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  • Warrenup
    Rookie
    • Apr 2021
    • 21

    #46
    Re: Graphics comparison: 2K23 vs 2K25

    Originally posted by runnerwest
    graphics are serviceable especially offline but for the love of GOD and all that is holy please please please any 2K devs reading this invest in making your menus better. the difference between the look and feel of menus aesthetically between something like madden and 2K is unforgivable. literally the most amateur looking menus of any AAA game. the most generic fonts .. there's no excuse -- 2K has been severely lacking in the department since forever.
    Im pretty sure most people would never care if 2K never touched the menus lol

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    • The 24th Letter
      ERA
      • Oct 2007
      • 39373

      #47
      Graphics comparison: 2K23 vs 2K25

      Personally prefer the true to life look when it comes to floors, I don’t think it should look like players are playing on porcelain….It’s definitely a cool graphical display but if we’re talking replicating what we see on TV or real life that’s my personal POV on it.


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      • J_Posse
        Greatness Personified
        • Jun 2005
        • 11255

        #48
        Re: Graphics comparison: 2K23 vs 2K25

        Originally posted by The 24th Letter
        Personally prefer the true to life look when it comes to floors, I don’t think it should look like players are playing on porcelain….It’s definitely a cool graphical display but if we’re talking replicating what we see on TV or real life that’s my personal POV on it.


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        Some people are never happy either way, 24th. Back then people were complaining that it was 'too reflective,' 2K goes too far the other way making it look 'too dull,' and now they've hit a happy medium but some are still complaining.

        Forgetting that a lot of things (cameras, lenses, TV quality, etc.) affect how the eye perceives color (or shade/hue).

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        • 49UNCFan
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          • Aug 2010
          • 2460

          #49
          Re: Graphics comparison: 2K23 vs 2K25

          I'm not judging until I see this in 4k 120 on my PC.
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          • scottyp180
            MVP
            • Jun 2007
            • 2211

            #50
            Re: Graphics comparison: 2K23 vs 2K25

            Originally posted by J_Posse
            Some people are never happy either way, 24th. Back then people were complaining that it was 'too reflective,' 2K goes too far the other way making it look 'too dull,' and now they've hit a happy medium but some are still complaining.

            Forgetting that a lot of things (cameras, lenses, TV quality, etc.) affect how the eye perceives color (or shade/hue).

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            Best example of this, when your hometown team is playing on both your local channel and a broadcast station like ESPN, switch between the two and chances are you'll see a difference in the shade and colors of the courts and jerseys. I know for the Celtics the parquet can be lighter or darker depending the station airing the game.

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            • scottyp180
              MVP
              • Jun 2007
              • 2211

              #51
              Re: Graphics comparison: 2K23 vs 2K25

              Originally posted by 49UNCFan
              I'm not judging until I see this in 4k 120 on my PC.
              By the time mods get to the game it's going to look better than real life broadcasts. People are going to wonder why games on ESPN don't look as good as 2K on PC.

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              • EccentricMeat
                MVP
                • Aug 2011
                • 3242

                #52
                Re: Graphics comparison: 2K23 vs 2K25

                Originally posted by vetmin
                You're right, and even after taking that screenshot, I simply looked to my left and right in my living room and took note of the fact that the coloring I see with my own eyes doesn't look like 2K16, but on a gut level to me that 2K16 palette just looks better and (confusingly) more realistic.

                Maybe it's that the overall graphics need to be better for the new-gen lighting to feel 'real' instead of just 'dull' / 'washed out'. Maybe for 2K35 when the game is visually indistinguishable from real life, the 2K16 lighting will feel goofily vibrant, but for where the game is right now, the newer lightings (even from what I've seen of 2K23) just feel off instead of realistic.

                I think the vastly more pressing issue isn’t the color or even the reflections, it’s how CRISP those courts look on older 2Ks (and even the new ones, but only on PC). For whatever reason, the courts on console look like one large, low-detail texture instead of a series of high resolution boards coming together to form a court.

                With the console courts, it looks like they cheaply slapped a yellowish-beige rectangle down, then a separate layer for each of the logos and brands. It doesn’t look like a basketball court.
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                • BOSsTOwN
                  Pro
                  • Feb 2003
                  • 788

                  #53
                  Re: Graphics comparison: 2K23 vs 2K25

                  do devs from 2k still post here?

                  why are the crowds dark?!?

                  Last one I have is 2k22 and the visuals on there look better than most of the screens and vids I've seen of 2k25
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                  • 49UNCFan
                    MVP
                    • Aug 2010
                    • 2460

                    #54
                    Re: Graphics comparison: 2K23 vs 2K25

                    Originally posted by scottyp180
                    By the time mods get to the game it's going to look better than real life broadcasts. People are going to wonder why games on ESPN don't look as good as 2K on PC.
                    Especially how this game animates
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                    • jd@os
                      Roster Editor
                      • Jul 2007
                      • 3717

                      #55
                      Re: Graphics comparison: 2K23 vs 2K25

                      Are any of you planning on getting the game on the 4th? If so, I would appreciate if some of you could post your impressions reflecting the literal title of this thread.

                      I'd rather read it here because 1) sometimes the Impressions thread gets so many questions on release day that some questions can get lost and never answered, and 2) since this thread has already been established, I think everyone here knows what we're talking about.

                      I appreciate the work done on mods (props to vetmin) and the suggestions given here, but I'm not going to purchase a PC for the game.

                      Thanks everyone.

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                      • MiracleMet718
                        Pro
                        • Apr 2016
                        • 2092

                        #56
                        Re: Graphics comparison: 2K23 vs 2K25

                        1) You can’t really judge the graphics based on screen grabs from videos because you don’t know how the video was uploaded onto YouTube.

                        2) As someone showed before, in real life the court doesn’t have all of those crazy reflections. That’s just done in gaming to show off some of the lighting capabilities. In real life is a lot more dull than that.

                        3) 2k24 was definitely a downgrade from 2k23, but on a nice 4K TV it still looked pretty solid. I’d expect 2k25 to look much improved just based on the shadows in the screenshots posted. But again, will need to get my hands on it before I can definitively say that.

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                        • AIRJ23
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                          • Apr 2021
                          • 2804

                          #57
                          Re: Graphics comparison: 2K23 vs 2K25

                          I too would like to get some day 1 objective views of the graphics compared to 2K23 (we all know it’s gonna look better than 24) from people here who will be impartial.

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                          • EccentricMeat
                            MVP
                            • Aug 2011
                            • 3242

                            #58
                            Re: Graphics comparison: 2K23 vs 2K25

                            Originally posted by AIRJ23
                            I too would like to get some day 1 objective views of the graphics compared to 2K23 (we all know it’s gonna look better than 24) from people here who will be impartial.
                            I'll be impartial, BUT I'm getting the game on PC so I'm not sure how applicable my opinion will be to the console crowd. Even old gen PC 2K24 with 0 mods looked noticeably better than new gen on console.
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                            • AIRJ23
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                              • Apr 2021
                              • 2804

                              #59
                              Re: Graphics comparison: 2K23 vs 2K25

                              Originally posted by EccentricMeat
                              I'll be impartial, BUT I'm getting the game on PC so I'm not sure how applicable my opinion will be to the console crowd. Even old gen PC 2K24 with 0 mods looked noticeably better than new gen on console.
                              Yeah I definitely don’t think PC won’t apply here since I’m sure it’s gonna look better than new gen consoles.

                              These new gen consoles honestly have been the most underwhelming of any console jump that I can remember. Not seeing the revolutionary graphics I thought I would.

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                              • krakdol
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                                • Oct 2008
                                • 66

                                #60
                                Re: Graphics comparison: 2K23 vs 2K25

                                This comparison is idiotic. 2k16 pic you posted is ultra sharp, the 2k23 ones are a bit blurry and the 2k25 ones are ultra blurry, removing all the details.

                                So of course if you compare sharp pics of the past with ultra blurry pics of today, you'll prefer the sharp pics...

                                When you play it, the graphics are actually ultra sharp (like the 2k16 one but nothing like the others). Use good quality images in every comparison and you'll see how superior the 2k25 pic is, especially compared to 2k16.

                                If you mean video game graphics haven't been progressing significantly for a few years though, it's true, I agree with that. It's caused by diminishing returns.
                                Last edited by krakdol; 08-29-2024, 05:17 AM.

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