OK enough complaining..who will get NBA 2K14?

[thedream2k13]

Re: OK enough complaining..who will get NBA 2K14?

Don't understand why people need to continue to argue back and forth about the game. It plays a great game of basketball in many aspects and I love all the animations, yet has flaws in certain areas that need to be addressed.

2K13 is an improvement over 2K12, but missed the mark in removing the D-League and the skill level tiers. They also botched the pre-release bonus all-star weekend events that need to be greatly improved. I'm definitely buying 2K14 on release day and hoping the issues I have are recitified, while I can't wait to see what Visual Concepts does with next-generation technology.

From Spurs Nation/Bills Backer Clubhouse

i like the animations also but their are way to many of them that cannot be defended . running hookshots go in at 90% rate regardless of players ratings.

[stillfeelme]

Re: OK enough complaining..who will get NBA 2K14?

Agree with the contact in the paint. If I remember I think the demo had more of a sim feel.

Blocks and rebs I think are way overblown complaints. Adjust your camera angle, box out, and play positional defense instead of jumping for everything. I'm actually a friggn beast on the boards with my big man. At worst, slight tweaks. Curious if these are the only reasons some think the game isn't "sim"? Like yall gotta be more specific. As for me I think this game represents basketball pretty well aside from the overpowered zone D and glitch shots.

Is someone foolish to make this a midnight purchase? Hell nah. 2k has earned that by releasing good games year after year. Anything short of a really dumb dumb move -- like randomly getting rid of Association -- and this is a release-day buy.

That list is what I expect 2K to improve based off reading these boards. There is a whole bunch of stuff that I can list that I can make. I personally think rebounding is scripted and it is not always the rebounding numbers but how and where the rebounding goes, how the players jump unrealistically high, sliding another player out of the way, go go gadget arms from rebounders, I can go on and on. If you play against the CPU enough this becomes very noticable. If you didn't think blocking needs to be improved then I disagree. Some of it was improved or tuned recently. The game was created to appease to the casual crowd even on sim settings defense took a backseat this year.

[Rubio809]

Re: OK enough complaining..who will get NBA 2K14?

Bottom line is people reading these forums WILL purchase 2k14.

[Fakename22]

Re: OK enough complaining..who will get NBA 2K14?

Day 1 purchase for me. No questions asked. Cant wait.

[youALREADYknow]

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I still had a much more sim experience from 2K12 than 2K13 aside from the abundance of animations added to the game in 2K13 and the addition of offensive play branching which somewhat held 2K12's half court offense back. There are videos that I still have from CPU/CPU and Player Lock games on 2K12 that blow me away compared to the pickup game style of 2K13.

Aside from the above things though, I was pretty vocal with my displeasure of the direction of 2K13 before the game was even released and the bad taste in my mouth hasn't gone anywhere.

2K/VC went into full assault mode on their editing/modding community and still failed to deliver out-of-the-box. That leaves us with a huge gap that hasn't been filled yet.

I've been away from 2K13 and these forums for a few months, but if the focus for 2K14 can return to realism, customization, and options then I'd be happy to buy it on release day.

If not, then I'm not making the mistake of buying again just to fulfill community obligations. I regret buying the game now knowing that these problems were easily foreseen back in September.

[Magnus1959]

Re: OK enough complaining..who will get NBA 2K14?

With all the flaws people point out in this game, I still think it is easily in the top 10 of the best games ever.

[stillfeelme]

Re: OK enough complaining..who will get NBA 2K14?

With all the flaws people point out in this game, I still think it is easily in the top 10 of the best games ever.

I think if you are a pro sim style player which most of OS is then some if not most of the flaws people point out have been in relation to things that went away from sim side and the ability to create a sim game. Offense was improved by making defense take a backseat. Dribbling control was improved but live ball took a backseat. Actually if your player is rated high enough you can turbo through contact without the need to use the fancy dribble stick much.

[War24]

Re: OK enough complaining..who will get NBA 2K14?

Thank you very much... That's the problem now. So many people accept all the flaws and glitches and run back and get the new version of the game. Demos released, then when the game comes out things from the demos are removed. I don't want to hear change camera angles for better defense, I didn't have to do that when I played the demo. Let's not even talk about the months of slider testing people have to go through to make these games playable if ever.

Gone are the old days when people just boycotted bull**** and made businesses change their tune. If people began to do this more I'm sure companies will continue to bring their A game year after year, not every three or so years. Irrelevant personnel, no strategy, no physicality = no money from me. Guess the economy isn't that bad that people are continually comfortable giving away $60 year after year.

Peace Retired 2k Beta tester.

[oMarcus2Ko]

Re: OK enough complaining..who will get NBA 2K14?

Day one Purchase. But i do agree 2K can absolutely Make the PERFECT GAME, but they dont improve drastically because it gives them a excuse to say, oh well we improved this year on something, but they can obviously make the perfect game if they wanted to.

[jersez]

Re: OK enough complaining..who will get NBA 2K14?

Ok, I've witnessed A LOT of criticism on 2K13, to the point people say they HATE this game. I want to hear from those people with enough balls to say they refuse to give 2K another dime and will NOT purchase 2K14! Personally, NBA2K forum boards are still the most active on this site, 7 months after the release...so I think many are hypocrites and WILL purchase (maybe secretively..lol) yet another version in October. Granted this game requires custom sliders/rosters to be great, but I think this game is awesome and I will continue purchasing.

One thing I've learned over the years here, is to expect negativity, some guys just don't like 2k because it's not NBA Live, they may not know how to properly play the game or they play on a difficulty setting too high for them. Some actually have legitimate issues with the game.

But you can tell when someone is bashing a game just to be a troll, or when someone is actually being objective and will give a way 2k can improve.

Me, personally I'm buying 2k basketball until they've proven they aren't going with realistic basketball anymore. The game isn't prefect and I'll say my issues with the game on here, but overall 2k has delivered stellar products for years.

As far as 2k13, I just find it funny because last year, 2k12 was the worst basketball game ever, to quite a lot of people on here. Now 2k13 is worse than 2k12. That just seems funny to me. I actually own the big 3(2k11,2k12 and 2k13) on PC, so I get to play them regularly and 2k13 is by far the better product. But this is my personal opinion. I'll probably be called a fanboy but hey it's the internet.

[Noobland]

Re: OK enough complaining..who will get NBA 2K14?

It's a day one or not buy depending on one thing:Crew if it has it day one but if not. Not buying it

[youvalss]

Re: OK enough complaining..who will get NBA 2K14?

Hard to answer this before even reading any detailed info about the game.

As of now, unless there is some ground-breaking feature/gameplay/mechanic (current-gen), I think I'll wait until the price drops, and stick with 2K13 in the mean time. It really depends on how much attention current-gen version receives (is there a next-gen version? I'm not updated). But time will tell...