NBA Live 10 Video: Gameplay Enhancements w/ Mike Wang

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by HeavenlyTouch

The difference is, these are "touch ups" and "aesthetics", not fundamental parts of basketball.

Simple question:

Would you say they were necessary to replicate NBA basketball?

[jfsolo]

If someone wants to declare a game the best ever, I'm totally O.K. with that, even if I personally feel it may be a bit premature. I'll take that over relentless bashing, and calling developers out of their name, every day of the week.

Barring some unfortunate bugs that aren't patchable, I think both NBA games are going to be GREAT this year, which one will be the best? that going to be a matter of opinion, probably mostly based on player control and artistic style.

A lot of us will get both games and OD on basketball goodness. I just hope that those who choose only one game don't feel the need to justify their singular purchase by taking juvenile shots at the other game.

We're not talking about it much now, but I actually hope that somehow, someway, NCAA Basketball 10 is actually the best game of the three. College Basketball Dynasty mode done correctly >>>> every other game mode ever, IMO of course.

[TracerBullet]

Quote: Originally Posted by HeavenlyTouch

The difference is, these are "touch ups" and "aesthetics", not fundamental parts of basketball.

I'm happy they have them in. It doesn't matter if 2k had them or not if it's a part of basketball. It's a good thing for them to be in there. And copying "touch ups" is worse than copying fundamental parts of basketball that need to be in the game in my book. That shows copying more than representing fundamentals of basketball does imo. But honestly I don't care I just want a good basketball game. There is no reason to try to make the other one look worse.

[HeavenlyTouch]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

Simple question: Would you say they were necessary to replicate NBA basketball?

I was responding to him, the fact they added them is excellent.

He said 2k responded by adding certain features, I was pointing out that those features are small in comparison to what Live was missing.

Again, I love what Live has done, and I am more than convinced I will finally try out the game this year. I was an avid live fan up to the year 2004 and played since Live 97, I loved the commentary last year but really looked for a reason to try it out and I wasn't given one when I saw how robotic and arcadish the game looked.

That being said, I have high hopes. Like I stated, the player dribbling is very nice. I like what LeBron did in the vid, that was extremely authentic to what he does in real life. Furthermore, the boxing out sequences with Dwight/Bynum/KG were really great and lifelike, I have no reason to hate this game. My point was to say that people were wowed and amazed by certain aspects that should have been there a long time ago, nonetheless, it's a great improvement and achievement and I'm glad a new team took over Live.

Lastly, 2k9 was in no way a GOOD basketball game. In fact, it was far from it. The animations simply made up for all the glitches/bugs/gameplay problems; it was an arcade fest.

[TracerBullet]

Quote: Originally Posted by jfsolo

If someone wants to declare a game the best ever, I'm totally O.K. with that, even if I personally feel it may be a bit premature. I'll take that over relentless bashing, and calling developers out of their name, every day of the week. Barring some unfortunate bugs that aren't patchable, I think both NBA games are going to be GREAT this year, which one will be the best? that going to be a matter of opinion, probably mostly based on player control and artistic style. A lot of us will get both games and OD on basketball goodness. I just hope that those who choose only one game don't feel the need to justify their singular purchase by taking juvenile shots at the other game. We're not talking about it much now, but I actually hope that somehow, someway, NCAA Basketball 10 is actually the best game of the three. College Basketball Dynasty mode done correctly >>>> every other game mode ever, IMO of course.

Great post! Agree with everything you said here.

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by HeavenlyTouch

... the fact they added them is excellent.

I think that's all that really matters here.

[P21J]

Quote: Originally Posted by jfsolo

If someone wants to declare a game the best ever, I'm totally O.K. with that, even if I personally feel it may be a bit premature. I'll take that over relentless bashing, and calling developers out of their name, every day of the week. Barring some unfortunate bugs that aren't patchable, I think both NBA games are going to be GREAT this year, which one will be the best? that going to be a matter of opinion, probably mostly based on player control and artistic style. A lot of us will get both games and OD on basketball goodness. I just hope that those who choose only one game don't feel the need to justify their singular purchase by taking juvenile shots at the other game. We're not talking about it much now, but I actually hope that somehow, someway, NCAA Basketball 10 is actually the best game of the three. College Basketball Dynasty mode done correctly >>>> every other game mode ever, IMO of course.

true that. I really hope EA nails their NCAA game next year.

[KidHypeTellem]

I think the point you're missing is that it's not a 'wow' because it's a new feature or like it's things that shouldn't be there that are there, It's a wow because it's finally in the Live series. I've been buying Live every year 2001 and 2K since 2K5, And theres always been things about one that i'd wished was in the other, and when the other did get the feature, instead of looking at it as 'yea well the other one had that', I saw it more as, yes finally it has that feature.

For people that are Live only gamers, it's irrelevant if 2K had it as they wouldn't even know, so this would be an exciting feature to be added.