What animations you love/hate?

[TheBadazz]

With the listings of 9000 new animations (replacing animations pre-2k8). Which ones do you love and which ones would you love to see dumped?

My favorite is the Jordan-esq reverse layup.

I hate the Allen Iverson crossover. It's too slow.

[jewelz1132]

Re: What animations you love/hate?

Hate

-The crossover where you tap the trigger and they pull the defense in so you can blow right past them or shoot a white open jumper

-Every Under the basket layup, especially the ones where they pull you into the animation and won't let you jump

Love

-Kobe's fadeaway (Beautiful lol)
-Lou Williams' crossover..his crossover doesn't really slow him down so it's great for fast breaks

[youvalss]

Re: What animations you love/hate?

Hate: When you're posting up and want to spin to the basket past your defender. I don't want an easy basket whenever I'm in the paint, but this animation is so slow for me.
Not really an in-game animation, but I also dislike the face Billups makes. Whenever the game pauses after he was fouled or committed a foul, he opens his mouth and it looks so ugly!!! LOL

Love: The mid-air layups when you change your shot. Most of them are really cool!

[DaWolf]

Re: What animations you love/hate?

I hate a lot of shots where you dont have control over the release point. Eg: Sczerbiak.

[HeavenlyTouch]

Re: What animations you love/hate?

Hate Kevin Durant's jump shot animation.

Hate the fast break animation where if you have a wide open layup or dunk and they foul you, they can be extremely far back and still jump on top of your player with instant teleportation.

[CX1329]

Re: What animations you love/hate?

Hate:

-Any layup animation that completely ignores the presence of any defender, such as the one in which the ball handler takes two steps toward the basket from way far back, and pushes every defender back in the process.

-That reverse layup from under the basket that's nearly impossible to defend against.

-The RT crossover, which gives any player with decent handles a free trip to the paint.

-The turnaround post shots when you flick the RS to the right or left. They get swatted nearly everytime.

-This is not an animation per se, but I hate getting suctioned into a post-up animation when I want to do a triple threat move, and that happens too often.

-The post-up move that seemingly only the AI is able to do, in which the attacking player hop steps and pushes the defender backwards with his body, leading to a free 2 points. And you can't do a thing to stop it.

I'm sure there are more, but these are the ones I remember off the top of my head.


Love:

-The isomotion moves all look great, when you're actually able to control them.

[KaptnKirk12]

Re: What animations you love/hate?

Hate:
-The stupid charge animation where the defender is basically on top of you, and eventually you'll just run them over. It's even a charge when you're inside the restricted area.
-Getting the ball knocked out of my hands when I'm going up for a fast break layup and it bounces off of me and out of bounds. If this was more contested, or wasn't on a fast break it wouldn't bother me, but it literately takes no skill to pull off outside of being able to hit "x"(360). Also it'd be different if this animation was only available for the higher rated defensive players.
-The "y" spin move in the paint. It's become a little easier to defend, but it still throws the defender off and is an easy 2 points.
-When I'm taking a jump shot, and magically I morph to the defender and act like I'm going up for a layup, which gets stolen and my player's arms fly into the air, which then takes me out of any position to get back on defense.
-The iso spin move. Way to effective, and cheese players use it non-stop on Live.

Love
-A lot of the players jump shots.
-Behind the back iso move.
-Layups with the stick. The Jordan-esq one where the player will go up, pull the ball back, and then lay it in is so sick.
-Some of the oops, I remember seeing one the other day, where a player jumped up, spun half way in mid air, caught it with one hand and threw it in. So sick.

[Crossover1]

Re: What animations you love/hate?

HATE:
-How smaller guards, especially Allen Iverson, are limited on certain layups or close shots because they're small. He either misses easy close shots because it hits under the rim or gets blocked on pre-canned animations like the 'go into defender n reverse it into their hands' or 'drive into defender n shoot a very difficult layup that gets blocked everytime.
-The contest shot animation that sends the defender soaring into the air to block a shot as if he's jumping to save his life
-Allen Iverson's crossover moves...WAY too slow
-The catch up animation to contest a shot or foul the person hard...u can be far from the defender but they teleport in front of u to contest or foul...so frustrating
-The inconsistently bad decisions the game makes when deciding to choose a layup
-The ******** running animation that slows down a very fast player and speeds up a very slow player...the one where they look like they're galloping like a horse lol
LOVE:
-That some layups are very rare to come across n can only be completed by 99 layup guys
-The blocks from behind even tho it needs some tweakin n not everyone 6'6" n up can do it (Vujacic)

[L. BuЯNa]

Re: What animations you love/hate?

Hate: Honey Dip Dunk from Vince Carter dunk package

Love: Jamal Crawford's behind the back lay up

[Nodima]

Re: What animations you love/hate?

Hate:
The animation you get when you're out in the open on a fast break and the defender needs some time to catch up. You'll notice your character act like he's fighting for position with somebody at a full sprint, veering off to the left or right as though someone were up on him, but 95% of the time you're all alone trying to break toward the basket.

The layup animation that triggers under certain situations when a defender is between a player and the basket. Instead of doing whatever layup you might expect, the player instead takes it up two-handed, barely lifts off the ground, and blocks himself with the rim. At the same time he's trying to put the ball in the rim it also looks like he's already falling away from the defender, conceding the shot. This will trigger with almost anyone, not just big men, and it's really frustrating to see, say, Trevor Ariza cause Dwight Howard to cower in fear 2 feet from the basket.

[CDF35]

Re: What animations you love/hate?

I hate the animation when youre going for a dunk/layup and you get stripped everytime..I hate ALOT of animations like how the player actually goes up for a layup slow just to get blocked...i could go on for days

I love the fadeaway jumpers and most of the dunks are really good

[jmood88]

Re: What animations you love/hate?

I hate the Michael Jordan fake dunk layup thing. For whatever reason Chris Paul does it alot and 99% it just hits the front of the rim.

[cool2fool]

Re: What animations you love/hate?

Hate - only half of the 9000 animation will be in 2k10 and the rest is to reserve for the future.
Love - Charging while in the restricted line

[Po Pimp]

Re: What animations you love/hate?

I hate the up-and-under move where the player fakes, then goes for the standing jumpshot that ALWAYS gets blocked.

I love the Good Shamgod crossover that Rose and Paul do.

[keshunleon]

Re: What animations you love/hate?

Hate all the unrealistic animations;
1. This is the worst animation.. after you drive past the defender that STUPID extra side step dribble animation that allows the defender to catch up.

2. Player (PF & C) that are under or around the basket do that stupid reverse layup when the can dunk it (Yao, Big-Z, & 7 footers) happens 90% of the time.

3. All the foul animations (especially the flopping charge) that pull a defender to the shooter when they are defender another player.

4. all the animations that slide players or make the Yao's & Big-Z's quickness and spd increase by 75%.