 If you get what you want, a realistic basketball experience, it will quite literally ruin the game that we all once enjoyed. If you're new to the channel, man, be sure to subscribe. Hey, but I am sick of people trying to tell me that because Curry shoots like 45-50% from 3, 43% from... That he should be shooting the same in the game. That because the dribble move isn't done exactly the way it's done in real life in the video game, therefore it doesn't belong in the video game. I was watching the NBA playoffs and I saw the meanest Curry slide I've seen in my life. And yeah, while it's not every time you see an exact NBA 2K dribble move in real life, it made me reflect. I don't know if y'all ever been on Twitch before. For some reason on Twitch, people like, there's a lot of gambling going on. And one of the things people gamble on is like simulation basketball games, but not NBA 2K. This is what the game looks like. And by all metrics, it looks pretty realistic. So I see people look at footage like this right here and think, oh my god, if only NBA 2K could look as realistic as this game looked. But if NBA 2K played anything like this gambling filled basketball simulated plays like, none of y'all would play it. You guys would call it unresponsive, unfun, too slow. And believe it or not, NBA 2K has actually made games like this in the past. I think NBA 2K 13 is the best exam. There's a huge difference between video games and real life. In real life, war is not fun. Call of duty, fun. In real life, basketball is fun. So a lot of people seem to believe that it should be just like it is in real life. The problem is the things that make video games enjoyable are not the things that make playing basketball in real life enjoyable. This video is sponsored by Seeky. You're trying to go to NBA games. Probably, right? I know it's NBA playoff time. Maybe you're gonna go to a comedy event, a concert of sorts, any event you think of. 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It's a huge thank you to SeatGeek for sponsoring this portion of the video. So let's look at the tier list of things that make video games fun. At the top of the list, game has to be fun, bro. You can put together the most fantastic, realistic, most immersive experience of all time. But kind of like No Man's Sky when that game launched. If there is nothing to do, there is no reason to play. It is not fun. Number two, it has to be affordable. It could be the greatest game of all time if the bitch costs $200, nobody's playing it. And third on the list is finally realistic. That's where NBA Live fucked up. They just kept coming up with games that had unrealistic animations. So now we've established that. Let's take a look at some of the things that make NBA 2K fun to play. For one is the highlight moments. There's nothing more enjoyable than being an mean ankle breaker. He gets up and you dig him down with like an elbow-hand contact animation. Those rare moments that trigger from time to time are quite random, kind of like how they are in real life. But man, when it hits, man, you clip it, you post it on socials, and you shit on your friend the next day at school or work. Number two is competitive shit. There's no better feeling than a good game down to the buzzer, and as somebody on your team hits a game win. Winning. Winning feels great. It doesn't matter how great the game is. If you spend the whole time losing, there's only so much fun you can have. And then like progression or RPG, the story mode. You want to feel like as you play the game, not only are you getting better, but you're rewarded for playing the game in ways that make you want to play it more. So good RPGs find a way to do this successfully. I think 2K nailed it low-key with NBA 2K 22 at least on the next gen. So those two things aren't always seen eye-to-eye, making the game more realistic could come at the cost of the game actually being good. But a realistic 2K would look like a lot of half-quart sets, slow-paced games, time outs. It would be like whatever tier would be above Hall of Fame difficulty. It would be that. It's an all-reality when you're playing video games what's more important is creating a skills gap that's fun to climb. A gap that rewards people for playing the game and improving their skill, but at the same time doesn't punish people for being new at the game. It's a meaningful balance, man, it's part of the reason why so many people hate skill-based matchmaking. One of the best feelings in gaming is starting off on a game, being horrible. You play the game, you give it effort, you put in time, you're unlocking rewards and attributes and badges and stuff like that, and then now you're able to unlock moves, you're consistently doing impressive stuff, you're climbing in the leaderboards, you're playing against more like impressive opponents. Now there's no better feeling than progressing like that. It makes you not want to stop playing the game. It's always a challenge and it's a fun one, but at the same time, the more randomness you add, the more you reduce the skill gap. Basketball is pretty random. You put up a shot, it's wide open, you released it well and all, man, it hits back room and it goes flying as a long rebound. That's random. I got more forgiving for those random moments in real life. In a video game, yo, if I have a 93 point shot with all my badges and I get the perfect release window, if I'm not hitting that, I'm about to start getting upset, bro. It's random sport though. How many times have we seen a dog shit team beat a really good team? Sometimes really good teams just have an off day, so that should be possible in the video game too. True, yes, that is true. But the more you reduce randomness and reward people for proper inputs and improving in the video game, the more fun it becomes. So to actually make NBA 2K realistic, you need to make shooting more random, slow the pace of the game down, simplify the dribble move dramatically, and give people less control over defense, because again, bringing back to this horrible simulator here, those are all things they do. The game slows down dramatically, but it feels real. They're running plays in a half court set. The animations look like something you would see out of real life, like a mean hedge right there. They kick it wide open, three, like all of it feels like stuff that would happen in real life. And NBA 2K13 was just like that. Even though it felt like the game at first took a huge leap in realism, but usually what that meant is every time LeBron drive, it doesn't matter what type of defense I played, I was getting dicked down because he was getting contact dunks. But the contact dunks wasn't starting when he clicked a button. It started well before that. It started with the blow by animation, and now you're stuck in this animation and there's no going nowhere, man. You're sticking with the player, oh, you get dicked down and you're like, bro, what am I supposed to do defensively? I have a good defensive player and I hit all the correct inputs. At what point am I going to get rewarded for that? I hear it said all the time when it comes to the ISO and dribbling community, people tell the dribblers all the time, yo, that's not real life. People can't play like that in real life. Now me make the game unrealistic now, right? But unless you're playing like an NBA street game or something like that, you also want the game to be realistic. It's about finding a balance. 2K16 was pretty fucking realistic. The defense felt good. The offense felt good. The dribble moves felt good. But it was also like pretty high speed. You could string together dribble moves to do things and boost in different directions. It had skill and it also rewarded you for good shots and good dribble moves. It was a consistent game. Although it wasn't perfect, even though it wasn't a perfect game, it was one of the best examples of being able to balance a realistic look with a fun feel. And this actually applies to almost every video game. Any video game that's like designed to look realistic, like uncharted, there's going to be parts of the game that Dash has nothing to do with real life. It just has to do with making the game more fun and enjoyable to play. And then there's going to be other parts of the game that's designed for realism. For those of you who've played any of the UFC games that EA has ever come out with, you know what I'm talking about. That game, especially when you play online, bro, it takes like 16th century for an input to actually register in the video game. So there's like a disconnect you feel because it's like when you click it, it doesn't happen. It happens at some point in the future. And that usually is because your character is already doing something. Maybe like there's some form of resistance against him. And the reality is that sometimes when you're fighting somebody, you can place an input, maybe try and punch him. But if he's holding your arm, there's nothing you can do. But it also applied to NBA Live, their basketball game. Bro, man, that shit was a hella unresponsive. And I think they made it that unresponsive so the animations looked a little bit more realistic because the main criticism they were getting was that game didn't feel real. And in that's where games like NBA 2K 11 shine, where it wasn't bogged down and slow in the name of realism. The game was responsive as fuck, bro. If you moved your character in a direction, as long as he didn't have to contort his body to go in another direction, he immediately went in the direction you asked him to. Yo, so again, there's a balance there. And because NBA 2K is a notoriously unresponsive, laggy fuck of a video game, the last thing we need is to make the game even less responsive. Hopefully that made sense. It does in my brain, at least. But again, at the end of the day, it's all about finding a good balance. Unfortunately, NBA 2K also went in the wrong direction with the Season 6 update. If you missed that video, go ahead and click that right there. If you guys enjoyed the video, drop a like, subscribe to the channel. Otherwise, I'll catch you guys in the next one.