NBA Live 16 Demo Available For Xbox One and PS4, Post Your Impressions

[LiquidGotti]

Quote: Originally Posted by WTF

Agreed, PSN needs to step its game up big time. I'm sick of the waiting.

the install for the game has nothing to do with psn. thats EA and the way they have their files set up, in the download

[GisherJohn24]

Quote: Originally Posted by Playmakers

I think this is because Synergy is driving the decision making and there is no offensive/defensive awareness rating for each player. Synergy if i'm not mistaken doesn't take into consideration score and time. EA needs to code this game to recognize clock management not just in late game situations but end of QTR's aswell. I noticed this isn't just a issue in Live but most of their Sports games seem to have late game AI issues. Not sure how we can get it fixed this year but it should be at the top of the priority list because I'd hate to be in a playoff game and the AI goes brain dead late in games.

Agreed. Goes,along with the problem of the AI not subbing or any time outs. That was never fixed in 15 either. So def a concern at launch of 16.

[GisherJohn24]

Quote: Originally Posted by siraulo234

Is there any way to change icon passing so you only press R1 then press the icon instead of holding R1 + icon?

No. I wish that was adjustable too. A

Does anyone know how to turn off that guarding line of who u Should be defending ? I want that off. It's quite distracting.

[Walt Frazier]

Quote: Originally Posted by The 24th Letter

Good job Live team....movement finally feels good man...feels like basketball. You can finally take angles in this gen. Love the presentation and all the on court diagrams...I'm a fan of the pick control, great idea there. Also love the contextual animations navigating through them... The late game A.I is STILL bad- we gotta get this fixed fellas.. Up 3 with :34 seconds left... Intentional foul at :32 I hit 1 of 2 CPU runs the clock down to 8 seconds and shoots a contested 2 pointer

WOW...that is HORRIBLE.


AGAIN.


I kept LIVE 15 as they promised it would be fixed "soon".


A patch never came to fix it.


Clear by this point it is PERMANENT.


The ultimate game killer...horrendous late game AI.


I always buy LIVE, but not this year. Not with the late game AI big still there.


Thanks for letting us know.

[Walt Frazier]

Quote: Originally Posted by Playmakers

I think this is because Synergy is driving the decision making and there is no offensive/defensive awareness rating for each player. Synergy if i'm not mistaken doesn't take into consideration score and time. EA needs to code this game to recognize clock management not just in late game situations but end of QTR's aswell. I noticed this isn't just a issue in Live but most of their Sports games seem to have late game AI issues. Not sure how we can get it fixed this year but it should be at the top of the priority list because I'd hate to be in a playoff game and the AI goes brain dead late in games.

They promised to fix it for LIVE 14 and 15. Never did.


CLEARLY cannot be fixed at this point.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Thank goodness for sliders, because I'm definitely going to adjust some things. I find the shooting to be inconsistent for the USER and the CPU to be able to hit step back 3's way too much. LeBron is a dunk monster. Wall is a dunk monster too, his damn speed is insane. One moment you in front of him, the next he is gone, haha.

I can't seem to get the play calling to work. I hold L1 and move RS. Player is selected but I see no plays appearing afterwards. I also noticed the CPU pretty much just stands still and don't seem to run plays at all. Offball movement seem to be nonexistent most of the time. Almost like the game is just a 1 on 1 fest.

Going to mess with some sliders and see if it changes anything. Dribble hand offs are nice, I just wish the hand off guy will just stay still and stop moving in the direction I want to go after he hands it off. He gets in the way 99% of the time after the hand off.

Noah is a rebounding monster. I wish the CPU automatically goes up strong after a rebound, they tend to do unnecessary stuff most of the time after a rebound. Live 16 made some strides, the most important one are sliders. Hopefully next year they add more sliders and maybe some team specific sliders.

[Basketball Nate]

I'm enjoying this demo more than Madden 16, a few animations could be cleaned up but the gameplay is fun and I feel like teams play to their exact playing styles.

[zrohman]

Yep. I spent 2 years going back and forth between Live and 2k. I liked Live's movement (as far as feeling "free") and loved their dribbling system and some other things.

But two years later, and Live still looks 4 years behind.

After a full year all they did was make gameplay slightly better/balanced, and add pro am.

Dynasty mode untouched, late game a.i still present, and you can score in the paint at will via forced animations.

Again. I expected this from Live 14. And was ready to support it all the way. Surely they could make a great game after 2 years right? No.

They really damaged their brand. They should have not released Live 14, or 15 and spent that entire time on Live 16. Maybe if they weren't busy patching up all of the issues they created, they could have made a decent game. It takes time but not 3 years.

3 years and half of the bugs are STILL present. We aren't even asking for greatness. No late game ai problems, no driving the paint at will, and at least don't have Andrew Wiggins scoring over 30 PPG in Dynasty.

The worst part is they have apologized for how terrible their game was 2 straight years. Yet they didn't even drop the price a dime. And now they are releasing at $60 again expecting to win people over from 2k.

We love Live. I bought the last two years hoping for changes. But if we love them enough, sometimes we just have to let them go. Maybe they will learn....