Sean O'Brien Issues Apology for NBA Live's Quality, Promises Improvements

[Boilerbuzz]

Re: Sean O'Brien Issues Apology for NBA Live's Quality, Promises Improvements

At the same time, if they don't fix 14, no one will go anywhere near 15.

I think that decision, for some, may have already been made. My decision on 15 has nothing to do with 14 at this point. As a matter of fact, I would hope they just get down to work on 15 now. 14 is out the door.


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[RangersCruz]

Re: Sean O'Brien Issues Apology for NBA Live's Quality, Promises Improvements

I think that decision, for some, may have already been made. My decision on 15 has nothing to do with 14 at this point. As a matter of fact, I would hope they just get down to work on 15 now. 14 is out the door.


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Boiler you really don't like Live do you? :P

[King_B_Mack]

Re: Sean O'Brien Issues Apology for NBA Live's Quality, Promises Improvements

You miss his point - patching 14 only limits 15. What good will it do if 15 is only going to be a marginal improvement on 14? You don't have enough time to make 15 worth buying over 14. Live 14 is pretty much DOA man. The only people that will care are fanboys and stragglers. By the time stragglers come, Live 14 will be in the bargain bin or a heavy resale.

Yep, pretty much this. I don't get where they're going with this. People already use the short development cycle excuse for this and why Live 13 got cancelled and they're talking about improving 14 drastically over the coming months during a very large chunk of Live 15's development cycle.

They've already botched their three year plan if this is what we're going with. Saying the improvements to 14 will simply carry over to 15? So basically they're going to sell the same game twice? How does this make sense? Basically year 2 of the three year plan is going to be what year one was supposed to be. I just can't see it personally how this is supposed to work out.

[Phreak50]

Re: Sean O'Brien Issues Apology for NBA Live's Quality, Promises Improvements

You still don't get it.


Saying things like sell the game twice...how about the people that paid for 14? It's like selling a coaster for $60.


Earning some respect by fixing 14 does a lot more for this franchise than an improved 15 does.


After all the mess over the last few years and all the hype surrounding the new engine, the new physics, the whole 'nothing but next' slogan... if EA leave Live 14 as an untouched disgrace, what does that say about them and what they think of their fans?

[yungflo]

Re: Sean O'Brien Issues Apology for NBA Live's Quality, Promises Improvements

if you chose to buy that broken game, you deserved it.

[King_B_Mack]

Re: Sean O'Brien Issues Apology for NBA Live's Quality, Promises Improvements

You still don't get it.


Saying things like sell the game twice...how about the people that paid for 14? It's like selling a coaster for $60.


Earning some respect by fixing 14 does a lot more for this franchise than an improved 15 does.


After all the mess over the last few years and all the hype surrounding the new engine, the new physics, the whole 'nothing but next' slogan... if EA leave Live 14 as an untouched disgrace, what does that say about them and what they think of their fans?

No more than it does selling it to them for 65 dollars in the first place.

[vernbudde1]

Re: Sean O'Brien Issues Apology for NBA Live's Quality, Promises Improvements

i have nba 2k14 and just got nba live. i got live for the simple fact i cant even play 2k14. i am not saying its better by any means then 2k14 but i like the fact i can put the disc in and not get stuck in a loading screen or have the whole game crash every time.

[GisherJohn24]

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i have nba 2k14 and just got nba live. i got live for the simple fact i cant even play 2k14. i am not saying its better by any means then 2k14 but i like the fact i can put the disc in and not get stuck in a loading screen or have the whole game crash every time.

That's your ps4 not the disc

[Boilerbuzz]

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Boiler you really don't like Live do you? :P

Man, I haven't really liked Live since Live 96 honestly and I had been dying for them to step up on their own for years... Until 1999. Then things changed. But I still wanted to see them step up. Same for Madden since 2005.


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[Sundown]

Re: Sean O'Brien Issues Apology for NBA Live's Quality, Promises Improvements

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2k still has a lot of canned animations in their game, not nearly as many as they had in the past. but it looks great

live doesnt have many if any at all. but it doesnt look good enough

Wut. All of Live's animations are canned.

If you mean long unbreakable animations, Live has plenty -- Bounce-Tek is unresponsive because of all the just-too-long animations.

The most dominant move in Live, the hop step, is one long canned animation. It's as canned as they come. It's so canned that centers share the same animation as guards. And the reason it's overpowered is because there are no contact animations to stop it, likely removed to pacify folks that are overly scared of two-man animations without understanding what happens when it's removed before an alternative is ready-- a terrible basketball game.