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Sunday, September 24, 2006

On NBA video game player ratings, LeBron, D-Wade, etc.... and how they SUCK!

I've had just about enough! Damn! I am recently watching trailer videos of NBA 2K7 and NBA Live 07, and with the games' upcoming releases, I couldn't wait to view the new set of ratings for the respective basketball games.

Of course, when I want to know something nowadays, that guy Internet is always around. Renowned video games website IGN already has the complete ratings for all players in the two games. NBA 2K7 damaged its good game reputation with its suckage-laden rating and roster system, while Live, well, improved their ratings in a degree.

NBA 2K7 had a lot of screw-ups on player positions (like Pierce as SF, Stoudemire at C, etc.) and still have some "what the hell?" rating results. NBA Live 07, of course, has its own version of its screw-ups although to a more minimal degree. But still, both of them are damned.

Why? Because Kobe Bryant, the best player in the world today, is neither at the top of both ratings. "King" F'n Bron is. Damn him. Kobe follow him at no.2. Damn raters.

Yeah, you can say that it's just my opinion and that you would let whine for nothing... But I don't think so. Kobe Bryant has been the best player in the NBA from Shaq's last months in LA and up to now, continuingly. But none of these two NBA video games rated him as no.1 except EA in Live 2004 (when he was not yet, because KG was). Say whatever you want but a guy who scored 81 points in a game and scored 62 in only three quarters, averaged more than 35 points per game (being the highest SINCE JORDAN in about two decades), leading his team to the playoffs with a not-so-bad-yet-not-so-good line-up, etc. is someone that should be given a 99. That's easy.

So, how low would have Kobe stacked up if ever he didn't score as much as he did in that game? Theese rating screw-ups doen't make any sense. And LeBron... Give me a break.

When I looked at 2K7's rating and found out that Kobe, Bron, and D-Wade all got 98, I tried to compare them. Kobe Bryant and LeBron James had 7 of the 21 rating categories in a tie, with Kobe having a higher mark on 7 of them, and LeBron the rest 7. I did'nt bother with Wade much, since I know LeBron's always has the media stacking him up one step ahead of Wade. Always. Anyway, it looks like a tie, eh? Nope. I deeply "studied" it an found out that in terms of freakin' numbers (of which people use a lot to say that f'n Bron is better than Mr. 81), LeBron won. Damn.

Seeing the 2K series as a better option when you choose an NBa video game, I was dismayed. So I tried to look at Live's version of ratings. I looked at Kobe's, then at Wade's, at Garnett's, at T-Mac's, at A. I.'s, etc., and saw that Kobe supplanted them all at 96. I smiled, that was, until I found out that LeBron was rated at 97. Holy schnopp. Grrr...

So they're meaning to say that LeBron James is the best player in the world today. What skeptical lunatics! NBA Live 07 even tried to widen the scope of their rating system so that they could further cover every facet of the game. Kobe's clutch is rated at 91... and LeBron at 90! Yeah right. F*ck them. Where do they get these stuffs? 2K7 has Kobe's 3point shooting only at 83, near LeBron's 79. Damn. Everyone knows that Kobe can shoot 5 trifectas in a row out of nowhere, and he could shoot as far from the rim as he wants to, and his three-point shooting would be rated only above Bron's a little? Those raters must be outta their minds.

Yeah, Bron's gonna improve, but give Kobe and these 'ol guys A. I., Pierce, etc. at least the credit that they deserve. And you know what, the way I see it right now, this batch of future "stars" with Bron, Wade, and Melo, are plainly overhyped. I don't like everything that is overrated, and I don't like those guys who misrate others. The NBA and the media around it overhypes Bron's batch the way WWE overhype their young stars. I like both companies, but of course there's an obvious difference. Back in 1996, Allen Iverson and Kobe Bryant just came out of what would become an amazing draft, you don't hear these kinds of things being said to praise the young kids, or at least not this much. Which is why I don't like what's happening today in terms of these. And with the expanded media means (video games) helping, they just certainly don't help. Give me a break.

I am excited to get those games because I am such an NBA lover and video games' lover, and I am anxious to edit the hell in those ratings.

To see the ratings, just follow the links below:

for NBA 2K7 - http://sports.ign.com/articles/731/731817p1.html
for NBA Live 07 - http://sports.ign.com/articles/733/733434p1.html

Here are a few sites that would help you think that LeBron James sucks, along with Dwyane Wade (I previously made a lenghty forum thread myself about how LeBron sucks, unfortunately, the forums in that site broke down already):

http://funkdiggityfresh.com/review9.html (this is funny. XD)
http://brentdiskin.com/throwdownarchive/sports-views002.html
http://www.hoopsvibe.com/nba/nba-players/lebron-james-ar21029-pa75.html

For Dwyane Wade, just type "Dwyane Wade sucks" in th ever-reliable Google search engine (you can also type "LeBron James sucks" for more) to see how many people agree with me. Heck, at least I'm not the only one for sure.

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