NBA Live 14 Has Arrived, Post Your Impressions Here

[Boilerbuzz]

Re: NBA Live 14 Has Arrived, Post Your Impressions Here

Don't even waste the keystrokes man. Even if he could answer that, he wouldn't.

This is true. And folks REALLY need to remember my warning from before - this is a NEW team. There was no "pedigree" on that team. The EAC studio team was dismantled. The team had just been constructed less this 2 years ago. OG's knowledge and passion I never questioned. The team and STUDIO for that matter is the entity I questioned. And from what I'm seeing, those concerns were warranted in my opinion.

[kidfromqueens]

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To people who have the game - How do you shoot a floater?

You press L1 (LT) and square (x) while driving to hoop

[kidfromqueens]

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I played this with an open mind and ended up having some fun after learning controls, quick plays, and how to run pick and roll. There is a learning curve coming from 2k with no shot stick.

What I liked:
1) The a.i seems pretty realistic especially when i turned up the difficulty (cpu iso'd melo, ran pnr's with cp3 and BG, a lot cuts and screens for chicago).
2) The presentation looks good as far as the ESPN look 3) The spacing is very good actually.
3) Once watching Scott OG's stream where explained dribble moves, I really had fun breaking down some guys off the dribble especially with the sig moves.
4) The sim elements of the game are impressive to me. The half court game is emphasized. You have to call plays to score and get some movement. Its a little refreshing coming from 2k with its many fastbreak lebron spindunking cheesers.

What I disliked: 1) First and foremost, The animations need plenty of work. They are sluggish when trying to explode to the hoop. I seen some quirky shot animations when trying to shoot off the dribble. They seem to be lacking some animations dealing with contact when driving to rim because hardly any fouls get called in a game. Although when turning fouls all the way up its slightly better.
2) Graphically in replay mode zoomed in, the players don't look TOO bad. But in 5 on 5, I can hardly tell the difference from Live 10. Graphics don't bug me but not $60 when 2k looks so amazing.
3) The players feel so sluggish sometimes. They aren't a lot of fastbreaks, probably around 3 or 4 combined in an entire game when I played.

Sorry for the long post.

[kidfromqueens]

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OH WAIT and one more huge dislike. THE COMMENTARY... JVG is fine but Breen's play by play on seemingly every little play reminds me of live 2006 on ps2 lol "passes to shumpert, back to felton" etc. You never get the feel of real color commentary and conversations about players are very general and not specific. Even when they go on a tangent about a player the conversation never goes very far. It makes me feel like that the two were probably not recording together often. One very annoying thing to me was when I hit a game winner neither of the two reacted or even said anything at all

[Guard-ian]

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...
Sorry for the long post.

Why sorry? These are the kind of posts I am looking forward to read: constructive criticism without fanboyism, thanks for the impresions dude... ;-)

[kidfromqueens]

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Why sorry? These are the kind of posts I am looking forward to read: constructive criticism without fanboyism, thanks for the impresions dude... ;-)

Thanks man. I was looking forward to this game alot. I expected alot more which I was foolish for. But the game is playable to me atleast. The thing about the game releasing is that we can play and give feedback. But it's up to them to listen to us and make improvements for 15, if there is a 15...

[swaggedout]

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Are there any other camera angles. I'm just curious about what this game looks like from a closer view. It seems that all the videos posted are from top deck of the arena.

[fluent2332]

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Are there any other camera angles. I'm just curious about what this game looks like from a closer view. It seems that all the videos posted are from top deck of the arena.

There's a broadcast camera that looks closer. I forget which videos showed that off, but it made the graphics look better, I thought.

[swaggedout]

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There's a broadcast camera that looks closer. I forget which videos showed that off, but it made the graphics look better, I thought.

Someone needs to post a vid from the broadcast view. So far the videos shown does the game no justice.

[lhslancers]

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no gameplay sliders but og said theyre talking about adding them in possibly.

3 years and they didn't have the time to put sliders into their game? From everything I am hearing about this game Live is DOA.

[jyoung]

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Are there any other camera angles. I'm just curious about what this game looks like from a closer view. It seems that all the videos posted are from top deck of the arena.

You get five cameras to pick from, and only the two broadcast ones are playable at all IMO.

ESPN = Standard side-to-side TV camera.
EA Sports = Same as the above, just pulled in slightly closer.

Baseline High = A top-down overhead camera. Currently, the frame rate is incredibly choppy, making this view unplayable.
Baseline Low = Same thing as above.

My Player = An even lower and closer version of the baseline cameras. The frame rate is steady, but the perspective is so awful that it's unplayable.

You cannot customize any of these views.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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The Hop step/Euro step reminds me of when Madden first introduced the Truck Stick in 05(?).

That's how powerful that move is in this game.

[jyoung]

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Seriously, it's a free basket every time you press Triangle regardless of the player you're using or how good the defender in front of you is.

Even if you have the self discipline not to use the move, the CPU will still use it a ton to clip through your defense. The lack of charge calls or turnovers when players use this move in traffic is just unacceptable.

I wish there was a way to disable the CPU from using the hop step/euro step.

So cheap.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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The lack of sliders is the disappointing part.

There's no way anyone can slice/spin that into some sort of positive or non-negative for this game because if they do believe, then they're got damn liar.

[Tomba]

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The lack of sliders is the disappointing part.

There's no way anyone can slice/spin that into some sort of positive or non-negative for this game because if they do believe, then they're got damn liar.

You know me i love slider editing but for live to omit it this yr? totally made me doubt the development team