NBA 2k14 vs NBA Live 14... What do you guys think?

[JSD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADfjrh12L38

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAwdHWkZXQ4


I will probably stay with 2k as long as My Player Mode continues to progress.

[PaulPierce34G]

I remember when Live was really good, back around 03-04-05...Kinda sucked that they ruined a good thing.  I'll probably stick with 2k14 unless I hear otherwise.  2k, the last few years, has really done well for itself, even with the absence of Live.  I think Live coming back will only make the makers of 2k14 to maintain that high level of production that they've been coming with.

[manl_lui]

I'm sticking with 2k, but how long as Live been absent?  I don't think they came out with one since 10?

[ronaldo943]

I used to love Live, but they keep on delaying it and i'm become impatient NBA LIVE 09 clubs was awesome.

[celticslove]

i'm with 2k ever since, Live is too arcadish for me.

[mainevent]

Not even close. Live will never get my money. 2K has been superior since the days of Dreamcast. If 2k could only start making football games again so I can once again play that game as well I'd be ecstatic.  Madden has been horrid for years.

[dark_lord]

i always played live and when they stopped, i stopped playing bball games. im cautiously excited about live returning.  i will try it out and if i like it, i will buy it.  but i wont buy it blindly, without first trying it.

[syfy9]

2k for me.

[Snakehead]

Live's animations still look incredibly stiff and awkward.  The bodies as well.  It's rather amazing how weird it has looked all through its recent failings (trying to be NBA Elite, etc).

Until they prove otherwise it's 2K.  I think that series just gets better with each game and right now is the best sports game franchise.  There are still issues but the core gameplay is so solid in 2K13.

Probably my biggest issues are just graphics and atmosphere with 2K and it seems like that is a focus with how they've shown facial animations and that kind of thing.

Even if LIVE managed to provide good gameplay (which is far from a given) they'd have to match 2K's feature set (Deep Association mode, all the classic players and teams, My Player, etc) and that probably won't happen.  All of that is very key to me because I heavily use all those features.  I play 2K now by doing a fantasy assosciation draft with all the best current and classic players mixed in together (so I have a team with Pete Maravich, in his prime KG, Alonzo Morning for example).

Really looking forward to the next gen versions of 2K.  I play on PC so it'll be nice to have a version that looks better and takes more advantage of that power.




I just wish EA would bow out of the basketball sim market and go back to making NBA Street games.