The Golf Club Arrives This Spring (Xbox One, PS4, PC)- Videos, Screenshots & Features

[Seymour Scagnetti]

Not too excited about this. While a course creator is something many of us have wanted, if that is what they're hanging their hat on then it could get dull quickly if there is nothing else to draw you into playing. If it has the feel like you're playing a practice round with no crowd reaction, no commentary, no graphic overlays etc....well how often did you play a practice round in TW? And we all complained that game had bad presentation but this game looks to have much less.

A good golf game with replay value needs a lot more than a course creator. You need good presentation, difficult gameplay and good physics and the fact that none of these features is really highlighted then that has me worried. And online is always a crap shoot and most sports games that have been around for years are usually a mess online and to expect a new Dev to have a problem free online set up is asking a bit much. And if the game is not difficult enough than you can have a million courses, it won't mean much if the best scores online are -20 every round because its too easy. And if TW really hasn't nailed the difficulty down after all these years that yield realistic scores online then do you really expect it to happen now?

There's no real career mode and combine that with bare bones presentation then I see the game getting dull pretty fast. Yeah there will be updates but how much can they really add to a career mode or presentation with updates but with no PGA license? You have to code those things in from the ground up, not as semi regular patches or updates.

A course creator is nice but if everything else is lacking which is a distinct possibility from the looks of things then its hard for me to see how you wouldn't be bored of this after a week.

[DivotMaker]

Not sure why you are so down on this game......another Golf developer is competing with EA (nonexistent for the time being) and I am pulling hard for these guys to pull off a good game. They don't have the resources of an EA SPORTS, but they do have a vision for what their game is going to look like. How many users complained about the DLC courses and lack of course creator for the Tiger series? Another HUGE PLUS is they are listening to the community and taking in the suggestions and responding to those suggestions. I do not expect them to come out with a fully featured PGA TOUR simulation right off the bat, but I do like the fact they are working on getting the CORE GAMEPLAY and main features done correctly before bringing other elements into the game moving forward. Plus they are going to have Open and Closed Beta tests which certainly gives me confidence they are intending to ship this game with their best foot forward. If EA had taken a similar approach, TW14 and previous versions would have been much better than they actually did. Not sure what is wrong with that approach.....

At the end of the day, don't buy it until if/when it meets your needs.....many of us what to help them build what we want, not simply what they want in the game....

[HustlinOwl]

Quote: Originally Posted by Seymour Scagnetti

Not too excited about this. While a course creator is something many of us have wanted, if that is what they're hanging their hat on then it could get dull quickly if there is nothing else to draw you into playing. If it has the feel like you're playing a practice round with no crowd reaction, no commentary, no graphic overlays etc....well how often did you play a practice round in TW? And we all complained that game had bad presentation but this game looks to have much less. A good golf game with replay value needs a lot more than a course creator. You need good presentation, difficult gameplay and good physics and the fact that none of these features is really highlighted then that has me worried. And online is always a crap shoot and most sports games that have been around for years are usually a mess online and to expect a new Dev to have a problem free online set up is asking a bit much. And if the game is not difficult enough than you can have a million courses, it won't mean much if the best scores online are -20 every round because its too easy. And if TW really hasn't nailed the difficulty down after all these years that yield realistic scores online then do you really expect it to happen now? There's no real career mode and combine that with bare bones presentation then I see the game getting dull pretty fast. Yeah there will be updates but how much can they really add to a career mode or presentation with updates but with no PGA license? You have to code those things in from the ground up, not as semi regular patches or updates. A course creator is nice but if everything else is lacking which is a distinct possibility from the looks of things then its hard for me to see how you wouldn't be bored of this after a week.

Thats fine and all but highly doubt this game will retail for 60

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[Skyboxer]

Quote: Originally Posted by HustlinOwl

Thats fine and all but highly doubt this game will retail for 60 Sent from my LG-L40G using Tapatalk

And every start up game has to start somewhere. It's not going to be a 10/10 game day 1.
I'm supporting them as we need another option(and a PC game!!) and if they continue to show improvement why wouldn't I support them.?.?

[OnlookerDelay]

Check this out gang... apparently, HB Studios was to be the team who were going to code Tiger Woods PGA Tour 15 before EA Sports decided to cancel it:

"The team that had previously worked with EA Sports in the past on games like Madden NFL, FIFA Soccer and Tiger Woods PGA Tour was ready to get started working on the next Tiger Woods PGA title when they received word from Electronic Arts that the company wasn’t going to release a golf title in 2014. So, Wellard, Garcin and the rest of the Nova Scotia-based studio, filled with the urge to build a golf game, knew that the time was now to make a mark of their own in the sports gaming market. It was time to make a brand new, never-before-seen golf game for the, at the time, upcoming next-gen game consoles."

Here's a link to the full article:

http://gamesided.com/2014/01/24/step-inside-golf-club/

[Lieutenant Dan]

Quote: Originally Posted by bluengold34_OS

From what I understand you can play your shot from anywhere as of right now. There currently is no designated out of bounds areas - but they will look into possibly implementing that at a later time.

Awesome. So I can play like I do in real life; from two fairways over

Quote: Originally Posted by Seymour Scagnetti

Not too excited about this. While a course creator is something many of us have wanted, if that is what they're hanging their hat on then it could get dull quickly if there is nothing else to draw you into playing. If it has the feel like you're playing a practice round with no crowd reaction, no commentary, no graphic overlays etc....well how often did you play a practice round in TW? And we all complained that game had bad presentation but this game looks to have much less.

Seymour...you represent the Rage of the Golf Gamer and you have kicked EA's *** all over the planet, oftentimes for the better and you're so verbose about it that it probably worked, or at least made it to the board room for discussion and summary denial

However where this title is concerned, I am ALL over it. I will continue my never ending career on TW14 until the next TW game comes out, but in the meantime this game offers something else, a really cool alternative that could create a great OS (and others of course) golfing community where we share courses and hack divots into them!

I can curse out ODogg for that skinny fairway that doglegs right in between my club distances, Bob can curse me out for a cliff side 260 yard par 3 on a links course (heheh, it's coming!)...the design possibilities can bring out the designer (and designer troll) in all of us.

I am so onboard...I can see wasting two lifetimes just creating, testing, and tweaking courses. It's like a sandbox golf game and it looks FRICKIN' fun!

[Golf Clubber]

There is a post about closed PC Beta testing now on the game's website... I can't post the link with being new on here... but definitely check it out!

[OnlookerDelay]

Quote: Originally Posted by Golf Clubber

There is a post about closed PC Beta testing now on the game's website... I can't post the link with being new on here... but definitely check it out!

Thanks clubber, I sent my request in this afternoon.