NBA Live 14 Has Arrived, Post Your Impressions Here

[WTF]

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I wish the CPU was a little more aggreesive in their help defense...all this beautiful spacing...but not seeing a lot of drive and kick game to show for it...

Play the Nuggets. Friggin Ty Lawson and Gallo ran the drive and kick game to perfection all freaking game long on me. Either Javale or the Manimal would come up to the top of the key to set a screen on Ty's man, Gallo would be on the wing, Ty would draw in his defender as I "showed" help, Gallo would fall to the corner, and a perfect dish nearly every time. I rotated too far in this one, but thankfully he missed.

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The Nuggets just handed me my first loss of the season, moving to 5-1 as the Suns. I was down 12 with 3 minutes left, and scored several junk buckets at the end, to get back to a respectable loss. My goal was to hold them under 100 points after I knew I was losing, which I did, 97-91. The Nuggets were averaging a league best 121 PPG. Hitting 49% from 3 PT range. I held them to 18% from 3, but they ended up thumping me anyway

[mythreesons]

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...I held them to 18% from 3, but they ended up thumping me anyway

Curious to know what their PIP was? If you were able to hold them to such a low 3PT% I would think that the PIP had to go up? True or false?

[WTF]

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Oh it did. They were around 60 PiP out of their 97 total. It was atrocious. Most of it was freaking Ty Lawson or Nate Robinson shooting floaters, etc. They had a TON of fast break points against me too. I wish this game kept track of fast break points.

[mythreesons]

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Oh it did. They were around 60 PiP out of their 97 total. It was atrocious. Most of it was freaking Ty Lawson or Nate Robinson shooting floaters, etc. They had a TON of fast break points against me too. I wish this game kept track of fast break points.

Yeah, it's too bad they don't included the fast break points. It's a good barometer of how you did in each category. Sounds like you have a pretty good handle defensively. BTW, the video looks great! It looks like a completely different game from the demo.

[WTF]

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NOT Top 10 Nominee.

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Gallo gets the facial dunk and then barrels over Arthur. Arthur had a rough game.

I'm seeing a TON of this type of physical contact now. I saw (wish I had captured) one of my guys trip over Javale's feet in the paint and fall face first. It was beautiful.

[HumanBeans]

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Games not bad... I just notice that there isn't a whole lot of offensive variety. Blake Griffin did the SAME hop step move in the paint and always pumped and EVERY TIME the AI jumped allowing him to easily put down a two-hander. Also has anyone been able to throw a realistic oop? I threw one once but every other time they end up just catching it or it sails out of bounds.

[jyoung]

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You want to throw the oop when you see a teammate's hand go up in the air.

That means they're calling for the alley oop.

It is a surprisingly high percentage pass in this game. I would even go so far to say that oops are the safest pass you can make around the basket.

[NimaAkaJoJo]

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Okay, a couple of things that really destroys the experience for me.

1. The PG in the paint hook shoot.
2. No charge what so ever gets called. 4 charges total, overall since I got the game.
3. The missing contact in the paint, and also all around defense ect.

One thing that I don't understand is why they don't fix these things here and know, just to make it flow smoother. Maybe not the contact in the paint and all around.
But the 1st and 2nd i mention could easily get fixed quick via a in game update.

I'm looking forward to the big patch in early 2014. Hopefully sometime january.

[nick_sr]

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Okay, a couple of things that really destroys the experience for me.

1. The PG in the paint hook shoot.
2. No charge what so ever gets called. 4 charges total, overall since I got the game.
3. The missing contact in the paint, and also all around defense ect.

One thing that I don't understand is why they don't fix these things here and know, just to make it flow smoother. Maybe not the contact in the paint and all around.
But the 1st and 2nd i mention could easily get fixed quick via a in game update.

I'm looking forward to the big patch in early 2014. Hopefully sometime january.

personally, don't think we see one until the all star break. think they will show off the improved version for the fans who are attending the events in new orleans.

[NYJin2011tm]

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I just played my 1st game on pro(haven't played Live in a long while) and got my butt handed to me . It was just an exhibition game Knicks(me) vs Nets on 5 min quarters. Lost 62-35. They shot 60's% and couldn't keep them out of the paint...48 of 62 points were in the paint. Guess I have to start on Rookie .

[WTF]

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Stick with Pro, and don't worry about the score. Just play to learn the game. Read the defense thread here too. Its a different game than you're used to .

[nick_sr]

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I see they fixed those horrible animations when trying to do screens and cuts. those things drove me insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NYJin2011tm]

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Thanks. Half my problem I think was figuring out the controls and how to call plays during the game lol.

[nick_sr]

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Thanks. Half my problem I think was figuring out the controls and how to call plays during the game lol.

learn the controls! this game is a thing of beauty once you do!

[mrclutch]

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The passing is what is killing the game for me. Passes are almost always too high and cause the player to come to a complete stop when catching the ball.

Post moves seem overlooked. Not much you can do down there.

Setting player rotations during dynasty does not work for me. My starting line up even changes before tip off and the minutes I set aren't even close.

No practice mode hurts.

Is is just me or does no in game saves ruin any kind of Dynasty? I've been playing the "other" hoops game and it has been cool to just play a quarter here and there. I started a Dynasty on Live and about half way through the third quarter I got a little bored so I decided just to turn the box off. Shame In Game saves didn't make it in the game.