Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Available Today - Post Your Impressions Here

[davis420]

My hope for RM is that since it's not a yearly title, just like UFC, I'm hoping they give us enough updates going forward to keep playing. I would be happy if they said every 3-4 months will be a update with courses or additional golfers and mode additions.

[pencerm]

Now that I've had the game for a while, I can still say I'm enjoying it. At the bare minimum they'll add 6-10 more courses (I'd imagine more). That alone makes this purchase worth $60 for me. I spend 60 on two half decent rounds of actual golf. This provides far more hours of entertainment.

The one thing that is KILLING it for me though is AI scoring in career. I know it's been mentioned but my goodness. I'm playing the Spring Invitational in season 2. After round 1 I was at -6. Leader was at -7. Fast forward to Sunday. Heading into the final round I'm -19 and second place is -5. Seriously? The wind dropped to basically nothing days two and three and scoring TANKS. And it happens in every single tournament. Big numbers day one, then everyone goes backwards while I win by 15-30 shots.

If they don't add an option to increase AI scoring or patch the scoring system as it is now, career mode won't get touched. Right now I'm just going through the motions to unlock everything but once that's done its online tournaments only.

[smitty67]

Pencerm, I'm glad to hear you are still enjoying the game. I am too to a certain degree. I am not good enough to play well in the online games, but I do try to play the daily tournaments to try and get better.

But that's about it for me right now. I slogged through three seasons of the repeating courses, and barely had the game a shade over two weeks and have almost stopped playing because of the lack of a career mode.

I'm one of those guys that likes the Dynasty mode on NCAA with the uniforms, recruiting, scheduling and all that. I like the Be a GM mode on NHL for the same types of reasons. Even Madden last year on the Xbox one was good for the building a team.

This game needs way more for me to stay in it as far as the career mode is concerned. But, I will still try to play some online events to try and get better, but I will hope beyond hope for more.

[DivotMaker]

Quote: Originally Posted by pencerm

Now that I've had the game for a while, I can still say I'm enjoying it. At the bare minimum they'll add 6-10 more courses (I'd imagine more). That alone makes this purchase worth $60 for me. I spend 60 on two half decent rounds of actual golf. This provides far more hours of entertainment. The one thing that is KILLING it for me though is AI scoring in career. I know it's been mentioned but my goodness. I'm playing the Spring Invitational in season 2. After round 1 I was at -6. Leader was at -7. Fast forward to Sunday. Heading into the final round I'm -19 and second place is -5. Seriously? The wind dropped to basically nothing days two and three and scoring TANKS. And it happens in every single tournament. Big numbers day one, then everyone goes backwards while I win by 15-30 shots. If they don't add an option to increase AI scoring or patch the scoring system as it is now, career mode won't get touched. Right now I'm just going through the motions to unlock everything but once that's done its online tournaments only.

I had the exact same problem with the game early on until I went with no green grids. Now my scores and results are spot on and competitive. Lost the US Open by 11 shots and lost the PGA by 2 by cratering on the last hole. Just won the first leg of the FedEx Cup at Troon -13 to -12. If I do win, it is usually by one or two strokes maximum. And I have had some fist pump moments hitting some long putts. Looking at my stats, they are very realistic at 28-30 putts per round average. You can read putts in this game, but you do have to practice and lots of trial and error. There is a pretty decent PGA TOUR simulation there if you look for it, IMO.

Be careful what you wish for with AI....back in TW11/12/13 they had horrendous AI issues that you could never win a tournament unless you played on the easiest difficulty. I do agree they could improve on the AI scoring and especially the variety in commentary. For all the hours and reams of dialogue they captured, the output is becoming extremely redundant.

[Golfsprince]

Quote: Originally Posted by pencerm

Now that I've had the game for a while, I can still say I'm enjoying it. At the bare minimum they'll add 6-10 more courses (I'd imagine more). That alone makes this purchase worth $60 for me. I spend 60 on two half decent rounds of actual golf. This provides far more hours of entertainment. The one thing that is KILLING it for me though is AI scoring in career. I know it's been mentioned but my goodness. I'm playing the Spring Invitational in season 2. After round 1 I was at -6. Leader was at -7. Fast forward to Sunday. Heading into the final round I'm -19 and second place is -5. Seriously? The wind dropped to basically nothing days two and three and scoring TANKS. And it happens in every single tournament. Big numbers day one, then everyone goes backwards while I win by 15-30 shots. If they don't add an option to increase AI scoring or patch the scoring system as it is now, career mode won't get touched. Right now I'm just going through the motions to unlock everything but once that's done its online tournaments only.

Welllll, at the Open Championship, Jordan Spieth shot a 12- on Sunday and beat me by a stroke so.....

I missed the birdie on 18 *sigh*. So I guess the courses aren't always like you say. I know what you mean though.

[Barto]

Quote: Originally Posted by Golfsprince

Welllll, at the Open Championship, Jordan Spieth shot a 12- on Sunday and beat me by a stroke so..... I missed the birdie on 18 *sigh*. So I guess the courses aren't always like you say. I know what you mean though.

No one has ever shot a 63 in a major, so Jordan beats that by at least 3 strokes (assuming it's a par 72 course).

Come on EA Sports. Get it together!

[DivotMaker]

Quote: Originally Posted by Barto

No one has ever shot a 63 in a major, so Jordan beats that by at least 3 strokes (assuming it's a par 72 course). Come on EA Sports. Get it together!

No one has scored in the low 50's IRL, but you can do it in RM in arcade mode as well as TGC....they are both VIDEO GAMES. They are not Golf simulations.

[hawley088]

Quote: Originally Posted by pencerm

Now that I've had the game for a while, I can still say I'm enjoying it. At the bare minimum they'll add 6-10 more courses (I'd imagine more). That alone makes this purchase worth $60 for me. I spend 60 on two half decent rounds of actual golf. This provides far more hours of entertainment. The one thing that is KILLING it for me though is AI scoring in career. I know it's been mentioned but my goodness. I'm playing the Spring Invitational in season 2. After round 1 I was at -6. Leader was at -7. Fast forward to Sunday. Heading into the final round I'm -19 and second place is -5. Seriously? The wind dropped to basically nothing days two and three and scoring TANKS. And it happens in every single tournament. Big numbers day one, then everyone goes backwards while I win by 15-30 shots. If they don't add an option to increase AI scoring or patch the scoring system as it is now, career mode won't get touched. Right now I'm just going through the motions to unlock everything but once that's done its online tournaments only.

they need to add a dynamic difficulty that adjusts based your average score. If you want to play on classic mode and shoot -20 every round, the CPU will shoot the same