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Old 09-28-2010, 02:13 AM   #1219
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Gunna put this in the 2K thread since Elite doesn't really deserve it's own thread.

The demo for Elite came out today and I tried and didn't like it but loved...the idea of it. I guess.

The presentation is ESPN style so that will blow 2K out of the water, no doubt. Wish 2K could cut a deal with TNT but I think that other shitty game has a deal with them. Anyway, I always love TV-Style broadcasts in games and it looks like Elite will have the leg up on 2K. No biggie.

The controls... are different. Obviously. I think I love it but I dunno. I was a big MLL (Lacrosse...lol) fan a few years back when Arizona actually had a team. Tickets were on the cheap and our team was actually good and the games were fun to go to. I always wondered what a true game would be like and to have movement of the player with the LS and movement of the stick with the RS. This seemed so simple and a no brainer. Basically, what the NHL franchise has done the past couple of years. There is an indy LAX game, but it's pretty terrible. I'm getting off the point.

I loved the idea of controlling the player with two thumbsticks rather than buttons. So I was really psyched to try this out. But for me, it doesn't work. Not the controls themselves, but the presentation of the game. I think if you take away the sideline camera angle you lose a lot of feel to the game.

I think it was an extremely ballsy move by EA to go to a drop down camera and thumbstick controls. Really ballsy. There will be a lot of backlash (mostly from black people whose screen names are YoUnGjEeZy, GhostKillllA, oOX smoke XOo, etc) and it will be interesting to see how this is played out.

So, I'm giving a lot of credit to EA for doing this, but I don't think it will work. And besides, even if they did switch back to buttons, they STILL have the inferior game. I'm not bagging on the controls. I love them and can't wait to see how EA can expand with them. But it's still not as good as 2K

It takes some extreme balls to completely rehaul a sports like they did. Especially without any feedback from the community first.
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