Alright I got the shytty 360 version.
Honestly, it's not as bad as i thought it would be besides the inferior graphics.
Since the gameplay is basically the same for all versions, here are my impressions.
-That shot meter is hard as fukk to shoot with and the fact that there's no way to turn it off just makes it worse. It just distracts me and throws my shooting off. I'd much rather the old system where you use your players animation and the bar under them flashes.
-The every green shot going in is a good and bad thing. I mastered basically all the wing players on the Knicks jumpshots last year but I hated how I would constantly miss perfect releases. But this year though no matter how well a player is defended a green release is going in. First online ranked match I had I played a guy who had the Blazers. He put LMA at the 3 and started shooting threes and was making them.
I still go
when I get a perfect release because I know it's going in.
-I see the fadeaway jumpshot from 2K13 is back.
-Rebounding is much better but is still meh. If 2K14's rebounding was a hard turd you needed to pop laxatives to get out, 15 is painless but messy diarrhea.
It's much less common but guys will still stare at loose balls and not get them and some centers will still grab rebounds they have no business grabbing.
-Shot fatigue has got to be the dumbest shyt ever. Every game I've played so far, I've gone cold in the 2nd half.
All my open threes get D- shot quality ratings. That shyt is mad frustrating.
-I see dudes have moved on from the 1-3-1 zone to the 3-2 zone. Dudes will do anything to not play man to man on-ball defense.
I always thought 3-2 was the better zone defense anyway.
1-3-1 was way too eash to abuse the corners but man when I had the 3-2 zone, man I'd come back from 20 point deficits and would shut dudes down easily.
-Man to man defense is much better imo. Players have more weight to them but it is much easier to cut off the drive this year. I put Defensive Assist to 0 and have shot contest to Intense-D. Was locking up this dude trying to cross me up with Kyrie and LeBron. After he realized he couldn't get past me he got frustrated and tried to post spin me to death.
-How do you make hook shots? Everytime I do one it tells me late release F quality.
I'll probably post more impressions as I get more playing time in but this is a pretty damn good game, gameplay wise, definitely one of the best. Better than 2K11?
Idk the shot fatigue is really a pain in the ass but maybe as I player more and get used to the shooting mechanics it won't be as much of an issue. Otherwise this is easily the 2nd best 2K imo, right behind 2k11.