PGA Tour 2K23 MyPlayer and MyCareer Details And Early Impressions

[MrArlingtonBeach]

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ApexHound has begun a career mode series, beginning in Q School:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chREnrCC5Ow

[TheBrew101]

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My personal hype meter has fallen after watching the various videos. The big addition appears to be the MyPlayer Archetypes. I do like this as I think golfers should have strengths amd weaknesses.

Things I'm not liking:

--Only 2K approved courses can be swapped induring career mode. I have a feeling this means no replica real life courses which is negates why I wanted the swap course feature.

--While I like the archetypes, the idea of the skills I don't like (i.e. miss 2 fairways and the have improved skill to hit next shot). To me this is non simulation.

--I would prefer LPGA players not be in my PGA career mode.

--Consumable golf balls. Maybe my opinion changes once have game but not sure of this concept.

--Overall, it just appears to be extremely similar to 2K21. This isn't horrible as the game is solid. But I was hoping for something to "wow" me and I'm not seeing it.

I still think it will be a solid game but just feels like small upgrades. Hoping for some good online components. I'm kind of getting the "been there done that" vibe from the video makers as well.

So my personal feel from watching is I'll still get the game but I don't feel it is the ground breaking game, feature rich game I was hoping for with a 2 year development cycle. I also feel the game should be further along visually as watching the Tiger video, other than his face, it didn't look like Tiger to me. That being said, it may not be fair judgment basing off videos. Just not feeling as enthused about the game as I was when it was announced.

[itsmb8]

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This isn't a career mode, 2K. This is a year-long Battle Royale mode. Making "rivals" a main component and limiting the courses you can pick makes me completely turned off to the mode.

Will someone just please make a real career mode? The full number of events, realistic player event #s, realistic sponsorships, etc. None of this "rivals" arcade BS.

[longway911]

The amount of complaining you guys are doing about the LPGA players being on the FedEx leaderboards is quite frankly embarrassing. It's a video GAME that is meant for everyone to play, not just men. You might think it's lame and compromising immersion, but there's some twelve year old girl out there who is going to think it's super cool and you know what? She's right and I'm with her on this one.

In a perfect world, would it be better if the full LPGA was involved? Sure, yes, but that's not the case this year so I think this is a pretty OK compromise. These attitudes about VIDEO GAME GOLF echo so much of what is a huge turn off about the PGA and golf itself. You all need to focus on being more inclusive and look at this through the prism that it might be encouraging certain people to play and become engrossed by the world of golf that otherwise would have zero interest.

LPGA golfers on the FedEx leaderboard? Get over it.

[MrArlingtonBeach]

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The amount of complaining you guys are doing about the LPGA players being on the FedEx leaderboards is quite frankly embarrassing. It's a video GAME that is meant for everyone to play, not just men. You might think it's lame and compromising immersion, but there's some twelve year old girl out there who is going to think it's super cool and you know what? She's right and I'm with her on this one.

In a perfect world, would it be better if the full LPGA was involved? Sure, yes, but that's not the case this year so I think this is a pretty OK compromise. These attitudes about VIDEO GAME GOLF echo so much of what is a huge turn off about the PGA and golf itself. You all need to focus on being more inclusive and look at this through the prism that it might be encouraging certain people to play and become engrossed by the world of golf that otherwise would have zero interest.

LPGA golfers on the FedEx leaderboard? Get over it.

Are WNBA teams and NBA teams all vying for the NBA Championship in NBA 2K23? No, each league has separate experiences from one another.

This isn't an issue with including women pros in the game. The fact these pros like Lexi and Lydia Ko are playable is fantastic!

The issue is that the PGA Tour career mode should reflect the reality of the sport, like NBA 2K does. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 had the LPGA Tour in it...you could play as a female golfer in a full-fledged LPGA career mode. Or you could play as a male or a female in a PGA Tour career.

What 2K23 is doing is providing a disservice to both the LPGA and the PGA Tour. Instead of offering a real-life way to play as female pros or male pros, you get this compromise which means everyone gets something that is not at all like it is it real life. It completely breaks immersion. And in a career mode, immersion is a MUST.

In the end, I wish they took a page out of the TW14 playbook and had a separate LPGA Tour career mode and a PGA Tour career mode...instead of compromising with this, which does not reflect the realities of either tour.

[bigkev]

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This isn't a career mode, 2K. This is a year-long Battle Royale mode. Making "rivals" a main component

It's like they have both the old Tiger challenges and career mode together. We had to go thru the LPGA golfers there and it was fun... both this was not a PGA career mode. Having said that... it doesn't bother me at all.

[golfnut67]

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Did anyone notice in any of the videos if Career Mode is going to be our MyPlayer playing ONLY the pros that have been announced? Meaning, are we literally going to have less than 20 golfers in the field of every event?

If so, that is a HUGE let down. I hope it's not the case.

[MrArlingtonBeach]

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Did anyone notice in any of the videos if Career Mode is going to be our MyPlayer playing ONLY the pros that have been announced? Meaning, are we literally going to have less than 20 golfers in the field of every event?

If so, that is a HUGE let down. I hope it's not the case.

I have seen names like Tommy Fleetwood, Lucas Glover, Bo Van Pelt, Gary Woodland, etc. on leaderboards in some of these videos. So it seems that the fields are being done the same way that have been in the past in that way.

[golfnut67]

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I have seen names like Tommy Fleetwood, Lucas Glover, Bo Van Pelt, Gary Woodland, etc. on leaderboards in some of these videos. So it seems that the fields are being done the same way that have been in the past in that way.

Yes I just saw that Chase answered this in the other thread, seems there will be a full field of player names. That's good.

[jbd345]

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Watching the NextMaker videos...and the "consumable" golf balls do sound a bit "pay to win"...

Golf balls do have levels (rare, legendary, etc.)...you choose the look/model of your ball - all default golf balls are the same. But you can then add the level to it to add attribute bonuses. These are the "consumable" sleeves that have been discussed. One ball = one round. So if you buy 6 balls, you can use them for 6 rounds and then they are gone and you have to buy more.

TopGolf rounds count against your ball...that's interesting. So don't use your "consumable" balls when playing in that mode.

That’s actually disappointing that it’s a one use only. But with 2k should’ve expected something like that with no ultimate team type mode.

[Oba]

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This doesn't look great does it?

2 years since 2k21 was released and it doesn't look any better graphically. They've made some good decisions with adding real pros but it looks like how they are implemented in career mode is off the mark. Why are LPGA pros on the same tour? Immersion killer.

With EAs golf offering on the horizon as well I think I'll swerve this initially until that comes out and play whichever has the better career mode.

[MrArlingtonBeach]

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Here is another MyCareer gameplay video, this one from Jim Gem...he makes some interesting comments about how the swing plays and such, especially putting and chipping:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEQYww8oUow

[OnlookerDelay]

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That's not entirely accurate...I took this at the 13:57 mark of that video:


So no, there's no view of the other player's swing or shots. But there is at least cutscenes that show other golfers in your group.

It helps a little that you at least see them here, but it also serves to make their absence more conspicuous when they should be seen playing their shot. You've got gallery standing around the tee box watching you, why not your playing companions and their caddies? They should be visible in the periphery then also. It just baffles me that they can't get this right!? It will be a mode killer for me, just as it has been in their previous games

I would have spent more of my time playing Society mode even if they had gotten group play sorted for career mode play, but I would have at least liked to have had some incentive to play out at least one entire season!

[OnlookerDelay]

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This doesn't look great does it?

2 years since 2k21 was released and it doesn't look any better graphically. They've made some good decisions with adding real pros but it looks like how they are implemented in career mode is off the mark. Why are LPGA pros on the same tour? Immersion killer.

With EAs golf offering on the horizon as well I think I'll swerve this initially until that comes out and play whichever has the better career mode.

I think the courses look marginally better than the courses in 2K21. The career mode in this has already shown me that it's going to fall short of what I want for career mode to compel me to play it. I don't want to be out there all by myself without a playing companion who is visible playing their shots, in order of play sequence. It feels incomplete to me without a playing companion.

I'll admit that if I had a playing companion, I'd be fast-forwarding most of their shots, but at least I'd get a sense of how they were playing and have the option to play them out in normal speed when desired. I won't have the option to do that in 2K23, so career mode will be a non-starter for me. I enjoy Society play and multiplayer, to a lesser degree, so there's still something there for me. I still crave a fully hashed out career mode though, and 2K23 is still going to fall woefully short of that mark... for me anyway.

[rmaccari]

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For career mode to make sense, it has to have the ability to change courses (this is limited to only those authorized by 2K) and the ability to edit the roster names of all players competing in the FedEx Cup (not I see that option exists). The gameplay would already be very limited without these features, but including LPGA players in the roster completely breaks the game. Under these conditions, I will not buy this year's version.