NBA Live 10 Demo Available, Post Impressions Here (360)

[Court_vision]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

Hate: -Defense in the post WTF: -Balls still dropping to the ground and my players just watching the rebound.

Pared...these two probs have been in the series forever. My one big concern from Da_Czar's sensational preview was that he mentioned the post game wasn't so good. In LIVE 09, it was basically impossible to play D in the post. Even with Tim Duncan, you couldn't guard anyone. There was no feel of contact down there with the bigs.

Is it the same this season or improved?

[cf00]

Quote: Originally Posted by stephensonmc

Absolutely I can. There is a box out button (it's "Y") I'm not going back and forth with this. My problem with your post is your saying Czar, an innocent bystander, loses cred for telling you guys his opinion. He came to OS as a representative of OS that YOU guys, the community, asked for him to come. He gave his valued opinion and let you guys know what the game was about. Czar shouldn't get any heat from you guys, and if he does, it's ridiculous considering he's one of you.

That's not what I was saying. That's his opinion. In my opinion he was hyping the game and I don't agree with his opinion. To me he does. We are all wrong sometimes so that's not an insult to him personally. To some people he might be right. To me I don't agree. No big deal. He's had great observations most of the time. He was right in that regard that the ballhandling control in the game is very good. My only issue is the focus of your marketing has been that this game is great when you've been focusing on things that only show that. But you aren't showing the entire story. You are showing what is going to sell games for you. If you guys were putting out the best game possible I wouldn't say that. I just don't buy the hype and I'm not saying there aren't reasons on your end. I'm also not saying is a bad game. It's actually a decent game and very good in certain regards. It's improved but it's noticeable where your focus was. You've been here touting this game as the greatest game to come down the road when and I just don't agree with that. If yu are going to market the game like that then back it up. Otherwise you are all talk.

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by Beluba

Seems like several of you are having trouble playing defense... so I'm gonna throw this out there. A couple of guys have mentioned it already, but you really can't play defense in Live 10 like you have in past basketball games. When you're guarding a good ballhandler, you CAN'T crowd him. Learn to gap him and play the angles. Don't reach and just focus on staying in his driving lane. If you have a slower defender, bring help. If you have to, hold RB and let the AI help you get in optimal position. But when the ball handler goes, let go of RB and manually D him up because if he tries to cross you up while you're using Defensive Assist, he probably will. The last thing... and this one is very important. There's a possibility that there's a bug in the demo that causes the "dribble bumps" to fail on higher difficulty levels. This would manifest itself in the AI being able to slip right past you when you're in good defensive position, instead of you riding him to the side. The issue cropped up late and we fixed it for the full version but I don't recall if it was fixed in time for the demo. I haven't played the demo yet, but I'll try to find someone who has it to verify. But either way, gapping your check and cutting off the angles are VERY important to being successful with onball defense this year.

Maybe that's it.. what is RB supposed to do?

There's just nothing to do on defense... quite honestly, it's pretty boring compared to the offense.

The tap Y mechanic (challenge, not block) doesn't work during a shot... at this point, it's seemingly a "go ahead and drive by me" button.

Perhaps it's just me. I can't find a use for it. With so much available to you on offense... I need to find something to keep me busy on D.

[ImReady77]

Quote: Originally Posted by HeavenlyTouch

The majority of people I talked too think the Combine is far ahead of Live's demo.

I disagree.

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by Court_vision

Pared...these two probs have been in the series forever. My one big concern from Da_Czar's sensational preview was that he mentioned the post game wasn't so good. In LIVE 09, it was basically impossible to play D in the post. Even with Tim Duncan, you couldn't guard anyone. There was no feel of contact down there with the bigs. Is it the same this season or improved?

I'm not trying to sound negative, but to me it feels untouched.

It's almost exactly like Live '09. Try to stay in front of your man, press the block button and hope he does enough to deter the shot.

I can't strip, I can't front the post. Don't get me wrong... the CPU is doing it... but I can't figure out how to do it myself. Could be user error. But I've been trying to figure it out most of the day with no luck.

If anyone knows something I don't... help me out here. Post defense feels exactly the same.

[AL e BOY 1985]

i do wish they would have kept the lockdown defense.... instead of watching a superstar dribbling in my face i could have went out there and put a body on him....

[carnalnirvana]

DISLIKES

this game suffers from everything that frustrates me about 2k basketball...

1. do a crossover the defender falls for it but after the move you are not aligned to drive to the hoop you have to then do another bounce to square your self up while the defender slides back in the play

2. TOUCH THE STICK to move and an animation kicks in

3. the defenders on the perimeter just back up in the lane you really cant blow by on the higher difficulties

4. A glance at the ratings looks like they removed some categories...

5. i miss the dunk button.. but oh well
6. cpu still cant break out


loved...

1. the graphics
2. the game feels more controlled
3. liked the scoring variety
4. LOVED THE DNA BREAK DOWN and if its editable man i am in love

5. i noticed some aggressiveness on driving by the cpu

cant wait 2 more weeks nice work fellas

[rockchisler]

Quote: Originally Posted by ImReady77

I disagree.

I concur, its to early to say whose ahead of who, both games havent come out yet, and this demo is a earlier version of this game.