NBA 2K13 Demo Available Now For 360 and PS3, Post Impressions Here

[Thunder Storm]

Finally got to use the Thunder after decreasing the signal strength on my router.

[Pared]

You know... for all the complaints we always see about "basketball fundamentals" it's funny to me how these impression threads are always littered with "hit him the crossover" or "threw it down HARD."

Yes - those basketball fundamentals are really what people see right off the bat, eh?

I'm torn on the decision to have the dribbling as the default. With so many people accustomed to the shot stick, to make it a SECONDARY function now as the default baffles me. It's their bread and butter for years and now it plays second fiddle.

I tried to have an open mind about this but I find myself yearning for the option to change the default control to the SS and have the dribbles secondary. [Edit - Yes I know you can change this in the full game. A great choice at least.] This is something I never agreed with in Live's gameplay direction - just because dribbling happens at a more frequent rate doesn't mean it should be easily done. I see the same thing here although the dev. team has done a much better job of having more contact with the ball handler. I still see this being a problem (at least on defaults) of an inexperienced user taking a star and flicking the stick until they are all the way on the paint. I was able to do this on a few occasions and the Lebron, DWade, Westbrook and Durant all easily got to the rim.

Still excited for the game... but in the hopes to spotlight the "control stick" for dribbling and go against my design (which was shot stick first, LT opens up dribbling) this game opens up more to the casuals. A good thing for sales - accessibility is huge... but not a good thing for those that want the skilled players who learn the depth of the controls stand out.

[ruxpinke]

I love how people are obsessed with winning, even on a 5 minute demo. So many posts in here speaking about win loss record on a 5 minute quarter. So much ego involved. Congrats, you are 12 -1 on a 5 minute online demo. I'm sure that record will carry over into real online play. Then we wonder why cheesers and exploits exist. It is the ego driven obsession with winning and then posting on here for approval and validation that drives the cheesers. Sorry if I sound like Phil Jackson but its just funny to read people posting thier demo win loss records in here, like anyone cares.

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by SPRINGS03

Dunking might still be a bit exaggerated, harden did some kind of crazy tomahawk dunk last night. Come on 2k, not everyone who can dunk decently does those kind of dunks. He rarely dunks like that.

I think James would disagree with you:

[bulliesyard]

Quote: Originally Posted by sword1986

How did you do the Pump Fake?

double tap the pass button cause you to pass fake

[KingRell]

Quote: Originally Posted by Boilerbuzz

It's condescending posts like this that lead to arguments. You couldn't just drop your opinion without accusing those that have a different view of "pretending"? Really? It really not very hard to give respectful and varied feedback.

Just being honest.....every year that's the case and then when the game comes out everybody finds something they don't like. And the reason they find something they don't like its because the game hardly different then the year before, same stuck in the past additions, what's next gonna have gonna have us play Michael Larry and Magic college years, same focusing on overrated my player mode knowing most of us love association the most, but never do much of anything to that mode....same graphics. I'm gonna just wait until next gen NBA 2k comes out

[KingRell]

Quote: Originally Posted by DBMcGee3

Don't know what to tell you boss. The animations, the collisions, the defense, the passing, the signature skills..........if you're not noticing any of that then you should probably be refereeing the NFL right now.

Were do I sign up? Cause I don't notice much of any of that

[Rasco11]

Quote: Originally Posted by sword1986

How did you do the Pump Fake?

Double tap pass button (x-ps3) for fake pass

For shot fakes, tap shoot button (square-ps3)...or hold L2 + flick shot stick (R3)




Anyone know and/or confirm if "pick 'n roll" L1 button broken on ps3 demo?!? Im having issues getting it to work...definitely not working online, cant recall if it worked offline. Thx