It was released for one week and received more than 2300 negative reviews. Why did NBA2K21 explode?

2020/09/1303:24:06 game 2454

In the game industry, there are many classic game IPs with a history of more than ten years or even decades. The sequels have been released one after another, and the evaluation and reputation have always been very good, such as "The Legend of Zelda", "Final Fantasy", "Super Mario" and "Call of Duty" are typical.

After all, the manufacturers are not fools. If the series of games are not as good as the first generation, and no one buys them, what's the point? The word-of-mouth accumulated by the manufacturers may also collapse, which is not worth the gain. There are exceptions to

. There is a well-known game series. Its own games were widely acclaimed in the market at the beginning, which brought the company a lot of money. The

company also took a fancy to this point. Every year, a game related to the IP will be released. However, in recent years, the quality of the "New Year's goods" is hard to say. Once it was put on the shelves, it was sprayed with blood by the old players due to various problems. .

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about Koei Tecmo’s "Dynasty Warriors", but the NBA2K series of games released by 2K.

took a look at the reasons for the bad reviews in the comment area, most of which are due to the server not being connected, AI IQ offline and other issues.

Every time Apple releases a new iPhone, it will say that this is their strongest generation of iPhone, and even if 2K releases a new NBA2K in the past few years, players will almost always be criticized as the worst generation. Xiao Xinxin of the editorial department of

is an old basketball fan who has watched basketball for more than 20 years. He is also an experienced gamer. He is naturally familiar with the NBA2K series.

A while ago, when I saw NBA2K21 on the Steam platform, I raised a mouth.

"Xiao Xinxin, look, NBA2K21 is on the shelves!"

"It's my shit, I won't eat this shit!" , Xiao Xinxin's answer is shocking, because he knows these NBA2K series The problem has existed for many years, but it has not been resolved until now.

Looking at the bright red "mostly bad reviews" on the Steam store interface, Xiaofa thinks that many people may be as puzzled as me: what happened to the NBA2K series? The media rating on

metacritic is 69 (out of 100), and the player rating is 1.0 (out of 10). ▼

Most Chinese players first came into contact with the NBA2K series in 2008 when NBA2K9, because NBA2K9 was the first PC in the series. Platform game.

Actually, the first game of the NBA2K series was released as early as 1999, but it and the following works can only be played on the console platform. At that time, the domestic console game environment was very bad, and there were few console players. There are so few, naturally not well known. It is also good for

to be familiar to Chinese players after many years, that is, the gameplay, graphics and other aspects of the entire NBA2K series of games have been very high in quality, giving Chinese players a very good impression.

From the commentator to the audience, from the referee to the players. . . Everything is so realistic. Before this, players had never thought that they could play such a real and smooth basketball game!

The NBA2K11 soon after is the pinnacle of the entire series. It won both media and players' word-of-mouth. It is the highest rated one in the entire series (Of course, 2K15 and 2K16 are not bad, and 2K16 also broke the series sales record) , Was praised by the players.

Seeing the game sales increase year by year, the 2K executives are naturally enjoying themselves. What is more gratifying is that with NBA2K9 entering the PC market, they just grabbed one from the big brother EA's NBA Live series in the sports game industry. A big piece of cake, and even overwhelmed the NBA Live series with real game experience.

TourThe theater industry is also a place where winners and losers are the winners. Although EA tried several times afterwards to reincarnate from the dirty soil and wanted to regain the status of the basketball game world, it was a pity that they all failed, in exchange for the cynicism of the players. , And finally left the scene sadly.

EA cancels NBA Live 20 development ▼

Now the NBA2K series can be said to have no rivals. Unlike live football and FIFA, the most watched basketball league in the world is the NBA. NBA2K has strong financial resources and directly signed the cooperation authorization. Formed a monopoly position.

The so-called external invincibility must have internal troubles. Starting from 2K17, the NBA2K series officially began the journey of word of mouth Waterloo.

Almost all veteran players who have played for hundreds of hours have found that the NBA2K series of games have changed less and less with each generation, and they are more and more like a "skin changing" game. What was the career mode played by

players ten years ago, and what it still looks like now, and even more boring and boring now. The AI IQ of

teammates is touching, and the AI IQ of the enemy is also touching, but they have a higher hit rate. . .

As for the status bar icon of NBA2K20 is actually a trivial matter like NBA2K19, presumably the developers themselves are not particularly concerned about it.

This is the most intuitive manifestation of the Matthew effect of "the strong and the strong": the NBA2K series took ten years to bring down the industry’s largest competitor. After that, it signed the exclusive cooperation authorization of the NBA League. $1.1 billion was spent and the cooperation was extended. What does

mean?

Xiao Xinxin said that he couldn't stand 2K food since NBA2K18, so he decided not to buy NBA2K18, and even switched to NBA Live 18, which was made by EA for the second time.

According to him, the picture details of NBA Live 18 are very impressive in every aspect, even higher than 2K18.

But the biggest problem with NBA Live 18 is that everything from player actions to sideline commentary is bad, resulting in a lack of player experience and realism.

EA is not short of money or technical strength. Why can't we do this well?

Because EA can't hire NBA commentators to record the commentary audio, NBA and 2K signed an exclusive cooperation !

EA It's not that you haven't worked hard, but there are some things that only hard work is not enough. . .

Even if the word-of-mouth is poor, the sales of the NBA2K series are still good. Why? is not because players have no choice at all.

Either endure the nausea and eat this shit, or like Xiao Xinxin, just watch the game and not play the game.

In fact, even if the NBA2K series is just changing the skin, it is really difficult to find faults in its authenticity and details.

But this does not mean the "New Year's goods" that players expect every year. It just asks the developer to change the skin of the previous game, add some krypton gold element, and then launch it for 199 yuan. To put it plainly, the reputation of the NBA2K series has collapsed. Z33z is not because the quality of the game itself is too poor (the NBA2K21 shooting bar is an exception), is because it did not meet the expectations of players .

players’ love for the game is always the most real, so even if many players know that NBA2K’s reputation is getting worse, they will still try to buy its new work to see if it really sucks.

Finally, these players can only sigh and leave the words "I am a fool" in the evaluation area.