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

[L1njured]

it's actually not bad. I mean, it's not anywhere near "2K Level" but it's definitely a step in the right direction. My expectations for Live this year( or next year or the decade after that) isn't really high to begin with. I just expect a fully functioning game that you can actually play. I'll still be buying 2k15 come October 7th but it's nice to see that EA is atleast trying to build a solid foundation to expand upon in future Live titles. Don't expect Live 15 to be a masterpiece. If so, you're dumb enough to even dream it was possible.

[King_B_Mack]

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

I can't even begin to understand how somebody is seriously here in 2014 defending in any way, shape or form a decision to include less OPTIONS in a video game. As a gamer, particularly a sports gamer it is NEVER a bad thing to have customization options.

[poloelite]

Exactly. Does it look better than Live 14? Yes, but it's supposed to lol. I find it hilarious how EA has lowered the bar so low for themselves that people are clamoring for them to just put out a decent product. So because EA can't seem to make a solid basketball game for the life of them they automatically get this sympathy card from people? I just don't get it. I get tired of hearing "Live doesn't have to compete they just have to make a decent game" or "they're making strides in the right direction" smh. Man bump all that nonsense! How many years are we gonna give this company to get their act together? It's been 5 YEARS since they released a decent basketball game! 5 YEARS! The truth of the matter is they ARE in competition with 2K no matter how anyone wants to slice it. It's easy for us to say "It's ok EA just put out a game you can be proud of" when it's not our $ being invested ol. EA has shareholders they have to answer to. Bottom line is this game has to sell in order for this series to have a future. EA knows this hence the delay til Oct 28th.

I personally think the 9 lives (no pun intended lol) NBA Live seems to have has more to do with us just wanting so badly to have 2 basketball games to choose from being that every other sport (with the exception of Soccer) has lost all competition. People are just desperate for competition. That doesn't mean EA should get a pass. They've had long enough to get it together. Enough is enough. They need to be judged according to 2014 Next Gen sports game standards not I just hope it's better than Live 10 standards.

Sorry for the rant but I speak out of disappointment because I grew up Live

Nothing to add, very well said

[stillfeelme]

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

They were playing user vs. user some things I noticed

• I really liked the explosion out of triple threat by LeBron. That quick step looks very well done
• The iso dribble by Harden is very, very well done. Speed, cross, hesi explosion. It actually looks hard to guard Harden as it should be at times.
• I don't know if this is one of the bugs but in two plays the Harden play they are running a quick play like a zipper action play and Waiters play as well. There is a long, long delay for the defense to stick his man that has to be a fixed.
• Looks like basketball not perfect but believable.
• Animations are actually better than I thought they would be but it is like they need more frames in the animations to smooth it out

[da ThRONe]

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They were playing user vs. user some things I noticed

• I really liked the explosion out of triple threat by LeBron. That quick step looks very well done
• The iso dribble by Harden is very, very well done. Speed, cross, hesi explosion. It actually looks hard to guard Harden as it should be at times.
• I don't know if this is one of the bugs but in two plays the Harden play they are running a quick play like a zipper action play and Waiters play as well. There is a long, long delay for the defense to stick his man that has to be a fixed.
• Looks like basketball not perfect but believable.
• Animations are actually better than I thought they would be but it is like they need more frames in the animations to smooth it out

The terrible defense may be the results of them playing on the lowest difficulty level. That would explain a lot.


For the most part this sums up how I feel about these 3 vids.

[mrclutch]

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

I don't know but to me the vids look rough. Players look like they are all jerking around for no reason. They might need to push it back more and try to get it right.

[LLKoolAid]

this is embarrassing

[darkknightrises]

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

I see this completely different. I don't know why on a new gen system in 2014 why we would need sliders in the 1st place. Difficultly levels ok game speed ok. Sliders to control 3pointer made or layups is some thing IMO that should be determined by the players stats with the situation to be realistic.

Because ever ones skill is different. Something that plays realistic to you may not play realistic to someone else. There is not a game that playes realistic with out sliders not even the great mlb the show game. With out sliders I hit to while in the game and the CPU doesn't strike out enough.

[Haval93]

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

That came out of left field but I'm not surprised. Three weeks of extra polish can help the game with balancing, better performance, and fixing bugs. As for the videos, they all were really well done. The lebron dunk was nasty, Harden's drive looked amazing, and they have Lebron jumpshot on point for the last clip. Animations look smooth and player movement looks great. The delay is not a big deal for me, I'll just get to play NBA 2K15 on PC for three weeks until Live 15 releases.

[da ThRONe]

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This is a nonsense argument. Who are you to decide what I think is realistic? I may think that 7 offensive rebounds is too low if the season average is 10. Or the 2015 offensive rebound average may increase to 13 but because there are no sliders I'm stuck with a 7-12 range.

The point is no two games/season will be the same. So being slightly below or slightly above the average depending on who's in the game would be "realistic" not sure how or why anybody would say it's not. I mean we could go back and forward about what's realistic but if there's never been a game in the history of the league with less than 5 offensive rebound and in the game all the teams average less than 5 ORB that's just isn't realistic. People feeling about what is taking place on the court will be illogically impacted by a lot of things, but the numbers won't have the same illogical emotions on what they feel.


If I play Live at the highest level 12 min quarters and the stats are on par for all the real nba stats, as far as points in the paint, rebounds, fouls, dunks, 3pt %'s, blocks, steals, travel calls, flagrant, turnovers, etc. Why would I need sliders?

[da ThRONe]

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

Because ever ones skill is different. Something that plays realistic to you may not play realistic to someone else. There is not a game that playes realistic with out sliders not even the great mlb the show game. With out sliders I hit to while in the game and the CPU doesn't strike out enough.

Like I'm trying to point out to Albert realistic is a pretty concrete concept. If you follow the numbers. Of course every season is different and should have some variation, but the numbers don't lie. If a game consistently gives you numbers that mimic real NBA games/seasons isn't that indeed realistic for everybody not just you or me or some other person?

[seemoe]

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

Definite improvement over 14 which I played a lot of. Love the way the ball bounced off the rim and in on the last clip of LeBrons jumper. Looks good, can't wait to try it along with 2k15.

[Equinox831]

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

While this is bad news, those gameplay videos actually look pretty decent. The player movement and spacing looks pretty solid and it's nice to see the players attempt to get open even without you controlling it. LeBron's jumper looked spot on and Harden's drive was pretty nice. The animation was a little wonky, but it's Live, the game looks wonky all the time. I don't think all hope is lost, but the outlook is bleak. Hopefully they can pull it together because I really do want to see Live make a comeback.

[lakers24]

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

TBH it looks like a decent alternative and it definitely resembles Live 10 way more than 14. With that said, that's sad because they should be way beyond 10 instead of just trying to replicate that 5 years later. They added 500 animations, and you can clearly tell by how much more smoother and lifelike things move versus last year, but they have a ways to go when the other game is claiming to add 1000's EACH YEAR. If Live 10 would've been the base and they just added on like 2k is doing, I can only imagine where Live would be at this point, but we have what we have. It isn't bad and it isn't great and it looks like something I'll definitely like to try because I saw some really good things here that replicate real ball I just can't get elsewhere. The Harden hesitation, overall footplanting & player movement is crazy.
The delay is disappointing, but am I shocked, not in the least. I've come to expect it the last few years which is sad. But, I could care less if I play a decent BBall game. I just feel people wouldn't be so hard on them if they would've just announced the release date as Oct. 28 from jump OR just held on to the release date info until they knew for sure and announced it a little later than usual like they did with Lillard as Cover Boy.

[The 24th Letter]

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

Relying solely on synergy didn't work last year...and I doubt it will this year....sliders and roster editing need to be in next years game, period..we can make excuses for the absence of these features all day...but it's ridiculous they're not in the game...

Fortunately, I think they know that...