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  • shadio5
    Pro
    • Jan 2008
    • 793

    #1

    NBA 2k11...is it the best 2k?

    Serious question?








    VC/2k sports fan
  • Lord Bonium
    Pro
    • Oct 2014
    • 682

    #2
    Re: NBA 2k11...is it the best 2k?

    There's obviously no definitive/objective answer to this. So, for me, it's in my top 3. I've played every 2k starting with 2k5.

    1. 2k13
    2. 2k15
    3. 2k11

    16 is somewhere at the bottom of my list. Control responsiveness is just awful.

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    • shadio5
      Pro
      • Jan 2008
      • 793

      #3
      Re: NBA 2k11...is it the best 2k?

      Originally posted by Lord Bonium
      There's obviously no definitive/objective answer to this. So, for me, it's in my top 3. I've played every 2k starting with 2k5.

      1. 2k13
      2. 2k15
      3. 2k11

      16 is somewhere at the bottom of my list. Control responsiveness is just awful.

      I have it now for the PC and I'm able to use mods. This game is amazing.
      Last edited by shadio5; 04-30-2016, 06:03 PM.

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      • ksuttonjr76
        All Star
        • Nov 2004
        • 8662

        #4
        Re: NBA 2k11...is it the best 2k?

        For online H2H competition with regular NBA Teams...yes. Honestly, it's the d*mn defense that keeps hurting this game year after year. NBA 2K16 was best game until they started tweakig it.

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        • lockdownD
          Rookie
          • Nov 2011
          • 140

          #5
          Re: NBA 2k11...is it the best 2k?

          2k11 is my favorite and most fondest in the NBA 2k series, especially on old gen. The gameplay was very balanced in terms of offense vs defense. It felt just as rewarding playing defense as it did on the offensive side of things. You never felt stuck in animations or animations being unresponsive, the animation system was just very polished. It also had some really great modes with the Jordan challenges, online NBA myplayer crew, online association, etc. It was just an all around great game.

          I did however really like 2k14 on next gen though too, at least from a gameplay perspective after all the patches. The foot-planting was a thing of beauty in that game with the way players moved around the court. It was the first 2k that to me felt like it had the most realistic player movement on the court so that to me was a big deal with all the sliding/floating that the game had previously and which is now sadly back again. It was a pretty well balanced game online too I thought, not as well balanced as 2k11 but it was good. I remember playing a ton of VS and Team-Up games and really enjoying them.

          What 2k has put out the last few years has just moved more and more away from balanced gameplay and more towards casual almost borderline arcade basketball with lots of random and forced animations were you feel like your not completely in control of whats happening at times. I definitely don't enjoy playing the game as much as I used to anymore.

          There's too much sliding/floating in the player movement again which creates a spacing problem. Players have zero explosiveness in their first steps when you hit turbo. Running into other players feels and looks like bumper cars with the exaggerated movements on bumps. You often are getting stuck in body-body contact animations and can't break free or explode out of them quickly.

          The defense in the game now is just pathetic. AI defenders are like zombies from the walking dead. Random foul animations happen constantly inside the paint to bail out ball handlers. The amount of contact layups/shots people make over defenders inside the paint over good defense is ridiculous. Both users/AI pass out of heavily contested layups/shots around the paint with ease as if they were Magic Johnson. Add to it the transitional defense which is so poor. Reckless ball handlers are rewarded and can just turbo into defenders and get bailed out with blocking fouls and on defense you can't punish them anymore with charges. The defense has been just completely neutered in this game outside of the insane amount of reaching people can do to get steals. You turn off defense assist in the controller settings to try to gain more control on defense and yet it still activates when you press LT - which makes absolutely no sense.

          So for me 2k11 will always be dearest to my heart in terms of 2k games. It was just a great all around game. 2k14 on next gen would be my runner up.

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          • shadio5
            Pro
            • Jan 2008
            • 793

            #6
            Re: NBA 2k11...is it the best 2k?

            ^^^Thanks for the comments


            I also wanted to say that I feel that 2k11 is made strictly for offline experience. There seems to be more animations for offense. The signature animations seem more organic and natural to the players. I'm having a ball playing with Kobe. Mike Jordan is the best I have ever seen implemented into a video game.


            The engine for 2k11 just feels smoother for offline gaming. I think where this game went wrong was when played online. I think I remember people not liking it online

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            • Hustle Westbrook
              MVP
              • Jan 2015
              • 3113

              #7
              Re: NBA 2k11...is it the best 2k?

              2K14 is the best imo. Then 2K11.
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              • XxKnicksRules215xX
                MVP
                • Mar 2016
                • 1815

                #8
                Re: NBA 2k11...is it the best 2k?

                Just a question, if it is then what?? I personally believe this trend that 2k is on will ultimately be their demise.

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                • VinsanityLives
                  Banned
                  • Sep 2015
                  • 668

                  #9
                  Re: NBA 2k11...is it the best 2k?

                  2k11 was hands down the best. For its time and even now I'd prefer it.

                  Then 2k12, because it's basically 2k11 with a couple new things.

                  I liked 14 simply because it was next gen graphics to awe at. Heck I even enjoyed 2k9 till days end.

                  2k16 and 2k15 are abysmal imo. Just irresponsible and broken and worst of all - not fun. I don't get how they regress like they do, but they have. How a players signature shot can look better 5 years ago is beyond me.

                  2k lately reminds me of a sell out artist who once was pure gold and then all of a sudden started believing even there own **** can't stink if this many people love them.

                  Ego has started to cloud their decision making.

                  I mean really... When you saw they were implementing virtual currency and mini downloads for money, you knew this wasn't ever going to be the same.

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                  • Smirkin Dirk
                    All Star
                    • Oct 2008
                    • 5178

                    #10
                    Re: NBA 2k11...is it the best 2k?

                    Nostalgia is a hell of a thing.

                    2K16 is the best, and its not even close.
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                    • The 24th Letter
                      ERA
                      • Oct 2007
                      • 39373

                      #11
                      Re: NBA 2k11...is it the best 2k?

                      That it is.

                      On a personal level it's:

                      2K14
                      2K16
                      2K11

                      2K12 & 2K9 were probably the worst 2ks I've ever played...

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                      • Jordanmike6
                        Rookie
                        • Nov 2014
                        • 417

                        #12
                        Re: NBA 2k11...is it the best 2k?

                        I have never stopped to play to 2k11. I still don't have any 2k on next gen because 2k11 was the only game to be so authentic for Jordan, Phil jackson was on the bench to coach, paint was respected without the rule of 1998, and at least the best triangle offense.
                        About 2k12, i'm not agree with people who thought that 2k12 was the worst 2k.
                        Just a legend game on HOF with the 98 Jazz for example, to make you realize that 2k12 was not a joke.
                        But the big big big issue of 2k12 for me was, even if the legend mode had an authentic art department, 2k12 didn't have Phil Jackson to coach the Classic Bulls and it was not acceptable to see that. It was so extraodinary to see him in 2k11. Ok i remember in 2011 i criticized a lot 2k11, for bad triangle offense, or Pippen dunk was ugly, but i really apologize Scotty, Charles, Michael, i'm sorry for my behaviour. I was despicable.
                        Secondly in exhibition mode classic paint disappeared.
                        And finally Barkley was expected with the Suns 1993 because he was not in 2k11.

                        So everybody was waiting for 2k13 to see the Suns 1993 with a big big excitation, but 2k13 still didn't have the 1993 Phoenix Suns but Barkley was finally only in the Dream Team! It was huge but everybody immediately dream of a DLC in december 2011, and nothing arrived!!
                        The gameplay was really not for classics players but more for Westbrook or Lebron James. For my part nothing really changed for classic players, for example Malone had exactly the same free throw shot since 2k11, yes i was waiting for this kind of improvment and i don't think it looks like to his free throw shot but it is a "SMALL detail"...
                        Classic paint didn't come back, still not new classic team (just the 01 Sixers), and Justin Bieber replaced Chris Webber! It was hard a bitter pill to swallow.

                        2k14, 15 and 16, 17 were not good because no improvement no new feature and no new classic team.

                        The big problem with 2k11 is, it is always the same Jordan challenge and i don't think people were really happy to play with the young Jordan again Bird or to do every time the challenge against the Jazz 98 or the knicks 95, even if it was great i repeat, some challenge were not really interesting, against Atlanta, against the Cavs or Celtics, Jordan made so much other Challenge in his career.

                        But for all the things that 2k11 brought, we can say that 2k11 was the best!
                        Last edited by Jordanmike6; 04-13-2017, 06:27 AM.

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                        • AdamBa17
                          Banned
                          • May 2003
                          • 1112

                          #13
                          Re: NBA 2k11...is it the best 2k?

                          It's the one I had the most fun playing. I feel cheated more often than not now. Plus Chris Smoove was at his all time best on 2K11 and he is kinda linked to the 2K series for me. He's almost part of the game playing experience.

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                          • Crossover1
                            MVP
                            • Feb 2009
                            • 1925

                            #14
                            Re: NBA 2k11...is it the best 2k?

                            Yes it is. Defense actually existed then.

                            2K15 is probably 2nd. It had the best transition game.
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                            • VinsanityLives
                              Banned
                              • Sep 2015
                              • 668

                              #15
                              Re: NBA 2k11...is it the best 2k?

                              Originally posted by Smirkin Dirk
                              Nostalgia is a hell of a thing.

                              2K16 is the best, and its not even close.
                              Except everyone's leaning to one specific title 2k11... Why not 2k13? 2k10? 2k8?



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