I wish EA would get their shit together and not have Live be the buggy mess it is, because VC's 2k series is such overrated tripe. I am so sick of sliders. It's a such a cheap way to make endgame statistics represent real game stats, when the issue is THIS IS A GAME! It's not the real thing. I shouldn't have some dumb slider keep me from missing a well executed play. Also, my putting the slider back up so I can make wide open layups shouldn't punish me on the other end for challenging close shots and seeing the CPU make plays in the middle of tripple teams.
Also, and you can hate Nintendo for simplifying gameplay all you want, but 2k7 uses WAY too many buttons and yet doesn't seem to use them in an effective way. You have NO speed boost button on offense. A burst of speed is one of the most basic offensive manuevers, especially in the current form of the NBA and yet you can't do it in this game. Instead you have that shitty offensive modifiier button which EA introduced. This is my problem with most NBA games, they focus on one on one and it brings down the entire game. Courtside series had good offensive flow and passing. Offense in 2k feels so clunky in comparison and the Courtside series over 5 years old and dead! Why can't I get a decent logical pass system? If I have the ball on the baseline and I got a player open in the middle, I should be able to push towards that area and press pass and get a layup... right? Nope, try that and you might see the ball passed out to the top of the key or across the entire other side of the court. Instead you got to use icon passing which takes two button presses, a second to recognize which button your open guy is and is just so slow it negates the fact you had a guy open for a moment.
And how about the fact NBA videogames still can't decide a logical type of shot for your player when you get close to the basket? My players all want to do these funky one handed double pumps when they should just lean in where the defender is not and use the backboard. When I'm close to the basket, my player should do a layup or dunk. Not a jumpshot or circus shot. I actually had Brad Miller all alone under the basket and instead of dunking, he did some asswards jumpshot... AND MISSED! wtf!
And why is Bonzi Wells(signed with Houston before the season) and Sergia Monia(who is not even in the league this year) on the Kings roster, but Ronnie Price and Jason Hart are not?
