NBA 2K15 Review: A Great Game on the Court Marred by Missteps Off Of It (PS4)

[Feldman011teen]

nba live for me this year.

[kobe2theMAX]

7??? The Servers are already fixed. 7 is way too low. This game is more like a 9.5.

[Number999]

Re: NBA 2K15 Review: A Great Game on the Court Marred by Missteps Off Of It (PS4)

I think the game can be summed up easily. Someone who plays offline, one-player-centric games (MyLEAGUE) and play the games versus the CPU (once finding a right balance) love it. People who play online hate it, and rightfully so. It's very divisive on the modes themselves, some are incredible, others are bad.

Yep... you pretty much nailed it for me, I play online occasionally and like MyTeam, but I'll never play MyPark or anything like that.

[CujoMatty]

7 is pretty fair for the game being somewhat broken. I kinda wish the reviewer would have said "I probably would have given it a ______ if the online was working" would have probably appeased some people.

I myself am really enjoying the game and am most likely gonna stick witb it as my basketball game of choice for this year after everything ive seen but am I the only one that kinda wants NBA live to get a 7.1 strictly for the hilarity of the chaos that would ensue.

[Battman]

Great review! And: Damn, I had exaxtly the same kind of best friend at university as you describe it.

[yellow86]

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Thanks! Wonder when 2k is going to respond, this is just unacceptable. Didn't they have a separate team working on the servers and network all year long?? Guess some heads are going to roll, because that's a lot of money wasted. Also for 70 euros ($85) you expect a finished product, not a game that may be right in a few months if 2k decides they are not too lazy to fix the bugs and errors.

[Walt Frazier]

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So far...


The official roster won't load most times for me.


My Player has "swapped" face / name / etc and the one I created is gone.


I can't access The Park at all...


And there's some major AI flaws that everyone will work out once they play more than a few games...


7 is fair.


Patch the AI and it's an 8.5.


Fix online and it's a 9.5.


2K seems incapable of NOT releasing a bugged product though, so it is doubtful things will be fixed. First time in ages I am genuinely about to switch games. I hope it's sorted out soon.

[rtkiii]

Not everyone plays online, the problem is that so many offline modes/features are tied to being able to connect to the online 2K servers. They need to separate them completely next year.

Which they should have learned from 2k14 release...and they did not. I think the review is warranted.

[DBMcGee3]

Does anyone actually watch the shot meter when they are shooting? I like seeing it afterwards, as a definitive source of feedback, but I can't imagine trying to use it when actually pulling up for a shot.

[Pirate]

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I'm a member of the offline crowd. And while the modes and features I love the most work fine once sliders and tweaks are implemented, I do believe a game should be judged by its entire package.

This game is a failure for those who singularly enjoy online experiences. So many of the promoted features also are online. I do not like false advertisement.

That being said, the game of basketball represented in this game is quite excellent with tweaks to the sliders. And the remote play feature with the Vita and PS4 is spectacular. No lag and great controls.

[tariqmma]

This is pure BS the great gameplay alone should make it a 8.

[GisherJohn24]

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For me, the score is of and I think peole that review the game should separate the online functionality from the game itself with separate scoresf, for the reason I don't do much of the onilne stuff. I do my GM, and play offline exhibitions with friends and CPU. I'm sure there are guys out there who don't go onilne and never want to go onilne. I'm easy like that though. That said, this is the best sports game I have ever played in my life. But I do feel sorry for hte people who want to do the online stuff and have it work.


For me, 9.7 Gameplay on the court and Offline.
Online obviously: No comment

[reptilexcq]

I think the score justified the game experience. I am a huge online player...in fact, it's all I play. It's a HUGE reason why i bought the game. Every single time i try a ranked online...i get either ridiculous input lag render unplayable or disconnection. I get so many disconnection that my overall online records are distorted. Every time you get disconnected, you get a loss. The funny thing is that on Sunday, i was able to get in multiple consecutive games without much lag at all. Those are fun games and that gives me hope that the server can be like this forever. But the next day guess what? It was absolutely laggy and unplayable again (in EVERY SINGLE game). Not only that, the settings online were screwed up like automatic sub and things that I never intended to be.

Oh and about the Sunday lag free game...it's weird, even though it was pretty much lag free, i was never able to finish the entire game...at some point, it disconnected you. And if you get the absolutely laggy games, the game never disconnect you and let you play the entire game. That was lame. 2K need to seriously invest in or rethink over their online infrastructure. It's getting horrible review due to online. They said they put two of their top engineers to handle the online problems...but it doesn't seem to work. The prloblem might not even be the server, but the client side. They design the game to have everything connected online such as things popping up telling you the next game Oct 31...ect....and that probably cause a lot of slow down ...and maybe that's why they're trying to disable the overlay stats to see it that help. But they should have tested this internally before releasing the game. Last year, they released an unfinished buggy product and I KNOW IT by playing it. This year, it's almost the same.

[rtkiii]

This is pure BS the great gameplay alone should make it a 8.

If 2K said all they were doing was great gameplay then yeah maybe an 8. but the fact that so many things do not work as advertised then the rating should fall.

[tsbmolina]

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I completely understand your perspective and I want to point out that no score on its own — either good, bad, or somewhere in between — can possibly describe the game accurately to everyone. It's why the review is written.

Of people who look at the score and don't read the review, roughly half were destined to be unhappy.

With the 7 score, some people will assume I'm suggesting the game plays a bad game of basketball, when the actual review clearly suggests nothing could be farther from the truth.

Had I scored the game a 9, a different group of people would have seen the score, assumed the game is excellent all-around, and bought the game only to discover large portions of the game they want to play simply don't work.

Again, people need to read the review to actually understand what's going on. I'm aware some people won't. It's their loss.

In writing the review, I understood and accepted this scenario would be the case.

But a 7, really?! A 7? Not even a 7.5 but a 7, Really? In my book this game is a 9.5. The most fun I have ever had playing a NBA game.