The NBA 2k series is probably my
favorite sports videogame franchise. In my opinion, it's really only
rivaled by the MLB: The Show franchise and I just find basketball
games more fun to play. It just blows away on pretty much every level
anything that EA Sports is offering right now.
This is not to say the game doesn't
have its faults though. It just seems that 2k fixes them a little bit
every year and in general makes you feel more connected to the game
of basketball with each fix. The announcing and presentation are
amazing and I just wish that the football games on the market were
this realistic and fun to play. Here are a few ways 2k could improve
upon this already awesome basketball videogame franchise.
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1. Passing – Nothing is more
aggravating than watching your player throw a pass right into the
defender. 2K needs to allow you to choose whether you're throwing a
bounce, chest, or lob type of pass. 2K12 added a lot of emphasis on
the defense being more in the passing lanes, so this year they need
to allow the player to counter this defense.
Also, there's absolutely no reason that
when you throw a post entry pass your player lobs the ball 30 feet
into the air to let the defender get under it. What exactly is the
thought process behind this being in the game at all? It's so
frustrating to make this pass and watch your opponent casually steal
it from you. I get that they wanted to make post entry not as easy as
it has been in the past but this is absolutely a ridiculous way of
going about that.
They also added somewhat of a delay to
each pass thrown now and that's something that just really has to go.
It's basketball, you should be able to reverse the court quickly to
find the player the defense rotated off of. This is not the case when
you play NBA 2k12 and allowing quicker and more accurate passes could
go a long way in making this is a more realistic game.
2. Online Play – I am yet to buy an
NBA 2k game where the online play actually works correctly. Even now
almost a year after NBA 2k12's release, I still get lag when trying
to play a game online. This is just inexcusable and I do not
understand why it is never fixed. There's really not much else to say
on this one but it is definitely a reason why people buy the game and
there's no reason it doesn't work. Online gaming is something every
other company has seemed to figure out except 2k Sports.
3. Fast Breaks – The fast break
system in NBA 2k12 is simply broken. It's not based on the speed of
your player and it is easily the most unrealistic thing in the game.
Andrew Bynum should not be able to chase down Chris Paul on a fast
break. It'd be one thing if the defender actually made a play on the
ball but what happens is your player just gets inexplicably slow and
gets pulled into the defender behind him like the defender has his
own gravitational pull.
I understand that in previous NBA 2k
games it's been a little easy to exploit the fast break and that's
why the system is this way. That said, it doesn't make it any less
frustrating or unrealistic for the player. I really hope 2k figures
out a work around for this system because it's just dumb watching
fast players not be able to go on a clear fast break.
4. Post play – Despite improving post
play in NBA 2k12 it still has a long way to go before it makes any
rational sense. If you have a defender who has literally no post play
defense but high defensive awareness and block ratings you can play
him at 4-5 with no problem. Dwight Howard should not be shut down by
Andre Iguodala. It's just a stupid system and it feels like good post
offensive players have never been rewarded in this sports series.
It makes the game pretty unrealistic
when the person your playing against doesn't have to account for your
post players. Basically the Lakers are Kobe Bryant creating havoc and
Andruw Bynum and Pau Gasol just there for rebounding and defense.
It's pretty ridiculous when even the CPU when you play against them
doesn't throw the ball down in the post when you're playing against
the Lakers.
5. Team defense – I would like to
actually see rotations and real team defense as opposed to the
gravitational pull defense NBA 2k12 has. If you have a player with
high defensive awareness in the middle (Tyson Chandler, Tim Duncan,
Kevin Garnet, etc.) they will just suck up every player who goes into
the paint no matter how wide open they are to the basket. Tim Duncan
is easily my most hated sports videogame star due to this as he's not
nearly the force on defense he once was.
It's ridiculously easy to get into the
paint against even the most stingy defenders, but when you get by the
original defender you either get an easy basket or you get sucked
towards a player with high defensive awareness. It is just
frustrating when you burn the defender and go for an uncontested lay
up only to have a player warp over from 7 feet away to contest your
shot. It's also ridiculous how that unless you have a star player you
always miss those shots. I swear you have to be a very good player to
ever get a 3 point play in the game.
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