NBA 2K13 Gameplay Video - Los Angeles Lakers vs. Miami Heat

[Nokstar]

I think the controls, contact animations that are unintrusive on the offensive controls, and the better passing are the most important improvements they've made to this game...I'm super excited over those alone. Then of course defense but its you to be seen if you can really play effective on ball defense as far as keeping with the defender...we will see when the demo drops.

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[Sinner]

Going to be so hard waiting till Oct 2nd..this game really looks smooth, the animations are definitely looking nice but if I may nit pick for a minute...like said earlier I can deal with the sliding since its the first year with the new controls....I have to say that the passing animations bug me a bit. The way the ball is moved around going forward I would like to see improved...maybe just me but the speed of their arms passing the ball and the velocity of the ball can be tweaked. Someone passes and by the motion of the pass it seems like it should be a hard pass but that slow lob pass comes out..maybe this is a slightly older video than the retail version and its been fixed now, but moving forward I would like a lot less of the over hand passing, and the little jump before you pass to someone 3 ft away from you needs to go also. I say this also cause its been like that in 2k bball games for awhile

I wish they would do more like College Hoops 2k8, there were so many different animations for passing. You have the ball in your hands and picked up the dribble? You still have a pivot foot and it was used to step a little to make a pass. In CH2k8 there was also a quick underhand pass to help get the ball around the defender..the chest passes looked pretty good also. Would look so much better if the person passing the ball would at least look like he's trying to pass around the defender...

[WTF]

Quote: Originally Posted by johnnyg713

is it me or do the animations play out a little too fast? It almost seems like they could slow it down just a little bit.

No, and I hope they don't. That's one of my biggest beefs in the past, they were too slow. No explosiveness. Even bumping the speed up to 65-70, it still wasn't "right". And it messed other thing up. I'm very happy with the speed.

[iLLosophy]

Quote: Originally Posted by WTF

No, and I hope they don't. That's one of my biggest beefs in the past, they were too slow. No explosiveness. Even bumping the speed up to 65-70, it still wasn't "right". And it messed other thing up. I'm very happy with the speed.

If i could like a post multiple times this would get 280 likes just by me alone.

[DukeC]

I'm really liking they made the triple threat much faster. An NBA player is at his fastest within his first couple of steps. Hopefully it's the quickness rating that lets the triple threat play out faster. Hopefully the speed rating only "really" matters during the fast break.

[youvalss]

Like the other thread that was locked suggested, there's something wrong with the ball-net physics. The net moves nicely and all that, but something about it seems like it's just a hologram wrapping the ball, and that it doesn't happen in real time.

As if someone shot a video of a ball being shot, then shot a video of the net moving (using a fan?), then combined them together.

Hard to explain, it just doesn't seem real to me.

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And no, it doesn't mean that 2K13 sucks or that I'm not getting it because of that. Geez!

[jfsolo]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sinner

Going to be so hard waiting till Oct 2nd..this game really looks smooth, the animations are definitely looking nice but if I may nit pick for a minute...like said earlier I can deal with the sliding since its the first year with the new controls....I have to say that the passing animations bug me a bit. The way the ball is moved around going forward I would like to see improved...maybe just me but the speed of their arms passing the ball and the velocity of the ball can be tweaked. Someone passes and by the motion of the pass it seems like it should be a hard pass but that slow lob pass comes out..maybe this is a slightly older video than the retail version and its been fixed now, but moving forward I would like a lot less of the over hand passing, and the little jump before you pass to someone 3 ft away from you needs to go also. I say this also cause its been like that in 2k bball games for awhile I wish they would do more like College Hoops 2k8, there were so many different animations for passing. You have the ball in your hands and picked up the dribble? You still have a pivot foot and it was used to step a little to make a pass. In CH2k8 there was also a quick underhand pass to help get the ball around the defender..the chest passes looked pretty good also. Would look so much better if the person passing the ball would at least look like he's trying to pass around the defender...

You're right, the passing is much crisper in CHoops, I don't know why they can't tune it like this in the NBA game, but this is just picking at some nits.

I wish that I hadn't of watched this video though. Just thinking about a CH2K13 with the tech and A.I. of NBA 2K13 is making me

[jfsolo]

Quote: Originally Posted by WTF

No, and I hope they don't. That's one of my biggest beefs in the past, they were too slow. No explosiveness. Even bumping the speed up to 65-70, it still wasn't "right". And it messed other thing up. I'm very happy with the speed.

I'm being greedy, but I'd like to see that first step burst be even a little bit more explosive.