NBA Live 14 Has Arrived, Post Your Impressions Here

[mf756193]

I wanted to add my brief NBA Live 14 story...

I bought the PS4 around Thanksgiving where I instantly purchased NBA 2K14 as I was amazed by the graphics. Before playing 2K, I downloaded the Live 14 demo and within minutes turned it off (and deleted it). I really believed at that time that it was terrible.

However, I began to become fed up with the other game as I am mostly an offline gamer and the lack of modes, the overall lack of polish, as well as roster updates led me to start following the Live forums where I started to hear good/great things, and really enjoyed looking at the screenshots (they looked better then I previously remembered from the demo).

I purchased the game last week for $39.99 on Amazon and re-downloaded the demo while I waited for the full game. I actually really enjoyed playing the demo the second time. Once I got my full copy and downloaded the 3 game updates I immediately noticed a huge difference. The graphics I really believe are top notch and I absolutely love the player models as I think they really portray the slim body types of many NBA players. After I settled on a difficulty setting and played some games I'm in love with this game! By far my favorite next gen game and I cannot put it down.

I realize this wasn't much of an impression, but for any of you who are currently on the fence I highly encourage you to give this game a try as I think many sports gamers would really enjoy it. I may be in the minority but I would give this game a solid 8.5 out of 10 in its current state.

[The 24th Letter]

Tried those sliders on rookie Tomba and the game was just way too easy, I was up 30 at halftime...I'll try them out on Pro or All Star...it was pretty cool not seeing as much paint spam though,.must be a higher difficulty thing...

[Tomba]

Quote: Originally Posted by The 24th Letter

Tried those sliders on rookie Tomba and the game was just way too easy, I was up 30 at halftime...I'll try them out on Pro or All Star...it was pretty cool not seeing as much paint spam though,.must be a higher difficulty thing...

And thats what it accomplishes to do that "paint spam' is pretty much GONE and I LOVE that. I would maybe play with the player ratings slider for shot rather than user skill and that might give you better results if YOUR scoring was too high and cheesy?

Just a thought

But saying this games a 8.5 is REACHING.

FIFA is a 8.5 Madden is a 8.5 This games more like a solid 7 with all due respect

[The 24th Letter]

I hate Ibaka so much....

One handed rebound through 3 Nets

[HOLLIDAY1183]

Quote: Originally Posted by Tomba

But saying this games a 8.5 is REACHING. FIFA is a 8.5 Madden is a 8.5 This games more like a solid 7 with all due respect

Yeah the reaching has gotten pretty bad lately. Somebody even said something to the effect of the player models being the best they've seen. Wow. I love that guys are enjoying it and it's nice that we're *hopefully* gonna have another year like '09 soon with two great options (here's hoping Sony hops back in or EA puts out a college game but that's wishful thinking). But 8.5 with no sliders/editing options in 2014?

I play a lot of head-2-head games with friends and family. Has EA said anything/can anyone confirm if they're going to address this hopstep? With a lot of the deals out there and gift cards I received for Christmas this would be almost free. And impressions in here have intrigued me to want to give the retail an extended shot on my own PS4. But I just can't do it with this move as is.



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[DirtyJerz32]

Quote: Originally Posted by The 24th Letter

I hate Ibaka so much.... One handed rebound through 3 Nets

I hate seeing that crap in bball video games.

[El_Poopador]

Quote: Originally Posted by HOLLIDAY1183

Yeah the reaching has gotten pretty bad lately. Somebody even said something to the effect of the player models being the best they've seen. Wow. I love that guys are enjoying it and it's nice that we're *hopefully* gonna have another year like '09 soon with two great options (here's hoping Sony hops back in or EA puts out a college game but that's wishful thinking). But 8.5 with no sliders/editing options in 2014? I play a lot of head-2-head games with friends and family. Has EA said anything/can anyone confirm if they're going to address this hopstep? With a lot of the deals out there and gift cards I received for Christmas this would be almost free. And impressions in here have intrigued me to want to give the retail an extended shot on my own PS4. But I just can't do it with this move as is. VZW Note III

i would probably rate it about 6.5-7/10. it does a lot well but there are some definite issues that keep it a little lower even if i havent seen some of them. i do like the player models for the most part and the way the uniforms fit although i think a lot of players arms are too bulky.

[DirtyJerz32]

Ok Tomba you may be on to something. Just lost by 4 to the Rockets. Howard and Parson did the most damage to me.

I did not see one spinning or forcing baseline animation ALL game. I think the tight on ball pressure has a lot to do with the animations playing out. The CPU tried that move and once they were stopped they kicked it out and tried something else.

The CPU did push the ball every time down the court so maybe the teams that don't push the ball need not be on that setting.

The crash board setting was also noticeable. Maybe the combination of Howard and Asik against Barganni (spelling) and Melo was the reason, but is couldn't keep them off the offensive glass.

The Rockets also didn't shot a lot of 3's which isn't the way they play.

I'll play again, but I did like the way it played.

Hers the stats.