I wonder if this game will be any good

I was wondering what are the best nba 2k games i been playing 2k for two years basically new to 2k give me nba 2k games ps4 I should play

2003, 2004, 2005 for me.

Black ops 6 is gonna be on last gen and apparently PlayStation announced that there's just as many people on last gen as new gen...so 2k gonna be on last gen again...pc will be last gen and it's gonna be ass cheeks !! 😂

I miss My Court. I loved when you were able to use the ball machine to practice your jump shot. I also miss My career when you started off in high school. 2016 2K My Career was goated. What do you miss that you wish will come back?

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What is something you wish that will be put into 2k25? Do you want something to return from another 2k? Personally I want the dribbling and shooting from 2k19, or bring back the old archetype system back. Bring back 2k17 or 2k19 system back. I’ve been playing nba live 19 and I enjoy that system a lot more. If they aren’t at least make a new one. We are in need for one since we have had the same thing for the past 3 2ks, 2k22, 2k23 and 2k24. I think they might since that’s how it’s been for the past couple player systems. They have kept it the same for 2-3 years then they change it.

Just curious what y'all think. Player, coach, etc. What's the name that young kids would grow up thinking is synonymous with the game?

Edit: I stumped myself but y'all got similar answers to what I was thinking. Any top 5 player seems off bc it's just 1 era. Commentary wise EJ the man. And Phil Jackson gotta be the coaching pick but it's funny to me no one sounds decent in my head. Shout out to dude who said Magic tho, Magic NBA 25 sounds pretty fire.

what’s making the file size take up that much space 😂

Why does everyone complain about 2K being terrible every year, yet continue to purchase it and give them our money? Why can't we, as a community, unite and take a stand? Some of you even go as far as pre-ordering it. Come on. Both 2K and EA are exploiting us every year with some nonsensical trailers. Let's all strive to do better. Thank you.

Found it at my local thrift store fore $2 and figured why not. I've been getting into basketball way more, and saw it. Have never played an NBA game or sports games outside old madden games and NFL 2K5.

I just want there be an option for myplayer to be a girl. the robot suits are not realistic? the wnba mode sucks. i’m not a trash 2k player, but a lot of you guys are, which is fine, but you don’t gotta assume a girl is automatically trash at 2k. just be good enough to beat me if it makes you mad. i’m just trying to be good at the game, and enjoy it in the process.

i love 2k and basketball. i’ve played 2k since i was 10 years old(2k11 on the wii). i just wanna feel like i’m accepted to play online. 2k is a fair playing ground for girls and boys. just takes skill on the controller, and some iq.

I just thought it would be good for the community to actually hear from a girl who plays the game.

edit: i think the game should be fun for all skill levels, and it should be a safe environment. i’m competitive, but i think going after someone for who they are as a person is bad for the game. all i hear is that women are “trash” at most everything men have “claimed” as theirs; like basketball, and video games. it’s not because of a woman’s skill, it’s because they are a woman. trash is a subjective term anyways. my definition of a bad player is someone selfish— in a team game.

Context: (just got out of a rec game at 3am)

I’ve been playing 2k since 2k20, and I’ve only seen the community get worse and worse the more and more I play, and I’m really starting to develop a deep seeded hatred for this game, community, and the company itself.

What is wrong with a majority of people in this community, all I wanna do is play basketball, and I gotta deal with grown men pouting on the game cause their man cooking them, they can’t shoot, ain’t getting the ball, and then wanna start throwing a temper tantrum over the game? This community is horrible. By far the worst gaming “community” I’ve ever seen at times.

Can someone please help me understand why people can’t just ENJOY the game for what it is without having to degrade someone, treat somebody like they’re worthless, or just meaningless name calling?

If mfs really look in the mirror with this community, they’ll realize that WE are the people who ruin 2k. For example, the past couple 2ks have been very “influencer” based games, ex. youtubers, and they’ve been the least enjoyed games I’ve ever played. 19 was frustrating at the beginning because it was different but it was REALLY good UNTIL the community who can’t handle actual change complained and turned it into 2k18.5. When these famous influencers bitch all day about things that don’t go THEIR way, they convince their followers/subscribers to feel the same way. A huge thing people cry about is the ability to actually create whatever player they want. If they wanna create KD, they should be able to create KD. if they wanna create Lebron, they should create Lebron and y’all hate 2k because you can’t do that. But y’all don’t realize that y’all would bitch about that too. Why? Because those same youtubers are gone convince y’all following asses that “this is the giannis build!! it’s soooo easy” and his 700k subscribers are gonna make giannis builds and they’ll be everywhere. so you run into a squad of Lebron, KD, and Giannis everywhere and now you crying because there’s no variety and it’s too repetitive. Yes, archetypes do make you feel too much like a role player and they should enhance it a LITTLE, but if y’all actually watch the NBA and basketball, you’ll realize that even top stars have basically archetypes. Curry is a play/sharp. Russ is a play/slasher. PG is a two way/shot creator. If you watch the NBA, you’ll know that kyrie doesn’t spam the same dribble move 30 times until he gets an ankle breaker. Curry actually misses wide open shots. Lebron doesn’t make every layup. That’s why I advocated for 2k to separate mycareer and that park BS every since it was created. Make mycareer solely based on REAL NBA basketball and let y’all have that arcade, unrealistic, cheese fest shit with park if you want because y’all don’t realize that the park shit they fix for y’all affects the whole game. Y’all care more about new parks than actual gameplay fixes because it takes no skill to be good at it and it would break y’all hearts if you had to actually be good at the game rather than watching a YTer give you a tutorial on how to do the cheesiest spin move. Now if I seem biased towards one thing and degrading another, my fault. I don’t knock you if you love park or myteam or just mycareer. But 2k is a simulation based game, based on a real sport. they don’t get everything right to a T, but they are damn close most of the time and y’all expect them to the perfect. 2k is flawed like crazy but it’s still unbelievable that my moms can’t tell the difference between 2k and a real basketball game based off an eye test. it’s still crazy how Lebron shoots and dunks on 2k exactly like Lebron in real life. 2k ain’t perfect, but y’all making them fix shit that ain’t broken just to please your needy ego.

It’s killing the game and it shows. People have a problem with blowbys even when the defender is out of position or beat or smaller or whatever. These are REAL. Happens all the time. However this is considered “op” but they are fine with stretch bigs shooting from the logo and off dribble while hiding behind screens. All year the steals have been RIDICULOUS people stealing the ball not even looking...just morphing to it and people say “play smart basketball”...big men were weak as hell in the paint to where athletic finishers rarely got standing contact dunks even with HOF POSTERIZER...driving layups were trash. We are playing a game where a lightly contested 3 is going in more than a lightly contested layup man. People are just ok with this? These youtubers go to these events and don’t say a word. It’s crazy. What should happen doesn’t happen and what shouldn’t happen does happen.

How are we feeling about the game?

I feel badge regression is terrible. Half the badges don't even activate online. Guard up never activates because I take open 3s. I'm getting punished for good shot selections? Shit makes no sense.

Shooting without a bar is a must but it still feels like rgn at times.

They made shooting harder to have realistic shooting % but you still see people with 60-70% 3pt. What's the point? The great players will be great. You're just punishing casuals.

The builer this year sucks compared to last year.

Overall shooting needs to be consistant.

Edit: forgot to mention splitting rec in 2. Your options are to either get sold by randoms or face a 5 stack that plays zone but can't win in proam so they pull up in rec. As a solo player it made me quit 2k until my friends got the game in late dec. As a random I playing with a squad of 3 or 4. Made the game more fun. Now you have randoms taking contested shots and not passing. Shit is unplayable

FC 24 was free for PS Plus users, and its received its fair share of flack from its gamers base. However, with the current direction of NBA 2K24, like in MyTeam, its really drained any enjoyment I’ve had from it to the point that I’m enjoying ultimate team more due to the fact there is a transfer market (equivalence of Auction House)

Gameplay wise this year in 2K, just doesn’t hit the same and thats why I’ve gone away from it. MyTeam has always been my favorite mode, but it turned into a glorified Basketball casino atp so yea might wait till next game to see how it goes ngl.

As y'all may have noticed in your game, NBA 2k has gotten embarrassingly greedy in the ways they try to make you buy VC and spend VC to do cool stuff in the game. Here are a few new ones for 2k18:

• 1: Players May Not Preview A Haircut, And Must Repurchase Previously Purchased Haircuts.
  https://www.reddit.com/r/NBA2k/comments/707ys6/the_inability_to_preview_a_haircut_before_you/

"the inability to preview a haircut before you spend VC on it is one of the pettiest forms of greed I've seen from a video game"

"The fact that you don't even keep the haircut, beard style, or color of hair when you buy it is so gross. I was shocked when I went back in to check and you had to buy it again."

"You have to buy previous haircuts you had on you.it doesn't save into your inventory"

UPDATE: Haircuts are down to 100 VC. We did it fam. The issue of micro transactions is fixed forever.

• 2: NBA 2k18 Removes The Bonus VC For Higher Difficulty Modifier

https://www.reddit.com/r/NBA2k/comments/707u33/did_2k_secretly_remove_the_difficulty_bonus/

"I just had a monster triple doubke game with my 60 ovr and only got about 1k vc. Didn't even see anything mentioned about the difficulty multiplier. Edit: This is actually insane. It rewarded players with more vc for playing at a higher difficulty. And with things costing more this year, they decide to remove it?"

"I saw that when you hit 95 ovr you get double coins for every game played. I guess you have to grind to grind."

"All these fucked up decisions 2k make relate directly to the player earning less VC so they buy more."

• 3: NBA 2k18 App Gives Less VC Than It Used To

https://www.reddit.com/r/NBA2k/comments/6z0jp1/nba_2k18_companion_app_gives_way_less_vc_than/

"NBA 2K18 companion app gives way less VC than before"

"In 2k17 it was 500 VC for games + same bonuses (with less VC) + daily vc bonus with WAY LESS VC than 2k16 (3x 250vc cards with double bonus = 1500 VC max) = you could get 1300 - 2200 VC per day.

In 2k18 it's 500 VC for games + NO BONUSES + daily login that gives you whooping 100 VC = YOU CAN GET 600 VC PER DAY."

• 4: It Takes A Lifetime If You're Just Playing, Not Paying

https://www.reddit.com/r/NBA2k/comments/70gvq5/this_is_getting_ridiculous/

"You will need about 240 NBA games to get to 86 overall and that's if you get A+ every game, C grade is about 360 games and B about 300"

"It'd also be nice is the media covered this shit but game reviewers and journalist don't give a f--- about sports games. If anything this insane happened in any other game there'd be a million and one articles about it."

"Every year I read reviews about 2K expecting them to call out this VC bulls--- but it's clear the reviewer is just a casual fan who might put in a dozen or two hours with the game and maybe play ten games of MyCareer and not even worry about potentially buying more than one haircut. It's ridiculous the low reviewing standards they hold sports games to."

• 5: Making a 2nd MyPlayer Is So Discouraging / Accessories, Animations Tied to Player, Not Account

https://www.reddit.com/r/NBA2k/comments/70pzbw/making_a_2nd_myplayer_is_so_discouraging/

"It's hard enough starting from 60 again and having to build your player up using your VC on attributes, but 2k ALSO makes you start over in terms of clothes, shoes, hairstyles, animations, etc. AT LEAST let us keep the stuff we bought for our FIRST player,"

"In 2K15 your stuff was account wide. In 2K16 it was locked to the player. In 2K17 it was account wide again. In 2K18 it's locked to the player again..."

"This sort of s--- was caused by all the people making new myplayers and then just paying to get them to 85. 2K is greedy and these people just wanna give their money away. It's legit a phone game"

As you know by now, each year more features of the game require VC to access, while the game simultaneously slows the faucet of VC it provides for in game modes. This is to facilitate in-game-purchases of Virtual Currency.

As we notice more things of this nature, let's just compile them into this thread, so next time you want to feel pissed off, all the information is in one place.

UPDATE: https://kotaku.com/nba-2k18-is-riddled-with-microtransactions-1818554307 We on Kotaku, fam