How NBA 2K Declined On This Generation of Consoles (Why Fans Don't Love It Anymore) 

I play myGM on hard and I try to realistically rebuild a team. My team hasn’t even past 55 wins yet, and occasionally I’ll play a game and set a franchise record. But it’s my only use for 2k.

What your name on Xbox dom2k

@@christianmcclaine6885 that's funny cause alot of times I will play MyGM (highest difficulty) choose the worst team, in the hopes that I can rebuild through the draft, but simulate and end up making the playoffs. I then delete the file and up starting all over again.

In online matches your opponent absolutely should not be able to see who you are controlling on defense. This allows the offensive player to react to the double team immediately by seeing the text underneath the player, it's so unrealistic to be able to react to the defense this way. Same goes for the red double team circles. Players move stiff and sluggish this generation of consoles, fast breaks are ultra slow at random. No zip on passes. Wide open players run into the defense as you are passing to them. Arcade style outside shooting. Crossover stick is not as responsive as it was at the start of the decade. Wonky loose ball physics. Butterfinger ballhandlers. Hot/Cold streaks from quarter to quarter (I sometimes find myself unable to score for entire quarters after having a flowing offense the quarter before, yet nothing about the defense has changed) Unbalanced matchups in Online Team Up. No longer rewards for beating a higher ranked team. Historic teams missing tons of players (it is inexcusable to have a 7 man roster team) What do I like? They added way more players to the Online Player Control than Team-Up used to have. But you should have access to every player! About 95% of players will never ever be able to unlock the Tier 1 legends! WTF!

Can you do the 2k 15 review that’s is one of if not my favorite RU-vid series

Murad facts

not at all. even the people who throw the most money will have to grind for the cap breaker and badges. There’s no way you can pay to get a purple badge or break the cap.

​@@osirishcs If we both start 2k19 today and i don´t buy vc but you are. You are miles ahead of me. So that makes it pay to win.

@@osirishcs Exactly bro these fools act like 2k makes you pay for anything but the actual game and even if you don't buy vc you don't have to play park you can grind your player until you feel he is good enough to play park so no the game is not pay to win

@@osirishcs Dude wtf 2k is a huge pay2win, day 1 there was already 89OVR please explain

Le Keston I never played online on 2K ever cuz I don’t buy PlayStation plus but I still have fun playing with my friends or playing mylesgue

I have no interenet but online 2k is way better when I do get it

Literally any video game >>> 2k

@@Chris-yw2zp your crazy 2k every year is in the top 20 games in the year I bet one of the 2k developers killed your friend or something if you say something that dumb lmao

@@KidTrigger 2k is a popular game only because NBA basketball is popular right now, and there are no other decent basketball games to compete with it. It doesn't mean it's a great game just because people buy it. You can think i'm dumb if u want, you can enjoy playing 2k if u want, but the entire point of this video is to criticize how garbage 2k has been the last few years. It's not some random unpopular opinion bro, literally thousands of other people watching this are here for the same reason

Real shit it feels like there's no crowd it's shitty lighting

3. Making contested layups happens to often. 4. The rate of 3s made in this game is why too high. 5. It is almost impossible to play defense. 6. The second worst 2k gamplay wise behind 18. 7. It is generally a very bad game.

@@timothybond4242 impossible to play defense?

@@Majuuub lateral quickness in the game is a meaningless stat due to the fact that the defensive player is always on skates and you have to practically flick the stick to stay with good ball handlers. And in the post, I don't know how many times I've had my man go up through my literal body to score. So it's impossible to play defense consistently

Could always play PC. Im moving there soon

Like he needs any advertising

@@Filipe_Gomes10 he was talking about the athletic cases

He always smoothly transitions to his ads

Saucey

True dat

Dylan Priest my friends play 2k and are still in high school and don't enjoy playing it as much now and get bored of it more now

Nah I was starting high school when 2k16 came out and I played the shit out of that game. 2k17 wasnt what it shouldve been but i still logged a lot of hours in that game. 2k18 came out and fucked it all. I preordered and got the legend edition with all my friends so we could get back on our usual grind and it was just ruined. Ever since I only play offline once in a while but it mostly just collects dust.

Yoo that’s crazy I said the same thing to my friend the other day. I’m 25 now I’m like Bro I just suck at 2k now that’s it. I still think 2k19 is bad in many ways tho

I went back and played 2k14 on last gen and had the time of my life. The players are fast and you can hit tough shots, perfect releases were easier to achieve and you were rewarded for knowing you shot. It wasn't exactly like NBA basketball but neither are the current 2ks. It's impossible to emulate real life basketball so by not having a perfect engine it still felt more fun because I'm really actually trying to get highlight plays if I'm playing a game. It let me do that. That's what made it great.

this is my second time buyin a ps4 to only have it collecting dust after 1 week of use

Jerry Smooth all we do on offball is sit there and expect to CPU to be smart enough to run the offense. They never are

Considering how important off ball offense is important to an NBA offense, I'm always shocked at the lack of gameplay options tbh. Guys like Curry and Klay make a living running around screens and that has not even slightly translated to online gameplay. Just insane to me

Jerry Smooth and only if we didn’t hit damn near every shot and the cpu doing it also When u play mycareer and check your season average you’ll see something like 40ppg 15 apg and 8 rpg That’s why mycareer isn’t that fun

@@teejaytv3821 Yeah My Career will never fix that imbalance. That's a legacy issue since 2K10. Maybe next gen consoles and a new game engine can remedy alot of these issues. I have no faith though lol

Man 2k17 I had a post scoring C averaging 75-15-20 on HALL OF FAME.

FiveAndTwo Me

@@irvinglambert9316 Sony's NBA Series? Explain. I'm lost with that one. "NBA Shootout"? Oh. And I concur with your entire statement. The parenthesis were on point. #NoCap ("No Cap" translates to "No Lie" lol for edification purposes).

@@irvinglambert9316 oh okay. So I was right about my inclination that you were referring to "NBA Shootout" as the Sony series NBA game. And that's where those NBA games came from ("NBA 06" and "NBA 10" etc), or were made by. I never knew that. Thanks for the edification brother Lando.

Brownshirts GamingTv no one does it better than Dom 😂

@@RIQ2Turnt JacksFilms?

TomGorian Facts!

@@jumpman2326 Damn right

Those days were lit

2K13 was my favourite ps3 game. MyGM is ok in 2K19 tho.

Nah 17 best ever simple

I would play with them and go into Franchise and rebuild them

honestly, i didn’t know anyone that used them lol

@@TuxedoMask512 the two notable ones to me were Barcelona and Real Madrid because of soccer

Itz Flameinex try Fenerbahce

Jerry Smooth or add new international club teams like the PBA basketball Philippines

Coolhands444 YES MY GUY YES

He ass

Sorry G, as a Knicks fan, ill say it has to be Knox

Has to be Luka Donjic I swear

He booty juice

White Rice thank god for fortnite

just do the VC glitch

The gameplay is better then 18 and 17 by a LONG SHOT

@John Rafael Sytin yeah, I'm probably going to stick with 19 until the servers shut down

White Rice I would hate to be you. Missing out on the greatest 2k of all time in 11

That's ALL it is now smh

shits annoying like why make any other build than a shooter smh

All facts. As long as you can shoot threes you have a chance to win. If you can't shoot threes you likely won't beat a team that can.

Adrian Enrique Arenas Roth facts

sounds like real NBA to me

Naw Madden did that and live did it for basketball 2k jus took it to the next level in both football and basketball but I see your point tho 2k gets hated on every year for everything and it's kinda getting old because if u don't like it don't buy it buy live or STFU lol

@@doelo972 Guess consumers are not allowed to criticize the product despite it faltering for multiple years and seemingly not improving in that span

@@ronaldomendoza7578 it's not even that it's jus how many times will the same shit b said and if there was a better way to do thease things don't u think it would be done?it's like stop buying the game every year and then complain about the same shit every year hence y I said play live don't but it or STFU because I personally agree with this video I think 2k has been ass since xb1 PS4 released them and it's not fun to play for long anymore and things are broken but at the same time it's better then the other option (live) and untill that changes I'ma play 2k and I know what I'm getting with 2k so why sit back and complain about it every year about the same shit? That's all I was saying...so to directly respond to u no u don't get buy it knowing what's wrong and then complain about it just to do the same thing that's literally the definition of insanity and it's not gonna change shit but if it's that bad them don't support it and things might change j.s

FAXXXXXXXXX I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING

Nah this year it’s fun

Damn😂😂😂

Jerry Smooth same

This year the 3 ball is just stupidly overpowered. It’s crazy how it seems that shotcreators have a better chance at hitting 3s than they do midranges; when they’re a midrange build. Inside scoring is also broken at times: missing open or lightly contested dunks/ layups. I preferred how it was in 2k18 where you could abuse people in the paint if you were a slasher/finisher.

I got a 6‘11 92 ovr athletic rebounding pf with hof posterizer and hof finisher. Yet I get weak ass animations when going to the rim most of the time and miss easy layins under the rim because a guard is in front of me 💀

Christopher G. Ya it’s bullshit. Last year I had 6’10” shotcreating slasher pf and man I was honestly unguardable sometimes. I would bang on people like I was a combination of shaq and Blake Griffen. If they made it to close to how it was last year, it would make the game more balanced. Plus I also just made a shotcreating slasher sg and I just want to have fun slashing again.

buddy post scores can post up and do post fades and stuff dont get me wrong they can dunk but not nearly as much as a slasher thats what you use to dunk on people a slasher

Young Dab-A-Roosa to be in that position/job you have to always be ready for criticism and negativity because you can’t make a perfect game. If you’re not mentally prepared for that you shouldn’t be working there. Don’t make excuses for lazy developers

Live is just as bad,but it doesn't have microtransactions.

I'm already on live 19 and 18 but 2k19 is trash 2k18 is better

Randomusername Me too! I used to play 2k11 all day back in 2011

hell yea all-star team up on ps3 me and my friend literally played 24/7

Trane Crowley 2k11 myplayer mode was amazing, wish they’d bring that back

This could be true, since like 2k11 people have always sent criticism constructive and negative to 2k each year on what should be changed/improved & it's like 2k just got tired of everyone complaining and gave up so they gave us a shitty product with microtransactions and got they money than stop putting any effort into the game anymore. Alot of people complaining about microtransactions but I hate the gameplay the most can't make shots, can't pass, can't play proper defense and a whole lot of other shit! It's sad what's became of this game, I don't think 2k20 will be any better... smh I'm going to LIVE next year.

the Crossover I feel the same way except I feel they don’t fix it until the next game to make it seem like they’re trying to listen to us

@Ashton Frailey I'm probably one of the best Play Now Online 2k players in the world but 2k has been trash lately. I bet you loved everything about 2k18 despite it probably being the worst game of the year you just eat up everything 2k throws out and don't question nothing because your a simpleton and basic so you see nothing wrong with something that's broken.

@Ashton Frailey If I were to argue with you I would look like a fool to others. 2k is broken bruh, I know green on most of my shots but yet 2k will say I release early or late and I'll miss. Passing system is broken, defense is broken even adjusting defensive settings are inconsistent with what I've set. These past couple of 2k's have been the worst ever. 2k11 through 2k15 I used to go on 25 game winning streaks on a consistent basis now on 2k18 and 19 I be lucky if I can win 6 games in row.

@Ashton Frailey dude i have a 6'2 guy what can i do against a 7'0 stretch that probably have a aldridge jumper

Out of all the new 2k’s, you choose 18?

Cake Gaming it’s the only one I have lol I sold 16 to get 17 and sold 17 to get 18 :p

good on you. your smart

Damn tuff

Lol it was the worse, once u deleted the game, and downloaded back again, it worked smoothly😂😂

i glitched like 1 300 000 milions of vc i deserve something

not because you just love the nba just like 75% of the people that keeps buying it even tho they know it's gonna be more an more frustrating throught the year and same about being bored?

@@ImattNobody That too.

All that for 60 bucks ? damn

@cashtheyen it is when you buy a bad game

Yung Savage true but there are still key flaws and exploits that hold the game back.

yall falling right back into 2ks hands past 5 years been trash and Live too stop giving these dudes 60 bucks a year

Agents Towel the defense in the game was terrible. I had plenty of fun on the park but then the speed boosting playmakers and the glass cleaners with brick wall had to ruin the game. It was just an endless cycle of playing tryhards who did the same thing the entire game

It was until they patched it to hell

Agents Towel 2k17 was horrible

Miki 2k i played all of it in 2k17. it was torture.

Probably Dirk at 2. Charles Barkley at 3. People think Malone was better but Barkley was flat out unstoppable for 6 years of his career. I personally dislike Malone, he's a terrible human being and he had the luxury of playing with Stockton, but you could put him as high as 2nd really, still KG was a better defensive player so I'd go with him. Malone 5th, or you could slide in McHale who most players very much respect as an unstoppable post presence. I really hate Malone as a human being so I guess I'm biased.

Yea? These dudes just spoiled brats that suck at the game lol

damn generally your first 2k is supposed to be one of your favorite and the one you play a lot to but i guess since nba2k is so frustrating and boring it might just be better to play irl

Slim Chain no it’s because 2k19 is trash. I’m sure if he started at anytime before 18 he would’ve loved it

I used to play the whole year without pause. I used to wish I could play it more. Now I sometimes dread playing it when my friends ask me to and I'm really good at the game.

nbavii 2k16 was ass 2k11 was the best

@@jumpman2326 2k11 was ass also because of the shitty nostalgia

I should’ve did the same

And 15 and 14

Jay Gonzalez i agree with this