Computer Golf Question
 

Any ideas on the best one out these? I am still playing Jack Nicklaus 5 and am looking to get into the 21st century. (too bad they stopped making this series. JN was the best at the time IMO).

Anyway, what are the pros/cons of Tiger Woods and Links. How good/easy to use are the course editors etc..

I've read the reviews, but I wanted to get input from actual players.

Thanks in advance.

If JNSE hadn't irretrievably died on my computer, I would still be playing it.

I'm interested as well in hearing people on this topic: I'm a golf fan and would love to play a game of this.

I have the new Tiger Woods and I like it a lot. There are a billion options on how to make your golfer look and the career mode is really fun. As you go along you can unlock things to buy with the money you earn through the tournaments and stuff plus you can increase attributes. The hardest level is really hard and you have to read your putts.

I have no clue about the editor because I don't dabble in that.

I couldn't tell you about any comparisons because this was my first golf game.

I have Links for the Xbox and I've played Tiger Woods (not exactly a computer, but...). Anyway, I've found Links to be more realistic, but its not really the same kind of realism from say... 2 years ago. Tiger Woods golf put a lot of pressure on the arcade game. Maybe its different for the computer though.

dola, and PGA Tour III for the Genesis was the greatest golf game ever made.

Do either of these games still have a course editor/architect?

yeah tiger woods does... (this is for the computer btw)

This sportplanet site has a lot of courses:

http://dynamic3.gamespy.com/~notapro/index.php

Interasante.

Not that this could run on my computer. But interesting to know, for future reference.

I loved the JN series. I believe I have JNSE, 4, 5, and 6 (GB). I also have a few versions of Links, and TW2003. Heck, I even had SimGolf ... it sucked, but it was the first competitor to the JN series to include a course editor. I used to design courses (and host a web site) for JNSE, but I found that there are too many good designers out there, and all I need to do is let them spend the time to make the courses. :) FWIW, I think the Tiger Woods game is quite good, and there are a lot of great courses to download.

[nostalgia] Designing courses was the most entertaining part of JNSE for me. Somehow, the process of finishing a course started to get too complicated starting with JN4. SimGolf could have been cool, if the resolution had been bumped up a bit (so that each square didn't represent 30 yards by 30 yards).

I played soooo many rounds of JNSE over the years... [/nostalgia] if you had a website back in the day, craptacular, I probably visited it. What was it called?

Heck, I don't even remember if it had a name ... it was just part of my college website from '95 or so. I'm pretty sure it was the 2nd website to offer courses for download, after Terry Clark's. I also had a shortlived JNSE tour.

Well, I did a few google searches, and still found a couple pages with dead links to my old page. It looks like I called it "Seth's JNSE page". If you had a crappy course called "Aqua Valleys" in your collection, it was my first and only attempt at a public release.

Yup, the JN series was great. My dad and I started playing originally with one of the original versions. Today, we play every saturday morning via internet using JN:GBC. I went out and downloaded two CD's worth of courses, burned a spare copy. Every week we just pull another course out and play. We've already started repeating courses. What fun!

[nostalgia]The one with the cae.wisc.edu domain? And the weird green background? I downloaded a bunch of courses from there, I think... maybe Lee Ritze's Augusta National? I probably played, oh, a billion rounds on that course...

I don't remember/never downloaded Aqua Valleys. The only course I ever uploaded was one called Ausblick, which was at Ben Wicks' page [googling] doesn't appear to exist anymore [/googling].

Hard to compete with the Brian Silvernail's of the world... [/nostalgia]

Sierra made a golf game for a few years, PGA Championship Golf. It shipped at one point with nearly a dozen courses, and there were a ton more that you could get courtesy of the course designer.

They didn't look nearly as nice as the Links 2004 Xbox courses do now, but for the time, they were pretty damn good.

Yup, that's the one. I started with CAE's (the engineering school's computer network) template web page, changed a few things, and learned some HTML on the fly. Not pretty, but it had the goods (JNSE courses).

I played briefly on a JNSE tour once...maybe it was yours? I played one tournament, at a course called "The Preserve". I think it was a Silvernail course...?

I had PGA '99 and PGA '00. They were "okay", but somehow the gameplay wasn't that exciting to me, and the course designer was hard to use. I had trouble manipulating those polygon grids...you'd get these crazy-ass spikes all over the place... I was a bit spoiled by JNSE's "paint", or whatever the hell it was called.