NBA Live 10 was the last great NBA Live game. Mike Wang actually left 2K to work on this title, resulting in a great NBA video game. The next year, he returned to 2K, and EA ruined everything.
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Mr. Wang had the right idea. Competition helps everyone, especially the consumers.
The world needs more Mike Wang.
@@BrendenNichols yes. Hope wang also had right ideas for Nba 2K23.
I agree but there are people in power who feel the opposite which is why we see what we see today. John D. Rockefeller once professed, "competition is a sin." LOL
Because 2k sucks now
Competition doesn't help everyone, look at battlefield 2042 & cod vanguard
Finally someone says it! Live 10 was one of a kind! That playoff/Finals atmosphere was incredible!
Remember when you play against the raptors and if you passed Vince carter the ball they would boo him?
Facts
@@Evil33- lol I didn't know they included that
La física en la red. Aún hoy, en 2023, nadie pudo igualar.
@@Evil33-well i remembered that in 2007.
2K needs competition just like Madden, The Show and NHL. I fear we'll never have a sports game renaissance to the level of 00s again. Everything is just one option. Which is horse shit.
Yes. Trash old NFL.
I can’t speak for NHL but mlb is wayyyy ahead Of madden and 2k
@@_will795 mlb is by far the most realistic seeming game. i have 2k22 on series S but mlb's broadcast feel and character behavior blows everything else out of the water especially with its sound. 2k still sounds so generic like 2k8 but they atleast have improved at mimicking authentic arena specific sounds since then.
That’s the whole point. They’re trying to make everything one. One car company, one source of food
@@_will795even also in MLB THE SHOW 24 and Top Spin 2K25.
I miss the PS2 NBA Live days 😢
Dont forget PS1 NBA LIVE games as well including NBA LIVE 99 and 2000.
There’s probably an alternate universe out there where NBA 2K didn’t surpass NBA Live as the go-to NBA video game series.
Thank god that wasn't the case
@@shawklan27 have u ever played NBA LIVE PS2 games?
@@damarfadlan9251 yeah they were good I wasn't trying to say that those live games weren't good it's just that the ones on the current consoles weren't as polished as the 2k ones which are at their absolute peak right one
with NFL 2K still existing and surpassing Madden as well…
@@shawklan27 2k games have plateaued from the lack of competition, regularly getting low to bad scores from most users lol. Same game every year with no innovation, recycled animations and assets and shitty micro transactions and live service features. You’re telling me 2k is peaking right now?
Speaking of NBA Live 10, the new March Madness Legacy Mod for NCAA Basketball 10 uses physics and AI from NBA Live 10 to make the gameplay much better.
One thing I noticed about live 10 was that the Mascot moves around the stadium instead of staying in one spot
This is a certified NBA Live 10 moment
Yes.
NBA Live's gameplay wasn't amazing, but I always though the game was fairly deep, fun, and controlling your players felt smooth. I loved being able to spend time playing with the international teams. Players actually felt different with Dynamic DNA and online was incredibly fun with Online Team Play and The Run. I spent so many hours on Run and OTP, I remember playing in an OTP league through Operation Sports. Great video as usual.
NBA ELITE 11 base gameplay ironically also carried over to NBA LIVE 14.
You've been killing it Softdrink, much appreciated.
I still play Live 10 a shit ton to this day. I even happily bought NBA Live 14 and 15 on launch day, and enjoyed the hell out of them. Sold them when I sold my Orbis back in January 2017. Live 96, 98, 2003, 06, 08, and 10 are my favorite Lives. No matter the age of the sports game I am playing (the newest console I own are the PS3 and 360), I like to get around the lack of roster updates by just doing a fantasy draft every time I start a Season or Dynasty. NBA 2K1 is what made me a sports game player, but the last one I enjoyed was 2K6. Because starting with 2K7, it got WAY too realistic for it's own good. I hated having to learn every player's shooting stroke. It sucked all the fun out. It's a video game. If I want that kind of realism, I will watch an actual game or go play basketball myself. I recently bought NBA Live 19, and can't wait to start playing it once I buy my nephew's Durango here soon.
I played nba live 10 so much I literally burned out the disc so a point where the game would crash or be laggy even offline. The disc was in perfect condition just over worked lol
FIFA 10 also as great as NBA LIVE 10.
NBA Live 2005 still to this day is my favorite NBA Live
The last best live too personally
Just bought NBA Live 2005 for PS2. Its wild how much more realistic a game made with horrid graphics is vs games today
Still got it for the original Xbox!
Wow people saying the PS2 had bad graphics makes me feel old and I'm only 26
I’ve got March madness 06 & I’ll take nba 2k16 a million times out of a hundred but 2k17-current are completely unplayable
@@jdog34505 hi Jon Watson.
@@Z64sports PS2 NBA LIVE actually had better graphics than MADDEN NFL22.
NBA Live 10 was amazing on 360, a true classic.
My older sister got this for me I remember there was this practice mode where a whole bunch of popular players at the time were in a gym shooting hoops that memory is burned into my head
off ball passing and those 09-10 rosters make this game legendary
Loved those rosters.
Yess finally nba live 10 video thank you so much
This was legit my favorite basketball game back in the day! 2k for real life like play and EA for fun play.. This game is still even really fun today and i will always come back to this masterpiece.
I'll never forget the day I got Live 10 was the same day Kobe hit that buzzer beater over Wade. I loved this game a lot but man I was ADDICTED to 2K10s MyPlayer. I couldn't stop playing that for anything. Just imagine if we had 10 years of consistent improvement off of Live 10, the basketball game landscape would look so different now. Instead of 2K dropping a great game every 4 years they would have to come with it every year. What could've been sigh
I love how in every greatest/last great video SDTV drops, there is never a game that dropped in the last 10 years 😂.
Great video! Love these retrospective videos of sports games! Keep up the great work! Cheers!
I think the videos you have been doing are your strongest suit. I'm honestly super excited for the 2022 content yet to come! Great work softdrink!
Live 19 is still lit
I remember playing this game my first basketball game with Dwight Howard as I'm also a orlando magic fan, those were some good times
Just imagine if ea would’ve built on wangs foundation here. I still go back and play live 10 to this day because I love the rosters from my childhood(Kobe gasol lakers) plus I like how different this game stands out. I remember growing up playing both nba 2k10 and live 10 and not knowing which was my favorite.
You a a great KZheadr and I been watching you since 2019 keep up the good content
Live 03 04 and 05 still the best basketball games of all time
Nba Live 19 is hella fun for me at least
Loving the new content. Your retrospectives are fun. I would love to see some nfs underground retros.
Still hoping for a video series about the rise and fall of midway sports i still to this day enjoy NHL Hitz 2003 and Blizt the league
Nba Live 19 was a good game but it was graphically outdated. I hope they release a new entry because I really like the way NBA live was focusing on attracting a more adult audience.
Park felt better than 2k, especially being able to insta queue
The gameplay was horrid
18 was better.
my uncle actually had nba live 10 but i kept playing 2k but i played it before it was pretty decent i didn’t know what nba live was at the time plus live 19 is a great game
You really should think about displaying the fifa series. I think its' history from 09 to 15 (maybe 16) is an example of how we ought to make Ea get to work again.
Great video as always bro.
In the rarly 2010’s me and my older brother and cousin loved this game and I can remember countless times us loading up the game on my cousins XBOX 360, this was the last nba game from either franchise that I was super hyped about to play regularly and very much enjoyed, not saying the games now are trash though, they aren’t, but this was just another level of fun to me, and we always loved competing in the warmup screen before the game too 😅😅
Just to put in perspective how good you are at these topics; I would never watch a video on any of these games but I don’t even care what game/series you cover, I’m watching the second I see it in my feed
I don't know if it's just me but I feel that 2k is more realistic but it has a bigger learning curve while EA games are more arcade like but are easier to pick up and play
Hi Tommy Field.
i agree.
One of my first ever PS3 games when I was 12. I was soooo stoked when it would play like live TV updates or highlights through the main menu/main court or whatever
I never played live 10 as I have live 2005 but Mr. Yang had the right idea then and I wish more had and that competition and having that competition to push you to do better is what’s right
I just got live 10 man the graphics and gameplay still hold up In 2023
It looks beautiful. Especially on a big HDTV screen.
I call BS on his idea of leaving. He just wants a bigger paycheck with 2k so he used EA salary grade as leverage.
Seems like sabotage going to your rival elevating them to new heights only to leave them shorty after and watch them self implode. Call it 2K's way of revenge for EA getting that NFL exclusive license think of it EA got hurt so bad 2K has been looked as the superior basketball franchise since.
Great video!
I personally enjoyed the last two NBA Lives (Live 18 and 19) but they can't hold a candle to NBA Live 10. That was truly the last great Live in my opinion as well.
18 & 19 were fun af. I actually still enjoy 19 for online 3v3
18 was sweet
so live 19 was bad? i thought it was quite decent
I used to love using the hawks and making a 3. There was a cool ass piano noise that would go off & then you’d hear “for threeeee”
Dude this is what your channel is man. Never stop doing this i don’t care what anyone says. Never have doubts your the king of this shit🐐🐐
I'll never forget just loading up into the hanger mode in this game and just sitting in there for hours
Thanks Softdrink great video.
I love these videos.
I owned live 10 and played it on my 360! An amazing game! played online adidas live run! So much fun! I owned nba 2k10 also! Currently playing nba live 2019 on my series x.
Nba live 19 wasn’t too bad I play it time to time
yay back with another banger :)
That MWGaming clip you showed was actually NBA Elite 11 lol
I suggested you to make a retrospective of this on your old Twitter
I saw someone purchase a copy of NBA Elite at the Midwest Gaming Classic back in 2019 and without knowing the whole sordid story was shocked that a sports game of all things would go for so much.
If the next video isnt Blitz a retrospective we fightin
I remember my cousin and I going back to this game in like 2013 and we were able to update the roster to what it was at that time.
Let’s goooo! Glad to see some more nba on here man
I miss NBA LIVE
Who remembers NBA the life games? They were actually quietly solid games
NBA Live implies the existence of NBA Tape Delay, but y’all aren’t ready for that conversation
Mike Wang is to live what Kawhi Leonard was to Toronto
Wow the memories. I know madden 11 2k11 and this j cud go back and jus play
I think it has to be said that lots of people hated on live 10 at the time.
Wang was an inside job. He went and took everything Live had and made it stiffer, play live 09, it was a smoother game, especially from building upon the responsiveness of 08’s dribbling. Elite 11 was what live 10 could have been, but then derailed by what changes happened, they were always focused on physics and responsiveness, live 10 took the good of 09, stopped it and added canned animations like 2k. Mike wang is why Elite 11 was a mess, it was an inside job by 2k, not to be commended.
Nfs that janelle monae sing on there used to jam 🔥🔥🔥
I really enjoyed this live...definitely one to talk about
Another NBA game hidden gem is TOTAL NBA 96, that was far ahead of it’s time
NBA Live had the perfect vibes that a basketball game exactly needed from the menu, shoot around while loading, presentation, atmosphere, sound effects etc. Only thing I like about 2k is the deep customization of rosters and mynba/myleague settings
Nba live 10 is my all time most favorite basketball game, man that game was fun and way better than 2k was. The newest 2ks shooting and defense is so garbage it makes me miss this one even more
What is the music used in the video? The one that sound like an 8bit version of a song is what I’m trying to find. Is that a childish gambino song?
2k started domination in 2k8. The last "great " live was 06
I really enjoyed playing this as a kid!
Live 16 was the comeback game but Live 19 was good too. But they just couldn't hack it anymore.
“The refs wouldn’t even call it” sounds like a real scenerio😂😂😂🤣
Can’t wait for the next video
Mike Wang leaving immediately after Live 10 is what killed Live and put it into a 4 year hiatus.
you're saying this as if live 19 was bad or something. its really fun and a good time.
Nba live 19 honestly in my opinion is the last great live !! EA DEFINITELY should’ve gave that gameplay they was working on another try with more upgrades and animations !! The game was good asf but I guess it wasn’t enough but I still play it!!
EA doesn't even try to make games this good anymore. 05 was a literal golden age for sports video games. It fills me with a bit of dread how that was 18 years ago. I was a single man playing these games for money, now I'm married with kids, still popping in NFL2K5 on occasion just to play a sports game that actually good.
I switched to 2k after Live 08, and switched to FIFA after 2k11. Started playing 2k21 and it’s almost unplayable. I’m waiting for the next live game to play a realistic game of basketball
Live 10 was so awesome
This was the very last sports game I put all of my gaming into besides Madden... and both were very fun to play that year... man I fucking miss whooping ass on those games and the effort & detail EA put into them. I turned 32 a week ago and I can honestly say I grew up in the "Golden Age" of video games because the shit they put out today is just disrespectful compared to the ps2 or even ps3 days 😞
Facts I’ll Be 32 In 28 Days
@@jeanrhysforges7500 It's crazy bro
Bought this game at a GameStop once a couple years ago.
You should make a retrospective video dedicated to the infamous Andrew Bynum Jesus Christ nba elite 11 glitch
I still have this game. My favorite nba live
As soon as I get my PS3 fixed or buy a new one, I'll get NBA Live '10 someday since I enjoy the NBA Live games on Mega Drive, the original PlayStation and the original Xbox.
its really weird to attribute so much to One Guy. there was probably dozens of people working on each individual part of the game, there are no real One Guys in games. games are these peoples babies, but it still takes a village
This made me want to play Live 10 again
Crazy part is I still own a copy of nba live 10
nba live 10 fantasy teams was so much fun
Man me and my friends played this alot
man I'm Glad Someone Giving Live 10 Some Love
been team live my whole childhood, then elite 11 got canceled and 2k11 was the only other nba game i could get, and now i been team 2k ever since
NBA Live 19 is fire though. I still play it here n there just to play 3v3 online. 3v3 lobbies today still fill up within 30 seconds and you load into the game! I much prefer that than waiting for an entire game in 2k to finish, just for the other team to leave, or people just won't play with you because they don't know you.. Wanna know how awesome upgrading players is? Okay, it takes about 1-2 weeks to get a player from creation (70 overall) to 99 overall 🔥 This part is AMAZING: once you get just one player to 100 XP, EVERY single player you create after has the ability to start at XP level 50 which translates to 86 overall 🔥🔥🔥 and there's even a glitch where you can start them at 97 too. And no microtransactions!
...that being said, it took me a bit to get used to Live's movement having played 2K for so long. After i got used to Live though, movement in 2K started to feel weird lol. Especially playing as a max height & weight big in Live with traits that makes my player run faster than normal, going to 2K as a big after that feels like I'm stuck trying to run in mud or something
NBA 2k11 is the king, and I do agree NBA live 2010 is a solid game, it’s not great but it’s decent, still own my copy …
Very cool
I was just playing this the other day 😍
Still play this game.
Sad to say that after NBA LIVE 10, NBA LIVE went severely downhill since ELITE 11.