What Difficulty Level Will You Be Playing On In NBA 2k13? Will HOF Still Be Cheesy?

[Nitrous_18]

Quote: Originally Posted by Slava Medvadenko

I usually play Superstar/Sim. In the Smoove video the devs themselves said that HOF boosts the cpu opponent's ratings, which I've suspected for a while. To me, the cpu plays the same way they do in HOF on Superstar, just without the ratings boost, so Superstar works for me.

That would have been acceptable back in the last gen 2k games. But I expect 2k to revamp the A.I next gen instead of cutting corners. In fact all sports games suffer that problem highlighted and so far they aren't getting any closer to translating difficulty without unbalanced gameplay. It's a shame this gets overshadowed year after year.

[iLLosophy]

I never understood why people complain about cheating on Hall of Fame. Any video game you put on the hardest difficulty, "Cheating" is pretty much expected.

Maybe it would be better if they took a page out of Gears of War's book and renamed it "Insane mode".

[Wildcats302]

Quote: Originally Posted by airaron32

I start Pro, than quickly to all star, then when I start getting blowouts, HOF or Superstar.

This sounds like a good strategy to use. I think I will do the same thing. I believe I usually play on All-Star sim because I'm an average player but I think I'll play a game or two on Pro in pre-season of my association to get use to controls and hopefully dominate (surely I'm not that bad ) and then bump it up from there.

[Norris_Cole]

Quote: Originally Posted by iLLosophy

I never understood why people complain about cheating on Hall of Fame. Any video game you put on the hardest difficulty, "Cheating" is pretty much expected. Maybe it would be better if they took a page out of Gears of War's book and renamed it "Insane mode".

I agree, but honestly 2k12 takes it to another level. The games become basically unplayable to me and I found myself needing to cheese pretty bad to keep up with the cpu.

Allstar for me, or even Pro with some cpu sliders raised

[eko718]

Whatever plays the best. Never understood why some are so pressed to play HOF for out the box. Many of these people are the ones who complain the game is too difficult and request patches that dumb down the challenge.

[vtcha]

I'll probably stick with Pro/Simulation.

In past games, I've always found that the higher the difficulty, the faster the game pace, and the more the cheese (including myself). I practically have to cheese back just to keep up with the CPU.

[coolcras7]

I will only play on HOF against a human opponent, against the CPU I stop at all-star, because IMO I don't like the way I have to play to win above that.

[HOLLIDAY1183]

Quote: Originally Posted by coolcras7

I will only play on HOF against a human opponent, against the CPU I stop at all-star, because IMO I don't like the way I have to play to win above that.

Same here. Everyone I play with we always default everything to HOF/Simulation, I guess just out of habit since the Lakers vs Celtics days when we always put it on whatever's the highest settings.

But 2K12 is borderline unplayable on HOF unless you wanna experience complete frustration. There's only so many times I can take seeing PG's like Mike Conley stuff a Blake Griffin dunk on the break.

I've found a reasonably playable setup for me, though, where I put it on SS/Sim and put a 10 pt differential between HUM and CPU sliders (+5 for HUM, -5 for CPU) with pretty much all the sliders, and it helps to lessen some of the ridiculousness. Not all though.

MyPlayer needs sliders more than anything though, because I've found that no matter what difficulty you're on, the CPU is a bunch of Hakeems and Ray Allen's and you're teammates play like bush league amateurs.