Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09 Questions

[Steve_OS]

Hey guys, I'll be headed out to EA Vancouver and will have the chance to play the game and interview the Producer. Please submit your questions and I'll do what I can to get them answered.

[LingeringRegime]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09 Questions

Ask them if they have resolved the poor control issues of 08 (bad swing stick mechanics)

[DivotMaker]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09 Questions

Hey guys, I'll be headed out to EA Vancouver and will have the chance to play the game and interview the Producer. Please submit your questions and I'll do what I can to get them answered.

The game is being developed in EA Orlando, otherwise known as Tiburon. Will the Producer be in Vancouver?

[OnlookerDelay]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09 Questions

Thanks for taking questions Steve:

1.) Will this year's swing interface model interia? You can start and stop the swing animation on a dime with the interface to date.

2.) Will there be any camera configuration control in this year's game? I'd like to have some control over the way the action is presented. I find the "ball cam heavy" presentation to be non-immersive from a point of view perspective.

3.) Will there be a fully proportional putter in TW 09? I find the multiple putter ranges to be counter-inuitive.

4.) Any chance for user created, multi-round tournaments via Gamernet?

5.) Is there only one tier of simultaneous play (realtime telemetry tracer arrows) for multiplayer online? A 'virtual instant replay' of your opponent's shot would be a preferable alternative.

6.) Will the only angle for viewing your opponent playing their shots in multiplayer online be limited to the shot camera? What I'm getting at here is that this game badly needs a "player perspective" presentation option, where you see all of the action unfold from where your golfer is standing... at least until the cut scene to a downrange camera once the ball has traveled halfway to its destination.

7.) Will you see the other golfers standing where they would be standing in real life, as you're playing your shot? Will you see other golfers playing adjoining holes as you're playing tournament rounds?

8.) Will it be possible to play offline tournament rounds with a featured pro (preferably the one closest to you in the leaderboard standings) in career or season mode?

I better shut up before I wear out my welcome! :-)

[JimmyPelican]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09 Questions

Thanks for taking questions Steve:



3.) Will there be a fully proportional putter in TW 09? I find the multiple putter ranges to be counter-inuitive.
my welcome!

I would like to know this too. Have they made any changes/improvements in the putting mechanics/feel?
I was hoping they added something like Links putting system.

[Zalf]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09 Questions

1)Have they addressed the "rubberband" scoring in single player tournaments so that the AI players shoot scores based on something besides the score the player shot the last round? As it is now, the field's score changes drastically depending on what you shot in the previous round.

2)I am assuming this one isn't in or we would have heard about it already, but: Will we have the option to actually play with our playing partners in single player tournaments? Right now, you are just out there all by yourself.

[Casper]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09 Questions

Thanks for taking questions Steve:

1.) Will this year's swing interface model interia? You can start and stop the swing animation on a dime with the interface to date.

2.) Will there be any camera configuration control in this year's game? I'd like to have some control over the way the action is presented. I find the "ball cam heavy" presentation to be non-immersive from a point of view perspective.

3.) Will there be a fully proportional putter in TW 09? I find the multiple putter ranges to be counter-inuitive.

4.) Any chance for user created, multi-round tournaments via Gamernet?

5.) Is there only one tier of simultaneous play (realtime telemetry tracer arrows) for multiplayer online? A 'virtual instant replay' of your opponent's shot would be a preferable alternative.

6.) Will the only angle for viewing your opponent playing their shots in multiplayer online be limited to the shot camera? What I'm getting at here is that this game badly needs a "player perspective" presentation option, where you see all of the action unfold from where your golfer is standing... at least until the cut scene to a downrange camera once the ball has traveled halfway to its destination.

7.) Will you see the other golfers standing where they would be standing in real life, as you're playing your shot? Will you see other golfers playing adjoining holes as you're playing tournament rounds?

8.) Will it be possible to play offline tournament rounds with a featured pro (preferably the one closest to you in the leaderboard standings) in career or season mode?

I better shut up before I wear out my welcome! :-)

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Number #7 and Number #8

These questions are very important to me ... the other's are very good questions too.

Thankyou and Cheers!

[Ruffy]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09 Questions

Ask them if they lan to let you do the control like hotsot golf style and do that on all difficulties....I though swinging with the analog was novel but it got old in a hurry......also the diffculty of the game has always been too easy and has been a huge turn off for me....shooting -20 all the time gets annoying..

[ComfortablyLomb]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09 Questions

I second or third the "will the Ball Cam" be tweakable (read: able to disable) this year?