NBA Live 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[pdawg17]

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Regarding O'Neal, he is their 7 or 8th option behind Curry, Klay, Iggy, Lee Barnes, Bogut and maybe Green. The AI should never be feeding the ball to O'neal.

I decided to try the demo since I sold the game and played the Knicks. I saw the backscreen play that they run for Melo and it was nice that went iso for Melo alot. Still there were other issues. Most of the plays were either isos or post plays. No motion plays. No pick and rolls. The AI ran constant post plays for Chandler which rarely happens.

Its good that the AI knows who to get the ball. Its just when the animations are poor, the play calling and subpar and when AI players dont move unless a play is called....that doesnt resemble NBA basketball.

As a huge Dubs fan I agree about O'Neal for the most part although there have been a handful of games (even in crunch time) where Mark Jackson has called iso postups for him even with Curry, Klay, Iggy and DLee all on the floor.

I'm not saying I agree with it but it actually happens in reality quite a bit.

I agree with you on the lack of variety the cpu plays on offense and also Synergy at times is accentuated too much in that only 2-3 cpu players took all the shots. I was gsw vs mavs today and Calderón, Nowitzki took 90% of the shots. Monta was 1-3 and Marion didn't shoot at all. If there was a post up play for Dirk I would double team Dirk without the ball and the ball handler would just stand there dribbling until there was 1 on the shot clock then would shoot.

Still, I am having a lot of fun with hopes that ea will be able to keep working on this game.

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[nick_sr]

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just played a double ot thriller against the bulls and was really impressed at how spoelstra automatically had wade and lebron take turns trying to defend rose late in the 4th and ot.

[CaCHooKa Man]

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I sometimes like to troll my friends when I bring my Xbox to their houses and I say "Xbox, go to NBA Live 14 Demo." The first time I played it with them they said, "Wow, this is terrible. What were they thinking? Please just play the other game already."

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[babythug23]

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Did they update the demo? I remember just seeing play now with the four teams. Now I see big moments like jeff green 3 vs heat. Was this mode always on the demo playable?

[WTF]

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I don't know if it was upon release or not. But you can play several different big moments now on the demo. Those are what made me end up purchasing the game. I saw enough good in those challenges, playing with different teams, etc that made me decide on the purchase.

The Jeff Green 3 vs Heat is only 4-5 seconds long at most though.

The Oladipo and John Wall challenges are a little longer.

[The Timber Wolf]

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Well, I tried, and I mean really tried to like this game. Multiple plays. Learnt the controls. Etc etc.

But it is terrible. I am sorry, but there's no better adjective to describe the game than terrible. The score here of 3/10 is about right.

There's absolutely NO NBA pace to this game. It's just half court set after half court set. If I take a bad shot from the wing, the cpu never punishes me by fast breaking. They walk it up and enter a half court set. There's absolutely ZERO dynamic AI / reactive AI in this game. I manually took my defender away, I manually didn't bother to get back after misses and never did the CPU punish me in any way. You can leave JR Smith wide open and if the CPU has decided they are posting up Tyson Chandler for a 10 foot fade away (side note, there are NO tendencies in this game) then that's what they do. This is a really, really generic game of half court basketball.

[placebo14]

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That's the truth right there.


Other than some rare golden moments, the rest of the recent positive comments here are just people seeing what they want to see.

[krazyboy225]

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That's the truth right there.


Other than some rare golden moments, the rest of the recent positive comments here are just people seeing what they want to see.

I'm going to allow you to state your opinion, without flaming you, as long as you respect everyone elses.

[23]

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Well, I tried, and I mean really tried to like this game. Multiple plays. Learnt the controls. Etc etc.

But it is terrible. I am sorry, but there's no better adjective to describe the game than terrible. The score here of 3/10 is about right.

There's absolutely NO NBA pace to this game. It's just half court set after half court set. If I take a bad shot from the wing, the cpu never punishes me by fast breaking. They walk it up and enter a half court set. There's absolutely ZERO dynamic AI / reactive AI in this game. I manually took my defender away, I manually didn't bother to get back after misses and never did the CPU punish me in any way. You can leave JR Smith wide open and if the CPU has decided they are posting up Tyson Chandler for a 10 foot fade away (side note, there are NO tendencies in this game) then that's what they do. This is a really, really generic game of half court basketball.

I believe you because I know you werent around in 2010 but you just described the exact same issues that we stated back then that synergy could not fix.

The poster named Court Vision pointed out the fastbreak issue years ago but this is the problem with not being able to tweak the game.

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[mlp111]

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very frustrated with both next gen titles... I have to say is there anyway, anyway to stop the bouncetek cheese.. Its ridiculous.. I enjoy small things about this game, but man its incredibly frustrating that someone can dribble all day and go straight to the rim while AI just stands there and watch

[GisherJohn24]

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very frustrated with both next gen titles... I have to say is there anyway, anyway to stop the bouncetek cheese.. Its ridiculous.. I enjoy small things about this game, but man its incredibly frustrating that someone can dribble all day and go straight to the rim while AI just stands there and watch

do you double tap up to push and guard the paint? I've drawn a lot of charges actually in this game. Double tap the regular directional pad in different directions to see what they do. Took me 4 games to figure this out. lol

[DonWuan]

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do you double tap up to push and guard the paint? I've drawn a lot of charges actually in this game. Double tap the regular directional pad in different directions to see what they do. Took me 4 games to figure this out. lol

Same thing for offense just in case some didn't know.

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[PVarck31]

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So I put some time in with the demo today since I'm hearing a lot of positive things in here about the game. I hadn't played it since it came out.

I think it plays a solid game of basketball. I like the weighted feeling of the players. I like the pace of the game and the less complicated controls. Although I wish there was a tutorial.

I also really don't think the graphics are all that bad. Yes, they aren't what next-gen should be. But I'll give them a pass this year because I know this game has been in development for last gen systems for years.

As far as gameplay, I just really like the simplicty of the controls. I like the quick plays mapped to the d pad. The pick and roll is very well done. The game really does feel like a slightly upgraded version of Live 10. And I loved Live 10.

I've always liked Live. 05 was one of my favorite sports games ever. I just get more of a fun factor from Live than I do from other basketball games.

I want to get my hands on a retail copy to see what improvements have been made from the demo. I know there is supposed to be a lot, so that's really encouraging. I will consider buying it if that's the case.

I honestly appreciate what EA is doing with this game. They got a playable game out the door. That's huge. I think some people just don't get how big of a deal that is. They also seem to be serious about post-release support. This shows a commitment to take back significant market share from the other game. I don't care that it's taken them this long to put a game out. That's water under the bridge. People need to let that go. Its not letting them off the hook.

So yeah, now I really wanna play the retail version. I almost bought it on Amazon today since its $45. But I just don't know if its worth it until I play it.

I'll be sure to comment more when I finally do get to play it.

[XxJustAguessxX]

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So I put some time in with the demo today since I'm hearing a lot of positive things in here about the game. I hadn't played it since it came out.

I think it plays a solid game of basketball. I like the weighted feeling of the players. I like the pace of the game and the less complicated controls. Although I wish there was a tutorial.

I also really don't think the graphics are all that bad. Yes, they aren't what next-gen should be. But I'll give them a pass this year because I know this game has been in development for last gen systems for years.

As far as gameplay, I just really like the simplicty of the controls. I like the quick plays mapped to the d pad. The pick and roll is very well done. The game really does feel like a slightly upgraded version of Live 10. And I loved Live 10.

I've always liked Live. 05 was one of my favorite sports games ever. I just get more of a fun factor from Live than I do from other basketball games.

I want to get my hands on a retail copy to see what improvements have been made from the demo. I know there is supposed to be a lot, so that's really encouraging. I will consider buying it if that's the case.

I honestly appreciate what EA is doing with this game. They got a playable game out the door. That's huge. I think some people just don't get how big of a deal that is. They also seem to be serious about post-release support. This shows a commitment to take back significant market share from the other game. I don't care that it's taken them this long to put a game out. That's water under the bridge. People need to let that go. Its not letting them off the hook.

So yeah, now I really wanna play the retail version. I almost bought it on Amazon today since its $45. But I just don't know if its worth it until I play it.

I'll be sure to comment more when I finally do get to play it.

We're alike in the love of live 10. I grabbed 14 earlier this week for $26 and I'm enjoying it. I feel like it's got a good foundation to improve on. It's not 2k graphically buts it's solid. The presentation is great, it really feels like a live broadcast. I like real portrait pictures for player introduction, the pace is really fluid. I love how players stick with their assigned man. There are a lot of positives, negatives are also high but I think they can fix most of those issues. Grab the game man, you'll enjoy it.

[PVarck31]

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I still haven't gotten the retail version so I'm not sure if there is any difference, but I'm having a hard time playing defense. I hold down L2 but the cpu just blows by me most of the time.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this just how the game is?

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