Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 12: The Masters Demo Available Now, Post Impressions Here

[NorrinRadd12]

Agree with Seymour, I think they blew it. Caddie would have been a nice feature to replace the green grid but that's about it. All the game really needed was follow cam for True-Aim and more sensitive results when you flick the stick.

[callmetaternuts]

I played a little on the demo (PS3) yesterday. I haven't bought a TW game in 3 years so some of this is new, but overall I enjoyed it.

The caddie feature isn't what I expected, oh well.

What does True Aim do? Trying to figure out the different options.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

I went to go bitch on the EA boards about this caddie debacle and someone posted that one of the devs said you can disable the caddie in the full game although I'm skeptical as to why that option isn't shown in the demo.

If you can do it that's fine but if they don't give you club distances then playing true aim is still pointess because you can't judge anything with carry distance and there's no flagstick yardage indicator. It's still becomes an exercise in just hitting the percentage you customize in that little box when aiming. Unless the carry distance yardages are shown for all your clubs then true aim is simply an exercise in frustration and is still ruined.

There have been some posters over there asking whether we have carry yardage indicators for your clubs like last year's true aim (it's the only way you can play true aim effectively) and not one dev has responded so it doesn't look good. It looks like they are forcing this caddie option down the user's throat. I hope I'm wrong.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

The putting in the demo is weird too. My demo golfer is like a 97 putter but it's way too sensitive and a dev said it's more timing based than how far back you pull the putter. So if you have a 5 foot putt the faster you flick the stick the slower it goes and conversely if you pull back the stick back a little but do it slowly you get a harder putt. That makes no sense and is counter intuitive.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

ARGHHH, the dev said you can disable caddie option by pressing O (which I already figured out so it sounds like you can't turn it totally off) with the PS3 version but you still have the caddie recommended shot staring at you in the middle of the screen beside your custom shot so it's pretty hard not to be influenced by his recommendation. **** fail.

There are alot of pissed off sim gamers on the EA boards right now about this arcadey debacle of a a game and how they totally screwed up true aim and tourney difficulty and making it appealing to 6 years olds.

[fsufan4423]

Wow! I'd never thought I would see the day when someone was showing this kind of passion in this forum. I thought the demo played great from the golfing aspect. Every game had some gimmick you have to deal with.

I'll probably get the game just for the over all visuals and the fact it actually presents a challenge.

[fishepa]

Great...and I fully expected this too.

[wildinkc]

I am loving this demo. It will probably be a first day buy for me.