Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 13 Video - Adjusting Your Stance

[Seymour Scagnetti]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 13 Video - Adjusting Your Stance

In TW for PC, you did not have true foot positioning with TrueSwing. You executed draws and fades primarily using the mouse to execute swing path. They DID have ball positioning at address, but I do not recall foot positioning which is what they are bringing to TW13. And IMO, that is bringing more of a simulation-like quality than what we have had in the past, especially if you can indeed change foot positioning to your actual swing. This however may be tied to the swing arc (which is OFF by default in the most challenging level called Tournament) and this would then force you to guess as to where your foot alignment is going to impact the shot. I think that ups the ante on simulation-like qualities of the swing. You could always use standard foot placement and execute your shot using the swing stick. All speculation though until we can play the game/demo...

I hope that's the case because if moving your feet independently moves your aiming marker in the same respect then that just means you're not guessing at anything because you know where's it going to land and that was all available to us last year, just dressed up differently.

IMO the only true sim experience would be forcing you to flick the joystick inside out or vice versa. In video golf the closest you can come to making the joystick feel like a golf club, the better. That's intuitive, anything else is not. I'm remember feeling extremely satisfied in TW PC when I could execute a good draw or fade based on the way I brought my mouse back and then forward. Having to set my feet in that game was inconsequential because it's the swing you can only control during the execution of a shot.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 13 Video - Adjusting Your Stance

You mean Links 2004 for the XBox, right? I still play it three or four times a month and uses the right thumbstick to produce fades and draws. You have to hold the stick to the degree of draw/fade/backspin you want on the ball throughout the swing. You can introduce errors by getting off the swing plane though, but that's not how the game, even in Advanced difficulty, is designed to "work" the ball.

Yeah I meant 2004. And boy do I miss that game. If it had a good career mode with a PGA season setup like we do with TW I would still be playing it. One thing I didn't like was the camera angles sometimes. I would still be playing TW 07 for the PC if my desktop didn't die. If they could port that directly to the console then I would be happy. It had good AI scoring, playoff holes, no carnival pins.

[peigone]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 13 Video - Adjusting Your Stance

I would still be playing TW 07 for the PC if my desktop didn't die. If they could port that directly to the console then I would be happy. It had good AI scoring, playoff holes, no carnival pins.

With the 06-07 career editor, you can choose easy pin placements, or simply jettison any courses that have unrealistic pin placements. I just started my newest and latest 07 custom season this morning actually.