Will the game be Perfect??

by **VlaDiv** on Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:03 am

The screens with the free agents and the calendar WOW it just looks great. I am just counting down the weeks now. I wonder what will be missing. What besides cut scene will be wrong? THere is always something wrong. Like 03 you score 10000 points in 2 minutes, no defense. 04 had the free agent bug and training went down. 02 was bland gameplay and only 10 yr franchise. before that was just old.

by **Bird123** on Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:10 am

VlaDiv wrote:The screens with the free agents and the calendar WOW it just looks great. I am just counting down the weeks now. I wonder what will be missing. What besides cut scene will be wrong? THere is always something wrong. Like 03 you score 10000 points in 2 minutes, no defense. 04 had the free agent bug and training went down. 02 was bland gameplay and only 10 yr franchise. before that was just old.

In a sentence, no this game will not be perfect, none of them are, non ever will be.

by **John-John Joe** on Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:13 am

VlaDiv wrote:The screens with the free agents and the calendar WOW it just looks great. I am just counting down the weeks now. I wonder what will be missing. What besides cut scene will be wrong? THere is always something wrong. Like 03 you score 10000 points in 2 minutes, no defense. 04 had the free agent bug and training went down. 02 was bland gameplay and only 10 yr franchise. before that was just old.

Wussup Vlade (btw, love the name!) I can guarantee that it won't be perfect, but what video game is? In all, I think we can rest easy knowing that this is the greatest strides ever made by EA Canada in the history of the NBA Live franchise.

They actually listened to us. They read our wishlists, fielded complaints and improved on them as much as they could in a years time. Heck, look at how they scoured websites for NBA Live fans and invited them to Vancouver to get feedback from them. Just regular guys! To me, that shows that they truly care about their fanbase and are going through great pains to give us the game we've been pining for since 1995 (or 1989 if you want to get technical).

So no, it won't be perfect and yes, we'll still have pet peeves and wishes for 2006. But what we need to understand as fans is the fact that this is all a process and an evolution. 2005 looks to me to be the biggest jump ever in that regard and I'm sure we'll know it on October 5th when we're dunking in the dunk contest, scouting rookies and throwing alley-oops off the back board in the Rookie-Sophomore game!

by **Jase23** on Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:52 am

Yea i agree. No game is perfect, mainly because we can all imagine things that we'd love to have in the game..... plus programmers are humans!

This will deffinately be the best ever....... with the features alone. We may find bugs over time, as us fellas will give the game a very thorough workout over the next year..... but all in all... this game should be the shiznit.

Word.

by **VlaDiv** on Fri Sep 10, 2004 9:03 am

Wassup Dre Naismith! You sound like knowledgable fan. You like my bobcat dynasty?

For me the two big improvements are

1. real money

2. improve during season and scout

I am a dynasty guy I always use the worst team. I play xbox so no roster patch for me. Atlanta very, very bad without even josh childress.

I not going to touch live 04 again. Wait for new game, perfect!!!

by **John-John Joe** on Fri Sep 10, 2004 10:20 am

VlaDiv wrote:Wassup Dre Naismith! You sound like knowledgable fan. You like my bobcat dynasty?

For me the two big improvements are

1. real money

2. improve during season and scout

I am a dynasty guy I always use the worst team. I play xbox so no roster patch for me. Atlanta very, very bad without even josh childress.

I not going to touch live 04 again. Wait for new game, perfect!!!

Vlade, I do the same thing as soon as I finish a franchise with my Lakers. I always choose a fledgling franchise and try to make them rise to the top! Atlanta and Charlotte look like prime candidates.....

I agree with both of your improvements, a franchise mode fan's DREAM! Too bad us XBox guys can't get patches, hey, who knows what the future may hold for the console gamer.....

by **VlaDiv** on Fri Sep 10, 2004 10:24 am

Charlotte definitely has nowhere to go but up. I think I will not wait for new guys to develop. Get highest rated guys I can, give away draft picks and young guys for veterans. I want to make them compete for a playoff spot in the first year.

Dre what is your strategy to build up a bad team? Youth movement... cap room clearing... get depth... get a star... what kind of thing helps your team the most?

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Fri Sep 10, 2004 10:32 am

NBA Live 2005 won't be perfect, if only because there are still additions that can be made to the game. That's the problem with hype, it can set the bar just a little too high. Even if a game that is 100% realistic, it still isn't real. It's still a simulation. The word "realistic" may be defined as "representing what it is real".

Some of our wishes for a perfect game simply aren't feasible because at the end of the day it is a video game, and no matter how good it is there are some aspects of organic life that cannot completely be reproduced electronically.

I know this may sound like I'm making excuses for EA, but it is a standard that applies to all video games - at least for now.

by **John-John Joe** on Fri Sep 10, 2004 11:23 am

VlaDiv wrote:Charlotte definitely has nowhere to go but up. I think I will not wait for new guys to develop. Get highest rated guys I can, give away draft picks and young guys for veterans. I want to make them compete for a playoff spot in the first year.

Dre what is your strategy to build up a bad team? Youth movement... cap room clearing... get depth... get a star... what kind of thing helps your team the most?

Strategy? Dump, dump, dump, dump, dump! I'm trying to clear as much cap room as possible and will put a team out on the floor that is all 55 and below if I have to and will still be successful. (Don't mean to brag but I'm disgustingly skilled at sportsgames, especially Live!)

During that whole season I'll salivate at the thoght of the key free agent I can land with all that cap room. It kind of sucks that I've never had a number one pick and stuff like that because I always have a low draft position but there's nothing like seeing some superstar that I was coveting don my uniform for the first time!

by **John-John Joe** on Fri Sep 10, 2004 11:30 am

Andrew wrote:Some of our wishes for a perfect game simply aren't feasible because at the end of the day it is a video game, and no matter how good it is there are some aspects of organic life that cannot completely be reproduced electronically.

I know this may sound like I'm making excuses for EA, but it is a standard that applies to all video games - at least for now.

Making excuses? Not at all Drew. Everything you said makes perfect sense, I think sometimes as consumers we're so demanding that we lose sight of how hard they work to put the product out there. Not to mention that they are the experts and I'm quite sure they too would love to implement some of the same stuff we want but it's just an impossibility for numerous reasons......

Look at some of our requests: Some are feasible, some aren't but they are usually requests that we think EA can do but they're just being lazy. The facts are that at the end of the day, what is conjured up in the mind isn't always condusive to the virtual experience....

by **Sauru** on Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:17 pm

nba live wont be perfect til i can strap on a VR suit and actually feel apart of the game. turn my ass into the starting pg for the celts and then you have reached perfection in my book.

by **Wormy10** on Sat Sep 11, 2004 12:55 pm

That would be pretty frickin' awesome

by **SonnyDano** on Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:26 am

a combo of live and espn's best features would be perfection. too bad it can never happen.

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