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

[MLB01]

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

I was asking because yes, my guess was 2K wasn't alone in not anti-aliasing. That being said, my point wasn't to give you a hard time about it (I'll leave that to boilerbuz :wink. I just wanted to get an idea what the norm was.

You say the jaggies look worse on 2K's games. I'm curious, are you running the game in 720p or 1080(i or p)? If 1080, can I you try 720p? I know it is counter-intuitive, but I think the game actually runs natively at 720 and upscales to 1080, and I'm wondering if that is part of why it looks worse to you.

Yea.. i actually tried it every which way. I tried it on 1080p, which is actually just 540p upscaled I believe. Then I said, wait, maybe the upscaling is causing the bad quality and it partly was cause it does look sharper running at it's native 720p, but it still could use some AA. They just don't use the PS3's hardware effectively. It's ported over and it just doesn't use the hardware well.

I mean most of us seen what the PS3 is capable of when it's used 100% and every last resource is squeezed out of it. Those games look damn nice.

[cavsfan2]

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

WOW the presentation is great. first of all i love the new variety of people in the crowd. When Kobe made a fadeaway 3 the crowd was a heck of alot louder then when derek fisher made a open three, i really loved that. The new controls are really good, even though i havent really got the hang of it yet. Another thing is that i decided to try and cheese for a few games, and i think all of the cheese moves are pretty much gone ( and this is on pro-default, mind you.)

another thing i got a kick out of is when the game was over and it says "quit" as your only option, lebron was in the background. This was probably just a coincedence but i still cracked up.

[Krodis]

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One thing that is slightly bugging me is the amount of contested, turn around, fade away shots Kevin Garnett makes on me. I know he can shoot from mid-range, but no one should be making THAT shot at the frequency he does in the demo.

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[DakkoN]

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

Something that is really starting to irritate me is some of the floaty animations that occur when you contest a shot in the paint. They look really unnatural like the dude has a jetpack helping him hover to stay up longer.. No sense that those animations should look that bad when everything else is so good.

[eko718]

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I posted this in another thread and figured it could help some guys in here with the controls.

These are the sig moves I've been able to pull off thusfar:

reverse pivot -- LT+Y+LS in crossover movement

pump fake and step under shot -- LT+RS(flick)+ LS in direction +RS second flick + LS in direction

I also pulled off a crazy Hakeem Olajuwon-esque one hand fake turn around jumper, but I haven't been able to pull it off again.

EDIT: Ok, I just pulled off two ILL moves which included a one hand ball fake before the shot. It seems to have to do with the flick, flick controls Beluba described. It seems depending on the direction of the left and/or right stick, the animation will be different. I wish I could pinpoint how I did it but all I know is that the LT+LS+RS buttons are included.

[toomerk]

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

I posted this in another thread and figured it could help some guys in here with the controls.

I can imagine: drive right, LT+RS flick right, RS left + LS down for fade, right? Complicated, but would be dope to pull it off

[DakkoN]

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

I can imagine: drive right, LT+RS flick right, RS left + LS down for fade, right? Complicated, but would be dope to pull it off

What you're saying is absolutely movement, which is not what the demo is. The demo is camera relative movement for the isomotion and shot stick.

[eko718]

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

I can imagine: drive right, LT+RS flick right, RS left + LS down for fade, right? Complicated, but would be dope to pull it off

^^^Yeah, different directions pull out different moves. I've been pulling out some nice moves but they are hard to pinpoint since the controls are screen relative right now.

[toomerk]

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

One thing that is slightly bugging me is the amount of contested, turn around, fade away shots Kevin Garnett makes on me. I know he can shoot from mid-range, but no one should be making THAT shot at the frequency he does in the demo.

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Same here. But the one thing I noticed about the defense is that if you keep pressing the left trigger while pressing triangle (PS3), they will run at the shooter with one hand up. This seems to make them miss more than just jumping at them using turbo + jump. Not sure how you're playing D, but that has helped lower the percentages for me

[eko718]

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

Ok I think I got one. I was able to do a one hand fake turn around J using LT+RS(up)+ LS (up). I did this at the top of the key, so in an absolute control scheme this would equal LT+RS(right)+ LS (right).

[toomerk]

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

What you're saying is absolutely movement, which is not what the demo is. The demo is camera relative movement for the isomotion and shot stick.

My description was absolute, but relative if, for example, you start the move from the baseline (left corner of the screen in the demo). You would drive with your right hand toward the paint to start the sequence...

[eko718]

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

Same here. But the one thing I noticed about the defense is that if you keep pressing the left trigger while pressing triangle (PS3), they will run at the shooter with one hand up. This seems to make them miss more than just jumping at them using turbo + jump. Not sure how you're playing D, but that has helped lower the percentages for me

They seem to do this by default when they are outside of a reasonable distance to actually block the shot, which is good. You won't see guys jumping in the air trying to block shots from like 5 ft away any more.

[eko718]

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Pump fake and step under shot -- LT+RS(flick forward)+ LS(flick forward)+RS shot whatever direction

[toomerk]

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

Pump fake and step under shot -- LT+RS(flick forward)+ LS(flick forward)+RS shot whatever direction

Nice. Can't wait to get home and try these out...

[Pims33]

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Can someone explain me how to do Kobe's pump fake followed by reverse spin pivot, exactly, please(on the ps3)? Like where do I have to be, where to I have to drive, what direction to have to flick the shot stick and the direction stick, when should I be holding the left trigger and when to I have to let it go...