My top ten Wishes (based on the Xbox 360 version and also intended for a PC version):
- A PC version, ported from the Xbox 360/Playstation 3 version. I think the release of NBA 2K9 for the PC and the enthusiastic reception is an indication that the PC market is certainly alive and well and eager for a game equivalent to the ones being released on the latest generation of consoles.
- Continue to tweak the simulated stats in Dynasty Mode. NBA Live 09 was actually pretty good in this regard, probably the best game since the concept of target statistics ("Dstats") was abandoned in NBA Live 2004 and player performance solely governed by the ratings. A few players do seem to average more points per game than they should however but scoring averages on the whole are pretty good. Rebounding, assists, blocks and steals are greatly improved but the range is still a bit lower than it should be; steals, blocks and rebounds in particular could stand to have the league leader average 2-3 more per game. Some point guards also rack up a few too many assists as Derek Fisher sometimes leads the league.
- Clean up issues with players stepping out of bounds or back across half-court. One of those things that you can kind of put up with when you get away with it but you hate to see anyone else or the CPU do it. It should be cleaned up though as it's frustrating to force a player to step out of bounds or go over-and-back and not have it called and of course, defeats the purpose of having those calls in the game. Perhaps bring back the "Boundary Force Field" slider if players want to make it more difficult to get called for those infractions but it's something that needs a bit of tweaking.
- Bring back the traditional Reorder Roster menu in Dynasty Mode, like the one used when editing the rosters from the main menu. The player rotation feature is nice and all but it's really cumbersome when you're trying to do something as simple as change your starting lineup or change the order of your bench. In fact, it's downright terrible for that purpose. As far as the little things go, that's one of my biggest complaints. By all means keep the rotation menu but let us reorder the rosters the old fashioned, easier way.
- Add a full custom team feature, similar to the one in NBA Live 2000. Ideally, the available artwork for custom teams should be generic basketball-themed art that could lend itself to any custom team no matter what it's called (rather than some of the designs used back in the day). If it's good enough for the Oklahoma City Thunder, it'll work for a custom team in NBA Live 2010.
- Add the ability to save games in progress. With the hard drive space available on the PC and now the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, in-game saves would be a tremendous aid to people who want to play twelve minute quarters but for one reason or another have to pause and leave the game for an extended period of time.
- Make further expansions to Dynasty Mode. By that, I mean the ability to hire and fire head coaches (who would have their own ratings and impact on their teams), player roles and in-depth owner/manager functions including financial duties and the like. As with the other aspects of the "push" Dynasty approach, there should be an option to automate tasks. It would also be helpful if we could enter the Academy more frequently to train or at least run a five-on-five scrimmage after a trade, with a limit on how much development is possible within a week/month/season to ensure players can't be trained up to 99 overall too easily. The ability to select a 29, 58 or 82 game season and control multiple teams in Dynasty Mode would also be very popular.
- Bring back Playoffs Mode. That way we can setup a Playoffs to play through without having to play or sim through a season first, something that's reasonably popular around the time of the real NBA Playoffs. It also greatly helps out websites who want to do Playoff sim articles.
- Balance the effectiveness of Lockdown Defense. Lockdown Defense works quite well in NBA Live 09 but sometimes it's a bit too effective in the hands of the CPU who seem to recover a bit too quickly. It's great that Quick Strike can't be over exploited but it does mean that some really cool and well-timed moves are negated by the CPU managing to catch up when they've been beaten. It should definitely remain effective though, on the whole NBA Live 09 plays a better defensive game thanks to the presence of Lockdown Defense.
- Better TV Style Presentation. The broadcast style camera angles are good but the overlays for the starting five and so forth could be improved and made to closer resemble a TV broadcast (ESPN I guess, given the license). The NBA Live 365 branding makes sense in 09 being such a big feature but kind of takes you out of the experience. It would also help if the text was a little bigger as it's sometimes difficult to read, particularly in the boxscores and on stats menus.
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