CarolusXCI wrote:I have played around 6 hours on Xbox Series S, MyNBA Eras only.
It is not the best gameplay I ever experienced for sure, but I found it better than 2k22's, especially in the post (which is my favorite aspect of basketball). The game feels a tad more fluid to me, I didn't get frustrated as much when dribbling around, there are a couple of new animations here and there, defense and rebounding are good, overall I think the gameplay out of the box is solid.
I can't complain about the art on retro courts and uniforms either. They seem to be reasonably accurate as far as I can tell (only tried Kobe Era and one game of Jordan Era). I love the fact that you can't select modern uniforms in, say, 2002 or 1991. I also think the lighting has gotten better, since 2k22's was a little too bright for my taste.
But I will say this: the retro rosters REALLY suck. To me, it seems as though they have absolutely no idea how to fill out hundreds of attributes, tendencies, signatures, badges and so on for most of the players. As a result they don't play realistic at all. A total imersion-breaker to be honest. It would be better if there were only a dozen of attributes, ten presets for tendencies and 20 or so dunk packages only, just like old NBA Live titles. Rookie Lebron and Melo drafted with arm sleeves and modern shoes? Speaking of shoes, most of the players still use those ugly generic 2K ones. If they want to use generic shoes, fine, but at least make better ones. Generic shoes from 2k11-2k14 would look fine to me. NBA Live AND1-inspired generics would go well too.
How about cyberfaces? Just awful. A bunch of young players with CF's from the tail end of their careers (e.g. Pau, Kidd), Shawn Bradley looking buff AF, skinny DeSagana Diop, fully-tattooed Birdman Andersen in 2002. Look, I don't mind generic players at all, but what's the point in having lots of licensed players with CAP cyberfaces? Why go to all the trouble of getting the rights to use their likenesses, and then not use them at all?
And how about a soundtrack with NO retro songs whatsoever? No 80's or 90's hip hops or pop songs at all.
In my opinion, if they wanted to create a retro atmosphere for the respective retro modes, they have failed. To me it is clear that some development teams at 2K worked really hard to come up with something like MyNBA Eras, while others, to put it as mildly as possible, didn't have the proper tools/knowledge for the task at hand. Too bad I can't no longer refund it and buy it again on a sale...
Coyroy wrote:Definitely better than 21&22 ,finally can say goodbye to 20 now.
Uncle Drew wrote:Coyroy wrote:Definitely better than 21&22 ,finally can say goodbye to 20 now.
From what I've been hearing, it's not much better than 2K22. I think I'll wait before dropping another 60 bones.
fjccommish wrote: It's the same feel of gliding around at one speed - no explosiveness.
bongo88 wrote:Default shooting on PC was difficult for me. I'm just not a very good green/perfect release person. If it is slightly early/ slightly late, then the shot misses.
there is a slider that helps with the shooting window. It is under the user slider (cpu/user sliders). It is called shooting timing impact slider.
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putting it to 0 helps open the shooting window. For people, like me, who need the shooting window opened a little.
ThePointForward wrote:Shooting is very dependent on green releases and I feel like there's a bit of inconsistency with release speed.
fjccommish wrote:PC
85-86 Bulls vs Current Rockets - 20 Games. CPU v CPU Superstar
Rockets won by an average of 40+ points.
Bulls leading scorer was Wennington.
Jordan averaged 8 PPG on 2-16 shooting (each game).
Game deleted from hard drive.
KyotoCarl wrote:fjccommish wrote:PC
85-86 Bulls vs Current Rockets - 20 Games. CPU v CPU Superstar
Rockets won by an average of 40+ points.
Bulls leading scorer was Wennington.
Jordan averaged 8 PPG on 2-16 shooting (each game).
Game deleted from hard drive.
Do you have any screenshots of this cause it seems kind of hard to believe. Say what you will about 2K's stat simming but I've never seen anything like that happening.
Dee4Three wrote:However, that doesn't sound right at all. Would love to see some screenshots proving this, and at the same time someone else could do the same sim and show their results.
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