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

[faster]

Quote: Originally Posted by rEAnimator

I don't want to bash Live too much, but its reliance on two player animations was just too pervasive. And that was the number one thing that needed to be fixed. Go back and try Live after you've played the Elite demo long enough to get a good feel for it. That should give you an idea of what we changed. You'll have to take my word as a developer for the difficulty in making the changes to Live.

I did and I want NBA Live 10 back -- badly. SOOOOOOOOOOOOO many of us thought 10 was a really really good game that needed a few things ironed out. Instead, we've got.............. this.

Over the past couple years I turned from the 2k series to live and was really excited for this year. I haven't been on the forums for months until recently. I came on and saw they scrapped a tremendous came for a project. Ok, that sucks but let's see how it goes. After today I can officially say I'm a 2K guy again. The AI is atrocious. The announcing is embarrassing. The graphics are, well, I don't need to say it. The controls are "meh" -- and albeit an attempt to be revolutionary, what really happened is you guys shot yourself in both feet with shotguns.

Sales will dictate how bad of a move this will be. Don't think just because we're sim gamers here we don't in some way represent what casual gamers are going to say and do. The single biggest move that EA did was make the graphics aweful and casusal gamers will not stand for that. Returns and word of mouth will destroy sales. Maybe the EA hype machine can overmarket this game and trick a few, but eventually it's going to catch up.

Shame on you EA.

[faster]

Quote: Originally Posted by BiggD

What am I missing, it's not there..

You're not missing anything.

Ugh.... I'm going back to bed, I'm grumpy apparently.

[stizz]

It's weird that it's not there for you BiggD. I'm downloading it at the moment.

Have you tried that link people have been posting?

[odbman]

Downloaded the demo and as seveal have said big disappointment.controls not user friendly.not a sim game more a skill game based on you mastering the controls.again I will pass on EA basketball this year

[bdoub42]

WHAT THE HELL THIS GAME FELT LIKE I WAS PLAYING NBA 09 WITH MY SON ON WII WHAT WERE THEY THINKIN EVERYTIME I SHOT THE BALL IT WENT IN THIS BAD REALLY BAD LOVE THE IDEA BEHIND IT BUT I'M CONVERTING TO 2K IT HURTS TO DO THIS BEING A LIVE FAN SO LONG BUT THIS GAME IS PHONY AS EVER

[Admiral50]

Quote: Originally Posted by faster

I did and I want NBA Live 10 back -- badly. SOOOOOOOOOOOOO many of us thought 10 was a really really good game that needed a few things ironed out. Instead, we've got.............. this. Over the past couple years I turned from the 2k series to live and was really excited for this year. I haven't been on the forums for months until recently. I came on and saw they scrapped a tremendous came for a project. Ok, that sucks but let's see how it goes. After today I can officially say I'm a 2K guy again. The AI is atrocious. The announcing is embarrassing. The graphics are, well, I don't need to say it. The controls are "meh" -- and albeit an attempt to be revolutionary, what really happened is you guys shot yourself in both feet with shotguns. Sales will dictate how bad of a move this will be. Don't think just because we're sim gamers here we don't in some way represent what casual gamers are going to say and do. The single biggest move that EA did was make the graphics aweful and casusal gamers will not stand for that. Returns and word of mouth will destroy sales. Maybe the EA hype machine can overmarket this game and trick a few, but eventually it's going to catch up. Shame on you EA.

I agree. I just played Live 10 again and my goodness it has super smooth animations, silk controls, the two man animations looked great AND did NOT feel uncontrollable or 'sucked' in type moves and basically makes Elite look and feel like a Live 2006 or 2007 quality game. If that.

Seriously, Live 10 was a great game. Elite (based on the demo) is a heap of crap.

[fatleg3]

yea the speed burst thing has been my biggest problem. I was playing with bos and i was winning. I pass the ball to nate and he was ran down by fisher who was trying to foul him

for everyone that says it looks so easy to get to the basket from the videos, um that is definitely not the case unless you are playing a user with bad on ball defense.

one more question. how do you dunk if you are right under the basket with the ball

[erickonasis]

Well one thing i do like and i can see alot of people complaining about is the graphics (360). It seems they FINALLY got rid of the hunchback players which has been a main gripe of mine for years.

On the other hand the lack of a turbo / speed button im not diggin at all. This game will definitely take some time to get used to and hopefully it wont put me off from it. its definitely going to be hard to play 2 basketball games this year because of the different control schemes on each.

I still like the direction they are heading game feels different from 10 which i hated