NBA Live 2006 Wishlist

[galvatron3000]

Authentic NBA (Coach,Team defensive & offensive plays)
Practice for next game against opponent's defense and offense with your team's second unit. (even for exhibition games)

[Jwgnr74]

My top 10 "Wish List"

1. Bring back Custom Teams
2. Allow any team to be put into a season (maybe not GM/Franchise, but at least season). Even the legends/custom/all-star teams. Sometimes I would like more competition in a season mode, and competing in a season against 90s, 80s, etc. would be great.
3. Allow more flexibility in season mode format. Let the user pick the number of conferences (1 or 2) and the number of divisions (1, 2, 4 or 6--1 is only applicable in 1 conference format). Also allow user to pick how many teams make the playoffs.
4. Consider an option to connect online and update to current rosters.
5. Expand the 1 on 1 option. Remember those free-for-all games we played as kids, where as little as 3 to as many as ?? kids would play 21?
6. I remember first playing "NBA Live 95". Before that, I believe there was "NBA Showdown" and "Bulls vs Blazers and the NBA Playoffs". How about a history? Every time a team wins the NBA Championship, keep that team's stat's and roster in a history for the next game. Who was better, the 96 Champion Bulls or 2001 Champion Lakers?--go to history and find out! These stats are available for the last decade--some day, all 50+ past champions would be great.
7. For compatibility reasons, let the game run in extra-low sound/graphics/clockspeed if the user wants--would probably sell more if people didn't have to get a new computer, but would still provide awesome visuals for those with monster machines.
8. Mimic NBA stadiums
9. more realistic fatigue effects.
10. More realitic plays by CPU teams. if they need to bring in a sharpshooter(s) from the bench to hit the tying 3, they do it.

Overall, the games are always great--i buy them every year!

[Alcoholic]

I just thought of something..

It would be neat if, when players intercept passes, that sometimes they actually lunge into the passing lane, steal the ball, and stay in motion. The ones in the game currently have them reach out and steal the ball, or jump up and catch the ball, but why not have it so they steal the ball on the run, that would make for a nice break.

[[Q]]

not sure if it was mentioned, but limit the free throw controller shaking abilities to the home team

[paballa4]

i think they should have the audience leave the stadium if the game is a blowout. and they should have JORDAN

[Wormy10]

i think they should have the audience leave the stadium if the game is a blowout.

Never thought of that
That would be cool

[SkipToMy_Lou]

Yeah that would be pretty cool, although EA has a lot of other things to think about.

[Wormy10]

Yea they actually have to get the crowd looking good first

[Sonic98]

EA has a lot if COULD work on for 2006, but it would be a pretty good game if only the top 5 problems were fixed. After being in the ESPN board and seeing them dog Live I realized it's not as bad as many say, though it does have some major flaws. If some of the problems we TRY to fix with sliders could be fixed in 06 that would be enough for me. If I can get a more refined post game, less steals and interceptions, less blocks, stamina that goes down when you use turbo or freestyle to keep you from overdoing it, better medium range game, and it not being so easy for force an up-tempo game I could live with the other flaws. Everything else is nice but not something that would cause me to cry over spilled milk like jump balls and seeing the refs on the sideline. The other gameplay stuff is nice, but if they could fix that at least I could live without some other features being changed.

[Jing]

i wish for... a even better game

[Guest]

Make Big Ben Wallace eat the other teams PG if he gets mad!!!!

[Rodeoclown]

How about the computer not screwing with your depth chart in dynasty mode? Sorry if already mentioned.

[Sklor]

1. Training Camp like Madden

2. Classic Teams like Madden

3. Create-a-Team and Create-a-Team in Dynasty Mode after x Years (like the Bobcats this year)

4. The Full All-Star Weekend (with Skills Challenge and Shooting Stars)

5. Situations of Classic Games (Last 5 min. in the 7th Game of the '94 NBA Finals and many more)

[tsherkin]

WANT KILL!!!!!

NBA Live is so damned frustrating. They lied terribly when they said they eliminated the comeback code and fixed the problem with fastbreaks. They handle athleticism terribly... there are no guards out there who lumber along like Shawn Bradley and can't get past the timeline in fewer than 5 seconds... Similarly, the dribbling is terrible.

The coding where when you ahve a really good team and you play a bad team, the computer makes it impossible for you to win without cheating, that needs to go away as well. I SHOULD blow out bad teams, they SUCK!!

The mid-range shot? Impossible to make, apparently. THe pull-up jumper? Might as well not take it. Same with any shot in the lane. Anytime the defender is in the way, the computer forces me to take this dirty, ridiculous and utterly unrealistic twisting contortion shot that never goes in, ever. I just want a jump hook (not a skyhook, a jump hook) or a fadeaway.

Shot-blocking is retarded; the guys who programmed the shot-blocking in this game have apparently never watched an NBA game; Jason Richardson does not often block jump-shooters. In fact, perimeter shots are almost NEVER blocked. If it's Dikembe Mutombo or someone tall coming out, it's a little more understandable but there's a reason most guards average less than a single block per game... Argh.

Post moves. This game is absolutely abysmal for post moves. I want to have a guaranteed, go-to button for the spin, not a combo button that 90% of the time screws me over by jumping into the defender when a spin would leave them high and dry; that's especially irritating. Better control on the block is necessary.

Not so much clogging! There's no space to do anything, the CPU crowds everywhere, unrealistically.

Rebounds; the player's team doesn't. When the ball lands near them, they don't actually move towards it. That needs to be implemented. I get most of my rebounds controlling my post players, which is irritating; some help from my useless CPU teammates would be nice.

The pick-and-roll; doesn't work properly in this game. The player almost always sets the pick on the wrong side and rarely rolls all the way to teh hoop if the play is begun far out on the wing. This is wrong.

More off-ball movement; the "dynamic" offense is crap. It needs to be fixed.

I liked the challenges from Live 2001, where you had to accomplish certain goals and such to unlock things. Heck, even if they're just stupid points to get retro jerseys and such...

Realistic rotations would be nice, when simming games. That'd be good.

Crossovers at realistic speeds would be nice. You do NOT slow down NEARLY that much when you crossover. In fact, sometimes you end up going faster. The dribbling speeds need to be adjusted.

Also, these player forcefields are really irritating me.

For example, when I go for a block, I do not want my shot-blocker to be forced AWAY from the player; that's stupid and physically impossible. You do not jump AWAY from a player to block his shot. You jump towards him and occasionally collide. Sometimes it's a foul, mostly it isn't.

Passes; the CPU passes so unintelligently it makes my head hurt. Make a bounce pass, fire a bullet pass instead of those high,looping passes that are always stolen...

Passing to a player on the move shouldn't slow them down as it has for the duration of this game franhise...

In-game saves would be nice. Bringing back the screen that showed you what a play was would be good; why'd they ever get rid of that? When you're in a game and trying to figure out how to run a play, you should be able to see it...

I wouldn't mind being able to diagram my own plays but that's not vital.

The ratings system needs to be overhauled; each stat should NOT be weighted the same. Athleticism should be considered less heavily, shooting skills, offensive awareness, etc should be rated more heavily. The baseline of player athleticism should be HIGHER because most NBA players are at least above average athletes (and especially of late, spectacular athletes even though they've no actual skills).

Free throws need to be fixed; they're usually too easy but sometimes you get that angle where you can't see the box and it's very difficult to hit them. Irritating.

I like that Career Mode idea, that was sweet.

I'm sure there are other things but I can't remember and it's late so I'm going to bed. Nyah.

[Dogg]

not sure if it was mentioned(sorry, i'm too lazy to read all post's ), but bring back the old online chat feature, this one sucks

sorry if it has been mentioned

[feilhk]

i wish the game could have 3on3 mathes

[PiksS]

i`m happy with gameplay and stuff this year,but would be great if they add:
1. more,cooler replays
2. the arena must be more alive
3. the lil screenshot,like at 03 was...player whining when they get a foul and stuff like that
4. and the coolest would be to make your own stragedy

[tweak420]

1. Allow us to change player contracts by millions or 100k at a time, not just 10k. I seriously have to hold the mouse down for over 5 minutes to get the salary where I want it for larger contracts

2. In the trade screen, when showing current salaries, also show the years left on the contract. Like most of you I trade away my long term large salary contracts for player's with large contracts ending that year to clear cap space. It takes forever to press back 3 times then open up gm's desk, then gm's statement, then scroll to the correct team to check the contract lengths only to find that a player's contract is too long and you have to repeat the process all over again for a differnt trade.

[misow]

"one year injury" when your play the dynasty mode

[Doobie]

since nba live now holds the right to espn , i would like it if they had a weekly sportcenter that u can view on sundays or w.e that tell u the top 10 plays of the week. That would be pretty damn nice!

[Cee_em_bee]

Proper cuts to the basket and movement off the ball
Guards stay on the perimiter all of the time on offence! And when I want them to cut, they go in a little bit and come back out! And the 4 and 5 usually stay in their area and hardly ever step out to long range distance.

Better Roster management
I wanna see Mid Level exceptions! And also players in their mid 20s don't ask for 1 year contracts. And I'd also like to see old former superstars taking less then 12,000,000 a year.

Ratings
Tmac shouldn't have a high dunk rating in his late 30's. Pretty much every stat should start falling for players once they hit 31 or something with exception to: Passing, Free-Throw shooting and Strength. Also, Players never really improve drastically in a certain area, Sure overall they do.. E.g Lebron James' stats never really change that much, yeah he gets rated 98 or something, but all his attributes never really change

Gameplay

Not every team plays stingy 1 on 1 defence, Please put in a decent fastbreak that doesn't solely rely on steals and interceptions to work. Also would it be impossible for teams to actually create plays instead isos all of the time?

Practise/Training

Would it be impossible to incoroporate 5 on 5 scrimmages in to the game? And would it be impossible to tell players to work on their jumpshot in the offseason?

[Jayborne23]

1. Team Jersey's in the All Star Game
2. If a player gets injured and can't shoot FTs,. He should be out for the game like in real life.
3. Allow players to shoot when a defender "locks them up". I have lost a few games cause I was "locked up" and couldn't put up a shot. Allow the user to put up some kind of shot.
4. Let runners actually go in!
5. Take away premade block animations, Ben Wallace is a great defender but there is no way he can block someones dunk when he's 2 feet behind them and they are .5 second away from dunking.
6. Allow better "adjusted" shots. Centers shouldn't be doing 180 pump layups when they get foul going to the hole. They should try to overpower their defender.
7. Quit making a top 3 pick in the draft from Asia, EVERY YEAR!
8. Allow importing of rosters from March Madness. Allow for all attributes, looks, and information to be imported. Don't make it like it was in 2004, when players came out looking NUTHING like there college counter parts.
8. User profiles
9. Ability to see plays when picking them. Not everyone knows what a 1-4 is.
10. Allow players to manually upgrade their players in Dynasty mode through "challenges".
11. DO better player research. Some players have potential and that should accounted for. Primoz Brezec was a 32, now he starts for the Bobcats.
12. Similar to Live 2004, allows codes to get players who were drafted but not signed yet.
13. Add Drazen Petrovic to the 90's team

[dekic]

1. Top ten plays of the week.
2. player personalities
3. Create team
4. skills competition
5. rookie scouting

and much much more.......

[The GOAT]

1. Training Camp like Madden

[Matija]

I wish 1.more animations like in live 03 and 04
2.when ball is going out of bounds someone save the ball like in live 03
3.fully animated judge like in live 2000

4.animated players on the bench like in live 03 and 04
5.a lot of dinasty animations like in live 04
6.fix the net bug