NBA Elite Name is History, NBA Live 13 is Coming

[Shakedowncapo]

If some are invited back to community day, I can only hope for some honest impressions this time around.

[MarvellousOne]

I am more anxious to see what they've produced and I hope it's something good, I just want good competition and a choice in 2 good titles not just relying on one franchise year in and out (which has been 2K)

[krazyboy225]

Quote: Originally Posted by Shakedowncapo

If some are invited back to community day, I can only hope for some honest impressions this time around.

You cant really say that the impressions of elite 11 from those that were invited weren't honest though.

When they went in they saw an early build of a game and they saw potential in what the observed, and thats what they stated.

[joelg]

I extremely excited about NBA Live 13, because they have no room for hyping the game, something EA Sports is known for. They lost most of their basketball credibility with that terrible demo, and they must know that NBA Live 13 will more than likely, not be a first day buy for most. Everyone will judge Live 13 solely from the demo, so they must deliver on all promises they make for Live 13. Like #futureofbasketball, the only thing I can think of that 2k has not done yet, is implementing some type of natural motion component into the engine they are using. Another thing that, in my opinion NBA Live has always done better than NBA 2k and hope they expand on , is court spacing. NBA Live has always had a sense of how wide an NBA court is and proportionality between the players and the court. Even in the NBA Elite demo.

[Subversion]

Quote: Originally Posted by MarvellousOne

I am more anxious to see what they've produced and I hope it's something good, I just want good competition and a choice in 2 good titles not just relying on one franchise year in and out (which has been 2K)

The problem was, it used to be that each offered their own pros and cons. What Live needed and didnt have, 2K did, and vice versa. Lately, 2K has been the front runner, but being the front runner doesn't mean you're the ideal candidate(points at current events in the country). Basically, 2K lead, but also became complacent with that lead and didn't offer any drastic changes. Even from the console shifts to next-gen, the basic same engine was deployed, with upgraded visual fidelity.

Now we're at a crossroads, 2K is stagnating(to some its stagnated for a few years now), and Live has a chance to propel NBA games into new heights, offer a NEW experience. No more roster changes, no more game breaking bugs, a new game that offers a fresh NBA Simulation experience.

When are they debuting it?

[Haval93]

Quote: Originally Posted by KD_Thunder

That'd be messed up man 2 years of preparation!? Na they wouldn't do that

I don't see how it would be messed up? Nobody should expect a new engine this year. Two years is no where near enough time to develop a new engine for a game. Most people seem to forget that building a new engine takes years to do and tons of man-power. Most games that bring a new engine with every sequel have four year cycles and over 30+ programmers working on the engine only, not to mention the other things that go with the engine. Most developers will tell their programmers to re-write and recheck the code and adjust accordingly. This is was done to multiple games such as Halo Reach, Skyrim and some other games. These games still have a have the framework of the old games but simply re-gutted and rewrote a lot of aspects of the game to run better and allow more things. This is most likely the case with NBA Live 13.

We need to have a realistic idea of this game in what it will be and what will it do. Can we expect a game with solid gameplay and a steady set of modes and features to keep us playing. If that's the question then yes. But if people expect this game to be the crown savior of basketball games and have every feature and idea they wanted, they will be greatly disappointed. No matter the two year cycle, the NBA Live team will not be able to get everything into the game, there simply is no way to do so. No game has reached perfection and I don't think any game this year will.

Sorry for the long post. Again, I believe this year we will get a great game that will keep us happy and keep us playing.

[coolcras7]

Alot of people seem to be missing the point on why NBA Elite failed in the first place, it had nothing to EA ability to create a great game thay have tons of money and man power, it was their over all philosophy in what made a good NBA basketball game, they focused more on gimmicks and buzz words instead of trying to create the most true to life NBA basketball experience offering fake physics and then have every player feel the same is not going to cut it, 2 years of development will mean nothing if they still continue down that wrong path.

[stmark]

The only thing that was good about nba live/elite game was court art work, floor spacing and the DnA feature that was about it. Every thing else was lacking no individuality between players the hunched backed player models gameplay wasnt smooth at all defensive controls were horrible. I would hope they start from scratch after not being in the market since live 10. Everything better be top notched or the community will go crazy