NBA 2K13 Features 3 on 3 Blacktop Mode Online, Use MyPlayer to Team Up with Friends

[TUSS11]

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The more I think about this, the more it infuriates me. 3-on-3? Who said they wanted 3-on-3? There's no point in playing team ball if you have half the court to isolate your man. 5-on-5 necessitates team play.

Would FIFA's Pro Club mode feature 4-on-4 gameplay? No. Just because we're using fantasy players doesn't mean we want a bastardized streetball version of the game we love. Might as well throw in those "off the hezzay" animations and triple alley-oops from NBA Jam.

[barimanlhs]

Re: NBA 2K13 Features 3 on 3 Blacktop Mode Online, Use MyPlayer to Team Up with Frien

The more I think about this, the more it infuriates me. 3-on-3? Who said they wanted 3-on-3? There's no point in playing team ball if you have half the court to isolate your man. 5-on-5 necessitates team play.

Would FIFA's Pro Club mode feature 4-on-4 gameplay? No. Just because we're using fantasy players doesn't mean we want a bastardized streetball version of the game we love. Might as well throw in those "off the hezzay" animations and triple alley-oops from NBA Jam.

Whats the issue with 3 on 3 when you can still do 5 on 5 in Team Up?

[TUSS11]

Re: NBA 2K13 Features 3 on 3 Blacktop Mode Online, Use MyPlayer to Team Up with Frien

Whats the issue with 3 on 3 when you can still do 5 on 5 in Team Up?

No My Player.

[Jrocc23]

Re: NBA 2K13 Features 3 on 3 Blacktop Mode Online, Use MyPlayer to Team Up with Frien

Whats the issue with 3 on 3 when you can still do 5 on 5 in Team Up?

[JerzeyReign]

Re: NBA 2K13 Features 3 on 3 Blacktop Mode Online, Use MyPlayer to Team Up with Frien

We aren't satisfied because we want Crew, not some rinky-dink 3-on-3 mess.

How is posting about Crew in a related thread polluting? The only pollution I see is people telling others what to think.

3 v. 3 or 5 v. 5 -- you still get to play with your MyPlayer online, right? I understand it isn't what it was in 2k11 but its something. They gave the crew crowd something instead of just not having anything. How can anyone view that as negative? I look at it as a 'we haven't completely fixed the mode but while you wait we'll give you something' type of compromise. I'd rather have something than nothing. But thats me -- if I was a big crew guy I'd take that for now but still would expect the full 5 on 5 next year.

And the polluting of the boards comment was made after noticing a crew thread in the Live forum -- really not directed towards any one post in this thread -- though I think some of you guys are acting like drama queens within some comments.

[barimanlhs]

Re: NBA 2K13 Features 3 on 3 Blacktop Mode Online, Use MyPlayer to Team Up with Frien

No My Player.

So basically have 5 guys with 99 overall is better than having a properly balanced team.....I got it now.....

Crew is overrated

[Jrocc23]

Re: NBA 2K13 Features 3 on 3 Blacktop Mode Online, Use MyPlayer to Team Up with Frien

So basically have 5 guys with 99 overall is better than having a properly balanced team.....I got it now.....

Crew is overrated

Ummm, you could actually argue it is more balanced than Team-Up. Even though everyone isn't 99s like you think. When people are all the same overall/playing field, you wouldn't say that's more balanced? Instead of some people having LeBron and the other person having Ron Artest. I would give you Team-Up is more realistic, but a lot of people play this game for fun and Crew is A LOT more fun that Team-Up imo.

Being a 99 in Crew or Pick-Up actually took skills if you didn't know. You could easily expose the bums from the good players in 2K11. I also seen plenty of 70-80 ovr players exposing 99's because they created their player how they wanted and knew their strengths.

[TUSS11]

Re: NBA 2K13 Features 3 on 3 Blacktop Mode Online, Use MyPlayer to Team Up with Frien

So basically have 5 guys with 99 overall is better than having a properly balanced team.....I got it now.....

Crew is overrated

If you've never played the mode, then your opinion is pure speculation. Another person trying to downplay other peoples' wants.

[barimanlhs]

Re: NBA 2K13 Features 3 on 3 Blacktop Mode Online, Use MyPlayer to Team Up with Frien

Ummm, you could actually argue it is more balanced than Team-Up. Even though everyone isn't 99s like you think. When people are all the same overall/playing field, you wouldn't say that's more balanced? Instead of some people having LeBron and the other person having Ron Artest. I would give you Team-Up is more realistic, but a lot of people play this game for fun and Crew is A LOT more fun that Team-Up imo.

Being a 99 in Crew or Pick-Up actually took skills if you didn't know. You could easily expose the bums from good players in 2K11. I also seen plenty of 70-80 ovr players exposing 99's because they created their player how they wanted and knew their strengths.

I know crew can be very fun IF you can find the right teammates (humans) and if you can find another crew that isnt about cheesing. But the issue is that maybe it is a couple hundred crews (if even that high) that play the game correctly while the other thousands play it to cheese and cheat for their own amusement.

And to the point about someone playing as LeBron vs another guy playing as Artest, well the person playing as LeBron doesnt need to abuse the fact that it is LeBron. In fact it would be smart to use LeBron as a decoy and hit all the open players since everyone's first instinct is to stop LeBron from scoring. And from what ive been reading on these boards, it sounds like most people that play team up and quick matches pick teams outside of the Celtics, Lakers, Heat, overrated Knicks, etc

[barimanlhs]

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If you've never played the mode, then your opinion is pure speculation. Another person trying to downplay other peoples' wants.

Ive played the mode before, but wasnt blown away by it. Its fun but not the end all be all like some of you think/act. Add to the fact that it is absent so since they can implement it PROPERLY in the future should be better for Crew fans. Why play a mode when it doesnt function as intended when you could reintroduce it later as a fully functioning mode, free of cheaters/hackers (consoles...well PS3 at least).

[Jrocc23]

Re: NBA 2K13 Features 3 on 3 Blacktop Mode Online, Use MyPlayer to Team Up with Frien

I know crew can be very fun IF you can find the right teammates (humans) and if you can find another crew that isnt about cheesing. But the issue is that maybe it is a couple hundred crews (if even that high) that play the game correctly while the other thousands play it to cheese and cheat for their own amusement.

And to the point about someone playing as LeBron vs another guy playing as Artest, well the person playing as LeBron doesnt need to abuse the fact that it is LeBron. In fact it would be smart to use LeBron as a decoy and hit all the open players since everyone's first instinct is to stop LeBron from scoring. And from what ive been reading on these boards, it sounds like most people that play team up and quick matches pick teams outside of the Celtics, Lakers, Heat, overrated Knicks, etc

It depends if you are talking about Private Team-Up or Ranked Team-Up. Most people play Ranked because with Private you have to find a team and another team. Ranked Team-Up just randomly pick the teams and player you are assigned to. 9/10, when people get the player they don't like, they quit.

Just look at my YouTube link in my signature for what Crew is. Most people are ignorant to Crew and talk things they don't know. It was pretty easy avoiding big hacked players.

[TUSS11]

Re: NBA 2K13 Features 3 on 3 Blacktop Mode Online, Use MyPlayer to Team Up with Frien

Ive played the mode before, but wasnt blown away by it. Its fun but not the end all be all like some of you think/act. Add to the fact that it is absent so since they can implement it PROPERLY in the future should be better for Crew fans. Why play a mode when it doesnt function as intended when you could reintroduce it later as a fully functioning mode, free of cheaters/hackers (consoles...well PS3 at least).

I don't see why they couldn't add 2 CPU players to each team in this blacktop mode. It appears to me they're misinterpreting their consumers' wants.

[barimanlhs]

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I don't see why they couldn't add 2 CPU players to each team in this blacktop mode. It appears to me they're misinterpreting their consumers' wants.

And that is a fair statement, but it must be server issues that they want to get sorted out first and then bring it back with 5v5 crews

[Boilerbuzz]

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Ummm, yes, it does. 5v5 will improve the defense and offense and 3v3 will make it very arcadey where it will be mostly iso's all day because of the overly spaced court. Which is my main point. If you don't understand it's nothing really to talk about. 3 human players vs 3 other human players is nowhere near the same as 3 human players and 2 cpus vs 3 other human players and 2 cpus.

You have no clue how much I understand, and now you're skirting the question. Are the games different? Yes. Does the problem affect the game of 3 on 3 versus 5 on 5 differently? Yes. Is it still an issue for either? YES! Just because you prefer how it affects one game over another, doesn't mean it's not an issue and doesn't mean it's not basketball. You're not saying anything different. You said 3 on 3 doesn't work because of it. Well if me and two of my boys got to an open gym, we have no idea who we have to play. We just have to deal with it. That's as real if it were 5 on 5. Get it now? You are confused at what I disagreed with. Yes the games are different, but you said you are not playing "real defense" in 3 on 3. And I say not true at all. It's real, just a different brand. I didn't disagree they were different.

[Boilerbuzz]

Re: NBA 2K13 Features 3 on 3 Blacktop Mode Online, Use MyPlayer to Team Up with Frien

And that is a fair statement, but it must be server issues that they want to get sorted out first and then bring it back with 5v5 crews

Or maybe it means that along with the team management aspect of the mode, it may come back with even more features that require more time to put in. Clearly when a colicky baby cries, a pacifier isn't enough for them. You just got to accept the crying and wait it out.