NBA 2K9 Video: Lakers vs. Celtics

[blingballa333]

Quote: Originally Posted by blues rocker

after seeing these gameplay vids i am VERY disappointed. the game looks EXACTLY the same as last year with slightly improved graphics. same problems persist - crappy passing, inapproporiate shot animations, clunky animations that are too slow, poor spacing and strategy by the AI, sluggish and unresponsive post game...the list goes on. live is looking better and better - 2k slacked off this year and did nothing...this might be the year that live passes 2k

Slightly Improved graphics? You are blind. And what also makes no, how can say that the post game is unresponsive when you haven't even played the game. And to the bolded part, well.............

[barrist]

Quote: Originally Posted by blues rocker

after seeing these gameplay vids i am VERY disappointed. the game looks EXACTLY the same as last year with slightly improved graphics. same problems persist - crappy passing, inapproporiate shot animations, clunky animations that are too slow, poor spacing and strategy by the AI, sluggish and unresponsive post game...the list goes on. live is looking better and better - 2k slacked off this year and did nothing...this might be the year that live passes 2k

Haven't heard that one before...

[NINJAK2]

Quote: Originally Posted by HeavenlyTouch

In conclusion, hire Steve Kerr. Man.. if we only got Doug Collins..

I like Doug Collins but I'd really like to hear Hubie Brown do work on one of these games (2k hopefully). He is the best in the business in my opinion and his team/ play breakdown are second to none imo.

[Gmoney2002]

Quote: Originally Posted by bizcanos

After viewing this thing many times the Paul Pierce play just shows AI is quite not there yet. If you look at the play, Pierce was actually about to run to his spot in the play but got stuck behind Bynum and then he stopped and just walked to the spot. Getting stuck behiind Bynum appeared to confuse the AI. In real life he would have pushed off of Bynum to get to his spot. Just my 2 cents..

Agreed biz. The play wasn't broken technically. As you said probably because the A.I didn't have a free path to the end point of the play, it calculates it as broken. If he had continued through, he would've had a wide open shot. Either way it only happened once during the video.

I will say though although the playcalling is not at Live's level, it is vastly improved from last year. Players get into their sets much quicker...

[Starrtech]

I'd love Jeff Van Gundy, Marc Jackson and that other guy whose name escapes me right now.

[reptilexcq]

I buy NBA2k to play online, NEVER for offline. But this year....based on the AIs, i might spend a little time on it. The AIs of the previous games have been trashed and unappealing...but this year...i have to admit based on some of the videos....they play way better and much smarter and at least give the human a challenge. I don't see perfection though as i already detect some flaws to the AIs...but overall, it's a HUGE improvement in a mode that hardly improve at all.

I am just excited to see what it feels like to play it and if the gameplay is more responsive or not. 2k8 is not very responsive due to unbreakable canned animations....and as a result feel very slow. Glad they bring the 2k7 speed back.

[BigRan]

First things 1st.....

Thanks to OS for putting up the videos of your beta copy and at least helping to give out info on this game.

Now onto my thoughts of the game....

From the videos I am not impressed with 2k9..... but again, for the last 2 games I was not impressed by the videos but once I got the game in my hand it was a different story.

I am a sim guy (like most of you) and it is disappointing to see how long it takes for plays to develop. this was one of my pet-peeves online as well...becuase if you tried to run plays it would take forever for something to develop.

Also, after playing Live09, the court seems to be incredibly cramped. You have almost no time to get free to do anything.

Last but not least, I was EXTREMELY disappointing to hear that TERRIBLE commentary. It is VERY annoying. I can listen to Live's commentary all-day long and it never gts old......even when I know the little ancedotes that Steve Kerr is going to give...it just sounds very 'real'.

Anyway, I will reserve final judgement until I play the demo.

Now with all of that said is 2k a bad game. No....far from it..... It's just that Live has shown us how to do some things better than 2k now, and it is demanding for 2k to have to step up and make some major changes to some things.

[MrSimCity]

"SLIDER SPEED" wise, this is clearly the 2K8 setting, and its where it should be...people who had a problem with the speed setting don't know basketball all too well