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Best Basketball sim, hands down

Tue Sep 02, 2025 12:40 am

I am a huge fan and I've been playing NBA games since forever. 2K26 is almost perfect. For the first time in the history of basketball sims speed matters. A faster player will pass by or make it difficult for a slower guy to guard him. Amazing game guys. The graphics are perfect.

Re: Best Basketball sim, hands down

Sun Sep 07, 2025 9:44 pm

elsoulas wrote:I am a huge fan and I've been playing NBA games since forever. 2K26 is almost perfect. For the first time in the history of basketball sims speed matters. A faster player will pass by or make it difficult for a slower guy to guard him. Amazing game guys. The graphics are perfect.


I'm glad you liked and enjoyed it, but there is no perfect game. However, the real test is when they start patching things. Usually, something changes the game dynamics after a patch. We'll see ..

Re: Best Basketball sim, hands down

Sun Sep 07, 2025 11:04 pm

I think its right up there in terms of one of my favourite 2k on ps4, the gameplay although missing a lot of features that the ps5 version has it definitely holds up although patches can be a blessing and curse to a game like 2k.

For the ps4 version I dont want the gameplay touched at all really but I won't lie about the fact that 2k didnt update the Utah Jazz rebranding was a disappointment.
The Magic and Clippers got there new courts and jerseys updated in recent years but not the Jazz

Re: Best Basketball sim, hands down

Mon Sep 08, 2025 2:45 am

I just bought it. From the images I've seen of the game, what you say seems to be true. Now I'll try it out. I haven't bought an NBA game since 2K20 because I felt they were all worse and didn't show much progress. This PC version also looks good graphically. I think this year we have a good foundation for those of us who enjoy offline play and adding mods. We'll see.

Re: Best Basketball sim, hands down

Wed Sep 10, 2025 1:38 am

It's literally identical to 2k25, minus the arena changes and giving it that lighting of 2K14, they add a few new cyberfaces for The W, and all the gameplay modes, cutscenes are identical.
All they did was change the cosmetics of the menu's etc. It's literally 2k25.5.

They added more animations to make the players move a little more, but now in Play Now the Ai is dumb, they aren't running plays anymore and just stand around. Some kind of way they made the cpu controlled players worse.

Everything primarily was focused on online modes and VC, other than that, not much here.

And still can't get face scan to work on my android or my iphone, app crashes during scanning, and you can't edit your face after starting my career, like you can in The W.
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