Why does everyone like Tiger Wood's game so much???

[JimmyPelican]

Re: Why does everyone like Tiger Wood's game so much???

It's ridiculous that the best golf game is still a 5 year old original XBox title, which is inexplicably light-years beyond Tiger Woods in terms of a sim golf experience.

Have to agree here!

[OnlookerDelay]

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Have to agree here!

Yep... sad but true. Heck, I still think NCAA Football 2004 on the PS2 if the best football game. I haven't touched NCAA Football 2009 (don't play football games until September), but from what I'm hearing, it's probably not going to be fully playable until after the second patch.

[pietasterp]

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Yep... sad but true. Heck, I still think NCAA Football 2004 on the PS2 if the best football game. I haven't touched NCAA Football 2009 (don't play football games until September), but from what I'm hearing, it's probably not going to be fully playable until after the second patch.

Yeah, and frankly, even then NCAA's probably not worth it...My buddy got it, and we played maybe 8-10 games and now the thing is permanently entrenched in the dust-collecting section of his bookcase...you know, next to 3-year-old copies of NHL, NBA2K6, and Call of Duty. Patches won't help (in my opinion), because I just don't like the basic football engine that EA employs. Nothing short of a new engine can fix that for me.

Honestly, the game that's been in heaviest rotation among my friends of late is, amazingly, Goldeneye on the ol' N64. Oldie but goody. Just like "Leaderboard Golf" and "Jack Nicklaus Unlimited".

[Casper]

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I'm with you on this front Casper! This game is sorely lacking in creating a tournament atmosphere in every sense of the word. I've been playing a lot of Links 2004 in Career mode lately, and while it won't let you play in a pairing with one of your competitors in tournament mode, it at least gives you a better sense of what they're doing elsewhere on the course. You can even hear distant crowd reactions to what they're doing, followed by a comment from the announcer with a text report of what happened. There are also players playing behind you, where they should be according to the standings!

I think I've said all I can say about the cameras. I'm already sick of ball-cam for 2009 based strictly on the videos!

Yeah I know, Links 2004 is still my game of choice! and that was the original xbox, we are in the next-gen now ... c'mon ea please get with it.I even remember a game from the playstation one day's (Fox Sports Golf 99) and Acura Golf and even then you would get matched up againt a cpu closest to how you were playing during each round ... and up to this day even thou the graphics and all were pretty yucky lame, It had a ton of camera angles to choice from and a free floating camera that would randomly play all cameras if you chose to use it. Plus, you could freely rome and set up the camera for your shot ... up down, left right, backwards or forward as far as the moon or as close as the soul. 2 comentators, one that was Peter Allis and the other was Americian but can't remember his name that were fluid with tons of lines and you could choose either one or the other to comment on your round or tournament, or both!! and crowd sounds coming from everywhere. Haha, it even had a create your own course, as many as you like out of the six that they provided.I want a tour atmosphere and much better camera action so bad, wow, I can't believe with the hi-tech hardware it's just not happening.

[pietasterp]

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If you're waiting for EA to put out the next good golf game you'd better pack a lunch...it ain't happening in this lifetime.

Once the engine for a game is made, EA never EVER changes it for the lifecycle of a console. They have been successful, from a financial standpoint, with the current engine Tiger Woods employs, hence there will be no appreciable change in the game until XBox720 or PS4 or whatever they call their next systems come out.

Some other developer, that I was hoping was going to be 2K (why are they wasting their time making sub-par Don King-licensed boxing games, when they own the Links property?), is going to have to step into the void and blow us away with some incredible, lifelike, simulation golf game. I mean, they made an f'n ping-pong game, and they won't devote resources to golf? Now that there's no College Hoops anymore (RIP...what a great franchise that was), they theoretically should be able to devote a team to some new IP (or reviving an old, dead one). I can only imagine; NBA 2K-like graphics, but with hi-def, BRIGHT (I always found Tiger's palate too artificially green and dark...) colors w/ good variations in the turf textures, that plays a no-apologies SIM game of golf. Camera angles - including fixed, behind the golfer, cut to reverse on landing, TV-style overhead blimp, NO ball-cam....

Eh, what's the use? I don't know why I should expect that in 2008 I should have the same depth, breadth, and variety of choices in my sports videogames that I did in 1996....

[brk1078]

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Tiger Woods is a great series of games. I love the series, but I may not get this years game because I am addicted to We Love Golf for the Wii right now.

[Klocker]

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sorry for the TJ but since it is being talked about; is the Xbox1 Links game BW compatible on 360?

Never mind

found it ... yes

picking it up today at game Crazy for $5.

[baa7]

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While I'll admit I'm an unabashed EA-*****, they have absolutely no leg to stand on when it comes to their golf offerings. Simply put, they are horrible.

That's huffing, puffing hyperbole at its finest, sorry. The PC version of the game is terrific. And while the console version tends to cater to the "300+ yard drive, hit every fairway" crowd, the fact is it's a decent game in its own right.

[pietasterp]

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That's huffing, puffing hyperbole at its finest, sorry. The PC version of the game is terrific. And while the console version tends to cater to the "300+ yard drive, hit every fairway" crowd, the fact is it's a decent game in its own right.

Gonna have to agree to disagree. I find no redeeming quality to the console version of the game. Zero. I can't speak to the PC version, as I haven't played it (too many driver/IO/other hardware issues...not unique to Tiger, just to PC gaming in general). It's not hyperbole (hyperbole would be "this is the worst game in the history of video games!!!"....), it's statement of opinion. I welcome opposing viewpoints.

As for the huffing and puffing...okay, I've gotten a little out of shape recently - what, you have to pile on now too?

[baa7]

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It's not hyperbole (hyperbole would be "this is the worst game in the history of video games!!!"....), it's statement of opinion. I welcome opposing viewpoints.

As for the huffing and puffing...okay, I've gotten a little out of shape recently - what, you have to pile on now too?

Saying the game is "horrible" sounds to me like hyperbole. I agree the game could be better, and that Links 2004 Xbox is a better game in some ways. But the TW series is very playable and fun, certainly the PC version anyway.

As for out of shape... I weighed 230 in May. Just stepped on the scales this morning: 179. I can let you in on my secret, but I warn you, it's extreme

[beardofspock]

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What a silly topic, I like "tiger woods game" because its a blast to play.
'Nuff said.

[ofdman]

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What a silly topic, I like "tiger woods game" because its a blast to play.
'Nuff said.

Well, good for you but the rest of us sim golf fans would like a game that is a lot more realistic. That, to us sim fans, would make the game a "blast" to play. You see, that is our taste. To have a game mimic the real sport. Not some half baked arcade game with goofy "mini games" aimed at the average gamer.

Nothing wrong with you liking EA's game as it is now (and forever will be unfortunately) but TC was making, IMO and obviously a LOT of other folks here, a very valid point that EA's golf game just isn't anywhere near a true golf sim.

I have not played it and I don't really plan on it but I am pretty sre from what I have read that it is a fun game but fun has a different definition to gamers and to me, EA's golf game hasn't been fun...ever.

Links on the original Xbox is still the king of console golf IMO.

"Nuff" said.

[beardofspock]

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Well, good for you but the rest of us sim golf fans would like a game that is a lot more realistic. That, to us sim fans, would make the game a "blast" to play. You see, that is our taste. To have a game mimic the real sport. Not some half baked arcade game with goofy "mini games" aimed at the average gamer.

Nothing wrong with you liking EA's game as it is now (and forever will be unfortunately) but TC was making, IMO and obviously a LOT of other folks here, a very valid point that EA's golf game just isn't anywhere near a true golf sim.

I have not played it and I don't really plan on it but I am pretty sre from what I have read that it is a fun game but fun has a different definition to gamers and to me, EA's golf game hasn't been fun...ever.

Links on the original Xbox is still the king of console golf IMO.

"Nuff" said.

Cool, live in the past, it's all good.
Links sucks.
Also, if you haven't played 09, you really have no basis for your rude comments.
O, and 'Nuff said.

[OnlookerDelay]

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Links sucks.

It's really a blow to my self-esteem to hear this... to think that I'm still being entertained by a game that "sucks". Your name sake would be proud of the logic upon which you based this conclusion though...

[Brian_OS]

Re: Why does everyone like Tiger Wood's game so much???

What a silly topic, I like "tiger woods game" because its a blast to play.
'Nuff said.

I like turtles.... and Tiger!