NBA 2K12 Video - Los Angeles Clippers vs. Boston Celtics (OS Exclusive)

[Goffs]

Quote: Originally Posted by NINJAK2

Anyone know if that camera is the new default broadcast or custom? Memo 2 2k: Game looks great but in future gameplay videos don't bypass anything with button presses! While I know you guys have seen starting lineups, dead ball situations, etc 1000's of times in development we the customers have not. U guys put in work this year!!

It's probably the default camera angle since Ronnie just jumped right in without messing with the settings.

Better question is if 2k added arena specific broadcast camera angles. The Washington Wizards gameplay looked like it was in a low angle compared to this one.

[NINJAK2]

Quote: Originally Posted by Goffs

It's probably the default camera angle since Ronnie just jumped right in without messing with the settings. Better question is if 2k added arena specific broadcast camera angles. The Washington Wizards gameplay looked like it was in a low angle compared to this one.

Good call Goffs. I forgot who put together the broadcast settings here at OS for 2k11 but I use them for every arena I play in.

I wanted to add that 2k really stepped it up on the faces. Mo, Rondo, Pierce, Allen look much better this year.

[blues rocker]

the Blake Griffin layup at 1:39 bothers me a bit...he spins out of the post and Garnett is right in his path and should've bumped him...but Griffin is able to just go through Garnett without any contact. worries me a bit that these post spin animations may be too hard to interrupt once they start.

[Squirrel_Dude]

I liked what I saw, but would it be horrible to say that I think I'm going to wait a year before I buy another 2k basketball game?

I think it's going to take them another year to really work out all the kinks in having two color analysts (it's pretty good so far). The bigger issue with the commentary is that the shifts from play by play to color commentary are so jarring.

E.g.
Oneal with the defense.
We talk about the Clippers... blah blah blah.

E.g. 2
Eric Gordon misses the shot
You know guys I really like what the Clippers... blah blah blah.
[pause]
Williams kicks it to Gordon

I don't think it would annoy me so much, except that I feel it could be fixed with a couple small changes.

E.G. 1
Jermaine Oneal with the defense as we talk about the Clippers... blah blah blah

See how that makes the statement flow much better, and keeps it less choppy?

Anyway, besides that, I think I'm going to wait because I don't think that the improvements to this game will be worth a full 60 bucks. I like some of the ideas and changes made over the past two games, but I want to wait for the kinks to be better ironed out completely.

[ye24]

Quote: Originally Posted by JerseySuave4

realistically speaking you are seriously breaking down a video game like you're John Madden.

im not talking football here...lol

im just saying thats one of my pet peeves in 2k11 is when you beat a man off the dribble somehow magically he still stays in front of u..all im saying

[blues rocker]

on the Ray Allen drive at 4:16, his defender appears to beat him to the spot and draw a charge fair and square, yet there is no charge called...instead Kaman is called for a foul.

[blues rocker]

one more little nitpick...when offball players go into that "full sprint" run, they can sometimes accelerate a bit too fast and it looks like a robotic turbo boost rather than a realistic speed burst.

like at the 7:53 mark the Clipper in the middle of the floor get's a freakish speed boost like the bionic man and just accelerates way too quickly.

i like that 2k added this extra gear of speed in 2k12, but it seems they haven't quite ironed out the acceleration yet to make players transition more smoothly from a jog to a full sprint.

[blues rocker]

the inside pass at 6:32 is a bit worrisome...the celtic defender (i think Rondo) has his back completely turned to the ball and just lets the pass whiz right by his head...feels like he should've been turned kind of sideways and paying at least some attention to where the ball was. I hope this is just on a low difficulty and on harder settings the defenders will intercept these kinds of risky passes into traffic....but, I feel like in 2k11 (even on lower difficulties) that pass would've been tipped.