A common refrain echoed when people talk about sports games is a desire for "better atmosphere" in them. It’s sometimes hard to parse what "better atmosphere" means because it could be something generic like better visuals or audio, or it could just be something like making the regular season feel different from the playoffs.
When it comes to
NBA 2K,
this talk crops up
a lot year to year on Operation Sports, which is not surprising because it's a mega-popular game. But with
NBA 2K, the complaints also seem to get way more specific and a bit more off the beaten path. Now you could look at that as a positive for
NBA 2K as people have to "reach" to find these problems. But another way to look at it is that some of these things have been legacy issues for so long that people are more attuned to identifying and talking about them.
In short, not many people question the natural-sounding commentary (sans it being repetitive like with every sports game), lively varied PA announcer and the signature style that many of the arenas already possess. It’s more these other underlying things like crowd reactions, how all the audio elements are mixing together, how the rim sounds, or just where random noises are coming from in the game that get attention.
So after the jump, we'll show off a couple of these complaints and talk about why they have some merit.
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