NBA 2K13 Video - Developer Insight #3: Animations

[The 24th Letter]

From the responses I've seen I figured the video started....they said "we added stuff" and it went off....

It's an Insight, not a gameplay vid....they honestly could've written what they said but I appreciated the video....I for one. am intrigued by the focus on animations..

[jfsolo]

I'm glad that the animators got some pub. Those folks do work every year and never get any run. Big ups to them for once again doing a top shelf job.

[Goffs]

Quote: Originally Posted by wrestlinggod1

I get the joke but this is the 2k insider we're talking about here...

he has no place in this insight...I actually enjoyed seeing the people working on the animation part of the game...

so will the art team be in the dark as well if they have an insight? That team isn't exactly popular either....

[Sundown]

Quote: Originally Posted by GSWarriors9

Yea Lee really needs a new face. We can only hope they can fix that and they finally got the right jersey color for the Warriors away uni's. The last 2 games haven't had the right color at all and it sucks because they have the right color in the game with the Warriors throwback teams

The did improve the colors last year. It's at least darkish blue-- the year before it was almost a powder blue. They also vastly improved colors for Oracle Arena though it's not quite there. It's really odd that they can't quite get colors right after repeated requests for years, while we can get major changes in gameplay based on forum and community feedback. It's like there's a zone of silence around the art team responsible for textures and models that insulates them from requested changes. Maybe they're being outsourced to 2K China and the lines of communications aren't as direct.

Wonder if that also has anything to do with us not getting a single mid season player art/hair update even though the system for it was heavily promoted during 2K's release.

[artmind]

NBA Live has no chance at all!

[Shumpert21]

Quote: Originally Posted by artmind

NBA Live has no chance at all!

they never had.

[alecast]

This video is useless.
They talked about "4000 animations" that have beenn added to the game, but didn`t show us 5 of them!
Is it about talking or about showing us what the game really is?
Pfffffff.

[TreyIM2]

I gotta admit, this would mean nothing to me if they never changed the controls. I've said for year, THIS is apart of what 2K does best. Nothing new but I NOW get excited knowing the game is going to have analog dribbling. MAJOR game changer for me so now knowing they have over 4,000 animations excites the ish out of me....but this vid really didn't show much....but I don't care cuz I know what's coming