Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 13 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions

**OnlookerDelay** · 03-06-2012, 08:09 AM

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 Demo available now, Post impressions here

Uhhhhhh... what can I say? I'm rather disappointed with what I've seen and experienced in this demo. I find the interface to be rather clunky feeling. For starters, the animations of the three included golfers are choppy and seem to be skipping or missing frames. There's no fluidity that I can find between the stick movement and the animation. I can't use the animation as a gauge to get a feel for what I'm doing, and that's critical in Tournament difficulty. I always get a "slow" tempo report no matter what I do with the stick.

I'm really shocked at what they've done with the putting. It seems like they've scaled the maximum distance for the putt to the distance you've targeted to within 20% or so. You can set your aiming cursor at 20 feet and have a full rip at it and it will go 25 feet. I don't like the feel of that at all.

I'm curious to see what others think, but I'm sorta in shock right now

**rd1981** · 03-06-2012, 08:39 AM

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 Demo available now, Post impressions here

I don't see the game in the marketplace yet, I'm not sure if it's because im not on the gold membership anymore or not. But I do see the other demos mlb2k12 is there.

**tsp120** · 03-06-2012, 08:56 AM

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 Demo available now, Post impressions here

Originally posted by rd1981

I don't see the game in the marketplace yet, I'm not sure if it's because im not on the gold membership anymore or not. But I do see the other demos mlb2k12 is there.

I'm not a gold member either and I usually don't get demos until a week later.

**OnlookerDelay** · 03-06-2012, 09:09 AM

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 Demo available now, Post impressions here

I recall it saying "Gold Membership" exclusive somewhere during my selection. I've got a Gold Membership. Don't feel left out; you aren't missing much.

**rd1981** · 03-06-2012, 09:22 AM

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 Demo available now, Post impressions here

oh ok thanks guys, I wasn't sure. This is my first month without the Gold membership. I didn't use any of it's benefits and didn't see a big difference in the regular membership. But I guess I can wait. I just wanted to see how TW13 would work with Kinect.

**Seymour Scagnetti** · 03-06-2012, 09:54 AM

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 Demo available now, Post impressions here

Originally posted by OnlookerDelay

Uhhhhhh... what can I say? I'm rather disappointed with what I've seen and experienced in this demo. I find the interface to be rather clunky feeling. For starters, the animations of the three included golfers are choppy and seem to be skipping or missing frames. There's no fluidity that I can find between the stick movement and the animation. I can't use the animation as a gauge to get a feel for what I'm doing, and that's critical in Tournament difficulty. I always get a "slow" tempo report no matter what I do with the stick.

I'm really shocked at what they've done with the putting. It seems like they've scaled the maximum distance for the putt to the distance you've targeted to within 20% or so. You can set your aiming cursor at 20 feet and have a full rip at it and it will go 25 feet. I don't like the feel of that at all.

I'm curious to see what others think, but I'm sorta in shock right now

What a joke. Honestly I am really not suprised that TW13 has regressed back to it's arcade roots. We really need new developers for a PGA golf game. How many times can EA screw things up before gamers have had enough. Hopefully sales take a tank this year (and based on the demo it probably will) and EA gives up the license and lets someone else have a crack at it.

I do feel bad for you though but what is puzzling is even if the demo is somewhat broken that doesn't explain the new putting model and there were some "sim" gamers on EA's site who were praising everything about the game when they played it. Nobody bothered to mention that the putting is back to it's arcade roots, that's a weird oversight and or EA cheerleading has gotten to a point that thier objectivity can't be taken seriously.

**DivotMaker** · 03-06-2012, 10:11 AM

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 Demo available now, Post impressions here

Originally posted by Seymour Scagnetti

I do feel bad for you though but what is puzzling is even if the demo is somewhat broken that doesn't explain the new putting model and there were some "sim" gamers on EA's site who were praising everything about the game when they played it. Nobody bothered to mention that the putting is back to it's arcade roots, that's a weird oversight and or EA cheerleading has gotten to a point that thier objectivity can't be taken seriously.

Who said it is "back to its arcade roots"? I did not find that to be the case at all in my time at Tiburon last week and having played 2 rounds of the demo using Kinect in Tournament difficulty, I can tell you that this is flat out wrong from what I can see so far. Have you even downloaded the demo? Don't have much time to spend with the demo right now as I am preparing to go overseas tomorrow, but I will get to play it overseas. I will try the controller then....

**Yeats** · 03-06-2012, 10:21 AM

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 Demo available now, Post impressions here

Originally posted by OnlookerDelay

I'm really shocked at what they've done with the putting. It seems like they've scaled the maximum distance for the putt to the distance you've targeted to within 20% or so. You can set your aiming cursor at 20 feet and have a full rip at it and it will go 25 feet.

Hasn't that always been the case with this series? That putting has always been scaled to a large degree. I don't understand how that's different than in previous versions.

**davis420** · 03-06-2012, 10:22 AM

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 Demo available now, Post impressions here

Just finished the 1st two holes and I have to say I thought the game is pretty decent. I have to say that the last TW game I played was 09. I thought the presentation was done really well, the crowd sounds really good to me. I need to learn the buttons better to have a better experience but I thought it was good.

**OnlookerDelay** · 03-06-2012, 10:33 AM

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 Demo available now, Post impressions here

Originally posted by Yeats

Hasn't that always been the case with this series? That putting has always been scaled to a large degree. I don't understand how that's different than in previous versions.

I didn't find it to be scaled in Tiger 10, 11 and 12, not in Tournament difficulty with the putting meter turned off. I guess I could move the targeting cursor out to 100 feet and rely on my touch to regulate the strength, but I have a feeling it wouldn't be the same as putting with 10, 11 and 12's interface.

**OnlookerDelay** · 03-06-2012, 10:36 AM

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 Demo available now, Post impressions here

Originally posted by DivotMaker

Who said it is "back to its arcade roots"? I did not find that to be the case at all in my time at Tiburon last week and having played 2 rounds of the demo using Kinect in Tournament difficulty, I can tell you that this is flat out wrong from what I can see so far. Have you even downloaded the demo? Don't have much time to spend with the demo right now as I am preparing to go overseas tomorrow, but I will get to play it overseas. I will try the controller then....

Divot, have you had a chance to play the demo yet? I want to see how you think it compares the near final version you got to play at Tiburon. Some aspects of the golfer animations are really dodgy in the demo, IMO.

I'm still eager to read some OS'ers opinions on the Kinect interface with the demo. I don't own a Kinect, but I'm considering it if this game works well with it.

**rico526** · 03-06-2012, 01:10 PM

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 Demo available now, Post impressions here

Well, I downloaded the demo this morning and played both the courses included on Tour Pro difficulty with the manual caddy option.

I have to say that I was actually impressed. It doesn't feel nearly as arcadey as past renditions of the game have been for me. I really like the new stance and ball setup features. I like the the swing meter and feedback hud and the fact that you can turn those off. I thought the caddy feature was terrible last year and I really like the fact that I can have him turned on but don't have to use him unless I feel like I need him. The first few holed I played at Augusta were difficult even though I played using Tiger. I haven't been able to say that in years past. This lets me know that using my own created golfer is going to be a bit more challenging.

As far are animations go, everything also seemed to be smooth for me. I didn't notice any choppiness or anything. The grass in the fairways did seem to be a little flat to me but I just say that's because I'm used to playing on my local goat tracks, lol.

Now I'm just hoping online country clubs work out well and are what I'm hoping for. If so, than it will probably be a day one purchase for me.

**Tomba** · 03-06-2012, 02:39 PM

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 Demo available now, Post impressions here

Graphically this is the best the series has ever been.

STUNNING

Day ONE EA

DAY ONE

**kickingguru** · 03-06-2012, 03:35 PM

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 13 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions

I have officially gotten tired of the..... I went str8 to tourney difficulty crowd and could not figure it out so it sucks crowd....... Play pro first... Then tour pro... Then after you have a feel for the game... Play tourney....

This is not 12.... And is not easy.... Tempo is everything and you have to swing more than twice to figure it out....

Do not complain about the game being too easy, then bitch when they make it harder..... Your hypocrisy is stunning... Give this time.. I loved the demo and will work to figure it all out when it come out....

Btw.. This goes more to the ea forum crowd than here.... Some of those guys are maddening...

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