RE: Sports games have gotten too complicated for me over the years
I know this is an old post but I don't care 🙂
Not that long ago, I bought NBA 2K21 and by the time I finished the tutorial, took a break to eat lunch or something and then came back to the game, I couldn't remember what the hell the buttons do.
I bought a 2nd hand copy of NBA2K15 for the PS3 not so long ago. I remember playing NBA Jam on the SNES with my brother and it was awesome.
It sounds like things haven't improved since the version I bought but I found it totally unplayable. If you need that many tutorials to play a game, then it's pretty clear that your game is shit. Sports games are supposed to be pick up, play for an hour then walk away and come back later. The only one which still manages to do this in my opinion is FIFA although I've not gone back to any of the others for a while now. Which is a shame because on the Mega Drive and SNES, the NHL, NBA and Madden franchises were fantastic.
So if you're a whiney bitch, then I am too.
Good to know I'm not alone. Funny you would say that about Fifa because I agree. The advanced mechanics are totally optional, even in the latest releases. You have pass, shoot, kick in a general direction, and lob / cross. That's it! And if you get them wrong a few times is more humorous than anything else.
Just a few times? It's the sprinting that I found a problem. My players weren't capable of the kind of effort I require from a team.
lol, yeah, I think it was one of the R buttons (on a PS4) that you hold down for sprint and I would basically have everyone sprinting all the time. Lazy bastards can't do this indefinitely.