Comments on: Gamedaily’s take on the NBA 2K8 event

By: frtiz

frtiz — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:09:06 +0000

the live video is okay, but the dunk at the end still shows that they don’t care about details like the rim moving, along with the entire backboard from the shock. also the ball looks like it’s sticking to the players hands, looked like street ball, people using fakes to get into the lane, then no help comes, there is no collapse!

as far as the comment from someone saying 2k6-2k7 was no change, they are out of it, …to me personally that was one of the bigger jumps in gameplay/art/animation for 2k in recent history.
In general most sports games have hit a plateau where their yearly releases don’t add a WHOLE LOT, like madden for example. The industry needs a whole new company or something like a game running off natural motion to stir it up and give us something ‘next-gen’ Time to WOW us again.

By: clos

clos — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:48:06 +0000

yeah i also like that feature….i saw a demo for Live08 on gametrailers…some game between gstate/spurs and it looked pretty damn good…i was impressed…got to like EA’s ballsy move of putting the demo out a month early

By: Artoficial

Artoficial — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:22:41 +0000

Okay cool, I like the idea of key players returning to the court even if they are tired at the end. I guess we’ll have to se how well they did with re-writing the substitutions. I’m dying to know the rest of the features.

see ya 2K!

By: pastapadre

pastapadre — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:40:33 +0000

They talked about completely re-writing the substitution logic. In the handful of games we played, on 5 minute quarters, I wouldn’t be able to tell you how good it is though. One thing they mentioned is that they made sure the right players would be on the court late in games. So Kobe, even if tired, wouldn’t be subbed out in a close game.

By: Artoficial

Artoficial — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:17:34 +0000

Padre,

One more thing (well two really). Do you know if EA resolved the substitution issue. One of the things that killed last years for me was players not being subed in when they were supposed to. The other crazy thing I couldn’t believe went unnoticed was at the end of your Dynasty you didn’t have the chance to resign your playes, if you didn’t have the money. This is wrong, you still should be able to resign existing player it may jus cause cap issue (like putting you over). Thats when i traded the game in, I couldn’t believe it.

By: Artoficial

Artoficial — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:12:45 +0000

Thanks Padre,

That would be a hell of feature for live. Lets face it evertone like to make a poster out of there opponent. If they can get this in next year that will push the fun factor over the top, epecially if the snapshots are in poster form, LOL.

By: pastapadre

pastapadre — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:01:03 +0000

Art- there are still some features for Live that haven’t been announced and are under embargo. However to my knowledge the EA Sports World screen/video uploading isn’t one of them.

By: Dantecamp

Dantecamp — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:58:23 +0000

I buy both games every year. I have every edition of Live and 2K, but I must adimit, 2K is indeed in danger. Can’t keep up with EA using tha “no show” strategy.

By: Artoficial

Artoficial — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:39:18 +0000

Padre,

I love the feature in NCAA football that lets you save highlights. Do you think Live has included that feature? I’m looking forward to seeing all the features of the game.

By: Artoficial

Artoficial — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:37:01 +0000

The 2K fans will never admit it but 2k is treading some dangour waters with this attitude that minual adjustments will do. If and it’s been a big if for some time now EA can come through with solid gameplay 2K could be in for a big fight. With the lack of advertising they just might get trampled where sales are concerned.

I personally think it’s about time for some real competition between the two companies instead of one company stumbing to deliver.

After watching the video of the quick strike moves for live I was impressed with there attitude towards giving us a more simulation style game. They finally got that it’s not all about the glitz and glam and moved towards the basics. Now if we can only be sure we won’t see any dunking through backboards.