NBA Live 14 Review (PS4/XB1)

[yungflo]

Re: NBA Live 14 Review (PS4/XB1)

I know EA is like "thank god for Bleacher Report"

EA Be Like :

Please add BR to the metacritic

[seemoe]

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I really hope they patch it well enough to make it at the very least "decent"

[dtq]

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3.5 out of 10? lol, not even going to say what I want to say, keep trashing the game if it makes you guys feel better.

As if people don't already know what you and the other EA's apologists have in mind. And speaking of feeling better, we're not the one who purchased Live 14 and are now having buyer's remorse and feel the need to justify the terrible purchase by defending EA's practice at every turns.

People are being harsh on the game because it gives them plenty of reasons to. EA has lied times and again and if you choose to keep your head buried in the sand it will only encourage sub-par (too light of an adjective) games such as our prime example here.

[noshun]

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3.5 out of 10? lol, not even going to say what I want to say, keep trashing the game if it makes you guys feel better.

The reason for what i highlighted is because youre a "struggle Live apologist".. you dont offer any feedback to the devs about what you like and dislike that would help improve Live (in this forum, correct me if im wrong). This review details about everything liked & disliked.

The best example of a "struggle Live apologist":

[The 24th Letter]

NBA Live 14 Review (PS4/XB1)

I'm confused as to how graphics/animations got a 6.5 from Bleacher Report...

Is it because Joakim Noah/Shang Tsung is in the game?

Spoiler

[convince]

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I really hope they patch it well enough to make it at the very least "decent"

You realize the ps4/xbox one has only 500 gb right?

[franzis]

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"NBA Live 14's Ultimate Team gives gamers no way to buy or sell specific NBA players; instead, the only means of upgrading your lineup is through luck-of-the-draw player packs, which are earned by completing lengthy tournaments or by spending virtual currency/real money.

Randomized card packs are simply a bad way to build a team, as being forced to grind out a dozen games with Luke Zeller and Fab Melo as your star players is uninteresting at best and tedious at worst. Furthermore, of the three bronze packs I did manage to open, two contained duplicate cards that I had to immediately throw away."

I wonder why you don't remark this also for 2k MyTeam

[dtq]

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"NBA Live 14's Ultimate Team gives gamers no way to buy or sell specific NBA players; instead, the only means of upgrading your lineup is through luck-of-the-draw player packs, which are earned by completing lengthy tournaments or by spending virtual currency/real money.

Randomized card packs are simply a bad way to build a team, as being forced to grind out a dozen games with Luke Zeller and Fab Melo as your star players is uninteresting at best and tedious at worst. Furthermore, of the three bronze packs I did manage to open, two contained duplicate cards that I had to immediately throw away."

I wonder why you don't remark this also for 2k MyTeam

You may want to sit down for this...

The person who wrote this review isn't the same person who wrote the 2K review.

[Sundown]

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The game is terrible, plain and simple. If you like it, that's fine, but just know that you like terrible video games. No one will fault you for that, but don't try and make it seem like people get ANYTHING out of reviewing this game in a biased manner, because that's not what the reviewer did at all

Seriously, there is no shame in liking bad video games.

I really liked Clive Barker's Jericho, even though it got poor to mediocre reviews. I think some of what it did was quite brilliant. I also am not as picky about my COD type shooters. I loved the single player of Medal of Honor Tier One or whatever it was called. And I will probably like the single player of Warfighter and BF3/4, some which also got mediocre reviews. I think I just don't need as much innovation and perfect level design as some more jaded guys to enjoy myself. I also realize I would be a terrible reviewer because I'm not critical enough about these games.

But I'm critical about simulations.

I'm critical about my tactical realism based shooters which they don't make anymore. And I'm critical about my basketball games.

Otherwise, I realize it's probably crap if most people don't like it, but I have no shame admitting I have fun with it.

Now Live, however, falls even below my threshold of kinda fun, kinda crappy, but kinda pretty to be an enjoyable but flawed game.

[iseedeadpeople]

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You realize the ps4/xbox one has only 500 gb right?

[Sundown]

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I'm confused as to how graphics/animations got a 6.5 from Bleacher Report...

Is it because Joakim Noah/Shang Tsung is in the game?

Spoiler

Goro would be Defensive Player of the Year.

[iseedeadpeople]

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[King_B_Mack]

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Seriously, there is no shame in liking bad video games.

I really liked Clive Barker's Jericho, even though it got poor to mediocre reviews. I think some of what it did was quite brilliant. I also am not as picky about my COD type shooters. I loved the single player of Medal of Honor Tier One or whatever it was called. And I will probably like the single player of Warfighter and BF3/4, some which also got mediocre reviews. I think I just don't need as much innovation and perfect level design as some more jaded guys to enjoy myself. I also realize I would be a terrible reviewer because I'm not critical enough about these games.

But I'm critical about simulations.

I'm critical about my tactical realism based shooters which they don't make anymore. And I'm critical about my basketball games.

Otherwise, I realize it's probably crap if most people don't like it, but I have no shame admitting I have fun with it.

Now Live, however, falls even below my threshold of kinda fun, kinda crappy, but kinda pretty to be an enjoyable but flawed game.

If you want a real good comparison on this situation, you're using the wrong game.

Spoiler

Here's your culprits.

These two are widely considered two of, if not the two worst games ever made. If you like them, then hey, that's your choice and your money. People will laugh, sure, but that's your choice. When you start trying to defend these games however as if they're actually good games though, that's where the problem lies.

This is what's going on with Live. People like the game and that's their business but don't sit here and try to tell the rest of the world that it's a good game and not as bad as everyone says or their just biased against the game because you like it and they don't.

[NINJAK2]

Jayson,
I just want to make sure I understand you correctly as it was hard to make conclusions based on your written review but is it safe to say you are not a fan of Live 14???LOL

[Boilerbuzz]

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Boiler, you were MUCH too generous regarding your impressions of Bounce-tek at E3. It's straight up terrible. The OS review says it best-- it feels like a bunch of mocaps slapped together with no fluidity. It's actually one of the worst parts of the game. Its only redeeming feature is watching some semi nice animations when you do manage to wrestle it into doing what you want to get by a defender.

And the no-warping real ball physics is practically a lie too.

I was trying to be nice, man. I wanted to give the devs the benefit of the doubt. Remember what I said - a LOT was going to depend on how much they were going to hold to the mantra of being "physics driven" on the bounce. As you can tell, they had to come off of it a bit to try to find a balance between responsiveness. And, as you can tell, it's not there yet. What I played at the booth was a guy in a vacuum. And you remember me wondering what it would feel like with defenders around and things happening. Out of respect for their effort, I made a concerted effort not to bash, but remember the comments aimed at me for "going out of my way to not say something positive"? Well, now you see why.