@Drommajin the switch version is around 25GB while the PS4 and Xbox one are like 40 odd GB.. compression is not the problem. I mean how low do you expect 2K to go. Do you want to go down the vita route. Huge compression with long loading times.
@airsonist I've been playing NBA2k18 and I think it's great. I have no interest in MyTeam, MyLeague, etc., etc. I buy a sports game so that I can load up two teams and play a match. In that respect, I wish they'd cancel all the resources they put into all the cutscenes at least... a league simulator is fine, just keep it more stat based. They try and do too much, and it bogs down development.
@wiggleronacid With the physical version only having a small part of the game on the cart, for me the only reason I'm keeping my physical preorder is because I got a great deal on it during E3. I want a second copy for when I get my son a switch. But I think that other than that, the digital is the way to go on this. It isn't going to have much trade in value in a year, and it will require patching anyways to deal with these bugs.
Personally, I buy a sports game to load it up and play a match, not all the extra stuff... I've found it to be great and certainly not worth missing... there aren't other options for a game like this right now on the switch.
It is actually very good can't see why you don't give it a score - just to see and play NBA 2K on my switch handheld and on the go is fantastic the glitches are only minor in my experience and don't detract from the excellent gameplay
This is a poor showing, so first we find that PHYSICAL will not be completely urm PHYSICAL, which is a slap in the face to the consumer, as generally speaking switch games simply are more expensive for the most part, so what an extra 5 - 10 pounds would destroy sales, if they had put the whole game on cart 5GB save file would be manageable by ALL switch owners without needing an SD card.
I think that NintendoLife dropped the ball on this one. If this was not NBA 2k18 and 2K we were talking about, they would've slammed it with a 2 or 3.
Given it's who it is, they are just not giving a score so that everyone can buy it, and later on give it a proper review chance... The entire grinding and VC barrier cannot be changed with a patch.
Personally I'm not sure if leeway should be given or not to any games upon release. Some sites write "advanced previews" and just don't call it reviews and seem to get away with this kind of thing (stating they need more playtime or such, which may or may not be true). I guess calling it a review sets the expectation for a score much higher though. Not sure what I'd have done... probably have two scores on "my" site, one gameplay score and one overall score and short one-line explanations. For NBA 2k18 the score could be 9 for gameplay and 3 overall.
And when you then have 2K's marketing team hunting down bad reviews and pressuring them, that should immediately raise some red flags!
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The sad part? I have bought the current 2k for my PS4 the last 2 Black Fridays at a considerable doscount($30 each time). I was going to indulge for the switch, but if the Switch version is full price, as I fully expect it to be, and the PS4 version is at half off for Black Friday, as I expect it to be....
I preordered the physical game and I am still getting it. What other regular basketball game you can play on the go. For those that mention FIFA over .NBA, at least NBA have all their modes on the switch unlike fifa
The fact that nintendolife rarely rates games weeks after they receive patches makes this review dubious at best. If 2K18 is given special treatment then I expect nintendolife to give the same courtesy to every other game that is released with tons of bugs & glitches at launch. It's only fair.
this game is awesome...and i dint even mind it when it was first released...only the My Career was buggy (and only in the cut scenes) and a little audio glitches. i'm more than happy with my purchase. this game looks amazing on switch and now plays even better with the incoming patches. a huge robust single player and multiplayer experience. the game is awesome and deserves the 8/10.
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