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Its a really great game bought the 1st two and really just didn't sink much time into either. The putting for me is absolutely BRUTAL and without a group of friends to play with online (where are you SC) I'll probably pass.
The Golf Club has acquired the PGA TOUR license.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhvpAnokl-k
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Wow that was a nice grab for HB Studios. Hopefully they can provide a solid career mode. Last year was not bad since you could add created courses but too many of those courses had FAST greens which made things far too tough. I have posted on their official forums my wishlist. Options for users to tailor custom courses (green speed and time of day) were the big ones. More camera options especially the ones you change on the fly. Nobody needs two side view cameras. ;)
Wow. This just jumped onto my interest list now. I bought the first TGC that came out, but hadn't bought the second. Having a PGA Tour career just got my interest. Haven't played a golf game since Tiger Woods 12 with the Masters.
Glad they got the license. It's WAY more solid a golf title than anything EA ever put out but ultimately still falls into the dart game feel to me
Barely played GC2 so I'll wait for a price drop and more courses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOMf3pz8dRQ
- The game is out today. Did anyone get it? Thoughts?
- It wasn't really publicized, but 2K is publishing the title. Pastapadre is reporting that the game features microtransactions/virual currency.
Downloading now, I was too weak to wait... Again. I do blame Far Cry 5 as the one DLC I was looking forward to is just a glorified 7 stage Arcade mission with narration.
The VC is just coins to make it easier to buy gear and for some online stuff. Things you can accumulate actually playing the game. I gladly take this over their former publisher, Maximum Games, as this should allow for more growth to the series and hopefully get them a better game engine than Unity.
Just noticed you can now do wagers in online games with VC. That is a nice touch that really works well with a golf game. Finally a viable use for VC. 50 VC the Smails kid picks his nose.
https://i.imgur.com/n3uCWZ3.jpg
Just noticed that this one is Xbox One X Enhanced. 4K but no HDR yet.
Only one round in but you can see the major improvements right away. Everything is smooth with none of the jank navigating through menus or the delays showing the scorecard between holes. Irons and wedges have more weight to them allowing you to take a bit off a shot without having to tweak the loft/de-loft settings. Four NAMED camera views. (Full) which I am sticking with but there are three others which can be mixed and matched for drives, fairways and putting. Big improvement over the numbered cameras which never made sense. Game runs and looks great compared to TGC2 but having the X might also help. You now have a bunch more settings for weather, time of day to star round and other options setting up a round. They worked with some of the course creators and added many of them to the HB Official lineup (not licensed courses) which gives you around 30 courses that can be played offline. So if the internet goes down you still have the TPC courses (6) the old HB Courses and the user created courses that were made official. Staying with the Pro difficulty clubs for now as I need to get my timing down. The actual swing feels so fluid and you know when you know when you release the club back/swing forward too fast or slow and this is what will create the bigger slices or hooks. Only missed two fairways and both times because I was too fast on the swing thru. Yes, accuracy of the analog movement will also create a mishit but most of my swings were pretty lined up in that regard. Will probably change if I bump up to the higher club difficulty.
So despite having essentially zero announcements or public/community interaction leading up to the release, it sounds like it actually runs and plays good from what you're saying.
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Very encouraging, considering how little I played GC2 I'm going to wait for either a price drop or more PGA courses.
Pretty much. It was without question one of the worst PR fumbles in gaming history. They did not even release the price of the game until it showed up in the store. I am loving the game so far but there are some online issues and crashes that I have not run into. Do not play multiplayer and have not had a crash. Still think Rory looks better but you are also dealing with a AAA dev versus an indie and Frostware vs Unity. For me the biggest issue is that much of the janky stuff was cleaned up and all the added customization added in playing a round, player creation and the option of playing their standard qualifying/web/pgatour or making your own.Quote:
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Also seeing plenty of complaints about too much roll on short irons but as always HB will tweak the game over time. Some people simply are not happy with not being able to stop a 3 iron on a dime and expect every 9 iron shot to check up. HB has put a premium on tempo and you will lose spin when a shot is not hit properly.
Cool, as long as it plays good and it was only a PR shit show and not a gameplay shit show.
With Spider-Man and 2K19 coming out next week, I'll probably wait on this until it goes on sale, maybe during a holiday sale or something. But I'll definitely add this to my list of games to pick up down the road.
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Qualified for the Web.com coming in 3rd place. Sticking with medium difficulty and pro club settings for now. Won the first Web.com event by a stroke with a birdie on the final hole. Only hit half of the fairways but it seems the rough is a bit easy on the early levels as there has been no wind, soft greens and easy rough. I agree that the ball rolls a bit much but I think it is simply HB trying not to make golf a game of darts. You can loft up the club for spin but the swing line for an accurate shot is greatly reduced the more you change it. Have found the underclub and roll up works better for me. My drives have been all over the place on the last round. I have never spent so much time hitting practice swings before drives and woods from the fairway. Bad tempo, especially on the downswing has been a killer for me.
You can also switch up the difficulty or amount of rounds in the Tour at any time. This will be great for bumping up difficulty on certain events like Majors. Sticking to single rounds until I hit the PGA Tour and will go to 2 rounds for regular events and 4 rounds for majors.
Started toying with the custom tour (Solo Society) and they made almost everything customizable there too. The only snag is right now you are locked into how many rounds per event for a whole season. I was able to do two rounds for regular events and four rounds for a major in TGC2, so I am hoping this is something they forgot to add. Might have to stick to four rounds for everything but I did post about it on the official forums. Back to the customization, on any course, User Created or HB you can edit each of the rounds to play completely different. From wind speed, direction, weather/clouds, when your player tees off, softness/harness of greens and fairways, speed of the greens, etc. The tees are locked in, which is normal but you still have the varied pin settings. Pretty much everything I could hope for in creating a custom tour.
Now I just need to wait until the creators of all the real life courses, convert to TGC 2019.
Two wins in four events on the web.com tour. Only need one more win to automatically qualify for the PGA Tour. Did shoot an +11 on one of those events as I went all Roy McAvoy on a Par 4 that had a shortcut to the green, protected by water from tee to green. Three in the drink and the Fourth one hit a rock and landed safely enough for me to chip it past the green and two putt. Followed that up with three drives on the next hole that went OB. Other than that I played a really damn fine round of golf.
Can't wait to eventually get this. Loved the TGC and couldn't get enough of how well they did the ball physics and play of the game.
On the same boat with BD, those courses they create are awesome.
Believe I am getting it for X1 this go around instead of PS4
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We can rekindle our rivalry on the course if you decide to go X1. :up:
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Might do the same.Quote:
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For those who have the game, would you recommend it? I miss the EA golf games and still fire up Rory from time to time.