NBA Live 14 Features Team Specific Styles, Playbooks, Defenses and Authenticity

[Earl1963]

Looking forward to a new and different NBA game. It may not top 2k but it's different.

[Panicshade]

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That ignite engine is nice...it was enough for me to preorder NCAA football 14...it plays great and I love how physics is handled...

I don't know how it will translate to bball but its definitely an advantage over 2k if implemented correctly.

The engine running NCAA 14 is Infinity 2

The Ignite engine is what the next-gen games (FIFA 14, Madden 25, EA UFC, NBA Live 14) will use on PS4 and X1.

[Goffs]

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ah ok thanks for the correction...I'm curious how the physics engine will be utilized on NBA live....should be an interesting summer...

all I know is that I'm tired of seeing arms going through each other on 2k....EA on the right track with this...here's hoping they don't **** up like they are known to do...

I would like to see a pc version for future Live games so 2k will have competition on that platform as well...show 2k how patching a game works..

[Jumpman232]

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I know i might be feeding into the hype, but Live might actually be on to something here. I know you can't judge a game without gameplay, but they do seem like they want this to be sim. Just glad to see Live is back and there might be more innovation between EA and 2K.

[Bexthelegend]

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Live seems to trying to market directly to the sim market, and hope that it can grow from there. That's a risky move, but it could actullay work out for them. However, I'm still not sure why Live has had such a huge problems with player models in their games. They don't seem to have that problem in any other sports game produced by Ea, for some reason the players always look extremly skinny on the live products.

[ERA]

Personally, I'm pumped for the return of LIVE. It has been a very long time for us EA fans. It seems that everytime they say something about the game it is either positive or it will really be a game-changer. Really on to LIVE '14, already paid it off in full at my local gamestop. Whether the gameplay sucks or not still a day one for me.

[nick_sr]

Hopefully that surprise is that we have a halftime show and the option to chose different broadcast teams

[nick_sr]

Also, i just pray tendencies will reflect in dynasty. I know guys change their game every now and then but i dont want to see wade have 118 3point attempts in january

[youvalss]

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Hopefully that surprise is that we have a halftime show and the option to chose different broadcast teams

Yeah, I love half-time shows. I still watch the half-time show every time I play 2K7. I think in this day and age, every sports game should have a half-time show with stats, clips and commentary.

I don't know what Elite's half-time show was supposed to be like, but if they did something good there, I sure hope they can bring it back and make it even better.

[Jay Jay]

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Yeah, I love half-time shows. I still watch the half-time show every time I play 2K7. I think in this day and age, every sports game should have a half-time show with stats, clips and commentary.

I don't know what Elite's half-time show was supposed to be like, but if they did something good there, I sure hope they can bring it back and make it even better.

I wouldn't mind them bringing back the National Anthem for the finals.

[kingpnp3]

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I know i might be feeding into the hype, but Live might actually be on to something here. I know you can't judge a game without gameplay, but they do seem like they want this to be sim. Just glad to see Live is back and there might be more innovation between EA and 2K.

i agree with this as well. i have a feeling EA is going with sim.

their best bet is to go the SIM route first. and dont expect to sell 500k copies. dont expect anything. try to get critical acclaim for a great attempt at a sim hoop game. if that happens, build on it the following year. its not about 2k at all at this point. that 3rd year is when you start thinking about sells and possibly "casual gamers" but DO NOT go overboard like they did in the past which turned nba live to an arcade game.

create game thats SIM at the core. so you now get SIM as your core gamers. then you build out. dont build out to the casual gamers then try to billed in for Sim gamers. not going to work.

[kingpnp3]

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Live seems to trying to market directly to the sim market, and hope that it can grow from there. That's a risky move, but it could actullay work out for them. However, I'm still not sure why Live has had such a huge problems with player models in their games. They don't seem to have that problem in any other sports game produced by Ea, for some reason the players always look extremly skinny on the live products.

they do look skinny. but the truth is, they are skinny in real life. thats what we dont notice. football players are big dudes. pure and simple. even the thin dudes are buff to some degree.
hoop players are RAIL THIN a lot of times. i remember after kobe tweeted a pick of him with some other guys on crutches after he injured his achilles. everyone thought he lost all of the weight on that foot. he just had the cast on for like 2 days. people didnt realize how THIN his legs really were.

So the skinny EA guys are actually more realistic. the biggest issue with the skinny look, is that it looks GENERIC. its one thing to be thin but with features that match the person not just in face but arm size, leg size, waist, shoulders, etc(i mean can you tell marion is marion with his high shoulders? probably not, but you should be able to see that kind of detail.)

[Melbournelad]

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If live 14 comes out with an innovative and in depth association mode, right down to realistic stats and CPU team building, then damn they might just convert me from 2k. But thy HAVE to make sim a priority. As some people have said it won't work for them if they start out trying to appeal to casuals and them sim. It has to be sim at the core.

[quehouston]

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If live 14 comes out with an innovative and in depth association mode, right down to realistic stats and CPU team building, then damn they might just convert me from 2k. But thy HAVE to make sim a priority. As some people have said it won't work for them if they start out trying to appeal to casuals and them sim. It has to be sim at the core.

Agreed, 2k has left the sim-door, so to speak, wide open. There really hasn't been a sim basketball game since Live has been absent. 2k went in the casual direction to capitalize on Live's fan base I believe.

But yea, if Live can deliver a game with core simulation gameplay, something positive that they can build on, then they have succeeded in my book.

[DBMcGee3]

EA kills me with all the "new features" they advertise for their games. Not a 2k fanboy, but there's nothing on this list that they haven't already done years ago. I used to love NBA Live, and I'd really like to see them make another run to keep the heat on 2k and give everybody a better experience. That being said, considering how god awful their attempts at a basketball sim have been the past few years, along with the fact that they're attempting to jump to next-gen, I'm gonna have to do 2k this year and see how things pan out next year, when hopefully the new consoles are cheaper and some of the kinks have been worked out.