NBA Live 16 Demo Available For Xbox One and PS4, Post Your Impressions

[swac07]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available Now For Xbox One, 1 PM ET For PS4, Post Your Impressio

As I play more and more Pro am is actually fun...the REAL NBA game needs work in a major way from control issues ,silly animations,unstoppable layups,rebounding issues,the cpu opponent and teammate ai are questionable(especially switching over defensively).theres still the cpu ai "speeding up" to you on a fastbreak...its alot once you actually sit and play the play now mode and the new smell rubs off

One real thing I'll give live is the plays..I love how it doesnt take forever for plays to act out its snappy and fluid as hell

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[Kurupt_XxX]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available Now For Xbox One, 1 PM ET For PS4, Post Your Impressio

game isn't in the psstore

[mrprice33]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available Now For Xbox One, 1 PM ET For PS4, Post Your Impressio

Shooting feels far too easy. Once you get timing down you can easily hit threes from almost any distance.

The timing has very little to do with the shot actually going in. It's based more on actual player percentages. Are you finding something different?

[mrprice33]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available Now For Xbox One, 1 PM ET For PS4, Post Your Impressio

As I play more and more Pro am is actually fun...the REAL NBA game needs work in a major way from control issues ,silly animations,unstoppable layups,rebounding issues,the cpu opponent and teammate ai are questionable(especially switching over defensively).theres still the cpu ai "speeding up" to you on a fastbreak...its alot once you actually sit and play the play now mode and the new smell rubs off

One real thing I'll give live over the comp until I play it to really confirm is the plays..I love how it doesnt take forever for plays to act out its snappy and fluid as hell

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This was an immediate thing I noticed. I've been able to remedy it somewhat by tapping down on the D-pad in transition to reset my man defense, but it is definitely a problem that I've already reached out to people about.

[dtq]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available Now For Xbox One, 1 PM ET For PS4, Post Your Impressio

My impressions.. As an all out live fan. Good game but this should have been Live 14. Not Live 16

I agree with you and echo the same sentiment. This game feels like an iteration (or two) behind. To be honest, EA should focus on what it does best and that is street ball. Bring back the NBA Street franchise and focus on arcade basketball because its simulation basketball always feels a bit lacking. While playing the demo, I cannot shake the feeling that this doesn't resemble NBA basketball as much as the other game because the wonky animations kill the immersion for me. Things just don't blend in well. A well oiled engine it is not; the sputtering needs to be addressed.

[nova91]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available Now For Xbox One, 1 PM ET For PS4, Post Your Impressio

The timing has very little to do with the shot actually going in. It's based more on actual player percentages. Are you finding something different?

Then that makes it even worse. My Pro-Am player is a 67 rated 3pt shooter and I'm dropping bombs consistently.

[mrprice33]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available Now For Xbox One, 1 PM ET For PS4, Post Your Impressio

Then that makes it even worse. My Pro-Am player is a 67 rated 3pt shooter and I'm dropping bombs consistently.

What are the %s on the shot's you're making? You can go into your pro-am stats and see your shooting stats, can you take a screenshot and post it?

[pdawg17]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available Now For Xbox One, 1 PM ET For PS4, Post Your Impressio

Then that makes it even worse. My Pro-Am player is a 67 rated 3pt shooter and I'm dropping bombs consistently.

You might just be really good then...I played around 20 pro-am games last night and I didn't see anyone lighting it up. Only time I saw a few in a row go in the guy was wide open every time...

[Detroitfan4life1993]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available Now For Xbox One, 1 PM ET For PS4, Post Your Impressio

Is the demo not out yet for ps4?

[CookNBA03]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available Now For Xbox One, 1 PM ET For PS4, Post Your Impressio

It's not there yet for PS4, I keep checking every two minutes lol

[jmaj315]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available Now For Xbox One, 1 PM ET For PS4, Post Your Impressio

game isn't in the psstore

It might be like that one time where somebody put PST when it was PDT, so we had to wait an extra hour

[stillfeelme]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available Now For Xbox One, 1 PM ET For PS4, Post Your Impressio

What I like I played after few play now games

Control is good as far as small movements
Plays develop nice and a nice wrinkle to calling plays
shooting feels smooth

What I don't like

Animations how they get triggered. Players are triggering a layup from way too far away and it seems the speed is too fast and you can't always contest well.

Animations in the paint are just wonky. Players are moving too fast like they are skipping a frame from a standstill when going to a shot. Something is wrong with how the players accelerate to drive to the hoop. They are not necessarily warping but they are moving too fast.

Contesting in the paint I didn't like, you can block shots but the contact in the paint and paint defense overall is just not realistic enough. It is a combination of a bunch of things the shot selection animation offense and crazy layup animations.

Spacing: It is almost too good you can feel how open guys get by the court to player size being to big. Basically I think this can be manipulated for open looks.


I would say a bunch of things I don't like have to do with paint and animations

[sneezor01]

Anybody got the demo on ps4 yet? I started downloading the xone this morning around 3:30 ct

[23]

Re: NBA Live 16 Demo Available Now For Xbox One, 1 PM ET For PS4, Post Your Impressio

Quit trying to incite a flame war and stay on topic

This is the NBA Live forum and NBA Live alone...

Quit this us vs them nonsense. It's OLD

This is an impressions Sticky. Going off course of that will get you banned

[BQ32]

At first I was shocked by my initial impressions. It looked great, felt great, rebounding was legit, player celebrations were fantastic while not interrupting the gameplay and the graphics overall were fantastic. I felt the last two iterations were unplayable but this game sucked me in quickly and thought this might just actually be the best basketball game available.
However paint scoring though drastically improved is still just to overpowered. Some of the physicality is absolutely fantastic but then at times it just goes away and players glide right to the rim. Also a lot of weird contact off balance shots near the hoop go in. Should either have them miss much much more frequently or have some of them called fouls.

More on the plus side though:
-When physicality is right it is something to behold. I saw lebron truck his defender shoving off with one hand and power to the hoop with uncanny realism.
-The difference in player feel is very evident. John wall just blowing by people and quickly realize you have to back up. Curry shooting with impunity coming off the pick and realizing you can never hedge back. Lebron trucking people. GREAT.
-Rebounding felt very good comparatively to past basketball games. Gone are the days of teams getting way more offensive rebounds then defensive rebounds which was just stupid.
-Shooting meter is great with the real world percentage. Eliminates a lot of frustration wondering why shots go in or are missed. A perfect opportunity will still miss and a horrible one will still go in but it is great to understand the percentage of time the shot will be made and trusting that taking better shots will pay off significantly as the game progresses.
-Some of the layup animations look really stunning, so far especially with Kyrei Irving.
-Pick and Roll control is phenomenal and feels so smooth. So much more effective and real feeling in this game.
-The movement, spacing and decision making of the AI is really pretty amazing. By far the best I have seen on a basketball game yet.
-New camera is superb, especially since I lay on a 60inch tv and it allows me to see the whole court while maintaining positional control.
Overall very impressed. Hope they can just adjust the paint play and this game can be a real winner.