NBA Live 15 Delayed Until October 28th, Three Short Gameplay Videos Revealed

[El_Poopador]

Re: NBA Live 15 Delayed Until October 28th, Three Short Gameplay Videos Revealed

from the gameplay videos i just watched 3 weeks aint enough. i know they are slowly trying to get live back on its feet year buy year. but this game still is not ready. the movement is better but still very herky jerky.

i was watching the kevin love in the second video and could not figure out why he was posting up on defense. then it looks like the computer asks itself the same question and the offensive player runs around in front of him and just gets a a big ol brain fart. also in the same play, waiters response time to harden cutting is way to slow. it was like he saw beyoncee in the front row or something.

i would hold this game till christmas time mabey january. at this point your not going to get many new fans anyway. so hold out, fine tune the game some more and then release it later in the year. 3 weeks is much to short of time. this game needs work.

I agree with the Waiters comment, but defenses front the post all the time.

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[MarvellousOne]

Re: NBA Live 15 Delayed Until October 28th, Three Short Gameplay Videos Revealed

Doesn't look to bad imo, it shows more improvements than Nba live 14. They definitely have put in work with the gameplay it seems you never know how much better it plays until a demo drops. Step in the right direction I think. I will say that the defense on the guys cutting out of bounds to the top of the 30th arc needs to improve, the ai just stands under the rim way to long before defending.

[Jano]

Re: NBA Live 15 Delayed Until October 28th, Three Short Gameplay Videos Revealed

1. Passing still looks wonky. If you played 14, you know what I mean.
2. The jumping animations in clip 2 and 3 look terrible. Notice Howard in clip three and Love in clip two. It looks rigid, warpy, and unnatural.
3. The ball handler movement was awkward and clunky in 14. Notice how little these clips show the ball handler freely navigating the court. Ball handlers are (mostly) either in "bounce tek" animations or gathering for a layup/dunk. Makes me worry that they are scared to show off movement...

I can't speak on 1 as much because I didn't play much of Live 14. The passes didn't look that "odd" to me but I've never had the critical eye y'all do.

I will say the jumping did look odd especially because Howard jumped as if he was contesting a jumpshot as the ball went into the basket. To me it wasn't "warpy" or even unnatural it just looked weird in relation to what was going on. In real life no one would do that they'd be reaching for the basket and maybe pulling their hands away to avoid a goaltending.

What he did was jump straight up in the air which contextually speaking didn't make much sense. That situation has been a problem in Live for a while. Sometimes the players don't do contextually appropriate things when the user presses a button out of nowhere. By out of nowhere I mean to the game it probably looked at Howard jumping for the ball as late. It registered the ball in the basket so it cancelled out animations for reaching for a rebound. Or Howard wasn't close enough to "trigger" a rebounding animation so instead he jumps as if he's contesting a shot?

2K is much better about that kind of stuff. Even the players tracking each other off the ball move in ways that look odd simply because it seems as if they are moving like there isn't an offensive player near them.

I'd expect defensive player to attempt to close off a passing lane or something. Sometimes the defender is running along side the offensive player as if they are racing lol.

Honestly my expectations for bball games these days are kinda meh because I've got problems with the gameplay of both games. So even though this will LOOK like a step down from 2K doesn't mean I won't enjoy playing it.

I'm looking for enjoyment factor so if this game can give me that than I'm good. But at this stage of gaming people are right to expect enjoyment along with great looking animations especially when we compare Live 15 to other next gen games.

My final test will be the hands on time with the game. If it can be enjoyable for me than I'm all for it.

[arkhamRejek]

This is the best Live has looked since 10, no surprise the release date got pushed back though guess its another win for 2k.
I'm one year away from becoming a pure 2k fanboy. Stopped playing live 08 because 2k just had the better game

[Mr.Smif]

Looks much better imo, player movement and animations look way better. But something looks off about the gameplay, its like its too robotic, too clean, like a Ivy League college team or something.

[Rockie_Fresh88]

Re: NBA Live 15 gameplay video and blog

they are handling this delay better. I'm tweeting Sean tonight (hes taking questions at 8 est FYI) about the lack of off ball movements. Also about some animations like the passes and LBJ's dunk looked a little slow.


as far as the stiffness, graphics looking last gen, I don't see that....

[arkhamRejek]

Only thing I do give live credit for is giving users full control, 2k give me full control and the ability to at least interrupt dunk animations and I'll never complain again. Heck no more sliding and I'll survive another year

[sega2k]

Re: NBA Live 15 Delayed Until October 28th, Three Short Gameplay Videos Revealed

So EA decides to help save face by releasing gameplay videos...

Pros:

1. Footplanting
2. Defense fronting the post
3. Boxing out
4. Change of speed
5. Dribbling seems smoother

Cons:

1.Offensive players standing around (Hasn't been fixed)
2. Hard to guard on-ball
3. Still stiff animations
4. Animations from 14 still present
5. No help defense

[shutdown10]

Re: NBA Live 15 Delayed Until October 28th, Three Short Gameplay Videos Revealed

The game does look improved from Live 14, but that is not saying much. They better do everything they can to not make Live 15 have a $60 price tag on it because it is still not where it needs to be. I honestly don't know where they go from this.

[youvalss]

Re: NBA Live 15 gameplay video and blog

I don't have a problem with the graphics, looks nice. I like this look much better than Live 14. Sounds are good too, hopefully it mean the atmosphere is great this year.

[angelstrout]

Re: NBA Live 15 Delayed Until October 28th, Three Short Gameplay Videos Revealed

What a disaster of gameplay was that? That was horrendous. What have they been working on all this months?


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[ThaLiveKing]

Re: NBA Live 15 Delayed Until October 28th, Three Short Gameplay Videos Revealed

So EA decides to help save face by releasing gameplay videos...

Pros:

1. Footplanting
2. Defense fronting the post
3. Boxing out
4. Change of speed
5. Dribbling seems smoother

Cons:

1.Offensive players standing around (Hasn't been fixed)
2. Hard to guard on-ball
3. Still stiff animations
4. Animations from 14 still present
5. No help defense

They fixed a lot of things in Live 14 like help defense in the last update, I don't know why they can't get this game right

[Sports fanantic]

Re: NBA Live 15 Delayed Until October 28th, Three Short Gameplay Videos Revealed

At this point, i rather have NBA the Life come back. I'm sure Sony Studio can make their former game better (like MLB the Show). Very disappointed in EA Sports

[sega2k]

Re: NBA Live 15 Delayed Until October 28th, Three Short Gameplay Videos Revealed

Once again Sean O'Brien release ANOTHER open letter apologizing..More polish to the game in 3 weeks?? The graphics don't look like the screenshots they dropped..EA when will you learn?

[pies]

Re: NBA Live 15 Delayed Until October 28th, Three Short Gameplay Videos Revealed

So EA decides to help save face by releasing gameplay videos...

Pros:

1. Footplanting
2. Defense fronting the post
3. Boxing out
4. Change of speed
5. Dribbling seems smoother

Cons:

1.Offensive players standing around (Hasn't been fixed)
2. Hard to guard on-ball
3. Still stiff animations
4. Animations from 14 still present
5. No help defense

how can you tell it's hard to guard on-ball from a video?