The Video Game Thread

[Celuwyn]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="BHK1978" data-cite="BHK1978" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Well Witcher 3 was great until the end. I felt that the end was really lacking. I am not sure what I thought it needed but it did feel sort of tame when compared to the rest of the game.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> The end was lacking ? <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> I hope you tell us more about that.</p><p> </p><p> I beat the game after 4 months. I thought it was the end of the game at the <span style="color:#FFFFFF;">battle of Kaer Morhen</span> (white color for spoiler) but no, there was more ! my favorite quest is the one with Yennefer and the djinn</p>

[Questlove]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Imarevenant" data-cite="Imarevenant" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Anyone playing The Last Guardian? Reviews were all over the place so I held off and got ff15 instead. <p> </p><p> I loved Ico and Shadow of the Colossus so probably should have just got it but some of the even positive reviews were filled with caveats.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I'd been waiting for TLG since it was first announced, and I'm still almost certain I'd absolutely love the game itself, but I've seen enough buggy messes in 2016 to last me a lifetime.</p>

[Blackman]

Anyone playing The Last Guardian? Reviews were all over the place so I held off and got ff15 instead.

 

I thought FF15 was a buggy mess too, with some parts being borderline unplayable? At least I've heard it somewhere.

 

After the experiences I've had, I'm not playing anything anymore until a full year has passed.

[BHK1978]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Celuwyn" data-cite="Celuwyn" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>The end was lacking ? <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> I hope you tell us more about that.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Sorry for the late response, I just have not had a lot of time to be online. Yeah I thought the <span style="color:#FFFFFF;">battle of Kaer Morhen</span> was the end as well. </p><p> </p><p> As for the actual ending I am not sure why I felt it to be lacking, it just was for me. The final battle leading up to the final boss battle seemed weak (For lack of a better term) and the final boss battle just sort of happened and it was not really much of a challenge for me. That being said I did enjoy the game overall and besides the ending I found it to be a very enjoyable game.</p>

[Celuwyn]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="BHK1978" data-cite="BHK1978" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Sorry for the late response, I just have not had a lot of time to be online. Yeah I thought the was the end as well. <p> </p><p> As for the actual ending I am not sure why I felt it to be lacking, it just was for me. The final battle leading up to the final boss battle seemed weak (For lack of a better term) and the final boss battle just sort of happened and it was not really much of a challenge for me. That being said I did enjoy the game overall and besides the ending I found it to be a very enjoyable game.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I agree that the final boss was "weak", i've struggled wayyyy more with <span style="color:#FFFFFF;">Caranthir</span></p><p> </p><p> Next things to do : do all the DLC</p>

[Blackman]

I made a pledge to play no other games but Witcher these two holiday weeks, but it probably will fail. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/rolleyes.png.4b097f4fbbe99ce5bcd5efbc1b773ed6.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

[Dave_Scott]

So I've dropped off on wrestling for a while, but just caught back up with all the PPVs and came into a lot of money and I'm thinking about getting WWE2K17. How are the reviews for it? Is it worth the money?

[Fleisch]

So my brother got me Dead Rising 4 for Christmas. I have to say, it is a lot of fun. I know people think "zombies have been done to death" but the games involving them still entertain me. I love combining weapons to make some weird and wonderful combo weapons.

[Blackman]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Fleisch" data-cite="Fleisch" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I know people think "zombies have been done to death" but the games involving them still entertain me</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Aye, t'is true, but it be timeless entertainment still. Once you get enough, you come back for more a while after. <img alt=":cool:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/cool.png.f00d2562b2c1d873a09323753efdb041.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> WWE2k17 is fine. It wasn't worth the 60$ I spend for it, but then again: few games are right now.</p><p> </p><p> I was thinking of getting the Marvel Ultimate Alliance games (had them on 360), but 30$ for both is still too much imo, even if they have been fixed by now. The Xbox-versions are 10$ a piece this week btw.</p>

[cappyboy]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Fleisch" data-cite="Fleisch" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>So my brother got me Dead Rising 4 for Christmas. I have to say, it is a lot of fun. I know people think "zombies have been done to death" but the games involving them still entertain me. I love combining weapons to make some weird and wonderful combo weapons.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Then it sounds like your brother did well. The world can think what they will. If it works for you, that's what counts.</p><p> </p><p> And I know what you mean about the combo weapons. Reminds me of a game I had on my PS2 years ago. Was called Mushroom Men and I think it had a subtitle because they intended it to be franchise. Although I don't remember it ever taking off. The combo of the weird premise and weapon-making mechanic were what drew me to it. You were in a world of really small things and using objects like thimbles and rubber bands to make weapons to fight bees and stuff. The creativity of what you could do with the objects you found and merging them into weapons worked well and there was some good platforming action. But I could never really get my head around the storyline well enough to ultimately care about the consequences of my actions. So I eventually gave up on it. But I would love to find that weapon-making dimension in a game that worked for me as well as Dead Rising 4 and the zombieverse do for you. It's very much a mechanic worth exploring in the right setting.</p>

[guyver3]

I went from being pretty much caught up on my gaming backlog to having 4 new games thanks to Christmas. Doom, XCom 2, Final Fantasy 15, and GTA 5 though I beat gta on ps3 it's still awesome. Been spending most of my time playing XCom which I'm loving so far except for when I got stuck on one of the dlc missions and had to restart.

[MightyDavidson]

Recently got back into playing CKII. Got a bunch of DLC on sale and what not. Started a new game and got obliterated by the overaggressive overpowered and poorly balanced AI. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/mad.png.69834f23b9a8bf290d98375f56f1c794.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

[Blackman]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="MightyDavidson" data-cite="MightyDavidson" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Recently got back into playing CKII. Got a bunch of DLC on sale and what not. Started a new game and got obliterated by the overaggressive overpowered and poorly balanced AI. <img alt=":mad:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/mad.png.69834f23b9a8bf290d98375f56f1c794.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Mods, man! I've never played without "HIP" (or CK+ in the beginning). I wanted to get the achievements in a game once, but I quickly couldn't hold on anymore.</p><p> </p><p> Andromeda is set for march. Wow, at least we all have something to look forward to. Unless Mount & Blade 2 gets released - and it should - I honestly see nothing of interest videogame-wise unless Adam announces a new title. Note to self: look for new hobby. <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> But there's always CKII in case of boredom. Pretty damn hard to get bored in these days.</p>

[Dawn]

So I've dropped off on wrestling for a while, but just caught back up with all the PPVs and came into a lot of money and I'm thinking about getting WWE2K17. How are the reviews for it? Is it worth the money?

 

I might be late, but it's quite alright. Not worth the full price but it's enjoyable, even though I haven't played it much at all because I have no feel and no reason for it. That makes it a terrible purchase because I have nothing else to play since I've become sick to death of NBA 2K17 and its cheese from the AI. I found the gameplay additions to have been kind of terrible, since targeting feels worse either way (auto or manual), the AI will double team you 99% of the time and never stop, the rollouts haven't made the multi-man matches feel different at all plus the fact that nothing else has changed...but backstage access, promos (even though they're shit but yeah, baby steps), the roster, Ladder matches and the soundtrack are good reasons to buy it. I just hope they do a better job with 2K18 because the baby steps this time were REALLY SLOW baby steps. I'll also add that I haven't touched MyCareer and have no intention of doing so. The worst part is that I actually knew that before I got it for like 50% less on a PSN sale. Madden was out for less the next week. I feel like killing myself. Now I won't get this Madden anymore because I have to target Crash N-Sane Trilogy as the next purchase. And maybe I won't even get Madden 18 as well because Red Dead Redemption 2 also comes out this year.

 

(OOC: Yeah bro, damn, the soundtrack is awesome and a pro for me, Diddy did a terrific job with it. People on 2K Forums think it's bad but I'm a musical addict who enjoyed it, surprisingly)

 

(OOC2: I have no idea what OOC means since I'm not American but people seem to use it to give some extra messaging in here.)

 

(OOC3: Royal Rumble matches are terrible. They still have that terrible camera angle for entrances and now the theme songs stop playing as soon as the wrestler enters the ring, now that is quite realistic...)

 

(OOC4: Press 1 if you want me to rant about NBA 2K like I did about WWE here.)

 

(OOC5: Nothing, it's just funny to OOC like this. Ha. Ha. Ha. Yeah, no.)

[K-Nection]

You said to press 1 so here it goes.......1

[Celuwyn]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Blackman" data-cite="Blackman" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Mods, man! I've never played without "HIP" (or CK+ in the beginning). I wanted to get the achievements in a game once, but I quickly couldn't hold on anymore.<p> </p><p> Andromeda is set for march. Wow, at least we all have something to look forward to. Unless Mount & Blade 2 gets released - and it should - I honestly see nothing of interest videogame-wise unless Adam announces a new title. Note to self: look for new hobby. <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> But there's always CKII in case of boredom. Pretty damn hard to get bored in these days.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Damn. I HOPE Mount & Blade get released AFTER Andromeda <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> i must buy a new PC for this beast, andromeda will go on my Xbox One.</p><p> </p><p> I've finished Sleepings Dogs, man WHAT a game. Specific moments of the game were just hard to watch ( <span style="color:#FFFFFF;">The Wedding & the torture of Wei by Tong</span>) but beautiful game.</p><p> </p><p> Also finished Dragon Age : Inquisition. Good game. the DLC Trespasser is VERY good.</p>

[KidFantastic]

Anyone here playing Stardew Valley? Awesome farming/life sim game in the vein of Harvest Moon. Me and my 11yr old daughter can't stop playing!

[Blackman]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="KidFantastic" data-cite="KidFantastic" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Anyone here playing Stardew Valley? Awesome farming/life sim game in the vein of Harvest Moon. Me and my 11yr old daughter can't stop playing!</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I remember liking Harvest Moon on SNES back in the day. Also played the N64-version for a short while. Addictive games. I bought a similar game for my sister once called Rune Factory, but I spend money for nothing as she didn't feel like milking dragons. Should've looked at the reviews first. <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> Does this one really add extra elements? I looked at reviews that were very positive but most noted the addictiveness of the game. I assume that once you automate every action it's just romancing and some random events. But I guess that's the case for every game you 'finish'.</p>

[Wrestling Century]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="KidFantastic" data-cite="KidFantastic" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Anyone here playing Stardew Valley? Awesome farming/life sim game in the vein of Harvest Moon. Me and my 11yr old daughter can't stop playing!</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Yeah, its great. It reminds me of the original Harvest Moon, but with way more content and no time limit. I've accidentally spent entire nights playing it, thinking I'll just play an hour or two more, and next thing I know, it's morning. <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

[codey_v2]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="KidFantastic" data-cite="KidFantastic" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Anyone here playing Stardew Valley? Awesome farming/life sim game in the vein of Harvest Moon. Me and my 11yr old daughter can't stop playing!</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> It's absolutely addicting. I seriously keep pushing on just thinking I'll play only one more day.</p>

[moon_lit_tears]

<p>Yes. I play. </p><p> </p><p>

I played before they added the new farms </p><p> </p><p>

I made the mistake of using the forest farm and the mushrooms. I should have taken bats.</p><p> </p><p>

If you like Harvest moon it's worth checking out.</p>

[Dawn]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="K-Nection" data-cite="K-Nection" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>You said to press <strong>1</strong> so here it goes.......1</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I'll give the people what they asked for. Even if you were joking. I just need to tell the world how bad this game is. It's not even that terrible, it's just so arrogant, so irritating, and that's not what I look for when I'm playing a game during my free time.</p><p> </p><p> First problem is, the immersion/presentation. The arena sounds for offense and defense are mostly the same in every arena, even though that's not the case in real life. The Spurs have their ''Go Spurs Go'' sound, the Warriors have their nice own defense sounds, the Raptors have the ''Let's go Raptors'' sounds and etcetera. 2K must have felt like their own sounds would have been fun additions, but no, it breaks the feel for the game, at least for me. They did a good job with the unique, real life buzzer sounds, and SOME sounds are there like the Nets substitution whistle and ''Let's go Warriors'', but not enough at all compared to NBA Live, whose biggest pro is exactly the immersion, compared to a huge con in its gameplay. While 2K's gameplay is better, its cheesiness doesn't make it a hell lot better, but just a bit better. I'll get to that later. Back to the subject at hand, I don't think there are any problems in placing the sounds in the game, it's just 2K's laziness. I want to feel like I'm playing a real game, not a 2K product. UFC 2 makes me forget that I'm playing something made by EA and makes me think that I'm truly playing a real fight. NBA Live makes me forget thtat I'm playing something made by EA and makes me think that I'm playing a real basketball game. I want that.</p><p> </p><p> Commentary has improved, but hear me out for a second. The NEW third commentators are the improvement. Barry, Burke, Steve Smith, Webber, they all bring some fun opinions and discussions about the teams. Barry is the best one hands down. However, Harlan, Anthony and Kellogg are absolutely atrocious. The former two are a real shame because Harlan is great in real life and should definitely get a Finals gig for once (I do prefer Breen, and that brings my mind to a stalemate), and Anthony is not bad either based on a 2013 playoff game I watched last year. Kellogg based on this game makes me want to turn off a game if I ever see it's going to feature him on commentary. Thank goodness it's never happened yet. The reason for the hate? Well, they rarely complement your team on good plays, never complain about bad calls going either way like good real life commentators would do occasionally, throw the AI's greatness in your face when they do stuff that I will tell you about later, plus the fact that their dialogue is recycled as hell and yes, it's terrible. Kellogg is the worst, he suggests illogical stuff all the time, complains about your team the most, raves about the other team the most, and his voice is just not enjoyable to listen to. When you hit a big dunk, his lines sound like they came from a PS1 game. Hell, all his lines sound terrible and lazy and just good lord, he's terrible. I think you got the message. Breen and JVG have fewer lines in NBA Live but they're far more enjoyable to listen to and actually bring constructive arguments.</p><p> </p><p> Online is way better to play than offline when you find a good opponent, but more often than not you will face a dude who will jack up threes every possession, and he will most likely be using the Golden State Warriors. And they will always hit. All-Star, in which you choose a player from a specific position in a conference to play with 4 more players from that conference against 5 guys from the other conference, has the same problem. Playing with guys who move the ball to find the open man gives you a great time, but you might also be paired with ballhogs who never pass or face a team with a three point specialist who will jack up impossible threes that will hit either way. The ball movement is not a problem of the game per se, it just shows how mature the majority of this game's players are, but a solution would be nice. An option to send a video to 2K to prove that the player is making your experience bad or something. I don't know if that's possible. But moving on...</p><p> </p><p> MyTeam has improved, but the run and gun style of Domination is very tiresome and Blacktop is the second worst mode of the game. 99% of the players just jack up threes and win. There's no ball movement, so most of the time when I see it will go that way I just stand there and watch them do their ''magic''. The draft is a joke, since the game purposely gives you worse cards than the board has sometimes. Still, building your team is fun, the challenges are nice, and if you do enjoy running like an idiot every offensive possession for a dunk or a three, Domination will be fine as well. I'd say MyTeam as a whole is a pro, but Blacktop is terrible.</p><p> </p><p> MyLeague is the best mode of the game, so if you want a reason to buy it, it's a good one. You can control the whole league if you want, watch it develop, develop one team, two teams, all the teams yourself...it's another pro. But I'll tell you already that we are running out of them.</p><p> </p><p> MyGM has one small, simple problem...the players act like 2 year olds all the time. I have a 2016-2020 Lakers save, and currently, D'Angelo Russell, Brandon Ingram and Harrison Barnes are all pissed off at me. D'Lo is my franchise player and 3-time MVP of the league, so naturally I wanted to renew his contract when it came up. I did as soon as it did. Inexplicably, the next day he comes to me asking to renew his contract. I promise him that I will, since I have done it already. One week later he comes up and says that I broke my promise. WHAT? There isn't an option to tell him I've done it already, so I must promise him again. The next week, his morale goes to 0 and he's pissed at me, doesn't want to talk to me again, his overall drops to 86 (From 90) and hurts the overall morale since he's the team leader. Harrison Barnes, my sixth man, also has his morale dropped to 0 for two reasons...he wants me to drop the training intensity, so I do. However, Russell wants me to raise the intensity, so naturally I listen to the leader. Barnes comes out and requests the same thing he did before, so I take a look at the training menu and see that I'm able to drop Barnes' intensity and let the rest of the team like it is. For some reason, that doesn't count as his request, so he also tells me that I broke that promise. Not only that, but he also wants me to move Brandon Ingram (Who has a higher overall than Barnes) to sixth man and give him the starting job, even though he's had more minutes than Ingram and is a sixth man of the year candidate. I deny that request, his morale drops to 0, he calls me a tyrant. Very mature. When I move him to the starting role after this madness, Ingram gets pissed. Very freaking mature. But BUY LOADS OF VC and you will be able to give them some kool-aid and their morale will be back to 100! AMAZING!</p><p> </p><p> I'm almost done, just two more arguments here. MyCareer...is trash. The very worst mode of the game. First of all, forget realism in this mode. It's gone. The so much hyped story? Nonexistent. A way to improve skills, attributes? WELL, BUY MORE FREAKING VC, YOU MORON! If you're playing in a difficulty higher than Pro, prepare to have a major headache. The difficulties change nothing but the field goal percentage from your team and the other team. So basically, the easier ones mean you will hit more shots, the other team will miss more shots. The harder ones mean your team will jack up bad shots and miss all of them, the other team will jack up terrible shots and hit all of them. The guards will more often than not be ballhogs and look for the worst shot possible. If you play Golden State, there is no way to defend them, because there will always be an open man since your team can't defend and they will always hit their threes. I've lost a 30 point lead to them in a FOURTH QUARTER because my team settled for terrible shots and misses, while they jacked up and hit impossible threes with Curry, Thompson, Durant, Green, and my matchup FREAKING ZAZA PACHULIA who hit a 24-second buzzer beater in my face, which means it was a contested shot, do you think he hits threes in real life, open or contested? (He doesn't.) That's exactly what happens all the time when the AI runs the pick and roll, there's always someone open.</p><p> </p><p> When you use a Center, it's basically a game of who gets to the paint first. Let me elaborate, Ed Davis, a defensive-minded Center murders me with like 20 ppg every game I have against the Trail Blazers because this game likes it. Anderson Varejao, a freaking corpse at this point in real life from my beautiful country who flops to draw fouls and does nothing else in real life at this point, moves like he's Russell Westbrook and hits layups in my face. Pachulia hit a three in my face like I mentioned. He's not a shooter and much less a three point shooter. The AI will throw perfect baseball passes (Fullcourt passes) after a defensive rebound to their Center and if you're not there, it's two more points for them, so you can't defend anyone else who's truly an offensive threat who your team is failing to defend because the game doesn't want you to. If YOU try a baseball pass to someone else or your team tries a baseball pass to you, though, the AI will steal said pass 99% of the time. Also, you and your team can't defend for nothing, but the AI will stick like glue to you, which is VERY REALISTIC, and chances are, when you find an opening for a dunk or a layup, the magicians will still find a way to block your shot or draw a charge as soon as the ball makes its way to your hands. It's ridiculous. Your defender can be 20 feet away from you, but if someone gives you the ball for a three, he will become The Flash and find his way to contest your shot 99% of the time. Guys like Steve Nash will become Dwight Howard and block your shots to the stands from out of nowhere. Your team will never defend in transition. If you attempt to steal the ball one-on-one, it will most likely result in a reach-in foul, even if the reach-in animation doesn't activate, which means you basically get a foul for breathing. The AI will always be able to steal the ball from you when they try to. Glitches will be in favor of the AI 99% of the time, like shots going through the backboard and into the basket. The commentators will act like it's a realistic game and the AI's team is the greatest of all time as I said before, so this game will hurt your brain, your eyes and your ears. I don't recommend this kind of pain to any human being. Please do something better with your time.</p><p> </p><p> I won't even talk about MyPark, sharpshooters and the enormous glitches that ruin the fun in that mode. Find yourself a video or a thread to know more about that. I'm done with it.</p><p> </p><p> If you want a basketball game, do get NBA Live. The gameplay is also bad because rebounds are terrible, you can't rebound at all, but they actually try and bring something new every year, they actually try to give you a realistic game and I'm positive that NBA Live 17 will be a great game. 16 has many flaws on gameplay like rebounding, but it's a much slower, smarter game, people don't jack up threes all the time and there's way less cheesiness and much, much better presentation, immersion, and enjoyment.</p><p> </p><p> I'm done.</p>

[Timber]

GDQ is running all this week. I find the speed running to be pretty cool. It's always a good time and worth watching people destroy your favorite game. It's running on Twitch.

[Ayden]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Smasher1311" data-cite="Smasher1311" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I'll give the people what they asked for. Even if you were joking. I just need to tell the world how bad this game is. It's not even that terrible, it's just so arrogant, so irritating, and that's not what I look for when I'm playing a game during my free time.<p> </p><p> First problem is, the immersion/presentation. The arena sounds for offense and defense are mostly the same in every arena, even though that's not the case in real life. The Spurs have their ''Go Spurs Go'' sound, the Warriors have their nice own defense sounds, the Raptors have the ''Let's go Raptors'' sounds and etcetera. 2K must have felt like their own sounds would have been fun additions, but no, it breaks the feel for the game, at least for me. They did a good job with the unique, real life buzzer sounds, and SOME sounds are there like the Nets substitution whistle and ''Let's go Warriors'', but not enough at all compared to NBA Live, whose biggest pro is exactly the immersion, compared to a huge con in its gameplay. While 2K's gameplay is better, its cheesiness doesn't make it a hell lot better, but just a bit better. I'll get to that later. Back to the subject at hand, I don't think there are any problems in placing the sounds in the game, it's just 2K's laziness. I want to feel like I'm playing a real game, not a 2K product. UFC 2 makes me forget that I'm playing something made by EA and makes me think that I'm truly playing a real fight. NBA Live makes me forget thtat I'm playing something made by EA and makes me think that I'm playing a real basketball game. I want that.</p><p> </p><p> Commentary has improved, but hear me out for a second. The NEW third commentators are the improvement. Barry, Burke, Steve Smith, Webber, they all bring some fun opinions and discussions about the teams. Barry is the best one hands down. However, Harlan, Anthony and Kellogg are absolutely atrocious. The former two are a real shame because Harlan is great in real life and should definitely get a Finals gig for once (I do prefer Breen, and that brings my mind to a stalemate), and Anthony is not bad either based on a 2013 playoff game I watched last year. Kellogg based on this game makes me want to turn off a game if I ever see it's going to feature him on commentary. Thank goodness it's never happened yet. The reason for the hate? Well, they rarely complement your team on good plays, never complain about bad calls going either way like good real life commentators would do occasionally, throw the AI's greatness in your face when they do stuff that I will tell you about later, plus the fact that their dialogue is recycled as hell and yes, it's terrible. Kellogg is the worst, he suggests illogical stuff all the time, complains about your team the most, raves about the other team the most, and his voice is just not enjoyable to listen to. When you hit a big dunk, his lines sound like they came from a PS1 game. Hell, all his lines sound terrible and lazy and just good lord, he's terrible. I think you got the message. Breen and JVG have fewer lines in NBA Live but they're far more enjoyable to listen to and actually bring constructive arguments.</p><p> </p><p> Online is way better to play than offline when you find a good opponent, but more often than not you will face a dude who will jack up threes every possession, and he will most likely be using the Golden State Warriors. And they will always hit. All-Star, in which you choose a player from a specific position in a conference to play with 4 more players from that conference against 5 guys from the other conference, has the same problem. Playing with guys who move the ball to find the open man gives you a great time, but you might also be paired with ballhogs who never pass or face a team with a three point specialist who will jack up impossible threes that will hit either way. The ball movement is not a problem of the game per se, it just shows how mature the majority of this game's players are, but a solution would be nice. An option to send a video to 2K to prove that the player is making your experience bad or something. I don't know if that's possible. But moving on...</p><p> </p><p> MyTeam has improved, but the run and gun style of Domination is very tiresome and Blacktop is the second worst mode of the game. 99% of the players just jack up threes and win. There's no ball movement, so most of the time when I see it will go that way I just stand there and watch them do their ''magic''. The draft is a joke, since the game purposely gives you worse cards than the board has sometimes. Still, building your team is fun, the challenges are nice, and if you do enjoy running like an idiot every offensive possession for a dunk or a three, Domination will be fine as well. I'd say MyTeam as a whole is a pro, but Blacktop is terrible.</p><p> </p><p> MyLeague is the best mode of the game, so if you want a reason to buy it, it's a good one. You can control the whole league if you want, watch it develop, develop one team, two teams, all the teams yourself...it's another pro. But I'll tell you already that we are running out of them.</p><p> </p><p> MyGM has one small, simple problem...the players act like 2 year olds all the time. I have a 2016-2020 Lakers save, and currently, D'Angelo Russell, Brandon Ingram and Harrison Barnes are all pissed off at me. D'Lo is my franchise player and 3-time MVP of the league, so naturally I wanted to renew his contract when it came up. I did as soon as it did. Inexplicably, the next day he comes to me asking to renew his contract. I promise him that I will, since I have done it already. One week later he comes up and says that I broke my promise. WHAT? There isn't an option to tell him I've done it already, so I must promise him again. The next week, his morale goes to 0 and he's pissed at me, doesn't want to talk to me again, his overall drops to 86 (From 90) and hurts the overall morale since he's the team leader. Harrison Barnes, my sixth man, also has his morale dropped to 0 for two reasons...he wants me to drop the training intensity, so I do. However, Russell wants me to raise the intensity, so naturally I listen to the leader. Barnes comes out and requests the same thing he did before, so I take a look at the training menu and see that I'm able to drop Barnes' intensity and let the rest of the team like it is. For some reason, that doesn't count as his request, so he also tells me that I broke that promise. Not only that, but he also wants me to move Brandon Ingram (Who has a higher overall than Barnes) to sixth man and give him the starting job, even though he's had more minutes than Ingram and is a sixth man of the year candidate. I deny that request, his morale drops to 0, he calls me a tyrant. Very mature. When I move him to the starting role after this madness, Ingram gets pissed. Very freaking mature. But BUY LOADS OF VC and you will be able to give them some kool-aid and their morale will be back to 100! AMAZING!</p><p> </p><p> I'm almost done, just two more arguments here. MyCareer...is trash. The very worst mode of the game. First of all, forget realism in this mode. It's gone. The so much hyped story? Nonexistent. A way to improve skills, attributes? WELL, BUY MORE FREAKING VC, YOU MORON! If you're playing in a difficulty higher than Pro, prepare to have a major headache. The difficulties change nothing but the field goal percentage from your team and the other team. So basically, the easier ones mean you will hit more shots, the other team will miss more shots. The harder ones mean your team will jack up bad shots and miss all of them, the other team will jack up terrible shots and hit all of them. The guards will more often than not be ballhogs and look for the worst shot possible. If you play Golden State, there is no way to defend them, because there will always be an open man since your team can't defend and they will always hit their threes. I've lost a 30 point lead to them in a FOURTH QUARTER because my team settled for terrible shots and misses, while they jacked up and hit impossible threes with Curry, Thompson, Durant, Green, and my matchup FREAKING ZAZA PACHULIA who hit a 24-second buzzer beater in my face, which means it was a contested shot, do you think he hits threes in real life, open or contested? (He doesn't.) That's exactly what happens all the time when the AI runs the pick and roll, there's always someone open.</p><p> </p><p> When you use a Center, it's basically a game of who gets to the paint first. Let me elaborate, Ed Davis, a defensive-minded Center murders me with like 20 ppg every game I have against the Trail Blazers because this game likes it. Anderson Varejao, a freaking corpse at this point in real life from my beautiful country who flops to draw fouls and does nothing else in real life at this point, moves like he's Russell Westbrook and hits layups in my face. Pachulia hit a three in my face like I mentioned. He's not a shooter and much less a three point shooter. The AI will throw perfect baseball passes (Fullcourt passes) after a defensive rebound to their Center and if you're not there, it's two more points for them, so you can't defend anyone else who's truly an offensive threat who your team is failing to defend because the game doesn't want you to. If YOU try a baseball pass to someone else or your team tries a baseball pass to you, though, the AI will steal said pass 99% of the time. Also, you and your team can't defend for nothing, but the AI will stick like glue to you, which is VERY REALISTIC, and chances are, when you find an opening for a dunk or a layup, the magicians will still find a way to block your shot or draw a charge as soon as the ball makes its way to your hands. It's ridiculous. Your defender can be 20 feet away from you, but if someone gives you the ball for a three, he will become The Flash and find his way to contest your shot 99% of the time. Guys like Steve Nash will become Dwight Howard and block your shots to the stands from out of nowhere. Your team will never defend in transition. If you attempt to steal the ball one-on-one, it will most likely result in a reach-in foul, even if the reach-in animation doesn't activate, which means you basically get a foul for breathing. The AI will always be able to steal the ball from you when they try to. Glitches will be in favor of the AI 99% of the time, like shots going through the backboard and into the basket. The commentators will act like it's a realistic game and the AI's team is the greatest of all time as I said before, so this game will hurt your brain, your eyes and your ears. I don't recommend this kind of pain to any human being. Please do something better with your time.</p><p> </p><p> I won't even talk about MyPark, sharpshooters and the enormous glitches that ruin the fun in that mode. Find yourself a video or a thread to know more about that. I'm done with it.</p><p> </p><p> If you want a basketball game, do get NBA Live. The gameplay is also bad because rebounds are terrible, you can't rebound at all, but they actually try and bring something new every year, they actually try to give you a realistic game and I'm positive that NBA Live 17 will be a great game. 16 has many flaws on gameplay like rebounding, but it's a much slower, smarter game, people don't jack up threes all the time and there's way less cheesiness and much, much better presentation, immersion, and enjoyment.</p><p> </p><p> I'm done.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I don't even know where to start...</p>

[K-Nection]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Smasher1311" data-cite="Smasher1311" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>If you want a basketball game, do get NBA Live. The gameplay is also bad because rebounds are terrible, you can't rebound at all, but they actually try and bring something new every year, they actually try to give you a realistic game and I'm positive that NBA Live 17 will be a great game. 16 has many flaws on gameplay like rebounding, but it's a much slower, smarter game, people don't jack up threes all the time and there's way less cheesiness and much, much better presentation, immersion, and enjoyment.<p> </p><p> I'm done.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> That is probably the first time in mankind's history I seen someone recommend NBA Live over 2k</p>