Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Available Today - Post Your Impressions Here

[bigkev]

You're asking a lot there, it sounds great for us golf nerds but most would absolutely hate that. I mean, I was in high heaven in TW13, I love just about all of it. The improved sponsorship challenges, the steps thru sponsors, and I just love spending all that time unlocking courses with my own coins.

Yet EA got hammered that customers had to spend all those hours to unlock the courses and equipment for free, all we heard was micro-transactions, micro-transactions, micro-transactions. Most wants everything, right f now. They had all of with HB before 2K shows up, no need to build anything with your golfer, no micro-transaction.

[MrArlingtonBeach]

Quote: Originally Posted by bigkev

You're asking a lot there, it sounds great for us golf nerds but most would absolutely hate that. I mean, I was in high heaven in TW13, I love just about all of it. The improved sponsorship challenges, the steps thru sponsors, and I just love spending all that time unlocking courses with my own coins. Yet EA got hammered that customers had to spend all those hours to unlock the courses and equipment for free, all we heard was micro-transactions, micro-transactions, micro-transactions. Most wants everything, right f now. They had all of with HB before 2K shows up, no need to build anything with your golfer, no micro-transaction.

Oh, for sure...I know that's a lot of pie in the sky thoughts there. I'd almost need an "Out of the Park" style game for golf to complement the "MLB The Show" PGA Tour game.

If they'd at least implement more sponsor things like TW 12 and 13 had, that would be good for me. PGA 2K21 sponsor stuff was so watered down and the goals made no sense (shoot -8 in a round without hitting a hazard is one that bugged me...I could shoot a -10 round, but because I hit one sand trap, I failed the goal. Silly). Plus, the sponsor contracts last 2 or 3 events. That's unrealistic and goofy to be hopping from TaylorMade to Callaway to Bridgestone to Ben Hogan all within one season.

I guess all I am looking for is a bit more depth and more realism when it comes to a PGA Tour career mode.

[pietasterp]

Quote: Originally Posted by bigkev

You're asking a lot there, it sounds great for us golf nerds but most would absolutely hate that. I mean, I was in high heaven in TW13, I love just about all of it. The improved sponsorship challenges, the steps thru sponsors, and I just love spending all that time unlocking courses with my own coins. Yet EA got hammered that customers had to spend all those hours to unlock the courses and equipment for free, all we heard was micro-transactions, micro-transactions, micro-transactions. Most wants everything, right f now. They had all of with HB before 2K shows up, no need to build anything with your golfer, no micro-transaction.

I like pretty much all of MrArlingtonBeach's thoughts and would be pretty happy w/ that kind of career mode. But I don't think any of that requires locking content behind an artificial wall to accomplish. Especially courses - those should never be locked in a golf game. Re: equipment etc, there's a way to do it where it doesn't seem penal but is an accomplishment; for example, maybe you could buy some of the higher-tier equipment if you want to use it before you are sponsored by a company, but once you are sponsored you get all of the equipment for free. Or something like that.

But they definitely have to make the career something worth spending time on. I mean, I won a tournament and nothing happened - they didn't even bring it up, I just hit "X" and moved on to the next tournament. Talk about a let-down...

The funniest line I read about Rory McIlroy PGA Tour's career mode was (and I'm paraphrasing here) if a career in professional golf was as unrewarding in real life as it is in this game, Rory might have pursued a masters in accounting as opposed to one at Augusta.

[bigkev]

If someone doesn't like locked courses, it's pretty easy, 2K/HB is the game for them. If someone doesn't like to build his golfer and want to go at it right away on their career mode, 2K/HB is the game. If someone is only interested in playing an unlimited amount of courses, it's 2K/HB. For those hating everything EA and promised themselves to never buy another game from them, 2K/HB is the game for them. There will be choice now.

[callmetaternuts]

I’d like to see the ability to select type of
Golfer (bomber like Bryson, short game wizard like Spieth, all around, good iron player) with ability to improve in weak areas.

I don’t like starting as a “high ranked amateur or
Pro” but can only hit the ball 220 off tee. I don’t want to rank up from duffer to pro unless it’s consistency. No one going to Q school drives the ball 220.

Caddies should play a part in yardages. Slightly different reads etc would be interesting.


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[lowpaiddonkey10]

Quote: Originally Posted by bigkev

Because almost all of them are career mode guys, and they want some of the stuff EA used to have. Most of them want to go from hacker to pro to build their golfer like in EA. I'm one of those guys wanting to build from scratch and thru the Tours. As long as there's lot of contents i.e. Majors, PGA courses stops, etc. the rest is just nice to have. I actually didn't mind the caddie in TW12. You had the choice of executing the shot or going your own way. It was just different.

I would like to see a caddie or four and my opponents standing around the tee.

[MrArlingtonBeach]

I liked that Rory had life to its rounds - your caddie was there, standing near you or even holding the flag as you lined up your putts. Fans moved more naturally, and even walked around on pathways off to the side. This is something I expect EA to continue - have a realistic atmosphere that feels like a real PGA Tour event.

[pietasterp]

Quote: Originally Posted by bigkev

If someone doesn't like locked courses, it's pretty easy, 2K/HB is the game for them. If someone doesn't like to build his golfer and want to go at it right away on their career mode, 2K/HB is the game. If someone is only interested in playing an unlimited amount of courses, it's 2K/HB. For those hating everything EA and promised themselves to never buy another game from them, 2K/HB is the game for them. There will be choice now.

This seems like an unnecessarily hardline view.

Quote: Originally Posted by callmetaternuts

I’d like to see the ability to select type of Golfer (bomber like Bryson, short game wizard like Spieth, all around, good iron player) with ability to improve in weak areas. I don’t like starting as a “high ranked amateur or Pro” but can only hit the ball 220 off tee. I don’t want to rank up from duffer to pro unless it’s consistency. No one going to Q school drives the ball 220. Caddies should play a part in yardages. Slightly different reads etc would be interesting.

Same wavelength. I actually made Bryson as my 'create-a-player' for this renewed go-around with the game, and I'm trying as best I can to make him a power-hitter at the expense of the other skills, but it's not clear to me what any of the attributes do (why is there "strength", "long game", and "driving"? what do each of these things do?). Also, the create-a-player options are really limited...pretty much any guy you make ends up looking exactly the same as any other guy you can make.

Also, I agree that the artificial difficulty curve at the beginning coming from only being able to drive the ball 220 and having to hit 3 iron into every par 4 is a really poor way to implement difficulty. Especially, as you point out, if your create-a-player was a former NCAA champ! Doesn't compute....

I always hate it when I'm better at golf in real life than my videogame character guy is. Because I'm not really that good at golf in real life.

Quote: Originally Posted by MrArlingtonBeach

I liked that Rory had life to its rounds - your caddie was there, standing near you or even holding the flag as you lined up your putts. Fans moved more naturally, and even walked around on pathways off to the side. This is something I expect EA to continue - have a realistic atmosphere that feels like a real PGA Tour event.

I will agree with that. I also like that the galleries are pseudo-interactive; I've had more than one wayward shot hit a spectator in the leg bounce back into play. I think that's pretty cool when it happens. The galleries are pretty well done in the game.