NBA 2K9, a PC Dilemma

[PaulZweber]

Really is too bad...

[jfindon]

I don't really see the big deal. We all knew there was no online play, the other features can probably be done through modding, and who would want to even attempt to play with a keyboard? Maybe I missed the main point of the article by skimming it.

[Mason81Ballin!!!]

cant you use a 360 controller on PC?

[jfindon]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mason81Ballin!!!

cant you use a 360 controller on PC?

Yes you can, and it works fine. That's why I don't understand why epople are mad it wasn't designed with a keyboard in mind. Who plays sports games with a keyboard?

[asu666]

I think it is nice to have the PC as a platform option. I prefer the PS3 version because I like playing games on my television and the PS3 is a quick starting and shutting down PC with an extremely easy why to backup save to a memory stick.

I'm not sure about NHL 09 as sports game of the year. All's I saw EA do was remove the finance feature from last season, then added stick lift and shoulder screens. Otherwise it feels pretty much like playing NHL 08. I preorder NHL 09 and played the crap out of it the first few days, but I felt like something was missing from the experience. I score a goal and my guy just drops his arms and stops. Only five guys for each team come out on the ice for the pregame skate-around. There's still no board play. When a major aspect of the game is completely missing like board play is in NHL 09, I just have a really difficult time calling it sports game of the year. I think the leap between NHL 07 and NHL 08 might have been big enough, but not from 08 to 09. Too many missing animations and gameplay aspects.

[nccomicfan]

I have a logitech dual action and it works fine...not sure what the whole beef was about the 360 controllers...kinda felt like the writer was just trying to undermine the PC version needlessly

[PaulZweber]

Not everyone owns a XBox 360, and especially corded controllers. I personally don't own one. I think that the writer was saying this game was made for XBox, but isn't compatible with XBox files. Believe it or not, but most games that come out for PC have keyboard support. The fact that you would have to buy a controller to play this game is a big problem, it defeats the $20 price tag for some.

[mrdan]

Huh!?!? This game absolutely has keyboard support. In fact, you can map any action to any key. It's just difficult to do isomotion moves and the like without analog sticks. Did you want 2K to take out isomotion completely and just make it 'press 1 for crossover'?