Preseason Games

by **Ruff Ryder** on Sat Oct 11, 2003 11:56 pm

I dont know if you noticed, but are there any preseason games? There wasnt in live 2003. Thats 1 thing that should be in the game.

by **Power And Proud** on Sun Oct 12, 2003 12:31 am

I believe the pre-season is in Live 2004. Not 100% sure though, Andrew?

by **Andreas Dahl** on Sun Oct 12, 2003 12:43 am

hmm, that would be cool to have...
like just 20% of the seats are filled. the game is a bit more relaxed and 'fun' to play.

but there won't be any in 2004 though...

by **Jurglins** on Sun Oct 12, 2003 7:11 am

what the fuck...thats dumb...why wouldnt they include the damn preseason in a revamped dynasty mode? and the off season looks pretty much the same to me...then the retarded player ratings...i think EA mighta done it again...

by **LilCmelo15** on Sun Oct 12, 2003 7:35 am

is like that in madden it sais start next season and it goes to the preseason so i dont kno that pic doesnt help

by **Old School Fool** on Sun Oct 12, 2003 7:37 am

I actually wanna play in Random arenas....like UNLV College or Haiwaii :wink:

Cause i want to Re-Enact Kobe's Almost Free-Throw DunkHe Pulled at the Thomas & Mack Center on the Wizards iN 1998

by **Full Surface** on Sun Oct 12, 2003 7:51 am

Pre-seasons are pretty worthless but I'd like to see one though. They might be fun to play, especially with a 20 man roster.

The off-season looks the same from Live 2003, except that they added a training camp this year.

by **Bill Russell** on Sun Oct 12, 2003 9:16 am

refuze wrote:The off-season looks the same from Live 2003, except that they added a training camp this year.

Ditto... The so-called revamped Dynasty mode isn't all that I thought it would be... This mode is very similar to NHL 2002 (N)

by **cyanide** on Sun Oct 12, 2003 9:21 am

I don't really think preseason games are important at all. The games don't count and I find it too distracting when I want to start the season right away.

by **Uzumaki** on Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:00 am

Why not just play exhibition games as preseason games? That's what i do, to get the feel of the team.

by **Carmo** on Sun Oct 12, 2003 1:25 pm

That screenshot does not show us if there is preseason games or not!
That doesn't show training camp either. I thought they said that there were going to be preaseason games!

by **arthur2004** on Sun Oct 12, 2003 3:10 pm

lol...i am pretty sure there are preseason games..i saw screens and the seats were pretty much empty and the guy said it was a preseason game thats why..and it was between good teams..so why else would the seats be near empty

by **joemimic** on Sun Oct 12, 2003 3:22 pm

Tales wrote:
refuze wrote:The off-season looks the same from Live 2003, except that they added a training camp this year.

Ditto... The so-called revamped Dynasty mode isn't all that I thought it would be... This mode is very similar to NHL 2002

Its better then last years and if the gameplay is improved this will be the best live ever (Y)

by **Uzumaki** on Sun Oct 12, 2003 9:57 pm

arthur2004: and where exactly did you hear that? I bet it was just an exhibition game.

by **Ruff Ryder** on Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:42 pm

arthur2004 wrote:lol...i am pretty sure there are preseason games..i saw screens and the seats were pretty much empty and the guy said it was a preseason game thats why..and it was between good teams..so why else would the seats be near empty

Thats what they say in an exhibition game or 'Play Now' on the menu. Every basketball game says that its preseason when you play an exhibition.

Old school fool, your sig is way to big. Mine is too but not by much.

by **Bill Russell** on Mon Oct 13, 2003 5:46 am

joemimic wrote:
Tales wrote:
refuze wrote:The off-season looks the same from Live 2003, except that they added a training camp this year.

Ditto... The so-called revamped Dynasty mode isn't all that I thought it would be... This mode is very similar to NHL 2002

Its better then last years and if the gameplay is improved this will be the best live ever

Agreed,

But I thought they were goin' to add more things... Seems like they only did add some cut-scenes and a task list which rewards some things you do... I thought more was on the way.

But yeah, if the gameplay is kickass, no complaint here (Y)

by **Larry Bird** on Mon Oct 13, 2003 9:57 am

Preseason is important in basketball, because if you draft a young PG or C, you want to try him out to see if he's worthy of playing time. You don't want to waste 5 games into the season just to find out the guy you drafted sucks. That should have been figured out before the season started.

by **Uzumaki** on Mon Oct 13, 2003 9:59 am

larry bird - you can still do that with exhibition games. That's more or less why they're there.

by **Colin** on Mon Oct 13, 2003 10:51 am

You can't do them with a players you drafted in the middle of a franchise though which is his point. Of course you can use base teams in exhibition then choose a Dynasty. But not at the beginning of a second season with new generated rookies.

by **Larry Bird** on Mon Oct 13, 2003 12:47 pm

In basketball I think it's especially important to have a preseason, since you can only suite up 12 guys to play (and 2-3 of those bunch barely get any minutes). You need to know who works well for you. Maybe you sign an aging free agent, and you want to see if he's still got some skills left, or you want to see if your 7 foot, second round pick can at least bang around under the basket and grab a few rebounds. Or maybe you think one of your bench players is ready to crack the top 5, but you want to see how he fits first. Obviously this would be for franchise mode, and I personally don't think players should improve from preseason though. In madden (which i don't like anymore anyway) it was too easy to greatly improve players in the preseason just by getting them the ball every play. Plus, in Madden, players ratings jump around all over the place. I just want to see how my new guys fit with my team, with my system, and see how good they are.

by **Old School Fool** on Mon Oct 13, 2003 1:02 pm

They really need to put College Courts in the game...

I just hope you can play on other courts with the teams court design (Example: Lakers vs Cavs you Play at Pepsi Center and the Denver court will still be there)

They also need to do this with Madden...becuase NFL2K3 and NBA2K3 have i tright

by **Larry Bird** on Mon Oct 13, 2003 1:10 pm

No offense, but I don't think too many people could care less about playing on a court that wasn't the home teams. I don't really see a point in doing this whatsoever. Maybe I'm wrong and there is a demand for it, but I doubt it.

by **Colin** on Mon Oct 13, 2003 1:52 pm

You can just switch the home team to somehting else and change the uni's.

by **MaD_hAND1e** on Mon Oct 13, 2003 2:45 pm

um.... i think u can choose the courts u wanna play in whn you r in exhibition game.... i saw it in one of the videos... can't remember which one... i think it was the one wif dallas versus the nets, there is one option where u can choose the arena

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