Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online Beta Review

[DivotMaker]

Quote: Originally Posted by kccaz01

The generation gap is showing itself here. This is an update to the Jack Nicklaus Golf game released in the late 80's. At leat the three click version is. More courses, sure but basically the same game. I guess everyone is bonkers about it because it's online and not a stand alone game. That and they can't remember the game this is based on. Probably don't even know who Jack is anyway.

Huh? What does TW Online have to do with Jack Nicklaus?

[starship]

The game went public today (I had been a beta tester). I tried to purchase a year's membership (it will only take a credit card for memberships--no Paypal) and every time I enter my CC and try to continue I get the message "The credit card cannot be verified". I have tried 4 regular credit cards and a debit card; have tried signing up from both my desktop with Windows 7 and my laptop with Win XP, have tried both Firefox and IE, and have tried two separate accounts. It fails totally on all of them. I'm 55 years old and have worked with computers since the 1970s, have written programs for my personal use & have built systems for myself and others, and I have never been so frustrated with anything computer-related as this.

Imagine--a computer company so completely inept and incompetent that, after demanding money, refuses to take it!

I think I'll steer clear of these turkeys.

[Brophog]

Quote: Originally Posted by kccaz01

The generation gap is showing itself here. This is an update to the Jack Nicklaus Golf game released in the late 80's. At leat the three click version is. More courses, sure but basically the same game. I guess everyone is bonkers about it because it's online and not a stand alone game. That and they can't remember the game this is based on. Probably don't even know who Jack is anyway.

Yeah, but in Tiger Woods Online you can't make silly bitmaps or impossible courses and then let the computer version of Jack try to play them.

There were so many ways those early games were entertaining without even playing them. You are right though.........the mechanisms in the online version of Tiger Woods feel like an HD version of those games. I don't know if that says more about Tiger Woods Online, or how great those games were...........

[jimrandolph990]

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Hands down, my new favorite game!