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

[Panicshade]

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

I am a casual golf fan and casual player of this game. I liked the demo personally. I played on the default difficulty the demo was set at and I did okay for me. My putting was horrible though. I couldn't see a way to manually aim the putt unless I am completely blind and just overlooking something like an idiot.

Considering how my money situation is before the release date I may try and get the CE but I will wait and see. Overall I have a positive impression of the demo from a casual perspective.

[erickonasis]

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cant wait for this....been on a hot shots tear lately with Vita so i'm trying this when i get offf work

[DivotMaker]

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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...

Well said.....

[OnlookerDelay]

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Guys, I just learned that I was way offbase with some of my comments about the new swing mechanic. I was having problems getting a full backswing (often no further than ~70%) with two controllers I tried, and then this happened:

I tried my third controller and had the same 65-70% maximum backswing and thought... what the heck is going on here!? I should have thought of this earlier, but I went into the gameplay options and switched to the right stick. Lo and behold, I've now got a full backswing, including the full overswing region! The problem is that I stink with the right thumbstick.

I picked up my 4th controller, the black one that came with my XBox 360 slim and its left stick performed like the right stick in the 3rd controller I tried. I know I've got issues with the left stick now on at least the 3rd controller because while I was swinging with the right stick, the cursor on the strike meter was drifting, on its own, off the top of the ball during my backswing, in Amateur! What are the odds that I have three wireless controllers whose left thumbstick problems were so peculiar that they didn't manifest themselves until this demo? The first controller I tried is designated as my Tiger Woods controller with an etching on it and hasn't affected my backswing in Tiger 12, or my distance, yet it does exactly the same thing in the Tiger 13 demo as two of my other controllers.

Does this change the way the demo now plays for me? Absolutely! It is a better experience for sure and I can feel more of the merits of Total Swing Control as a result.

So, I'm back to being more upbeat about this game, although I still don't like the new scaled distance putting technique. It's like an analog version of what we now call "Classic Putting", where one had seven different putting ranges. I've got to go back out on a new first date with the demo now

[kickingguru]

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So, I'm back to being more upbeat about this game, although I still don't like the new scaled distance putting technique. It's like an analog version of what we now call "Classic Putting", where one had seven different putting ranges. I've got to go back out on a new first date with the demo now

Here is the deal with the putting.... The version is more geared to how you set up the putt... However.... the come back putt is still really tough too... both with previews and with out... Since the tempo plays such an important role, putting is extremely difficult and will take some time to get used to on both pro and tourney difficulty...... What I do love is that you get a 2.45 multiplier for Tournament mode... The multipliers will definitely keep people from slumming it out on AM mode....

This is simply a different game. It will take some time to adjust and play accordingly. My created character will take time to build up as well. I love the challenge brought back to the game and I truly doubt -32 scores will be posted regularly...even on AM mode.....

Enjoy, and get in a Country Club.... mine is Total Online Play .... our website is www.totalonlineplay.com ............ we are for more mature gamers and want a combination of dedication to the game with a good sense of humor..... it will take a special 15 year old to want to play with us...... If you post on the website.. I will give you the pw to join...

Late,

The Guru

[sportznut02]

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I wish the Playstation Store would hurry up and update so I can play the demo.

[stiffarmleft]

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I played a few holes with the kinect and found the game too easy even on tour difficulty. I made a conscience effort to hit bad shots, they were off course but not nearly as bad as it should be. The fact that the kinect does not appear to detect wrist position at contact probably contributes to this. Hopefully the ps move is more difficult.

[DivotMaker]

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I played a few holes with the kinect and found the game too easy even on tour difficulty. I made a conscience effort to hit bad shots, they were off course but not nearly as bad as it should be. The fact that the kinect does not appear to detect wrist position at contact probably contributes to this. Hopefully the ps move is more difficult.

Shot +10 and +8 in Tournament difficulty with Kinect. Went down to Pro and shot -1 with an eagle at Augusta, so there is something going on with your settings as Tournament mode I am spraying the ball all over the course....

[stiffarmleft]

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Shot +10 and +8 in Tournament difficulty with Kinect. Went down to Pro and shot -1 with an eagle at Augusta, so there is something going on with your settings as Tournament mode I am spraying the ball all over the course....

Lol, you don't understand how bad my real game is, shooting a +10 is too easy for me. On tiger woods 11 on the wii I regularly shot in the high 90s like my real game.

[MrArlingtonBeach]

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I hate the putting meter. Not sure what it is...I just prefer the previous years' better.

Tempo swinging is gonna take some getting used to. I am getting all 'Slow' tempo shot feedback results. I then get all 'Fast' feedback when putting.

I do like the way the Manual caddie is implemented this year. Doesn't intrude and makes you actually set up the shot.

Graphics are excellent, although Tiger Woods' character looks off to me.

I am still looking forward to the game. I have it preordered and won't cancel it. But the new swing mechanic is gonna be tough to learn. It's not necessarily a bad thing. It's just something long-time players of the franchise will have to become accustomed to.

[kevster2]

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To aim the putt you use the D pad! I think the demo is very good, much better then I anticipated!

[Seymour Scagnetti]

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To say this game has been dumbed down is the understatement of the year. What they have done is mind boggling. Every decision regarding club selection is made for you in the fairway, in the rough and on the greens. The aiming marker tells you what club to use when you are buried in the rough which was half the fun of the game trying to estimate what club to use in the rough and whether you guessed wrong and over\under shot the green because of your decision. Oh you're deep in the rough, no problem we'll take the tricky decision of what club to use and just swing away and get that tempo down because if you hit perfect that 5 iron will take it right to the flag just like if you hit it perfectly on the fairway it will go right to the same flag and then just set your putter marker at 10 feet and swing away because you know we won't let you misjudge the speed of the greens and let it roll too far away. Just worry about that tricky tempo and we'll do all the thinking. I've used more strategy playing Angry Birds and I'm being totally serious, that's how far this game has fallen in terms of allowing you to strategize about anything.

The marker determines the distance of your putter so you you don't not have to judge green speed and how hard to hit your putter because it won;t go much farther past than where your marker is placed. They've killed the overall feel of putting which was most of the fun and have prearranged max distances depending where you place the marker. That is simply a game killer right there.

No course management is required, just flick that joystick back and forth as fluidly as you can, take out some munchies and mindlessly do it again because you know everytime you have picked the right club. A dev stated they wanted to eliminate the math entirely to attract new gamers. Why? it's not calculas, it's called course management. I doubt Boo Weekley is a math whiz but has his caddie to do that. And we are given a manual caddie if we don't want to think it out so why dumb down the game for people who want to pay sim like and force us to play a mindless game of stick flicking without the option of playing with as little aids as possible.

The feel is unnatural and varies oddly between striking and putting and the swing animations no golfer would do in real life for some shots. They play by thier own physics so it's hard to have the joystick feel like an extension of the golf club when the game plays by it's own rules regarding tempo.

It's just an insult to the sim guys and I understand why anticipation on websites is tepid at best because the guys wanting a realistic golf game have given up and I'm one of them. They had a great sim game in TW 11, dumbed it down for TW12 and then gave it a total lobotamy for TW13 and think that making it as difficult and tricked out as possible to flick the joystick is what sim gamers will enjoy and that's where they want the difficulty to come from.

To say the devs are misguided is another huge understatement. Strategy along with shot execution is what makes it difficult and most importantly fun. Just flicking the joystick as best you can is fine for people who want that but to deny another way to play for people who don't want that it's a complete kick in the face.

[mike24forever]

^ you should probably not buy this game.

[leafs nation]

To me, charging extra for the green jacket presentation is on par with charging extra for the stanley cup presentation in NHL or like charging extra for laces when you buy shoes.

[JimmyPelican]

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Im actually still playing TW 10. I decided to download the demo and I am dissapointed in the putting. It seems very clunky like Onlooker said. I dont understand the change.
I love the feel of the putting in TW10. I felt I had more control in the feel of my golfer.