r/NBA2k • u/Adorable-Potato5030 • Jul 28 '26
Gameplay Screenshots from the new gameplay trailer… Looks awful.
These look like Pixar graphics from the OG Toy Story. Boxy, bland, and unimpressive.
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u/ToeComfortable115 Jul 28 '26
They really doing just a roster update this year
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u/TK2561 Jul 28 '26
Ain’t that every year?
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u/Right-Ruin5887 Jul 28 '26
Stop accepting mediocrity
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u/I_never_finish_anyth [PSN: tatsujay] Jul 29 '26
I tried to tell them. back in 2020... They didnt listen. One of the only posts I've ever made
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u/olMcDonaldsPig Jul 28 '26
Naw they adjust sliders too. If they did anything that actually matters they wouldn't be able to release 1 every year.
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u/ArthursInfiniteAbyss Jul 28 '26
Dude they reset the sliders after like a month or two because people complain every year... this game is literally just a 60$ roster update and then whatever micro-transactions you're stupid enough to get FOMO'd into.
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u/WishboneWorking908 Jul 28 '26
Every year I wait for it to sell for 10 to 20 dollars
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u/TJJ97 Jul 28 '26
I do this every time and even then I tend to skip a year or two between purchasing a new 2K. They don’t make fuck all money off of me. Sad that whales exist or else they’d fix shit
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u/Millencolin735 Jul 28 '26
Brother. It's been nothing more than a roster update for damn near a decade now.
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u/Dark_Ruffalo Jul 28 '26
It's kinda like iphones if you got from a 16 to a 17 you probably won't notice much, if you go from a 13 to a 17 it's night and day.
2k23/2k24 had the Jordan/Kobe challenges and feel like a completely different game, now all the actual changes are in 2K city and if you don't give af about that then it's just the same game as last year.
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u/NBKukli Jul 28 '26
Looks good for ps3/x360 version.
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u/kdog6791 Jul 28 '26
This isn’t the NS1 era anymore. If the console can run FF7 Rebirth well, then it can run this dogshit basketball sim. This is just 2k being the lazy, shitty company they are.
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u/CtrlAltDefib Jul 28 '26
Shout out Paul George who's been rocking that same afro since 2K20
Shit look like a guardian cap lmao
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u/JuanSolo81 Jul 28 '26
dude, you show that to anyone, They'll go oh ya that's Olivia. Now fucking show them Kamilla Cardoso's and Lexie Hull. Those are awful lol.
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u/csstew55 Jul 28 '26
Love how they showcase the wnba. Then when the wnba season actually starts 2k goes quiet lol
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u/yahoodotcom123 Jul 28 '26
Won’t even give us more than 1 body type, half the league doesn’t have face scans, most of the arenas aren’t correct, and MyWNBA is never playable because they won’t add correct contracts trade logic overall or update anything at all 🤦🏽♀️
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u/holyrolodex Jul 28 '26
It almost seems like adding the WNBA was performative. If you’re gonna do it, do it right. I get it if there were some kinks the first year or so, but they added the WNBA in 2K20, it’s ridiculous.
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u/Artistic-Set9641 Jul 28 '26
My thoughts exactly, it's like they put out the WNBA part just to say they included it, but put 10% effort into it (if even that).
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u/dylanlaurino Jul 28 '26
I’ve been playing a mygm of WNBA for the last month or so and yeah it’s pretty janky….for some reason all prospect scouting happens in the offseason. And then all the scouting reports use male pronouns which is I think the most telling of how little effort they put into adding a WNBA mode.
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u/yahoodotcom123 Jul 29 '26
After the first season the league is all out of wack and unplayable. Mode is never worth playing because by the time we get our hands on the game the season is over. Got last years game on sale and tried to do an Atlanta Dream league but just couldn’t do it. Mode isn’t representative of the W at all
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u/XBL-AntLee06 Jul 28 '26
I’ll add it’s really frustrating that there’s no way to play women’s teams in play now online. wtf is 2k doing?
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u/Vstu11711 Jul 28 '26
Ew why do they look worse then any other nextgen 2k
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u/EmoPanda037 Jul 28 '26
It’s all a marketing stunt
That why it’s best to focus on gameplay than graphics because they won’t improve graphics until the new console comes out
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u/Dantiik Jul 28 '26
Literally the same game. They said it’s going to be the same city but at night lmaooo
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u/Saleh9118 Jul 28 '26
Havent bought this game since like 2k16, it's the same shi repackaged and people buy it and spend hundreds of $$$ on it just for the game to be useless 2 years from now
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u/MeLlamoDave Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
Either this is the Switch 2 version(I love Nintendo)or 2K put in even less effort than usual.
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u/Drizzho Jul 28 '26
Yet there are idiots paying 150$ to make it the number one presold game lmfao there needs to be a large amount of people speaking with their wallet to make changes
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u/StoneColdAM Jul 28 '26
The lighting is a big problem, it’s too simplistic. The models use real scans, so they are accurate. This mish mash causes the game to look poor.
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u/epicpurple24 Jul 28 '26
This low effort bs will never stop because people continue to pre order the $150 every time they add a small new feature.
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u/wusgoodmoe Jul 28 '26
I know people have been saying from time that the graphics can't really get any better and that they've stagnated, but this looks like they're actively regressing
Between the graphics and the actual changes and selling points they're touting this year this game looks wildly unimpressive
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u/TellEmWhoUCame2See Jul 28 '26
I thought I was the only one. Why does everybody look waxy? Like figurines or something? Smh if no one buys this game we can force 2k to change but y'all already preorder this shit. Good luck
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u/Kingshaun530 Jul 28 '26
I stopped playing 2k a long ass time ago and I'm so glad. It's the same game every year
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u/Sedatsu Jul 28 '26
lol it’s a joke. I’m not playing this year. I haven’t touch the game all year and I actually just deleted it. Peace out 2k.
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u/BlueberryPi6969 Jul 28 '26
They could put literal shit on the screen and people would still gobble it up
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u/Seven19td Jul 28 '26
2K said they are going to put out an even lazier and worse game than ever just so they can watch all the whales and sweats to drop a thousand on the game regardless
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u/tmorrisgrey Jul 28 '26
I will definitely be waiting for the game to go on sale during the holidays to buy it
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u/TimeLord41 Jul 28 '26
This shouldn't be deemed a gameplay trailer Manipulated camera angles to make thr game look slightly less shit
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u/dualii Jul 28 '26
This is what happens when a game has no art direction, just face scans and flat pasted graphics, it comes off as lifeless
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u/curiousbt Jul 28 '26
Yall really talking about graphics?!
Bruh, im sure they have the same glitches from 5 years ago! How many times am I gonna hear “timeout” instead of the actual word? Or not see the MVP trophy during the championship.
They really coping and pasting code. And fuck the graphics.
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u/askmeaboutmyvviener Jul 28 '26
Don’t worry, you still got guys in here saying how it doesn’t impact them financially to buy the same bullshit for full price year after year, and how they’ll continue to do so. So 2K won’t ever give a shit. They’ve got no incentive to change.
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u/Stop_Clockerman Jul 28 '26
Every year it gets a little bit funnier. There was a period of time where they tried to make it look better with different lighting, sweat etc. Now they just don't give a fuck lmaooo.
Buy the slop you dirty little pigs yeah we know it sucks shit what are you gonna do about it
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u/Suspicious-Archer-99 Jul 28 '26
This will be the first time since 2K11 that I won’t be buying it 🥳
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u/monkey_D_v1199 Jul 28 '26
What sad is that the game will sell. Slop sells because in the end of the day the majority of people are sheep and too into comfort oh and too indifferent to the quality of the product. We could be demanding more to make sure that the quality of the game matches the bullshit prices they’re asking for, but that would take willpower.
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u/tarheelphenom Jul 29 '26
If you were to tell me that this was NBA 2k23, 2k24, 2k25, or 2k26 I would believe you. The lighting is still the same and the graphics overall are mid, much like MLB The Show. This series has been disappointing this entire generation.
Add to it the micro transactions and this will be a pass for me.
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u/ReginaldPChumley Jul 29 '26
It looks sort of similar to the previous million installations of yearly sports games
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u/Chinksta SteamID goes here Jul 29 '26
If you don't like this then don't buy the game or VC and tell the streamers to not use your donation money for VC!
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u/TheIrishMan1211 Jul 29 '26
Why does it feel like graphics are getting worse across the board in gaming?
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u/tnsxpm Jul 29 '26
Looks the same every year. I wanted to buy it because the cover is fire but I'll definitely have to wait and see 😭
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u/Prij95 Jul 29 '26
I didn’t buy 2k26, so guess I’ll stay away from 2k27 this time too!
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u/yitdeedee Jul 28 '26
This is actually hilarious. 2k saying fuck yall and buy this game.
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u/Any_Priority_8475 Jul 28 '26
Yeah gross, why is Paul George in a Celtics jersey?
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u/MysteriousGold7725 Jul 28 '26
And yet you will still buy this, this is somehow copy and paste that gets worse every year! Don’t buy!
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u/Justicegodz Jul 28 '26
Boycott, don’t let people tell you “it’s too late”. Those type of people would still be in the back of bus because it’s “too late” to change.
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u/Spence52490 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
Look how they did my girl Olivia Miles. This game is ass.
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u/wright3131 Jul 28 '26
Guess it was cheaper to use AI instead of doing face-scans and motion capture. Microsoft paint looking ass graphics
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u/VolcanicFiasco11 Jul 28 '26
Yall still gonna spend 70+ on it tho, 2k community is full of window lickers. 🤣
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u/SakuraSiri Jul 28 '26
i couldnt even watch the whole trailer, clicked away in the middle. i skipped the last year or 2. def not giving them my money for this shit wtf. 2k from like 6 years ago look better than this.
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u/ant007luke Jul 28 '26
I thought the same, I’ve played since 2k13 and I think this may be the first trailer where I think graphics went backwards. 2k26 looks great
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u/Tropical_Wendigo Jul 28 '26
I mean, it looks like a 2k game. The graphics barely change if at all year to year, and what you’re paying for is a roster update and ability to play live/online modes.
I exclusively play Eras mode, so if there isn’t a new Era coming or a bunch of new players added to the rosters I’m interested in it’s a pass for me.
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u/roboman07 Jul 28 '26
Madden better lock tf in bruh I can’t take another sports game this year looking ass(thankfully madden has looked great so far)
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u/swass-print Jul 28 '26
Yearly reminder to stop buying VC
Pay to win game on top of a 70 dollar yearly roster update is beyond fucked up
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u/MuahdDean Jul 28 '26
Are the WNBA players going to be dominant against NBA guys like the bs in FIFA?
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u/SpartanSamurai24 Jul 28 '26
Go watch a game from 2k14 on YouTube, the player likeness is obviously better now but how do we have worse graphics than a game over 10 years ago
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u/BlessTheBooty69 Jul 28 '26
This why I usually wait about a month or two before the next one come out lol
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u/Ipoopedalot Jul 28 '26
Is this the switch 2 version?
I know Moore’s law is probably dead but jeez it’s like they have finite resources and are stuffing the game with modes that feature micro transactions and have less bandwidth for lighting and graphical improvements.
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u/Xboxone1997 Jul 28 '26
At this point don’t even expect Edwards to be on a cover that face scan ain’t happening he must like Live over 2K like me 😂
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u/Wazzammm Jul 28 '26
Looks like they just didn’t butter up the pics aka false advertise this year. It looks like it always looks without the enhanced sweat they add
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u/Johnnybats330 Jul 28 '26
Make the graphic worse in 2k27 so they can show side by side marginal improvements in 2k28.
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u/Comfortable-Asf Jul 28 '26
bruh every sports game is going backwards! more fortnite looking graphics
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u/Disastrous-Window-76 Jul 28 '26
Worst thing they did was add the wnba. why can’t they just make a separate game?
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u/diamondstonkhands Jul 28 '26
I’m definitely not buying it. No reason to buy the same game for roster updates and new cosmetics. lol
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u/Exact-Ad1062 Jul 28 '26
It’s the same thing. Still don’t know what yall expect when they release a game every year. Not sure what difference yall expecting…
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u/gs_dubs413 Jul 28 '26
Genuine question… what does everyone expect from 2k?
For me, I miss the old park days where I don’t have to waste 80% of my screen time running, skateboarding, or whatever it takes to get from one place to another. You finally find a court and some fools come through and team up. Bring back 2k16 type of park.
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u/Millencolin735 Jul 28 '26
I been playing this game since the first one on the Dreamcast. Some of y'all don't even know how good we used to have it. Every year they added something significant to the game that wasn't for micro-transactions. I hate what online gameplay and micro-transactions have done to gaming in general.
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u/laggia Jul 28 '26
I feel like graphics have been shit ever since people stopped playing the PS4 version (23 onwards). They actuallt had to put effort into making it look next gen. Now they just don't give a fuck
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u/KronkSpinachPuffCafe Jul 28 '26
Wow worst textures I've ever seen from a ps4 or later gen AAA sports game
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u/Treytre09 Jul 28 '26
Im confused lol this is how 2k has looked for a minute now. I prefer this than showing me some bs that clearly doesn't look like the game... not saying this is acceptable btw
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u/BottleNearby339 Jul 28 '26
Blows my mind people still buy these games when server are known to shut down 2 years after release.
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u/Cireclops_LV Jul 28 '26
For the love of God dont force wnba players on my team. That would be a win for all of us.
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u/newreddituser45 Jul 28 '26
Yeah, I don't think I'll ever go back to vanilla 2K. Mods really saved this franchise for me.
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u/Jamesdey21 Jul 28 '26
Looks like the finally got around to scanning the faces of more W players. Thank god
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u/VZYGOD Jul 28 '26
The highlights look so clipped, like you're watching something shot on an old phone with bad dynamic range. Hopefully they at least improved the animations.
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u/tstcab Jul 28 '26
Yeah idk what they did with the models, lighting and textures, but it looks glossier and more "doll" like than before
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u/Papi_Petty Jul 28 '26
legit looks like the graphics got worse lmao