Still Playing Links 2003?

[Cod]

Over 20 years later, Links 2003 is still getting updated courses from the community. I fired the game back up for the first time in a decade last night and forgot how good the same felt. Maybe rose tinted glasses, but any bad shots I made felt deserved, good shots rewarded, and ball/cup physics felt realistic.

Are any of y'all still playing? Any mod recommendations (animations, courses, etc.)?

For those that haven't ever played or tried it, you can get the game for $7. You can buy the 47 official courses if you want ($15 for game and courses), but most of the custom courses are better quality these days.

[scagwi]

Still playing Perfect Golf, and loving it, every day, but if it stopped working for us, we'd go back to Links 2003 (or maybe TW08)

Both Links & TW08 have new courses made for them, to this day, and already have a roster of courses nothing else can touch.

It's incredible and hearkens back to an era of golf gaming that was about the user experience first and great golf game play, customization and extensibility.

It's a crying darned shame that none of the modern games are modifiable and extendable as those games were (Links in particular)....and really all the modern games are just short term rentals that will be fully unusable whenever the publisher decides so

[BigSexyJC]

While I'm playing 2k23 and also enjoy designing courses for that game, I still get great enjoyment out of Links 2003. I know it's an old game, but there is still a strong community (LinksCorner.org) with a course library of almost 3000 with a handful of course designers still very active.

I stay pretty involved in the community and recently just created my own Links 2003 website (jclinks2003.com) to host all of my Links 2003 creations. I've made over 200 PGA Tour golfer animations for the game along with apparel and golf clubs and enhanced the golfer utility.

I know the game is older, but if you haven't heard of it or played it don't let that stop you. The game has features that we won't probably see again in future golf games. The ability to create AI players and rate them so they play like their RL counterparts is one of those features.

If you have questions about Links 2003 feel free to ask, as I'd love to get more folks introduced to this oldie, but goodie.

[MHammer113]

Links 2003 was the birthplace of anything modern. As you probably know, Mike Jones was the start of PerfectGolf and the software that is now used exclusively by Trackman.

The entire TGC series was born from there and its amazing to see the progress that has been made.

[pietasterp]

I have heard good things about Perfect Golf from you guys for a while now. Where do I get/try this game? I haven't seen it anywhere on the game storefronts, and it appears to be abandonware at this point (?).

But I'd be willing to give it a shot for sure.

[scagwi]

Quote: Originally Posted by pietasterp

I have heard good things about Perfect Golf from you guys for a while now. Where do I get/try this game? I haven't seen it anywhere on the game storefronts, and it appears to be abandonware at this point (?). But I'd be willing to give it a shot for sure.

It's on Steam still

[pietasterp]

Got it - maybe I'll check it out.

[AlanBer]

Quote: Originally Posted by pietasterp

I have heard good things about Perfect Golf from you guys for a while now. Where do I get/try this game? I haven't seen it anywhere on the game storefronts, and it appears to be abandonware at this point (?). But I'd be willing to give it a shot for sure.

I'm sorry, that was a generally failed experience. Devs just dropped out of site.

All-- if not all than most-- came from Links, the monetary side.