NBA 2k13 Demo Impressions

MattDoza said:
The game is out tomorrow, maybe the servers aren't fully up and running? Trying to remain optimistic about something that has never given reason to be.
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The dreamcast servers they use have been running since 2000!
 
MattDoza said:
The presentation package is kind of ugly, I agree. I get like a "pimp my ride" vibe from it lol. Going the route of just using what TNT uses doesn't sound like a bad idea, to me, for 2K14.
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Judging by the feedback so far, this will likely be the first year where I use some interface mods.
 
CB3 said:
Bryan Wiedey ‏@pastapadre
Early reports regarding online play for NBA 2K13 not encouraging. Going to be hard to justify MyTeam if online performance is still poor.
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This tweet so vague. I am not saying the gentleman is wrong, but it fails to mention what is specifically wrong and who is giving the early reports. One of the negatives of 140 character limit I suppose.
 
It makes me sad that 2K always believes they've fixed the issues (and early reviews indicate as such) only to have it fall over once they get to the actual scale of users. That's just the web developer in me speaking, as I don't even play these games online, but assuming it follows this same pattern again I really question how they can't invest a few marbles in a decent team to build a scalable backend.
 
Does Smokey plan on doing another OT? I can throw something together, but I don't have time to make extremely comprehensive or sexy.
 
mbmonk said:
Does Smokey plan on doing another OT? I can throw something together, but I don't have time to make extremely comprehensive or sexy.
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you can if you want the one i made last year wasn't special or anything

its a sport game. gaf doesnt really care about sports games all that much, so the OP doesn't need to be flashy or anything. go for it
 
Smokey said:
you can if you want the one i made last year wasn't special or anything

its a sport game. gaf doesnt really care about sports games all that much, so the OP doesn't need to be flashy or anything. go for it
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Okay. Thanks. I will try to throw something together tonight.

Everyone please keep your expectations in check for the OT. I have a newborn @ home and most of my time after work is spent relieving my wife of caring for the new addition. NOTE: I am not complaining :)
 
mbmonk said:
Okay. Thanks. I will try to throw something together tonight.

Everyone please keep your expectations in check for the OT. I have a newborn @ home and most of my time after work is spent relieving my wife of caring for the new addition. NOTE: I am not complaining :)
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Cool

the subtitle of the of the thread is what's the most important!

you can copy the controls into the OP as a quote, those will be really helpful
 
CB3 said:
Bryan Wiedey ‏@pastapadre
Early reports regarding online play for NBA 2K13 not encouraging. Going to be hard to justify MyTeam if online performance is still poor.

It is what it always is.
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Shits always just been good enough for league play. I'm used to it. If you want to get all the features you paid for to play online then you're getting scammed but that'd be naieve.

Sad tho.
 
Dark FaZe said:
Shits always just been good enough for league play. I'm used to it. If you want to get all the features you paid for to play online then you're getting scammed but that'd be naieve.

Sad tho.
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The real problem is one guy with a bad connection can effect the entire game. I have had several great online 5 on 5's where it would suck really bad until random player A drops then it's butter.
 
mbmonk said:
So was the all-star game a part of previous 2k games? Did they pull that out and make it part of preorder bonus DLC? If so, that just seems... wrong.



:P
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All-Star game was however the Dunk Contest, 3PT contest, Celebrity Game, and Rising Stars game are all new I think.
 
Dark FaZe said:
Shits always just been good enough for league play. I'm used to it. If you want to get all the features you paid for to play online then you're getting scammed but that'd be naieve.

Sad tho.
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Im pretty sure league play was fully broken last year or the year before. Not to mention the countless times we went through a league only for it to break in the playoffs.
 
mbmonk said:
So was the all-star game a part of previous 2k games? Did they pull that out and make it part of preorder bonus DLC? If so, that just seems... wrong.
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It reminds me of the Scouting Combine they had released stand alone, pre-2K10. Then was included in My Player the following game. Then disappeared :(.

I've hated All-Star weekend and what it's been the past few years. So I don't feel bad about not getting it.
 
MattDoza said:
It reminds me of the Scouting Combine they had released stand alone, pre-2K10. Then was included in My Player the following game. Then disappeared :(.

I've hated All-Star weekend and what it's been the past few years. So I don't feel bad about not getting it.
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I just like the idea of killing all of the contests in myplayer.
 
Amazon download for PC version is listed as October 16th, hopefully that's wrong or doesn't apply to Steam. They better not make me go buy this thing at a store.
 
PotatoeMasher said:
Amazon download for PC version is listed as October 16th, hopefully that's wrong or doesn't apply to Steam. They better not make me go buy this thing at a store.
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The website does say PC DVD 10/2.

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CB3 said:
Im pretty sure league play was fully broken last year or the year before. Not to mention the countless times we went through a league only for it to break in the playoffs.
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It wasn't broken last year. It worked. They just removed a lot of control from commish and had stupid stuff like auto advance on.

Ecnal posted a slide that said the regular features of years past in the leagues have been brought back.

Still has to work tho
 
welp, just ordered this, not entirely sure why, but I haven't owned a nba game since 2k8 although I've played them since, mostly getting this for myplayer, played it a little in 2k11, hopefully its improved
 
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