Six Fixes for NBA 2K11

[RaychelSnr]

1. Fix My Player

The My Player mode had a lot of momentum before NBA 2K10 was released. After purchasing the NBA 2K10 Draft Combine and playing that over and over again, it was a letdown when all of that build up went away when I booted up NBA 2K10.

My Player mode had the potential, but a bunch of bugs ruined any chance it had to be truly successful. Obviously, some of the bugs were fixed in the patches but there is still much to work on.

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[RaychelSnr]

"My bias is going to come out here. Most of you might not even care about this feature, but I can guarantee you that there are plenty of people who would gladly move the Oklahoma City Thunder to a certain rainy city -- having past NBA logos and jerseys for relocated teams would not be half-bad idea either."

Yeah, be sure to model Key Arena as half empty and throw in a lack of player morale feature for any team playing with no one in the stands as well. We're talking realism right?

[Kully]

Re: Six Fixes for NBA 2K11

I'd personally put player movement over every one of those.

[edubbs]

Re: Six Fixes for NBA 2K11

Nice read.

Fixes 3, 4, and 5 are the issues listed that effect me the most.

Player movement - everything about player movement needs to be revisited. Especially giving the user back more player control. I don't even 'feel' like I have complete control over the sig shots anymore. The control of the release just doesn't 'feel' as tight as previous years.

Defense- Help D in 2k10, can be kinda off but I'm glad they finally incorporated it. Also, defenders close out speed needs to be addressed IMO. Defenders still close out and rotate too fast in 2k10, even though it's much better than previous versions of 2k.

Would be nice to see more wide open perimeter shots just like IRL, because certain teams are not as good at closing out on shooters as others.

Atmosphere- 2K could really take a page from the competition by recording actual NBA regular season and playoff games for NBA2K11. The arena atmosphere has been meh IMO....the past few years in 2K. And the crowd audio quality and AI was poor once again in 2k10.

[DirtyJerz32]

Number 2 should be 2k's MAJOR FOCUS for 2k11. Make it work the way you advertise! That's all I have to say about that.

Number 3 should be more team D fixes. Too many times my C gets beat back door because he moved a half step behind the player he is gaurding.

I like number 6 also. NHL has the ability to use old school logos for CAT's so why not NBA 2k? Makes sense, doesn't it?

[teebee]

Key Arena was never half empty, at least not until they knew for certain they were moving; attendance wasn't a factor in the team leaving SEA

[SageInfinite]

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Number 3 is my top priority since I mostly play the AI.

[statum71]

I like the idea of improving the atmosphere the most. I hate it when the home team goes on a run and when the visiting team calls timeout the crowd noise dies down.

In the real NBA, when the visiting team is in a timeout after a run the crowd is STILL going wild.

[DaWolf]

I hope they fix that akward delay when going up for a jumpshot. I like my shots smooothe.

[DaReapa]

I agree with this list for the most part (with the lone exception being #6 - but I understand that's the author's personal biased fix). But I feel that points 3 and 5 should definitely receive the most attention. My Player was a good idea with bad implementation. With all the bugs that existed in that mode, it just left me heading back to the Association since more reliable control over the events of the game was put back in my hands. And that even had its own unique issues.

And I must say that the stadium atmosphere needs serious improvement. This has been a problem for NBA 2K this generation of gaming. Stadium atmosphere and better player controls are perhaps the only things that Live has a leg up on the NBA 2K series (IMO). Hopefully these issues will be addressed for 2K11 now that Wang is back at the helm.

[FamousAtticus]

Solid points. I definitely feel that the 2k series needs a vast improvement in atmosphere. I honestly cant tell the difference when playing in the Association mode between a regular season game or an NBA Finals game 7(other than the Finals logo on the court and the announcers dialogue). In the same regard I would like to see a regular season game between the Nets and Timberwolves be true to life, not with the seats full like it was some sort of important game. As far as the 6th "fixes" I completely agree, team relocation would be a unique feature if done right. I also think it would be great if they could incorporate a create-a-arena feature during/for Association mode(cant see certain teams still playing in their current arena's 15 years into the Association).

[BroMontana82]

good stuff, particularly defense and animations. i personally would put a lot more things ahead of some of these though like fixing all of the terrible glitches in the game like the 3 pt. shooting and CPU trade logic. also, whatever happened to 82games and the realistic tendencies? the default 2k rosters are atrocious. before getting into it too much...can we finally completely fix the framerate? it's been like 3 years and there still problems, especially on the first FT.

[NINJAK2]

Better playcalling/execution is at the top of my list.

[DustinT]

With Mike Wang back on board we should see these.

[Epiffani]

Re: Six Fixes for NBA 2K11

Better playcalling/execution is at the top of my list.

Ditto that. An effective, and working playcalling system would definitely lead to a much more realistic experience and would do wonders for this game as far as making it more "sim". The playcalling system as it is, is almost unbearable to watch, and quite honestly, most of the plays aren't worth running because they are so time consuming, and ineffective. People like to say "this aspect" or "that aspect is so last gen", but nothing screams last gen louder than NBA 2K's current playcalling system. I'd have movement+control as my 1A. however. Numbers 1,4, and 6 from this article are all necessities and extras IMO (even though I think 6 is a good idea, especially with me playing association heavily.) Number 1, I think is a given that they'll be great strides made in regards to this mode seeing as how 2K10 was the first game to feature my player.