NBA Elite 11 Demo Available, Post Impressions Here (PS3, 360)

[videobastard]

The controls felt awkward. All my shots were bricks. I had to play around with how my thumb would go up with the right analog. Did not feel comfortable shooting in the demo. The dribble system was easy to use. The animations and game play just feel like a game that is dated. Its hard to continue playing the game when it plays so ugly.

I think EA would of been better off taking the year off of the main basketball game and marketed NBA Jam instead. The whole changing of the name to elite should of incorporated a whole new animation and game play engine.

[Jackdog]

Pared summed up my thoughts as well.

[oliveira311]

I will preface this by saying I am a fan of "Basketball Games" period. I started with Live in the old days, moved to 2K in '00 then last year I bought both and actually was very impressed by Live.

With that being said, I initially thought the change Elite was making by going away from animations was a good thing. I thought 2K10 was plagued by players "getting stuck" in long animations. I liked 2K10 a lot but it was something I thought Elite was going to solve. It did to a certain extent but I just doesn't accomplish the goal in a "smooth" fashion. It is a bit rigid at times and lacks the "style" that NBA players have.

I agree with a lot of posts on this forum: I think they should have built on last year and added the free flowing mechanics. 2K11 really ironed out all the transitions from animation to animation to a point where you don't get that "robotic" feel that a video game can produce. I am generally not a fan of the, "3 year plan" that developers give us but let's hope that we all can look back and say, "man what an improvement from Elite 11" - similar to the transformation from FIFA 07 to what we see in today's FIFA 11.

[StickeeGreen]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

Guys, this isn't a chat thread. Post impressions or don't post. Guys that can't follow this will find themselves looking for another forum. Enough is enough.

Pared, man you got me scared to give my impressions. This is an impressions forum right? I mean I can't sugarcoat this one...

[cjone03]

This is by for the weakest game i have played, i jus hit 8 threes with kobe nd hit 4 with somebody else nd ended the game with 97 points.

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by StickeeGreen

Pared, man you got me scared to give my impressions. This is an impressions forum right? I mean I can't sugarcoat this one...

It doesn't matter if they are positive or negative. How you explain yourself is more important.

People are actually trying to read through this thread and it is a mess.

Just post what you think about the game and explain why. If you are unsure of examples of what I mean, look to some of our long-time posters.

A good example: http://www.operationsports.com/vBull...post2041635893

[scottyp180]

Pointing things out as I play:

-Gather button is way to powerful. seems like u can use it to get by your defender at will
- The crowd cheered when I stripped/stole the ball with the C's?
-I like the the cpu defense stays in front of your man not letting you get by, but they literally just stand infront of you and will not allow you to get by. I'm only playing on pro so Rondo should be able to use his speed against fisher.
-Saw some good physics based reactions such as players falling/reacting to contact on shots, drives where contact was made effecting the layup/dunk,
-Commentary is better than what I expected, what I heard from the videos commentary sounded boring and not dynamic or live. The commentators react to whats going on on the court pretty well and bring up topics besides whats going on on the court.
-I really dislike that they removed turbo and replaced it with a pass button (I know I can change the controls but I'm trying to give the new controls a chance first). Maybe because the pass button has pretty much been the same for all basketball games but using RT/R2 to pass just doesn't feel right.
-Freethrows are kind of tough, mainly because I'm not looking at the indicators of when to release the shot. I feel like i should know when to shoot just by looking at the players gestures. In game the indicators aren't needed to know when to shoot, I feel like they are necessary if you want to hit freethrows.
-Defensive fouls, even when they are intentional, look like nothing happened. There should be more contact on intentional fouls and even just reach in fouls.
-Some of the jump shots look pretty good. Fisher, Kobe, Pierce, Allen all look good.
-Wish they kept the size up moves. I feel like they add more to the game even if your technically not in control.
-I have seen some travels where my player will jump for a shot and just not release the ball, maybe I hit a wrong button or something.

The developers really set up the disappointment for this game. The way they talked about this game made it seem like once you played it you wouldn't want to play another basketball game because of the amount of control. Comparing this to the 'other' demo and even to Live 10 I feel like the controls aren't a big of a step forward, plus it came at the expense of the animations. I don't see why they couldn't have kept the Live 10 formula but add some of the control changes they have in Elite (shot stick, gather/Eurostep control). I can see the potential of what they did, it just doesn't pay off this year. It is clear that it will take another year or 2 for Elite to get to the elite level, unfortunately EA might not have that much time if the sales for the game plummet (which is likely since so many fans of Live 10 dislike this demo)

[fatleg3]

i just switched to broadcast view and for some reason i have so much trouble with the controls and for the last few games it seems as if im back to square one. I cant not get past nobody at all

Its like every defender has turned into gary payton

And its so much junk on this thread im going to wait and until re post then ask my question again about the auto-strafe towards the basket and about turbo being patched in