Wellington
BAAAALLLINNN'
I'm not mad about losing the game, because it was a good game, went to OT, and I had a chance at the last shot. What I am mad about is NBA 2k5 itself. The game is just horrendous.
Basically, this is the way it works... You can play the most fundamentally sound playstyle ever, but if the game's AI doesn't want you to win, or even do well, you can't.
Case in point, my final game with Matrix. I won by 66. Not because I was playing all that well, but because the shots were just not falling at all for Matrix. No matter how hard he played, how many open shots he had, he just could not hit a thing.
Or what about the game I just played. DM had a tough time passing in the first half. Every pass out there was just tipped away by my defenders. Meanwhile I was finding every hole and crease to thread the needle with my own passes. It was pretty sick. Come half time, the roles reverse. And let's not even get into inbound passes bouncing off the backboard. There were times in the second half where passes would graze my players heads and they wouldn't do anything. I won't even mention how many times McGrady was coming down the key and the defender just steps away from him allowing him the easy dunk.
And all of these circus layups in traffic? Missed two foot jumpers with no hands in the player's face? It's cool that, unlike NBA Live, there is a probability there of missing a shot, but it's totally illogical and ridiculous. Why are players being punished with a missed circus layup after working so hard to actually get into the paint?
Regardless, I will win the next two. Sorry DM. Without Jordan the Knicks don't stand a chance against the magnificent Knicks.
For the record, Konex, Fifty, I have used exactly two dropsteps in my passed three games!
Basically, this is the way it works... You can play the most fundamentally sound playstyle ever, but if the game's AI doesn't want you to win, or even do well, you can't.
Case in point, my final game with Matrix. I won by 66. Not because I was playing all that well, but because the shots were just not falling at all for Matrix. No matter how hard he played, how many open shots he had, he just could not hit a thing.
Or what about the game I just played. DM had a tough time passing in the first half. Every pass out there was just tipped away by my defenders. Meanwhile I was finding every hole and crease to thread the needle with my own passes. It was pretty sick. Come half time, the roles reverse. And let's not even get into inbound passes bouncing off the backboard. There were times in the second half where passes would graze my players heads and they wouldn't do anything. I won't even mention how many times McGrady was coming down the key and the defender just steps away from him allowing him the easy dunk.
And all of these circus layups in traffic? Missed two foot jumpers with no hands in the player's face? It's cool that, unlike NBA Live, there is a probability there of missing a shot, but it's totally illogical and ridiculous. Why are players being punished with a missed circus layup after working so hard to actually get into the paint?
Regardless, I will win the next two. Sorry DM. Without Jordan the Knicks don't stand a chance against the magnificent Knicks.
For the record, Konex, Fifty, I have used exactly two dropsteps in my passed three games!
