The Post-Up Game Is Getting Some Animation Love in NBA 2K16

[Steve_OS]

It's fair to say people in these parts are hungry for any and every piece of NBA 2K16 info at this point. So Zach Timmerman, a producer on NBA 2K16, rolled into his office on Sunday morning. He noticed his version of the game had finished building and was like, "oh snap, guess that means I didn't break anything major by adding these new animations. Time to tweet!" (Okay, I don't actually know if he said any of this but go with me here.)

But okay, on a slightly more serious note obviously seeing this little snapshot of the development process is good times. When marketers hype up the fact that a new sports game has "hundreds of new animations!" it sort of gets lost on most of us because we can't really discern what that means and what they really impacted. But when it's specific like this, it at least gives folks something easier to grasp. In other words, it maybe does not sound as "wow-worthy" but it actually means something much more tangible.

So this sounds like good news to us as the post-up game is always in need of love as it's all about moves, double moves and variety overall to keep the cat and mouse game going.

How did you folks feel about the post game anyway in NBA 2K15?

[Taer]

Thanks for the link, Steve. I guess this is part of the "smoother running 2k16" The post-up game can always be improved, so this is good news.

[sleepyshotta]

Can't really take advantage of smaller players in 2K15 deep in the post. I believe they did this to minimize points in the paint, but it's annoying being stopped by 6-footers while you have a big strong 7-footer deep in the post. Other than that I like post game in NBA 2K15 for the most part.


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[Bexthelegend]

How easily people can steal the ball from post players is annoying

[scottyp180]

Great to see the post game receiving some love. I just hope the fluidness of the animations are improved. I love the 2k series, haven't missed a release in over a decade, but the series is in need of an improvement to animations and control. It has gotten better over the years but there are still too many instances where the game doesn't feel smooth and responsive and control seems to be taken away from the user. I'm hoping to hear that the development team has either a new or improved animation systems resulting in more accurate control and movement.

[adamspag]

this is good news, big men needed some love. Hopefully we can dunk from the post.

[scottyp180]

Quote: Originally Posted by sleepyshotta

Can't really take advantage of smaller players in 2K15 deep in the post. I believe they did this to minimize points in the paint, but it's annoying being stopped by 6-footers while you have a big strong 7-footer deep in the post. Other than that I like post game in NBA 2K15 for the most part. Youtube.com/sleepynate718 Twitter.com/ryanjnate

The post game is inconsistent in my opinion. Sometimes I feel like I am able to do what I want in the post and other times I am getting stripped by smaller defenders causing me to shy away from the bigs.

IMO they need to do a better job of showing off the different attributes of bigs. Some players a strong and can bully players around in the paint, some bigs are quick and able to blow by or around defends, and others gave a combination of both (thinking of Shaq here).

I dislike that if I do a drop step or post spin move it is the same move no matter who I use (at least from what I notice). Shaq ate people up in the post with his spin move. Performing this move with Shaq shold be quicker and more effective than attempting the move with someone like Hibbert.

[miller31time]

Hopefully it looks and feels a lot more refined and smooth. The post-game in 2K15 is pretty bad. Hook shot animations are ancient and look very little like reality. Post fade-aways have a success rate of about 95% in my experience (though the shots themselves look pretty good, I will say). The ball gets stripped most times when you attempt a post-hop no matter if it's contextually appropriate or not. And as has been said before, it's pretty difficult to take advantage of smaller mismatches for some reason.