NBA Elite 11 Demo Roundtable

[RaychelSnr]

1. Best thing in the demo?

Christian McLeod - Kevin Durant's intro movie. While watching this all I could think was, "Why can't Elite actually look like this?" Durant is one of my favorite young talents, so it was nice to see him get a chance to showcase his virtual skills as the game begins.

Steve Bartlett - I'm thinking the same as Christian here. The intro movie with Durant throwing one down is sick. I would have to say that the J. Cole official theme song to NBA Elite is nice, too. I was actually having a good time shooting jumpers in the practice gym while listening to it.

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[Boilerbuzz]

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I don't know, Christian. I think you should have spent more time with the controls to get comfortable with them.

[VesperKid]

Wanna hear a joke? NBA Elite 11. HAHHAHAHA Oh BTW, I don't even want to read this ****!

[The Truth 101]

This is the funnest b-ball game I have played even with the problems it have, unpredictable gameplay is where its at.

[turftickler]

This read is spot on. Also, NBA Elite 11 is the worst basketball game I have ever played in the 20 years. We may be in total control in this game, but the game itself is out of control. I wish it wasn't so, because we need more than one good basketball game. We have to keep the other developers honest and true to the sport.

[LingeringRegime]

Very fair and balanced summary of the game. EA has made this bed, and now they have to lie in it. I hope that they can make some drastic improvement for Elite 12, but those improvements "MUST" be based on community interaction. Not this whole mindset: "This is what we did, what do you guys think? It's revolutionary, isn't it?" EA needs to humble themselves and LISTEN to what people have to say on the Wish List threads. Not try to give us something we are not asking for. If Elite 12 doesn't happen, it's not because of the negativity this game has received here on OS. EA will have to take a long look in the mirror.

[23]

Wish there was something to disagree on, and its just plain honesty... you guys are spot on.

Sorry

[lockdown50]

i want a review of the game from someone that is actually good at the controls but doesnt work for ea. i find the total control to be a good and bad at the same time. i think shooting and stealing and blocking should be a "dice roll" like in 2k i made 9 3s with ray in 1 quareter( i upped the difficulty)just because im good at shooting gtfo with that. this is not a basketball simulation. why have ratings if i can make every shot and steal everytime with my noob player in become legendary?

[The Truth 101]

Re: NBA Elite 11 Demo Roundtable

i want a review of the game from someone that is actually good at the controls but doesnt work for ea. i find the total control to be a good and bad at the same time. i think shooting and stealing and blocking should be a "dice roll" like in 2k i made 9 3s with ray in 1 quareter( i upped the difficulty)just because im good at shooting gtfo with that. this is not a basketball simulation. why have ratings if i can make every shot and steal everytime with my noob player in become legendary?

You will never hit that many 3s on superstar.

[Rocboyz101]

Re: NBA Elite 11 Demo Roundtable

Wish there was something to disagree on, and its just plain honesty... you guys are spot on.

Sorry

Same way I feel..

[Boilerbuzz]

Re: NBA Elite 11 Demo Roundtable

You will never hit that many 3s on superstar.

People underestimate gamers and it's sad.

[23]

Re: NBA Elite 11 Demo Roundtable

If I saw a dude can already hit 30 3pt hookshots already

and watching that cheeser hit 8 3's with kobe at the beach, anything is possible

[SBartlett]

Very fair and balanced summary of the game. EA has made this bed, and now they have to lie in it. I hope that they can make some drastic improvement for Elite 12, but those improvements "MUST" be based on community interaction. Not this whole mindset: "This is what we did, what do you guys think? It's revolutionary, isn't it?" EA needs to humble themselves and LISTEN to what people have to say on the Wish List threads. Not try to give us something we are not asking for. If Elite 12 doesn't happen, it's not because of the negativity this game has received here on OS. EA will have to take a long look in the mirror.

I completely agree. We spoke about this on our OS radio show the other night...Da Czar was almost angry at the fact that EA changed up the controls on everyone when nobody had an issue with the controls in Live 10. I know in order to advance the franchise, one day they will have to rebuild a control scheme but they didn't come to the community as to how they should do that. It was as if they had this idea, thought* it was going to be a revolution for a basketball sim, and just threw it at us like yeah, check out the best bball sim controls you will ever see.

It was handled terribly. I don't blame the devs - it's the big dogs at EA who need to be accountable. No studio can build a basketball title from scratch in a calender year and have the depth it needs to compete with 2K.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Pretty much spot on. The controls lends itself to 1 on 1 let me cross you over and do an alley oop off the backboard type of a game, instead of team based. Anytime you can use centers and power forwards like they are PG's and not loose the ball, something is severely wrong.

All the players on Elite feel the same mainly because you can do the same exact moves with all the players just as good. And what even makes it more sad is the fact they changed the name of their game to "Elite" and it doesn't live up to the name.

I mean that is like a mexican wearing a kiss me I'm italian t shirt. It just don't make sense. I guess next year they going to call their game platinum. Anytime you got to call yourself something to make you seem good, it is doomed from the start.

None of the greatest ever called themselves great, their peers did. If you going to talk the talk, you got to be able to back it up.

[pmully94]

13/14 from 3 point range with Kobe on the Elite demo, in 1 quarter! The only missed shot was one that was blocked, and all of them were right in front of ray allen. I just pulled a jumper in his face. (This was on superstar difficulty btw.) How is this simulation basketball??? For the all the people that will actually buy this game, i feel sorry for them because online is just gonna be a bunch of cheesers