Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Available Today - Post Your Impressions Here

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Can you not zoom in on your upcoming shot. I can't see where I'm hitting the ball!

I never really tried that... I was pretty sold on the default view for swinging the club. It shows my golfer in enough detail from the proper height to help my gauge the swing... as much as it can be gauged from the golfer animation in this game. I'm away from my XB1 until late Saturday, so I'll give this a go with the few minutes of EA time I have left. My thinking is that no matter what swing view I used, the fill meter was always going to be there.

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I know you're being facetious, but ffs man, don't give them any ideas!!

LOL... now that I think about it; my lips are sealed!

[saucerset]

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One thing I miss from previous versions is the ability to check your lie, or to be able to move around the green to judge breaks. I would like to play with the grid off but it's almost impossible to gauge the green and it's breaks with only one static view. Something I hope they reinstall in a future version.

[DivotMaker]

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It's too close to my golfer's feet to totally ignore the fill meter, although I try. I'd pay a $5 DLC fee just to include an option to turn the damn thing OFF!

Why are you looking at your Golfer's FEET? He does not swing the club with his feet. I hope they give the option to remove the green ball, but I don't see it anyway, so I am good either way....LOL...."too close to my golfer's feet"....

[DivotMaker]

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One thing I miss from previous versions is the ability to check your lie, or to be able to move around the green to judge breaks. I would like to play with the grid off but it's almost impossible to gauge the green and it's breaks with only one static view. Something I hope they reinstall in a future version.

Check your lie with the lowest swing camera......and I agree about the putting cameras, spot on.

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Why are you looking at your Golfer's FEET? He does not swing the club with his feet. I hope they give the option to remove the green ball, but I don't see it anyway, so I am good either way....LOL...."too close to my golfer's feet"....

Well, I'm not really.... I'm misspeaking a lot today... what I'm really trying to say is that the fill meter is in view below my golfer's feet, even though I'm focused on my golfer's arms (not actually his feet, I do look like a putz for saying feet though )

I'm usually good at concentrating on things and blocking out things I don't want to see, but I fail miserably at totally blocking out the fainting glimpse of that stupid fill meter.

[Klocker]

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One thing I miss from previous versions is the ability to check your lie, or to be able to move around the green to judge breaks. I would like to play with the grid off but it's almost impossible to gauge the green and it's breaks with only one static view. Something I hope they reinstall in a future version.

Make a custom game play set up and Turn zoom on and only use it on the green. You can swing around with left stick and look at the green.

[Br_Mac16]

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Impressions from a tour mode player who was afraid this was going to be too easy...

I must say from tee to green this is hands down the best ea sports title I have ever played. The ball flight looks really good and the ball does just as it should when it hits rough, sand, or fairway/greens. Even on tiger 14 I knew I had a chance to roll out of the rough into the fairway but that is definitely not the case here. Also, if you try hitting a long iron from deep rough you will not get the same result you got in previous ea golf games. Although, I will agree that hitting the fairway is too easy off the box but this game punishes you with your approaches.
First round at chambers bay using Jordan Spieth with every setting as difficult as possible: +12. I could not be happier with the game of golf that this title offers and that is exactly what I was hoping for because this is something that can be built upon.

Now for cons:
Putting is a head scratcher and just doesn't work well, I hope they can find a way to give a little more user feel to it because the game plays way too good for this to be an issue.
Tour mode: bare bones, we knew it would be but I don't think anyone expected this. But again, something that can be added to and tweaked to be made solid. The components are there. Hopefully this mode will be bolstered sooner or later.
Game modes: Again, hopefully something that can be addressed sooner than later. More is needed and Ihopefully they plan to deliver.
Courses: We all knew exactly how many there would be. There should be no surprises and there is definitely no need to gripe about it. The ones they have are beautiful and the ones they release will be too. This and career mode is probably where we will see the quickest growth I would imagine.

Final thoughts: except for the putting you really couldn't ask for this game to play better, more difficult from the tees, yes, but not better I'm am very excited to see what they do with this game and I am thrilled that I decided to stay with my ore order as I now have 9 licensed courses I can play in tour mode.
(Guy at game stop told me to download and install Scottsdale before starting a career or it wouldn't bring it into the career).
Thank you all for your thoughts, sorry for the length just wanted to get mine out there as well!

[DHMN69]

Can you not zoom in on your upcoming shot. I can't see where I'm hitting the ball!

I miss hitting Y to look forward and at least having a better idea where I'm aiming.. the 'hole map' doesn't really help (me anyway)

[Jambomakaveli]

Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Available Today - Post Your Impressions Here

Any more impressions on the 3-click implementation? That's honestly what has me sold on the game. IMO it's still the best way to play golf games, old school or not.

I'm used to the swing stick, and thought I'd never play without that. I was struggling with the stick in this game.

Switched to 3 click and I'm really enjoying it.

If you stray slightly to the sides of the accuracy line then you'll go left and right accordingly. I have been in the sea, trees, rough etc.


Obviously I'd imagine within a day or two though you'll get the timing down, but I'd say there's always a bad shot coming with 3 click.

And the overpower is good with three swing, ie stopping it past the white meter at the top. Great on drives.

[VTKombat]

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I miss hitting Y to look forward and at least having a better idea where I'm aiming.. the 'hole map' doesn't really help (me anyway)

You can still do this, if you want. Put zoom to ON in the settings.

[Sportsworth]

What a joke this game is... Biggest waist of money I ever spent. Lack of features, horrendous gameplay, no way to practice putts which is an abomination. Creating a golfer is so bad and generic I can't believe I waisted money on this piece of S*** game. Its going back to GameStop today for a measly 27 bucks in trade in credit. I'm done with EAs bull****. Just a all around cheap lazy game. Anyone thinking of picking this up should STAY AWAY!

[Barto]

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Impressions after 3 rounds last night (2 at Sawgrass & 1 at Wetlands)

1. Enough with all the gosh darn dragon flies. Entirely too many on the screen
2. I lipped out probably 10 putts that went through the hole because they had too much pace.
3. The graphics fall somewhere in the middle between Old Gen and Next Gen in my opinion.
4. The game is fun to play and i like the commentary so far
5. Post putt animations need to be reined back for only important moments or when you are actually in contention (not 10 + shots back like i was)

[jbd345]

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Wow, guess I'm in the minority here. I'm actually enjoying this game. It's golf what were some of you expecting? Call me an ea fan boy all you want. Sure this game can be better with patches and dlc. But for Right now I think it's pretty solid. For those who think the graphics look last gen, you should really get yourself to a doctor and get your eyes checked.

[Barto]

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Wow, guess I'm in the minority here. I'm actually enjoying this game. It's golf what were some of you expecting? Call me an ea fan boy all you want. Sure this game can be better with patches and dlc. But for Right now I think it's pretty solid. For those who think the graphics look last gen, you should really get yourself to a doctor and get your eyes checked.

I think the graphics look great, but it appears to be more of a remastered quality graphic rendering than a true next Gen title. We can agree to disagree, but when i play a game like Ryse Son of Rome or the Witcher, that is when i notice true Next Gen graphics.

Where you will really notice the lack of graphical power is during the watered down create a custom golfer portion of my career. That part is laughable when you compare it to other Next Gen games IMO.

The game is fun and it is solid, but as others have said, the game is unfortunately seriously lacking in many areas. Of all 5 of the issues i cited (less graphics), they don't take away my enjoyment of the game, they are simply things i would like to see improved to enhance the gameplay.