NBA 2K16: Sports Game of the Year Once More (Roundtable)

[SirGaryColeman]

I watched an IGN and Gamespot YouTube video where the reviewer basically didn't know how to play basketball and just loved how the graphics looked.

They didn't try the online mode - which was BROKEN for the majority of the launch... ProAm did not even work at all (how do you win an award when a major selling point of the game didn't work?).

These reviews and awards are from non sports fans, so they just pick the one with the best graphics.

[Junior Moe]

I very much agree. 2K16 is my game if the year. Congrats team!!

[swac07]

Quote: Originally Posted by Junior Moe

I very much agree. 2K16 is my game if the year. Congrats team!!

DITTO. ....

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[authentic]

Quote: Originally Posted by tril

"The game has something for eveyone", except for those that love defense. The game is good, but this is the first year that I disagree with NBA2k being game of the year. Again, the defensive game clearly does not work as intended, its to the point that its maddening. maybe there is a difference between the console versions and the pc version. 2k15 can hold me over till next year.

It's not unrealistic. The NBA hardly has any defense anymore, besides maybe, maybe a handful of teams.


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[iam31yearsold]

2k11 still holds up to 2k16 on the court. Dated in some areas, but actually better in others.

Put in any other game from 2011 and it will be night and day from 2016.

Keep giving 2k GOTY year after year, it still hasn't changed much...or for the better...in 6 years. Besides graphics and customization, the 2011 version of me would of thought we would of been way further along by now in 2k.

If Baseball was more popular, MLB The Show would win every year.

And typically, in 2k, not all the modes work all the time, something is always going wrong. I find my niche and live within it, but honestly, for a video game developer to annually release a game where modes and systems plain do not work...is Busch league. It's routine with 2k. The game is so complex with 100 modes and 100 systems something is bound to mess up, but I don't see this with any other game, this often, this routine every year.

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[tril]

Quote: Originally Posted by authentic

It's not unrealistic. The NBA hardly has any defense anymore, besides maybe, maybe a handful of teams. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

you are right. I like the 90s and early 2000s style of basketball.
the last few years its been all offense. its like the showtime Lakers on over drive.

Im figuring out more and more about 2k16. so I guess setting up practices really ways heavily this year also.

my team has all of sudden started performing better defensively, but Im not sure why.
I adjusted the practices to make them defensive heavy
-also I traded players that were bring my teams moral down.
the game also received an update.

the improvement in defense might be a combination of all three things. I dont know. but the last few games have been night and day. Ims till on an 11 game losing streak though. but I have seen less breakdowns in defense.

[tril]

I seriously dont know what happened to the game between yesterday and today.
I had tons of complaints prior to today.
now, the game is playing like SGOTY. geesh I cant put the game down now.
The PC version must have definitely gotten some type of update that improved the gameplay.

I just played a game where the cpu controlled team double teamed ANthony Davis every tiem he touched the ball, the fact that Anthony Davis didnt even establish himself in said game, makes it awesome.
From the tip off each time Davis got the ball in the paint they were double teaming. I had to search for other offensive weapons.
I had to run some plays where Davis was at teh top of the key and had to run him off of picks to get some open looks. very nice!!!!!!

the defense is also improved.
thanks 2k. I was about to give up on this game, but now I cant put it down. hopefully this lasts

[iam31yearsold]

Quote: Originally Posted by coolcras7

At lest 2k16 get one award, for some reason all the other website decided the best sports game was a game where a car played football

Because it is a well made, balanced, competitive online game, that is fair and challenging.

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