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  • MDSavageBeast
    Rookie
    • Jun 2017
    • 264

    #346
    Re: Official NBA Live 19 Impressions thread

    I've dabbled in a little bit of all the game modes, so here is my non-biased review from a guy who was with 2K for the better part of 8 years:

    The One is a very fun game mode with a lot to do. The League games are funner than I expected and I actually enjoy playing them. Doesn't really feel like a grind. I appreciate how quick my player is able to be upgraded. I'm a casual gamer so I don't want to spend weeks getting my player to a reasonable level to play online (and I don't want to spend money to do so). If a game forces me to grind in a scathing way, I won't play it (I stopped playing 2K18 for like 2 months at one point, can't speak for 2K19 since I'm not buying that this year).

    The Streets presents a pleasant challenge (Almost done with my playthrough). It's not too easy or too hard. Some challenges I literally had to play for an hour in order to beat, and I appreciate that! Others, I had no problem running through. I'm hoping that there are more challenges in the future.

    Live Events are cool, just waiting on them to release more content. Haven't touched it since I completed them all during the demo.

    Live Run is my bread and butter though. On one end, I've played a public match with Randoms (full 5v5) and it was a BLAST. The Live community, in my experience, has a considerably higher basketball knowledge than my experiences with the 2K community. I ran Live Run for a full evening and had a great time. The biggest issue (which I hope will be patched) is going from a private lobby with friends to a public lobby. I want to play with my friends against other people (we don't have a full 5 so it's like 3 or 4 of us). This could potentially be a problem for my other friends playing as I swayed a couple of them to buy Live. Needs to be fixed immediately.

    Franchise is decent. However, trade logic is stupid. I was able to trade Marc Gasol and Mike Conley for LeBron James and Rajon Rondo. How!? LeBron should either be A) deemed untradeable by the Lakers and B) unwilling to go to Memphis since he has a no trade clause. That's unacceptable. Aside from that, Franchise desperately needs some depth if I'm going to play it. We need more in depth scouting. Not a Franchise expert, but I can definitely understand the outcry for that game mode.

    Gameplay wise, Live just feels better. The dribble moves and movements are great, but I'm still kind of iffy about the fluidity of jumpshots. I just feel like the response time on jumpshots is slow (like it takes a kick start for the meter to show up). By and large, I LOVE how Live feels. There are moments where the game decides to make moves that I don't want to do, but aside from that, it feels good.

    Layups. Need. To. Be. Fixed. Period. There are cases where four people contest some guy turboing to the basket and he makes some crazy *** reverse layup (the floaty ball doesn't make it any better). Conversely, I lost a Live Run game where I crossed a guy over (Broke his ankles) and then attacked the basket WIDE OPEN. My 6'10" guy decides to pull a Patrick Ewing and misses an easy layup where he could have either dunked it or kissed it off the glass. It pissed me off in the moment but I laugh about it now. Basically, I now fully expect heavily contested layups to go in and wide open layups to miss. Needs to be fixed.

    I also feel like the contest system needs to be tuned too. I can literally hold my hands up and sometimes guys splash threes in my face. I get it, I know that it's possible to make contest jumpers, but from 35 feet away? That's asinine.

    All in all though, I'm happy with my purchase and will be continuing to support Live.

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    • CMH
      Making you famous
      • Oct 2002
      • 26203

      #347
      Re: Official NBA Live 19 Impressions thread

      I had the most un-fun fun game. Just one of those games I wish never happened while I'm playing a game I like. I don't know how else to describe it.


      I tried no meter shooting (bleh) and dropped down to Pro to avoid getting blown out with no meter. I didn't particularly enjoy the individual game.


      Amazing thing I saw: Raptors (CPU) took 29 threes. Wow. They were actually launching them and that was fun to watch.


      I played as the Lakers and took 20+ as well. But the PIP were like 86-75 with a final score of 120-118. The game felt way too inside. There was maybe 6 turnovers combined and the game felt way too fast.


      I'm going to blame it partly on Pro and also on no shot meter. It made me want to rely on going inside since I could barely shoot. And we both shot over 50%. I think it was 53-52%.



      Bleh. A competitive back-and-forth game but it didn't feel right.
      "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

      "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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      • CujoMatty
        Member of Rush Nation
        • Oct 2007
        • 5445

        #348
        Re: Official NBA Live 19 Impressions thread

        Originally posted by CMH
        I had the most un-fun fun game. Just one of those games I wish never happened while I'm playing a game I like. I don't know how else to describe it.


        I tried no meter shooting (bleh) and dropped down to Pro to avoid getting blown out with no meter. I didn't particularly enjoy the individual game.


        Amazing thing I saw: Raptors (CPU) took 29 threes. Wow. They were actually launching them and that was fun to watch.


        I played as the Lakers and took 20+ as well. But the PIP were like 86-75 with a final score of 120-118. The game felt way too inside. There was maybe 6 turnovers combined and the game felt way too fast.


        I'm going to blame it partly on Pro and also on no shot meter. It made me want to rely on going inside since I could barely shoot. And we both shot over 50%. I think it was 53-52%.



        Bleh. A competitive back-and-forth game but it didn't feel right.
        I played one game without the shot meter as well and it definitely wasn’t for me.
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        • Earl1963
          MVP
          • Aug 2003
          • 1985

          #349
          Re: Official NBA Live 19 Impressions thread

          Originally posted by CujoMatty
          I played one game without the shot meter as well and it definitely wasn’t for me.
          I assume you guys that need the shot meter never played a hoop game before this crap was invented?
          Megatron

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          • CMH
            Making you famous
            • Oct 2002
            • 26203

            #350
            Re: Official NBA Live 19 Impressions thread

            Originally posted by Earl1963
            I assume you guys that need the shot meter never played a hoop game before this crap was invented?
            I've been playing basketball games since the original NES.

            If you have too, you'd know that old games used different systems to determine shot success. In some of those games, you released at the top of your shot.

            That's clearly not the case in Live 19 because the shooting mechanic is based on a meter. Even if you turn the meter off, the meter is still the mechanism determining shot success. You just turned off seeing it.

            So without the meter you're counting on memorizing the timing of the meter which essentially boils down to asking yourself why turn it off to begin with?

            Maybe less snark and more thinking would serve you better.

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            "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

            "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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            • CujoMatty
              Member of Rush Nation
              • Oct 2007
              • 5445

              #351
              Re: Official NBA Live 19 Impressions thread

              Originally posted by Earl1963
              I assume you guys that need the shot meter never played a hoop game before this crap was invented?
              Wow what is your problem? Pump the brakes big fella!!! Lol

              The game simply is more fun with the shot meter. In my opinion. That’s all. It’s an opinion.

              What the hell is wrong with people?
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              • CMH
                Making you famous
                • Oct 2002
                • 26203

                #352
                Re: Official NBA Live 19 Impressions thread

                Originally posted by CujoMatty
                Wow what is your problem? Pump the brakes big fella!!! Lol

                The game simply is more fun with the shot meter. In my opinion. That’s all. It’s an opinion.

                What the hell is wrong with people?
                I don't get it either. Like this isn't old games, it's Live 19.

                I can understand not liking the shot meter and preferring a different system but to try to clown people for playing the game the way it was designed is odd.

                Turning off the meter doesn't change how the game works. So it's not like he's accomplishing anything different. And no one cares if he spent his time (as little or as long as it might have taken) learning how to play without the visual meter.

                I just want to play.


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                "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

                "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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                • Earl1963
                  MVP
                  • Aug 2003
                  • 1985

                  #353
                  Re: Official NBA Live 19 Impressions thread

                  Originally posted by CujoMatty
                  Wow what is your problem? Pump the brakes big fella!!! Lol



                  The game simply is more fun with the shot meter. In my opinion. That’s all. It’s an opinion.



                  What the hell is wrong with people?
                  Ok ok, calm down.
                  Megatron

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                  • CujoMatty
                    Member of Rush Nation
                    • Oct 2007
                    • 5445

                    #354
                    Re: Official NBA Live 19 Impressions thread

                    Originally posted by Earl1963
                    Ok ok, calm down.
                    Hahahaha me calm down?
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                    • The 24th Letter
                      ERA
                      • Oct 2007
                      • 39373

                      #355
                      Re: Official NBA Live 19 Impressions thread

                      Does Live have a Free Throws only option for the meter?

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                      • CujoMatty
                        Member of Rush Nation
                        • Oct 2007
                        • 5445

                        #356
                        Re: Official NBA Live 19 Impressions thread

                        Originally posted by The 24th Letter
                        Does Live have a Free Throws only option for the meter?
                        Kinda. What I mean by that is you can technically have free throws set to just ratings not ratings + skill which turns it off but then it neglects the mechanic altogether and just uses the ratings. You could have regular shooting as just ratings and have just free throws as ratings + skill which would mean you would just have the shot meter for free throws but again for regular shooting , timing wouldn’t matter at all.

                        I dunno it’s confusing but I hope I answered your question lol
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                        • MDSavageBeast
                          Rookie
                          • Jun 2017
                          • 264

                          #357
                          Re: Official NBA Live 19 Impressions thread

                          I have a love/hate relationship with Live's shot meter lol.

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                          • Earl1963
                            MVP
                            • Aug 2003
                            • 1985

                            #358
                            Re: Official NBA Live 19 Impressions thread

                            Live 19 plays almost exactly like Live 10 on PS3, and even Live 06 PS2, regrading the shooting mechanics. Still own these games, btw. This is why I ask if you guys ever played older hoop games. The shooting in Live games have always been quick releases. So for me, the meter is useless.
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                            • dasunsrule32
                              Rookie
                              • Nov 2014
                              • 494

                              #359
                              Re: Official NBA Live 19 Impressions thread

                              Originally posted by Earl1963
                              Live 19 plays almost exactly like Live 10 on PS3, and even Live 06 PS2, regrading the shooting mechanics. Still own these games, btw. This is why I ask if you guys ever played older hoop games. The shooting in Live games have always been quick releases. So for me, the meter is useless.
                              Not even close, I played 10 last week. I still play it for nostalgias sake. Very different game.

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                              • WTF
                                MVP
                                • Aug 2002
                                • 20274

                                #360
                                Re: Official NBA Live 19 Impressions thread

                                The shot meter is kind of a game within a game, if that makes sense. I think that's why guys enjoy playing with it on. I'm indifferent, I can play it with it on or off.

                                For the time being, I've shelved the game unfortunately. I'm not a "The One" player, at all. The concept doesn't grab me, so doing anything w/ my individual player just doesn't resonate with me. So I'm shelving it based on the lack of NBA content.

                                Franchise, I've tried to start several. The gameplay once you get into franchise gets cheesy as a way to make the game competitive. Doesn't matter which difficulty, it's just not an authentic experience.

                                Playing one off games just doesn't do it for me anymore. I had enough of that last year, and I'm just not going to go another season playing meaningless games.

                                The lack of editing within franchise kills me.

                                But right now, the gameplay is feeling so cheesy that I couldn't play a season worth anyway. I'm seeing guys intercept the ball looking the other way, warping into passing lanes, warping to stay in front w/ defense, forcing 2 man animations when I have more than enough space, my CPU AI teammates breaking down allowing easy cheesy buckets, etc. The same things I've seen in 2k and knocked on 2k have made it into Live, and is killing my enjoyment.
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