NBA Live 15: Trailer and Features List Reaction (Roundtable)

[Sundown]

The only reason Live gets the "bias" it does here is because of what it did to its own franchise and the fast ones it tried to pull with borderline false advertising for years while being unable to put out a product. When EA finally did it was far from a good one. "Ball-tek" promos versus what was actually delivered? Really?

Now Live seems to have changed its tune. It's marketing is comparatively understated and actually in the realm of believability. There also seems to be significant changes to the game with what very little that's been shown. You cannot be unbiased without looking at the Live franchise with an EXTREME dose of skepticism, but I will applaud the changes in both areas this year. It will probably be a relatively rough game compared to its competition, but it may end up being an interesting distraction-- and could possibly be a viable, perhaps even good product next year so long as EA stays the course and remains committed to simulation basketball and not horribly executed gimmicks ( Ball-Tek, dynamic dribbling, what have you).

[King_B_Mack]

Quote: Originally Posted by shutdown10

You have to realize that EA told us that their Ignite Engine could not be ran on last gen because it was a highly advanced tech that was going to make sports game feel alive and have true player motion. Looking at those Live 14 and now Live 15 videos, we cannot take them serious yet because they still are holding back from making this game move right. There is an improvement in Live 15, but it's not enough imo, and you will see that when the consumers speak with there wallets again this year. They need to seriously look into finding a developer that can help them fix this serious issue with the movement and animation quality. Stuff like this would have been accepted last gen, but you cannot be critical of people who do not want to see that anymore on 400 to 500 current gen consoles with more power and tech capabilities. I told people on here that all of their excuses are gone, and they now have to deliver. The pressure they are facing are from the cancellations and the sub-par games they have released throughout the years.

No it wouldn't have and it wasn't, which is why we're in this mess that we're in right now in the first place with this series. EA pissed people off so much with this franchise and was getting their asses handed to them in sales so badly that people wouldn't even buy Live 10 which was legit a solid basketball game. The numbers were so bad that they pulled the rug out from under the team that was on the verge of bringing them back so they could turn the series over to hockey people so they could try to con everybody into giving them a quick fix on those sales numbers with that pile of garbage Elite. Which EVEN THEN as bad as that damn game was people were still in here clinging to every bite forcefed to them ready to co-sign whatever they spit out and yet we gotta keep hearing about all this "bias" nonsense. There's definitely a bias here and it's painfully obvious where it is. But I digress.