Side-By-Side Comparison of The Golf Club vs. Rory Mcilroy PGA Tour

[TheNinjaGuyDon]

I threw this together. Footage for both are from a PS4 and TPC Scottsdale. Just a few shots, but a SBS comparison between the Golf Club and Rory Mcilroy PGA Tour, in case anyone was interested.

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[TheBleedingRed21]

Re: Side-By-Side Comparison of The Golf Club vs. Rory Mcilroy PGA Tour

Good video. Makes me cringe at the TGC awful swing animations with them side by side.

[oldman]

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Very nice. You can see the differences in the swings. I think the Golf Clubs swing looks more natural but I believe that Rory's looks more realistic. TGC looks robotic, on Rory it is almost as if you see his weight shift and pull his elbows in as he begins his follow through.

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[CC]

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I'll stick with TGC for now. If they put in a course create and share in and/or release enough courses (there needs to be at least 20-25 to play for me) FOR FREE I'll pay 40 for Rory.

[TheBleedingRed21]

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I'll stick with TGC for now. If they put in a course create and share in and/or release enough courses (there needs to be at least 20-25 to play for me) FOR FREE I'll pay 40 for Rory.

No offense, but that's quite a stretch asking for that, let alone a price drop. You have to remember, they have to pay per course, there would be no revenue at 20-25 courses without charging any..

Honestly, the few courses they do have are better than almost all TGC courses, IMO.

[cyclonez7]

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Considering the budget for each of the games, TGC did way better with the resources they had at their disposal.

[CC]

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No offense, but that's quite a stretch asking for that, let alone a price drop. You have to remember, they have to pay per course, there would be no revenue at 20-25 courses without charging any..

Honestly, the few courses they do have are better than almost all TGC courses, IMO.

Then I won't buy it at all. Was simply stating what it would take for me to buy the game.

TGC is much closer to an actual golf round than Tiger has ever been to me. While the slight graphical upgrade is nice and I would buy it if what I mentioned got put in, having seemingly endless courses as to only 12 is a major (dis)advantage. Playing a full PGA tour season (which is the biggest thing Rory has on TGC to me) on 12 courses would be kind of lame.

And I kinda disagree with your second point. Obviously Tiger is going to look prettier than a 30 dollar digital game from an indie studio, but there are some talented course designers on TGC. I've favorited over a hundred courses, many real course recreations, that are very good and very accurate to their real life counterparts (if applicable) and I have barely scratched the surface.

[TheNinjaGuyDon]

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Considering the budget for each of the games, TGC did way better with the resources they had at their disposal.

Agreed. Imagine what they could do with some more resources and a decent budget. EA and bigger devs are really struggling (Ubisoft) with this gen. Not sure if it's because of piss poor management and ethics or just $'s and cents. I did, however look at EA's financial reports and last year it looks like they cut a lot of resources last year, could be the cause. Cut back on expenses vs. making good products that sell. Sad part is, if they improved their products it would take care of itself, the market is there. Look at smaller studios out of Poland like CDProject Red and Techland, they are putting out way better products with less resources and actually care about their customers. Don't have much hope for the future of EA Sports unless they make some changes at the top. It's an institutional thing similar to that of a big bank. Make money, cut expenses instead of investing in technology and talent...

My two cent rant.

[TheBleedingRed21]

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Then I won't buy it at all. Was simply stating what it would take for me to buy the game.

TGC is much closer to an actual golf round than Tiger has ever been to me. While the slight graphical upgrade is nice and I would buy it if what I mentioned got put in, having seemingly endless courses as to only 12 is a major (dis)advantage. Playing a full PGA tour season (which is the biggest thing Rory has on TGC to me) on 12 courses would be kind of lame.

And I kinda disagree with your second point. Obviously Tiger is going to look prettier than a 30 dollar digital game from an indie studio, but there are some talented course designers on TGC. I've favorited over a hundred courses, many real course recreations, that are very good and very accurate to their real life counterparts (if applicable) and I have barely scratched the surface.

I get what you meant. Just was saying that would likely never happen lol. I hope they do add as many courses as possible.

And I love TGC too, gets very very stale after a round or two but still good. However, while the real life creations are okay for what they have, the side by side video alone shows how off that recreation is.

[pencerm]

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I'll stick with TGC for now. If they put in a course create and share in and/or release enough courses (there needs to be at least 20-25 to play for me) FOR FREE I'll pay 40 for Rory.

Then I would just stick to TGC threads because you'll never own this game. Maybe in 2017. I don't think you understand cost associated with licensing golfers, courses, the PGA, etc.

If EA adds 15 more courses and drops the price to $40 they'll lose an astronomical amount of money and they'll never make another Rory McIlroy title again. So let's not do that.

[woodjer]

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Then I would just stick to TGC threads because you'll never own this game. Maybe in 2017. I don't think you understand cost associated with licensing golfers, courses, the PGA, etc.

If EA adds 15 more courses and drops the price to $40 they'll lose an astronomical amount of money and they'll never make another Rory McIlroy title again. So let's not do that.

I don't think it's fair to say that CC doesn't understand the costs involved or shouldn't visit Rory threads (although invading them with claims that TGC is better isn't right either). I'd think that most of us understand that licensing official courses is expensive. He's already acknowledged that it's not likely to happen and that his criteria is steep. All he did was give his view on what it would take to make Rory a worthwhile option. We all do that stuff whether or not we post it.

As you might guess, I agree with CC. A lot of that has to do with the fact that I'm not a golf fan IRL but do enjoy virtual golf so having official courses isn't that big of a deal. Even if they cut Rory's price in half, TGC is still far superior *for me* (key words there) and what I want from a golf game in terms of features and courses. Haven't actually played Rory but I do know that TGCTours curates a list of high-quality courses on their site, and if I played just one of those a day, I'd still be playing 2+ years from now without having a repeat, and that's assuming that no new ones are added.

Looking at them in action side-by-side, I still give Rory the edge in graphics but I always have. However, I will say that I don't think it's as big of a difference as I thought it would be. I don't mean this to be a Rory-bashing post at all. As I said, I haven't played it so can't say if it's good or not. I will say that TGC is perfect for what I want though.

[Danimal]

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Seriously guys this thread is very close to being locked if this is the way we're going to go with the discussion.

[pencerm]

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I don't think it's fair to say that CC doesn't understand the costs involved or shouldn't visit Rory threads (although invading them with claims that TGC is better isn't right either). I'd think that most of us understand that licensing official courses is expensive. He's already acknowledged that it's not likely to happen and that his criteria is steep. All he did was give his view on what it would take to make Rory a worthwhile option. We all do that stuff whether or not we post it.

As you might guess, I agree with CC. A lot of that has to do with the fact that I'm not a golf fan IRL but do enjoy virtual golf so having official courses isn't that big of a deal. Even if they cut Rory's price in half, TGC is still far superior *for me* (key words there) and what I want from a golf game in terms of features and courses. Haven't actually played Rory but I do know that TGCTours curates a list of high-quality courses on their site, and if I played just one of those a day, I'd still be playing 2+ years from now without having a repeat, and that's assuming that no new ones are added.

Looking at them in action side-by-side, I still give Rory the edge in graphics but I always have. However, I will say that I don't think it's as big of a difference as I thought it would be. I don't mean this to be a Rory-bashing post at all. As I said, I haven't played it so can't say if it's good or not. I will say that TGC is perfect for what I want though.

Fair enough. TGC is a fun game at times. It's got more of a "casual round of golf with friends" feel as opposed to the presentation of RMPGAT. And that can be a good thing depending on what you're looking for. I only really jumped on him because his "demands" echoed a few others on here and they're totally unrealistic.

Seriously guys this thread is very close to being locked if this is the way we're going to go with the discussion.

I don't think it's an issue. Nobody is personally attacking anyone. He made a claim and I made a counterclaim. I didn't say the guy was a bad person, I just said I didn't think he understood licensing.

[woodjer]

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I don't think it's an issue. Nobody is personally attacking anyone. He made a claim and I made a counterclaim. I didn't say the guy was a bad person, I just said I didn't think he understood licensing.

Agreed. The title of the thread implies that it is an acceptable place to make comparisons of the two games. There are passionate fans on both sides. If we get into "TGC sucks, Rory rulez!" type of posts, I completely understand locking it. I wouldn't say that I've seen anything remotely close to what I've seen in other forums (OS and otherwise) in terms of disrespectful posts though.

[terrycurran62]

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No offense, but that's quite a stretch asking for that, let alone a price drop. You have to remember, they have to pay per course, there would be no revenue at 20-25 courses without charging any..

Honestly, the few courses they do have are better than almost all TGC courses, IMO.

I gave up and deleted TGC as it was so boring and completely uninvolving. I would happily pay £20 for 10 courses on RM. the graphics did improve on TGC but they course were generally still very poor. Some courses were absolutely dreadful. RM is in a different class to TGC.
As I said in a different thead games like The Order have less than five hours gameplay and cost £50 on release. Many reviewers have knoicked the lack of content on RM and they are correct in certain ways, but these same people give glowing reviews to games with very few hours playing time. Once you have completed The Order the game is useless as even the reviewers said it has no replay value at all. There's no DLC or multiplayer. I think that people just like knocking EA for the sake of it.