It now seems logical we will get PGA Tour 2k23 this year

[VoltSwoosh]

Re: It now seems logical we will get PGA Tour 2k23 this year

JT GOT GAME!



Play as JT with our newly updated limited edition hot dog head

No, first they would have to update it to let you actually play as the pros.

THEN they could update to let you use the pros with hot dog putters.

[scagwi]

Re: It now seems logical we will get PGA Tour 2k23 this year

No, first they would have to update it to let you actually play as the pros.

THEN they could update to let you use the pros with hot dog putters.

Oh my. I'm out of touch
You can't play as any Pro's in 2k21?

Man ... that must have been a cheap licensing deal

[MrArlingtonBeach]

Re: It now seems logical we will get PGA Tour 2k23 this year

Oh my. I'm out of touch
You can't play as any Pro's in 2k21?

Man ... that must have been a cheap licensing deal

Pros are not playable in 2K21...they are only shown on loading screens and in canned "highlights" when playing in career mode.

The pros shown are:

Billy Horschel
Bryson DeChambeau
Cameron Champ
Gary Woodland
Ian Poulter
Jim Furyk
Justin Thomas
Kevin Kisner
Matt Kuchar
Patrick Cantlay
Sergio Garcia
Tony Finau

I believe I turned off the pro highlights within a week of getting the game, because they were basically all pitch-shot hole outs, and would display the wrong score for the pro most of the time, anyway...haha

[VoltSwoosh]

Re: It now seems logical we will get PGA Tour 2k23 this year

Pros are not playable in 2K21...they are only shown on loading screens and in canned "highlights" when playing in career mode.

The pros shown are:

Billy Horschel
Bryson DeChambeau
Cameron Champ
Gary Woodland
Ian Poulter
Jim Furyk
Justin Thomas
Kevin Kisner
Matt Kuchar
Patrick Cantlay
Sergio Garcia
Tony Finau

I believe I turned off the pro highlights within a week of getting the game, because they were basically all pitch-shot hole outs, and would display the wrong score for the pro most of the time, anyway...haha

Yep ! And in my ps4, the highlights load sloowwwww

[MrArlingtonBeach]

Re: It now seems logical we will get PGA Tour 2k23 this year

Yep ! And in my ps4, the highlights load sloowwwww

The second reason I shut them off ASAP...haha

[scagwi]

Re: It now seems logical we will get PGA Tour 2k23 this year

Do we feel like HB can create the game everyone wants?

Are we hoping 2K ownership also meant some turnover and beefing up the staff at HB?

I hope 2k didn't just buy them so they controlled them (financially) but otherwise just left HB as is. I always feel the HB golf offerings eventually ran up against their vision/imagination and perhaps even staff ability.

[lowpaiddonkey10]

Re: It now seems logical we will get PGA Tour 2k23 this year

Do we feel like HB can create the game everyone wants?

Are we hoping 2K ownership also meant some turnover and beefing up the staff at HB?

I hope 2k didn't just buy them so they controlled them (financially) but otherwise just left HB as is. I always feel the HB golf offerings eventually ran up against their vision/imagination and perhaps even staff ability.

Unless I read this wrong I think HB/2k has bumped into the ceiling for this game unless they get a new engine. 21 was a slight improvement over 19.

I would imagine the ongoing problems with career can't be fixed for some reason.

[MrArlingtonBeach]

Re: It now seems logical we will get PGA Tour 2k23 this year

Do we feel like HB can create the game everyone wants?

Are we hoping 2K ownership also meant some turnover and beefing up the staff at HB?

I hope 2k didn't just buy them so they controlled them (financially) but otherwise just left HB as is. I always feel the HB golf offerings eventually ran up against their vision/imagination and perhaps even staff ability.

I know for sure that one person was hired from the TGCT community to help with "level design", which one would assume means course creation and design for 2K23. And knowing who that person is, it would make sense they were brought in to do that kind of work.

So they seem to be investing and adding to the team, likely using the increased funding/backing from 2K to do so.

As for what they can/cannot fix or what the ceiling is for their golf game, I mean they've basically been using the same engine for this series since 2015 or so. So yeah, they're probably at their limit, at least on last-gen. But the issues 2K21 has seem like ones that should easily be fixed...I mean, AI scoring in career mode is essentially a spreadsheet. Just clean up the coding/data and boom, you're golden. If they can't fix it for some reason, then they have bigger problems they need to look at, IMO. And they never fixed it in 2K21, so maybe that's actually closer to the reality...woof.

Graphics are another thing...not sure how much better they can make their game look. Gameplay is always something that can be tweaked and refined, so there could be adjustments with that.

[VoltSwoosh]

Re: It now seems logical we will get PGA Tour 2k23 this year

Unless I read this wrong I think HB/2k has bumped into the ceiling for this game unless they get a new engine. 21 was a slight improvement over 19.



I would imagine the ongoing problems with career can't be fixed for some reason.

I would argue 19 has its advantages over 21.

[MrArlingtonBeach]

Re: It now seems logical we will get PGA Tour 2k23 this year

I would argue 19 has its advantages over 21.

There's a thing or two that 19 may have over 2K21...namely, the solo societies.

But in most other ways, 2K21 is better, IMO. More real courses, more actual PGA Tour events (even if career mode is buggy), more versatility in the course designer, more actual golf clothing and gear brands (including Titleist/FootJoy, which was never available to be worn/used by created characters in a game before, as far as I can recall), and in my opinion, better gameplay. I tried going back to TGC19, just to see how it is, and I didn't like how it played, now that 2K21 gameplay is out there. Even the graphics/animations are a pretty sizeable bump up from TGC19.

TGC19 can appeal more than 2K21 to certain users, especially for the solo society/offline player. But in most other ways, 2K21 is a much more robust game.

[VoltSwoosh]

Re: It now seems logical we will get PGA Tour 2k23 this year

There's a thing or two that 19 may have over 2K21...namely, the solo societies.

But in most other ways, 2K21 is better, IMO. More real courses, more actual PGA Tour events (even if career mode is buggy), more versatility in the course designer, more actual golf clothing and gear brands (including Titleist/FootJoy, which was never available to be worn/used by created characters in a game before, as far as I can recall), and in my opinion, better gameplay. I tried going back to TGC19, just to see how it is, and I didn't like how it played, now that 2K21 gameplay is out there. Even the graphics/animations are a pretty sizeable bump up from TGC19.

TGC19 can appeal more than 2K21 to certain users, especially for the solo society/offline player. But in most other ways, 2K21 is a much more robust game.

I think I just prefer 19 because it has a more “Golf Club” feel to it, more like the originals? Also seemingly more customization.

Still I prefer EA golf over both.

[lowpaiddonkey10]

Re: It now seems logical we will get PGA Tour 2k23 this year

I re-installed 19 a while back played a few rounds and IMO it is not as good as 21.

[VoltSwoosh]

Re: It now seems logical we will get PGA Tour 2k23 this year

I re-installed 19 a while back played a few rounds and IMO it is not as good as 21.

Yeah, I just played it a bit. Maybe I had some rose tented glasses on.

There’s some aspects I like 19 better, but I walk back what I said about preferring it overall.


Sent from my iPad Pro

[scagwi]

Re: It now seems logical we will get PGA Tour 2k23 this year

HB just flat out gave up on forum moderation I guess?

Their forum appears to be on the road to the same wasteland the Perfect Golf (Perfect Parallel) forum turned into.

[bigkev]

Re: It now seems logical we will get PGA Tour 2k23 this year

They gave up on the forum, that's all. I'm surprised it's still there, they were supposed to move to 2K... and never did. The last time I went there, it was the same handful writing wall of texts trying to prove who was more hardcore as a know-it-all golfer.