Graphics comparison: 2K23 vs 2K25 - Page 7 (2024)

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scottyp180

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Quote: Originally Posted by J_Posse

Some people are never happy either way, 24th. Back then people were complaining that it was 'too reflective,' 2K goes too far the other way making it look 'too dull,' and now they've hit a happy medium but some are still complaining. Forgetting that a lot of things (cameras, lenses, TV quality, etc.) affect how the eye perceives color (or shade/hue). Sent from my Pixel 7 using Tapatalk

Best example of this, when your hometown team is playing on both your local channel and a broadcast station like ESPN, switch between the two and chances are you'll see a difference in the shade and colors of the courts and jerseys. I know for the Celtics the parquet can be lighter or darker depending the station airing the game.

scottyp180

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Quote: Originally Posted by 49UNCFan

I'm not judging until I see this in 4k 120 on my PC.

By the time mods get to the game it's going to look better than real life broadcasts. People are going to wonder why games on ESPN don't look as good as 2K on PC.

EccentricMeat

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Quote: Originally Posted by vetmin

You're right, and even after taking that screenshot, I simply looked to my left and right in my living room and took note of the fact that the coloring I see with my own eyes doesn't look like 2K16, but on a gut level to me that 2K16 palette just looks better and (confusingly) more realistic. Maybe it's that the overall graphics need to be better for the new-gen lighting to feel 'real' instead of just 'dull' / 'washed out'. Maybe for 2K35 when the game is visually indistinguishable from real life, the 2K16 lighting will feel goofily vibrant, but for where the game is right now, the newer lightings (even from what I've seen of 2K23) just feel off instead of realistic.

I think the vastly more pressing issue isn’t the color or even the reflections, it’s how CRISP those courts look on older 2Ks (and even the new ones, but only on PC). For whatever reason, the courts on console look like one large, low-detail texture instead of a series of high resolution boards coming together to form a court.

With the console courts, it looks like they cheaply slapped a yellowish-beige rectangle down, then a separate layer for each of the logos and brands. It doesn’t look like a basketball court.

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do devs from 2k still post here?

why are the crowds dark?!?

Last one I have is 2k22 and the visuals on there look better than most of the screens and vids I've seen of 2k25

49UNCFan

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Quote: Originally Posted by scottyp180

By the time mods get to the game it's going to look better than real life broadcasts. People are going to wonder why games on ESPN don't look as good as 2K on PC.

Especially how this game animates

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Are any of you planning on getting the game on the 4th? If so, I would appreciate if some of you could post your impressions reflecting the literal title of this thread.

I'd rather read it here because 1) sometimes the Impressions thread gets so many questions on release day that some questions can get lost and never answered, and 2) since this thread has already been established, I think everyone here knows what we're talking about.

I appreciate the work done on mods (props to vetmin) and the suggestions given here, but I'm not going to purchase a PC for the game.

Thanks everyone.

desouza7

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1) You can’t really judge the graphics based on screen grabs from videos because you don’t know how the video was uploaded onto YouTube.

2) As someone showed before, in real life the court doesn’t have all of those crazy reflections. That’s just done in gaming to show off some of the lighting capabilities. In real life is a lot more dull than that.

3) 2k24 was definitely a downgrade from 2k23, but on a nice 4K TV it still looked pretty solid. I’d expect 2k25 to look much improved just based on the shadows in the screenshots posted. But again, will need to get my hands on it before I can definitively say that.