 Ladies and gentlemen here is the video all right you guys have been asking live 19 gameplay done dropped a few days ago And I haven't talked about it And I've kind of just been waiting for some more gameplay to drop just so we can get different perspectives I'm gonna talk about my opinions on the improvements made and some of the massive problems also that still exists that are at this point generational issues with NBA live 19 gameplay this video is not sugar coated right and if you're a live 19 fanboy And you just can't take criticism you got to go now Trust me you're gonna lose your mind by the end of this video because I'm just gonna be pointing out facts when we criticize 2k on The channel we understand is coming from a good spot We want the game to improve but there's a subset small subset of people when I criticize NBA live 19 or any NBA live game They just like they get all like emotional like they have some sort of attachment to this game. It's a video game It's EA. They don't really care about you unless you can make him money. All right Don't get so connected to these companies. All right. That's besides the point We're looking at iPod King Carter right now He dropped a nice little 10 minute gameplay session here I'm gonna leave a link in the description if you guys didn't cast the entire video But I'm gonna be going through certain points of interest Let's let's just get into it. How about that first off first live 19? I didn't know if NBA live would ever even make progress when it came to reducing the stiffness in their animations Which is the biggest downfall with the game a lot of people say looks stiff looks weird. It's not realistic Here we go and be alive 19 They said it was one of the biggest focuses and they did it in terms of dribbling the stiffness looks to have been gone Now keep in mind I'm gonna reserve some of my opinion and judgment because I haven't played the game I haven't played the final version of the game sometimes you see a game and then when you play it It's like a totally different experience and so know that some of my opinion is reserved But this is just based off what we're seeing right now. They reduced the stiffness Dramatically now there's still cases where you're dribbling and it definitely looks stiff and you think yourself like damn It's still there but it looks massively improved and I didn't know how to ever see a day where I can say something like that Because this has been such a massive generational problem for the NBA live franchise for the reason why it fell off back in NBA live 10 no matter which side you were on because I was a live fanboy back in the day when I was a little kid playing on my PSP and ps2 you came to the realization real quick that like yo 2k gameplay was just better and part of the reason Why was because of some of these generational issues that now they're finally putting a focus on and fixing now I don't know what it is. Maybe they don't have the talent in the company Maybe they don't have the specific technology Maybe there's limitations with the specific engine that they're using the ignite engine But it seems like they've made marginal improvements in this category. All right. Let's get into example number one Here we have Kyrie Irving is right there with the ball. Do we see Kyrie right here defending him is Dario Sarich and Uh It should be illegal for windows to update my pc illegal without my permission They updated my laptop or they're trying to take control of my pc. I'm not gonna let it happen Ladies and gentlemen, if I hear one comment about how I'm sweating, I'ma fight you You know, I record in the sun room. You know, there's no ventilation to ac is why I got the towel I don't want to hear it. Hi. Yeah, Ben Simmons right here defending Dario Sarich right here This is coming in and this is also in B. So a lot of talented defenders on the 76ers to say the least Kyrie Irving in my opinion the best dribbler in NBA history easily the best dribble in the league right now So we got that in context. How is Kyrie Irving gonna finesse his way out of this specific situation? In which Ben Simmons is on him and Dario Sarich seems to have some considerable help defense play Kyrie in and out. Okay before we move anywhere pay attention to Dario Sarich's feet Look at his feet. He's slid out of the way. This reminds me a lot of mba 2k 13 gameplay It's what drove me crazy is you could just slide players out the way canned animations with posterizers But let's not jump to any conclusions bro. He was slid out the way now Ben Simmons is there Ben Simmons elite defender Kyrie looks like he's doing it in and out right now And he puts the ball through Ben Simmons legs Not only that but in bead even though he was right there gets no sort of bump back animation Kyrie the legend himself has finessed his way out of this situation and got himself an easy layup If I'm the person user in the 76ers right now, I'm losing my mind. I'm chucking controllers You have to sit there and contemplate the fact that you you have to shell out another 60 dollars for another controller Because that should have never happened Now, I don't know maybe this is a very outlier case But these flashy plays that mba live seems to be promoting like check out this in and out Check out this behind the back through the opponent's legs to me is more worrying than it is cool in mba street Hey, listen bro roll on the floor Do triple alley-oops like it's all in good fun But when you're trying to build a simulation basketball game and you see something like that I'm just thinking to myself how easy it is to do that because if I can trigger that every single time That's what I'm doing and that's what every game would look like now Considering Kyrie Irving is dribbling the ball. He is easily the best ball handler in the league right now So there's a good possibility that only a few players in the league will be able to do this But I assume that if you create like a ball handling Player in the one game mode then you should be able to once you match such a player do similar moves I don't know this is a point of worry for me because I don't I don't know if this is going to be easily abusable I know slashers were op in the last mba live and the sliders in mba live If you hate 2k sliders, you will lose your mind when people hate contested shots on you in this game So you can see some obvious clipping here. Kyrie Irving is destroying Ben Simmons and probably the most embarrassing way possible This is looking like a Globetrotter match at this point and there's obvious clipping his chest is inside his elbow But that happens. It's a video game and there's going to be situations in which there's clipping I just hope that it's limited and that it doesn't happen often. All right, so here we go example number two Kyrie Irving is looking to sauce once again the target once again is ben Simmons He's looking to dribble on this side of him And then get the ball back now. There's a lot of things about this that's like That's not a good look right there one Come on, bro Ben Simmons wingspan is too long to not have been able to just reach out and get that ball But I get it sometimes, you know, you don't want stealing to be overpowered You don't want real ball physics in a basketball game. It might make playing offense impossible But the part that's crazy to me is how when Kyrie gets the ball back it like magnetically connects back into his hand It's like a canned animation And although the play is supposed to look flashy and cool when you look at it like this It just kind of looks cheesy like just It looked like the animation they're like, I don't know how to make this work So let's just put a magnet in Kyrie's hand another magnet in the ball and then have him just you know work things out together All right, I get it. It looks flashy another example I'm gonna be pissed off if this happens to me in a game. I'm just saying if I'm playing good defense I really don't want the ball to go through me now in that situation And I don't know because you can't see the input it looked like ben Simmons might have been going for a steal In this in that case it might make sense to punish the guy for going for a steal if he didn't hit the ball and That might be an interesting way to introduce some sort of skills gap to the game and make the game more competitive It looks like that was what he was doing if that wasn't what he was doing Then uh, ben Simmons got sauce once again while he was playing good defense even on rookie difficulty We got to talk about clip number four Even if this is rookie difficulty, this play should never happen. All right Let's take a look at clip number four kairi ervin calls the isolation play It looks like they're playing some three out two in offense. Maybe this the run is some error Whatever erin veins is doing inside. I don't know. It looks like he called the isolation Maybe he's trying to get the out the way ben Simmons is gonna run up to defend kairi ervin Once again, ben Simmons looks like he wants to get embarrassed So kairi ervin calls the iso Does the be through the legs move that we just seen that a really incredibly overpowered move and check this out So there's two options here and beat is likely gonna drag over on the rotation here and play some good defense And uh, ben Simmons might try to return to his guy or pick up and beads guy who seems to be erin veins So we set the tone. Uh, this might be a problem Let's just move forward. This is kairi does a euro step and let's just take a look at this play now The player in the corner that was defending the waste man Gordon hayward here came to the inside not only that but we have ben Simmons who tracked down Who is incredibly lengthy and is behind kairi erving and oh, we also have a bead Who's obviously a fantastic defensive player ready to contest this And it went in I get it kairi erving this crazy in real life all the time But if that hits consistently even on rookie difficulty, I'm losing my mind Now if this wasn't rookie difficulty and that still dropped like this was pro also I don't know what they call it. I'd be alive right is that that play should not happen in any competitive game All right, that being said those are just a few issues Some of the flashy plays got me worried on top of that the jump shots in the game still look weird So I literally took out a lot of the stiffness in the dribbling and it looks a lot better in terms of jump shots Sometimes you'll see players like james hardens jump shot something's just off about it Like there's there's no real momentum between the players and their environment And it also shows by the way when the ball is reacting to the rim The ball when it hits the rim almost feels like the rim is elastic like an elastic band that bends backwards It just sends the ball flying It doesn't feel like there's real momentum to not only the players in their environment But the ball in their environment in many instances So the stiffness is gone and to me that's not entirely gone But I think that's the biggest point and I'm glad that that was a focus But there's some other issues that are easily remind you that this is an mba live game I get it. It's like yearly releases, right? And what could you do like just you only have one year to make improvements In my opinion, I think gameplay is the biggest thing you could focus on when you're looking at a basketball product And so it seems like that's what they've done and they've made good improvements So what more could you ask for mba live 19 in my opinion seems to be a big improvement from 18? There's some people saying it's 18.5. This one's exactly like mba. It doesn't look like 18 This looks like an entirely new game And I think that's what they were trying to show off in a lot of these flashy clips in the gameplay That they sent out to some of the creators and I get it. I get the point of those clips They want to show that mba live 19 is a fun game. It's flashy game You're gonna want to play it. You can make some exciting plays happen I guess that's how they're trying to convert people that otherwise played 2k mba live Let me tell you right now man You can do one thing for yourself and it could drastically change the landscape of this franchise Drop it free to play. Oh my how are they gonna? EA? EA doesn't even know what free means agent I can hear it in the comments already. I get it. This is EA. EA is not known for doing things very philanthropic All they really want is your wallet. I get I get the the general consensus around EA, but mba live 19 with their improvements made right now I don't think is enough to rival 2k And I think that a lot of people who are fed up with 2k are looking for an alternative If you make it free to play they will have no option But to at least try out your game And so while the game might look a certain way to the people that are judging him I judged for tonight. I thought I wasn't gonna like for tonight, but it was free So I tried it. I got addicted because it was a good game mba live I'm telling you this right now if you believe in your product If you believe that the game you put out deserved to be played by millions of people across the world If you want your game to blow up and you have faith in it Then you're gonna drop it free to play two things happen when you drop the game free to play There's a huge surge in the user base now Whether the fans continue to go up or whether that goes down It all depends on the quality of your product But I'm telling you right now 2k is angered so many people that there's an opportunity And the fact that mba live 19 is not taking advantage of it to me is crazy So again, we heard the announcement that they will not be converting to the frostbite engine They'll stay on the ignite engine And if you guys remember when they announced the ignite engine The whole promise was when madden makes an improvement when fifa makes an improvement when mba live UFC make an improvement to the engine mba live benefits from those improvements because they all use the same engine So I know fifa is no longer using the ignite engine now. They're of course using frostbite I don't remember what ufc is using. I believe madden is using ignite still and of course mba live is still on ignite We of course heard the new announcement that halo 5 invested in and created their own engine specifically for that game So that it can flourish. I don't know what the case is and I don't know what their limitations are But i'm just saying if they believe in their game Then you know what you have to do. Yo shout out to my guy broski. He uploads all kinds of mba live 19 gameplay You know, although he has like a I know he uploaded a video of like Clear a gameplay. It seems to have some sort of color correction on it for whatever reason But uh, I think the gameplay he uploaded at ea play recording the screens gives a better variety an example of what i'm talking about When it comes to jump shots elasticity with the rim You can easily see a lot of the stiffness is gone You could see some weird animations when it comes to passing sometimes and it kind of forces people in certain directions But that even happens in mba 2k and that's not a problem that you're ever going to be able to fix in a basketball game But the game does look improved without a doubt. It is not a small improvement It seems to be the first time in a while where I could sit here and say it's a massive improvement But the question is is the improvement enough? So if you want to watch the full thing I think it gives you a better impression than the ipod video that we were watching earlier But it's it's not as clear to see so I couldn't really sit here and point out different areas Cameras like low quality and it's chucked all over the place throughout the time I'm gonna leave it on that you guys wanted to know what my live 19 thoughts were that's what it is I'm not I don't have any certain agenda. I don't care about like I don't have any affiliation with any organization We won great basketball games We all have different preferences and beliefs when it comes to what you want in a basketball game We understand but mba live 18 we can agree made some improvements Whether that is enough to warrant a 60 dollar purchase is up to you I think they should drop it for you to play it, but that's just me I'm gonna catch you guys in the next one. 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