NBA 2K17 Remains a Solid Buy

[Theschill38]

I dunno, I love this game as much as I have always loved the past NBA2K games...

My beef this year is with the fact that they ruined the ability to SharePlay with my friend so we could do our usual MyLeague together both couch co-op and Online (via PS4 Shareplay). This year they disabled ALL audio for the guest user during shareplay due to Copyright/Licensing issues.

Really takes a lot away from my experience, since this was possible in NBA2K16.

[Ray Vibes]

I mainly play Pro-am. That's what my friends and I prefer over anything else. Unfortunately its the most broken of all game modes. Can't even play a full 5 on 5 Walk-on game without someone quitting because their friend was put on a different court. I wont list all of the issues because i'm sure everyone is well aware. Now I do really like this game, just wish that things worked correctly.

[Smirkin Dirk]

Quote: Originally Posted by ProfessaPackMan

Some of it is definitely deserved. But I just find it funny how everytime someone speaks highly of the game while talking about THEIR experience, you see half of the forum go after that person like "Mannnn how in the world do you like that game? It's not even close to(insert hyperbole)" and people ready to force them to change their opinion of the game. There was thread here where just last week(I think it was Smirkin Dirk)where that observation actually happened, lol. 2 months ago, folks were quick to shut down ANY negativity towards the game. 2 months later, now they're quick to shut down ANY positivity towards it.

Yeah, it's been very weird. Ive been posting many of the negatives of the game; all Ive been saying is that for me, the positives far outweigh the negatives.

Ive been accused if being on 2K's payroll. Ive had a couple of people tell me my username and profile pic makes people upset. Maybe I should rename myself Sad Dirk and use a pic of him from the 2007 playoffs.

[jxelite2430]

Fact that Mike had to make a "band aid" fix to green releases (that has yet to come out due to some bug that will infect my career files), more arcade gimmicks such as Op badges and green release mechanics, no current updated roster to play with, MyTeam commercials that you can't skip, player model downgrades etc there is a good base that consumers can stand on when complaining about the consistency of this years game.

I'm mainly an offline players and my biggest concern I found this year is that the usual mistakes and unrealism could be fixed with my slider editing and adjustments. However this year there seems to be something buried deep in the gameplay engine that does not allow sliders to be as useful as in past years. It's as if the power of sliders has been decreased to a marginal effect this year instead of being able to create drastic effects like in years past.

I have CPU def awareness on 100, their on ball defense at 58 and there help defense at 85 yet I can score over 100 points a game in 8min quarters while shooting 60+ percent. Mind you this is on HOF with Mike's suggested shooting sliders he dropped in a thread a few days ago. There's something buried deeper in the engine this year that is causing problems to consistent gameplay and the effects of sliders especially for CPU defense.

Love 2k, bought one very year since Dreamcast days but some of the new errors that have popped up have been ones that I haven't seen 2k make in years past.

[tril]

reviews like this make me feel like Im playing an entirely different version of 2k17.
now I have to go give this game another try.

[NoLeafClover]

Reviews like this that only take into account surface features and ignore key functionality and gameplay issues, bugs and the rampant commercialism that now infects the game should be discarded at best, put under suspicion of being paid for at worst.

[Smirkin Dirk]

Quote: Originally Posted by NoLeafClover

Reviews like this that only take into account surface features and ignore key functionality and gameplay issues, bugs and the rampant commercialism that now infects the game should be discarded at best, put under suspicion of being paid for at worst.

In terms of commercialism, this is gaming in 2016.

But to single out 2K is unfair considering they have gone against the trend of sports gaming and put a lot of work into off line sim modes. No other sports game has anything as deep as MyLeague.

[dtlm6]

I give the game a 9.5. My favorite mode is MyGM and I love the new feature of being able to expand the league up to 6 teams along with realignment. I've brought back the Seattle Sonics, some old ABA, NBA teams (Kentucky Colonels, Cincinnati Royals, Spirits of St. Louis) and expansion teams in Las Vegas (Aces) and San Diego (Sharks).