The Disappointment Of NBA 2K24

[@Reggie-TV]

There’s a number of things I wanted to mention, but I the vid was long enough. Something I wish I bring up tho was the latency issues, and how inconsistent it is. It ruins park experience due to me relying more on shots than anything else. Anyways tell me how you feel about NBA 2K24!

[@kennydifficult666]

10:45 you mention here perimeter defense it sucks because of speed and acceleration that attribute is what's more important but the animations are there where you can bump and hold dribblers it's the no weight high speed acceleration dribble demons are unbalanced

[@chaboiseann]

That's why my builds are more rim attacking and defending atts.

[@keshawnmahone2330]

@@kennydifficult666 speed and acceleration are not more important, its less important actually. That's where you players be wrong thinking you know. The defensive attribute with the right badges is far more important. Speed and acceleration can be in the 70s if you know what you doin

[@keshawnmahone2330]

@@kennydifficult666 even bumping and guarding the shortest guards. I'm the best iso lock in 23 current gen and I will tell you what you need to know

[@Dr4gongam3]

Dawg I make shots consistently on a 82 ovr build.. just learn how to shoot without meter and ur fine

[@cdcroc]

I’m just reading the comments realizing the genjutsu 2K has some of these cats under. It’s like watching your sister make excuses for her abusive husband 😂.

[@destytayzo77]

Now do a comparison between 2k community and us citizens lmao

[@garyyoung2919]

Most of the comments defending 2k are paid pawns. Gutless beings and bots.

[@itzquan7295]

@@destytayzo77😂😂😂

[@diondavis95]

2k been had us under a genjutsu since 2k18 😂😂

[@notreallyafamousartist695]

Genjutsu is insane 😹😹😭😭

[@LAVEGAN83]

2k needs to make a game from scratch like they use to do and just rebuild. Stop copy & pasting every new release. The 2k brand has really lost it's way.

[@YankeeD23]

It's the modern business model nowadays.. cutting corners and taking shortcuts smh

[@AsianEyes007]

They’ll never do that as long as they want to keep up with annual releases

[@natesamadhi33]

Why would they do that when they can just do the bare minimum and still (literally) make billions?? The community is still buying this crap in droves, so 2K has no real incentive to change. The Community will talk trash & complain, but at the end of the day, theyll STILL buy it, and they'll still get on KZbin making videos about the best builds. No backbone, no integrity. Folks act like they just GOTTA play the same basketball game every year like some addicts.

[@2genders-tk2ue]

Stop spending so much on vc...

[@LAVEGAN83]

@@2genders-tk2ue i don't buy VC and that has nothing to do with how bad 2k has been for the last 10 years.

[@Dixon_Cider407]

Bruh said he spent $6 on 2K and still wanted a refund 😂😂

[@Reggie-TV]

@@Dixon_Cider407 Could’ve bought a bag of Doritos, but no my dumbass wanted to play 2k 😂

[@arrogant1996]

@@Reggie-TV😂😂

[@khlazar213]

I spent $2 and I want a refund lol game is 💩

[@MadSpace]

facts i just got it for like $15 because im like hell thats nothing and after i played for a while im like nah im good lmao

[@kingraiHeLLa]

​@@Reggie-TV6k on a game you must be addicted and a littlr stupid no wonder you been making KZbin videos but for sure you don't know how to spend your money . 6k you could a investment in real things but Ronnie 2k is tanking you for the money , you crying to us but they laughing at you no cap

[@thomaswood2418]

Micro transactions killed video games

[@ladariusholmes1215]

To be fair, us allowing them to profit off of it shot us in the foot.

[@JuliusTurner-hm6ff]

Nah. Graphics still looking like 2k15 killed it.

[@mannytheterrible]

@@JuliusTurner-hm6ffi dont know how much better the graphics could get bro its a basketball game not gta

[@thatbicth]

@@JuliusTurner-hm6ffliterally the least important aspect of the game

[@AFree1Month]

online only kiddies did. They're the micro transaction customers

[@GloryBoyTop]

$6 sale is CRAZY work

[@danielbattle7620]

It was free about two months ago

[@kenoidamae5725]

😂😂😂😂

[@Rei-bg3rf]

I bought it, and it's not even worth the $6 lmao

[@mandown5599]

it also got 3 stars in ps store

[@juliomaldonado56]

Yeah...$6 for a yearly roster update is not bad...paying $59.99 is wild...

[@IAmMicxh]

Green or miss is good in theory FOR MYCAREER with a set jump shot….but if you’re playing a game where over 200+ players have different jumpshots it’s frustrating af! And at this point they need to make a MyCareer offline option with the same features but for players who want a storyline and to just jump in, hoop and grind to 99

[@michaelahurt]

The green windows are much larger though so functionality is the same thing. Go play 2k16. It's much harder to green shots Green or miss is purely cosmetic

[@qdakid7776]

A wide open green isn’t perfect timing it’s good timing when you green with defense that’s perfect timing

[@VaderCola9204]

Lmao my career offline used to be a thing too they took that away as well

[@JKCplays]

g

[@babushkaboi1]

MyCareer has lost its touch because now its all based on the games online generation

[@freezhollywood]

2k died the moment you needed to be a robot and green every single shot to be rewarded. What’s the point in ratings then? I have a 99 in middy all these badges. I can’t get bailed out with a slightly late wide open??? Took the logic outta shooting.

[@bigcam24775]

You just ass bro

[@michaelahurt]

What robot? The green window on 23 or 24 is multiples larger than 16 or 17 and the green window is way bigger if you have high ratings and badges It's purely cosmetic. Green or miss had no impact on gameplay. Although they did bump up the difficulty sliders to create a larger skill gap. That was a separate thing

[@Smoothbrainstation]

made a video touching on this aspect I come from work and cant memerioze all these crazy jumpers

[@freezhollywood]

@@michaelahurt how’s it a skill gap when gimmicky shots n zens exist lol wtf

[@michaelahurt]

@@freezhollywood Welcome to competitive gaming. Did you actually play the old games? The gimmicky stuff was even worse. I forget which game, like 14 or 16 or something but you could trigger a finishing badge on fadeaway threes. It was ridiculous I've been saying for years that the game should be split in three parts though. MyCareer, MyTeam and single player all need their own gameplay engines. The player base is just too good and will exploit even the smallest irregularities

[@square130]

2K went from one of the best to one of the most disgusting companies of all time. I mean, this is fucking INSANE, you pay 60$ for a game and are basically forced to spend 120 FUCKING DOLLARS to upgrade ONE BUILD. disgusting.

[@BigBankReeds]

How are you forced when you can earn vc by playing ?

[@ripgordo]

@@BigBankReedsAre you fucking stupid? Why would that matter when people can just buy and upgrade with ease? Im pretty sure people already grind without buying vc which is the annoying part because you didnt really need vc to upgrade back then lol. It was just skill points and offline and online was a 50/50 aspect rather than now where its 92% online 8% offline

[@CookingandWH40kVideos]

@@BigBankReedsyour basically playing for 2$ an hour then to grind to an 87. On top of paying 10$ a month to play online. By the next game you’ve bought 2k at least 2 times.

[@Frosty1026]

@@BigBankReeds by capping your player so hard to make him feel useless then they make the grind so long and hard to even get to a 75 by just playing that it’s trying to force your hand to buy more VC cause they also inflate the price to upgrade your player to an 85 being close to 200,000 vc while you might max earn about 1,100 a game avg

[@philknight1972]

2k ruined 2 great franchises. The other one is Borderlands

[@zae_2hot]

It’s so funny seeing the toxic relationship my family and friends have with the 2K franchise they all complain about” how trash the game is and how they shouldn’t have bought it, and how the will never buy such a garbage game like that again” Just to passionately purchase it again next year😂😂😂

[@zae_2hot]

It’s quite honestly just like the Cod community 😭😭

[@leroyleroy90210]

Of course that’s sad but cause there’s no other option for basketball game☹️(and we love basketball games tho in general)

[@LonghornsLegend]

​@@leroyleroy90210but you definitely don't need this game every year at all. New rosters are always available for download. I still enjoy my Association years later which is all I play anyway because it's free

[@kdawg6887]

True I usually wait til November when it's half off but now even that doesn't feel worth it anymore.

[@LonghornsLegend]

@@leroyleroy90210 but the thing is wanting to purchase it every single year. A lot of times you only need one every three years. You could easily play 2k23 and you wouldn't even notice any difference from what was released this year.

[@TheJamesBraun]

I stopped playing 2k when they went crazy with micro transactions. It’s been some years now. I don’t miss it.

[@SeweyDior]

Last 2k i played was 2k20. I got back at 2k24. I instantly regretted

[@sethshepherd3221]

I said I was going to stop playing around 2k18ish but I pre order it every year in hopes that it’ll get better. For some reason I decided to buy $100 worth of VC for 2k24 just for a player archetype I hate 😭

[@nappsandnurture]

I stop playing at 2k20

[@Odysseus1999]

I bought 2k22 for the PC hoping I could just mod it to my liking. The modding community though really isn’t that expansive.

[@reginalddumas4525]

Other than Kobe being on the cover this game was a waste of money. Rip Kobe. ❤️🙏🏿🐍

[@marquisebryant5474]

Only reason I got this is cuz of my goat 🙏🏿

[@reginalddumas4525]

@@marquisebryant5474 💯

[@fakedazzleful]

You guys buy game based on whos on the cover? I got 2k for free on PS plus and i play one match and got bored. That game is trash

[@reginalddumas4525]

@@fakedazzleful I bought it like everyone else to see how good of a game it was supposed to be and if Kobe is on the cover yeah and you got it for free and you hated it so I dont see your point

[@fakedazzleful]

@@reginalddumas4525 that game suck. Even with legend bullshit. It sucks. That's my point

[@codedniche3263]

I just want an NBA Basketball game, all of these multiplayer gimmicks need to go😡

[@babushkaboi1]

Yeah thats how I feel all this online character build shit is annoying..whatever happen to original storyline customized careeer modes its all about online now

[@zilverman7820]

All I play is simulation. A bit of my player but I dont play those multiplayer shit mictro transaction.

[@moneymanhussein8445]

park ruined 2k

[@LonghornsLegend]

I been an association player since 2k20 that was the last time I grinded my player and there was some actual fun. Now I buy once every two years and play association it's probably going to be once every 3-4 now

[@babyboijeremy]

Most sports gamers are eternally braindead. They buy a worst game every year, and reward bad games, by giving them money. Everytime some guy buys vc, they motivate 2k to continue to push out more trash. I dont feel bad for the community.

[@MAIA606zzp]

I think its the same problem as fifa, when pes was still a thing fifa games was actually good, they had competition, since nba live 19 from todays 2k, the game quality just decreased, i think having some competition make them make a easier and funniest game for the general comunity

[@Pure100percentfacts_]

but fifa has efootball and upcoming competitors like ufl and goals

[@MAIA606zzp]

I know, but even with those competitors, EA keeps doing anything with the game, now imagine 2k that has no direct competition, they literally can just copy 2k24 and update the roster and faces, and bang there's 2k25, they dont have pressure to get better, its like selling water in the desert

[@BaldGym]

this the one Fifa literally started all of this they are the pioneer of Microtransactions as we know them today. they made billions on ultimate team and had 2k trying to copy them with myteam and slowly but surely its working. People use to laugh at me when I told them that eventually myteam was going to take over the game and be an even bigger focus than "park" at the time. look at it now, and its only going to continue to be their biggest focus because the business model just works

[@hezijezee]

Did you know that to change your jersey in 23 you gotta go through some long as quests where you gotta talk to different people in cutscenes, play a 2v2 game, free throw contest, and a bunch of other shit, it was annoying asf

[@treyross7057]

Thats was the reason why i stop that 2k bra it was fucking annoying to do that shit over and over again 🤣🤣🤦🏾‍♂️

[@warmongeryt1458]

I know not only that the fact that they had a whole story line, stupid side quest nobody cares about for social media dancing and rapping like bro we just want to play basketball not go through some drama story and pointless quest and running around with the garbage mechanics in a big city

[@TaqSoto]

The city is just a giant advertisement, which is why they'll never get rid of it. The city is there to advertise all the different brands in the game. Nike, gatorade, Ruffles, adiddas, etc. 2k makes so much money off of those ads that the city is here to stay. They can tweak it at most. Maybe make things closer together, but the real point of the city is to advertise.

[@Odysseus1999]

And the city means you have to see all the online players, which are those that bought VC and are 99 overalls dripped out in mascot costumes. And if you think this is cool and you want to queue on a court with them, then you’re probably not even going to get into a match being a 60 overall, so you buy VC. Then they got the stupid motor scooters and stuff that make you run faster. Pretty sure that costs VC too.

[@BC-bx8kl]

I remember the original NbA 2k w AI on cover on Dreamcast. With the matching free throw meter. Good times

[@KimKimbelle]

NBA 2K24 became free for PSPLUS members and I still won’t play it

[@mattmiller666]

Same. I play 23 instead

[@RacceFlippa]

​@@mattmiller666I stop playing that one bc of missing full meters and I mean that a full bar and my brother in law is my witness bc we were playing each other on the blacktop and he saw the whole thing another thing if I tried to load into the game and went to my career they immediately kicked me out but soon as I gave him back his controller they didn't do anything to him when he logged in the game and worked good for him and even he was like that is crazy

[@lukangg5023]

Yooo remember when you could just load up to the park and hoop. Everything was in 1 park and the stores was on the same block. They got some players on a chokehold wanting to spend 15k on a tee. Spending $20 everytime they get paid to buy a virtual fit. This generation of players are cooked

[@CoachNirie]

I got it for free on Game Pass & still didn't get my money's worth 😂

[@Bill-e-Goat]

I tried to start my career and couldn’t even figure out how to play a game of basketball. I was just walking around that stupid city for 10 minutes and went back to my team. I don’t even understand what I was supposed to do….

[@axelbtj3120]

That’s crazy🤣🤣

[@hightolerance8728]

Bro it’s so trash. They got you doing stupid quest like it GTA. Which I don’t necessarily mind but it ties no way into the story. Need that 2k16 Story

[@notatrollll]

@@hightolerance8728the key is “attempting to be like gta” but gta perfects their world and adds tons to do and detail, making it fun to explore

[@Odysseus1999]

It’s to get you to play online. If you’re exposed to online players walking around the city and seeing them play, then you’re watching everyone else who bought VC and is a 99 overall. And no one wants to queue up with you if you’re a 60 overall, so you have to buy VC. Everything 2K has put into the game is to try to get you to spend more money.

[@Blazio]

Did you open the menu and look for the option "play next game"?

[@sardeegaming]

The shooting was what literally never made me want to play 2k ever again I can’t make a shot

[@PlumGod]

Skill issue

[@notatrollll]

@@PlumGodyeah and? You skilled 2k shooters can fellate each other while 2k loses money from regular casual players. Not everyone wants to chuck 3s against children on mics from the park screeching at you. Alot of people pay 60 bucks to play the single player franchise and mycareer options and sim basketball. “Skill issue” toxic fanbases have lead to plenty of games failing to impress the overall market. As sales fall, you may lose your game over elitism. I know you probably give EA hundreds but it wont be enough to save your precious predatory game company.

[@dynamicphotography_]

My teenage kid is a huge basketball fan. We got this and were completely lost. We couldn't just jump into a fun game. So much bloat and garbage. Totally worthless. He went back to playing on a mobile game.

[@BaldGym]

why not just play offline and play now online? thats honestly all I do on 2k I dont touch any of the other money grab modes

[@cammcooln]

You can literally just go to play now offline… reading is fundamental

[@scottmoore3043]

I'm a Kobe fan and can't believe you can't play with the 2009 or 2010 squad! Only bought it because of #24 cover. RIP Mamba & Gigi.

[@RacceFlippa]

The fact they ruin the game the day it game out told me everything even though my lil cousins kept pushing me to play against them both and yes I beat both every time I kept telling them they can't touch me and I'm the Big cousin and why do they have to act like we have competition with me is my problem we supposed to be family and the lil brother wouldn't wait until I logged into my own game without getting mad but his big brother understood now him I can say he learned something from me bc we have both played with and against each other so him I can vouch for but his lil brother that nigga now gets what I was saying the whole time

[@aidangoodwin7031]

I stopped playing after 2K19 because i just felt burnt out. By the time I felt like playing 2K again, they had gone to next gen and i play on PC which doesnt get next gen games. I've heard 2K25 will be next gen on PC, so im considering buying it. But man everytime i think about having to pay for the game and a character it makes me not want to.

[@greasypablo1315]

Trust me, you're not missing out

[@Bill-e-Goat]

@@greasypablo1315facts - wait till it goes free - they want that pack revenue so it will

[@dreco2x199]

It's getting worst. Think I'm going to be a play now player this year.

[@greasypablo1315]

@aidangoodwin7031 I especially got done with 2k when I grinded out on my myplayer just for later patches to make the build suck by the time they moved on from 2k23. Didn't buy 2k24 or even a lick of vc.

[@TwanBankz]

ouch pc , probably hella hackers/modders. there was alot on console during 2k20 imagine on pc

[@WhoJahBless]

the concept that green or miss creates a skill gap is pointless when there’s so much RNG in the rest of the gameplay aspects.

[@bronxriverchinobrown2856]

And this is what no one talks about which makes the game unbearable to play forget the city my player just the core gameplay mechanics. There a glitch that’s been in the game for years where u press lt/l1 to icon pass and the button dosent register . I dnt see how people bet money in 2k it’s so random.

[@rexboston22]

I’m taking green or miss over people getting rewarded for miss timing their release and being able to be knockdown with a 60 overall 3 pointer (2 way slashing playmakers) The game is pure RNG tho when it comes to loose balls, offensive rebounds, and out of bounds animations

[@basketballlife5280]

@@rexboston22but you can be consistent w/ a 2 way slashing playmaker on 2K24 (75 3 ball w/ all hotspots)

[@WhoJahBless]

@@rexboston22 my point is.. why make ONE aspect of the gameplay skill based & not any of the others lol. we’re far better off with shooting like 15-21, even 22 but without the sniper badge. 23-24 with green or miss & 7 zillion jumpshot timings is ridiculous. not to mention only like 3 of the bases in the game are effective lol

[@rexboston22]

@@WhoJahBless The reason they made shooting skill based is because it was way too easy. Shooting a bounce back late and still making shots is to easy and eliminates skill gap. Also they made you miss random shots WIDE OPEN shots because of RNG. You can also be knockdown with a 60 3 pointer which creates imbalance in the game. I think we better off with green or miss with an actual anti cheat for zen users and a severe buff to defense. The people who actually practice and know their jumpshot que should be rewarded not bounce back shooters. The only time I get different jump shot timing is when I shoot contested shots. All the other 2ks there were a couple jump shot bases Lamarcus Aldridge and Rudy gay were dominate bases for years

[@BloodSasuke101]

The game got so gross I turned to MyGM/NBA guy to escape the gambling/micro transactions and now the gameplay is so bad I can barely play that. They make all this money but the game gets worse?

[@RoscoeHD]

Completely feel the same way. It’s taken my love for the mode this year away and I typically play it a ton.

[@rogermyles606]

I have been done with 2k since 2k16. The only reason I got 2k24 was because Kobe on the front cover. RIP Kobe Bryant aka The Black Mamba

[@devinwilliams6030]

And then not to mention MYCAREER IS ONLINE ONLY

[@LethalProtector8000]

This has been the case since 2K20, unfortunately.

[@DarryllThompson-ow7sf]

Yeah. I play myleauge with player lock on. Way better

[@Rei-bg3rf]

I'm playing 2k14 offline myCarrerr and it slaps man

[@Rei-bg3rf]

2k12 too, but unfortunately there's no pro stick lmao

[@moneymanhussein8445]

@@DarryllThompson-ow7sfme too can edit your own rating and badges

[@StateoftheFranchiseGaming]

Mamba Moments were a disappointment in the amount of how many they gave us, this easily should have been either 8 or more so 24 moments to honor him other wise this was wack

[@zibitbs7]

& they managed to miss iconic moments

[@Gandalf_the_Gold]

Yeah no 81 point game lol and I wanna say no 60 point finale. Plus in total there are 21 stars to earn they really couldn’t put the 81 point game in there just to honor him at least with 24 stars to earn

[@CoachNirie]

​@@Gandalf_the_Gold my thoughts exactly

[@duyvuitton6019]

@@Gandalf_the_Gold Unfortunately both of those games you mentioned were regular season games. To be honest Kobe didn't really have many "MJ" moments in the playoffs, GW shot against PHX and DET are the only ones I can remember but generally speaking Kobe's playoff prowless was truly a fraction to that of MJ.

[@Gandalf_the_Gold]

@@duyvuitton6019 Kobe had a season worth of good to great playoff games but yeah mj is the goat for a reason

[@ffferdinanddd]

Mann… I remember I had every 2k between 11-18 when i was young, but after 18 i just started buying it every other year instead cus it dropped quality… now I’m never buying it again

[@Gibs007]

Main issues I got with 2k 1-Bring back offline game modes 2-enough with the micro transactions (greed) 3- normal player evolution. I might as well be dreaming cause take2 is a money hungry machine. So ✌🏾nba 2k.

[@TwanBankz]

atleast fix the dribbling thats what hit the heart for me when playing 24😢 i quit durin 22 came back 2 years later to absolute disappointment lol & i thought it was my fault i spent hella money & time trying out new builds.

[@willyPVR]

The fact that TD Garden and MSG is missing is still an atrocity

[@ryant2289]

EA owns the rights to those

[@ItsYaBoi888]

What do you mean? Where do the knocks play then? 😮

[@willyPVR]

@@ItsYaBoi888EA owns the license to those arenas. 2k can place logos and team names around court and arena but not the name of the arena itself.

[@JaeLee83]

I was a day one 2k gamer on the Dreamcast, it's sad to see how far they've fallen due to their greed, what's even sadder is that the fans continue to support the abuse.

[@philblugh7209]

I wish there were devs that were actually willing to hear from the fans on what makes a great basketball game. 2k keeps removing things that made it great for the sake of greed.

[@BaldGym]

Bro devs have zero control/authority these are multi billion dollar products they are just told what they can and can't do. Why do you think even the smallest of issues generally take so long to fix probably have to get it approved by many people

[@MrSteviej893]

Live as a brand may have started in '94, but the series actually started in '89 with EA's Lakers vs Celtics and the NBA Playoffs.

[@seano8729]

green or miss ain’t really that bad, but making that mf IMPOSSIBLE for NO REASON pissed me off

[@mikenice215]

It’s crazy to hear when everyone started. We had 2k2 and 2k3 in even remember 2k football having us in a choke hold🤦🏾‍♂️. The timing was just different🔥

[@chaseesahc3100]

The last 2k i loved was 22... The past 2 years was unplayable.

[@jbquigley2010]

You had the perfect description of how hard it is to get around screens and how you keep bumping into your own teammates

[@spokenword3927]

NBA 2k is added more classic players and I don’t play online so the game is still A+ for me

[@itriedtochangemynamebutitd5019]

How do Sports fans put up with gambling $70 every year for if the game ends up being buggy, grindy, and overly monetized every year?

[@cryptic6917]

Idk what it is but defence in this game feels harder, I could use a lockdown defender build maxed out at 99 and I’ll still struggle to clamp down a 75-80 overall spot up shooter. In 2k19 and 2k20 you didn’t have to make a lockdown build but you’d still be a serviceable defender and still have the ability to get 2-3 steals a game and one or two blocks a game. I get that defending needs to be hard and making it more difficult to defend is a good thing but when you’re making it hard to defend when you’ve made a 99 overall 6’8 lockdown defender build and even then it’s hard to defend you know there’s an issue.

[@Sky_Blaze]

2k basketball has been bad since 2k16 mfs still acting like its the old 2k that use to care. They turned into EA

[@nathandrakegameplays]

I was away from NBA 2k19 and back these weekend. You basically sumarized all my experience lol. I really miss the 2k15-16 shot meter. I really miss the court we use to have in My Career where it was possible to customize it. Bro, this game and Madden are really trash.

[@easymoneyrad]

20 was my last consistent 2k until 23. I played 22 for 2 weeks cuz it was on sale but the gameplay was awful that i couldn’t anymore.

[@guapymg2815]

same i skipped 21, played 22 & 23 for a month and i never touched 2k24😭

[@iseerashonal821]

im looking to trying a basketball game. is 2k20 good to start with?

[@moneymachinezo]

2k was so fire before the shot meter days. The shot meter definitely ruined it for me

[@brightmamba889]

A good RPG these days is 60 and 70 hours. The difference is that leveling in an rpg is fun.

[@jaym8988]

The biggest thing I hate is when I see/know a screen is there, I go on the outside, because I know the ballhandler is driving, I come anywhere near the screeners hit box, I hug the guy, and slowly wrap myself around the inside. The dribbler has gotten around and has either shot or layed the ball up by that time. If yall are going to MAKE me touch the screener with an animation, keep me on the same side as where I am.

[@ramonthompson8422]

2k community is really simping out here you haven’t seen 2k25 gameplay or news and still buy the game at full price smh😭

[@nanovargas]

I’m a pack addict sorry, preordering hall of fame edition too

[@corey5712]

They don’t care they have money lol

[@corey5712]

Mf really balling lmao

[@nanovargas]

@@corey5712 not balling but just spending whatever lol. I spent over 700 on vc for packs and best I got was 98 kobe, was tryna get kg and before that, after those like I quit tho other than dirk and some others maybe

[@corey5712]

@@nanovargas I’m not saying u wrong but that’s why 2k doing what they doing. Think about u bought the standard edition basically 7/8x over just because they gave you the option. And you half prolly didn’t even want too lowkey I’m sure bc everybody say the same shidd every year. So why would i go back to 60$ and free everything if Ik u and millions of others gone buy it 7x over just because the option is there. 2k is a business not a community. They doing the same thing the government do it’s good to call it out tho they are bogus af

[@jtbucketsshorts2213]

I just want new classic teams 😞

[@shady3legend]

Exactly....still don't understand why 2k never include the 09 or 10 Lakers, 02 Magic with Tmac or even the 01 Ray Allen Bucks

[@verbalpainter]

They need to make city an completely separate game...cheaper.... and the traditional sim bball (with franchise modes) their own games... both for $35 each. Then those that love the be microtransactioned to death and worry about fashion and hoverboards... vs actually playing bball can do so on their purchase...and those of us that'll like to play a sim bball game... can have their cake as well.

[@DatBoiCris4]

You gotta pay to play lmao

[@JermaineDurham-m5o]

Yep

[@ryheemmccalla2802]

Yessir, time or money. Time is money

[@hking990]

you literally don’t

[@vlcallmeprince-x6032]

​@@hking990People can litterally pay their way to better builds

[@hking990]

@@vlcallmeprince-x6032 they cap you at a certain level and you have grind each level after 85 regardless of how much vc u have… and it’s only 13k a level you should have 25-35k before that level with rec games or in your career

[@JMHStudioproductionsLLC]

My ERA / My League / My NBA is literally the best thing the game has It’s a time machine draft old players or rewrite nba history or recreate history Will Jordan get drafted by the rockets or trailblazers with newspapers as headlines or tv in the 90s or the score board changing though out the years rules or team location happening in real time park has been overrated for a long time I have not played competitive since 20 hopefully 25 adds the bill Russell era get a black and white filter

[@reggieherod8678]

I had time to grind when I was in hs but now it’s ridiculous it gets to a point where you have to do cringy quest and play 3-4 games just to get a single upgrade literally UNLESS you buy vc. Nowadays I’m strictly a play now player.

[@loneraven6576]

Ten rebounds from Ai and gets the ball and score my player just jumping cant block cant score cant run or dribble .. winning by 20 point thin lost by 30 points Ai score every shoot .broke my controller..im done ..

[@Inf1ni1y]

At this point the game is just a disgrace to the late great Kobe Bryant

[@Gandalf_the_Gold]

Worst thing is if the mode doesn’t try to sway the player into buying vc they don’t give a single sh*t about it. Y’all remember all star team up now me and my brother have to select player lock and hope we are on teams. Back in the day I remember in like 2k18 I had like 5 whole teams of my buddies playing allstar team up with me good luck with that.

[@BaldGym]

Why wouldnt they tho? like genuinely ask yourself as a business someone is handing you billions of dollars why would you do anything that discourages that to happen? Sure you can say its unethical or greedy, but at the end of the day all the power is in our hands and we are allowing it all to happen

[@Gandalf_the_Gold]

@@BaldGym laziness corporate suits that want the extra money from VC. Blame 2k but you really need to blame take2 interactive

[@rajathebull4121]

When they added premade archetypes is whene they lost me. Now coming back and seeing how dumb these badge tiers are, and now all these pointless badges are dumb af

[@rajathebull4121]

And sometimes not setting screens is more effective 😂. Juat let a mf sprint into you whike you just stand there

[@Uchiasrathh__]

Badge regression is such a dumb concept what elite athlete suddenly forgets how to perform an action that they have performed numerous times? All of a sudden Steph can’t shoot anymore because he had one bad shooting game like what the fuck, that’s like saying Usain Bolt forgot how to sprint 😂😂😂😂

[@rayyx93]

6:55 blocking bron from behind with tony parker is absolutely hilarious LOL

[@rayyx93]

@Reggie_TV1 do i win something o.o

[@TwanBankz]

i havent heard of tony parker in like 5 years sheeesh

[@jeepin_butcher]

Def the most broken 2k I've played

[@premium7182]

Shots are broken...

[@hailemhailem1320]

can barley shoot with kobe but im nailing shots with worthy​@@premium7182

[@MURKGOAT860]

When shot success comes down to whether you "green it" or not in a basketball game there's something wrong.

[@Pjajsh]

All my friends who weren’t willing to spend extra money on vc already quit

[@africanricc3458]

They should have kept it like 2K7 ….u need to learn each players shooting animation and pull it at the right time at the top of their release to hit a shot…..not this green bar bs….

[@YankeeD23]

*2K only wants our time ⌚ and our 💰.. Our "fun" is irrelevant to them 💯*

[@atlien1988]

I've played NBA since the very beginning and Madden since '93 or '94. It's embarrassing what sports games have devolved into.

[@iseerashonal821]

im looking to trying a basketball game. is 2k20 good to start with?

[@SpeakMyPiece-If-I-May]

The same way you feel that everyone is stiff and it’s hard to guard the other player. Other people are saying the same exact thing, but they’re able to manage because they practiced. You got to learn your controller. You gotta keep practicing until you get better, because it could be like 2k11 when all the shots were easy at one particular time and that was boring.

[@zilverman7820]

The shot meter on 2k23 and 2k24 is hard as fvck. Garbage.

[@mannytheterrible]

Because nobody uses the meter buddy turn it off

[@xBodiezz]

@@mannytheterriblethere are bots who still use meter💀💀

[@No1Ishome-x7z]

bro mad about 6 $ spent earned a sub 🤝🏿

[@chizchism84]

I too, gave up on 2k long ago…. twas a hot summer day, summer of 2014, day after Independence Day in fact, little did I know, I would play my last game of 2k…. It freaking sucks bro and it has only gotten worse, I can deal with the transactions, I can deal with the big city, but what I can’t deal with is me having 99 mid and 3pt WITH ALL BADGES and go 0-15 in the rec 🤦🏾‍♂️ that is absolutely where I draw the line bro🖕🏾

[@v9productions]

Remember when you would start and NBA video game and would automatically be put into a gym to shoot around than had to press start to actually go to “play now”…. GREAT TIMES

[@JermaineDurham-m5o]

I like my NBA eras that's all i lik period

[@CptAeRoTR]

Microtransaction greed is crazy, plus never ending cheaters. You grind to 99 with time or money when a cheater with 6 foot long arms is already 199 overal....

[@fleurinord_MS]

2k20 shooting was perfect

[@rexboston22]

People made so many bounce back late 3s and people were able to be knockdown with a 60 3 point rating(2-way slashing playmakers). Game was good but u really want that back?

[@jvongaming3331]

@@rexboston22I’m saying like yeah the whites was cool but slasher with 45 three ball hitting is insanee😂

[@hbk7574]

You could make 100 percent contested from mid court on that game it was fun tho

[@brianjackson3031]

@@rexboston22two way slashing playmaker was my favorite build of all time. I miss 2k20 so much

[@iseerashonal821]

im looking to trying a basketball game. is 2k20 good to start with?

[@MURKGOAT860]

the shot meter takes the attention of the user off of the shot animations. You get so hung up on checking a thermostat instead of enjoying the fluidity and position of the players

[@youngOG87]

I was out once they said no auction house in myteam. My life has been much better without 2k tbh haven’t missed it at all

[@MultitaskingGuy]

1:21 I miss NBA live 2005

[@notreallyafamousartist695]

You spent 20 dollars to get a 72 overall??☠️☠️☠️☠️

[@patsmokey2933]

Like I say the game got destroyed when the build system started makin bs weak points in players like who wants to make a bench player but they call it a superstar. No one in the nba is that weak in a section period

[@romeano4882]

0:36 it lasted the longest bc they have the rights to the nba tf lol

[@rkevinappier]

nba live had it too; they just gave up. You must not remember the demo that came out in '14 showing that it was absolute ass. It inexplicably had players Jesus Christ posing at half-court lol

[@DantieuS]

Great video and pretty much in agreement on all counts, 2k is consistently letting us down, big time! Honestly dude I used to be a My Career guy, hated online aspect of it, I was all about the stories and for me 2ks 19 and 21 had the absolute best stories coupled with the best gameplay. 17 was nice too all around, 16 was just utter dogshit all round and I avoided 18, 20, 22 & 23 cause the MyCareers looked dreadful. Thank god we had Chris Smoove to subject himself and save me money! 24s my career is non existent, just sucks completely, only reason I bought this game (in 75%off sale) was for the Mamba Moments. I agree about the shooting completely, it's a nightmare and it makes this game modenreally difficult to enjoy thanks to that. Could've been as good as the Jordan Challenge from 2k11 but 2K screwed the mechanics. Right now, I've gone back to the only 2 modes you can have a good amount of control over and enjoyment without grinding or wasting your hard earned money. MyGM and Association. I love creating a Draft Class for each season when I have some time, then watching the season unfold. I refuse to entertain micro transactions.

[@samuraibeastwarrior2886]

I wish THQ would make a NBA Game

[@maxd4301]

Don't quote me on this but I could've sworn they went bankrupt

[@FreeBandGanGTerrorists]

Don't they make the WWE2K games

[@TSY5800]

​@@FreeBandGanGTerrorists no visual concepts makes the wwe 2k games and 2k just publish them

[@SippyDrandal]

2k has the NBA license until 2026 unfortunately

[@samuraibeastwarrior2886]

@@SippyDrandal I want competition

[@notatechguy1209]

I only watched about 10+ minutes of your video but you are 100% correct about how bad the game feels for a new player or a player coming back. I stopped playing 2k in 2019 but did experience 2k20 and 21. I actually got 2k21 free and uninstalled it the same day because of how bad the gameplay was. Now for 2k24, they nerf everything to favor online play and microtransactions. If you haven't put hundreds of hours into this game over the last few years or have the reflexes of a tennis player in your thumbs shot timing and dribble combos or hard as sh*t. They do this by design to get you to spend money on VC for badges and skills upgrades. People who cry about the "skills gap" were outraged that casuals could still green a jumper in their face. It was like playing Mortal Kombat with your friends back in the day and your mom made you let your little sister play and she's beating everybody with low kicks and sweeps. So you can have a 60 3pt shot and still shoot but you have to have like 3 to 5 badges enabled. That's not a "skills gap", that's pay to win. So I gave 2k24 a shot this year just because of how big of a Kobe fan I was. I don't play online so I was buying the game just for Kobe and MyCareer modes. I played for a couple of months just to get my player to 70 overall and about 15 badges ( no money spent) and was finally able to shoot, but the game still wasn't fun to play. If you're not here for the online experience this game isn't worth playing. The gameplay feels poor and unbalanced. Playing around with sliders doesn't even help.

[@cbreezy]

I actually contacted their support about getting my money back for all the VC and bs I bought.

[@dakotarock6422]

First Sports game I played on SNES... but by PS2/XB/GC it was simply the golden age of Sports games from Basketball to Football: NCAA, Madden to 2k (ESPN owns history) how far we have come in Tech yet look how far we have fallen behind.. 2k/ EA wants all of their games to be digital Slot Machines 1st while the gameplay is 2nd or 3rd.

[@YY_SCXR]

Cant really blame them for making shooting harder its what the community asked for 2k22 had people hitting whites really often and now you dont hit whites very often and people are still complaining. But i feel like the biggest problem with 2k is them making dribbling slower and stiffer every year instead of expanding on the dribbling and movement of the game. Ever since 2k19 the dribbling has just gotten worse and worse and to make one build takes 300k vc 😭.

[@DaLeada100]

Let’s be honest… we all but 2k because of the love of basketball and the updated NBA rosters. Name another up to par basketball game, and thank you NBA for the constant trade drama.

[@legendary9078]

Game so bad to me

[@LosoBanks_332]

React to my 2k24 video on your channel bro Respectfully 💯 spread the word please 🙏 im tired of 2k scamming us

[@LosoBanks_332]

React to my 2k24 video on your channel bro Respectfully 💯 spread the word please 🙏 im tired of 2k scamming us

[@UnbiasedSaiyan]

2k24 is absolutely horrendous. Played 2k7 again on 360 recently and it was much more enjoyable.

[@GreenLobsterMonster]

I got it on steam the other day because it was on mega sale. I’ve never (seriously) played another nba game. I’m loving it. Building a dynasty in MyLeague and doing some quick play offline is fun. I’m not interested in the MyCareer. For me, it was a solid buy. Graphics are pretty shit though

[@smoothshot8925]

i Don’t even play these 2k’s nowadays cause they make it so u have to unlock teams just to play with them it’s really just fucking stupid most ppl want to go home right after getting it and start playing with the older teams fucking $60 and they make u work for it like spending $60 wasn’t already enough

[@hailemhailem1320]

the shooting and.mid range sucked

[@Composedblackness]

What’s insane is I’m still playing NBA live 19 and the servers are still on

[@DatBoiCris4]

lol yea 2k24 shooting ain’t easy unless you got the right base and right rating & badges

[@JimTrussell]

I have played and won THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of games of 2k. 2k16. 2k21. 2k23. I can tell you I played 2k24 for about an hour and deleted it. It is terrible. You tell people the game is terrible and people respond by telling you that youre not good. Reality is I have thousands of wins on a 90% win % and I was #1 on the leaderboard for a few weeks on 2k21. 2k24 is garbage. So disappointing.

[@samuraibeastwarrior2886]

I respect your opinion but not everybody have to agree with it

[@windmillconnoiseur985]

Sheep

[@samuraibeastwarrior2886]

cap @@windmillconnoiseur985

[@supersaiyannigga5980]

Shut up bruhh

[@danimalman3]

I still play 2k16 to this day to save me the frustration. My brother plays 2k14 because he cant take the new ones anymore. This shouldn't be happening.

[@YungPhantom-dp7rd]

The question is are you hype for dragon ball z sparking zero

[@Reggie-TV]

I’ve waited too long for this game to say no. I’m buying it first day. You?

[@YungPhantom-dp7rd]

@@Reggie-TV of course I already pre order it bro we up 💪💪💪

[@GeceHug]

Man, i just love this video! I feel you really. I just uninstalled the game for real an hour ago. I shared my thoughts on Steam about it and you're literally saying all i said there. I had around 60 hours and the only thing i play is Career Mode and I'm no new to the game, been playing since 2k14 but stopped somehow after 2k19. I bought this one cause there was a huge discount, i f**ng regret it.

[@MRMORTONIII]

I wait till 2K is free to play every year since 20 but after 17 i stopped caring