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Originally Posted by pslieber |
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I hate to continue to rain on this parade, but NBA Live 14 is abysmal. I literally bought my PS4 at midnight launch to play this, and can't believe how terrible it is. For those who say 10 was better, are astonishingly accurate.
To begin, the physics are terrible. Thanks to awful collision detection and player movement, everyone - including point guards - blows by and dunks. The aforementioned 'swish only' is incredulous. Balls ping pong off hands on loose balls. Jumping/block mechanics...ouch.
Cameras are sorry. The screen literally shakes subtly as teams change possession. I'm still in awe that passed QA testing. Shot animations...?! Legs flying everywhere. Post up game makes no sense in execution.
Commentary...egads. Robotic, boring, and non-sensical. Halftime show, however, is quite nice in presentation.
Rosters...ouch. I can't believe I was watching bald white guys named 'PG #0' subbing in...on supposedly up-to-date rosters.
Please don't flame me in saying this, but I've never been a fan of the 2K basketball series (albeit noting it looks awesome!)...much preferring the looser control scheme of Live. I was really hoping for something different - even if flawed - to have more, well, 'fun.' This is the worst basketball game - to my knowledge - I've ever played on a mainstream console.
I'm certain they can patch some physics-based aspects of this, but the game is so broken out-of-the-box that I don't think it's possible to salvage it. 
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I can't agree with you more. I was expecting a decent game that was maybe like Live 10 with some new mechanics and some nice features. Features are nice, but the game is really bad on the court. It breaks my heart literally that this franchise has turned out so bad. I'm actually surprised they released it in this condition especially after seeing the greatness of 2K's next gen launch. I can't say for sure if a foundation was set for Live if they come back with 15. But something is sorely wrong with EA's devs for b'ball, they need a spanking. This is not even worth 29.99. Oh well, ya learn.