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Originally Posted by Edward64
Any golf gamers here? I just read a review of PGA 2K21 that was recently released and I'm intrigued.
I played and enjoyed a golf game a long time ago but haven't since (I think it was an early PGA version). I wasn't really even looking for a review but it popped up while reading about something else.
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I have owned all of The Golf Club Games (TGC, TGC2, TGC2019, and now PGA 2K21). I don't usually spend huge time on them but I think each has gotten better and if you have never played any of them but enjoy a solid golf sim/game then this is enjoyable. I would argue that the difficulty can be extreme on higher difficulties but very reasonable on mid and lower difficulties. It definitely takes time to get the hang of the controls (at least with a gamepad). Over the years with the series I have noticed that a better controller (newer, better latency/plugged in, and one my boys haven't abused to badly already) is worth it. I find the game very relaxing and very realistic for a golf game. In past iterations there were design choices that weren't always very realistic but this has taken huge leaps in this version (and smaller steps in each of the previous versions).
The difficulty is very customizable. The career mode is not amazingly feature rich but is very fleshed out now compare to 2019. I am pretty experienced and on normal settings can shoot about 5 under average on most career mode matches. The leading CPU player on out of the box settings shoots about 5-7 under most rounds. You have the option to increase the AI difficulty so they shoot better rounds (or worse) if needed. You can tune your own swing difficulty. You can enable/disable many assist features that help you improve your score (putt preview, zooming ahead to see landing spot (but you can still see a overhead map if needed), etc. Other aids that can be disabled are having landing/aim spot auto correct for lie, elevation, wind, spin, loft, etc. I would say that you can make this as easy or as hard as you want. Certainly some people might not be able to find a sweet spot but I would think that is pretty rare if they are willing to play with each of these settings to make it work.
I also like that this game has never embraced the arcadey power up shots and spin of the old tiger woods games. I loved those games but never used the special shots as they were totally unreaslistic. This game has none of that.
The graphics at least on my PC are excellent. Much better than previous iterations. The course creator is very robust and there are some talent folks out there that create courses for these games - though you have to figure out who they are because there is a lot of junk course creators that make courses that are nearly impossible.
If any of you do get it I would love to add some of you to my steam friends so we could play a round some time. I have yet to try the multiplayer in 2k21 but have in TGCs past and it can be fun though prior versions multiplayer modes were a little lacking in features to be honest.
I hope that helps you. Happy to answer questions if you PM me or post here. I don't visit FOFC daily like I used to but I will try to keep an eye out in case anyone wants to see what my experience has been with PGA 2K21.