Press Row Podcast Impressions/Tidbits on Live 14

[JaoSming]

http://www.operationsports.com/news/678 ... n-25-more/

One of the guys played it. Listened from the 53 minute mark to the hour mark, then they trailed to "What if it gets cancelled talk" which I heard again and again when skipping ahead before the next topic



Impressed
Fully Functional and Featured Game
Impressed with some things
Shook-my-head moments

Good Stuff
Moving left-right-left smooth
player models good
Low post good animations
LBJ made a nice move and basket with celebration
LBJ boo'd in CLE when introduced, got ball, & made shots
controls are good
adjustment from 2K14 (no RS shooting)
smooth from rebound up court to shoot

Rough Edges
loose balls
rebounding is rough (again)
camera gets off/shifts/rugged
ball bouncing wasn't smooth (loose)
noticeable

Overall
Enjoyable Experience
Got into it
MIA vs CLE
BKN vs BOS
20-25 minutes with it total
Floor nice
Crowd fine
Commentary really good
Not like 2K14 quality, but good
Jalen Rose as Host, nice job pre/post game
Pre/half/post very slick and smooth ESPN presentation
Cutscenes at Halftime Wired with Coach voices

Modes/Features
Normal GM/Single Player
Connectivity
Borrowed from FIFA, online seasons
Daily Challenges, Rose Winner, 4th Quarter only sometimes
A lot of interesting stuff in Live 14
Wrapped around a game of a clear solid foundation of a bball game

2K14 will probably be much smoother
Live 14 was enjoyable, rough, problems, short sample, but there is "something there"
Scott O'Gall - "Proud but not satisfied" with Live 14



Player specific booing is awesome, and they did make mention of the Vince Carter debacle back in Live 10/2K10 when 2K said the NBA wouldn't/doesn't allow that. I liked hearing about the smooth gameplay...but missed shots/loose balls/rebounding is a part of that, and it sounds like stuff like this

may be common, and shades of NBA Live PS360 games.... which sucks, but at least we get something.

[ThaLiveKing]

Some of the things he mentioned like the camera moving during rebounds, was sometimes an issue in 08 or 09, it was kind of annoying because you had to restart the game to get rid of it lol.

Hopefully we can some how edit player ratings *if they have it* in the game.

He doesn't mention how the half court game play was though, unless I missed it. If you watch the modes trailer, close to the end, you can see the Lakers running a play, and the passing looks kind of slow, there's a dunk at the end of the play where Gasol is getting dunked on.

"Also no Demo for the PS4 Users next Friday according to EASPORTSNBA Twitter feed

EA SPORTS NBA ‏@EASPORTSNBA 1h
To clarify, the #NBALIVE14 Demo drops on 11/19/13 to coincide with game launch. More details coming next week.

[Mr LostSoul]

Holdtheshit, were player introductions always known about this game, we're getting that back?
Wonder why he said the crowd was "fine" and if he played on different atmospheres.
"Fine" sounds disappointing if he played on all the atmospheres and just thought "fine".

"I really would have shown some of this stuff." Guy who played it to OGallonspurs
"The game is paused with a full court view of all the players hi-def of all the players - and the game looked great! frozen in time..... You know how many people would like to be looking at this screen right now? You know how much good will that would generate?"

Mentions
Really enjoyed time with the game.
Doesn't want to oversell it - "There ARE ROUGH EDGES. But thinks people will be pleasantly surprised. Baffled they haven't shown it yet." -
(^ Not sure he said it in that exact order, or time, or way, but he did say it.)
Players moved around "smartly"
pNr without a doubt left trigger. (Hold) and (release) to send them diving.
really likes the controls.
Plans to buy it with his own money, from a basketball fan's perspective. Had he played an abomination he wouldn't say that.

Man, I wish they would show us the game in the morning.

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Player specific booing is awesome, and they did make mention of the Vince Carter debacle back in Live 10/2K10 when 2K said the NBA wouldn't/doesn't allow that.

Yeah I thought about that... even in FIfa 14 they have Ashley Cole get booed at Arsenal and the commentator even mentions it