NBA 2K25 Impressions Thread (XBOX Series X/S, PS5, PC)

[Fake Empire]

Quote: Originally Posted by alabamarob

If they plan on changing shooting, they should just do it for Park or Rec or whatever those folks play. The HOF, and SS sliders for real NBA games should stay difficult. Having 3 point shooting in the 40’s and 30’s on average adds so much to the game. I have no idea why anyone would want to shoot 60 or 70 percent from three. Hurts my ears to even hear it.

I played my first ever Play Now online game and the opponent quit early in the 2nd half. Probably because I was playing methodically running plays, score was close when he quit. I don't think I'll play another online game tbh. Dreadful. I was trying to playing some proper basketball and the other guy was running around the court, so weird. I was also playing on ball defense because I heard online gamers don't like off ball.
The experience was so bad it took me 10 minutes to adapt playing against cpu afterwards.
That said, the game should have the online portion and features downloaded optionally separately with the gameplay they like. I may try again online if there's a mode where people play like me but I don't have a clue if such mode exists for sim players.

[Antonioshellz]

Quote: Originally Posted by Fake Empire

I played my first ever Play Now online game and the opponent quit early in the 2nd half. Probably because I was playing methodically running plays, score was close when he quit. I don't think I'll play another online game tbh. Dreadful. I was trying to playing some proper basketball and the other guy was running around the court, so weird. I was also playing on ball defense because I heard online gamers don't like off ball. The experience was so bad it took me 10 minutes to adapt playing against cpu afterwards. That said, the game should have the online portion and features downloaded optionally separately with the gameplay they like. I may try again online if there's a mode where people play like me but I don't have a clue if such mode exists for sim players.

You should add people from here to play or try to find a league with likeminded people.


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[RichBlackman]

For those with the PC version and a decent computer, have you noticed any performance issues?

Steam users usually (always) complain that Denuvo/anti-cheat negatively impact the performance of PC sports video games; see Fifa

I'm a strictly offline player trying to decide which version to get - I usually lean PC because of mods

[deetoman]

I know they took away ask for trade but did they take away influence free agency too?

[IlCapitano]

Spoiler

This game is SO SO SO good. I can't explain how much I'm enjoying myself every single game I play. The above is on default SS sliders (only increased the mid-range attempts by a little).



So far I only played the older eras and this was my first attempt at a full modern era game and I was astonished how much they managed to make the difference in gameplay from 2010 to today obvious.



LBJ era is much slower, scores are in the low 100s, and it took me more than half the game against Magic here to adapt to MUCH faster pace, many more 3s attempted, many more transition opportunities and attacks by AI...


Just fantastic

[Dorkington]

Finally started to play with myNBA and myGM since rotations are fixed, and I am really bummed.


I enjoyed doing myNBA with some of the RPG elements turned on last year, things like the skill tree were a lot of fun, imo.



This year they placed them all under myGM which doesn't allow you to customize rosters, and seems to force you through some thing where you have to walk around as an avatar and stuff and I really do not care to deal with all that.


Also bummed that they removed staff options, now you only control head coach, head scout, team doctor, and no assistants.



I'll probably stick with myNBA, just need to figure out how I want to do it, I miss some of the depth the previous myNBA had :\

[The 24th Letter]

This Play Now Online game was so fun

I’ve never felt so much like KD

https://youtu.be/2X_sWIXSOeg?si=97aZuu2YaRHR_O4y

Giannis doesn’t get unearned contests here because he’s Giannis…You gotta guard me!


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[CujoMatty]

Quote: Originally Posted by RichBlackman

For those with the PC version and a decent computer, have you noticed any performance issues? Steam users usually (always) complain that Denuvo/anti-cheat negatively impact the performance of PC sports video games; see Fifa I'm a strictly offline player trying to decide which version to get - I usually lean PC because of mods

It runs way better than Madden.