Video summary
The host of Agent Nation begins by expressing initial excitement over the Season Six patch notes for NBA 2K22, which promise an intergalactic theme involving zero gravity events and a journey into outer space. However, this enthusiasm quickly turns to disappointment upon realizing that these grand concepts are overshadowed by what feels like a lackluster execution compared to competitors like Fortnite. While Epic Games has successfully transformed their experience with new map elements and gameplay mechanics such as no-gravity modes, the host argues that NBA 2K's approach remains stagnant, offering only superficial aesthetic changes rather than genuine innovations that would re-engage players who feel tired of repetitive content updates.
The core criticism focuses on the specific rewards offered for reaching level forty in My Career mode, which include a bunny suit and a Lightning BMX bike as transportation methods within the game city. The host finds these items ironic given the space theme but ultimately views them as silly incentives that do not justify grinding for tens of hours just to unlock cosmetic gear. Furthermore, while there are mentions of new Dark Matter cards featuring Dirk Nowitzki and twenty-five reward players leading up to a ninety-nine overall card, the host questions whether this progression system truly excites My Team creators or if it merely serves as another routine seasonal obligation that fails to provide a fresh experience for returning users.
Beyond cosmetic updates, the video notes minor additions such as new music from Color Studio and a custom green release, but emphasizes that these changes are insufficient when compared to industry standards set by titles like The Witcher 3 or Tomb Raider which utilize Unreal Engine Five for groundbreaking visuals. The host also points out that NBA 2K seems distracted by other projects, including their recent WWE game and the upcoming development of NBA 2K23 on next-gen consoles, leaving Season Six feeling neglected in terms of attention and resources. Consequently, despite promises of new events lasting fifty days and power-up modes set in Greek islands, the overall sentiment is one of pessimism regarding whether future seasons will maintain any level of quality or innovation without significant shifts in focus from the developers.
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welcome back agent nation
it's your host agent b star let's get
right
into the news
oh how the mighty have fallen nba 2k
released their season six patch notes uh
there's an update that hit yesterday
before season six even dropped i imagine
in preparation of season six i feel like
we've been in season five for centuries
but as we look at the notes you begin to
get excited until you read more the
intro graphic looks really [ __ ] cool
maybe we're gonna play in different
dimensions potentially zero gravity they
say maybe that that's gonna allude to
some new events that they mention here
in these blog posts all year you've been
blazing a trail of your own in nba 2k
22. it's time to push it to the limits
to see what's possible in my career okay
we're pushing it to the limit that's
pretty [ __ ] cool they even mentioned
that it takes you on an intergalactic
journey like what we've never been in
outer space before this is starting to
feel like a fast and furious movie but a
lot like a modern fast and furious movie
a lot more disappointing once you see it
if you're on the last gen version of the
game 2k says they're going to send you
into space with a reminder to complete
various quests they mentioned the level
40 reward is a bunny suit which we'll
get to a little bit later and they say
avoid getting sucked into any
distracting black holes so i guess along
the theme of space jam they also
mentioned a lightning bmx bike i've been
waiting for a lightning bmx oh my god
i'm so excited i imagine as the level 30
reward as your mode of transportation
this season but probably like in a bit
of like just pure irony 2k says we're
not taking the foot off the gas bringing
you fresh environment updates more
original rewards and a new event to keep
you engaged around the city so a new
event leads me to believe there's going
to be one new event i guess there's
something there as they do every season
i guess they're going to change the
decor around the city i guess 2k is
getting comfortable with just giving you
some sort of like aesthetic benefit and
this time it's a bunny suit for your
level 40 reward so the event in question
the new event for season six the biggest
news we've received is this mode called
power up where they say for 36 hours you
destroy your opposition in some
beautiful court in the greek islands
interesting it's a 5v style game using
wreck matchmaking and there's different
power-ups like a lightning power
jumpsuit a firepower jumpsuit earth
power jumpsuit and a power backpack and
two times xp tokens which i mean i guess
it could be cool right let's keep an
open mind and that's actually when the
depression hits your depression hits
right there when you finish creating
that specific paragraph because in all
reality that's all they had and you
could go through some of these my team
updates the my team content creators you
have to tell me how excited you are
about these i read through it all seems
kind of interesting seems unique at
least they mentioned there's gonna be 25
new reward players they're dropping and
each drop is gonna have one higher
overall than the next until i guess they
get to 99. so they're starting off with
a 74 year old gold giannis onsta kumpo
and you have to complete these i guess
simple challenges but you complete them
every day until when you complete them
all season six is over and you get the
99 overall player i don't know if that
excites the my team guys i'm not sure it
seems interesting to me at least they
also mentioned they're dropping the
first invincible card of 2k 22 dirk
nowitzki well deserved and they
mentioned there's other rewards for
collecting 4 000 cards bro which one of
y'all have 4 000 cards go outside it is
beautiful today please breathe air
outside dog 4 000 cars means you
probably had spent thousands of dollars
on nba 2k either that or thousands of
hours which actually might be worse
these are all the other dark matter
cards they're adding into the game so
pause the screen if you care they have a
paragraph here for the w but it doesn't
feel like they added anything they just
told us the season is starting soon like
listen to the sentence before smith
transitioned to coaching she had a
14-year career with the wnba made seven
all-star appearances and won two wnba
championships and was crowned wnba mvp
in 2008. it's more of like a biography
on a player slash coach than news you
would care about if you clicked on this
blog post for nba 2k but they mentioned
it's gonna be 2k breakthrough gear an
extra badge point vc a seasonal clothing
bundle and a custom green will no a
custom green release there's no way i've
been waiting for a brand new custom
green release this is it i'm going to
log on today they also mentioned the new
studio that they're working with the new
publisher so there's gonna be new music
added to the game from color studio i i
don't recognize any of these guys except
smino so you guys let me know if you
recognize any of these artists but if
you wouldn't their music is now going to
be in the game so
your dick should be half hard i mean so
maybe if you jump between current and
next gen is it is not so bad but man
after like a slow season five you just
feel like season six was supposed to
bang and drawing you back to when they
said we're not taking our foot off the
gas this definitely feels like taking
your foot off the [ __ ] gas so just
let me show you the promo video they had
put together right here um
wow there's the lightning bmx bike
there's a face mask a baseball cap some
clothes and like that should be enough
to get you excited to want to log on
it's a seven second clip you can't make
this stuff up you really just can't i
don't know what the social team for nba
2k was thinking particularly but they
put out this post here saying reach
level 40 in my career to earn a bunny
suit and a dark matter josh giddy almost
as if to show off the level 40 award
like it was something that like they
should be proud about
this was promptly removed like two
minutes after it was posted but i
reposted it because i thought it was
funny the top replies being duke dennis
saying i'm not surprised by how they
feel time and time again anymore with
the crying laughing emoji is 2k even
trying anymore and probably most
funniest of them all ronnie 2k tweeting
get bunny with it is this tweet still
live please tell me it's delight no it's
deleted
i i get the aspirations maybe like they
got paid a certain amount from disney
what's the company that makes the bugs
money warner bros the purpose of the
seasons is to keep things fresh i guess
if they change enough about the
aesthetics of the game they give you new
rewards a new event that holds your for
50 days but when you look at nba 2k's
competition you can't help but feel as
though they are being left behind
because i and listen some of you guys
might not like fortnite but i love epic
games like with the severe passion i
think what they did for the gaming
industry is spectacular and i feel like
they got everybody in the chokehold and
we didn't even talk about it but um they
just released unreal engine five and
like [ __ ] millions of games just came
out saying they're gonna be using that
engine for their next video game
including tomb raider including um even
the witcher the new witcher game so all
of that being said when you look at
fortnite bro and they have a new part of
the map and like there's no gravity and
now the game is transformed because
there's no building we've never played
the game like this you i literally felt
as though i had to hop on and play it i
was playing it live on stream for a
little bit as well tune in to my twitch
i'll leave a link in the description but
i was like bro this is a new experience
that's what they gave us with the new
season when 2k drops a new season
they'll do some new [ __ ] but it's not a
new experience when 2k drops in new
games and not dropping a new experience
that's why people are getting tired of
it and in a new experience doesn't have
to mean something very complicated it
could mean like an entirely new level
but they ran the city back for nba 2k22
it could mean proximity chat so you
could actually communicate with your
peers in the [ __ ] city they haven't
done that though it just feels like at
every
opportunity 2k has received to do
something brand new and give us a new
experience they often instead to just do
the thing that like is like the short
term like let's just give him a new
outfit for level 40. how about that the
next level 40 needs to be like whatever
who cares at this point like who's still
playing nba 2k 22 to the point where
they're hitting level 40. i mean if it's
you hey look man all power to you
usually the first few days of any patch
note dropping is there's some level of
excitement like yo it's a new season
there's a new reason i want to hop back
on i don't feel that right now it's
actually a lot of pessimism and that's
because the bunny suit is like a silly
reward
maybe people will have fun throwing it
on
but in all reality it doesn't make you
want to grind for
tens of hours just to play the game and
unlock it also doesn't give you a new
experience it's something to do i guess
it's something to work towards but it
definitely is not going to re-engage
people that were disengaged because 2k
was lacking again i feel like 2k has
their entire focus on other things they
just released wwe game which has been
going pretty viral on social media
they're focused on creating a last and
current gen version of nba 2k 23 in like
four or five months now 2k 22 just
doesn't have their attention and if
season 6 wasn't any good i'm not too
optimistic future seasons will be and
even though you usually fall back on
things like all-star team up that's been
removed is that's not in the that's not
in the current gen version of the game
it's in the last gen version it's just
overall like how do we get to this point
like how do you allow this to happen i'm
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