Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Demo Available, Post Impressions Here

[cgbandit]

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After reading the blogs and looking at the new screenshots I was prety hyped about TW10. But after playing the demo it feels like nothing has changed. It all feels like last years game. The graphics arent that a great of an improvement. Yeah there are bigger crowds but whats the point when they all look the same and have a generic look about them. thats the problem with EA , they just keep making the same game with a few tweaks and changing the year on the package.

[BLB34]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Demo Available, Post Impressions Here

After reading the blogs and looking at the new screenshots I was prety hyped about TW10. But after playing the demo it feels like nothing has changed. It all feels like last years game. The graphics arent that a great of an improvement. Yeah there are bigger crowds but whats the point when they all look the same and have a generic look about them. thats the problem with EA , they just keep making the same game with a few tweaks and changing the year on the package.

I agree 100% with your comment about the crowds. Making the crowds bigger actually makes it worse since it's more obvious how awful they are. They look like a bunch of randomly placed robots with almost no variety in appearance and reaction. One of the worst crowds in sports gaming, IMO.

[rolltide1017]

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I think people are overreacting to a demo that is locked on easy. Anyone that has been following the games progress this year should not be surprised by anything in the demo. This "I know it is on easy but, the core mechanics" talk is a little silly imo. Anyone that played last years game on Tour Pro knows that it significantly increased the difficulty and made those "core mechanics" more sensitive. They've said they have even made it more sensitive on Tour Pro this year. The only thing that us Tour Pro players can really take away from the demo is a taste of what the game looks like graphically, a taste of the new putting and see what the new tiger challenge is like. The actual gameplay will be very different on the Tour Pro difficulty. I'm not saying the game will be perfect and the best golf game ever, it probably will not. I'm just saying that you can't judge a whole lot from this demo.

The new precision putting doesn't seem 1:1 too me but, maybe it is the easy difficulty of the demo. The meter just didn't seem to move at the same speed as the golfers animation. If you move fast enough you can make your golfer's animation go all the way back and still only hit the ball 10 feet or so when it should be flying off the green. I would have to hold my putter's position and let the meter catch up to make if feel accurate. This kinda concerns me but maybe it will be better on Tour Pro.

I'm still torn between the PS3 and Wii version though. I flat out hate the graphics on the Wii and the consoles online multiplayer sucks compare to the 360 and PS3. But, if the Wii motion plus truly makes it a 1:1 swing then that makes the game so tempting. The only TW game I have played on the Wii was the very first one and I hated it because you could take a really golf swing motion without slicing or hooking the ball because you couldn't twist your hands (in a really golf swing your hand twist slightly at the top of you back swing and follow through). Can you really take a realistic golf swing with this years Wii version? What will season mode offer on the Wii and what difficulty settings does the Wii offer (anything like Tour Pro mode and club tuner)?

[JEM]

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Same ol same ol when it comes to EA. All of their sports titles suffer from the same problems.

[HustlinOwl]

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Same ol same ol when it comes to EA. All of their sports titles suffer from the same problems.

[scottmac]

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Same ol same ol when it comes to EA. All of their sports titles suffer from the same problems.

It is the same because they release a new game every year. I think they could cut it back to every 2 years and make a better game. They dont need updated rosters like other EA games so I think they should do that, but they are after more yearly sales though.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

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It is the same because they release a new game every year. I think they could cut it back to every 2 years and make a better game. They dont need updated rosters like other EA games so I think they should do that, but they are after more yearly sales though.

That's no excuse because they could simply make a pure simulation difficulty level but they don't out of pure laziness because they would still sell the same # of games as long as they keep the other levels arcadey.

It's actually pretty shameful that this is the 6th TW editon since Links came out for Xbox and the TW series still doesn't compare to that in terms of ball physics and swing mechanics.

[dave374]

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I am incredibly ticked off that they are gonna make us unlock courses again this year.

Golf is a game generally for adults. We don't have time to go through 6,000 challenges to unlock courses.

Give us the courses we paid for.

The community day guys should have made this point clear.

[Fluffhead]

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I am incredibly ticked off that they are gonna make us unlock courses again this year.

Golf is a game generally for adults. We don't have time to go through 6,000 challenges to unlock courses.

Give us the courses we paid for.

The community day guys should have made this point clear.

Is this true? If so, ugh. Crap like this is just inexcusable.

[DivotMaker]

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The community day guys should have made this point clear.

What makes you think we didn't? We did and obviously we don't make the decisions....

[Klocker]

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yea, Tiger iPhone for me this year.

thanks EA for saving me $50. which is nice considering between Madden and TW over the years I tossed away about $500 on games that I only owned for a couple weeks.

[dave374]

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What makes you think we didn't? We did and obviously we don't make the decisions....

OK then. I retract the last sentence of my rant.

To be completely honest, it was just that - a rant.

I am so sick of EA making us pay to unlock courses. And, if I'm not mistaken, you didn't even have that option on the ps3 last year. Only the 360.

I have both consoles and was hoping to play Tiger on the ps3. But if I can't even buy the course unlock thingy, I guess I'll have to stick with the 360.

[ocat]

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Played the demo

Pass
EA = Fail (again *sigh*)

i'm so disappointed

[Jackdog]

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I am so sick of EA making us pay to unlock courses. And, if I'm not mistaken, you didn't even have that option on the ps3 last year. Only the 360.

I agree. Just plain stupid.

[dave374]

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Played the demo

Pass
EA = Fail (again *sigh*)

i'm so disappointed

I think you have to play the game on a higher difficulty level before you can call it a fail.
It's set on easy.