Matt wrote:Overall u get used to things so it's not that bad.
Mate, dont put up with that!
Theyve been pumping this stuff out for 7-8 years now you'd think they would have fixed the problems encountered before, not made them worse.
Not buying it, giving up Live 05, going back to 04 if anything - in that game there was no problem with a pg using 'the force' to push a yao & amare doubleteam under the basket from way out. There were no post shots from players like Yao which not only missed when the graphics would suggest the player was basically IN the basket - but go over the freaking backboard!
The default camera was good and made it possible to see what you needed to see, I cant see what the hell is happening down low, I cant tell if the jumper is open or not because its all a big mush down there.
Players would actually run the lanes on a fast break, instead of - say a SF who dosent shoot long, standing around outside the arc, while the only defender back manages to block your shot from the other side of the court by telekinetically slowing down your player.
And whats with the guards running straight into you all the time and bouncing you backwards, they do it over and over man. Sometime they do it mid range and bury a jumper because they got half a second by ramming persistently into your guarding player. Ive never seen that happen in a game for real, if it did the player would be either fouled out soon or would get sandwiched between big guys at the other end accidentally...
I can steal with my eyes closed, and the pad under my toes. I can get point after point after point by stealing from the pointguard as he brings the ball up. The are about 2 point guards I cannot do this well from (one is Nash) but the rest need balancing because that dosent happen too often in the NBA either.
You can obviously Change sliders and recorrect this with some playing about....but why the hell do I need to do this? Did they not playtest the game before releasing? Were they spending all their time making sure that neat dunk in the dunk competition looks awesome dude, yknow, because "Every one just wants to see dunks, the kids thats what they want dunk this, dunks that - theyll just pick shaq all the time anyway so stuff some stuffs in and give shaq 99 FG because he can shoot cant he? It'll sell loads - Im off to play golf"
Fact---last year was generally recognised as a massive international boom in overseas players to the NBA...
Voices -> all american = stupid..... I do not want to hear Zydrunus Ilgauskis say 'My bad dawwwg' when he lobs his 3 inch unguarded post shot over the backboard, through the stands, out of the stadium and into central Cleveland. If I did, id play NBA jam and i'd probably have teh hlaf-way 1ine dunk cheet on.
The bottom line seems to be with this series that the graphics get better every year so they can parade their screenies and vids around to hype the game....comon practice - but the gamplay never really improves much despite great and obvious feedback from the community - it still looks like its is made by people who have never grasped basketball, only have seen lots of footage of it and were given a pile of stats to turn into a game.
Still, I hope the games improve further into the series...
Peace