by ThePointForward on Tue Jul 02, 2019 5:26 pm
To be fair to every dev ever... That's how game development works. You don't write each game from scratch. Especially on yearly release schedule you get to focus on limited amount of stuff to improve.
Do not expect 2K20 to be too special (best case scenario it will pleasantly surprise you).
Hell, the devs should by now have preliminary dev kits. Some work on next-gen is probably being done, so I'd say that 2K20 will have even less improvement in comparison because of that.
EDIT:
And I want to say I don't expect them to do anything too special. WNBA probably took quite a while to implement even though it's not that different. I suspect most work there was for art and animation departments.
For me, if they focused on bugs and squashed as many of them as they can the game would be a buy. If they fix the broken defence (just yesterday my defender sagged off a guy who just hit three 3 pointers in row - if you do that you're going to the bench), various problems with clipping, nonsense offensive actions (full court pass through 3 defenders and the receiver just catches it like nothing with one hand, various instances of ball being magnetic during rebounding or dribbling, bad animations to punish players even more on blocks or steals that seemingly do not happen to AI, ...
If they fix stuff like this I'd buy the game as a sign of support with that direction. I know to not expect generational leap in the last year before next-gen consoles actually hit the market. But focusing on fixing what has been wrong with the game for years now would make me look at it differently.