thoughts
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How ass is this going to be?
Mike Straw
@MikeStrawMediaOct 21
In their memo to staff, EA confirmed that an open-world experience is coming to their American Football games. It's currently under the codename "Project Gridiron" and is described as a "social-first open-world experience"
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Wait what?! 🤯
EA SPORTS Fight Night
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To everyone who stayed in our corner: Fight Night is coming back. 🥊♥️ #FightNight
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Now might be the time to finally cover Undisputed, the game that's been attempting to hold everyone over. I've been meaning to, just haven't gotten around to it.
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This is my goal for All Pro Football 2K8. This is now achievable and I can finally envision this in a football I enjoy playing.
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Here are all the classic scenarios/moments currently in the mod (in order)! All with accurate rosters 😎
SOFTDRINKTV
@softdrinktvOct 8
I've been modding more classic moments to play across different NFL eras in my ESPN NFL 2K5 project. The game's original moments now have fully accurate rosters and depth charts too! Still need to get field art/era specific uniforms/stadiums accurate for each scenerio.
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I've been modding more classic moments to play across different NFL eras in my ESPN NFL 2K5 project. The game's original moments now have fully accurate rosters and depth charts too! Still need to get field art/era specific uniforms/stadiums accurate for each scenerio.
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Marcus had to reschedule, we will be talking for 3 hours in 2 weeks. Slight delay, but this interview will release this month! Stay tuned 🫡 “The Man Behind NBA 2K Explains What Went Wrong…” 🔥🔥
SOFTDRINKTV
@softdrinktvOct 7
This interview takes place in a few hours! I’ll try and upload it by Friday. There’s a lot to talk about 👀🍿
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I use AI to help me mod sports games. All of these breakthroughs you see on your timeline these days are assisted by AI. Some don’t disclose this, because when you do, the luddites appear and harass you. I don’t charge money for anything I create. My mods are gifts to the community. If you want to call that “slop”, go ahead. But my goodness the anti-AI crowd seems very stupid. It’s pure cope at this point. You can not like AI, you can be uncomfortable about AI, you can not agree with the ethics in which it was trained, but you sound like an idiot if you call AI “useless” or act like it isn’t impressive right now 😂 It’s been shocking, as someone who’s always supported open source software and community made mods, to see this group attacking individuals for empowering themselves with AI to indirectly defend massive corporations. They’d rather pay for Adobe’s subscription than support a random software engineer using Claude to assist in creating a free alternative… Strange times. I find this topic fascinating personally. Things are only going to get stranger too!
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SOFTDRINKTV retweeted
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@DrutangRebornOct 7
AI has unlocked the golden age of fan made games
Retro Dodo
@retro_dodoOct 5
Pokémon Arena 2D looks set to shake up the fangame scene! Find out more: retrododo.com/pokemon-arena-…
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This interview takes place in a few hours! I’ll try and upload it by Friday. There’s a lot to talk about 👀🍿
SOFTDRINKTV
@softdrinktvSep 17
I have an interview coming up next month with Marcus Matthews, who produced the first NBA 2K game as well as the first NFL 2K game! If you enjoyed my talk with Ian Cummings, this will give you a perspective from the competing side… Should be fun, stay tuned!
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I threw Opus 5.5 at Tecmo Super Bowl, asked it to turn it into a pseudo-3D version of the game, and it just worked! AI is incredible right now. But if you can reverse engineer essentially anything, is creating proprietary software over? And what are the consequences of that?
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Tecmo Super Bowl is a pretty simple game too. My ESPN NFL 2K5 modding progress shows that frontier AI tools can do just about anything with far more complex pieces of software. Which then makes me wonder about the future of software…
SOFTDRINKTV
@softdrinktvOct 4
Some more modded ESPN NFL 2K5 screenshots. I’ll be streaming this later today!
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Tecmobowl.org@TecmoGodfatherOct 6
A modern 32 team Tecmo Super Bowl rom contains 960 players. Someone put together a rom that has 2,963 players which includes practice squads.
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RateSports@RateSportsOct 6
Yeah. This is kinda dope. #NFL2K5 in pure VR is wild.
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My favorite baseball game of all time is Ken Griffey Jr for the SNES. One problem: all of the rosters are out of date. And it's missing the D-Backs and the Rays, and the Nats. So I made a mod to fix that. Pleased to announce Ken Griffey Jr. Presents MLB: The 30-Team Expansion!
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