People complain about little things!

[ExplicitMo]

Most people in this forum complain about little things like you're not able out dribble your opponent or PG's are too good!

You can get rid of that by just changing some sliders! Gladly you can do that in NBA Live. You're not able to do this in FIFA Soccer for example, so you're stuck into a lame difficult-level because thing freak you out if you play a little harder...

But the thing that freaks me out the most in Live 07 is this:
You broke the ankles of you defender and you are next to the basket, you tap the layup button (for example) and your player just won't attempt to score. Then defenders come back, you tapped the botton for maybe 6 times right about now and he finally attempts but since it took so long the defense will reject you.
WTF - That is the weakest thing about the game!!!

Opinions or solutions please.
Thanks in advance.

[MLG33]

..... You're a rookie...right ?

Just don't tap the button like a crazy fool...
Tap the lay up button when your player is in position.
Like in real life, if you are dribbling you can't make a lay up instantaneously...
I don't have this problem in live 07.

This game is a question of timing...

What else ?

[Cyrus]

well it's stupid when you're in defence, oponent is under the basket and your man is covering him, you select your another player (center) and you try to block the shoot of oponent player, but you can't....if you don't jump before he shoots, its pointles...your defender wont jump.

that is the case in 06 and 07

[ExplicitMo]

..... You're a rookie...right ?

I'm a rookie to this forum, yes. I've been playing the game of basketball for over ten years now and NBA Live since 95. This problem however started at NBA Live 06!

Instead of atempting a basket the player starts dribbling the ball from one hand to the other! IN REAL LIFE - I would make the goddamn basket instead of waiting for the defender to come! This is a gameplay's misstake not a user's!!!

[OldFoolStyle]

Allow me to translate what ExplicitMo is saying; a couple times per game(usualy in the third quarter)the layup button becomes unresponsive during fast breaks.
As this happens regularly, and can't be fixed by changing sliders or team strategies, he wants to know why this is not a bigger issue than things that are easily fixable.

[ExplicitMo]

Allow me to translate what ExplicitMo is saying

Well thanks...
Not only at third quarter and not only on fastbreaks but it's true and it sucks!

[ExplicitMo]

It's almost the same with deflecting shots sometimes...

You tap the block-botton and your player just watches the offense player making the basket instead of jumping.

The only thing you can do against that is moving your player away from the offender then suddenly move back to him and he will reject him.
Strange that you nearly never able to reject a shot / layup when you're standing still... not even with Ben Wallace, Shaq or something against a guy like Speedy Claxton... UNREALISTIC!? I guess so!

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Instead of posting again, just use the "edit" function (top right corner of your post)

I also noticed this in 06. I just thought my friends controller was broke (I never got 06) but it was really annoying. I would have an open layup, press the button, and nothing would happen. Then his players would catch up and it would be turned into a half court situation. I tried quickly tapping it, I tried holding it down, I tried everything, but I couldn't get it to stop happening every now and then. When he started experiencing the problem also, we tried 3 different brands of controller to no avail. No other Live I have played has had this problem (Havn't played 07).

[keem21]

It's almost the same with deflecting shots sometimes...

You tap the block-botton and your player just watches the offense player making the basket instead of jumping.

The only thing you can do against that is moving your player away from the offender then suddenly move back to him and he will reject him.
Strange that you nearly never able to reject a shot / layup when you're standing still... not even with Ben Wallace, Shaq or something against a guy like Speedy Claxton... UNREALISTIC!? I guess so!

i think you are jumping under the backboard.you should jump ahead of the ring or somting.it was happening to me then i tried this and it worked

[Cloudy]

well it's stupid when you're in defence, oponent is under the basket and your man is covering him, you select your another player (center) and you try to block the shoot of oponent player, but you can't....if you don't jump before he shoots, its pointles...your defender wont jump.

that is the case in 06 and 07

True, and he doesn't get called for a three-second violation. He just stands there till the clock runs out and shoots. I can't steal or block even with double/triple teams.. One of the most frustrating 'little' thing of the game...

[mchakko]

It's horrible how unresponsive the controls are.

And the thing about "you need to stop dribbling before you shoot" is: in real life, the player would have thought about stopping dribbling a second before he shoots; the game doesn't know we are thinking about stopping and shooting, so when we finally tell it to shoot, it takes 5 seconds to get ready to shoot and to do some stupid winding up animation.

Modern games kind of suck because they do these complicated animations while destroying any sense of timing or responsiveness that would have made the game fun in the first part.

Live '00 even had huge problems with guys not shooting when you hit the button? Is it so hard to make the guys do what you say? If they're in a bad position, make them jump up and foul a guy, or if they're under the backboard, jump up and hit your head...it's game and I'd like to have some feedback that something happens when I hit a button.

It feels like when I was a little kid and didn't have a quarter, I'd play pacman in the arcade by moving the stick while the demo was playing: about 1 time in 4 pacman would go the same direction as I move the stick,and it would feel like I was doing something...

about the same as the 1/4 times a guy will jump to block a shot when I hit the damned button

[Blacksmurf313]

MOD EDIT: incomprehensible babble deleted

[nextnba]

Who is complaining about little things? All the things wrong with the game and you complain about something like that?

[ExplicitMo]

Don't make it down like that... at least the game has a good soundtrack!

It has some huge bugs but I still enyoy playing it. (somehow)

[NastyNacho1]

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