NBA Live 19 Demo Available Now For Both Xbox One & PS4 - Post Your Impressions Here

[Vazione]

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Overall, I am loving the progress.

Pros

- RPM. *** ****. It really, really makes a difference.

- Graphics. I am playing in 4K, HDR and it looks magnificent. Those trailers weren’t lying.

- Dribbling. Losing dribbles seem more common if you get too crazy on the sticks (thankfully) and animations blend better.

- Defense. I loved defense in Live 18 and this is an improvement.


Cons

- The Ball. It does float, like 18. It’s improved but something is off.

- Commentary. This is just a demo so I doubt it’s the full version. If it is the retail version, then it’s very bland.

[jyoung]

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EA still hasn't motion captured enough dribble moves, triple threat moves, or post moves for Live, and their relatively small library of offensive maneuvers makes their one-on-one offense feel generic and repetitive. After only a few hours of playing the demo, I already feel like I've seen every possible way that you can get past your man in a one-on-one encounter. I hardly noticed any difference dribbling around with Curry, Kyrie, and Tatum in the one-on-one mode; athlete differentiation during gameplay remains a major problem across EA's entire portfolio of sports games. They do a good-enough job of distinguishing between players' visual likenesses, but athletes who have different offensive skill sets still control and animate too similarly in EA Sports games.

All of the gather moves and jump shots still animate too slowly. If a real NBA player took as long as it takes in Live to gather and go up with a shot, he would get his shots swatted into the crowd all game long.

Contested layups and dunks go in too easily, even over highly rated rim protectors. My 6'5" backcourt defender point guard who has a slightly above-average 81 dunk rating was repeatedly making contact layups and triggering posterizer dunk animations over big men like Andre Drummond, Anthony Davis, and Joel Embiid.

I like how the cutoff, contest, and steal mechanics are balanced in Live's on-ball defense systems, but the game needs an option that disables the assisted, CPU-controlled movement that kicks in whenever you press the left trigger. We should be able to sit down and get into our defensive stance without having to give the CPU any control over our player's movement.

That same concept of "full user control" needs to be applied to Live's dribbling. Since the dribble move inputs are dependent on which hand the ball is currently in, the ball should never be changing hands unless the user deliberately flicks his right joystick and tells the game to switch hands. Please add a controller option that removes all of these automated hand-switching animations from the game.

[Walt Frazier]

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So far....

Good = movement, courts, lighting. Very good pick up ball game / Street ball.

Bad = the commentaty is TERRIBLE. They were going on about non stop movement when a cpu player hit a standing still 3. Very little matches what is happening. Lots of generic 'HE would be / any other player but HIM'.

It is 2018...commentary feels like a 2010 game. I am stunned at how bad it is.

Klay took a wide open three and made it...commmentary = It is better to be lucky than good and HE took a terrible shot. What on earth...it is the worst commentaty I have heard in years. Truly stunningly bad.

Some player models are way off...Shaq and Draymond Green are built like they are Antwan Jamison.

Worse = the actual NBA part is terrible. Absolutely nothing like real NBA basketball.

Summary = Potentially excellent street ball game. NBA parts are incredibly poor.

[Walt Frazier]

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No more mike breen?

The commentary is god awful in play now. God awful. Major major disappointme

It is unfathomable how a big company could release commentary THIS bad. It is is, literally, the worst in any sports game in maybe a decade.

[Walt Frazier]

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The one looks and feels amazing.

5 on 5 nba action is absolute garbage. Commentary so awful. Not even a post season atmosphere. The crowd feels disconnected. Default sliders are whack af.

Huge buzzkill.

Zero effort into the nba aspect of NBA live.

Embarrassing nba product.

The one is the only reason to buy this game. Just so much to like from that experience as a basketball player.


Definitely not paying for 60 Bucks for this half assed garbage.

Probably will have to mute commentary and mess with sliders a ton.

Just need a blacktop mode in the streets.

Ugh.
No point of even diving into franchise mode.

Agree completely.

As a BASKETBALL game it is pretty good / streetball.

As an NBA GAME it is beyond bad. I am genuinely shocked just how bad it is. I am one of the rare few who has every LIVE game....and this one is the final nail on the coffin. They need to just take out the NBA part, call it Streetball 19 or something and make it a mobile game. It is embarrassingly bad compared to Madden and FIFA.

[Earl1963]

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Thanks for the impressions guys. I’m a NBA Live fan and it’s the only hoop game I buy. Also, how old is this build? Seems most are forgetting this is a demo.

[spike83]

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It is unfathomable how a big company could release commentary THIS bad. It is is, literally, the worst in any sports game in maybe a decade.

When it comes to a demo and commentary, isn't the norm that it's stripped down v. what's in retail?

[Wejwer89]

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Is it possible to change controls to "camera relative" like in 2k?

I want to enjoy this game on "broadcast cam" and "absolute" controls are making it impossible to play….

[Junior Moe]

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Yea haha. It's nba live. I still gotta get it and try it today but that's step one. It's like watching all the elite players on 2k play live, try to dribble and launch a crazy shot and be like man this game sucks!!!



It's a completely different game. I played 18 awhile ago and we lost cuz I got beat on the boards down the stretch, and I was like sry dudes I'm still playing 2k out there.



It sounds exciting tho. I just want good competitive 5 v 5 with real nba rules. I'd have played 18 with just that improvement, but seems like they did more. Like we all know, I'm not really mad at live for neglecting franchise because they have never had a good franchise mode, or one comparable at all to 2k. Ever ever.


-Smak

Yeah, it takes a minute to get recalibrated. During the Brazil tournament it all came back. I still play NCAA Basketball and Live 10 a few times a month. I just enjoy basketball games and enjoy them for what they are. I've played 2K and EA basketball games for so long that I just know them. Even a gen or two later. Some of the same issues are still in both. But Live 19 is solid. Live 18 was, too. It's just the depth I think that'll kill the replay value for me again.

[PhillyIMBlog.com]

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I haven't played this yet, is there any multiplayer in this demo like the previous ones?


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[jyoung]

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I haven't played this yet, is there any multiplayer in this demo like the previous ones?

There is no head to head multiplayer option like there was in last year's demo.

This year, you can only play online co-op against a full team of AI players.

The level cap for created characters is a 73 overall at level 10 on the XP bar.

[PhillyIMBlog.com]

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There is no head to head multiplayer option like there was in last year's demo.

This year, you can only play online co-op against a full team of AI players.

The level cap for created characters is a 73 overall at level 10 on the XP bar.

Thanks for the response. One more question, is there a "gather" button like it was in 16? They took out the hop step button in 18, hoping they added it back in


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[jyoung]

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Thanks for the response. One more question, is there a "gather" button like it was in 16? They took out the hop step button in 18, hoping they added it back in

All of the gather moves (hop step, euro step, stepback, spin gather) have their own separate input commands.

[kobe2theMAX]

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I brought Live 18 last year but didn’t play it much. The gameplay was quite boring. LIVE 19 is way better and the gameplay is incredibly fun (& you’ll notice this instantly). This is without a doubt thee best NBA LIVE ever! Great job, EA.

[Walt Frazier]

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When it comes to a demo and commentary, isn't the norm that it's stripped down v. what's in retail?

Well, let's see. But the commentary has been woeful for years now and this has just taken it to a whole new level of bad. I doubt the retail version will be different.

Surely Steph, Klay, Cousins could get better lines thab generic 'he / him / insert pronoun + meaningless comment.

How is Klay Thompson shooting an open three getting commentary like 'well HE knows to be lucky rather than good and HE took a bad shot there'