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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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# 101 mrchiggs @ 02/26/16 03:46 PM

Mine are:

1. Speed, all around... Why do i feel I have a tractor beam on me when the break starts!? Myplayer is a pretty fast guy at 88 x 5 speed. But it takes him a moment to get some speed behind him meanwhile the D is at top speed be they guard or center, immediately. In Head to Head (Offline) how many trackdown block can happen in a single game!?

2. Last second shot defense.... The Cpu defender becomes 04 Ron Artest.

3. Bump D... Because contact isn't called much, opponents can collide with you to dislodge the ball. People I play do this all day and its frustrating to bring the ball up to an man colliding into me trying to free the ball.

# 102 NoLeafClover @ 02/26/16 09:14 PM

Success rate of contested stepback corner 3 pointers.

# 103 mb625 @ 02/26/16 11:47 PM

Since it's a pet peeve thread, mine is really small and kind of dumb, but, when I play in real life, I wear prescription goggles/rec specs. Despite the fact that there are a few players that have these (Hinrich, Otto Porter, etc), I don't get them as an option for my MyPlayer or created players. It's super dumb and nitpicky, but that's something that I think would be really cool to see for me personally.

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# 104 Arod2k9 @ 02/27/16 12:09 PM

Foot planting is the worst I have ever seen in a sports games, there's no feel to player movement in my opinion.

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# 105 SpeedyClaxton @ 02/27/16 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Arod2k9


	Foot planting is the worst I have ever seen in a sports games, there's no feel to player movement in my opinion. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

..and add to that no real sense of weight and strength, i don't see difference between Carter-Williams & Drummond for example plus big men hook shot rating is soooo flawed. If certain big man have low hook shot rating ex.D.Jordan he will miss mismatched hook shots against I.Thomas from 5-6 ft of basket just because he have low hook shot rating, nonsense ??

# 106 swac07 @ 02/29/16 02:51 AM

my 2k pet peeves are:

-Any attempt at a steal by the human player results in a reach in foul or triggers a foul animation(I'm not even talking about spamming the steal button, this happens after a single press of the button). They have to tune this in 17, there should be no reason the only way to get legit steals are by waiting for the cpu to bump the ball up against a player and it becoming a loose ball.

-Cpu double teams are OP yet double teams initiated by the user towards the cpu are ineffective.There needs to be balance.

# 107 SpeedyClaxton @ 03/02/16 11:26 AM

Biggest pet peeve ? How core gameplay went turbospeed downhill from 2k14 until now. I won't bother to single every thing but with next generation graphics came up big time and gameplay went south (defense, AI teammates, rebounding, isomotion, post-game)

# 108 LO6IX @ 03/02/16 05:10 PM

This. The roll man needs to stop running away from the pass.

# 109 Hustle Westbrook @ 03/02/16 06:14 PM

2K16 in a nutshell. Play good defense for 23 seconds and either the jackass CPU decides to bite on a stupid pump fake or your player randomly falls on the floor for no reason and gets called for a blocking foul.

# 110 JerzeyReign @ 03/02/16 08:25 PM

Player movement on defense and while running plays. Your guy will be wide open but the moment you initiate a pass he seems to run behind a defender despite you using icon passing and letting go of the left stick. That turnover along with players bumping into each other and throwing off entire plays for 3-5 seconds are such pet peeves to me I put down the game. I've been playing this game for over 10 years but those things made me give it a rest this year.

# 111 mb625 @ 03/02/16 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Yesh2k


	If you complete the Kareem connection in MC, then you get his goggles. I agree 100% with the point you're making, but this at least might provide you with an option to have some* eyewear.*

I actually found that out a couple days later. Thought about deleting that, but said "eh, maybe no one will notice." Thanks a lot. [emoji14] LOL.

Anyway, it'd be great to have more options in terms of eyewear (not to mention options that are available right away, and ones that are a bit more updated than from the 80s.)

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# 112 Hustle Westbrook @ 03/03/16 11:30 PM

How about when your opponent wins the tip and the first thing they do is throw a lead pass to their center for an easy bucket. I swear this **** happens EVERYTIME. How is it that as soon as you win the tip your center is already out of position?

I swear the first thing I do when I lose the tipoff is to run back on defense with my PF.

# 113 LO6IX @ 03/27/16 11:10 PM

# 114 Hustle Westbrook @ 03/28/16 01:49 AM

This crap...

# 115 jinntu @ 03/28/16 02:00 AM

I have three that are linked...player movement and/or physics, defensive AI, and lack of fouls being called.

# 116 TalenT @ 03/29/16 12:38 PM

The A.I. in general. Sometimes it's just bad basketball. It affects the stats if you pay attention. No fundamentals. Wide open, knock-down shooters cut to the paint where the defense is waiting, rotations are pretty awful at times (this affects point guard assist numbers because they rotate wrong), transition defense is just plain bad & players don't box out man (This, of course affects big man rebound numbers). The computer has to do better.

# 117 de_jesus @ 03/29/16 02:56 PM

MyLeague DPOY:

It always goes to the best rebounder, and that's infuriating. I had a guy with the following per game stats last season:

33pts, 6rbs, 9st, 2 stls, 2 blks and kept opponents to FG 37-38%.

Anthony davis:
22pts, 13rbs, 3ast, .5 stls, 1.9 blks and kept oppontes to FG 44% .

He has won it 3 years straight. It bugs the crap out of me.

# 118 de_jesus @ 03/29/16 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by TalenT


	The A.I. in general. Sometimes it's just bad basketball. It affects the stats if you pay attention. No fundamentals. Wide open, knock-down shooters cut to the paint where the defense is waiting, rotations are pretty awful at times (this affects point guard assist numbers because they rotate wrong), transition defense is just plain bad & players don't box out man (This, of course affects big man rebound numbers). The computer has to do better.

I honestly don't have this problem. The game is really good at making me pay for leaving a shooter with a 55 rating in 3pt shot make a wide open jumper EVERY TIME he is left open. It's maddening because I play off that guy because he cannot shoot.

Also, having Drummond or Howard go 7/9 from the free throw line makes me take a deep breath and think: https://media.giphy.com/media/6uhrs4onWgbiU/giphy.gif

# 119 de_jesus @ 03/29/16 03:30 PM

One more:

Plays like Quick 1 Elevator that rely heavily on screens just don't pan out for me. My first screener never catches the defender on the first screen and never catches the defender on the 2nd screen. It's terrible. I've tried this play with the Thunder, Spurs, Warriors, and Cavs. I can never get it to work. Same with Quick 42 Quick (which is a beautiful play).

But the AI torches me with it.

# 120 TalenT @ 03/29/16 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by de_jesus


	I honestly don't have this problem. The game is really good at making me pay for leaving a shooter with a 55 rating in 3pt shot make a wide open jumper EVERY TIME he is left open. It's maddening because I play off that guy because he cannot shoot. Also, having Drummond or Howard go 7/9 from the free throw line makes me take a deep breath and think: https://media.giphy.com/media/6uhrs4onWgbiU/giphy.gif

Which problem exactly? I'm not understanding. The A.I. is good in your opinion???

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