NBA 2K16 Digital Short - Stephen Curry: Beyond the Shadows

[Sundown]

Quote: Originally Posted by stillfeelme

Exactly. I agree 100% Back to the gameplay footage. That is a Curry form finally right not sure about speed but the actual form is right down to how his head is turns before release. I wonder if Steph motion captured multiple follow through after the shot. Really like the shot though 1. Heavy contested he almost always slides to the side almost falling to avoid contact. Really hard to really contest him off the live dribble 2. Very rarely he turns and goes up court when he know his shot is money as soon as he releases it.

I would hope that's not the only follow through in game. It has just a bit too much "personality" for every shot to finish like that. However, I love the swag. I don't think we've had shots in 2K with that much showy swag. Usually they're just functional.

The occasional finish that has Steph turn around and run back on defense before the shot drops would be phenomenal. As would the semi-flops when contested.

[bo.jangles344]

Quote: Originally Posted by King_B_Mack

Killing your own credibility here man. We just gonna sit here and pretend like we didn't find out anything about 14 until pretty much exactly ONE MONTH prior to release with that big 2K press event for the next gen release? I know I'm not the only one that remembers that. Especially since we had OS represented at the event. I wanna say aholbert was live updating us with details as they were covered there?

Already disclaimed my exaggeration.

[ThaLiveKing]

2K is selling a 'lifestyle' to its fans. They don't need to show anybody game play, they got Jordan exclusive cover for pre-order lol

[The 24th Letter]

Imagine the Evil 2k marketing group is tracking this forum. They see you complain from October to the next October, "cancel your preorder", call the developers lazy etc. etc.....then they see your thread in November complaining about something else in the newest game you bought...

What conclusion would they draw?

If you fit that criteria, you understand your part of the problem right? Put your money where your mouth is.

I dare ya'


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[redsox4evur]

Quote: Originally Posted by jbthegreat

The spike lee commercial was shown during the NBA finals. I'm sure it was pretty expensive and they didn't show any game play or anything. Do you think that was money spent wisely? I assure you it is less expensive showing gameplay clips even if the game is in alpha or beta stages. It is even less expensive releasing a feature list for the game.

Yes it was 100X more effective. You get around 10-12 million people watching any given finals game. Whereas you only have maybe 500K looking at gameplay online. And youtube isn't reliable because the same person can watch the same clip 10 times and that counts as 10 views. So yea spending that much money to air during the finals.

[Sundown]

Quote: Originally Posted by SlyNumb3r1

Hmm.. i gotta be honest now.. i dont wanna hate because i Love 2k and the Game will be Aamzing.. but Graphics look so much worse when u look at the first trailer from NBA 2K14 its not even a contest.. I mean this was the First Tease from 2K14 and it still looks like actual Real Life Footage.. the 2K16 stuff looks like Ps3 too me honestly.. is that just the Lightning? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADfjrh12L38 the Nets looks terrible and i never had anything to complain about the ''oversized'' jerseys.. i actually loved the Jersey Movements.. but those new ''tight'' Jerseys are taking any Movements away and i look just Bad imo.. I just hope this is very early Footage im very dissapointed by the Graphics

Actually that 2K14 tease looks worse than 16. You can tell how flat the shading is and that they didn't implement subsurface scattering yet. The LATER 2K14 screen shots looked phenomenal. The only thing that the original lebron trailer does better are the specular highlights, but we've already went on about how they were toned down too much in 15 and seemingly 16.

[The 24th Letter]

Quote: Originally Posted by redsox4evur

Yes it was 100X more effective. You get around 10-12 million people watching any given finals game. Whereas you only have maybe 500K looking at gameplay online. And youtube isn't reliable because the same person can watch the same clip 10 times and that counts as 10 views. So yea spending that much money to air during the finals.

This is where people get "bad marketing" and "marketing I don't like" confused, lol


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[jbthegreat]

Quote: Originally Posted by redsox4evur

Yes it was 100X more effective. You get around 10-12 million people watching any given finals game. Whereas you only have maybe 500K looking at gameplay online. And youtube isn't reliable because the same person can watch the same clip 10 times and that counts as 10 views. So yea spending that much money to air during the finals.

You really think that trailer released during the NBA finals did it's job without showing any gameplay footage? Who was their target audience for that trailer? 2K diehards or casual basketball fans ? of just Spike Lee fans?