Anyone played any NFL 2K game before 2K4?

[Blzer]

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I played the **** out of 2K2 when I got it on PS2 for Christmas that year. I remember creating myself as a receiver and just obliterating the competition. I loved that SEGA Sports presentation as well.

I believe that it was in 2K3 when they introduced sliders, however. That was the first time in sports video gaming that I learned to play for "realism." I don't remember how good of sliders I was able to cook up, but joining OS later helped for that, especially when 2K4 came around. Putting ESPN in the game was super awesome. Seeing APF 2K8 without the ESPN license was disheartening.

[tril]

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2k3. still solid and in some ways is better than all football games to this date.

reason being:
The user really has to understand situational football. when playing against the CPU/AI, when selecting plays THE AI does not let you know what formation they are using on offense. You really have to know downs/yardage the team's strengths, etc.

[simbayless]

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https://youtu.be/TB3eHtwpg7I

[dbeth]

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9-9-99. The day my mind was blown putting NFL 2k in my Dreamcast.

[timpfla]

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9-9-99. The day my mind was blown putting NFL 2k in my Dreamcast.

9-9-99 "IT'S THINKING"

Same here!!

[f1sh1000]

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NFL 2k2 on PS2 was my first & I was hooked.

My friends would talk about 2K on Dreamcast, literally, all the time. I never had a Dreamcast, although I wanted one, by the time I had saved up enough money to buy one, I transitioned into wanting a PS2 instead.

So once 2k2 came out on PS2, I was super interested in trying it out. My friends would brag about it all the time, and they were right. It was the most fun I had with a football game since NFL Gameday 98.

NFL 2k3 goes down as my favorite 2k though. I had it on Gamecube & for whatever reason, that version was more difficult or something than the others? Think I remember reading that, but anyway, it was fun as hell. I convinced my friend Steve to buy it, he came into school the next day and asked what on earth I made him buy, he said he can’t move the ball 3 yards lol. About a week later he was on board as a 2k fanatic though.

[bkrich83]

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9-9-99. The day my mind was blown putting NFL 2k in my Dreamcast.

Same!

10 char

[loccdogg26]

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I first played NFL2K when the DreamCast launched. I bought 2K5 when it first came out and still have it.

[Thunderhorse]

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I had the first 2K, 2K2 as well. It was actually my introduction to "sim" football gaming as before that I'd only played NFL blitz. I never played Madden before Vick in 04 and I remember what pulled me into 2K was how impressed I was by the graphics when I saw the ads. That will always be a memory I cherish as I'd never seen anything like that before.

Didn't get back into it until 2K5, then 2K8.

[gamingtrucker1]

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Gotem and still play nfl 2k1 and 2k2 online using the dreampi.NFL 2k is decent if you get the gameshark codes to help with the running game.

https://youtu.be/IQiN8jLTTMQ

[NYJets]

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Played 2k1 and 2k3.

2k1 was because I was going to get a ps2, couldn’t find one, and realized we could get a Dreamcast and a bunch of games for the price of a ps2 so we did that. I didn’t really like 2k1 though, and when we got a ps2 the next year I went back to madden

2k3 I don’t remember what made me try it, probably either reviews or just impressions on here but I loved it. Felt more like real football than any game I had ever played


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[GoJags904]

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Played 2k1 and 2k3.

2k1 was because I was going to get a ps2, couldn’t find one, and realized we could get a Dreamcast and a bunch of games for the price of a ps2 so we did that. I didn’t really like 2k1 though, and when we got a ps2 the next year I went back to madden

2k3 I don’t remember what made me try it, probably either reviews or just impressions on here but I loved it. Felt more like real football than any game I had ever played


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Same here with dreamcast fueling my purchase. Dont try n think about it as much nowadays tho like some. My patience is not at the respectable level it needs to be with development and the road nfl football gaming has taken since those days. Keep my opinions to myself since im not working for madden.

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[TecmoZack]

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My 1st ever purchase with my own money from working. Dreamcast and NFL 2k on Day 1. Played them all. Miss this franchise every day.

[Kanobi]

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NFL2k3 was my introduction to 2k football. Prior to that I had been a pretty hard-core "Madddenite".

NFL2k3 absolutely blew my mind in terms of how much farther ahead it was than Madden, especially in terms of gameplay and presentation.

Although I owned both games, I was impressed to the point of "ministering" on an old Madden forum (Maddenmania) about NFL2k.

I'm slightly embarrassed by it now but, at the time, I felt like the Madden crowd was just plain sleep or blatantly ignorant to how much better 2k3 was on the field.

Over time, however, others began to see the light. It got to the point where we had a sort of NFL2k cult on Maddenania. LOL!

It eventually got me banned from that site and rightfully so. But I've no regrets. Those were good times, especially with us having a choice of multiple NFL sim-style games on consoles.

[pietasterp]

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The original NFL2K was the reason I walked into a Babbage's in the mall and purchased a Dreamcast on sight.

They were playing what I thought was an actual NFL game on their external-facing TV's, and I went for a closer look and realized it was a game. I asked the guy working what the heck that was, he told me it was NFL2K on Sega Dreamcast. My only question at that point was "do you have any of these I can buy right now?".

Best game of all time.