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  • countryboy
    Growing pains
    • Sep 2003
    • 52823

    #121
    Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Gameplay Walkthrough Starts in 5 Minutes

    Personally I liked it. I’m sure there will be enough options to tune the game to fit my preferred balance of both difficulty and entertainment.

    Looking forward to my tee time on 4/7


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    I can't shave with my eyes closed, meaning each day I have to look at myself in the mirror and respect who I see.

    I miss the old days of Operation Sports :(


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    • scagwi
      MVP
      • Aug 2015
      • 2722

      #122
      Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Gameplay Walkthrough Starts in 5 Minutes

      I know this doesn't really "matter", but I don't really get the design ideology behind the shot type icons.

      Shouldn't it all be "golf" related?

      The icon for a pitch shot ... is a baseball



      Why isn't the "drive" icon a car steering wheel if that's the way they are going about it?



      And a knock down golf shot is represented by a boxing glove?

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      • lowpaiddonkey10
        MVP
        • Oct 2017
        • 2163

        #123
        Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Gameplay Walkthrough Starts in 5 Minutes

        So you waited all year for Christmas and all you got was a pair of socks.

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        • golfnut67
          Pro
          • Oct 2021
          • 860

          #124
          Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Gameplay Walkthrough Starts in 5 Minutes

          Originally posted by scagwi
          I know this doesn't really "matter", but I don't really get the design ideology behind the shot type icons.

          Shouldn't it all be "golf" related?

          The icon for a pitch shot ... is a baseball



          Why isn't the "drive" icon a car steering wheel if that's the way they are going about it?



          And a knock down golf shot is represented by a boxing glove?

          Not a big deal as far as the game goes, but hell ya, very odd choices there. I didn't notice. Weird.

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          • MrArlingtonBeach
            MVP
            • Feb 2009
            • 4530

            #125
            Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Gameplay Walkthrough Starts in 5 Minutes

            Originally posted by scagwi
            I know this doesn't really "matter", but I don't really get the design ideology behind the shot type icons.

            Shouldn't it all be "golf" related?

            Originally posted by golfnut67
            Not a big deal as far as the game goes, but hell ya, very odd choices there. I didn't notice. Weird.
            You can seem 'em all here...they use a fidget spinner for the "spinner" shot type, a bee for a "stinger", and the state of Texas for...well...the "Texas Wedge".

            EA SPORTS PGA TOUR launches April 7th with 20 shot types. Check out the shot types deep dive to learn more.
            Last edited by MrArlingtonBeach; 03-30-2023, 02:16 PM.
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            • Oblong
              Rookie
              • Aug 2003
              • 116

              #126
              Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Gameplay Walkthrough Starts in 5 Minutes

              Originally posted by scagwi
              I know this doesn't really "matter", but I don't really get the design ideology behind the shot type icons.

              Shouldn't it all be "golf" related?

              The icon for a pitch shot ... is a baseball



              Why isn't the "drive" icon a car steering wheel if that's the way they are going about it?

              And a knock down golf shot is represented by a boxing glove?
              So what icons would you suggest to represent a pitch, knockdown, and stinger, etc if you were designing.

              I think it's catchy and easy to remember when you see an icon pop up in other parts of building your character that you can instantly understand what type of shot it is referring to as opposed to having to remember colors/letters/etc. It leaves little doubt which is the point of iconography.

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              • scagwi
                MVP
                • Aug 2015
                • 2722

                #127
                Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Gameplay Walkthrough Starts in 5 Minutes

                Originally posted by Oblong
                So what icons would you suggest to represent a pitch, knockdown, and stinger, etc if you were designing.

                I think it's catchy and easy to remember when you see an icon pop up in other parts of building your character that you can instantly understand what type of shot it is referring to as opposed to having to remember colors/letters/etc. It leaves little doubt which is the point of iconography.
                The consistency just seems odd

                Why are only the driver and putter represented by clubs?

                Does a big club head tell an amateur it’s a “drive” more than a steering wheel?

                Like I said, it’s not a massive deal, it’s just a bit odd and inconsistent when one looks at them all.

                It’s one of those things where it looks like they maybe went down the icon route before thinking about all the different types of icons they might need.

                I remember similar challenges in my early early days of web dev 20 years ago

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                • golfnut67
                  Pro
                  • Oct 2021
                  • 860

                  #128
                  Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Gameplay Walkthrough Starts in 5 Minutes

                  Originally posted by Oblong
                  So what icons would you suggest to represent a pitch, knockdown, and stinger, etc if you were designing.

                  I think it's catchy and easy to remember when you see an icon pop up in other parts of building your character that you can instantly understand what type of shot it is referring to as opposed to having to remember colors/letters/etc. It leaves little doubt which is the point of iconography.
                  I was just thinking about this. You're right...I'm warming up to it. Not a big issue anyway but I get why they did it this way and it's actually pretty clever. It would be very hard to come up with a tiny icon that is strictly golf related for a "knockdown" shot haha

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                  • scagwi
                    MVP
                    • Aug 2015
                    • 2722

                    #129
                    Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Gameplay Walkthrough Starts in 5 Minutes

                    Honestly, go read the description of all the shot types on the link beach posted.

                    There is no iconography that is ever going to remotely have folks ever remember all of what each one of those does

                    The icons aren’t needed.
                    Just text so you can pull out notes on what it does.

                    And from an actual iconography standpoint, they should have a range of colors if we were trying to have them quickly be identifiable

                    I do this as part of my work, as an aside

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                    • MrArlingtonBeach
                      MVP
                      • Feb 2009
                      • 4530

                      #130
                      Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Gameplay Walkthrough Starts in 5 Minutes

                      I'm just glad they have icons and they are large and easy to see...if you're gonna have 20+ shot types, you need quick ways to discern them.

                      In 2K23, I still get caught frequently with getting defaulted to a pitch shot from about 80-100 or so yards away. There's no way to know you're hitting a pitch unless you read the word "Pitch" in the upper right corner.

                      Since the pitch has a drastically different tempo than a normal shot, this can really mess you up if you don't double check the shot you've been given. You might assume you're hitting a full lob wedge, but you were defaulted to a 9-iron pitch and now shanked one way off to the right.
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                      • scagwi
                        MVP
                        • Aug 2015
                        • 2722

                        #131
                        Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Gameplay Walkthrough Starts in 5 Minutes

                        Originally posted by MrArlingtonBeach
                        I'm just glad they have icons and they are large and easy to see...if you're gonna have 20+ shot types, you need quick ways to discern them.

                        In 2K23, I still get caught frequently with getting defaulted to a pitch shot from about 80-100 or so yards away. There's no way to know you're hitting a pitch unless you read the word "Pitch" in the upper right corner.

                        Since the pitch has a drastically different tempo than a normal shot, this can really mess you up, when you assume you're hitting a full lob wedge, but you were defaulted to a 9-iron pitch.
                        See above

                        They should not all be the same color if going for instant readability and from an accessibility standpoint.

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                        • Oblong
                          Rookie
                          • Aug 2003
                          • 116

                          #132
                          Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Gameplay Walkthrough Starts in 5 Minutes

                          Originally posted by scagwi
                          The consistency just seems odd

                          Why are only the driver and putter represented by clubs?

                          Does a big club head tell an amateur it’s a “drive” more than a steering wheel?

                          Like I said, it’s not a massive deal, it’s just a bit odd and inconsistent when one looks at them all.

                          It’s one of those things where it looks like they maybe went down the icon route before thinking about all the different types of icons they might need.

                          I remember similar challenges in my early early days of web dev 20 years ago
                          My guess would be driver head with a tee easily represents a drive so they stuck golf theme there. The others needed some creativity. Did you happen to see what they used for flop? Power drive? I suppose if we see all 20 shot type icons we can have a better idea of how they handled everything overall. Like you said, hardly a big deal.

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                          • lowpaiddonkey10
                            MVP
                            • Oct 2017
                            • 2163

                            #133
                            Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Gameplay Walkthrough Starts in 5 Minutes

                            Icons? This game has real problems.

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                            • MrArlingtonBeach
                              MVP
                              • Feb 2009
                              • 4530

                              #134
                              Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Gameplay Walkthrough Starts in 5 Minutes

                              Originally posted by Oblong
                              My guess would be driver head with a tee easily represents a drive so they stuck golf theme there. The others needed some creativity. Did you happen to see what they used for flop? Power drive? I suppose if we see all 20 shot type icons we can have a better idea of how they handled everything overall. Like you said, hardly a big deal.
                              Posted this earlier...they're all here:

                              EA SPORTS PGA TOUR launches April 7th with 20 shot types. Check out the shot types deep dive to learn more.
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                              • scagwi
                                MVP
                                • Aug 2015
                                • 2722

                                #135
                                Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Gameplay Walkthrough Starts in 5 Minutes

                                This actually leads me to interesting question

                                Have we heard anything about accessibility settings?

                                It would be a really nice quality of life feature to have size adjustable, and color and contrast adjustable Elements on screen, particularly with all the display types and sizes this will hit on across the consoles and PCs

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