Don’t worry, you’ve done a great job. If I sometimes find something unrealistic about the stats, I change it manually anyway. For players outside my team I don’t even care that much as I will play most of them just 3-5 times a season at most. I have noticed that for a few players you have put potential close to where they are coming from the draft - Graham or Carter for example. Better leave 2-3 points of room for development, makes it more fun.
I think it's realistic. Devote Graham could be a decent backup next year but I don't think he'll ever be a starter. If I raised his potential hed be going Top 20 which is unrealistic. With Jevon Carter, i think hes a huge sleeper but i cant raise his potential more or hed be going top 20 as well. Next year, I hope 2K let's you rank the players based on where they should be drafted and let's you use that to create sleepers and busts. I also with they would create a lot more variation in prospect types based on randomized production (Boom or Busts, Safe Picks, etc.).
I just bought the kids Switches, and as my own gift I got a bargain copy of 2k18. I only ever really play GM mode. Here's how the first one went: 1) Owner sold the team at the beginning of the year. New guy wanted me to trade for Vince Carter for "name recognition". Sure, why not, because I can trade Noah for him and stick him at the end of the bench. Done deal. Then the owner's kid becomes the Asst. GM and starts making waves, chirping at Dame on Twitter saying he's losing us games, going to the locker room and rumoring that the team's trading players, etc. Then the kid says the owner looked at some analytics and really wants DeJounte Murray. SAS isn't giving him up easily , so I say forget it. Trade deadline the kid trades away my stockpiled firsts for Murray, which pisses off Dame as well. Then the team is moved to Seattle and is renamed the Sonics. First, I thought "WTF?!" and restarted that season, thinking I chose poorly somewhere along the line. STarted with a new owner attribute and everything. Owner sells at the beginning, then the kid is forced on me (even when I say no) and now he really wants Willy Hernangomez and there are rumors of a move to Seattle. Anyone else dealing with this shit?
I almost got the pc version for like 7 bucks but decided to hold off and just pick up 2k19 in two months. I haven't bought one in a couple years so why not.
You should wait on that too. See what's better between Live and 2K. 18 was one of the worst and with all their bullshit micro transactions in not blindly forking my money over for their crap. I'm waiting to play Live 19 first... I may never play another 2k again.
19 is already taking orders. There are ads for it within 18. Kinda cool how they do that. LeBron on the cover.
I didn’t buy 18 because of how bad 2k got with the micro transactions stuff. I do have Live and it’s not as good as 2k but it got quite a bit better.
I recognize this completely. I've had almost every 2K game starting from Dreamcast. I've also played all the NBA Live games. Every one. I'm just done letting Sega rape me. EA is working hard on making a better game to compete with 2K. I know their game won't have all those bullshit, cash grab, micro transactions. FUCK Sega for that bullshit.
They don't make Live for the PC yet, although Madden will be for the first time in like 10 years so maybe soon. I like playing around with the resolution and mods and stuff, and I only really play franchise mode so the microtransaction stuff won't affect me as much.
I’m gonna so nerd out right now, but Sega isn’t actually a part of it anymore. 2k is part of take two interactive, who also owns rockstar (GTA and red dead) I believe. Anyways the main point is totally right the way 2k has done their virtual currency is just crap, it has sucked all the fun out of the games for me.
Live 96 was the first one I played, 02 is where I fell off the wagon It think. I started 2k at like 2k5 or somewhere around there. I don't get them yearly anymore though.
Yeah but gameplay sucks now too. The last solid one was 16. They nerfed a bunch of things and took out many of the dribble moves.
Ahhh I remember my former self I the OP. I was brimming with anticipation, and hopeful that the monstrosity that was 2K17 could finally be taken out back, and put out of its FUCKING misery, execution style... 18 would be the game that would fix the mistakes! Thinking that was the mistake. 18 was worse than its predecessor. The list goes on about the many problems with this game and with the company who made it... If you don't know who Agent 00 is, he's probably the most popular 2K head on YouTube.
When he looks at the Rainbow Six page and yells, "THEY MADE GRAPHICS Y'ALL!", that part made me laugh so hard. Awesome video! I'll have to check that guy's page out. 2K16 was the last one I bought and I think that will be the case until they make some major changes. I really miss the days when buying a game meant you had the full game. Some of those online games are impossible to get good enough to play unless you spend hundreds of dollars on upgrades in addition to buying the game, it's ridiculous.
So My wife and I (mostly me since we had the kids) spend quite a bit of time in game engines, and coding, doing development for game projects here and there, and my day job is a software developer thought its robotics and automation right now, not games. I’ll go to conferences quite a bit with other developers so I’ve met and talked to quite a few people in the gaming industry. When the costs of games comes up I’m always a bit torn on how I feel. On one hand, the price of a game ($50-60 bucks)hasn’t really changed in years. Developement cost has gone up exponentially along with just time it takes to do it. So I understand companies trying to find ways to make money off a product they’ve already released. However, when it comes to games not coming out in a respectable state and the consumer being expected to continue to pay them money to patch it up, or get dlc that finishes a game, well I think that crap is wrong. What we give to our customers should be a quality product to begin with, if it’s a game it should be about our customers having fun. The other thing that doesn’t get talked about very much is that gaming is way more mainstream than it has ever been. So especially for triple A games sales are much higher than they’ve ever been. The problem really started about 10-15 years ago when gaming really “got popular”, it became a business, filled with suits and investors who were coming at it from the angle of what’s the “least” we can do to get a sale, what are the right buttons we can push psychologically to get our players to get hooked and keep buying more and more. Anyways I know this is long, but there’s already been a backlash against some of these tactics in the gaming industry, shadow of war for instance got dumped on hard enough that the developer took all the micro transactions out of the game. https://www.polygon.com/2018/4/3/17...nsactions-removed-war-chests-gold-marketplace I hope people take notice of this stuff with 2k and let them know they crossed the line of what’s fun, you hurt the corporate hats pocket books enough and they’ll back off. Kind of gives me hope to see @dviss1 and the video he posted of agent00.
I have that game. I purchased the original on Xbox 360. When they were talking micro transactions in the sequel I boycotted. Only till I saw they were taking them out did I buy it.
Meh. I'm subscribed to both. He doesn't put near the work in that Agent does when it comes to analysis. Plus he's way more Madden and other things than 2K.
