NBA Live 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[MarvinOida]

Quote: Originally Posted by Melbournelad

I nominate this for one of the best posts in the Live forum.

Why? Cause some guy wanted to start a flame war on Live on a Live thread ? C'mon man, me and you know that it's just not right.

I went out and played the demo at a Best Buy. Then I played the installed NBA 2K14 game and then switched back to Live. While this game of course isn't a "simulation" game by all means, it was a fun game. And no, I'm not giving sympathy, I legitimately had fun with the game. It's $60 because it can be sold as a physical game, reason why this thing will never be $20 at launch as a disk is because the NBA wants max profits. Personally, if you found a deal and enjoyed the game, good for you.

The reason why it was fun because I let go of being sim for a second of my life and I enjoyed it. Yes, those who HATE the fact that this is basically a rip off as a SIM game can have the right to do that. But the game can be enjoyable if you can play basketball LIKE A VIDEO GAME instead OF REAL LIFE. It's Live, "sim" hasn't really been the main forte for a while now.

As for the graphics, people are exaggerating when they say it's worse then Current Gen to be Honest. The game looks better than CG NBA 2K14, or at least they had a better color palette.

Other potential good things for the future (as I don't own the game, but will assume)
-The Season replay mode, playing games that are finished kinda give you a cool little thing to try to recreate moments.
-Ultimate Team is fun many times (but looking at others vids, gaining good players early on don't look too hard)
-If the focus was more on a pick up and play game for the future, I think that would benefit those just getting started with the NBA video game scene or those who don't like 2K for [insert reason here]

Things to fix: (assumptions)
-Animation variety
-Commentary
-Game Modes
-Player Editing (they had a chance)
-Online (is it them or PS4?)

This game isn't for sim players unfortunately, this game is more for someone who wants to play an arcade game, while it's not worth $60, the basic game is fun as a arcade game.

3 years... 2 cancelled games, 1 generation leap. Future doesn't look bright, but there's some little bright light in that dark scary area we call Live.


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[otek]

Shakedown sums this game all up in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGDs24K4RgA&list=WL9E4E2E539935AB25

[The 24th Letter]

Quote: Originally Posted by MarvinOida

As for the graphics, people are exaggerating when they say it's worse then Current Gen to be Honest. The game looks better than CG NBA 2K14, or at least they had a better color palette.

Then just say the color palette looks better, because there is no exaggeration as to how ugly this game is, lol

[King_B_Mack]

Quote: Originally Posted by MarvinOida

Why? Cause some guy wanted to start a flame war on Live on a Live thread ? C'mon man, me and you know that it's just not right. I went out and played the demo at a Best Buy. Then I played the installed NBA 2K14 game and then switched back to Live. While this game of course isn't a "simulation" game by all means, it was a fun game. And no, I'm not giving sympathy, I legitimately had fun with the game. It's $60 because it can be sold as a physical game, reason why this thing will never be $20 at launch as a disk is because the NBA wants max profits. Personally, if you found a deal and enjoyed the game, good for you. The reason why it was fun because I let go of being sim for a second of my life and I enjoyed it. Yes, those who HATE the fact that this is basically a rip off as a SIM game can have the right to do that. But the game can be enjoyable if you can play basketball LIKE A VIDEO GAME instead OF REAL LIFE. It's Live, "sim" hasn't really been the main forte for a while now. As for the graphics, people are exaggerating when they say it's worse then Current Gen to be Honest. The game looks better than CG NBA 2K14, or at least they had a better color palette. Other potential good things for the future (as I don't own the game, but will assume) -The Season replay mode, playing games that are finished kinda give you a cool little thing to try to recreate moments. -Ultimate Team is fun many times (but looking at others vids, gaining good players early on don't look too hard) -If the focus was more on a pick up and play game for the future, I think that would benefit those just getting started with the NBA video game scene or those who don't like 2K for [insert reason here] Things to fix: (assumptions) -Animation variety -Commentary -Game Modes -Player Editing (they had a chance) -Online (is it them or PS4?) This game isn't for sim players unfortunately, this game is more for someone who wants to play an arcade game, while it's not worth $60, the basic game is fun as a arcade game. 3 years... 2 cancelled games, 1 generation leap. Future doesn't look bright, but there's some little bright light in that dark scary area we call Live. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Except when OG (I think he was playing) was playing in the stream the other night running ISOs with Kyrie, Durant and Westbrook damn near the whole game and said how sim this game allowed you to play and the fact that they continue to call Live a simulation sports game. Yeah, though, other than that definitely hasn't been what they've been shooting for at all.

[jmood88]

Quote: Originally Posted by nick_sr

if only you guys can see the smile on my face. never in my wildest dreams did I ever think live was going to be this good. live 14 is exactly how basketball should be played. Just wish ea could do something with the speed of the game.

If only you could hear my laugh as I read this post. Thanks for that.

[Earl1963]

If this game was $15 on PSN I would buy it. The floor spacing is really nice change, and hearing the ball swish through the net makes me keep playing the demo. The swish of the net is a nice feeling that is sorely missing from 2k.

[GisherJohn24]

Quote: Originally Posted by Earl1963

If this game was $15 on PSN I would buy it. The floor spacing is really nice change, and hearing the ball swish through the net makes me keep playing the demo. The swish of the net is a nice feeling that is sorely missing from 2k.

couple of the reviews I read mentioned that was Live's redeeming feature was the sound of the swish. lol

and kudos for that mental hosptial GIF. That was money.

[thedream2k13]

Quote: Originally Posted by fluent2332

Please tell us more. What exactly do you like about it, how does the AI play, is the game sluggish or is it simply a case of not learning the ins and outs, etc.

With these questions it seems like you don't have the game yet you try to defend it ?????