NBA Live 14: New Dribble Moves Information Released

[Jakeness23]

If nothing else we can expect to see very good ball handling out of Live and I also expect top notch presentation considering I believe they had an advantage in that with current-gen as well. I may not pick up Live as soon as it comes out, but I will most definitely get it when it's down around the $30 or $40 range.

[BizDevConglomerate]

Looks damn good my only complaint would be his mouth hanging open everytime he does a dcross over but he may do that in real life but when examining graphics and movment it just looks kind of funny. Kudos though because that was way smoother than the stiff movements form the trailer

Have you ever watched lilliard play?

[BizDevConglomerate]

Lol, even they know the player movement doesn't look fluid besides when you're standing in one place dribbling. They could have at least showed him moving around while pulling off some dribbling moves but they are afraid to.

Your not serious are you?

[BizDevConglomerate]

Soooo. Next blog is going to be about the dribbling too? Yay.

They could have included how to do the moves in this blog and dedicated the next to, say, other gameplay improvements?

Video's look good though. Excited to see how this feels in my hands.

Silly commenter, dribbling is the majority of basketball.

[royounggoku]

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Silly commenter, dribbling is the majority of basketball.

It is? Since when?

I could of sworn floor spacing, screens, cuts, tempo and defense had something to do with it too.

Dribbling looked good though.

[TUSS11]

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Man if only EA could put this amount of focus on other areas of the game each year. The dribbling looks great. It's the other stuff that worries me.

I have no problem with them focusing on BounceTek. It's like a child picking up the sport for the first time. You teach them how to dribble, then how to shoot, then pass... but this better be the last year they talk about dribbling this much.

[exposedaking]

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I like what I see here. Looks like it's going to be fun breaking down a defender.

Can't wait to try it out myself

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[blingballa333]

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Silly commenter, dribbling is the majority of basketball.

[alabamarob]

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1. Can't just wiggle the stick around.
2. You can't do another move until the ball is back in the players hands.

Being responsive to the point that it is unrealistic is not a good look. Good job 2k. Dribbling is about rhythm not just hittling the stick until the defensive player is out of position.

[Rockie_Fresh88]

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Wow that looked really good.

[bmgoff11]

looks good , excited to see more.

[RipCityAndy]

I like how quickly the players execute their dribble moves and change of direction. Over the last three years I never felt a legitimate quickness when playing as a ball handler in 2k... this looks fun.

[DKHardee]

i can't see it. Keeps showing the pre-video advertisement over and over.

[thesniper321]

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NOW this looks way better than that trailer , you have my attention again ea

[Sundown]

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This doesn't look bad at all. Actually it looks very good.

I'm going to compare against the other product as a reference--

It looks like it combines the old signature setups from previous 2K's that were lost with Pro Stick dribbling, with something similar to the current Pro Stick system.

Then it allows for branching out of those signature chains at any point the player has the ball.

Level 1 dribbles seem to correspond to 2K's standing/walking dribbles.

Level 2 dribbles seem to correspond to 2K's chains/launches off hesitations as well as turbo-escape dribbles. Not sure there is as much variety as 2K has.

Level 3 dribbles have no 2K analog (for current gen anyway). 2K takes the approach of having short quick simple dribbles that you can create your own "sig chains" and combos but they don't really look like actual sig chains of real players.

All sizeup animations seem to be captured and rigged with proper foot planting, at least when there is no defensive pressure. The other game still has issues with this.

Finally it adds ball physics through BounceTek (which is really not a huge deal, as the other game doesn't have much or any ball warping as is and was a bigger problem in Live).

So sizeups should look and feel stellar.

However, they didn't seem to show (as far as I could tell) how branching out of sig dribbles looks. They also didn't show any dribbling on the move, some of which we know looks bad, and which we also know has limited options based on BoilerBuzz's experience at E3. I suspect it still looks and feels the same as we didn't see much dribbling on the move in the trailer with a game that's trying to feature its dribbling model.

We also don't know what the dribbling looks like once a defender crowds the dribbler. It's very possible that it either looks bad or the defender isn't allowed to crowd too closely or ride the dribbler to "break" the sizeup feature.

At any rate, this sizeup system looks like it could be solid and quite good, or even very good.