NBA 2K16 Available Today, Post Your Impressions Here

[DaltonT4]

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Just finished playing the MyCareer Living Da Dream story. Overall I thought it was well done. Thought the path it included from HS to college to the pros was a very fun approach. Wish more of the HS and College play was included. The NBA story was a little confusing. Didn't expect to be cut after the season but Free Agency was cool.


Also wish MyPlayer was better attribute wise when entering his rookie season. Was unrealistic that my player came off the bench after being draft #7 overall and only played 10 mins a game.


The characters in the story were interesting but of course it was disappointing that the story was not long enough to actually get emotionally invested in them. Totally understandable because this isn't a movie but a game.


A lot of things were left questioning such as, who was CeCe and her background outside of Freq's life. Also, the owner. Would have liked to see some actual NBA players in the story itself.


Overall it was entertaining and a good Segway to starting your MyCareer. The one thing I would change besides the length of HS and College play and low attributes for MyPlayer was that our character Freq would have to make some decisions that would dictate his path. Those decisions would affect the story and lead you down another road. Like, if we wanted to drop Vic as a friend that would take you to another section of the story.


Well done NBA2K16 crew and, in my opinion, this is the best version yet.

CeCe is your twin sister.

[DocHolliday]

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Just finished playing the MyCareer Living Da Dream story. Overall I thought it was well done. Thought the path it included from HS to college to the pros was a very fun approach. Wish more of the HS and College play was included. The NBA story was a little confusing. Didn't expect to be cut after the season but Free Agency was cool.


Also wish MyPlayer was better attribute wise when entering his rookie season. Was unrealistic that my player came off the bench after being draft #7 overall and only played 10 mins a game.


The characters in the story were interesting but of course it was disappointing that the story was not long enough to actually get emotionally invested in them. Totally understandable because this isn't a movie but a game.


A lot of things were left questioning such as, who was CeCe and her background outside of Freq's life. Also, the owner. Would have liked to see some actual NBA players in the story itself.


Overall it was entertaining and a good Segway to starting your MyCareer. The one thing I would change besides the length of HS and College play and low attributes for MyPlayer was that our character Freq would have to make some decisions that would dictate his path. Those decisions would affect the story and lead you down another road. Like, if we wanted to drop Vic as a friend that would take you to another section of the story.


Well done NBA2K16 crew and, in my opinion, this is the best version yet.

Probably should have spoiler tagged that.


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[bo_jax2000]

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Anyone else notice that when you go into practice mode there is no music playing? it's a minor issue but its pretty annoying. Makes me think there is something wrong on my end.

During practice go into gameplay settings and turn up the volume on 2k beats in game.

[ehh]

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Continuing on the RealFG% issue...just shot 16/22 FT with the Knicks and there wasn't a single swish.

Finished up the Pacers game I was mentioning above, they shot 70% from the field (George was 8/8) in the 4th and outscored me 35-26 to win by ten. Never change, 2K.

[Perry_West]

wow.
i asked multiple times on twitter
and thought 2k ignored my tweets
but they made record breaking matter
and now after i broke the 3pt record
(MyCareer; multi tries; Superstar)
it actually gave recognition & +25,000 fan bonus.
i wondered why include records if they
didn't mean much but 2k made it matter.
i'm going for the assists & steals records next.

[CX1329]

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The difficulty is brutal this year, I'm struggling to do anything on All-Star. I feel like I need to learn to play the game all over again, which is a good thing, seeing as though the AI in 2K15 was getting a bit dull.

[Grandview2015]

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The adjustments the CPU makes is amazing.

Perfect? No, but so awesome to see.

[DamnYanks2]

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I can't put this game down. I don't wanna spoil anything, but I was the Bulls, and they did this crazy pre game intro, Last time I got chills playing a video game, was when Jordan led me through the tunnel in 2k11.

On to the game, I was the Bulls, (friend was the Heat) I got Rose going early slicing and dicing the Miami D with tough layups and attacking the rim, looked like Prime Rose out there. PNR was beautiful, Rose would stutter step and then just accelerate around Noah and pull up for a leaning J, all of it just flowed so beautifully and felt good.

I suffocated Wade with Butler, and Miami had to find other ways to score, and other then Bosh, I shut them down. Really felt like Chicago's grind it out Defense. Offensively, this was my best game, I didnt make many mistakes, and I never once pressed triangle to post up (lol bad habits can be broken.)

Jimmy Buckets was getting his too, knocking down a few threes, and one nasty slam on Bosh. It just feels right.

[strawberryshortcake]

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I wonder if I got a good copy, last night I got player of the game with Jimmy Butler, And It showed His Highlights and Kenny, Shaq, and Ernie talked about it, in the postgame.

At halftime I saw the recap of all the action from the first and second quarter. Now it doesn't happen every game for me, but I thought they did that on purpose.

The box score highlights I have no idea about but you guys aren't seeing any of that stuff?

Yea, that's what I was thinking, and I was saying I'm not having any problems with that, but it doesn't seem to show up every game, they seem to vary.

I know what your talking about with the box scores, I think. You talking bout, where you could press square and see individual highlights, yea I don't think they put that in this year, or its a bug on ps4 l, I remember that in 2k15.

No, they do have it this year again. You press triangle (I think). But even on those replays. You can kind of get a feeling that the music is late or some of the plays shown or off. Like I once saw an camera angle that was blocked because a player was standing in the way. I've others where the camera jumps back and forth between the player that passed the ball and the player catching it.

Yea, your right its triangle. Yea, their replay department has always been kinda lacking, but I was reading another thread on here where you could only see the highlights if you played on 8 min quarters.

I saw them last night on 5 min quarters, so I guess some people got some bugged copies.

I don't think it's the copies. The problem sounds like it the amount time played in each quarter. Because I play 6 minute quarters.

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...-quarters.html

Halftime and postgame player of the game highlights along with individual player highlights are working properly on the XB1 for any minutes played per quarter. They are also working on the PS4 if games are played on 8 minute quarters or less. There is one individual that made a post about neither highlight packages working on his XB1; he tried turning his game and system off as advised, but that didn't fix it.

Post game (player of the game) highlights are not working on the PS4 if games are played at 9, 10, 11, 12 minutes (anything above 8 minutes). Something about the PS4 cache, not enough memory or something. Some people are also possibly saying the PS4 share function may be the culprit. The theory is if the PS4 allows one to turn off the share function feature completely, both halftime and postgame highlights would always work.

Halftime and postgame highlights were intended to always work for both systems (XB1 and PS4). Some people are blaming Sony, others are blaming 2k. Highlights are not suppose to be random occurrences. It also comes down to the amount of games being played due to the cache. The more games are played without turning off the game completely, sooner or later, even the halftime highlights will also not show up.

The workaround to "guarantee" postgame 12 minute quarter highlights is to 'save and exit' the game at the beginning of the third quarter (you must wait until the ball is inbounded). This workaround only works for MyLeague and MyGm and possibly other My-- modes, as long as you are able to save and exit at the start of the 3rd quarter. Close out the game completely, then fire the game back up and resume play from the save file beginning in the 3rd quarter. It will not work for Play Now quick games because these games do not have a "save" function.

This unfortunately wipes out all first half highlights. Say, if you scored 35 points in the first half with Steph Curry and 2 points in the second half, and immediately bench him for the remainder of the game, and he is the player of the game. Following the workaround, the player of the game highlights will only show different camera angle of the 2 points Curry made in the second half (first half highlights are completely wiped). The same goes with the Boxed score individual highlights -- Curry would maybe get 2 seconds of highlight and then completely go blank.

[DamnYanks2]

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http://www.operationsports.com/forum...-quarters.html

Halftime and postgame player of the game highlights along with individual player highlights are working properly on the XB1 for any minutes played per quarter. They are also working on the PS4 if games are played on 8 minute quarters or less. There is one individual that made a post about neither highlight packages working on his XB1; he tried turning his game and system off as advised, but that didn't fix it.

Post game (player of the game) highlights are not working on the PS4 if games are played at 9, 10, 11, 12 minutes (anything above 8 minutes). Something about the PS4 cache, not enough memory or something. Some people are also possibly saying the PS4 share function may be the culprit. The theory is if the PS4 allows one to turn off the share function feature completely, both halftime and postgame highlights would always work.

Halftime and postgame highlights were intended to always work for both systems (XB1 and PS4). Some people are blaming Sony, others are blaming 2k. Highlights are not suppose to be random occurrences. It also comes down to the amount of games being played due to the cache. The more games are played without turning off the game completely, sooner or later, even the halftime highlights will also not show up.

The workaround to "guarantee" postgame 12 minute quarter highlights is to 'save and exit' the game at the beginning of the third quarter (you must wait until the ball is inbounded). This workaround only works for MyLeague and MyGm and possibly other My-- modes, as long as you are able to save and exit at the start of the 3rd quarter. Close out the game completely, then fire the game back up and resume play from the save file beginning in the 3rd quarter. It will not work for Play Now quick games because these games do not have a "save" function.

This unfortunately wipes out all first half highlights. Say, if you scored 35 points in the first half with Steph Curry and 2 points in the second half, and immediately bench him for the remainder of the game, and he is the player of the game. Following the workaround, the player of the game highlights will only show different camera angle of the 2 points Curry made in the second half (first half highlights are completely wiped). The same goes with the Boxed score individual highlights -- Curry would maybe get 2 seconds of highlight and then completely go blank.

Thanks for clarifying, Yea that's frustrating I'm sure, luckily I never play more then 8 minute quarters, and I rarely even do that.

[strawberryshortcake]

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Thanks for clarifying, Yea that's frustrating I'm sure, luckily I never play more then 8 minute quarters, and I rarely even do that.

No problem.

I also suspect 8 minute quarters and under will also have highlights not working for halftime and postgame ... if the user chooses to play multiple upon multiple consecutive games back to back (i.e. 8 to 20 games back to back to back as an example). Something about the PS4 cache system.

It's definitely a difficult pill to swallow considering the pre-game, halftime, post-game was my number one most desired wishlist item for NBA2k (I truly skipped 2k15 because there wasn't a legitimate halftime show). It was an absolute shock we got something magnificent for 2k16 when the trailer dropped.

And yes, I actually do sit down to watch the pregame, halftime and post game show for each and every 2k16 single game. I would love to see all segments expanded for 2k17. I would love to see 2k17 implement 2k14's halftime around the league score report along with notes about other games that are playing for that specific night.

Regardless, I'm enjoying the game. I'll just watch the first half highlights and watch a screen shot of the player of the game for the post game wrap up, or go ahead with the workaround if I wanted to get the full post game wrap up experience.

Bring on the PS5 with more memory/cache.

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[drstriker15]

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My experience differs. I will say that after a satisfying block, I get a large percentage of the ball back and am able to score on fast breaks or simply just start the transition. I love the loose balls this year given that I actually have success grabbing them. In my eyes, it's a win. Just my three cents.

I wish I had your experience. I just couldn't get passed the outright cheating. Same thing happened to my roommate, maybe I got a bad game IDK. It was so frustrating to watch my good defensive plays turn into cheap scores for the cpu. Almost every block shot went straight to the cpu. Even the player i actually blocked would some how get the ball back, It also happened on steals. I stripped Carmelo three times one game and recovered the ball all three times. I can see once in awhile but it literally was all the time. I just couldn't see passed it. It totally ruined the game for me. I hate when the cpu can do just whatever it wants like having Collison drive the lane with Okafor and Noel waiting to block his shot but Collison some how makes a miraculous 360 layup and scores. I do it, I get blocked and of course the cpu gets the ball. Ive played every 2k basketball game and Ive never seen such blatent cpu cheese...

[noshun]

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Not too much change on the 360 version from 15. haven't opened the 4 version, and got it digital on the 1.. trying to find some time to try and play all 3 just to see how each handles, but I got quite a bit of other things to do atm. Yeah im late.. Quick ?, can we make custom sleeved jerseys, along with the regs in the editor?

[strawberryshortcake]

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I wish I had your experience. I just couldn't get passed the outright cheating. Same thing happened to my roommate, maybe I got a bad game IDK. It was so frustrating to watch my good defensive plays turn into cheap scores for the cpu. Almost every block shot went straight to the cpu. Even the player i actually blocked would some how get the ball back, It also happened on steals. I stripped Carmelo three times one game and recovered the ball all three times. I can see once in awhile but it literally was all the time. I just couldn't see passed it. It totally ruined the game for me. I hate when the cpu can do just whatever it wants like having Collison drive the lane with Okafor and Noel waiting to block his shot but Collison some how makes a miraculous 360 layup and scores. I do it, I get blocked and of course the cpu gets the ball. Ive played every 2k basketball game and Ive never seen such blatent cpu cheese...

What difficulty are you playing at? Because that might be a factor.

My previous 2k game was 14' and loose balls were simply frustrating. I managed to get to some, but for some reason, often the CPU would win those loose ball battles despite me having push the analog stick in that direction with the player literally standing over the ball unaware. With 2k16, loose balls are no longer frustrating. The loose ball physics feels much better, much more organic, and not suctioned to either the user or CPU. Loose balls are essentially up for grabs. Loose balls are no longer tattooed with either the CPU or players name on it.

PS4 digital version.

With regards to interior big man blocking. It's very satisfying this year especially if you time it correctly. The window of opportunity is just right. Point guards or little man and just about anyone driving the paint can keep their weak stuff out if you properly time your blocks. The force, the power, the yelling are very satisfying especially if it's a smaller guard trying to drive to the bucket. However, I also play man to man defense.

[drstriker15]

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What difficulty are you playing at? Because that might be a factor.

My previous 2k game was 14' and loose balls were simply frustrating. I managed to get to some, but for some reason, often the CPU would win those loose ball battles despite me having push the analog stick in that direction with the player literally standing over the ball unaware. With 2k16, loose balls are no longer frustrating. The loose ball physics feels much better, much more organic, and not suctioned to either the user or CPU. Loose balls are essentially up for grabs. Loose balls are no longer tattooed with either the CPU or players name on it.

PS4 digital version.

With regards to interior big man blocking. It's very satisfying this year especially if you time it correctly. The window of opportunity is just right. Point guards or little man and just about anyone driving the paint can keep their weak stuff out if you properly time your blocks. The force, the power, the yelling are very satisfying especially if it's a smaller guard trying to drive to the bucket. However, I also play man to man defense.

I was playing on pro with a few slider adjustments. I increase the short shot and layup slider. I feel there's too many missed shots and missed layups. I still see quite a bit of missed shots inside but I can live with that.. My friend has the game now, if he changes his mind on buying it, I might play it again..