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JaxonH

Game looks pretty great in this video, and seems to run fine too. Chalk full of content as well.

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macaron75

a friend downloaded it, handheld gameplay seems nice, but on TV is another story

too bad, i was waiting for this game hoping it would be better than NBA playgrounds, graphically it is, but for me 30 fps is definitely a no-go for me

macaron75

royalboyle14

macaron75 wrote:

a friend downloaded it, handheld gameplay seems nice, but on TV is another story

too bad, i was waiting for this game hoping it would be better than NBA playgrounds, graphically it is, but for me 30 fps is definitely a no-go for me

Game still runs great, nobody would be disappointed.

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royalboyle14

JaxonH

Finally, a review for the Switch version!

And some gameplay and walkthrough footage for the different modes

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All have sinned and fall short of Gods glory. Wages of sin is death. Romans

God so loved the world He sent His only Son- whoever believes on Him has eternal life. Unless you believe, you will die in your sins. Whoever believes, rivers of living water flow within them. John

SKTTR

The game looks gorgeous. Nintendo went full on to be competitive with that custom Tegra X chip inside the Switch. PS4/XboxOne ports are possible with just very small sacrifices that casual people couldn't even tell the difference.

NBA2K18 is the first game to prove it. WWE 2K18, Skyrim Special Edition, Doom, and Wolfenstein II (and to a certain degree even FIFA18) will follow in those footsteps.

Still think that they should have put a game of this caliber and quality on a big enough 32GB cartridge.

Switch memory's a joke compared to Wii and Wii U.

The Wii only needed a 16GB SD Card to have room for the maximum of 300 download games and you still had plenty of room left for backing up saves or putting mp3s on it for games like Excite Truck and Endless Ocean and putting pictures on it for the Photo Channel, and saving the complete archive of your Wii message board. You get the full package, with just a cheap normal 16GB SD Card!
All Wii downloads are 40MB max, and you can have 300 games on your console so if you buy threehundred 40MB games that's 12GB and you still have 4GB left for all the other features.

The Wii U only needed a 1TB or 2TB external harddrive to save up to the maximum of 300 games. 2TB is only needed if you need space to downloaded each and every retail game plus every huge-filesize-download-only game. 1TB or even less will be more than enough for most gamers on Wii U.

The Switch is not so flexible and cost-efficient with it's external memory, that's the problem for me and another reason to buy physical games again. It's also the reason I'm hesistant on buying this game.

Switch fc: 6705-1518-0990

Lethal

This is a great game for the Switch. 30fps is a let down but it is tolerable. The graphics are not supposed to be on par with the PS4 and XB1. But it does a hell of a job coming close. NBA 2K18 has a really good MyCareer Mode this year which really makes playing this on the go even better.

Switch Friend Code - SW-1147-4867-6886

SKTTR

Wahaha, 5GB and it doesn't even save the haircuts you unlocked.

This could have been a 10/10 basketball sim.

But thanks to this video (thanks @MegaTen) pointing out the

a) greedy microtransactions that make the gameplay a grind. With this it cannot be a perfect 10/10 game. I have to reduce the score to an 8/10 because of earlier games in the series that did it much better.

b) the many bugs - well, they can be patched, but people already lost their saves because 2K couldn't even code a save file that doesn't get corrupted.
I have to reduce the score to a 6/10.

c) And then we still have the issue of 2K wanting 149,99€ for an 8GB cartridge that has just 1/3 of the game on it. They even expect you to buy a microSD card to bring the game close to a $200 price and sacrifice a huge chunk of your Switch onboard memory on top of that.
I have to reduce the score to a..... ah, screw it. There's always a better basketball game coming worth waiting for.

This is a multiplatform issue though, all of this is not just Switch exclusive, it's the same on PS4 and the Xbox One versions.

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Switch fc: 6705-1518-0990

JaxonH

Microtransactions suck. But I think There's a good game here for people just buying the cart and wanting to play offline like me

All have sinned and fall short of Gods glory. Wages of sin is death. Romans

God so loved the world He sent His only Son- whoever believes on Him has eternal life. Unless you believe, you will die in your sins. Whoever believes, rivers of living water flow within them. John

shani

Quick tip for European players:

Don't buy the game on the European eshop (69,99€).
Buy it on the American eshop instead (59,99$ = ~50€). You'll save almost 20€!

Make sure to provide a zip code (here are some to choose from, for example) from Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire or Oregon as they have no sales tax. Otherwise the purchase will be more expensive.

The easiest way to pay is to get Nintendo eshop cards for the US eshop from Play-asia or any of the other shops mentioned here.

In the end I paid 51,99€.

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My GOTY? Legend Of Zelda: Splat of the child. Ah no, I meant LoZ: Breath of the SPLATOOOON!

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JaxonH

Here's what really happened, in their own words.

http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2017/09/22/with-regard-to-our-nba...

And the review is reinstated

http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2017/09/21/nba-2k18-review/

I'm glad to see it though, they should be called on their BS microtransactions and the save file issues are totally unacceptable.

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All have sinned and fall short of Gods glory. Wages of sin is death. Romans

God so loved the world He sent His only Son- whoever believes on Him has eternal life. Unless you believe, you will die in your sins. Whoever believes, rivers of living water flow within them. John

SKTTR

I can relate to the review.

My favourite thing in realistic basketball simulations is to make my own team, like in Nintendo's fantastic NBA Courtside 2002 for Gamecube: You could make tons of characters in the editor, deal out an amount of points for their stats, level them up like in an RPG without much of a grind, putting them on teams, and save them all to a tiny memory card, and all of that without the need of any extra DL, DLC, or microtransactions.

I wish Nintendo would make another realistic basketball simulation again, it's been 15 years since the last one, but Nintendo seems to do only cartoony Mario Sports Mix basketball or gimmicky Wii Sports Resort basketball type of sports nowadays.

PS. Yes, I know NBA Courtside (on N64 and Gamecube) were made by Excitebike 64 developer Left Field Productions. They were like a new Nintendo 2nd Party back then until Nintendo dropped them in the Wii era. If Nintendo kept them we now could have a basketball game that would keep up with NBA 2K18 in terms of graphics, animation, and gameplay easily - not to mention another Excitebike like 64!

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Switch fc: 6705-1518-0990

JaxonH

So, there's a patch incoming for the Switch version. It addresses all major issues including cut scene audio video desyncing. I'm just not clear as to whether it addresses save corruption. I think they are addressing it but, like they did for other consoles, will do it on the sly without patch notes so it doesn't get advertised everywhere.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/nba-2k/nba-2k18-patch-update-3...

All have sinned and fall short of Gods glory. Wages of sin is death. Romans

God so loved the world He sent His only Son- whoever believes on Him has eternal life. Unless you believe, you will die in your sins. Whoever believes, rivers of living water flow within them. John

JaxonH

NBA 2k18 was just patched. Reddit reports suggest offline save file corruption is fixed, and cut scenes run flawlessly, despite neither being officially listed in the multiplatform patch notes. Among many other smaller bugs fixed from the generic patch notes.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/nba-2k/nba-2k18-patch-update-3...

All have sinned and fall short of Gods glory. Wages of sin is death. Romans

God so loved the world He sent His only Son- whoever believes on Him has eternal life. Unless you believe, you will die in your sins. Whoever believes, rivers of living water flow within them. John

Qwertyninty

Really want to see if EA brings live 19 to switch. Want to see some competition. I just can't buy this game.

Qwertyninty

JaxonH

Patch 1.04 is now live, hot off the back of 1.03

Perfect timing. my physical copy is in transit and should be delivered Monday I imagine

All have sinned and fall short of Gods glory. Wages of sin is death. Romans

God so loved the world He sent His only Son- whoever believes on Him has eternal life. Unless you believe, you will die in your sins. Whoever believes, rivers of living water flow within them. John

JaxonH

The new 1.04 update in NBA 2k18 allows you to play online with friends.

NBA 2k18 Now Lets You Play Online With Friends

All have sinned and fall short of Gods glory. Wages of sin is death. Romans

God so loved the world He sent His only Son- whoever believes on Him has eternal life. Unless you believe, you will die in your sins. Whoever believes, rivers of living water flow within them. John

kobashi100

@JaxonH awesome news! When I get the game I will let you know

kobashi100

cadaver138

We got the physical copy it stock today. Has two warnings on the cover. One saying "micro SD required" and other across the top of the box says "to use this software, a download of 17gb via a wireless internet connection is required. You may also be required to create or link a Nintendo account".

I was gonna upload a photo of the cover but I don't see an option to do so

cadaver138

JaxonH

@cadaver138

You have to upload to postimage or imgur and post the link here for pics to show up

All have sinned and fall short of Gods glory. Wages of sin is death. Romans

God so loved the world He sent His only Son- whoever believes on Him has eternal life. Unless you believe, you will die in your sins. Whoever believes, rivers of living water flow within them. John

kobashi100

macaron75 wrote:

a friend downloaded it, handheld gameplay seems nice, but on TV is another story

too bad, i was waiting for this game hoping it would be better than NBA playgrounds, graphically it is, but for me 30 fps is definitely a no-go for me

So I take it you would have been happy for the visuals to be worse and instead have 60fps.

kobashi100

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