NBA 2K11 Demo Available Now, Impressions and Discussion Here (360,PS3)

[RubenDouglas]

Quote: Originally Posted by RubenDouglas

Another revelation. As Da_Czar's been saying since the beginning, feathering of the sticks is crucial. I have found the most success in the past 10 minutes by letting go of the left stick many times, RETURNING it to the middle, and then go with the moves you have planned out. Some may call it less control when you watch a few short animations run their course, But this is just amazing what I'm seeing right now. It's like you visual what is happening or about to happen and your left stick input is a few slight taps. nothing major. I think I'm playing with no left stick input atleast 50% of the time. Just light movements with a purpose and the moves are executing well. Seriously, just forget everything you have ever learned about these games with control and start fresh. I'm almost not even feathering the left stick, as much as I am just letting it go completely. Watch your players movement, then make a move. The days of instant input and feedback are gone, with momentum. Time to WATCH what your inputs do and RESPOND.

I wanted to add. Maybe the easiest way to say this is, Let your player go through the cross over or sizeup animation before putting your finger on the left stick. There's timing involved. Let the animation quickly play out, THEN try to move your player. THere's a split second where nothing is on the left stick as animations play out. Thats when you plan where you want to go.

It's like a subtle balance of quick gentle finger movements and watching what happens/anticipating

[Sam Marlowe]

Quote: Originally Posted by 23

Neutral the stick and hit the sig gather button Y

Will do man. I'll give it a shot.

[PRAY IV M3RCY]

Quote: Originally Posted by ehh

Making progress with the isomotion, it's really all about when the LT needs to be pressed and when it doesn't. I've finally pulled off some insane stuff with Kobe, just need to do it a little more consistently. Also had an awesome block with Kobe on a fastbreak. Rondo got a steal and was in transition, Fisher was side by side with him and bumped him a little as he attempted his layup and I was able to come from behind and swat it into the Celtics' bench. The control/responsiveness felt great.

it really is. At first i would always hold down LT thinking thats what i had to do in order to pull moves. But i would always wonder why my guy isnt moving, but i now understand i have to let go of lt in order for my guy to FINISH the move. Its really starting to get fun now that i understand how to use Lt and when to let go.

[snoopluca]

ok just to clear this up cuz i read it earlier:
when you say str8 left right away, do u mean str8 towards the rim, left of rim, right of rim etc or up on RS left on RS etc?
thanks

[snoopluca]

I was wondering if any1 knew what they meant by signature dunks?
I'm guessing for Jordan it's either his free throw line dunk or his baseline one handed windmill thing, has any1 done a kobe signature dunk?

[wepr3]

Quote: Originally Posted by fatleg3

i have played the demo over and over and i like it but i think im done its just so complicated to do moves that it gets frustrated. Most of the time im just running around and doing size ups the only reason im getting by people is cause kobe just runs by them cause its pro diff

I've never been great with the isomotion stuff, so I usually always run plays. Based on Czar's videos, I'm quite excited to get this game as running plays appears to be truly worthwhile this year.

[erickonasis]

that holding the LT down helped ...now if i can just get the full spin to work right that would be good. The behind the back works great but i miss the 2k9 spins

[fcabanski]

"I promise you I can take any one here into a gym and show you that your moves are not as "real time" as you think. "

Czar, can you take me into the gym and make me a decent basketball player? When I score at the gym, everyone laughs because I do it so infrequently. They won't be laughing when I Kobus them in NBA 2K11!