Best Golf Game for PS$

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Based on my two quick play experiences with Tiger Woods 14 and 13 this past week, I wanted to pass along a few thoughts on each. After MrArlingtonBeach took me up on my offer to send my copy of the Classic Edition of TW 14, I wanted to compare it to TW 13, which is neck and neck with TW 10 for my favorite of the series. I'd already made a few comments about TW 14 in a post earlier in this thread with my latest impressions, so I'll try not to repeat them.

First of all, I'd forgotten one significant condition that makes the True-Aim camera presentation of TW 13 so special, and this is it works much better in multiplayer online play. In multiplayer online (which I played on ton of on 13), the True-Aim camera cut would occur about 90% of the way through the ball's travel, and it was maybe just about 10% later than what I would consider ideal. For some reason, it doesn't occur until after the ball has come to rest in all other modes!? That's better than no cut at all, but there's no rhyme or reason why it shouldn't work just as well, if not better than the cut to finish production of online multiplayer mode??

Secondly, the broadcast presentation mode in 13 is just tolerable, but not as good as I'd remembered it. Tiger Woods 10's presentation (broadcast) production kills all the others in the series with its broadcast mode, as it's more of a player perspective oriented presentation. I'll stick with True-Aim in 13, even with it's static shot only cut finish. Online Multiplayer isn't available in TW 13 any more, so I don't have the luxury of enjoying that mode's more dynamic True-Aim camera cut

Tiger 14's course graphics are more defined and cleaner looking than 13's. I also think its golfers animate a little smoother, although really, they both look great and beat anything we have current gen, by a long shot. The environmental audio effects are better in 14.

I enjoyed playing Tiger 13 last night and I find it plenty difficult enough in its hardest mode, even without a diagonal swing... my 47 on the front nine will attest to that, although at lot of that came due to a shot limit exceeded on one hole where I was determined I was going to punch a shot from heavy rough under a limb and over a stream... finally made it my last attempt before being ushered away to the next tee!

In the end, I can't imagine how content I would be if I just had Tiger Woods 13's online multiplayer True-Aim camera presentation, with an option for Tiger Woods 10's presentation mode, incorporated into Tiger Woods 14 Classic Edition, with Connected Tournaments still active.... (sigh)

[bigkev]

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TW13 is the best golf game ever as a customer for me. I like just about everything. They had great sponsor challenges where you could upgrade for free from the starters set to pro club like Bridgestone, pro ball, shafts, clothing, etc The sponsors goals were much better than 12, where you could end up stuck for a long time because you had to hole out a shot.

The most important as a customer, you didn't have to use your own money to buy the DLC courses. You could use your own coins, master more courses and buy more courses with your coins. I didn't use my own $$ for any of the DLC. But again, there were a lot of vocal customers whining that they shouldn't have to do that, it was too time consuming and they had already bought the courses in a previous game.

[scagwi]

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It just sort of kills me when I either play TW14 or go look at videos of other versions I don't presently have and see what an enormously content rich experience it was.

Over the past 6-7 years as we've all acclimated to the relatively barebones offerings of PG or TGC I think we've somewhat forgotten just how great we had it.

[bigkev]

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That's all I've been doing for a while, playing TW14, same for my 2 daughters. Still easy to play with others, alternate, best ball, four ball, somebody is always starting a game. Of course, most of the games have some arcade in them, but it's still fun.

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TW13 is the best golf game ever as a customer for me. I like just about everything. They had great sponsor challenges where you could upgrade for free from the starters set to pro club like Bridgestone, pro ball, shafts, clothing, etc The sponsors goals were much better than 12, where you could end up stuck for a long time because you had to hole out a shot.

The most important as a customer, you didn't have to use your own money to buy the DLC courses. You could use your own coins, master more courses and buy more courses with your coins. I didn't use my own $$ for any of the DLC. But again, there were a lot of vocal customers whining that they shouldn't have to do that, it was too time consuming and they had already bought the courses in a previous game.

bigkev, thanks for reminding me of that aspect (DLC with virtual coins) of TW 13. I'd forgotten it. One thing that I'm grieving over a bit here is that I've lost my flash drive that had my TW 13 progress and DLC on it. I had also created a very faithful replica of myself using the excellent gameface tool that they had with this series, which was saved to the flash drive. I've got to find that drive now; I don't want to go through all that grinding up again!?

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That's all I've been doing for a while, playing TW14, same for my 2 daughters. Still easy to play with others, alternate, best ball, four ball, somebody is always starting a game. Of course, most of the games have some arcade in them, but it's still fun.

I know when I was fooling around with TW 14 last week before sending it to MrArlingtonBeach, I saw that there were like 110 players online. It didn't look like any of the tournaments were active, but I forgot to check the Country Club feature. Are they still functional?

[bigkev]

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There have been between 250 to 300 on PS lately. The Country club are still there, but EA took away the tournaments including the dailies we used to setup on their website. Well their website is out, so we can't do it anymore.

[scagwi]

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If rpcs3 emulation of TW14 keeps getting better (as it has been for many other EA titles in the last year), I could absolutely see myself having a vastly renewed interest in the game with upscaled resolutions + re-shade and extra AA, etc.

As I've said many times - if TW games were available on backwards compatibility for PS4/XB1, I think they'd be getting played in enormous volume still.

It's truly a shame.

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If rpcs3 emulation of TW14 keeps getting better (as it has been for many other EA titles in the last year), I could absolutely see myself having a vastly renewed interest in the game with upscaled resolutions + re-shade and extra AA, etc.

As I've said many times - if TW games were available on backwards compatibility for PS4/XB1, I think they'd be getting played in enormous volume still.

It's truly a shame.

I'll have to look into rpcs3, not familiar with it. I'd like to see TW games, especially 10 thru 14 become backward compatible, but I'm sure it's the licensing that makes it impossible

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There have been between 250 to 300 on PS lately. The Country club are still there, but EA took away the tournaments including the dailies we used to setup on their website. Well their website is out, so we can't do it anymore.

Thanks, I'm surprised they're still supporting the country club feature... WOW!?

[pietasterp]

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I'll have to look into rpcs3, not familiar with it. I'd like to see TW games, especially 10 thru 14 become backward compatible, but I'm sure it's the licensing that makes it impossible

Yep, that's why Rory McIlroy PGA Tour on Xbox/PS4/PC has been 'disappeared' down the memory hole for all time (and why it will never come back). Golf games have too many different licenses and they're too expensive to maintain/renew. Each individual player, equipment manufacturers, courses, tournaments, the PGA Tour itself, etc. etc. etc.

Passively looked into purchasing Rory for PS4 and they're going for >$100! Good investment I guess if you knew how this was all gonna go....

I enjoyed playing Tiger 13 last night and I find it plenty difficult enough in its hardest mode, even without a diagonal swing... my 47 on the front nine will attest to that, although at lot of that came due to a shot limit exceeded on one hole where I was determined I was going to punch a shot from heavy rough under a limb and over a stream... finally made it my last attempt before being ushered away to the next tee!

This is me in real life. I'll occasionally (thankfully, not often these days) lose my mind and go "Tin Cup" on a hole and stand there trying to hit a knock-down 8-iron under a branch and over a pond to a back left pin placement, and go through darn near every ball I have in my bag trying to do it until I either suceed, or a group gets onto the tee behind me. Then I feel like an idiot afterwards.

[MrArlingtonBeach]

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Passively looked into purchasing Rory for PS4 and they're going for >$100! Good investment I guess if you knew how this was all gonna go....

Holy smokes...I remember when they almost couldn't give 'Rory' away. I bought it for like $5 on digital download when I first bought my PS4 back in 2016.

[scagwi]

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I'll have to look into rpcs3, not familiar with it. I'd like to see TW games, especially 10 thru 14 become backward compatible, but I'm sure it's the licensing that makes it impossible

It's pretty awesome how good it has become.

I now play my Top Spin 4 and NHL Legacy Edition exclusively on the PC and my PS3 is off and unplugged, save for when I want to fire up TW14 (not that often honestly, since I play my multiplayer on PG).

TS4 and NHL look amazing with 3-400% scaling. As long as you have a reasonably good 4, 6 or 8 core CPU the GPU needs are very very minimal, as the PS3 was heavily CPU bound.

It's also great to enjoy the heck out of my PS3 games and not worry about hardware failure or listen to the howling hair dryer cooling fan on my PS3, etc.. Load & save times are way better also

[scagwi]

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Holy smokes...I remember when they almost couldn't give 'Rory' away. I bought it for like $5 on digital download when I first bought my PS4 back in 2016.

Yep - me too. I don't even have a PS4 anymore, but happy to have bought it digitally I guess (unless it gets pulled at some point)

[lowpaiddonkey10]

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Yep - me too. I don't even have a PS4 anymore, but happy to have bought it digitally I guess (unless it gets pulled at some point)

I thought that download was on your hard drive forever.