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NBA 2K16: Biggest Pet Peeve?

01:55 PM - February 9, 2016 by ChaseB

A pet peeve in a video game is just a little thing that drives you crazy. It’s not really a “game killer” or anything like that to me, it’s just that one thing you wish was better. It can be something small like a player's signature shot being slightly off, or it can even be a bit bigger like an inability to import a draft class.

The point is this pet peeve gnaws at you even though you actively try to ignore it. It’s that big brother who pokes you in that spot between your chest and shoulder (come on, you know the spot). He just keeps doing it over and over trying to get a rise out of you. You try to pretend it doesn’t bother you, but inside your own head you’re screaming. Finally, you snap and check him through the wall. From there, you have a moment of jubilation, only to then realize you’ve sealed your own fate and the pummeling of a lifetime. So you immediately sprint out of the house and plan to hide in the small wooded area until your mom gets home from work. Only you realize your mom is going to be pissed about the brother-sized hole in the living room wall, so you do the math on how long you need to stay out before she’s just happy you’re home and totally forgets about the wall. However, somewhere along the line you realize you’re a 10-year-old kid who's totally not cool with being in the woods when it gets dark. This realization ends with a sad slink home as you accept your doomed fate.

...Oh, uh yeah sorry, got a bit off track there I guess.

The point is we all have these pet peeves in our video games. I’m going to highlight just a couple of my own in NBA 2K16, and then maybe you all will have some to share as well. Let’s do it.

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# 41 Jrocc23 @ 02/10/16 05:27 AM

A few of my pet peeves straight off the head that are little things that irks me:

1. Not having a better FA experience in MyCareer. But the little thing that irks me about FA is that you cannot see the teams roster until you sign w/ them.

2. When playing online games, you cannot view the highlights or game track like you could in previous games.

3. When CAP's, you can't assign tattoos to them.

4. When trying to join a friends park, you have to go through one whole loading screen to get to a random park. Then join your friends and have to wait again. Last year, you could hop right into your friends park. Things like this is what I don't understand.

5. Before in MyCareer, when looking at the social media, you could actually click the topic and it would take you right to that section. For example, it'll say Raptors beat Heat 87-77. Last year you could click on that and it'll take you straight to the box score.

6. Having to start your association, Mycareer or etc over to get new jerseys that are released.

# 42 jayman504 @ 02/10/16 10:01 AM

I've got 3 huge pet peeves about this game. They don't really stop me from playing, but really get to me and eventually cause me to turn of and walk away.

1. Grabbing a rebound and have to wait til the CPU is fully back on D or around half court to push the ball. BUT CPU can toss 3/4 passes to wipe open players not being guarded under the hoop.

2. When in isolation making a hesitation move...defender is BEATEN only to have some type of invisable wall or (you cant go yet) animation play out and allows defender to get back into postion.

3. Player speed!! I truly belive this will never be fixed and every year I pray it is, but I'm let down. dont belive me try making a steal at half court with Chris Paul against any center in the leauge. I can bet you they'll ride your hip all the way to the hoop which will result in a missed layup.

# 43 rjms1974 @ 02/10/16 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Khaos_Kiwi


	Mine would have to be refs getting in the way when running down the sideline (getting sucked into the collision animation). And also getting sucked into a screen even when you clearly move your player around it.

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Originally Posted by YungGun


	How quickly the CPU reacts to loose balls kills me every time. Also when the ball magnetically goes into their hands while my guy is going for the ball and is in better position.

This.

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# 44 spoofrice11 @ 02/10/16 01:27 PM

- Not being able to skip Timeouts/Halftime/Post Game right away wasting time.

- Not being able to create a team (have to do it in a mode instead of creating them and using logo/jerseys wherever).

- My teammates being idiots. Almost every possession someone is unguarded. And not being able to grab a rebound/loose ball, CPU gets a ton they shouldn't.

# 45 SpeedyClaxton @ 02/10/16 02:07 PM

* Gameplay overall including defense, transition defense, post defense, pick & roll defense, alley oops, morphing, sliding, rebounding, post offense

* Player bodies look hulking and too big

* Colours are wrong especially when it comes to floors and jerseys

* Non-existent anklebreakers

* Generic arena sounds, PA also

* Roster constitution is what i don't like, too many 90's players, also too many in high 80's

* Scanned vs Non-scanned shoes ratio

* Lack of in-game physics (players, ball, rim) unrealistic collision, fouls, contacts in general

# 46 derlaid @ 02/10/16 02:22 PM

It shouldn't be difficult for the game to check the stats of the player entering the game and see if it's possible, and yet 2K can't be bothered. Huge pet peeve.

# 47 BryanAllen42 @ 02/10/16 02:42 PM

My biggest pet peeve has to be in Pro-Am (basically the only mode I play outside of grinding in MyCareer)

1) I'm 6'9 and a PF but am forced to play Center against dudes that are 7'3. I wanna play like Kevin Love, not Hassan Whiteside. Ridiculous that it plays you outside of your position type. Really ruins a lot for me.

2) The white vs white jerseys. We changed our team colors to Yellow and Red for this reason. Ridiculous.

3) The ability to "choose" your AI teammates. I think 2k should do some mix of MyTeam and ProAm, where you can unlock Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum teammate cards. That way, if you only have 3/4 people playing instead of 5, you can plug in others. At the VERY least, there should be some consistency. Maybe allow you to create a player to use in those positions and level them up based solely on their game time. Idk. Something to make those random Computer players more lively.

4) Ability to assign users to a team. I created the ProAm team me and our friends play with. I'm not able to play but others want to, it bothers me that they can't just pick up and play. 2k needs to look to FIFA Pro Clubs on how to handle this.

# 48 NELL86 @ 02/10/16 02:56 PM

The whole game!!!

# 49 Junior Moe @ 02/10/16 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by daveberg


	*The way Rosters work. I spend months on end editing my roster only for 2k to keep releasing new content which I then cannot use because they don't allow you to integrate it into anything other than the most current official roster file they put out. Jerseys. Player movements. Player appearances etc - all are basically unusable unless you insist on playing with 2k's generic, unaltered roster update. The fact that almost everything is customizable yet 2k still can't give us the ability to edit sock colour* or short length......REALLY? *Zero authentic arena sounds/music for classic teams. It's been missing since 2k12 - retro team arenas feel empty and pointless. Yeah, I know that's 3 peeves, but what ever.

Agree with this. MLB The Show is teasing a return of Sounds of the Show, hopefully it's like it was last gen and if so, that 2K follows suit. Those arena sounds add soooo much to the game. I went back and played 2k13 on the PS3 and smiled every time I heard D Rose's chime every time I hit a shot. We need that back!

# 50 jmaj315 @ 02/10/16 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by GuwopGeezus


	1) When you can't break out of a celebration after a big basket and the other team comes down and scores 2) Playing MyGM or any other mode where your teammates are computers and sometimes after you make a basket your center goes down the court and stands out of bounds under the basket so the other team's center gets a wide open layup

I especially hate the PF that doesn't guard the stretch 4 at the 3point line.

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Originally Posted by iTofu


	Honestly my biggest pet peeve is people using white away jerseys and/or black home jerseys in MyTeam or Pro-Am. 2K should find a means of restricting the lightness and darkness of jerseys to prevent this.

or just allow you to choose jersey AFTER you match with a team

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Originally Posted by jayman504


	I've got 3 huge pet peeves about this game. They don't really stop me from playing, but really get to me and eventually cause me to turn of and walk away. ... 2. When in isolation making a hesitation move...defender is BEATEN only to have some type of invisable wall or (you cant go yet) animation play out and allows defender to get back into postion. 3. Player speed!! I truly belive this will never be fixed and every year I pray it is, but I'm let down. dont belive me try making a steal at half court with Chris Paul against any center in the leauge. I can bet you they'll ride your hip all the way to the hoop which will result in a missed layup.

both of these also irk me .... especially #2. ugh ruins branching out of sizeups/crossovers

# 51 GuwopGeezus @ 02/10/16 06:16 PM

1) No 4v4 courts in the flyers or rivet city parks and no 5v5 in any park

2) When you play pro am with less than 5 players they never give you a big man as your CPU teammate. You could be playing with 4 point guards and the best they'll give you is a small forward.

# 52 Canman8876 @ 02/10/16 06:42 PM

Pet peeve?

PLAYER FATIGUE!!!!!!!!! How many of you have started a game, offense gets the ball from opening tip and the defense blocks a shot and it goes out of bounds under the basket. With auto subs on or off, your defense will lose energy without the ball in play and the clock is not running. You should not have to sub your players in less than 10 seconds into the game. This doesn't happen only at the beginning of the game. Whenever the offense takes the ball out under the basket, it will drain your defensive players energy. This is not right. This is not basketball.

Another pet peeve??? When throwing the ball in after a made basketball, why do the players have a certain spot to throw the ball in? Why does it take so long to throw it in? In REAL BASKETBALL, you can run the baseline.

# 53 Hustle Westbrook @ 02/10/16 06:46 PM

Pet peeve as in minor issues?

When I grab a rebound and while I'm trying to push the ball up court, I get sucked into an overagressive bumping animation by the defense.

That animation where someone jumps on you and you stumble for a few seconds. It should be a foul but you get stuck into an unbreakable animation.

# 54 Skyflame21 @ 02/10/16 08:11 PM

Mine is the inability for players to maintain their dribbles when they get bumped. Absolutely drives me nuts. I'm ok with a bad dribbler losing control but to have your PG with a high rating he shouldn't just lose the ball as often as the do.

# 55 nova91 @ 02/10/16 08:53 PM

The CPUs trash defense being rewarded with miss after miss by my guys and my guys good defense being crapped on by make after make with smothering defense on the CPU.

# 56 Tekkonkinkreet @ 02/10/16 09:57 PM

When the CPU posts up and in a blink has floated through the defender to the basket.

# 57 2_headedmonster @ 02/10/16 10:11 PM

- how on a fastbreak MY WHOLE EFFING TEAM runs to the rim

- brick wall perimeter defensive wins

- how i have no control over how my big jumps for blocks (we've all had a great shotblocker do a passive lunge when he should have went up after the ball)

- how i cant do a quick counter move off the dribble

- how all fouls are aggressive fouls

- screens that create no contact as if by defensive voodoo

# 58 Badasi12b @ 02/10/16 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Mbunn1993


	Have you tried disabling your internet on your system? Go into your network settings and disable your internet connection all together. Not just what WiFi you are connected too. I just tested this to be sure and I was able to create and save a MyGM offline, and then was able to load it while offline

Yeah that's just it. I have only played the game offline. The only time I had the game online was when I first bought the console and was installing the day 1 patch to my xbone at my girls place and decided to install the game afterwards... i never started a game away from home though. When I got home and decided to play the game offline where there is no connection, all of those problems I listed existed. My console is never online when I'm home playing casually. That's when I realized the game doesn't allow to save any progress or settings of you're offline. If you go to 2ks forums on their site there are others experiencing this.

# 59 Twotimetony @ 02/11/16 01:05 AM

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Originally Posted by ballin2k0


	mine is the comback element or the hold you back where you go ice cold and miss everything while the other team can do no wrong its in both offline and online gameplay and it ruins the game for me......its has that cheap feel to where older basketball game where either too easy on lower difficulties or way to hard on harder difficulties that makes it feel generic and cheap made instead of thinking man the ai is improved nope just a cheap ai that is 2 black eyes to this game...and it makes me not want to play it because i know whats going to happen evey game and its not fun...

Rubbermaid ai man. Been around for years

# 60 Twotimetony @ 02/11/16 01:06 AM

* Rubberband wtf

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