Has NBA Live always been 30fps?

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DaCocoBrova

Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
My man brought it through for the PS2 last night. While I enjoyed the game, I was let down by the framerate. I like to think that all sprts games are 60fps.

Is the XBOX version 30fps also?
 
Good question...

EA games tend to perform the best on PS2 (look at NCAA, which had major framerate issues on XBOX), so I would not be suprised if it was 30 fps on XBOX as well.
 
AFAIK they've always been 30 fps. Some modes are 60 fps, like the street ball 1 on 1 mode (at least in past ones, that may be even 30fps in this year's haven't played it much)
 
WTF?!

22 players rendered on screen = 60fps (madden)
10 players rendered on screen = 30fps (NBA Live)

What gives?! Even the DC had 60fps b-ball games. NBA Live isn't even graphically/technically impressive.

I guess I'll get used to ESPN as usual then.
 
DaCocoBrova said:
WTF?!

22 players rendered on screen = 60fps (madden)
10 players rendered on screen = 30fps (NBA Live)

What gives?! Even the DC had 60fps b-ball games. NBA Live isn't even graphically/technically impressive.

I guess I'll get used to ESPN as usual then.
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I don't think it has anything to do with hardware, DCB...

Bad design, plain and simple.
 
Pretty much.

*sigh*

I never bothered w/ Inside Drive, but if it were around...this would be the year.
 
Played both xbox ps2 versions. Xbox has a faster framerate. It's smoother and has the better graphics. PS2 is not so smooth. Last years live looks the same on both though.
 
So is it 60fps on the XBOX then?

I played ESPN2K5 last night and it's clearly the superior game regardless of frame rate IMO.
 
DaCocoBrova said:
So is it 60fps on the XBOX then?

I played ESPN2K5 last night and it's clearly the superior game regardless of frame rate IMO.
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How is the franchsie mode in 2K5? NBA live is ok... but a let down considering that last year's game was soooo damn good
 
I don't play franchise at all in any game. I play sports games with friends or I don't play them at all.

I hear it's vastly improved and the pics I've seen suggest that.
 
Both games have pretty dry franchise modes. Madden/NCAA have set the bar so high, I'm surprised other EA Sports games have not borrowed ideas from Tiburon
 
Franchise mode in 2K5 isn't really all that. You set weekly training and you have to talk to your players, but it's obviously stuff they tossed in without tuning it much.

In 2K5, the training thing for some reason causes all these 25 day injuries to your players even if you choose the light workouts. But if you don't train, attributes will go down. Annoying.

But Live's really isn't that great either in my book. Live's franchise at first looks like it's going to be as interesting as Madden's since it has that PDA interface, but really, underneath, it's just the same thing as last year's pretty much.

Gameplaywise, 2K5 seems much better this year and better than Live's. It really feels like basketball. Live still has way too many blocks even on the higher difficulties. I one blocked Shaq with Damon Stoudamire... twice... in one quarter. Which of course, happens all the time in real life. Damon is gonna challenge Ratliff and Big Ben for the block title this year.
 
Dwayne Wade is the truth in ESPN. They made Shaq way too fast also.

I'd love for someone to confirm NBA Live on the XBOX being 60fps.
 
I remember the menus in Live 2004 being as slow as molasses, and I don't mean the loading times. There was a notable delay just by pressing up or down on the analog stick while selecting different options.
 
Live is trash this year,sold it on Ebay the other day,ESPN isn't all roses either,but its the better of the two evils :(
 
Ramirez said:
Live is trash this year,sold it on Ebay the other day,ESPN isn't all roses either,but its the better of the two evils :(
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I feel just the oppostie. What exactly didn't you like about Live? I liked the game from the get go, but when I played with the sliders, the game became just like NBA ball. ESPN seemed way too sluggish for me.
 
Live on Xbox is clearly above 30 fps. As for ESPN, the graphics are really nicer, but the game isn't. It's too hard to play D in ESPN, and it's more offensive minded. I scored 70 points with Peja on the hardest setting versus a computer. Half court shots too. Why is the scoring so easy?
 
^^

The game has these nifty things called sliders. As much as I'd love the game to play perfectly out the box, a lil' tinkering is needed.
 
Well for starters,trying to play it online is like a got damn slideshow...then you have 10,000 blocks a game still,outrageous 3pt percentages,spin move just pushing people out of the way with no charges called...on default settings it is trash,perhaps you could fix some of this with sliders,but not online,which is where sports games either make it or break it for me.
 
I've come to appreciate some of the small animation details that someone else was going on about (and I mocked, sorry!)...but the sliding, and inexplicable force field are horrid. As is the D pursuit, the fast break turnarounds, etc. Just not a fun game. I've played them both for awhile now and I'm done with this one.
 
Thanks.

When does the slow down occur? Hopefully not while in the lane or during gameplay period. I'll tolerate slowdown during transitions, but that's about it.
 
Actually, for me it's always happened in the lane, when the camera pans out to show a bit more of the environment. The game even slows down in the dunk practice mode where there's only the gym and one player on the screen, whenever the camera has to pan out. It's got to be sloppy coding, I can't think of anything else.
 
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