NBA 2K16 Screenshots - Steph Curry, James Harden & Anthony Davis

[ojandpizza]

This thread is a mess lol


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[IGhostUlt]

Quote: Originally Posted by MikeGSW

Curry's hair is an interesting thing to talk about? Smh. Okay buddy. My point was the discussion seems unnecessarily long. For hair. But hey you wanna be an A-hole about it? Fine by me. I can do that to. I'll stick to the things that are actually interesting. Like gameplay and game modes. You know, the things that make basketball games... well... basketball games. Yeah. I'll stick to discussing the sport. You stick to discussing hair styles and who needs their eye brows done. Seems fair. Each to their own. I'll let you get back to your debate now. Apologies for my insanity and irrational thoughts. I didn't mean to distract you from hairstyles with all my talk about sports video games. Bye now.

LOL dude I have no worries about the gameplay and game modes. We have those discussions all the time. Now we have something a little different and you want to complain. I'm a graphics dude because im studying it in college. We have different tastes buddy, you can't criticize someone for having different interests than you.

[Bexthelegend]

Quote: Originally Posted by MikeGSW

They don't have to do anything about it. I prefer the lighting in 2k14 as well but guess what. There isn't a right and wrong. It's preference. It's not a glitch or an exploit. It's a creative difference. A disagreement. There's no right answer. And yes message boards are for discussing. It doesn't mean you discuss a guys hair for 30 pages when you could've finished the discussion in 10. I mean come on. How about we discuss the basketball aspect of the basketball game? We can discuss the hair more after they release the "My Lovely Unicorn Spa and Beauty Salon" DLC.

What are you talking about? It has nothing to do with preference. 2k is attempting to realistically replicate the nba in a video game. The lighting in 2k14 is closer to the lighting in a real nba game. It has nothing to do with preference. There is a right answer, you go with whatever lighting gets you closest to an accurate representation of an nba arena

[MoneyOvaHuds]

Quote: Originally Posted by The 24th Letter

Just start a "Let's Talk About Lighting" thread then man....no need to go on for 10 pages saying different versions of the same thing in here...

Glad someone said it

[lakers24]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gilley

I do think this is part of the issue. I really don't know much about the consoles but aren't they weaker than what people expected?

They are, but that's not the issue here. There are games that are technically way more advanced and have amazing graphics. The reason they look the way they do is because of development cycles. Yearly sports titles have a tendency to look really similar year to year because of the short cycles and you only start noticing the improvements over a set number of years. For example:

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2k6 (which looked amazing at the time)

2k7

2k8 (this was considered a downgrade, but it's obviously getting closer to looking realistic)

2k9

2k10

2k11(probably the most cohesive game they've had)

2k12

2k13

2k14

And this is to show 2k15 isn't as bad as people make it out to be. The skintones look closer to reality but reflections and player models took a hit:

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[akacmac911]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gilley

And a real picture to add...

Tattoos look fake

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[Oldhead80]

Quote: Originally Posted by WISports

I'm 40...so I grew up on Atari and Nintendo. And I think the lighting in 2K15, and now 2K16, stinks. How about that? Yes, the graphics still look damn good. Nobody is questioning that. But if they can look even better, with better lighting, why in the heck would they not do it?? And the reason people are bothered by it is because they had MUCH better lighting 2 years ago!!! NO EXCUSES!

I'm 35 and I thought the lighting in 2k14 was far too extreme. See how we can play this? I thought the exaggerated reflections on the court made the court look like a tan colored hockey rink. I thought the skin textures made the players look like clay figures up close. Here's the thing though...these consoles don't have infinite power. For every enhancement and addition...like better skin textures and animations...something will have to get scaled back. You being as old as you are and as experienced with video games should have a strong grasp of that. So if sweat is cut back or SSR is not as prominent...hell, if the lighting system had to be scaled back it's not because of gross negligence or lazy programming. I'm sure if 2K artists could max out every detail without losing performance they would. Do I wish there was a more realistic, vibrant lighting solution in 2k16...yup. Do I wish arenas were more detailed...yup. Do I realize that both consoles are being pushed by 2k as far or farther than any other sports game out there...yup. So I enjoy the game for its visual strengths and hope as technology continues to advance one day we get what everyone on this forum is always clamoring for.

[swac07]

Quote: Originally Posted by ojandpizza

This thread is a mess lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just wait till some actual gameplay vids surface smh lol....



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