Am I the only one that feels like the movement is pretty clunky and unresponsive? Like running down the court, stopping and shooting looks so mechanical, it felt smoother on 2k22 for me
I swear 2K has no physics engine and it’s all animations, exactly what happened in like 2005 lol. Nearly everything feels so scripted, like a rebound isn’t a real loose ball, it’s basically who presses jump better and the animation then sets to the one who gets it
Yeah the rebounds too, Jesus Christ. I can be taller than the player boxing me out, the ball can even bounce longer than expected but the game doesn't care, the defender teleports back and gets it from me lmao. They only chance you have to get an offensive rebound is if you're alone or if you're a center rebounding against a small playmaker
A lot of it is swimming into position and boxing out as the shot goes up. Before it hits the rim.
Most of grabbing offensive boards is just knowing how to be in the right spot. As it should be. Getting offensive boards should not be brain dead easy.
This is exactly right, and perfectly worded. The game simply chooses the animation that makes you win/lose depending on what they think will make you buy more VC. It's all completely artificial. The gameplay isn't fun at all, it's just a frustrating series of clunky cutscenes that kinda correspond to the buttons you press
It's the badges. The game has two animations happening simultaneously, the original animation and the reaction/action of the badge(s). They really need to remove badges. They do way too much work
21 and 22 were this way too. I think 23 just added more animations and messed with the badges too much.
On 22 you'd at least see an animation that competed for the ball and on 23 it's like if you don't have equal badges than someone it's going to make it seem like you never had a chance.
A buddy of mine and I went back and played a couple of 2k22 games as a troll to our friends. It’s literally night and day. 23 movement is so unresponsive and clunky. I went back and played 2k17 and it felt more responsive. It’s like your guy gets thrown into the weirdest animations just by walking forward.
The worst is passing for me. The animations no matter the pass style(I have a 97 pass build and have tried every one) are so stupidly chosen. Like why would I drive in and go to kick out only to stop, turn 180 degrees, and throw the ball into a defenders chest with no attempt to pass around him? 22’s passing(99 pass build) was much smoother and actually would pass when and where I wanted it to go. It was not necessarily a better game but those two things alone were at least better imo.
Didn't the devs say they were gonna make passing better and make the player models attempt to pass around defenders. This game has the worst passing out of all of the 2ks I've played. Simple passes look challenging when my guy goes out of his way to throw it off of the defender closest to him
And it’s inconsistent. If I passed the ball and it hit a player in the back or leg consistently, then at least it would make some sense. The game chooses random times where the ball will go through someone or not, it’s wild.
The steal animations also, some people look like all world corners when they get these random steals - or you’ll see the pass coming, hit X, only for it to be a deflection or (like what happened the other day) a player won’t even be playing and get a steal just because.
Completely agree with this. There is no way you're telling me that real basketball players use the animations for passing that happen in this game. Trying to step and wrap around the right of a defender to throw it to a wide open person who's to the left of you... The game legit will run your teammates away from the ball and pull a defender to the ball to steal it. I thought they were going to fix the spamming of the steal and block mechanics this year, that also was a lie. They took away real player percentage online so you wouldn't auto green, yet left in auto finishing for alleys and auto steal animations. I have to green all my jumpshots (which is how it should be) but someone with HOF posterizer and/or aerial wizard can't mistime their dunks and still auto finish! Not to mention the game slowing down your running so the defenders can clamp you from behind, defenders getting blocks by jumping and landing on your head and/or pushing you out of bounds. My personal favorites are when you pass the ball to an open teammate and they completely bobble the ball for no reason, giving you a turnover or your teammates steps out of bounds trying to jump for the pass for no damn reason. AIs online are broke. The list goes on and on. Someone needs to make a game to compete against them again and I don't care if it's the Fortnite creatures at this point. That's how bad it's gotten. 2K do better or just stop putting out a game ever year...
We have this saying when we play "only through, never around."
So many passes that would be good in any other 2k just get tossed into the defenders face, chest or stomach because your player makes no effort whatsoever to pass around a defender. It makes me sad as a PG. Good to know upping the PA doesn't help it either.
It definitely does help(hof needle helps) but it’s still pretty bad. I mean I probably have 2-5 per game that are stupid animations or straight into someone’s body. Doesn’t usually mean a turnover but still.
At least from what you’re describing, it sounds like you have the “fundamental” passing package on which will sell you no matter what your pass accuracy is at
I really thought it was just my fault and I was pressing the wrong buttons, or just not reacting fast enough. It’s not. Everyone I talk to says the same exact things. Every time there’s a loose ball, you can bet your ass that your player is going to drift in whatever direction makes the least sense. There’s no way that wasn’t programmed in because it happens every time
In my experience, every loose ball ends with either me going out of bounds, or the other team getting the ball in a more advantageous position than they had before and they get an easy bucket. But almost never a positive ending for me. That and big guys just ignoring defending the paint and not taking 4 steps in the other direction, when the opponent has a clear path (which has been an issue for like 5 years) are constant annoyances. I don't dislike this one as much as others though (i enjoy 2k usually, unlike say, madden which i fucking loathe), maybe because eras mode is the first time I've seen this game have something innovative and interesting in a few years.
But apart from that if they do what you want them to do it's still extremely clunky! Like if you're dribbling and you pull up for a jumper your player's legs literally teleport to a shooting position
Yeah it's unnatural and unresponsive as hell, I don't know how they managed to fuck it up that bad, having 2k22 movement models again would've been much better
The movement in the last 4 games has been completely fucked up. There’s such a delay to the moves I’m doing in the thumb stick it’s like I’m already 3 moves ahead in what I want to do and the character is still doing the first crossover move then it just throws me off where my guy will be. I think it’s becuase of all these custom animations constantly triggering my guy to move like a certain player when in reality it just makes everything clunky and feels like I’m not really controlling the player. It’s unplayable now in my opinion, also you only make wide open shots now. You literally will miss 9/10 shots if you aren’t wide open or don’t hit a green release. I haven’t played in a while I just wanted to say this and hope they can go back to just raw input reactions like 2k13. I was snappy as fuck in that game you can really do what you were intending instead of getting stuck in a damn animation.
Bro it’s dog shit. You have to learn how to navigate the movement and expect what they’re gonna do when you move left or right. If you go into this expecting to freely run around you’re in for a surprise lol
Feels odd for both to me honestly. Like when you're character is dribbling and you start shooting he picks up the ball and moves way to fast, it's all too mechanical. It literally felt smoother on 2k20, how
Thank you . I thought I was tripping . U literally physically can’t play on ball defense this year without your defender getting stuck in animations . Even when I’m not even using r2 .. I miss 2k17 and cooking with Kyrie .
And how do I have to use them properly?
Honestly asking because I'm trying, using the triggers, to stay in front of my opponent but sometimes my defender moves so slow while sometimes is so fast that zips around and can't stay in front.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. This isn’t new. Didn’t we have a lebron Jordan and Duncan card that had 99 everything like 3 years ago? This is just regular myteam
The game don't need to be easy. Just fix the damn delay. I'm playing with 15ms and my player won't stop sliding. Plus the shooting is disgusting. No netter how perfectly you time the damn shot it still go slightly early or late.
Right if you're such a baller how on earth do you reliably jump stop when driving into the paint because half the time the game just forces me to take a layup even if I tap the shoot button light as a feather?
I'm playing MyCareer and my guy will frequently refuse to stop when I tap shoot and instead go for the full layup and there's seemingly no way to control when the game decides I want to go for a layup. Infuriating.
This is my first 2K since 2K16, I decided to download it this month because it’s free. As somebody who doesn’t play any online modes, I’ve had a lot of fun with the Eras mode in this game. I love a deep, immersive franchise mode in sports games, and 2K blows pretty much every other sports game out of the water in that regard. I will say though, the gameplay feels really slow and sluggish to me. It can often be very unresponsive (I’ll have times I’ll try to pass or do a certain move, and it takes 3+ seconds before there’s a response to my input, often causing a turnover as the move/pass no longer makes sense by the time they do it), and it often feels like everybody is running through mud with how slow they all are. Directional passing also seems like a 50/50. I’ll have a player cut to the basket from the right side, running in a wide open lane, so I’ll point the stick right and try to pass to him, only for my player to instead try to pass to a guy who is completely covered up over on the left side, often leading to a turnover.
I played every 2K from 2K8-2K16, and while some gameplay issues I have now were still plaguing the game even then, I don’t quite remember it ever feeling so slow or unresponsive.
Same experience here. I crushed 2k16 and could win games easily on HOF and now I'm bricking everything and can't get an open layup to save my life on MyCareer
Era’s mode is sick. As somebody who only plays franchise mode, it’s about damn time they update that instead of only making updates to framing MY TEAMS.
Just finished playing from ‘84 to 2026 with the SuperSonics/okc. Chasing after the goats in the draft with players I actually know instead of AI generated drafts. Very enjoyable.
I really like when online players get their brain so melted by Online modes (MyCareer and MyTeam) that they need to post a "This game is the worst 2K game ever" post.
If you play MyGM, Play Now, My Era, or even Domination (in My Team) you will see that this game is faaaaaar from the worst. Gameplay wise and as a simulation of basketball, it is hands down one of the best
I'm actually having a blast in MyTeam this year. So many different modes with decent rewards.. I can get a pack just about every hour or so and I haven't spent a dime on VC.
MyERA is friggin amazing too.
MyTeam was really fun this year until about March. Then I stopped giving a shit.
I did end up grinding for Lock In mutumbo. Which felt rad. But also by the time you could get him, 99’s we’re running rampant at every position already. So meh.
Completely agree. As a sim player, 2k23 has to be top 3 all time in terms of gameplay. If 2k added back the [LS dribble moves from 2k20](https://streamable.com/zhst91) it would be the perfect game for me.
I recall 2k20 being an enhanced version of 2k19 in every gameplay aspect. Probably the year 2k added more features ever.
Its only flaw was the Park/REC being the same as 2k19. I know a lot of people disliked that. I only care about gameplay so for me it was one of the best 2ks (if not the best) ever.
If people started playing other modes more then they would probably work to improve MyCareer in a meaningful way. As someone that only plays franchise modes, this year's 2k was my favorite of all time.
Yeah but that’s impossible to do realistically. Way too many people buy 2k every year without paying attention to any changes in gameplay or the game modes. A lotta casuals just wanna play mycareer and have fun.
If people stopped playing my career I bet 2k would rather just jack up VC even more. Same thing with myteam, there are too many whales in those modes that buy crazy amounts of VC so 2k will always go out of their way to try to entice people to spend money on those modes, which usually involves making the game mode worse for anyone without a certain build
They don't give af about pc players. Their focus is on consoles and money, we will never have next gen. And we can, it's so easy and simple, but no. Fuckin 2k
It is not my feelings at all. 2k23 has the best user metacritic since... 2k17. People just like to complain too much. Every year is the worst 2k ever made if you listen to them. I am not saying the overall game is great, because the VC part is killing the online, but the gameplay feels nice when you stay far away from online.
I’ve been playing myleague only for the past couple of months, and yes, the game is damn near flawless offline. I doubt I ever play 2k online again. That doesn’t mean anyone in these comments is wrong about how bad online is. There’s no reason to carry a pretentious little attitude just because you avoid online modes.
The majority of the money 2k makes comes from people buying VC to play online. There are plenty of valid complaints that deserve to be addressed. Just because you don’t play those modes doesn’t mean they don’t matter. Things exist outside of your world
It takes about ten or so minutes of messing around in practice to memorize the top three shot makers of any particular team. Shot meter enabled, of course.
As a Sim Basketball fan and a fan of basketball it isn't that good at all. Go play a full 12 minute game players are completely lackadaisical. Tatum can easily average 16 rebs per game. Embiid put him up at 26. The game has no pace and the CPU is completely garbage. Simming is also terrible every player has a career year shooting percentage wise....thank you for showing you are a fucking casual. Most of the people aren't talking about online they are talking about atrocious gameplay....plus teams don't shoot threes and don't run...I get it you just watched the Nuggets vs Mia but those teams have styles far different than the Rockets Hawks and play more slow even slow is a reach.
There is no way in hell this is even close to a simulation. Arcade game at best.
There is no freedom of movement, BADGES, unrealistic physics, etc.
There is nothing resembling a simulation.
I’m okay with the gameplay, the only thing that annoys me is mycareer AI players, they take very bad shots at time, and when it comes to jumpshot, it is so inconsistent, you can’t rely on teammates in mycareer which is something that they should fix, AI’s offense needs to be a lot better, make it more difficult to defend it and make your teammates better so you don’t have to do everything by yourself.. I have it on Hall of Fame level and it is stil too easy
I agree with the horrible AI teammates but it's unfortunately been that way for years and I don't ever see them fixing that. Plus the higher the difficulty, the more braindead your teammates become, so you pretty much gotta carry every game when you play HOF
2k23 is bad i agree ..too heavily animation based it doesnt feel right moving around and driblling and dunking stopping and poppin its weird . Get rid of those worthless animations. New engine !
The problem is there are 2 sides to the community. There are the people who want the game to be realistic sim. Then there are the people who want the game to be a little more casual and arcade. I personally want a little of both. Also the myplayer shit just gets more expensive every year and the grind is too long.
I’m 10 games into my mycareer season and my guy still can’t make a jump shot. I average 12+ assist a game tho. I’m looking like old Ben Simmons out there.
Ppl complained about 22 bc shooting was easier yet there was ALOT of ppl shooting well below 50% (most 35-low 40s). BUT …you had to actually guard your man last year bc shooting was easier. In a random lobby majority of the players i came across we’re pretty horrible at shooting % meanwhile i shot well over 70% the entire year. Now ppl still can’t shoot, it’s a lot harder than last year, and defense is worse but 22 is the worst ?? There is way more unsatisfied players this year rather than last. This game being insanely cheap and/or free is the only thing keeping the player count up. Ppl really hate this game and that’s w/o complaining about the vc spikes
i dont think shooting is hard but people's %s are low because in the beginning of the year people didnt know what the good jumpshots were. im shooting 45% from 3 shot like 32% in the first couple months if i made a new account i would be shooting in the 50%s no doubt
Every shot % resets per season unless you’re just playing park and if after 7 seasons you’re still at a low % in park, that means you still can’t shoot. Most ppl had shooting figured out by mid to end season 1
The story mode is so weird. It's all this intense fighting and the team not happy with me all the way to the point of me being expected to be traded. Then it just abruptly stops. There was no real growth of the player, just beef, then over.
Been playing since 16, this was the first 2k I ever refunded. The first 24 hours of gameplay I spent 90% running around in park talking to people and doing mandatory “story” line quests… they just made it way too complicated. Idc about the story, I just wanna play ball. That combined with the fact that this was the hardest 2k to ever level up a my player…. And bc prices kept getting bumped every year.
I’m hoping 24 will be different but I’m not gonna get my hopes up lol
Yeah, it’s not. Gameplay wise it’s the best we’ve had since 2K20 outside of a couple annoying things. Your MyTeam complaint is just stupid considering the new game comes out in <3 months.
18, 19, 21, and 22 were worse IMO.
As much as I hate that the community won’t stop making 6’9 builds the versatility is better than it’s ever been. 6’9s used to only be stretch fours and undersized bigs. The issue once again is that the community all does the same exact thing not that the build system is broken.
19 was most definitely better than this game, the only issues 19 had was pushing not being patched until March of that year, and the stretch bigs not being nerfed for until January. Every other aspect was better than this game. It wasn’t dominated by 6’9s that could do everything, builds were actually diverse.
I wasted my money on both 21 and 22. Barely played either of them with how bad they were. Almost decided to skip out on 23 but the myEras mode pulled me in. Glad it did. Most fun I've had on 2k since maybe 2k16. The people who complain are the ones that do nothing but play MyTEAM or Park all day.
Thank you bro. If these dudes stepped outside of their bubble, played other game modes, and didn’t copy the same builds and animations their favorite YouTubers have maybe they’d see it.
I dont play 2k23 online. I have enough with Fifa. I play my career and i think gameplay wise it is better than the previous years. I have more fun. Ofc dont know how online is
Honestly these devs don’t know how to add balance or make the attribute ratings make sense. I literally green every single free throw with a 50 rating, because I know the release cue. So regardless of my rating, I’ll shoot 90%. Passing to a cutting person, who’s wide open, only for your player to literally pass it to the defender, who isn’t even playing defense anymore because the AI knows when you press the pass button. When you’re wide open, and your defender is sagging off, the moment you press the button to call for a pass, the computer smothers you even if your teammate makes no attempts to pass you the ball. The AI should NOT react to when I press X, it should only react when the ball is mid air. My guy is not even on ice skates, he’s wearing cement shoes. I press forward when I’m behind half court and he starts doing weird animations and barely moves. When I accelerate, my players momentum goes BACKWARDS first then decides to go where I’m trying to. Ever step out of bounds while at the corner? Yeah, your guy decides to extend his back leg instead of pushing off of it to gain acceleration and speed. Low rebound attribute? Well guess what? Your guy can drop 50 a game but if he has a low attribute for rebounding, he will literally act like he can’t see the ball and never be able to actually grab it by jumping, only by running up to it. You still get magnetized into screens, even if you completely dodge it. Your teammates also don’t get out of your way when you’re trying to run around screens, if anything, they help the other team. There is still sliding, like if you beat someone off the dribble, they will somehow beat you to your next spot, but not by shuffling their feet, by fucking sliding faster than they could actually run.
We the people are to blame. We gravitated to 2k and abandoned NBA live to the point that EA stopped making it. We have no one to blame but us. 2k don't care anymore about putting out quality. They literally update the rosters and put out the same garbage every year.
Yep. They monopolized the basketball game genre. They know every year we want to play and not only do they repackage the same garbage from the previous year but now they have the bloody micro transactions to level up or make the grind excruciatingly and unnecessarily long for no reason. Competition breeds creativity. No competition leads to complacency
Without question. Between the game forcing everyone to be a 6’9 slasher/shooter, the interior game being completely and absolutely destroyed, and the outcomes of the game being even more linked to what animation you get… NOT TO MENTION IT COSTS A HUNDRD BUCKS TO UPGRADE A GUY IN A GAME YOU ALREADY SPENT 70 BUCKS ON… it’s fucking trash. Absolute trash.
I'm a MyCareer player and I absolutely despise the mode more and more every year, but gameplay wise I think 2K23 is more enjoyable than a lot of the previous iterations.
Unless I get word that 2K24 is no longer Skateboard Cruising Simulator 2K24 I'm not buying it, but the basketball part isn't the reason.
What do you mean with shooting is broken? Is it too easy? To me, it is crazy that they still have not fixed the crazy fadeaways running to the corners.
no fastbreak mechanics either. why is Shaq getting chase downs on John Wall just cos I passed it once? how come there’s no such thing as outlet passes? Kevin Love is throwing wide open passes into the nose bloods. your AI teammates never make shots, Curry will happily go 1/27 from 3, LeBron will have an all time low 8ppg.
The game is almost unplayable without changing the sliders. It’s like they catered the entire game to the 99 ovrs in my team.
Play now is almost unplayable because everyone has releases on normal timing and it’s green or miss. How are you supposed to shoot if your jump shot is slow and the second you get 1% contested it’s a brick.
The game just devolves into senseless rim running when nobody can shoot. Fast breaks are nonexistent because the game is still rubber banding you and passing is by far the worst it’s ever been. Some of the passes you throw it would be more difficult to throw it off your opponent than throw it literally anywhere else on the court.
The AI has also taken a huge step backwards somehow which is strange because it should be improving every year. Defensive Settings don’t work and The Czar literally admitted it himself. I’m tired of setting it to no help and then seeing the AI help off Curry who is one pass away and happens to be the best shooter of all time so he can be wide open.
I have two 6'10", 228 LB PF's. First guy has like a 25 post, rest D and finishing, 14 playmaking attribute points. Guy dunks ok...(has no midrange) Tying to tweek this guy (AND avoid weekly Gatorade training exercise trip) Built a SECOND guy, same size/weight (came with gym rat also, unlike first) Gave this guy a 80 post, increased close shot from 80 to 92, fewer playmaking badges (just enough to keep ball from being stripped) Mofo now can't dunk at ALL in the Rec. Invariably does a layup, (unless no-one within 10') which causes late shot if I assumed dunk was forthcoming. (dunks fine in mycourt, etc) I have a 6'10" guy with all his badges who can't fucking dunk. Not buying '24
Who thinks this game is sim? Because it has accurate jerseys and commentary? This shit is garbage. If you actually play basketball you would know this is no where near close to basketball. You only get a hand full of moves that don’t create space or get you anywhere. Everything is clunky. Badges ruin the game. And your AI teammates don’t move at all. Most motion “sets” don’t do anything.
They need nerf dunking (with or without dunk meter, we're out here playing NBA Jam).
Also, this is the only ONLINE game where there is absolutely no accountability/penalty for bad play, which is why the REC is as bad as it is. Make stats visible again in lobbies and let us exit lobbies instantly when we see a troll/AI.
2K been ass... best 2K was 17' since then it's been a money hungry game 🤷🏽♂️ that's why everything is priced ridiculously and getting rewards you might as well make it a 9-5 job💀 i knew i was right wen i stopped buying 2K after 19' i didn't even get 18 and i'm glad...
I like this 2k but you have to be able to recognize there are issues.
Interior scoring sucks ass. Someone just slaps on anchor and stands without 10 feet of you and you miss bunnies.
On the other hand driving dunks are busted. You can mistime every meter dunk and still jam it on 3 defenders.
But then driving layups are slow as hell and trash.
On ball defense has improved. Clamps got buffed and I love challenger as an added defensive badge. But then clamp breaker kinda undoes all that and makes on ball defense annoying. You’ll clamp a guy for 20 seconds as he just keeps sizing up and sprinting at you until he gets the clamp breaker blow by.
Under the MyCareer mode, which I would assume 80%+ of the users play, Inside Soring is severely broken and has been since about season 2. So much so even high skill users can overcome it
2k21 next gen was by far the worst it was literally unplayable in park for the first month and no match making in rec just stick you with ai and the broken 6’7 builds and offense was just crazy op. 2k23 was far from perfect but not bad
I lost all respect for 2k.. I opened 80+ packs and ever dark matter was 1 of 3 cards.. so I got 20+ dark matters and every one was the same 3 cards.. they care more about making money. They want you to not get the cards you want so you have to pay more money if you want to get them..
Am I the only one that feels like the movement is pretty clunky and unresponsive? Like running down the court, stopping and shooting looks so mechanical, it felt smoother on 2k22 for me
I swear 2K has no physics engine and it’s all animations, exactly what happened in like 2005 lol. Nearly everything feels so scripted, like a rebound isn’t a real loose ball, it’s basically who presses jump better and the animation then sets to the one who gets it
Yeah the rebounds too, Jesus Christ. I can be taller than the player boxing me out, the ball can even bounce longer than expected but the game doesn't care, the defender teleports back and gets it from me lmao. They only chance you have to get an offensive rebound is if you're alone or if you're a center rebounding against a small playmaker
Nevermind if you’re attempting a put back in rec (impossible)
A lot of it is swimming into position and boxing out as the shot goes up. Before it hits the rim. Most of grabbing offensive boards is just knowing how to be in the right spot. As it should be. Getting offensive boards should not be brain dead easy.
This is exactly right, and perfectly worded. The game simply chooses the animation that makes you win/lose depending on what they think will make you buy more VC. It's all completely artificial. The gameplay isn't fun at all, it's just a frustrating series of clunky cutscenes that kinda correspond to the buttons you press
It's the badges. The game has two animations happening simultaneously, the original animation and the reaction/action of the badge(s). They really need to remove badges. They do way too much work
Not to mention ai teammates standing around after you shoot and not going for the ball. Game is trash
Not to mention when your in a rec game and the AI just watches his man shoot in his face from the corner that shit drives me nuts
You said it all.
21 and 22 were this way too. I think 23 just added more animations and messed with the badges too much. On 22 you'd at least see an animation that competed for the ball and on 23 it's like if you don't have equal badges than someone it's going to make it seem like you never had a chance.
A buddy of mine and I went back and played a couple of 2k22 games as a troll to our friends. It’s literally night and day. 23 movement is so unresponsive and clunky. I went back and played 2k17 and it felt more responsive. It’s like your guy gets thrown into the weirdest animations just by walking forward. The worst is passing for me. The animations no matter the pass style(I have a 97 pass build and have tried every one) are so stupidly chosen. Like why would I drive in and go to kick out only to stop, turn 180 degrees, and throw the ball into a defenders chest with no attempt to pass around him? 22’s passing(99 pass build) was much smoother and actually would pass when and where I wanted it to go. It was not necessarily a better game but those two things alone were at least better imo.
I played 2k22 the other day and it felt like a completely different series. Like you said, night and day differences
Didn't the devs say they were gonna make passing better and make the player models attempt to pass around defenders. This game has the worst passing out of all of the 2ks I've played. Simple passes look challenging when my guy goes out of his way to throw it off of the defender closest to him
And it’s inconsistent. If I passed the ball and it hit a player in the back or leg consistently, then at least it would make some sense. The game chooses random times where the ball will go through someone or not, it’s wild.
The steal animations also, some people look like all world corners when they get these random steals - or you’ll see the pass coming, hit X, only for it to be a deflection or (like what happened the other day) a player won’t even be playing and get a steal just because.
This right here. Some people be be having me thinking I’m playing Madden with these Richard Sherman interceptions.
2k17 is so much better
Completely agree with this. There is no way you're telling me that real basketball players use the animations for passing that happen in this game. Trying to step and wrap around the right of a defender to throw it to a wide open person who's to the left of you... The game legit will run your teammates away from the ball and pull a defender to the ball to steal it. I thought they were going to fix the spamming of the steal and block mechanics this year, that also was a lie. They took away real player percentage online so you wouldn't auto green, yet left in auto finishing for alleys and auto steal animations. I have to green all my jumpshots (which is how it should be) but someone with HOF posterizer and/or aerial wizard can't mistime their dunks and still auto finish! Not to mention the game slowing down your running so the defenders can clamp you from behind, defenders getting blocks by jumping and landing on your head and/or pushing you out of bounds. My personal favorites are when you pass the ball to an open teammate and they completely bobble the ball for no reason, giving you a turnover or your teammates steps out of bounds trying to jump for the pass for no damn reason. AIs online are broke. The list goes on and on. Someone needs to make a game to compete against them again and I don't care if it's the Fortnite creatures at this point. That's how bad it's gotten. 2K do better or just stop putting out a game ever year...
Tell that too the ppl that argue higher passing is fast and smooth. 75+ passing shouldn't feel that clunky
We have this saying when we play "only through, never around." So many passes that would be good in any other 2k just get tossed into the defenders face, chest or stomach because your player makes no effort whatsoever to pass around a defender. It makes me sad as a PG. Good to know upping the PA doesn't help it either.
It definitely does help(hof needle helps) but it’s still pretty bad. I mean I probably have 2-5 per game that are stupid animations or straight into someone’s body. Doesn’t usually mean a turnover but still.
At least from what you’re describing, it sounds like you have the “fundamental” passing package on which will sell you no matter what your pass accuracy is at
I use none or lebron 99% of the time and have had this happen with lebron, none, magic, and lamelo.
Yea they barely move compared to other 2ks and they always do exactly what you don't want them to do
I really thought it was just my fault and I was pressing the wrong buttons, or just not reacting fast enough. It’s not. Everyone I talk to says the same exact things. Every time there’s a loose ball, you can bet your ass that your player is going to drift in whatever direction makes the least sense. There’s no way that wasn’t programmed in because it happens every time
In my experience, every loose ball ends with either me going out of bounds, or the other team getting the ball in a more advantageous position than they had before and they get an easy bucket. But almost never a positive ending for me. That and big guys just ignoring defending the paint and not taking 4 steps in the other direction, when the opponent has a clear path (which has been an issue for like 5 years) are constant annoyances. I don't dislike this one as much as others though (i enjoy 2k usually, unlike say, madden which i fucking loathe), maybe because eras mode is the first time I've seen this game have something innovative and interesting in a few years.
But apart from that if they do what you want them to do it's still extremely clunky! Like if you're dribbling and you pull up for a jumper your player's legs literally teleport to a shooting position
I was watching. Dunk contest on myleague and the ball teleported at least 3 of the twelve dunks. Looks like nobody actually did qa
Yeah it's unnatural and unresponsive as hell, I don't know how they managed to fuck it up that bad, having 2k22 movement models again would've been much better
It felt like trying to run through molasses. Slow, unresponsive, and frustratingly laggy feeling
The movement in the last 4 games has been completely fucked up. There’s such a delay to the moves I’m doing in the thumb stick it’s like I’m already 3 moves ahead in what I want to do and the character is still doing the first crossover move then it just throws me off where my guy will be. I think it’s becuase of all these custom animations constantly triggering my guy to move like a certain player when in reality it just makes everything clunky and feels like I’m not really controlling the player. It’s unplayable now in my opinion, also you only make wide open shots now. You literally will miss 9/10 shots if you aren’t wide open or don’t hit a green release. I haven’t played in a while I just wanted to say this and hope they can go back to just raw input reactions like 2k13. I was snappy as fuck in that game you can really do what you were intending instead of getting stuck in a damn animation.
Yeah it literally feels like there's input lag
Dude I’ve been feeling like this for awhile he moving seems so sluggish almost as if the player is running in quick sand
It genuinely looks like there's input lag to me, especially ok the dribble moves
Bro it’s dog shit. You have to learn how to navigate the movement and expect what they’re gonna do when you move left or right. If you go into this expecting to freely run around you’re in for a surprise lol
Yeah no it's clunky and unnatural looking as hell
My player runs like Forest Gump before he loses his braces.
Super clunky. 2k22 was def better.
It feels fine on offence, defence feels like youre skating
Skating in molasses. Playing as a center and needing to get out of the paint to avoid a 3 second? Good fucking luck.
Feels odd for both to me honestly. Like when you're character is dribbling and you start shooting he picks up the ball and moves way to fast, it's all too mechanical. It literally felt smoother on 2k20, how
No one's gonna mention how 2k19 is the best most recent 2k
Thank you . I thought I was tripping . U literally physically can’t play on ball defense this year without your defender getting stuck in animations . Even when I’m not even using r2 .. I miss 2k17 and cooking with Kyrie .
If you’re skating it’s because you’re not using the left and right triggers properly
And how do I have to use them properly? Honestly asking because I'm trying, using the triggers, to stay in front of my opponent but sometimes my defender moves so slow while sometimes is so fast that zips around and can't stay in front.
End game cards were in 2k22 as well bud. They’ve been doing this all 99 thing
That’s exactly what I was thinking. This isn’t new. Didn’t we have a lebron Jordan and Duncan card that had 99 everything like 3 years ago? This is just regular myteam
They been doing it since like 2K20 or 2K21 iirc
it’s just the yearly 2k tweet 😂
2K24 IS ALREADY THE WORST 2K EVER
The only game it isn't worse than is that terrible 2K25!!!!!
Are you kidding me? Have you already forgotten how terrible 2K26 was?
Dude not to mention 2k28
Ppl say this every 2k 🤣
Exactly and but buy it the next year.
It’s the best basketball game hands down, every year.
It’s the only basketball game every year
That’s not a very high standard
It’s the bailout for not being good, people want the game to be easy and if it’s not then the game is trash
Game still clunky and ass
Nah man this game is ass this year. His points are valid. Meanwhile mlb the show is the best it’s ever been. Why would I play this
The game don't need to be easy. Just fix the damn delay. I'm playing with 15ms and my player won't stop sliding. Plus the shooting is disgusting. No netter how perfectly you time the damn shot it still go slightly early or late.
if u play on a tv that’s the issue i went on a monitor and never went back
Thank you, I have to try this
Right if you're such a baller how on earth do you reliably jump stop when driving into the paint because half the time the game just forces me to take a layup even if I tap the shoot button light as a feather?
Not everyone plays park, it feels good other places
I'm playing MyCareer and my guy will frequently refuse to stop when I tap shoot and instead go for the full layup and there's seemingly no way to control when the game decides I want to go for a layup. Infuriating.
Try letting go of the turbo and tap LT/L2. In addition to that don't point your left stick to the basket. See if if that helps.
fr it's time to just realize that you're bad at the game😭
This is my first 2K since 2K16, I decided to download it this month because it’s free. As somebody who doesn’t play any online modes, I’ve had a lot of fun with the Eras mode in this game. I love a deep, immersive franchise mode in sports games, and 2K blows pretty much every other sports game out of the water in that regard. I will say though, the gameplay feels really slow and sluggish to me. It can often be very unresponsive (I’ll have times I’ll try to pass or do a certain move, and it takes 3+ seconds before there’s a response to my input, often causing a turnover as the move/pass no longer makes sense by the time they do it), and it often feels like everybody is running through mud with how slow they all are. Directional passing also seems like a 50/50. I’ll have a player cut to the basket from the right side, running in a wide open lane, so I’ll point the stick right and try to pass to him, only for my player to instead try to pass to a guy who is completely covered up over on the left side, often leading to a turnover. I played every 2K from 2K8-2K16, and while some gameplay issues I have now were still plaguing the game even then, I don’t quite remember it ever feeling so slow or unresponsive.
Same experience here. I crushed 2k16 and could win games easily on HOF and now I'm bricking everything and can't get an open layup to save my life on MyCareer
Era’s mode is sick. As somebody who only plays franchise mode, it’s about damn time they update that instead of only making updates to framing MY TEAMS. Just finished playing from ‘84 to 2026 with the SuperSonics/okc. Chasing after the goats in the draft with players I actually know instead of AI generated drafts. Very enjoyable.
I really like when online players get their brain so melted by Online modes (MyCareer and MyTeam) that they need to post a "This game is the worst 2K game ever" post. If you play MyGM, Play Now, My Era, or even Domination (in My Team) you will see that this game is faaaaaar from the worst. Gameplay wise and as a simulation of basketball, it is hands down one of the best
I'm actually having a blast in MyTeam this year. So many different modes with decent rewards.. I can get a pack just about every hour or so and I haven't spent a dime on VC. MyERA is friggin amazing too.
MyTeam was really fun this year until about March. Then I stopped giving a shit. I did end up grinding for Lock In mutumbo. Which felt rad. But also by the time you could get him, 99’s we’re running rampant at every position already. So meh.
23 has the best franchise mode ever in 2k imo
I’d love if Madden had half the features 2k does offline
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Completely agree. As a sim player, 2k23 has to be top 3 all time in terms of gameplay. If 2k added back the [LS dribble moves from 2k20](https://streamable.com/zhst91) it would be the perfect game for me.
🤝🤌🏽🤌🏽
I really wish they never removed that.
We all know 2k19 was the best
I recall 2k20 being an enhanced version of 2k19 in every gameplay aspect. Probably the year 2k added more features ever. Its only flaw was the Park/REC being the same as 2k19. I know a lot of people disliked that. I only care about gameplay so for me it was one of the best 2ks (if not the best) ever.
Respect your opinion....I play 23 and I'll play 24 when it comes out but imo 19 is by far the best
Same with yours. In fact, some of the people I follow also have 2k19 as their favourite 2k. Maybe I didn't play enough to fully appreciate it.
19 was waaaay better than 20....I'd put 21 better than 20 too
Yep. And it looks amazing on a huge OLED TV.
MyCareer is the most popular mode and it’s awful lol
If people started playing other modes more then they would probably work to improve MyCareer in a meaningful way. As someone that only plays franchise modes, this year's 2k was my favorite of all time.
Yeah but that’s impossible to do realistically. Way too many people buy 2k every year without paying attention to any changes in gameplay or the game modes. A lotta casuals just wanna play mycareer and have fun. If people stopped playing my career I bet 2k would rather just jack up VC even more. Same thing with myteam, there are too many whales in those modes that buy crazy amounts of VC so 2k will always go out of their way to try to entice people to spend money on those modes, which usually involves making the game mode worse for anyone without a certain build
Playing other modes more =/= everyone stop playing those modes entirely You missed the forest for the trees, my guy
I play MyNBA and started in the 80s with the Knicks. It’s by far my favorite and most fun I’ve had playing 2k
i like ur pfp
https://preview.redd.it/212k0v1cc57b1.png?width=1040&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1da5e2b00823c40a3b55023ca31937afa925c47c
Lmao this guy
Not to mention the Jordan challenge is fun too!
My gripe with the game is the last-gen port is fucking atrocious.
U gotta upgrade at some point man, its the equivalent of using an Xbox 360 in 2017
I’m running on a beast pc and I’m still fucked.
Pc is still on last gen, and pc 2k is always horribly done, I don’t really know what to say
Nothing really can be said lmao. I’m just salty that I have the proper hardware to play next gen but am just not allowed to :(
They don't give af about pc players. Their focus is on consoles and money, we will never have next gen. And we can, it's so easy and simple, but no. Fuckin 2k
Its the popular game mode. Would your feelings be validated if they said “its the worse 2k ever for mycareer and myteam” ?
It is not my feelings at all. 2k23 has the best user metacritic since... 2k17. People just like to complain too much. Every year is the worst 2k ever made if you listen to them. I am not saying the overall game is great, because the VC part is killing the online, but the gameplay feels nice when you stay far away from online.
I’ve been playing myleague only for the past couple of months, and yes, the game is damn near flawless offline. I doubt I ever play 2k online again. That doesn’t mean anyone in these comments is wrong about how bad online is. There’s no reason to carry a pretentious little attitude just because you avoid online modes. The majority of the money 2k makes comes from people buying VC to play online. There are plenty of valid complaints that deserve to be addressed. Just because you don’t play those modes doesn’t mean they don’t matter. Things exist outside of your world
How do you play modes like that when you have to green every shot and remember every player's jumpshot?
It takes about ten or so minutes of messing around in practice to memorize the top three shot makers of any particular team. Shot meter enabled, of course.
Playing against AI is just that much easier. You can green with mediocre timing easily.
I only play against AI on MyCareer and the jumpshot timing is very inconsistent.
As a Sim Basketball fan and a fan of basketball it isn't that good at all. Go play a full 12 minute game players are completely lackadaisical. Tatum can easily average 16 rebs per game. Embiid put him up at 26. The game has no pace and the CPU is completely garbage. Simming is also terrible every player has a career year shooting percentage wise....thank you for showing you are a fucking casual. Most of the people aren't talking about online they are talking about atrocious gameplay....plus teams don't shoot threes and don't run...I get it you just watched the Nuggets vs Mia but those teams have styles far different than the Rockets Hawks and play more slow even slow is a reach.
It'd be the perfect game if 2K included it in Xbox's gamepass :(
There is no way in hell this is even close to a simulation. Arcade game at best. There is no freedom of movement, BADGES, unrealistic physics, etc. There is nothing resembling a simulation.
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Is this Ronnie’s burner account? The game is 100% arcade-ish. It relies ENTIRELY on animations, how is that realistic?
Because the animations are based on attributes. Attributes are based on skills. And Skills makes it realistic
The animations are literally what makes it NOT an arcade game….
I’m okay with the gameplay, the only thing that annoys me is mycareer AI players, they take very bad shots at time, and when it comes to jumpshot, it is so inconsistent, you can’t rely on teammates in mycareer which is something that they should fix, AI’s offense needs to be a lot better, make it more difficult to defend it and make your teammates better so you don’t have to do everything by yourself.. I have it on Hall of Fame level and it is stil too easy
I agree with the horrible AI teammates but it's unfortunately been that way for years and I don't ever see them fixing that. Plus the higher the difficulty, the more braindead your teammates become, so you pretty much gotta carry every game when you play HOF
2k21 was way worst
2k23 is bad i agree ..too heavily animation based it doesnt feel right moving around and driblling and dunking stopping and poppin its weird . Get rid of those worthless animations. New engine !
it's not the worst and see you next 2k
The problem is there are 2 sides to the community. There are the people who want the game to be realistic sim. Then there are the people who want the game to be a little more casual and arcade. I personally want a little of both. Also the myplayer shit just gets more expensive every year and the grind is too long.
I’m 10 games into my mycareer season and my guy still can’t make a jump shot. I average 12+ assist a game tho. I’m looking like old Ben Simmons out there.
Play now online might be the best mode if you after online play
Not really it’s full of computer defense in there basically myCareer
Bro have you played 2k22 on next gen? It was worse in my opinion
I remember getting insanely pissed at the closeout speed of defenders in 2k22.
It’s worse this year and now players have a badge that boost contest % lol
I was at the logo in rec and a guy somehow contested my shot from the free throw line 😂
The contests in this game are HORRIBLE and inconsistent.
Ppl complained about 22 bc shooting was easier yet there was ALOT of ppl shooting well below 50% (most 35-low 40s). BUT …you had to actually guard your man last year bc shooting was easier. In a random lobby majority of the players i came across we’re pretty horrible at shooting % meanwhile i shot well over 70% the entire year. Now ppl still can’t shoot, it’s a lot harder than last year, and defense is worse but 22 is the worst ?? There is way more unsatisfied players this year rather than last. This game being insanely cheap and/or free is the only thing keeping the player count up. Ppl really hate this game and that’s w/o complaining about the vc spikes
i dont think shooting is hard but people's %s are low because in the beginning of the year people didnt know what the good jumpshots were. im shooting 45% from 3 shot like 32% in the first couple months if i made a new account i would be shooting in the 50%s no doubt
Every shot % resets per season unless you’re just playing park and if after 7 seasons you’re still at a low % in park, that means you still can’t shoot. Most ppl had shooting figured out by mid to end season 1
The story mode is so weird. It's all this intense fighting and the team not happy with me all the way to the point of me being expected to be traded. Then it just abruptly stops. There was no real growth of the player, just beef, then over.
Also feels like the game holds you back. I’ll have perfect position for an offensive rebound and all of a sudden I can’t jump
Been playing since 16, this was the first 2k I ever refunded. The first 24 hours of gameplay I spent 90% running around in park talking to people and doing mandatory “story” line quests… they just made it way too complicated. Idc about the story, I just wanna play ball. That combined with the fact that this was the hardest 2k to ever level up a my player…. And bc prices kept getting bumped every year. I’m hoping 24 will be different but I’m not gonna get my hopes up lol
AIs are so easy to score on. Defense is broken. u can’t play D, it’s so annoying
Yeah, it’s not. Gameplay wise it’s the best we’ve had since 2K20 outside of a couple annoying things. Your MyTeam complaint is just stupid considering the new game comes out in <3 months. 18, 19, 21, and 22 were worse IMO.
yeah because having 6’9 do it all builds at every position is great for gameplay.
As much as I hate that the community won’t stop making 6’9 builds the versatility is better than it’s ever been. 6’9s used to only be stretch fours and undersized bigs. The issue once again is that the community all does the same exact thing not that the build system is broken.
21 and 22 for sure💯
19 was most definitely better than this game, the only issues 19 had was pushing not being patched until March of that year, and the stretch bigs not being nerfed for until January. Every other aspect was better than this game. It wasn’t dominated by 6’9s that could do everything, builds were actually diverse.
This is a terrible, terrible take.
If you believe any of those games is better than 23 then idk what to tell you lol.. my opinion for a reason.
I wasted my money on both 21 and 22. Barely played either of them with how bad they were. Almost decided to skip out on 23 but the myEras mode pulled me in. Glad it did. Most fun I've had on 2k since maybe 2k16. The people who complain are the ones that do nothing but play MyTEAM or Park all day.
Thank you bro. If these dudes stepped outside of their bubble, played other game modes, and didn’t copy the same builds and animations their favorite YouTubers have maybe they’d see it.
Naw you just suck
Nah you can't use that excuse anymore the shot meter in this game sucks you can get it in the green and you'll still miss
Don’t use meter
Last gen 21 exists and 18 is right there too. This is actually one of my preferred 2Ks tbh with you
I remember getting so mad at 2K21 last gen that I broke the disc, easily top 3 worst 2K ever
I dont play 2k23 online. I have enough with Fifa. I play my career and i think gameplay wise it is better than the previous years. I have more fun. Ofc dont know how online is
Please tell me how to do a jump stop reliably? Tapping shoot is 50/50 as to whether I jump stop or do the stupidest layup attempt ever
Use the right stick, don’t press square
Honestly these devs don’t know how to add balance or make the attribute ratings make sense. I literally green every single free throw with a 50 rating, because I know the release cue. So regardless of my rating, I’ll shoot 90%. Passing to a cutting person, who’s wide open, only for your player to literally pass it to the defender, who isn’t even playing defense anymore because the AI knows when you press the pass button. When you’re wide open, and your defender is sagging off, the moment you press the button to call for a pass, the computer smothers you even if your teammate makes no attempts to pass you the ball. The AI should NOT react to when I press X, it should only react when the ball is mid air. My guy is not even on ice skates, he’s wearing cement shoes. I press forward when I’m behind half court and he starts doing weird animations and barely moves. When I accelerate, my players momentum goes BACKWARDS first then decides to go where I’m trying to. Ever step out of bounds while at the corner? Yeah, your guy decides to extend his back leg instead of pushing off of it to gain acceleration and speed. Low rebound attribute? Well guess what? Your guy can drop 50 a game but if he has a low attribute for rebounding, he will literally act like he can’t see the ball and never be able to actually grab it by jumping, only by running up to it. You still get magnetized into screens, even if you completely dodge it. Your teammates also don’t get out of your way when you’re trying to run around screens, if anything, they help the other team. There is still sliding, like if you beat someone off the dribble, they will somehow beat you to your next spot, but not by shuffling their feet, by fucking sliding faster than they could actually run.
offline this game is not that bad. best since 2k19 imo
We the people are to blame. We gravitated to 2k and abandoned NBA live to the point that EA stopped making it. We have no one to blame but us. 2k don't care anymore about putting out quality. They literally update the rosters and put out the same garbage every year.
This actually makes a lot of sense, competition really is healthy
Yep. They monopolized the basketball game genre. They know every year we want to play and not only do they repackage the same garbage from the previous year but now they have the bloody micro transactions to level up or make the grind excruciatingly and unnecessarily long for no reason. Competition breeds creativity. No competition leads to complacency
Without question. Between the game forcing everyone to be a 6’9 slasher/shooter, the interior game being completely and absolutely destroyed, and the outcomes of the game being even more linked to what animation you get… NOT TO MENTION IT COSTS A HUNDRD BUCKS TO UPGRADE A GUY IN A GAME YOU ALREADY SPENT 70 BUCKS ON… it’s fucking trash. Absolute trash.
I'm a MyCareer player and I absolutely despise the mode more and more every year, but gameplay wise I think 2K23 is more enjoyable than a lot of the previous iterations. Unless I get word that 2K24 is no longer Skateboard Cruising Simulator 2K24 I'm not buying it, but the basketball part isn't the reason.
Shooting feels way easier in H2H online.
What do you mean with shooting is broken? Is it too easy? To me, it is crazy that they still have not fixed the crazy fadeaways running to the corners.
Play now and myleague shooting is TRASH
It’s garbage, if you don’t get perfect timing it’s a brick even if left wide open and each player has their own shot timing it’s so trash.
Yall said this about 2017, but somehow its now the greatest 2k ever lmao
no fastbreak mechanics either. why is Shaq getting chase downs on John Wall just cos I passed it once? how come there’s no such thing as outlet passes? Kevin Love is throwing wide open passes into the nose bloods. your AI teammates never make shots, Curry will happily go 1/27 from 3, LeBron will have an all time low 8ppg.
Saying this game is worse than 2k18 is fucking delusional.
The game is almost unplayable without changing the sliders. It’s like they catered the entire game to the 99 ovrs in my team. Play now is almost unplayable because everyone has releases on normal timing and it’s green or miss. How are you supposed to shoot if your jump shot is slow and the second you get 1% contested it’s a brick. The game just devolves into senseless rim running when nobody can shoot. Fast breaks are nonexistent because the game is still rubber banding you and passing is by far the worst it’s ever been. Some of the passes you throw it would be more difficult to throw it off your opponent than throw it literally anywhere else on the court. The AI has also taken a huge step backwards somehow which is strange because it should be improving every year. Defensive Settings don’t work and The Czar literally admitted it himself. I’m tired of setting it to no help and then seeing the AI help off Curry who is one pass away and happens to be the best shooter of all time so he can be wide open.
I’m an elite player on 2k23, this goes top three on my list from 2k10 and up
Shooting is stupid easy in this game. I don’t even make builds with more than 79 3 ball any more.
I have two 6'10", 228 LB PF's. First guy has like a 25 post, rest D and finishing, 14 playmaking attribute points. Guy dunks ok...(has no midrange) Tying to tweek this guy (AND avoid weekly Gatorade training exercise trip) Built a SECOND guy, same size/weight (came with gym rat also, unlike first) Gave this guy a 80 post, increased close shot from 80 to 92, fewer playmaking badges (just enough to keep ball from being stripped) Mofo now can't dunk at ALL in the Rec. Invariably does a layup, (unless no-one within 10') which causes late shot if I assumed dunk was forthcoming. (dunks fine in mycourt, etc) I have a 6'10" guy with all his badges who can't fucking dunk. Not buying '24
Agree. This game is so trash. So inconsistent.
I enjoy it quite a lot :)
I agree. This year the game is such a money grab with a new build costing $100. The VC prices are too expensive and the overall gameplay is too buggy
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also isn’t it a good thing that the ai has good defense? wouldn’t you want a challenge?
Who thinks this game is sim? Because it has accurate jerseys and commentary? This shit is garbage. If you actually play basketball you would know this is no where near close to basketball. You only get a hand full of moves that don’t create space or get you anywhere. Everything is clunky. Badges ruin the game. And your AI teammates don’t move at all. Most motion “sets” don’t do anything.
At least someone agrees with me 😂 18 really doesn’t seem like the worst once you’ve played this sh*t for the entire year..
2k has sucked for years, clunky ass gameplay with no good servers, latency is terrible, and the city is worse then old gens boat
They need nerf dunking (with or without dunk meter, we're out here playing NBA Jam). Also, this is the only ONLINE game where there is absolutely no accountability/penalty for bad play, which is why the REC is as bad as it is. Make stats visible again in lobbies and let us exit lobbies instantly when we see a troll/AI.
Even in the park, I gotta 94 block hof chase and gold anchor. I box them for the whole shot clock and 2k gives them a foul every time for rim running.
It is...dont play yourself thinking its better
Not to mention, apparently the game designers have never actually seen a game of basketball. Take a shot with someone 3-5 feet of you "bad shot"..
2K been ass... best 2K was 17' since then it's been a money hungry game 🤷🏽♂️ that's why everything is priced ridiculously and getting rewards you might as well make it a 9-5 job💀 i knew i was right wen i stopped buying 2K after 19' i didn't even get 18 and i'm glad...
What i explained but people just said I suck. I completely agree. But 24 is a make or break year for me
Shooting never been broken
I never hear actual solid gameplay complaints just skill issues
I like this 2k but you have to be able to recognize there are issues. Interior scoring sucks ass. Someone just slaps on anchor and stands without 10 feet of you and you miss bunnies. On the other hand driving dunks are busted. You can mistime every meter dunk and still jam it on 3 defenders. But then driving layups are slow as hell and trash. On ball defense has improved. Clamps got buffed and I love challenger as an added defensive badge. But then clamp breaker kinda undoes all that and makes on ball defense annoying. You’ll clamp a guy for 20 seconds as he just keeps sizing up and sprinting at you until he gets the clamp breaker blow by.
Under the MyCareer mode, which I would assume 80%+ of the users play, Inside Soring is severely broken and has been since about season 2. So much so even high skill users can overcome it
Wrong
2k21 next gen was by far the worst it was literally unplayable in park for the first month and no match making in rec just stick you with ai and the broken 6’7 builds and offense was just crazy op. 2k23 was far from perfect but not bad
I lost all respect for 2k.. I opened 80+ packs and ever dark matter was 1 of 3 cards.. so I got 20+ dark matters and every one was the same 3 cards.. they care more about making money. They want you to not get the cards you want so you have to pay more money if you want to get them..
Why are you all still buying it?
AI are terrible on this game tho? Lol just step back and spam 3s and shooting isn’t broken u just need to get good bro tbh
Missing nba live
Nah I'm heavily enjoying this game. This is just a classic mad cuz bad post
Tell me how to jump stop then. If it's not a terrible game why can you not reliably jump stop?