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Is The Golf Club Destined to be the ECW of Sports Games?

03:10 PM - September 2, 2014 by RaychelSnr

If The Golf Club was a wrestling federation, it would be mid-1990s ECW. Both products were born from and designed around the belief that the status quo in their respective industries had become stale and antiquated.

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# 1 ps3veron @ 09/02/14 03:21 PM

Although bare bones, I love this game and anyone with even the remotest interest in the sport should give it a shot.

# 2 DirtyJerz32 @ 09/02/14 03:35 PM

This game is easily becoming my favorite golf game. Hot Shots and Golden Tee are up there too.

# 3 bowld @ 09/02/14 03:37 PM

I have been playing non stop since purchasing last week. Sure it could use a career mode of some sort but for what it is I am still loving it

# 4 PAPERNUT @ 09/02/14 04:12 PM

This is everything most have been asking for at OS for years from devs and sports games. A game that will grow with added content without the need to spend $60 every year, developers that listen and implement from the feedback of their customers, a game that sticks to realism in its sport. I'm not sure what else you could ask for at this point. Game is already my GOTY and it will only get better as the devs have time to implement more to it in the future.

# 5 addybojangles @ 09/02/14 05:08 PM

Kudos to the HB Studios team on being completely transparent during *EVERY* step of the process. It's a big deal, especially with the tactics from EA Sports as of late.

# 6 GrandMaster B @ 09/02/14 05:39 PM

Really great game. Will only get better.

# 7 rolltide1017 @ 09/02/14 06:19 PM

The reason I love this game so much is because it has none of the fluff. I've never understood why some people cared so much about putting on a digital Nike shirt or having digital Callaway clubs when the core gameplay was a bad representation of the sport.

I hope they never add anything like skill attributes, I love the fact that everyone is on the same level playing field and the only way to get better is to play the game better. That is so refreshing in an age where you can basically buy your way to the top of every other sports game. I don't think a career mode is need either, we can create our own tours which will serve as the career. When not playing a tour you just go play a round of golf, like we all do in real life, no career needed IMO.

TGC is the best representation of the game of golf I've ever experienced on a console. Yes, there may be some rough edges but, the core gameplay is so good that those edges just fade into the background IMO. I can't wait to see what HB Studios has in store for this game in the future. I really hope it is a huge financial success for them, or at least enough to continue to put time into its development.

I have been a long time supporter of EA's series, even with it's short comings. I was looking forward to seeing what EA could do with the PS4/XB1 and was excited about the information they were going to release at E3... then they released that trailer. My interest took a huge hit but, I was still holding out hope that EA could surprise us because I love golf. Unfortunately for EA, I didn't expect to love TGC so much. I'm not sure I'll even give EA's game another look. With EA's track record, there is just no way they will be able to match the gameplay in TGC and that is all that matters to me. TGC is the only golf game I need.

# 8 NYJin2011tm @ 09/02/14 07:09 PM

I too was leery of buying this, especially with no career mode. After reading everyone's impressions here I took the plunge and glad I did. Just love the challenge of the many different courses available.

# 9 packermatt @ 09/02/14 08:57 PM

Completely agree with the comments here. It's a good game now and it sure seems like HB studios is going to make it a great game through the coming updates.

The gameplay is realistic and challenging, and the course creator is fantastic. I couldn't care less about using brand name clubs or seeing shirts with logos, so this game has everything I need (well, almost everything, but by the time the developers complete their updates, I'm confident it will be great)

# 10 greenegt @ 09/02/14 09:47 PM

This is my favorite golf game ever, the best since Links 2004 on the xbox. So glad HB took a chance on it.

# 11 OnlookerDelay @ 09/02/14 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by GrandMaster B


	Really great game. Will only get better.

QFT! Based on what I'm picking up, I've got a very strong hunch that with update #2, it's going to have such significant improvements and enhancements that I'll be calling it The Golf Club 2! It's going to have a lot of golf gamers tossing their cookies

# 12 burjeffton @ 09/03/14 12:10 PM

I really have enjoyed this game. It is bare bones, but that's quite all right since they addressed GAMEPLAY first and nailed it. From here I hope HB Studios can leverage adding a lot more creation options, features, accessories to the game... It can only get better

# 13 GrandMaster B @ 09/03/14 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by OnlookerDelay


	QFT! Based on what I'm picking up, I've got a very strong hunch that with update #2, it's going to have such significant improvements and enhancements that I'll be calling it The Golf Club 2! It's going to have a lot of golf gamers tossing their cookies

Yeah, I just can't wait until they add more objects, themes and maybe even surface types for the course designer.

# 14 OnlookerDelay @ 09/03/14 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by GrandMaster B


	Yeah, I just can't wait until they add more objects, themes and maybe even surface types for the course designer.

Yep, all of the above are needed. What is conspicuous in its absence right now are roads, cartpaths, and fences. It's odd to see clusters of cars in a 'grass parking lot' with no roads leading to it? And fences are so frequently a landmark signature on golf courses. It sort of feels incomplete without all of these staples.

# 15 RumbleCard @ 09/03/14 04:32 PM

The ability to build on the core game sounds great and price is spot on but with no annual release or re-release as the game improves say a year or 18 months down the road where does the revenue come from?

New buyers from word of mouth is eventually going to simmer down. What sustains this business model?

# 16 ASB37 @ 09/03/14 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by RumbleCard


	The ability to build on the core game sounds great and price is spot on but with no annual release or re-release as the game improves say a year or 18 months down the road where does the revenue come from? New buyers from word of mouth is eventually going to simmer down. What sustains this business model?

Some updates with more features will be paid DLC.

# 17 rolltide1017 @ 09/03/14 05:15 PM

Yea, I would expect some future updates to cost something, say a 2.0 or 3.0 update etc. They'd probably be more like expansion packs then updates, like Skyrim had, priced somewhere around $15. That's just a guess though. Honestly, this game is so great, they could charge me $35 a year and I'd be okay with that; as long as they continue to support the game with updates.

# 18 CbAgGa @ 09/03/14 07:06 PM

Ear 2 Ear reading the comments... Totally enjoy the game n props 2 HB Studios!!!!

# 19 Jgainsey @ 09/03/14 11:28 PM

I really haven't enjoyed a golf game like this in about a decade or so.

This game is good enough to where I think I may be able to get my 50 year old dad(I know, I know.. there are plenty of you guys here older than that, lol) back into to gaming with a PS4 and the help The Golf Club.

We used to play a ton of Links and some of the older TW back on the original Xbox when I was in high school, and it would be awesome to do something like that now that we're older and in different cities.

I don't know what the future holds for TGC, but they have made an evangelical supporter out of me. It's just awesome to be able to get into virtual golf like this again.

# 20 mmathaifighter @ 09/04/14 01:01 PM

From the get go this game reminded me of the original PGA Tour Golf games for the Sega Genesis in the early 90s. No power up clubs and balls nonsense, no super tees, no special boosts if you wore a Nike visor. It was you and the course and your score depended on how good you were. Granted it had the PGA license but the core game play is the same. I almost cried when I saw the way the green interface is set up. The flowing lines representing the breaks on the green was how I remembered it in my late teen years burning away many late night hours on my Sega. This is my question, I immediately DLed this to my GFs gaming PC, which, coincidentally she gives me very limited access to...and I read some of the reviews that said the PS4 version is choppy. Has that been corrected and is it bad enough to put a damper on the experience? I'll DL it again for my PS4 if the choppiness has been corrected or if it isnt really noticeable. I WOULD like to see the devs add a lot more for player editing options. The only thing I miss from TW is the ability to make myself a well built tattoed guy wearing a wife beater, kinda the way I look and wear when I go golfing IRL.

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