NBA 2K16 Available Today, Post Your Impressions Here

[Da_Czar]

Quote: Originally Posted by TeamHawkins

After finally starting my Play Now Online tonight, my impressions are this: This game is NBA Live reincarnated. Arcade to the tee. There is no way this game is on Superstar setting. Or simulation. People jacking 27 three's and hitting 14 of them with the Knicks? Lebron getting pushed around like a rag-doll by Monte Ellis? And the silent feature that many don't know exists, in the Hot/Cold feature plays an epic role in how your team performs. Also, another feature that ruins the already arcade play is the fact that the cpu teammates feel they can flop at the most ridiculous moments, resulting in points for the other team. SMH Just certain things that should NOT be implemented for online competitve play. There also seems to be a cheese/glitch with the big man pump fake in the paint that draws a foul about 70% of the time, especially vs computer teammates.

Video or stream of this ?

[Da_Czar]

Quote: Originally Posted by swaldo

Haven't played this game in years so it's definitely improved for me. I'm an older gamer who mainly bought this for occasional pick up & play games especially with classic teams. When I saw Laker legend Kareem's twitter post saying "I'm proud to bring my skyhook to a new generation of fans" I had to jump in... https://twitter.com/kaj33/status/646358453762588672 But now I'm somewhat concerned. I watched a CPU vs CPU game on 6 min quarters to get a feel for how things play out. It was 85 Celtics vs 86 Lakers: - Magic was amazing which is good, but overly so. He scored 2/3 of the points and was selfish - never passing it to an open man on a drive. His passing was legendary, he'd sling passes behind his back at the last second even though he could've had an easy 2. - Zero skyhooks by Kareem, is this not in the game? And Lakers rarely kicked it in to the big man. His player model was too beefy too, players were not bulked up as much back in those days. His defense was good though, he had some nice blocks. - Aggressive power forward James Worthy basically did nothing but pass the ball, only one short drive to the basket. That dude was a beast but plays like a benchwarmer that shouldn't have the ball, really? - Lakers not aggressive enough in general. On some fast breaks Lakers would put on the breaks for some unknown reason. Never the 80's Lakers man, they were Showtime! - On the Celtics end, Danny Ainge only took one 3 pointer. At the end of the game Boston was down by 3 points and they had the ball with 17 seconds left. They passed the ball around and never got a shot off! Where was "3 specialist" Ainge? Hanging out in the 2-point zone. - On the upside Larry Bird was solid but not as dominant as Magic. My man Rambis looks great and always seemed to be in the action. Cooper was great on defense (which is how it should be) and McHale & Parish seemed to play realistically.

I'll update their gameplan to give Cap more looks. The thought was to make Magic aggressive and force the user to adjust to him and send help which would then open up Magic to pass more vs double teams and early rotations. I will pull him back and bit and bump up the captain.

Also note if I have them run more they will take the fist option and caps looks will be reduced as there will be less half court possessions.

[TheHennessyWilliams]

This game is amazing. It is fluid. It is hard to play, you have to know how these players play in real life. Still figuring out the game but so far so good. Best basketball game I have ever played in my entire life.

[Masizzai]

Quote: Originally Posted by The 24th Letter

Im a online/park rookie....is there anywhere to play 5x5? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That was supposed to be ProAm, but..... We see how that's been so far.

[Lakerf57n]

Please use the old face scan technology from last year. Way better than this year. I had 19,779 and i came out looking Chinese. Im black!!!!!. Im sorry but live killed yall with that app this year. Last year was wayyy more accurate despite how slow it was.please do something

[lsalas76]

I have played with some of the new and old classic teams and none I have yet to see any of the generic players substituted in which is great cus I hate the generic players.

I love this game its really fun and both defense and offense have improved.

[TheDuggler]

Czar anything you can do about the CPU constantly doing jump passes when challenged at the rim? It seems like the passes are always laser accurate and the CPU is never punished for taking a small guy at a big guy down low

[jada855]

My Career: Just Played through My Career. Glad it was over sooner than later! Ability to skip cut scenes huge plus! Not going to invest spending money on VC this year for this mode.

They lowered the sock height this year but still no manual height adjustment. Can't wear the cool looking tube socks like the NBA players. I give up third iteration and still can't adjust the sock height. Learn to accept that it is not going to happen.

The RPG element of this mode is what I love but those little graphical issues e.g. body types,sock height,choose uniform etc. I just can't invest in it. A bit heart broken considering its the third iteration.

Better off creating a player and playing my league! :/

Animation The core of this looks great players have movement at all times no weird running animations or standing in a weird defense pose like 2k15. 2k17 animation will be brilliant considering the core is good in 2k16.

I understand these sports games are iteration based but I am starting to feel it would be better just to wait it out until like 2k18 or 2k19. Instead of buying each year.