NBA 2K17

Zero-Cool

Releasing on Tue 20th of September or you can get it early on the Friday 16th by preordering either digital or physical.

PSN store - €70 Irish or €54 on US/CAD stores
Smyths - €65
Gamestop - €70
The Game Collection - €47 (£40)

Preordering the regular edition gets you 35k VC for NBA 2K16 right now, and myteam cards for 17. You can spring an extra 20 quid for the Kobe version which gets you 30k VC in 17 plus Kobe gear for your my player or if you want to spend 100-110 euro, you get the legend edition which includes 100k VC (What a load of bollix)

I'm a sucker for these so will most likely be getting it on launch but interested to see what others are doing. Long time fans giving up on the series? New fans getting 2K16 on PS+ hooked on the series now?

It's very very strange that the game is being released in 5 weeks (earlier than normal) and there is almost zero information about the game. A screenshot of Team USA, both old and new, but read that there are no other international teams.

Also read that a lot of information is being held back until Gamescom in Germany next weekend but I find it weird that 2K would hold back info on a game with the majority of it's buyers in the US for a European con

https://twitter.com/NBA2K/status/759505138973155328

https://twitter.com/NBA2K/status/760282753208246272

Carroller

I'll be buying this for Xbox one. Havnt had either 2k15 or 2k16 and enjoy basketball games. Having said that though the pictures don't look like the quality of expect them to be in terms of graphics

Zero-Cool

Soundtrack listing released. I don't even know most of them but they sound like hipster ****heads. There's 3 Drake songs (3 too many)

http://www.operationsports.com/forums/nba-2k-basketball/886475-nba-2k17-soundtrack-revealed.html

Also a trailer was released for the Olympic team but it's cack, no gamelay, just US national anthem with the players lined up looking patriotic. Horse**** 2K

Potential-Monke

As someone who hasn't played a basketball game since NBA Jam back in the day, I was delighted to see 2K16 on PS+. Downloaded it, and immediately hated it. It's so convoluted, it's worse than the Fifa games for the amount of different combinations and ways to shoot. I googled, I watched videos, but I still couldn't get enough baskets to win. I had to give up during the college section of My Player. And you need VC to upgrade your player, with little to no way of earning any without paying actual money (or, at least I couldn't find any way other than watching those videos in the gym, but that's so painful...).

Even had a mate who had 2K15 and he said 2K16 was terrible in comparison, he too couldn't get the shots in. So if the gameplay is the same as 2K16, i'm out. Which is a shame, i'd love a good game like Jam. I'm sure fanboys and diehard fans love the complexity, but like Fifa, it's a turn off to new players. At least in Fifa I could still score, just not fancy.

Zero-Cool

Yeah it's not kind to new players especially new players don't know about basketball. In My Career, during the school/college/1st season, you will miss a lot of shots unless you are wide open. Game wants you to play a support role starting off until you have enough attributes upgraded. It's a big complaint every year as you also start your career as a **** player.

You don't earn VC until you get to the nba and then you get about 600-800 in average depending on your grade and if ye win, so you cant actually start upgrading your player until you get to the nba.

Series needs a serious tutorial mode for new players bit it's content being the leading bball game on b the market. EA nba Live isn't even releasing a game this year.

Wonda-Boy

Never played any of the other games, but DL the 2K16 on PS+ and absolutely love it. Yes, very steep learning curve but its a brilliant game. I have a PG with a rating of 82 and getting better by the day....just traded to the Thunder so I can play with Durrant and Westbrook, average about 20 pts a game.

Cant wait for the new one....

Zero-Cool

Some leaked footage from Gamescom with apparently more to come. 2K seriously need to release official gameplay AND info soon, game is being released in under a month.

Looks like it's a lot smoother and quicker than last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48pz1JsZIJE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWhhhke9TlE

Wonda-Boy

Yeah deffo need to release more footage, very weird that they are doing this.

Still cant wait for it all the same.....just bought the rockets BB top in footlocker with Harden on it....I AM SWAGGED OUT bruh!

Zero-Cool

A lot of the nba 2k community not happy and one of the higher profile guys made a rant video about it. LD2K (community manager) sent him an amazon link to buy tissues. Was funny but cmon, I'm not preordering this until I know some info about the game. blind pre-orders only hurt the games industries cuz devs know they can do wtf they want.

Ronnie2k said this time next week, we will all need those tissues for tear of joy.....hhhmmmm we'll see Ronnie.

callaway92

At this stage, surely the novelty of playing as the '92 Dream Team etc. have worn off? Every single legend of the game has had numerous forms in the last few years. I could do with leaving it for a year or two.

Zero-Cool

1st trailer, Looks like any other year tbh. Apparently a lot of info being released this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUMxqEMt7Kw

Charizard

Zero-Cool wrote: »

1st trailer, Looks like any other year tbh. Apparently a lot of info being released this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUMxqEMt7Kw

They always do look great though, no surprise really.

Zero-Cool

Good hands on from polygon. Sounds like stone really nice additions this year like 2K University which is a new tutorial mode they created after all the feedback about the game being too hard to pick up.

http://www.polygon.com/2016/8/22/12561530/nba-2k17-preview-gameplay-hands-on-impressions

You have to time layups now just like jumpshots. While driving to the basket, you can use the left stick to move into/away from people to make it more physical on offense.

A big thing for me this year will be steals. I hate how random it was. Hitting the steal button would either do nothing or cause a foul, about 3%chance of a steal. This year you can time steals. If a guy is dribbling right in front of you, you can time the button press. Makes you guard the ball more like real life.

Ai help defense improved with ai teammmates leaving their guy to help protectc the paint. This was a big problem in 2k16

Also it says they've added in more skill. They realise most matches payed are solo in career, my park or pro am, all with created characters. So they don't want you racing to a high rating and dominating. They want you to be able to control the sticks whether it's shooting or dribbling and give the player more control to distinguish skill from just a high rating. Sounds really good if they can pull it off.

Charizard

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Good hands on from polygon. Sounds like stone really nice additions this year like 2K University which is a new tutorial mode they created after all the feedback about the game being too hard to pick up.

http://www.polygon.com/2016/8/22/12561530/nba-2k17-preview-gameplay-hands-on-impressions

You have to time layups now just like jumpshots. While driving to the basket, you can use the left stick to move into/away from people to make it more physical on offense.

A big thing for me this year will be steals. I hate how random it was. Hitting the steal button would either do nothing or cause a foul, about 3%chance of a steal. This year you can time steals. If a guy is dribbling right in front of you, you can time the button press. Makes you guard the ball more like real life.

Ai help defense improved with ai teammmates leaving their guy to help protectc the paint. This was a big problem in 2k16

Also it says they've added in more skill. They realise most matches payed are solo in career, my park or pro am, all with created characters. So they don't want you racing to a high rating and dominating. They want you to be able to control the sticks whether it's shooting or dribbling and give the player more control to distinguish skill from just a high rating. Sounds really good if they can pull it off.

Happy to hear about steals, been a bit a crab shoot through the years

Zero-Cool

Game Informer posted about career and then deleted it. Apparently it said career mode is moving away from the spike lee story and instead will focus on building the greatest duo in nba history.

Sounds like 1 of 2 things. Either you just team up with the star on your current team which sounds boring and nba players have always had zero personality in cutscenes.

Or, 2k might create a new character who gets drafted to the same team as you and build a storyline of both of you working together on/off the court. That would be more interesting imo.

Charizard

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Game Informer posted about career and then deleted it. Apparently it said career mode is moving away from the spike lee story and instead will focus on building the greatest duo in nba history.

Sounds like 1 of 2 things. Either you just team up with the star on your current team which sounds boring and nba players have always had zero personality in cutscenes.

Or, 2k might create a new character who gets drafted to the same team as you and build a storyline of both of you working together on/off the court. That would be more interesting imo.

Thank God, I hated Spike Lees story, it was the worst. Sounds similar to the other story a few years ago with the rival. Which was my fave story so im not actually complaining

titan18

Charizard wrote: »

Thank God, I hated Spike Lees story, it was the worst. Sounds similar to the other story a few years ago with the rival. Which was my fave story so im not actually complaining

What? You mean the story where the main character's name is Frequency Vibrations is bad? Best story ever

Charizard

titan18 wrote: »

What? You mean the story where the main character's name is Frequency Vibrations is bad? Best story ever

God I hate it just stop :pac:, it was cringe the whole way through, I started a new one but quit it straight away.
There was one a few years ago that was my fav, you had a rival who was drafted same time as you

Zero-Cool

Ah my nemesis Jackson Ellis, that was good alright. This sounds like it might be the opposite but would be hard to implement if you get traded.

Zero-Cool

The official companion app will be released 8th sept and will have face scanning tech to get your face in the game using your phone/tablet. I got a loan of a camera for ps4 and did it with 2k15 and after about an hour of trying, got a brilliant result. Way too much hassle to try it with 2k16 so glad they finally ditched needing a ps4 camera.

http://www.operationsports.com/forums/nba-2k-basketball/887672-nba-2k17-face-scanning-app-mynba2k17-arrives-sept-8-ios-android.html

Wonda-Boy

Coolaboola, so I will have the ladies and the money. WIN WIN situation.....lol

Zero-Cool

Now this sounds ****ing class

http://www.operationsports.com/forums/nba-2k-basketball/887929-get-head-start-your-nba-2k17-mycareer-september-9-prelude.html

A week before release, you can download a mini version of the game for My Career. Create a character using the new app and play college games building your draft worth. When the main game releases, it will go straight into the nba draft then.

Also a new tutorial mode will be included for new fans. Bravo 2K.

Zero-Cool

Career looking class, the body types and individual stat groups are mules better as well. Looks like you can get called up to Team USA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcAZduTwQbo

All sounds good so far... But like FIFA I constantly find myself getting peeved at the same things which are easily fixable.

*Will the 2k camera zoom out enough so I can see all my players.
*Will passing get to a level where I don't need to use the icons(too slow at times)
*Will I be double teamed, automatically, every possession, when I score a certain amount and pass a certain line.
*will my teammates double dominating players more themselves without me having to leave my player... Will all this scrambling feel more natural and realistic(I see they said players will leave in the paint so maybe that's done).
*Can I just create and use my own play books
*Expand MyTeam... Gold cups, Silver Cups, Bronze Cups. Why is it limited to Bronze then Bronze/Silver and Gold. Give me more ways to play and enjoy the silver and bronze players.

My main issues with the game are these smaller details but they just ruin the longevity of the game. I can't get why these things aren't fixed first off.

Zero-Cool

75 changes to NBA 2K17

http://www.operationsports.com/features/2566/nba-2k17-features-improvements-across-the-board-heres-75-of-them/

My Team now had Blacktop 3v3 quick match which sounds like we can play our My Teams against each other which would be class.

Pro-Am now has a roster for your team so someone creates a team and can invite 9 other people. Anytime 5 of those are online, ye can head into a pro-am game from My Park. This is handy as hard to arrange 5 people on at the same time. Owner doesn't even have to be part of the 5, any 5 from the roster.

Lots of other little things, worth the read. Travelling 16k miles to record the different sound a dribbling ball makes in all the different courts is a bit much imo

Zero-Cool

Dev explaining new gameplay features. Done really good details in there about shooting, steals, passes, etc. Well worth the long read.

http://www.operationsports.com/features/2568/nba-2k17-gameplay-blog-with-gameplay-director-mike-wang-/

Zero-Cool

Dev blog all about Career mode. Michael B Jordan will be playing your friend Justice who you team up with. When both on the court at the same time, you can give Justice specific instructions (pick, cut, etc) and also even control him. This is a huge addition and will be interesting to see how it's handled.

They said Spikes story was too dark abs this year will be more fun.

https://m.facebook.com/notes/nba-2k/nba-2k17-mycareer-blog/10153795803517267

Wonda-Boy

Sweet cheers for info m8

Carroller

Is the game collection all digital download?

Zero-Cool

Carroller wrote: »

Is the game collection all digital download?

As in of you buy it from the site The Game Collection? That would be a physical copy. Digital from the psn or xbox store.

Zero-Cool

Ton of info released.

My Park After Dark. Night Version of My Park with DJ, crowd and special effects. My Park has new match making so noobs won't be put into the same server as vets unless invited. This is huge as it wrecked My Park for me last year. Playing against 7ft 99's who played career on lowest difficulty to unlock badges and level up quick was a complete bollix as they were unstoppable.

My Park will now have dunk contests and 3pt shootouts.

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/nba_2k17/b/playstation4/archive/2016/09/02/89-things-we-know-about-nba-2k17.aspx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1ObI2RGXSs

Gregk961

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Ton of info released.

My Park After Dark. Night Version of My Park with DJ, crowd and special effects. My Park has new match making so noobs won't be put into the same server as vets unless invited. This is huge as it wrecked My Park for me last year. Playing against 7ft 99's who played career on lowest difficulty to unlock badges and level up quick was a complete bollix as they were unstoppable.

My Park will now have dunk contests and 3pt shootouts.

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/nba_2k17/b/playstation4/archive/2016/09/02/89-things-we-know-about-nba-2k17.aspx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1ObI2RGXSs

Was badly needed, mypark is my favourite 2k mode but I found it seriously stale last year. I wonder will the progression system be changed aswell? Getting past the 3rd tier rank literally takes months unless you are flat out and playing with a squad most of the time. Also a bug that still hasn't been fixed where you get stuck on one of the courts for a minute or two between games greatly tested my patience.

Have played as pg for the last 4 years and had considered changing positions but the new stealing mechanic might just sway me to stay at it. This is the most excited ive got for an annual release title in years.

Zero-Cool

Yupp the levelling up in My Park was awful, takes way too long. Since the mode was introduced, i never made it high enough to even visit other parks. I love the idea of the mode but i shouldn't have to wait so long for an online game in this day and age. Should be an option to auto join an open game in another server if one becomes available. Too much waiting around only to play with guys who try to layup over 3 bigmen constantly and wreck the game. Zilch xp and another long wait for the next match.

Definitely sticking with PG this year. Think I'll stick with the Playmaker roll as i like drives and the sharpshooter sounds like he will be crap on the inside this year.

Also the Prelude that's out in a weeks time, you have 4 college games to get your draft stock up and only 1 go at it. They didn't want people to just keep replaying it as everyone would have really high draft by the end of the week. If you're not happy with it, you can pay through college again when full game releases. Very interesting concept.

Zero-Cool

Whatever about all the tackies they have in the game, the 3 way alley oop at 11 seconds was class. Gonna see a lot of that in The Park this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH5cfEf9IAU

Wonda-Boy

Argos have a pre order bonus on the standard game if I am not mistaken, seen it on the flyer yesterday.

Zero-Cool

The one thing about the preorder bonus is that it releases on the Friday 16th instead of the following tuesday. Id imagine shops in Ireland will busy be selling it on friday whether you have it preordered or not but something to look out for. You can't preorder with argos here so worth checking the release date.

Zero-Cool

Trophy\cheevo info. Some career story info in case you want to avoid.

http://pstrophies.pl/ps4/nba-2k17/trophies

Zero-Cool

Zero-Cool wrote: »

The one thing about the preorder bonus is that it releases on the Friday 16th instead of the following tuesday. Id imagine shops in Ireland will busy be selling it on friday whether you have it preordered or not but something to look out for. You can't preorder with argos here so worth checking the release date.

I thought you had the dates wrong there and had to double check.

Was sure it was the 12th and 16th... Aww well.

I got it in Smyths last year by ordering online, they didn't have it on the shelves but you could pre order and go straight to collect.

That is going to be around e65 so unless Argos have a deal I'll probably just buy it digitally from wherever is cheapest.

Wonda-Boy

Are Smyths doing the 3 different versions or just the vanilla standard jobbie.....?

Zero-Cool

Just preordered the basic version on psn. Couldn't be bothered with the other versions as I've zero interest in Kobe gear and the extra VC isn't worth the extra cash.

Charizard

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Just preordered the basic version on psn. Couldn't be bothered with the other versions as I've zero interest in Kobe gear and the extra VC isn't worth the extra cash.

Im in the same boat, not going to pre-order just going to grab the aul vanilla download when it comes out, will have to convince my brother to go half as I only have the console on the weekends as Ive started Uni again

Zero-Cool

Career trailer, cheesy but I'm liking the look of it. Michael B Jordan seems to do a nice acting job at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuylZ59B60U

Zero-Cool

https://twitter.com/Ronnie2K/status/773563427918712832

Zero-Cool

The Prelude can be downloaded 5am Friday morning (midnight est).

Wonda-Boy

Cant wait for this now, even though I am not great at it I just love it. I find the moves hard to phase together so I more or less do the same thing every game but it works I average about 20-30 pts a game so it all good. In 2K16 I am on the Thunders with Durrant and Westbrook so we are the 3 amigos.

Also I think I will make a C this time around or a PF as I love to shoot inside.

Everybody always makes a PG, gonna mix it up yo!

Zero-Cool

Official app is now live in android on ios. search for 'mynba2k17'.

Link below has updates with server connectivity. Seems to be a bit glitchy atm to do the whole face scan and link to game account.

http://www.operationsports.com/forums/nba-2k-basketball/889342-nba-2k17-face-scan-app-mynba2k17-available-now-android-ios-devices.html

Zero-Cool

The Prelude is up for download, 15gb. Can't wait to give it a lash later.

Wonda, fair play going with a bigman. I've been tempted to try something new but have too much fun/success as Playmaker PG. will be going the same this year.

Zero-Cool

Zero-Cool wrote: »

The Prelude is up for download, 15gb. Can't wait to give it a lash later.

Wonda, fair play going with a bigman. I've been tempted to try something new but have too much fun/success as Playmaker PG. will be going the same this year.

Have it downloading now, has achievements / trophies too surprisingly.

Wonda-Boy

Can you only DL the prelude if you have pre-ordered from PSN?

Zero-Cool

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

Can you only DL the prelude if you have pre-ordered from PSN?

Nope it's free to everyone.

Zero-Cool

Nba 2k always had great commentary but they really stepped it up a gear. This is well worth a watch, especially for the bit at the end :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub6MIccm21I