What happened to 2K's crowd? The Atmosphere has regressed in the worse way

[SonicMage]

Quote: Originally Posted by bucknut7

And whats up with the mini parachutes always dropping into the crowd? Is that supposed to simulate a tee-shirt cannon? Where in the world do you actually see that? It looks ridiculous

They do that for real life Clippers games as well. I've seen arenas alternatively do it by dropping coupons from the blimp that's floating around as well.

[Vni]

Quote: Originally Posted by 23

This is NBA2K9 What happened? Now we have dark arenas and the crowds cheer loud when its only a few minutes left in the game. This needs to be brought back.

Game sounds definately much better. But I'am also kind of blown away by how seemlessly thoses dunk and layups animations trigger. They look amazing.

[OfficialQbN]

I just noticed this thread...


23 killed my vibe for the rest of the day reminding me of what once was...



I'm still trying to get over the regression in the presentation of the game over the years... The older games especially 2k9 did a far better job of capturing the excitement and environment of an NBA game than the current offerings...



They did an excellent job of getting you hyped to play a game of 2K...

[youngfaze01]

The player-to-court ratio also looks pretty accurate. I feel in the current game, they're scaled way too big for the court and lacks space.

[simbayless]

We should hit up mike wang about this instead of green releases ect..

[SonicMage]

Quote: Originally Posted by simbayless

We should hit up mike wang about this instead of green releases ect..

I can assure you that Mike Wang has almost nothing to do with working on crowd atmosphere. That'd be more the area of an art director and audio director.

[El_Poopador]

The colors look considerably better in this video as well. I feel like after 2k9, they started over-saturating and over-brightening everything. Seeing this video of 2k9 reminds me how close to real life it looked in the color department.

[turty11]

i remember on ps3 someone would walk in the room and ask what game im watching while playing 2k but now it doesnt really look/feel/sound much like watching an actual game.