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

[rEAnimator]

Quote: Originally Posted by wrelax13

Man Reanimator, its not your fault. I blame whoever came up with this 3 year plan garbage and decided to scrap what was a decent game last year. I mean, in 3 years won't new consoles be out anyway? In 3 years live could've been a beast. The good news is, it really can't get much worse.

I'd prefer it if you did blame me...or at least converse with me as you would with the person who did make the decision to change the direction of the game.

Because I was behind it 100% from day and I still am.

[Marc_Rez]

Ok so I just played the demo and.........................*Drops mic and walk out never to return*

[Fireworld]

Quote: Originally Posted by PRAY IV M3RCY

i just cant get over how the game "looks" as far as animations goes. Its just looking weird. For some reason when i play nba elite, everything strategy wise seems to be thrown out of the window, and i dont get the feeling that none of these players on the court, actually play like they would in real life.

+1

I agree

[Court_vision]

Quote: Originally Posted by rEAnimator

No you're not. Trust me.

Serious question...have you aimed this at a new market? The consensus here seems to be dramatically bad and even at your own forums + the NBA Live Series Center the feedback coming in is terrible to date.

That doesn't mean it's extremely bad...but rather maybe it's just not suited to older / more hardcore type fans?

Including it with NBA Jam seems to indicate to me that you're aiming at a much younger / fun based audience? Nothing wrong with that BTW if it makes commercial sense.

I've got to be honest though...seeing you constantly tell the guys here (hard core sim guys) that this game is good and does have the best methods ever for defense etc etc and how much you and the team who made it love the game....it's getting kind of awkward at this point.

I know you have a job to go...but praise should come from other people. Some of the guys here who've posted as to how bad the DEMO is are long term, hard core LIVE / 2K / NCAA players. They've played these things for years now. Rhetoric isn't going to blind them.

The scary thing is...some of the guys saying it's terrible are long time EA basketball fans here.

I'll be happy for you if the feedback improves over the next 24 hours, but I've honestly not seen this level of negative feedback ever for a game on these forums.

[bigball12]

Quote: Originally Posted by Fireworld

+1 I agree

Which is where the LACK OF AUTHENTICITY comes into play.

[noshun]

Wow, they ethered themselves this year. Self guillotine style. Controls were like molasses.

[rEAnimator]

Quote: Originally Posted by Boilerbuzz

The only time I've ever done this is if I'm in a protect dribble and my defender is on my left hip. As in a backdown. For the life of me, I can't think of another situation. However, I don't really have to THINK about what i do on the court. All of it is just, "natural".

And that's how I feel about playing Elite as well.

Are you saying the same thing, or do you mean in real life?

Once you get used to the controls, you don't really think about it either.

One situation is if you have a passing option to the right, you're dribbling with your right but the passing lane is cut off.

You may want to back up and move to the left a little while keeping an open stance and then make the quick pass once you've opened up the lane.

Another is to start moving to your left to draw in the defender, and quickly spin out to the left and leave him in the dust.

I know I could find youtube footage of NBA players dribbling away from their ball hand on the perimeter if I looked for it.

[coolcras7]

definitely not liking the blocking in this game, the defense has to much of a window to contest shots, no turbo was a bad idea everyone runs at the same speed though I had fast break but could not out run the defender with rondo, Artest caught me this is not suppose to happen