NBA Live 15 Delayed Until October 28th, Three Short Gameplay Videos Revealed

[codywar11]

why is everyone so mad? go check on the nhl 15 forums. we would have LOVED for that game to be delayed, instead we are getting an incomplete game.

[nick_sr]

Re: NBA Live 15 gameplay video and blog

watched it on youtube on the ps4, graphics look great!!!! no worries there!!! just worried about a few things like i had mentioned before.

[KyotoCarl]

Re: NBA Live 15 Delayed Until October 28th, Three Short Gameplay Videos Revealed

This is VERY unimpressive. The game being delayed is, first of all, a bad sign.

The videos isn't up to next gen levels at all. Still the stiff Live feel from last year, and the visuals makes it look like an arcadey video game.

[TCFClemson]

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The crowd is one of the most disappointing parts of that video for me.

[CujoMatty]

I dunno doesnt look like its for me. ive been happy with the other game but to say this looks the same as last years nba live is preposterous. You can tell a lot of effort has gone into this. I wish the devs good luck and I hope they can deliver a good product to those consumers looking for a change.

[Bowinkle08]

gameplay looks good except for the defender staying at the baseline whenever the offensive player pops out at the top of the key. foot planting, floor spacing, dribbling, looked good. still need more movement on offense. boxing out looked good. i wonder if this was in the beta stage?

[Ermolli]

Re: NBA Live 15 Delayed Until October 28th, Three Short Gameplay Videos Revealed

I liked the three clips there, looked a lot better than Live 14 although that doesn't mean much since 14 was really bad.

Having that said there were some things that need improvement.
In the first clip what was Dwight trying to do? I'd have thought he was going to help Ariza since he's a rim protector but seemed like leaving the paint for no reason unless he wanted to defend Love leaving him open anyway, Jones should've sticked with Love and Howard protected the paint and helping LeBron's dive to the paint.
Passes still seem to be floaty, there wasn't any pass that went to the chest of their teammates, seems like they can't make hard crisp passes like Live 14 also didn't have.
I know Harden isn't a good or decent off-ball defender but is Waiters as bad as him? In two clips both got lost of their players leaving them completely open, I don't know if I should see this as a good (maybe off-ball ratings matter) or bad thing (off-ball defense is bad overall in the game).
On Harden's and LeBron's dive, shouldn't the teammates that were on the paint spread the floor? Being there only congestion the paint and make it harder for the attacker to score there.
Still very little movement on attack, is it because the Quick Action thing? I don't like it anyways.

Despite that me fear of how graphics would translate from closeups to gameplay is gone since it looks really nice, liked the spacing despite the lack of movement, it animated better and its transitions, the reaction from fans when LBJ dunked was nice (would've preferred a better audio reaction though), I don't know if I was seeing wrong but in Harden's clip Waiters seemed like he tried a steal from behind after he was beaten which was nice.

I hope they fix or improve those things that I've mentioned but overall those were nice clips in my opinion.

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Re: NBA Live 15 Delayed Until October 28th, Three Short Gameplay Videos Revealed

Have they even confirmed that there are sliders in this years game?

No sliders
Said they don't have the tech for it this year

[kolanji]

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The foot planting is beautiful to look at....


I like the shot contesting this year....they look way more appropriate


The animations are a bit fast


On ball defending seems a bit underpowered...hope its just the user rather than the mechanics.....


Cant guess what 3 weeks will improve at this time but...am guessing this will be as good as it gets at launch

[Sinner]

Re: NBA Live 15 Delayed Until October 28th, Three Short Gameplay Videos Revealed

They were going to get overshadowed on Oct 7th by 2k, so this is a solid business move by EA even if some of you don't like it. By that time people will have found a bug they hate in 2k, or a shoe they want that isn't included, that makes the game unplayable and might want to give Live a shot.

Plus having it come out on the opening night for the NBA is a great time to throw a bunch of ads out there to get people excited.

Those clips looked solid and I'll definitely give the Live demo a shot even though I have 2k15 pre-ordered.

EA doesn't have a great track record this gen, but the Live guys have been pretty straight forward with the community so I'll give these guys the benefit of the doubt.

Disagree, many people including myself like the trailer that was released last week, thought it looked to be going in the right direction and as I've stated I haven't been much of a Live fan.

Now people who were impressed by the trailer or people who were looking for Live to finally release on time and play this game are again disappointed with yet another delay from the EA Live team. Whether people think it's a big deal or not IMO it actually is when you look at the history of Live.

People who were just on the fence after watching the trailer may need that early Oct basketball fix since a game that has over all been good and hasn't had problems releasing on time will be there in stores when it's supposed to be.

There are many people who would get both games but I'm sure there are also many people like myself who won't by 2 games that similar IE own two Basketball, Football, Baseball or COD/Battlefield games.

[bigsmallwood]

I liked what I saw...not sure why people are complaining about the date being pushed back...I want them to get it right so we can have two great games! Judging from that LeBron coverage, I'd say we are already going to have some NBA goodness!!! Can't wait

[worstsportsgamer1977]

from the gameplay videos i just watched 3 weeks aint enough. i know they are slowly trying to get live back on its feet year buy year. but this game still is not ready. the movement is better but still very herky jerky.

i was watching the kevin love in the second video and could not figure out why he was posting up on defense. then it looks like the computer asks itself the same question and the offensive player runs around in front of him and just gets a a big ol brain fart. also in the same play, waiters response time to harden cutting is way to slow. it was like he saw beyoncee in the front row or something.

i would hold this game till christmas time mabey january. at this point your not going to get many new fans anyway. so hold out, fine tune the game some more and then release it later in the year. 3 weeks is much to short of time. this game needs work.

[bigeastbumrush]

Re: NBA Live 15 gameplay video and blog

Plays a lot like Live 10 from what it seems which is why I found this so funny:

One big change we made to animations this year is how players go up for layups and dunks. Last year the “gather” (where the player picks up the ball and begins his footwork into a shot or any type of jumping motion) and the shot itself were separate animations, which led to some strange looking and feeling situations due to some really awkward transitions. This year we’ve kept the gather and dunk/layup as one animation. The sheer volume of dunk and layup animations added this year will ensure a variety of different outcomes when attacking the rim.

Isn't that the exact reason why the proverbial wheels fell off with Elite 11 by removing the contextual animations because they wanted one-to-one movements?

I'll digress but Harden's move looked good and it was good to see him go left instead of right. If the CPU can do that then it'll be a plus for the game.

Too much standing around by off-the-ball players. Even if no play is called, there should still be some basic player movements even if it's hopping around calling for the ball.

The player chatter was great. And so were the kicks.

[ThaLiveKing]

Re: NBA Live 15 Delayed Until October 28th, Three Short Gameplay Videos Revealed

One thing I liked though, is the changing of speeds on the drive, that was something Live 14 was pathetic at!! Finishes at the rim looked good also, but 16 second clips? I need to see more

[MLBTheShowShortStop]

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unimpressive...actually looks terrible, enjoy it whoever buys it, I'm sticking with the other game..