NBA 2K10 Demo Available, Post Impressions Here (360)

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by aholbert32

Nope. No options in the demo.

That sucks...

I've seen my teammates go over for a double, but that's because it's set to auto by default.

I turn it off and the issue subsides. Guess you have to deal with the demo. Can you change the difficulty?

As for the %'s... I've since gone back to default sliders (All-Star and Pro) and I'm seeing them even out over long games of 10 minute quarters. You really need to work on defense to keep them down. Initially I was seeing them as well.

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

That sucks... I've seen my teammates go over for a double, but that's because it's set to auto by default. I turn it off and the issue subsides. Guess you have to deal with the demo. Can you change the difficulty? As for the %'s... I've since gone back to default sliders (All-Star and Pro) and I'm seeing them even out over long games of 10 minute quarters. You really need to work on defense to keep them down. Initially I was seeing them as well.

Nope. No options at all.

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by Dantecamp21

Choppy replays are scaring me. Pared, were those cleaned up in the final version?

I'm not seeing choppy replays at all. I've only seen some slowdown when the ball goes into the paint in certain stadiums (default camera angle) and start of quarter when the spotlights are moving on the crowd/arena/court.

[jr2424]

Forgot to mention that I agree the shooting percentages are REALLY high, which happened last in year's demo too. This can be fixed with sliders. I know with the way you guys go all out with sliders, this can be one of, if not the best, basketball games ever. I can't wait to see how in depth you guys go with this game.

[FatalHussien]

Quote: Originally Posted by DC

It's funny that you mention this...

I tried the same thing with Live 10 last night, except with the Alley-Oop button.

For two games I tried to throw and alley each play down. I would say 95% of them either missed the intended target altogether or the player caught the ball and laid it up. I only saw 2 dunks.

I say that to say this...

I haven't been able to abuse any moves in Live yet, which is a plus. I was really hoping for the same with 2K this year...

Please post any more abuse-able (if that's a word...lol) moves that you find. Thanks.

[Stumbleweed]

Big fat meh from me... doesn't help that there's no difficulty or slider adjustment available -- playing Live on Pro isn't a great experience, but it was a lot better than this. Oops are far too easy, I started out my 2nd game with 3 in a row just to see if I could do it.. they fly out of nowhere and finish strong. Shard threw a few down haha, just made me laugh seeing him be so athletic.

Anyway, it has the same skatey offensive movement as before, when you do a move and there's a defender in front of you stopping the animation, you just skate in place. The AI is pretty brainless on defense, but especially on the break. The help defense is pretty much non-existent on this difficulty level and you can just blow right past them and on the off-chance that they actually rotate, they don't recover to their man when you make the pass... easy jumper. Just really disappointed with how it plays...

The only real positives I noticed are that paint shots are a slightly lower % (still didn't stop me and the CPU from both shooting 60%+ in basically every game), there are less dunks in traffic, and the blocking feels a little more responsive than 2K9. Without the commentary and new modes, it felt pretty shallow to me. Again, it's a demo on low difficulty and without most of its features including playcalling, but I was very disappointed with the core mechanics. I'll give the full game a chance, but probably after the 1st patch comes out and I can find it used.

These oops though... the second you see someone cutting, you can lob it right to them... on the break it's totally automatic, and it doesn't seem to matter much who's throwing or catching it regardless of situation. I only had 2 or 3 in my 15 or so games miss, and I was throwing them like crazy just to see what it let me get away with... got 5 or 6 a game easily.

[TheBadazz]

I liked the demo, but that's all it is, just a demo. For the ppl saying, "the shot %'s are too high", this demo wasn't made for you. It was made for the ****** gamer who, want to see his shot go in most of the time. Most demos are on easy/rookie or pro. If it's too hard from the start, the ****** gamer doesn't want it.

The only thing that annoys me is defensive assist, and Pared said there was a slider for that. Problem solved. Now most ppl wanted this game to be different than 2K9, now it feels different to me. But now ppl says, it feels total different, I'm going to Live. Then please go.

BTW, I hit Vince with a nice fastbreak oop over Artest. It was beautiful.

[and1product]

I just had a ZOMG moment. The opposing team was shooting a free throw (orlando) and the crowd got into it. They were yelling "you're gonna miss it" and making weird sounds and you can hear the thunder sticks loud and clear. Sold.