Andrew wrote:903124 wrote:Hot/cold features appear in like 20 years ago in PS1 football games. I don't get why someone is freaking out.
It's been done before, but not always in basketball games, and not always well.
The problem is not that there is a hot/cold feature, which, yeah, was implemented in many sports games and at least past 2 NBA 2K titles. What Smoove and others talk about is this new "every game is its own story" system, which randomly picks a few players who START a game cold/hot so you always have to search for different players and won't always rely on one superstar. In theory it sounds great. In practice, it's not that great: for Smoove, Ty Lawson started game cold and he felt a bit cheated because he didn't do anything to make him cold, like miss a few shots or sth, it was just random. Also, he had an instance where either five of his bench players or his five starters (can't really remember) started off cold, and it just messed the flow of his game and punished him for something he didn't do. I don't really understand this feature, there were enough instances in 2K15 where you felt cheated on, like all your shots suddenly missing and CPU's shots falling even when they are well defended, dunno why we needed another thing like that..