NBA Live 15 Video and Blog - Offensive Improvements

[bateman11]

Quote: Originally Posted by Rondee

The market for robotic basketball is there, but it's small.... so they can polish "their style" to no end, but unless they redo the crappy animations in favor of realism, they will never overtake. A majority of gamers just won't go for this... i guess we all know that by now form the mass shift to 2K over the years. To each his own. So, Live better be happy with the tiny marketshare if they want to continue with their signature style.

The style of this franchise hasn't been true since NBA Live 10 and before that NBA live 05. Two very very good basketball games. 2015 looks to be on par with those titles. No it isn't the same damn game as 2K so you have to play it differently and expect to see slightly different outcomes. Live has a lot of consumers currently on the 2K side that can't wait for live to excel again. Time will tell.

[tha_show256]

I've watched the video a few more times just to give it a chance...I'm still very underwhelmed. The fact that the Live team is saying look you can pass the ball now, hey look you can actually have fast break opportunities now, that part is actually pretty sad to me. This game is still in infant stages after all this time. They all most had me hyped with the improved visuals trailer, but after seeing the 15 second clips and now this, I'm just not sold.

[Playmakers]

Quote: Originally Posted by ThaLiveKing

FIFA 15 collision animations are on point. Players fall and flip over each other, and it's look good in real time. That's what we want to see with Live.

A few of us have been saying this for years now....

It's mind boggling as to why NBA Live hasn't even come close to rendering good solid looking animations.

It's one thing to support EA's product it's another thing to totally ignore some of the same issues with the game year after year when it comes to player movement.

I don't care about taking baby steps or 3 year plans....

All we are asking for is to simply make the players move like NBA Ballers on the court...

These are gifted players with incredible agility in today's game....yet in Live they move around on the floor like the players from 1940's or 50's era of basketball.

With the new technology and power in these consoles why do we still have players moving around like George Mikan instead of Anthony Davis types?

Hell I would even be content with a guy who moved like Tim Duncan on the floor while in motion....but to continually give us sub par player movement even though we are now on XBOX One and PS4 consoles is inexcusable IMO.

Even before this recent trailer the other videos prior to this one you see a lot of players just standing around on the perimeter watching & waiting for something to happen and if nothing happens they just continue to stand around and spectate or they do that silly shuffle back and forth movement on defense that they have been doing since Live 06.

FIFA may not be perfect and I'm not a huge soccer fan but I can see little subtle things in that game that makes the players appear as if they have a brain on the field and they move generally like you would expect soccer players to move.

[ClevelandinDistress]

Nice, but i need raw gameplay.

This also looked good before we saw it unedited.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QCTDLxE3hk

[ccoaxum]

Quote: Originally Posted by The 24th Letter

Did they ever mention the engine they are using for the "rag doll physics"?

shocking but i don't think they did which is not like EA, they usually shoving some new engine names down our throats lol

[Gosens6]

It didn't look horrible. Hell, 10000X better than Live 14 I'll say.

But I need some 5V5 before I drop 65 bucks on what would be my 2nd NBA B-Ball game of choice. Has it been confirmed at any time if there will be a demo or not.

[ccoaxum]

Quote: Originally Posted by The 24th Letter

Come on man m, it doesn't look like PS2 I'm not a fan of the animations but I don't think they should be trying to duplicate 2k, just improve on their own style and make them look more lifelike...

i agree whats the point of making games look alike, we wouldn't need two games if that was the case. i don't see ps2 graphics either, i still have my ps2 maybe ppl need to go back and play them..everytime i try to play ps2 games it hurts me to think i actually liked the graphics back then compared to now..lol

[Behindshadows]

Quote: Originally Posted by 23

Yeah, not feeling this at all. Why does the graphics always look so downgraded during regular gameplay like this? I do like the look of the crowd here as usual but its always oh well last year the game was nothing, but THIS year.

I said the same thing when saw the in game movements, looks like the midget bodies from Live 06 PS2. And the graphics of Live 10, but in the trailer it looked next gen. In game looks like Xbox 360.

Derrick Rose does not look next gen at all....And the player models look almost 100% different than the trailer shown...Even when he showed Kyrie from Live 14 to Live 15, I saw minimal difference, even during that weird crossover animation he was trying to do.




I really need this game to succeed, but with no actual 5 on 5, and consistant 2 min videos, showing nothing. It's continuing to get me more and more worried.

Because even when they do reveal something, it's so thrown together...it just looks horrible in motion.

This is his model in Live 10



This is his model in Live 15