What new modes are they gonna add? It's basketball...Association for the full team control, My Player for a single person's career, and now the Legends stuff. Should they add in a "make it rain in the club" mode, or a mini-game where you sneak guns into the locker room?
I never understood when people said "this sports game has the same modes as last year," that's because it's the same sport....all they can do is improve those modes to mirror real life.
The devs work with the same engine over and over and over and over since the game is an annual release, so if you're looking for drastic changes, you're gonna have to wait for the next set of consoles to come out. Unless Take Two decides to let 2K Sports take a year or two off and either make a brand new engine for the game, or bring the game over to a different one and have to work out all the issues.
The changes they make to 2K are subtle ones that's geared towards the hardcore gamer. Like this year the ball has it's own set of physics, and you can literally lose your dribble from trying to get too fancy, and the AI is supposed to be smarter when running plays against you. Last year, when the CPU called a play, if you knew what was coming it was game-set-match blouses (some of you will get the reference); but this year the AI actually adjusts to your adjustments....they're supposed to play smarter basketball. Those two things alone would make a fan of 2K11 (pre-patches) say "yes, dear god yes" but if you're looking for basketball players with jet packs and ish (cause I dunno what other changes you'd want to an NBA game that accurately depicts the NBA) then 2K was never geared towards you to begin with.
I know commentary is a big part of the immersion factor, but it shouldn't be a game breaker. It can be annoying, but it can also be turned off if it's not up to your standards.
P.S. They took Kellog out and added Kerr this year. But be warned...if they're commentating on a basketball game then it might be more of the same, because basketball hasn't exactly changed from 2k11 to 2k12.
I don't expect them to add new game modes, but maybe actually fix some of the issues which makes the game modes horrifically shit would be a start.
As I said, CPU trades are ridiculous. Solution? Add an option to approve/veto CPU trades instead of having to just turn it off entirely. If the trade looks like it might actually happen in a million years you could approve it. This has been suggested to 2k, year after year, yet they don't bother with it.
My Player mode is an absolute joke. A 55 rated player wins the MVP, Finals MVP, ROY, DPOTY and every other award under the sun in their first season. Playing on HOF. The bonus points objectives are often ridiculous (block 3 shots in a game as a PG, limit your opposite number to 4 assists when its CP3, etc). After putting up 20/10 in the first half of a game your coach will sub you out for the rest of the game and the team will lose (ok kinda realistic since my player plays for Mike D'Antoni but still). ALso the hilarious lineups your coach will put out like 5 guys under 6'6 while the other team just dunks and post moves all over your face for the rest of the game.
Not too bothered about the commentary it's only a minor gripe. However the crowd reactions really are a joke, when every EA sports game manages to get this right I find it hard to believe 2ksports can't manage it.
These are not hard things to fix, they just don't bother.
I'm not saying 2kXX are not the best basketball games available, they are, it's just DISAPPOINTING (see thread title) that they can't be arsed to fix such glaring errors in the game.
I can only assume you are another poster that doesn't bother to actually read the contents of a post and just infers what they want to hear and then tries to dissect it. Not once did I say I wanted new gameplay modes. Not once did I say I wanted "jetpacks and ish". Just that they fix the parts of the game which would be so simple yet so effective at making it a more enjoyable experience.
