Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Trial Available Now on EA Access, Post Your Impressions

[pietasterp]

Thanks for all of your early impressions, guys. Good, bad, ugly - it's all useful and welcome to those of us without early access. I guess the game is out tomorrow so we'll see how opinions change once it's in the wild, but nevertheless, it's fun to read people's reactions to the game. Especially people that know golf/golf games since those are the only relevant opinions from my perspective - frankly, official reviews on sports games (as most of us know by now) from the 'major' media outlets are pretty much useless to anyone but casual fans. Like they say with car reviews, sports games reviews basically boil down to: "there are no bad sports games (except for last year's models)".

I'll be anxious to see what you guys think after the first month or so, though, when you've had a chance to really dig in. I guess this will be an evolving game (with any luck), so it will be interesting to see how impressions change over time.

In the meantime, those of us sitting on the sidelines will still have this:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_PGA_Tour_96_1995

Good times.

[Pompeo89]

Quote: Originally Posted by OnlookerDelay

I'm really digging your impressions and responses on this so far cujomatty. Let me hit you up with another question. I hear there's a patch for the PS4 version already this morning available to on the net. Have you by chance downloaded this patch already and perhaps tell us what it added or changed? Thanks!

Any info on the PS4 patch?

[OnlookerDelay]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pompeo89

Any info on the PS4 patch?

I've heard nothing substantiated yet, this is why I was hitting cujomatty up for some information on it, since he's been playing the PS4 version since Saturday. Someone on the EA Sports Tiger Woods forum said that what was posted today was minor bug fixes only. It would stand to reason that a launch day patch would be released on launch day, which we're still a day away from at this time.

[DivotMaker]

Quote: Originally Posted by OnlookerDelay

I've heard nothing substantiated yet, this is why I was hitting cujomatty up for some information on it, since he's been playing the PS4 version since Saturday. Someone on the EA Sports Tiger Woods forum said that what was posted today was minor bug fixes only. It would stand to reason that a launch day patch would be released on launch day, which we're still a day away from at this time.

No way for that user to know what was in the patch, especially without a description of which said user has not confirmed yea or nay.....

[OnlookerDelay]

Quote: Originally Posted by DivotMaker

No way for that user to know what was in the patch, especially without a description of which said user has not confirmed yea or nay.....

Yeah, I noticed

[Darko240]

Well I gobbled up my entire 10 hours of the Trial over the weekend. I actually got my created golfer up to level 55 with all the experience. I must say, I played only in Tour mode, which doesn't allow you to move the camera down course before shots and uses the L analog stick. By the end of the session I was making par pretty consistently. Putting definitely is a little different then previous years. I actually enjoyed the quick rounds, playing 5 holes of the current round, and the rest being simulated. Especially with my golfers attributes so low, I didn't make the cut but just a few times. There was actually one season, where it said I must proceed to next year because I didn't have enough Fed Ex Cup points to continue playing in the remainder of the Tournaments.

As for Scottdale TPC, Its in the career mode, Im guessing all the course DLC will be available in career mode. As for your schedule it just says next event on the screen, so you cant really tell how far along you are in the season.

[CujoMatty]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pompeo89

Any info on the PS4 patch?

When I installed the game I also downloaded a patch. Not going to lie I really have no idea what it did.

[Pompeo89]

Quote: Originally Posted by cujomatty

When I installed the game I also downloaded a patch. Not going to lie I really have no idea what it did.

Yeah I'm sure it was something you wouldn't notice anyways but thanks for the info. I wonder if they will be able to fix the trees shaking in the wind. I just noticed that recently in a few feeds after someone pointed it out. Not a big deal but if you keep watching it becomes annoying after a while.

Counting down the hours till I can get my hands on it tomorrow. Glad to hear that TPC Scottsdale is in the season for career, I was kind of scared for a bit there.

About 28 hours or so until I'm off work tomorrow and teeing it up.

Just saw a chip from the fringe hit the pin and get stuck between the hole and flag stick. Pretty cool that it didn't go in thats one of the little things that makes the game more realistic.

Then the next hole the guy pulled it into the **** and they called it out of bounds? What happened to playing the ball anywhere on the course? It wasn't that far off the fairway.