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I'm speaking from my experience with NBA 2k and being in the forums for about five or six years now. A issue that has risen from the recent NBA 2k's have been how easy it is to pick up and play. There is no need to go into practice mode when you can just wiggle your stick(the sick on the controller of course) and get into the lane and dunk. I have to agree with this, of course going into practice mode and learning how the game works and experimenting to finding new combos will give you a slight advantage. But to beat an opponent I don't believe it's necessary anymore. Controls shouldn't be complicated but we should be able to get more rewards for learning the controls.
How online play is now.
A guy can pick the heat, learn their hotspots and learn how to abuse some exploits and their ready for online play. While the guy that goes into practice mode learns his playbook and takes his time to figure the game out, meets up with that heat user and loses, not one play was run by the heat user and all the time that was invested into learning his playbook is for nothing.
Why people cheese?
Cheesers are like zombies, because they continue to spread the virus of cheese throughout the gaming community, a guy that wasn't necessarily a cheeser to begin with but didn't know how to play, goes against a cheeser and he gets destroyed but he learned the exploits along the way and he wants to win, so he is now a cheeser. Cheese is allowed not only because exploits still exist in the game but because the game is too easy to abuse those exploits.
Why Raising the Difficulty will work.
I made a thread a while ago, asking if 2k should reward simulation play and punish cheesing. At the time I didn't know how they would go about doing that. Then I remembered, obviously raise the difficulty level on Online Matches and make it the default setting. I don't expect everyone to agree with this but here is my argument as to why it should be raised to the highest difficulty and simulation sliders.
By raising the difficulty and setting the sliders to "simulation" it will force both users to adjust their strategies, three pointers wouldn't fall as much, it's harder to finish in the paint, you really have to know your players and know how to take good shots. Basically if you have a good basketball IQ and stick skills you can win.
Now "simulation" sliders aren't perfect. It's more frustrating and realistic basketball outcomes don't always happen. I feel like that can be fixed of course with a slider adjustment for 2k14 by the slider guy at 2k. But it would be a much better default slider than the "default" sliders and pro difficulty(2k13 settings).
What a harder difficulty does in human vs human matches, is it reveals the one with skill and knowledge. Will they win every time maybe not but it shouldn't be how it is now, losing for thinking they're playing basketball and using their basketball IQ's. There are guys that can beat most cheesers but for the most part the sim gamers are getting beat.
Even though I was speaking from my experience with NBA 2k, I feel like this basic fix can be applied to all sports games, by making online play harder and the better player should come out victorious not because of their exploits or the team they used but because of they know their fundamentals to that sport. But speaking to 2k again, if you decide not to make the default settings simulation and hall of fame, then at least give us a lobby for that.
Why you can get more enjoyment out of a harder game than an easier one.
I've recently picked up All-Pro Football 2k8, now as someone that hasn't played a NFL 2k game in some times I really had no clue how to play and which buttons did what, on top of that the game was hard as hell, I mean I'm more of a basketball guy so my lack of football knowledge was really obvious in certain situations.
So I was frustrated because I was getting destroyed by the cpu and it wasn't even on the highest difficulty setting(All-Pro). Then, something magical happened, I learned the controls and started to use basic football logic, such as using the run to set up the pass, using my blockers, laying off turbo until I hit the hole, setting up better angles to tackle. Because of the difficulty, I had to learn how to play football, and the game rewarded me for having football a somewhat decent football IQ.
Even though I'm not ready for legend difficulty I still feel like I've actually learned how to play football by picking up a controller and pressing start. That's a true simulation in my opinion, and that's where sports video games should be heading towards, a teaching tool for gamers.
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thedream2k13 @ Jul 17
Fact is cheesers arent going to abandon the series just because the game requires a brain to play. 2k has already established itself as the top bball game on the market. Don't let casuals have free reign over the direction of the series 2k should be "teaching" these people about the game of basketball not making it easy for casuals to "have fun"
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jersez @ Jul 17
Exactly just like the all-pro football story I've used, that's where I want 2k basketball to go, thanks for reading
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