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[scagwi]

@NCP: Great stuff - Thank you..

What I can't figure out is why the distance you get set up with isn't the full club length?

Like on a 5I or something, the initial default set up is usually a few/many yards short of what you can stretch it out to with the D-Pad.

I'm pretty sure I've seen this even on shots not going to the pin, so I'm not sure why they are pre-adjusting the distance to something short of "100% of what the club can do" when I'm just hitting to further down the fairway, etc..

Any idea why or what they are thinking with that?
Is it riskier to try to get full club length in the eyes of the game/swing challenge?

It's mystifying to me - especially since they bothered to explain any of this exactly "nowhere" in documentation or online...

[ncp10]

Quote: Originally Posted by scagwi

@NCP: Great stuff - Thank you.. What I can't figure out is why the distance you get set up with isn't the full club length?

Think of it as your caddie is handing you what club he thinks you might hit and lets you know what the yardage is to the hole. It's helpful in H2H where you have a timer that you must complete the hole within else automatic double bogey is assigned.

[scagwi]

Quote: Originally Posted by ncp10

Think of it as your caddie is handing you what club he thinks you might hit and lets you know what the yardage is to the hole. It's helpful in H2H where you have a timer that you must complete the hole within else automatic double bogey is assigned.

Got it - thank you!

As a side note, do you prefer the gameplay in Rory or TW2014?
(all graphics issues & content aside I mean)

As I switch back and forth, I think I might be having more fun in TW2014 still.
You have any comments after all your experience with, I assume, both?

[DivotMaker]

Quote: Originally Posted by scagwi

Got it - thank you! As a side note, do you prefer the gameplay in Rory or TW2014? (all graphics issues & content aside I mean) As I switch back and forth, I think I might be having more fun in TW2014 still. You have any comments after all your experience with, I assume, both?

TW14 is by far the better Simulation experience IMO.

[scagwi]

Quote: Originally Posted by DivotMaker

TW14 is by far the better Simulation experience IMO.

I'm rapidly coming to that conclusion also..

I'm still blown away by Frostbite and the Rory graphics, but the gameplay does seem superior to me in TW2014

(and obviously the content/modes/rest of it is superior also)

I really like the way the swing feels/works more on TW. The strike meter is really cool and the longer stroke of the PS3 controller & swing is much more comfortable and enjoyable to me.

[ncp10]

Quote: Originally Posted by scagwi

Got it - thank you! As a side note, do you prefer the gameplay in Rory or TW2014? (all graphics issues & content aside I mean) As I switch back and forth, I think I might be having more fun in TW2014 still. You have any comments after all your experience with, I assume, both?

I bought two versions of TW since 2004 and they were so inferior I stopped looking and played TW2004 for 13 years or so. Mouse Tru-Swing was fabulous, and I doubt you can improve on it w/ a console controller and what it offers. The courses and the ani's were very good for 2003. Subsequent releases looked more and more cartoonish to me. I find w/ RM game play is excellent as both a TV golf event simulation, and as a playing simulation. My brother and I have matches going playing our own full season and so far I find it's been a fabulous simulation of the idiosyncrasies of RLG for us, and both of us are quite skilled w/ TW2004. We're not experienced as much w/ an xbox controller w/ joystick, but we're shooting between -4 and -12 depending on course and conditions. Some courses really present challenge especially on the greens. I'm an avid RLG as well playing to a 6 handicap at age 65y playing once a week w/o practicing, and this after a 3y layoff. I'm a PGA tour player fan as well, and for both of these RM hits the mark amply. Yes, it's a bit limited in content, but amply satisfying for me and my playing partner. We adjust conditions accordingly to keep the challenge up. I'm just barely getting brave enough to work the ball w/ the diagonal swing required, and at this point I will only risk it when I have to. We've had some fantastic matches thus far and expect more of the same going forward. I just started career mode and like it so far, but mostly it's playing H2H w/ my brother.

[ncp10]

I've looked at good quality youtube videos of TW2014 and I would not want to give back the entire visual package you get w/ RM, and I love Nobilo's commentary. We had a most lovely match at gorgeous Quail Hollow, then this evening we played the WGC - Mexico at Wolf Creek. Since H2H restricts time per hole per player we left conditions very benign, light winds, no gusts, Saturday pins, w/ tournament conditions otherwise, because it takes considerable time on several holes to decide how to hit your T shots and approach shots, and the greens aren't easy to putt. I shot -8 w/ a holed eagle at 107y. Amp up winds there and you will be lucky to shoot -5 or -6 in H2H. The time factor in H2H absolutely comes into play. i love the variety of courses in RM, even though some favorites are missing. If I could do mouse Tru-Swing that would be the big icing on the cake. You definitely feel most attached w/ that swing method I feel over JS driven swing. But the latter works and is giving us sufficient challenge. Sometimes the swing just goes, from that brief inattention, just like in RLG. The motions required w/ the little JS are sufficiently sensitive to nerves just as nerves come into play in RLG one loses tight contact with what is required to always perform perfectly. We have committed to avoiding any antics that would make the swing too easy, and I have come up w/ one already, but that is not the point, to cheat the experience by finding a vulnerability to exploit. We free-hand the JS and this presents challenge for us for sure.

On a 4K w/ HDR TV RM is really sweet looking and this adds immensely to the immersion factor.

[scagwi]

Good stuff man!

I wish I enjoyed the RM swing as much...

Beyond that I mainly wish they hadn't given up on the game.
So many more gorgeous courses would be AMAZING in RM.

Such a tremendous shame