Ok so the novelty of the game has worn off. The 10 man motions capture has cease to amaze me. The pro hop has stop being the next big thing. All the improvements are start to lose their splendor do to the same problems that I have seen and tried to deal with in live for the last few years.
The first being the CPU flat out refusal to take a mid range shot. I have drop all of the CPU's sliders that effect shoot except mid range shooting and the cpu still will not take a mid range jumper early in the shot clock. You have give him a nice space when he is inside the 3pt line, he will not shoot a mid range shot. He will 1. dribble around clueless 2. back up and shoot a "three" 3. pro hop in to your chest while you skate backwards.
Then there is the 3 Point line. As long as the CPU has a pixel on the line it count as a three when he sinks it. This has been a problem since at least 2001, you figure they could fix it by now.
Next up is the 5 second rule. Anything thrown up with 5 or less seconds on the clock has too high a chance of making it. It is almost automatic. This works for both the user and CPU, but it is just more evident when the CPU does it time after time. I have had Shaq bury 2 three pointers in a game on Yao. I have had Nash throw up a leaning, fading 3 on me, and watch it hit nothing but net.
There are a few other that get to me when I am playing, but these are slowly sucking the joy out of the game. Hopefully next year they will put in tendency sliders that will help remove these problems, but for now I have to "imaging" myself playing a great game of basketball on a good basketball game.
The first being the CPU flat out refusal to take a mid range shot. I have drop all of the CPU's sliders that effect shoot except mid range shooting and the cpu still will not take a mid range jumper early in the shot clock. You have give him a nice space when he is inside the 3pt line, he will not shoot a mid range shot. He will 1. dribble around clueless 2. back up and shoot a "three" 3. pro hop in to your chest while you skate backwards.
Then there is the 3 Point line. As long as the CPU has a pixel on the line it count as a three when he sinks it. This has been a problem since at least 2001, you figure they could fix it by now.
Next up is the 5 second rule. Anything thrown up with 5 or less seconds on the clock has too high a chance of making it. It is almost automatic. This works for both the user and CPU, but it is just more evident when the CPU does it time after time. I have had Shaq bury 2 three pointers in a game on Yao. I have had Nash throw up a leaning, fading 3 on me, and watch it hit nothing but net.
There are a few other that get to me when I am playing, but these are slowly sucking the joy out of the game. Hopefully next year they will put in tendency sliders that will help remove these problems, but for now I have to "imaging" myself playing a great game of basketball on a good basketball game.
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