Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Available Today - Post Your Impressions Here

[mrsaito]

sgagwi - I also have TW14 with DLC and agree that it's awesome. However after playing RM I just can't stomach the load times between holes.

I'm generally not of the ilk that the PGA Tour won't survive without Tiger Woods but it seems pretty clear that without his star power the golf series is dead.

Oh, and RM is a pretty good game in it's own right with all of the patches. The scope of the content is on par with some of the earlier TW games circa 2007 or 2008.

[scagwi]

Quote: Originally Posted by mrsaito

sgagwi - I also have TW14 with DLC and agree that it's awesome. However after playing RM I just can't stomach the load times between holes. I'm generally not of the ilk that the PGA Tour won't survive without Tiger Woods but it seems pretty clear that without his star power the golf series is dead.

The load times bother you that much?

Honestly I barely noticed them as I was always checking the leaderboard or whatever got put up on screen for the 6-10sec or so of loading..

In any case - I'm just glad to have the full DLC TW14.
Like NCAA Football 14, it may become a super rare and coveted classic...

Hell - To your point, there may never again be a mainstream, mega-licensed, full of features and Pro golfers big budget Golf game release. Rory doesn't count to me - way too much missing

[kehlis]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jojiman

As I sit here in CT, dreaming of hitting the links, I come to the realization that we are getting hit with 12-18" of snow from a late winter Nor'Easter. UGH! Playing actual golf is now postponed for a little bit. The only thing I can do is play video game golf. Never played the Golf Club, but am a fan of the PGA series. My question is, does EA still own the license? If yes, any word on a new release? Love using licensed golfers like DJ, Spieth, Rory, etc. Also, like the real life PGA courses. Don't know why with the power of the PS4, they can't mimic the actual PGA Tour season and include more than 12 PGA pros. Contacted EA and no response back. They should just give up the license and let someone else take the license. They were headed on the right track, with adding galleries, to mirror actual tournaments. However, the announcers were dreadful and the feel of the PGA was not all there. They had dumb celebrations and the commentary was repetitive and not good. Any input would be appreciated. Thank you!

Check out the post made just two posts above yours.

[Turbojugend]

Agree with scagwi, TW14 + DLC was just incredible. I don't think I've played a better/more enjoyable game of video golf.

[DivotMaker]

Quote: Originally Posted by scagwi

@jojiman: I think conventional wisdom is that EA is done with golf for the foreseeable future as they would seem to think it is perhaps too small or narrow a market for the way they like to do things (big budget - mainstream - etc). I honestly just fired up TW14 PS3 (I have *all* the DLC too) and it's so depressing to see where the series should be right now vs where it is (dead). That game was absolutely feature packed I had a ton of fun playing several rounds and I may keep at it. I just wish it had even better graphics at this point (since it's 5-ish years old now and on PS3). There was so much potential. I don't know why they had to trash can everything and go how they did with Rory. The TGC series so far hasn't done much for me as they don't have true real course recreations (fully - with all the right look and buildings, etc) and it makes it hard to be fun for me. I like real courses (that look correct, not just the layout) and would like to be able to do a career/season on the Tour, etc. There was a whole spectrum of fun that only EA was covering with their licenses and the likenesses and the budgets they have and so forth. There is hope that TGC 2019 coming later this year is finally going to try to address the real course situation in a more meaningful way, but HB Studios always does a lot of talking - not always backed up with results, for various reasons - so I will remain optimistic, but somewhat skeptical until I see some examples of their upcoming Real Course Recreations, meant to be paid DLC. Being paid DLC means they have a high bar to hit for looks/quality/etc.

Three big reasons:

1) The Tiger engine dated back to TW '06 and was literally a house of cards, very difficult to program for after years of add on code bloat.

2) EA needed to move Golf to a new engine for PS4 and X1. Enter Frostbite3.

3) Sometime during the end of TW14 development and launch of RM, EA decided not to put too much content into RM due to lackluster sales of TW14 (720K copies). IF RM had flown off the shelves, the plan was to bolster it with more content to someday get back to the content of TW14, but they learned during RM development that rebuilding all of the content from the old TW engine was extremely resource intensive and time consuming. EA simply did not see a positive ROI for Golf as RM sold just north of 800K units, so they left the Golf video game market for the foreseeable future. RM can be found for under $10 or is fee to EA Access users. What a sad ending for a once proud franchise.

[DJ]

For those that are still playing, what swing mechanic are you using? I've been on the 3-click for a bit and with the right settings, it's pretty challenging.

[scagwi]

Quote: Originally Posted by DivotMaker

What a sad ending for a once proud franchise.

A truly great summary divotmaker.

I have more gameplay hours in the Tiger golf series than anything else and it's just hard to believe it's over.

[jbd345]

I said it at the very beginning. It was a mistake to put Rory’s name on it should’ve just left it as pga tour golf, or pga tour 16. Before the game sold on just on tigers name alone. Rory didn’t have that. Really would like too see this franchise come back someday. But not have a single player tied to it.