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

[parkinson]

Quote: Originally Posted by DickDalewood

Read the title of this thread man... what does it say? NBA ELITE 11 DEMO AVAILABLE, POST IMPRESSIONS HERE. This isn't a Speak Only Nice Things About EA and Elite thread; this is a place for EVERYONE to discuss why they DO and DON'T like the game. Don't like it? Tough. You're more than welcome to put everyone with a "negative" opinion of the game on your ignore list. In the meantime, the rest of us will continue to discuss the game as we please. Besides, I could make the same "argument" (and I use that term very loosely in this case) to you; If you LIKE this game so much, then why are you spending your time in here instead of playing it and enjoying it? I swear... some of you freakin' hypocrites...

I knew this kind of comment is going to come. Yes, your saying is quite fair. But I see his sentiment. As somebody said, ppl are beating a dead horse now. I think he wanted to say that he is fed up with hearing pretty similar comments from ppl every second after demo was dropped. Maybe we need kind of refreshment.

[MLB01]

Quote: Originally Posted by DickDalewood

Read the title of this thread man... what does it say? NBA ELITE 11 DEMO AVAILABLE, POST IMPRESSIONS HERE. This isn't a Speak Only Nice Things About EA and Elite thread; this is a place for EVERYONE to discuss why they DO and DON'T like the game. Don't like it? Tough. You're more than welcome to put everyone with a "negative" opinion of the game on your ignore list. In the meantime, the rest of us will continue to discuss the game as we please. Besides, I could make the same "argument" (and I use that term very loosely in this case) to you; If you LIKE this game so much, then why are you spending your time in here instead of playing it and enjoying it? I swear... some of you freakin' hypocrites...

Yea, OK.. You're reiterating to me that it's an impression thread, but you got people in here leaving the same negative impression over and over. That's all good ?

Don't act like you know me. I couldn't care less about EA. It's not even like that, so chill out.

[poseidon44]

WHY are the same people who have posted negative impressions and trashed this game still continue to post here? I mean if the game is as bad as you claim, then what's the point of rehashing the same nonsense over and over again. And some are actually getting upset because there are people out there who find this demo enjoyable and very playable.

[Playmakers]

Quote: Originally Posted by MLB01

Don't act like you know me. I couldn't care less about EA. It's not even like that, so chill out.

You guys need to lighten up

Relax have some fun.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv9M3...eature=related

[23]

I want all of you to get back on impressions or be banned. Who cares what other people's opinions are...none of you can tell someone what to post and what not to post.

[ajknows]

Ok I wanted some time with both demo's before I gave my impressions, so here goes.
When I played the 2k demo I was not all that impressed at first because I had hyped it so much in my on mind it couldn't live up to it, but the more I played the more I became to like it and thought wow this game really is great. Then the Elite demo came out, and my expectations for this game were really, really low.So I go to download it after reading all the bashing it was getting from people on here and try it out for myself, and damn if they weren't right I was like how in the world could EA even think about putting this game out this year with what 2k was doing.

But then I said to myself go into the practice gym and play around with the controls thats kinda fun... that was a mistake, I learned the controls and some cool combos.
So what the heck lets go play a game and see if we can pull them off... now I can't stop playing! The more I play the more I love the control and begin to feel the flow of the controls not just spamming trying to force all the moves but feeling them in a natural flow of the game.

Now with the way the game looks, I really like the look, players look like them selfs but in a gta cover art kinda way is the best way I can but it. Where as 2k players just look like they are from a dawn of the dead movie, kinda scary looking.

The sounds, love the ball bouncing on the floor, rim and net sounds... commentary no were near as bad as I thought it would be after watching the vid's, I like it. The crowd emotion is great and really adds a lot too the game.

Ok now that I'm hooked on playing the game I go back to the 2k demo to do some comparison and wow ELITE you ruined it for me, my player feels out of control, moves are hard to pull off,it feels sluggish and well just blah to me. So then I find myself turning on my xbox 360 and playing the Elite demo more than 2k's, I keep going back trying to make myself like playing 2k's more than Elites But I can't... but why, 2k's got it all the player sig moves that look perfect tons and tons of cool animations, AI plays better.
Why,because Elite is just more fun and I have so much more control.

Is Elite the prettiest game to watch, no. There are a lot of bad animations and wtf moments in this game, but guess what there in 2k also, they just have tons of great animations so people can live with it.
And I know people complain about rocket dunks in Elite and they should, but I'm about tired of seeing K.G. hit turn around jumper's from all over the court with Gasol all up in his face in the 2k demo. And it too has it share of well he shouldn't have been able to do that dunk moments.

Elites AI needs a lot of help, to many wrong things going on here, 2k seems much better here but not perfect. In both games I pulled players off their man and ran them off the court to see how the AI would respond, and well they didn't...2ks was a little better but
still had problems knowing how to react to this.

Bottom line neither game is really a sim game in my mind, they are both videogame basketball not even close to a real broadcast nba game, yea 2k has all the window dressing this year, Jordan and tons of other things packed into their game, but if the core of the game
is no fun to me then none of those other things matter, the gameplay will become stale to were I can't enjoy all of those things.

Elite doesn't have all that window dressing but once you learn how to play it and learn the controls it's just fun, and I hope they stay the course and fix the AI problems add sig's and all the cool looking animation's for the players without hurting the control we have now.
I think you guys have a good foundation here... now stay with it!!

I know 99.9% of the people on here will disagree with me but I think I would rather play Elite with all it's warts than watch a lot pretty animations on 2k.

[rEAnimator]

Quote: Originally Posted by ajknows

Ok I wanted some time with both demo's before I gave my impressions, so here goes. When I played the 2k demo I was not all that impressed at first because I had hyped it so much in my on mind it couldn't live up to it, but the more I played the more I became to like it and thought wow this game really is great. Then the Elite demo came out, and my expectations for this game were really, really low.So I go to download it after reading all the bashing it was getting from people on here and try it out for myself, and damn if they weren't right I was like how in the world could EA even think about putting this game out this year with what 2k was doing. But then I said to myself go into the practice gym and play around with the controls thats kinda fun... that was a mistake, I learned the controls and some cool combos. So what the heck lets go play a game and see if we can pull them off... now I can't stop playing! The more I play the more I love the control and begin to feel the flow of the controls not just spamming trying to force all the moves but feeling them in a natural flow of the game. Now with the way the game looks, I really like the look, players look like them selfs but in a gta cover art kinda way is the best way I can but it. Where as 2k players just look like they are from a dawn of the dead movie, kinda scary looking. The sounds, love the ball bouncing on the floor, rim and net sounds... commentary no were near as bad as I thought it would be after watching the vid's, I like it. The crowd emotion is great and really adds a lot too the game. Ok now that I'm hooked on playing the game I go back to the 2k demo to do some comparison and wow ELITE you ruined it for me, my player feels out of control, moves are hard to pull off,it feels sluggish and well just blah to me. So then I find myself turning on my xbox 360 and playing the Elite demo more than 2k's, I keep going back trying to make myself like playing 2k's more than Elites But I can't... but why, 2k's got it all the player sig moves that look perfect tons and tons of cool animations, AI plays better. Why,because Elite is just more fun and I have so much more control. Is Elite the prettiest game to watch, no. There are a lot of bad animations and wtf moments in this game, but guess what there in 2k also, they just have tons of great animations so people can live with it. And I know people complain about rocket dunks in Elite and they should, but I'm about tired of seeing K.G. hit turn around jumper's from all over the court with Gasol all up in his face in the 2k demo. And it too has it share of well he shouldn't have been able to do that dunk moments. Elites AI needs a lot of help, to many wrong things going on here, 2k seems much better here but not perfect. In both games I pulled players off their man and ran them off the court to see how the AI would respond, and well they didn't...2ks was a little better but still had problems knowing how to react to this. Bottom line neither game is really a sim game in my mind, they are both videogame basketball not even close to a real broadcast nba game, yea 2k has all the window dressing this year, Jordan and tons of other things packed into their game, but if the core of the game is no fun to me then none of those other things matter, the gameplay will become stale to were I can't enjoy all of those things. Elite doesn't have all that window dressing but once you learn how to play it and learn the controls it's just fun, and I hope they stay the course and fix the AI problems add sig's and all the cool looking animation's for the players without hurting the control we have now. I think you guys have a good foundation here... now stay with it!! I know 99.9% of the people on here will disagree with me but I think I would rather play Elite with all it's warts than watch a lot pretty animations on 2k.

Thanks for posting this.

Glad to hear you are enjoying it.

[Court_vision]

reAnimator...will teams play differently in the retail version?

I.e. the Suns and Knicks = full court / quick shots.

Utah = half court / slow / lots of play sets.

Etc etc.