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

[King_B_Mack]

Played a few games of the OKC/CLE game while waiting for that terrible download and got into a couple games after that finally finished up.

Right off the bat I said it watching the videos and seeing it on my screen I say it again, it's a breath of fresh air seeing the activity on the court this time around as opposed to the standing around that was happening last year. Guys are setting screens, trying to get open, it's night and day from 15.

I didn't mess around with the sliders yet, so I'm playing defaults on everything for the time being. Shooting is a thousand times better for me than last year as I don't feel like it's a near pointless grind trying to score this year like last year felt. Helps the ego that Van Gundy isn't ripping me and the other team for how brutal our scoring is going either lol.

Love the arenas and atmosphere in the game. That was good last year though, so this is just a continuation of that. The play calling feature is great, think that's well done once you get the hang of doing it.

I've had fun playing the game and have had some competitive games in my time with it. Of course there is a lot of bad in here as well despite what the game does right.

The animations are still not good. It doesn't FEEL like footplanting is in the game. Guys seem like they just move around the court at lightning speed and the warping and forcefielding is still there. There's still a delay in certain movements like jumping to contest a shot or going for a rebound.

I was playing a game against the Clippers and ran into this little sequence.

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I was Aaron Brooks at the time in this, I was anticipating Griffin going to the paint so I went to contest before he even went into a gather and yet he didn't even attempt to jump until after he'd already dunked the thing pretty much. Stuff like this has to get fixed.


Then there's this next glitch. This one was just down right bad and a deal breaker for sure if it's not included in this day 1 patch. It's only happened once, so maybe it'll be cool, but once is one time too many IMO for something like this one.



Honestly have no idea how you let that one slip in there.

Overall, had some frustrating fun with the game so far. It's still not worth 60 dollars and I'll more than likely be picking this one up for cheap again this year as an alternate bball game. I'm disappointed because we've reached the third year of yet another 3 year plan and we're still not where we're supposed to be for that third year.

[lamoyou401]

Controls feel sluggish and also seems like there's lag when you press a button to steal, rebound, etc. The paint defense is nonexistent basically 75% of the time in my experience with the demo. The teleporting layups and dunks are saddening. When you want to go for a simple layup it makes you do a harder shot than you originally wanted to take. I wanna like this game because Pro Am is a really fun concept but its like the game mechanics are just not good.

[BOSsTOwN]

If I was ea I would just release the pro am mode on arcade and just try to compete for that That mode has been fun.


Game is stiff and has weird animations

[dilladawg4]

See y'all next Friday. This can hold me til 2k comes out.

[The 24th Letter]

Playing more Tip Off now / 12 minute quarters and man, I'm not exaggerating when I say this is some of the worst defense I've seen in a while....I'm playing on superstar like I have the last 2 years and it's just gotten crazy...

Dudes are taking off from the top of the free throw circle with euros and scoring in the lane.....

I try to wait a week before I touch any sliders but I may have to do that a bit early because this is crazy....


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[apollooff320]

found it's pretty easy to stop that animation lay up or dunk that triggers from the free throw line. You just have to be playing with your bigs that can block shots. That stuff will get swatted away most of the time unless they change the shot in mid air.

I actually like online play better then 2K's version so much more fun. Offline isn't bad either but don't have enough post moves for my liking. Will be getting both games for the first time.

[seemoe]

anyone else getting stuck in post up animations when trying to run a play

[Nemesis Enforcer]

Quote: Originally Posted by The 24th Letter

I try to wait a week before I touch any sliders but I may have to do that a bit early because this is crazy.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I couldn't take a quarter of it. Adjusted sliders mid game and it made a big difference. Will still have unstoppable stuff but the physicality of the paint was increased big time.