peatrick said:Mostly just playing local co-op or h2h with my kid on the weekends, seriously appreciate the guidance and pro-tip(s) here. Although, i suffer zero delusions from being able to get online and compete with the masses. The gameplay experience is overall just more fun for us/him. He's already alley-ooping the ball to himself and dunking it off the backboard, so he's able to teach me the basic controls to get us started. Had some great Kobe versus Air Jordan battles already. This is our second year with NBA2K, got both Madden and NBA2K `23 during Black Friday sales for cheap (~half price, $35 i think), this year we paid full price to get in on the early hype, but probably our last for a while. There's tons of rewards and so much stuff to do, actual in-game content for NBA2K -- and most importantly, the game feels incredibly polished, at least compared with Madden & MUT. We cannot get through a single, four quarter quick game in Madden without some type of game breaking buggy ass shit that becomes difficult to explain to a child. Plus i've faced a million restrictions trying to set up his child account with EA, which has been ongoing since `23.
We started playing Madden late during the `22 cycle (for free from either EA Play or Playstation+ subscription) and things haven't really improved any since then. I just let my EA Play expire, trying not to buy any packs this year, heh. Last year was my first time checking out MUT, got pretty into it for a while. He was a bit too young to figure out Madden at the time and numerous games resulted in him basically breaking down in tears, because players would warp through one another to make interceptions and on and on it went. Someday i hope we'll get into NHL as well, but i think that's another EA title, so I'll probably just check out whatever is included for free on PS+.
I have won some online H2H games against god squads, yer absolutely correct about lots of big spenders being absolute garbage at the game, but I think i'm 0-3 in MUT Champs and was barely even able to move the ball. Felt pretty sweaty, but i'm overdue to check out the new UK game mode with 81 OVR squads. My passing game has come alive a bit finally, first with RG3 and just recently grabbed Moon at a steep discount. Appreciate the advice, I'll keep trying.
just a heads up, that UK event is sweaty, everyone puts their actual starters in the depth chart at 4th and 5th string so it doesn't effect overall, then when the game starts they pause and put all their best players back in.
