"Take The Crown" Gameplay Trailer

[Andrew]

My point is that certain assets are being removed/take a hit in quality in order to make room for other assets that we could arguably do without. Or so it seems, anyway.

[Midas Touch]

I saw some solid gameplay features they hinted at with CP3 holind defender in jail and Giannis with euro-dunk. This is for the casuals anyway. And realistically, how in the hell is gfx gonna look any different when they pretty much peaked?

"Peaked"

You must be playing a different game because everything you're talking about makes no sense because it's a trailer their not gonna put trash stuff in a trailer.

If you really think this game is gonna better than last year than you sadly mistaken.

[Pep]

One difference from 2k18 is there - different ball

Different, but still wrong. C'mon this how ball look one one side:

and this on the other:


It doesn't look the same on both side (with 2k example look at first picture). How hard is to update it? Especially they never did it correctly.

[Rosque]

It seems like detail is being sacrificed to make room for assets such as halftime interviews and other such presentation features. They're nice features that add to the atmosphere, but they also get rather repetitive, so I wouldn't mind not seeing them anymore if it freed up room to enhance the visuals and game in other ways.

This is what I meant as peaked. Poorly worded on my part. Apologies.

[JEDL]

It seems like detail is being sacrificed to make room for assets such as halftime interviews and other such presentation features. They're nice features that add to the atmosphere, but they also get rather repetitive, so I wouldn't mind not seeing them anymore if it freed up room to enhance the visuals and game in other ways.

Agreed, its all fluff with no substance, they only rip audios from actual games with people saying vague shit and awkwardly plaster them in the game. It becomes frustrating to deal with them sometimes especially how you can't skip a large chunk of the halftime presentation barely anyone even pays any attention to.

[Andrew]

Absolutely. It's funny because twenty years ago, most of us were talking about how cool it would be to have all that stuff. Now that we have it, the drawbacks are apparent, and usually I'm tapping the button trying to skip through it as soon as possible.

[ThePointForward]

Absolutely. It's funny because twenty years ago, most of us were talking about how cool it would be to have all that stuff. Now that we have it, the drawbacks are apparent, and usually I'm tapping the button trying to skip through it as soon as possible.

This has two parts:

First of all it should be easily skippable for those who just want a quick game. Some people want it all the time, others just some time. Make all these immersion options toggle-able and you have both camps happy.

Second, the game has blatant gameplay issues and people feel like there was manpower and other resources spent on the "fluff" instead of getting the gameplay fixed.
And I know people like to go after 2KTV, but that likely goes (mostly) out of marketing budget to be honest.

If you address these two things - being able to toggle the whole immersion thing on and off AND fixing a generation old bugs and other gameplay issues like obvious balancing for online play ruining single player experience - nobody can say a word against it.

Oh and not having commentators say absolutely random stuff would be cool as well, 2K18 was super cringy in this regard when they they just checked the "yes, there was a screen set up somewhere during that play" checkbox and then said "how the screen enabled the whole play". BOY. That screen was off-ball screen that wasn't actually used in the play.

[Andrew]

Definitely. I can appreciate how it livens up gameplay, but sometimes you want a more streamlined experience (or you're just tired of hearing the same thing over and over again). As you noted, it is frustrating when it feels like other, more important aspects of the gameplay experience aren't up to your expectations.

[Midas Touch]

Definitely. I can appreciate how it livens up gameplay, but sometimes you want a more streamlined experience (or you're just tired of hearing the same thing over and over again). As you noted, it is frustrating when it feels like other, more important aspects of the gameplay experience aren't up to your expectations.

They’re slowly turning into the madden of Basketball..

[skoadam]

I want to wait with my opinion. I must see real gameplay first.
Im wondering..... 2k19 will be last current gen game? Imo current engine of the game is not helping to solve problems we all know.

[ThePointForward]

Im wondering..... 2k19 will be last current gen game? Imo current engine of the game is not helping to solve problems we all know.

Probably no. Currently it is estimated that PS5/X2 (let's just roll with it XBox 2 for the moment for simplicity) might be revealed on E3 2019. Which would in turn mean they'd release them for holiday season 2020 (Q4).
So if we're optimistic about consoles, NBA 2K21 might be the first one for them released late, similar to NBA 2K14.

However, technically speaking it is unrealistic to expect them to "change" the engine. 2K is likely not going to invest massive amount of time and resources into building an NBA game from scratch.
They'll likely do upgrades of various parts and the "next-gen" will have graphical jump (although given current graphical levels, it's not gonna be as pronounced as 7th to 8th generation. I personally expect a big jump in CPU department (they have to, current CPUs in consoles are hot garbage), which will allow for more lively worlds (in other games), physics and better AI.

Also around the time of announcement of new consoles they'll likely know the approximate final specs so they'll be able to send them to studios to prepare games for that level of hardware.