NBA Elite 11 Demo Details

[EmpireWF]

LOL at this demo video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLPGDyE5pEE

this poor shmuck has no clue what the hell he's doing.


edit:

aww shit...my eyes are burning with tears

 

[jms493]

that was fucking funny as hell!

 

[WalkMan]

Yeah, I could only compare NBA Elite 11 to the NBA 2K11 psp version. lol.

 

[stevsta]

Yeah, I could only compare NBA Elite 11 to the NBA 2K11 psp version. lol.

gasp

is he finally admitting nba 11 looks like shit and 2k is by far the better basketball game

 

[leaffan]

I seen it when he was coming back and I was just waiting for him to notice the dude standing in the middle. Then he tried to pass the ball to him. Classic.

 

[Tengo Juego]

I cant believe it took him so long to notice.

 

[BigBucs]

Dude said WTF about 100 times. "Look at this nigga standing there like Jesus" LMAO!

 

[Point Blank]

Him saying WTF was the funniest part to me.

 

[stevsta]

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/2573787.page
an EA dev on elite and why they took the route they did

OK, so here's the straight goods. I was debating whether or not to post this, but I think the Live fans who are disappointed deserve an explanation as to why we changed direction like we did.

This is for guys like WTF, Pared, Behindshadows, Court_vision, 23 and anyone else who has supported Live over the years and feel let down or betrayed by the changes made in Elite.

This is not an apology, but an explanation, and explanation you deserve.

It's no secret that Live was losing market share to 2K. And despite the fact that Live 10 was critically well received, the market share did not reflect that.

But that was not the reason for the change.

Now this is the part sim fans on this forum are going to have a hard time hearing. But I think you deserve the honest truth.

The basketball category as a whole, ie the number of people who buy either Live OR 2K has been shrinking.

That is the number one reason for the change in direction.

If the market for basketball games was healthy and growing, or even maintaining a healthy number, we'd be battling toe to toe with the market leader trying to win back market share.

But the truth is that people have been leaving basketball games behind. There is certainly a healthy hard core base of fans here, and the community is stronger than ever before.

But the numbers are shrinking. That is an undeniable fact.

Now look at it from EA's standpoint. Live was losing market share in a shrinking market.

That is not a good position to be in. Something had to change. We not only needed to grow market share, but we needed to grow the market.

The hard core sim gamer obviously likes 2K quite a bit. But as successful as they are, what 2K is doing is not enough to grow the market.

So we needed to try something different. Something innovative. Something to bring back fans who'd left, and appeal to basketball fans who don't play video games.

That is where the emphasis on control and a dynamic, unpredictable gameplay experience came from.

Focus on fun and control, to draw in the people who play drop in at the Y and dream about competing in the NBA, but don't play basketball games.

Given the time constraints, we had to let the visuals suffer to accomplish our goals.

We feel we succeeded. The game is a ton of fun to play.

Would we have liked to have beautiful visuals as well? Yes of course, but we had to make some hard choices.

And we stand by them.

What does that mean for the sim gamer? Are we leaving you behind?

No, not at all.

We feel the hardcore sim gamer is vital to the future success of Elite. No question about it. It's the solid foundation the market is built on.

But we had to grow that market and try something new.

The response so far on this forum has been much more negative that I would have liked. I'm not going to lie.

I was hoping to hear people say things like "well it doesn't look as good, but man it really represents the sport well. It feels more like I'm playing real life basketball than any other game, and it's FUN".

I still think that sentiment will prevail, but a lot of long time fans feel let down.

And I understand why.

But hopefully this gives you a better understanding of why we focused on what we did.

Everyone knows that competition is good for everyone, and we're trying as hard as we can to make the basketball market as healthy as possible so you can continue to enjoy competing franchises for years to come.

That may mean we didn't deliver everything you (the sim gamer) wanted in Elite, but we did deliver something fantastic.

And if you take the time to understand and appreciate the depth of the raw basketball skill based gameplay, I can promis you that you'll have a ton of fun testing your skills against your friends and opponents online.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

So EA is throwing in the towel on sim gamers, and catering to the casuals?

Shocking.

 

[killgod]

The numbers are shrinking because EA doesn't put enough development into their games on a yearly cycle. They spend too much time telling us how awesome it is and not making it awesome. I'd guarentee they spend 1.5 to 2x the amount of resources on marketing their average updates.

Back in the early part of the decade it was still a fresh idea to come out every year and the product was able to change much more drastically. No longer this is the case and their games are no longer worth it.


EA reached certain sales figures before their games started to lose interest and in order to grow as a business they need to reach out to other markets to make up for lacking interest in the hardcore market. It's cheaper with resources to spend time working on some two bit casual feature than to raise the bar technically and pull something amazing....like a whole new level of CPU AI as an example.

There's too much risk in developing something like that, than it is for them to put in some half ass easy mode feature which will get the attention of people who don't care, yet pisses off (more than EA realizes) the hardcore fan.

What I don't get about this whole casual movement, is that even if they impress some casual fans this year, casual fans WILL NEVER FEEL THE NEED TO BUY THIS GAME EVERY YEAR. Never. They are CASUAL and always will be. Only nut fucks like us and places like OS, TGL, etc, are coming back even if we hate what we see during development....but that's starting to change as they constantly fuck up their games with super long (broken) feature lists and catering to other audiences.

I'm no market expert, but I'd wager EA sports titles will continue to suck for the next few years until they get back to making football games for football fans and basketball games for basketball fans.....not for everyone.

Call of Duty is for FPS fans, if you're a casual newb, just play on easy.
Uncharted is for action fans, if you're a casual newb, just play on easy.
etc

However EA Sports games? If you're a casual newb, don't worry, we'll change the whole fucking game around just for you, even though you won't be back in 2012 regardless if you like it or not.



I'd rather my video game be really good at being what it is, rather than being a "jack of all trades" when it comes to it's feature list. EA should continue to suck as long as this keeps up.

 

[IamMedellin]

so far the best thing about the game is the Rowdy crowd And the J.Cole intro

 

[Tengo Juego]

You know why the NBA market has shrunk? Cause Clay Bennett stole our Sonics!

 

[IamMedellin]

You know why the NBA market has shrunk? Cause Clay Bennett stole our Sonics!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkcX_5hZN6U[/ame]

 

[BigBucs]

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/2573787.page
an EA dev on elite and why they took the route they did

I hate these faggots. All this catering to the casual fan is killing their games. Fight Night, Madden and Live all POS because they want to do shit to cater to some dickhead who dont know or care to know jack shit about football. NFL please do not re up that exclusive license. I cant look at the strides they are making in NBA2k and sit and wonder what could have been if they had the rights to the NFL. I just cant.

 

[Boucher]

Uhh COD is for noobs, a game like ARMA or Operation Flashpoint are for the hardcore fans...