allstar game in 06

[rockit003]

I havent seen how the all star weekend is for 04 or 05, not even sure if its part of 04, but anyways. Before every dunk contest or 3 pt shootout, have an introduction for the players participating.

then in the all star game, have special entries like in real-life where every player is introduced and the coach and the court looks all fancy for the intros. Then they say like 'in his 6th all star appearance..." Then also change up the court or where all star weekend takes place at least.

Also i would also like to see when the starters hit the floor right before tip off, they hug and shake hands since all star wekend everyone says its fun being with all the stars.

[rockit003]

i forgot one more thing. at the end of the game, have david stern come out to present the mvp award with all the players behind him. Be a bonus if he makes a speech too. like "25 points, 13 rebounds and 6 assists. youre all star game mvp is Tim Duncan"

anyone else have any improvements for all star weekend or am what i'm saying here, just too much and useless?

[ask1]

They do announce the players before the dunk contest in 05.

You make some nice suggestions that would add to the polish of the game, but personally I would rather EA focus on gameplay.

[Andrew]

They're nice touches but the current All-Star Weekend cutscenes are good enough for me.

[robjv1]

They do announce the players before the dunk contest in 05.

You make some nice suggestions that would add to the polish of the game, but personally I would rather EA focus on gameplay.

I agree somewhat, I think the gameplay needs some work but NOT a ton to improve it. It sounds like they've made nice strides to fix some of the problems from last year.

I think the game needs more polish then the gameplay needs work.

For example, I think the player celebrations add so much to the game, and it's just missing from Live 2005 - in fact the only time the players show any emotion is after a foul. I know NBA Live 2003 gets a lot of flack for it's "Circa 2002 Dallas Mavericks on Speed" playing style, but the subtle style touches are excellent in that game, and have been completely missing since 2004. A lot of people didn't like the constant celebrating in Live 2003 (and sometimes it does get annoying) but a happy medium would be nice, perhaps with a slider that lets adjust the celebrating down (or off). Another annoying this is when you hit a game-winner - the whole cutscene with the ref is pointless at creating any level of suspense, because if you've won the game, the score overlay will reflect it before the ref ever waives the shot off or says it's good. The ability to view the instant replay feature at any time was nice too, Live 2005 seemingly cuts you off from viewing it at important times, which hurts the usage of that feature as well. It'd also be nice to have useable Team Stats (who cares about each teams totals, how about the teams average, so you can compare among teams in your dynasty, to see if you need to beef up your blocks or steals to compete with the top teams in your dynasty?)

Stuff like that really bothers me haha. I'd rather have that, then some slam-dunk contest.

[Fitzy]

They're nice touches but the current All-Star Weekend cutscenes are good enough for me.

Yup, we dont want the game to be to big and be on 4 dvds or something

[Andrew]

Well there's that aspect, but I generally skip those cutscenes after a while. I wouldn't mind if the intros were even better but for the most part I'm satisfied with the ones used in NBA Live 2005.