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Originally Posted by Jet Sufferer |
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I've heard it mentioned that a couple of the devs are scratch golfers. I'm a scratch golfer too, actually a little better than that.
When you have a wedge in your you ARE trying to hit a straight shot, I was kind of surprised in the demo when coming in with wedges to still see the extreme fade path. It's HARD to draw or fade a wedge, lol, if I draw a sand wedge it's not on purpose.
So I was a little disappointed to see that, just like in real golf when you're in that scoring zone you're going right at the flag, not shaping a wedge in there. I was having a tough time hitting fairways then when I had a wedge in I was expecting to see the game give me the 6-12 o'clock shot.
Even with the shorter irons the ball will move less. In real life I hit a draw automatically, don't even have to think about it and my draw will draw a few more yards the longer the club. I think the game should reflect those small variations instead of 6-12 or 5-7, some variations in between.
Sometimes I would just spin the controller a bit so my thumb can just go 6-12 and hit the 5-7, but it feels like cheating, lol so I suck it up for the most part.
The game will be good at retail, it's pretty good now, except playing in the dark, I can only believe the graphics don't look good because it's an early build, the graphics were excellent in 12 and 13, no way they won't be great in 14, right?
This game will REALLY benefit from next gen systems. I hit some balls that were bad shots but NO WAY should they have been O.B. I know they can't render enough of the course, etc. but instead of ruining my round with an O.B. just give me some generic looking atmosphere to hit out of. I don't even care if it doesn't look the whole or the course I'm playing, don't punish me with O.B. on a ball that is on the course! Even just throw a random fan there on an O.B. ball and let it hit his thigh instead of sending me back to the tee with a 2 stroke penalty.
Also, the Marshalls are NOT doing their job here lol. I tried to punch out back into the fairway from the trees and instead of the Marshalls clearing a path for me they let these damn fans stand wherever they want. I go to punch out and some un-athletic lard butt in the gallery couldn't get out of the way of my punch out and it hit him and I'm STILL in the rough with the trees in my way.
Oh the trees, sigh. These trees, or more specifically the leaves are apparently made of iron with a plush coating of rich, corinthian leather covering them. This is the only way I can describe the physics of what happens when hitting these iron/leather leaves. I hope next gen we have leaves and branches reacting with the proper physics the way they do in real life.
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Jet, you are hilarious. This post cracked me up. I'm just under a 4 handicap, and grew up playing tournament golf as well. I love your complaints, even though they are light hearted humerous complaints they have some truth to them I can tell. Especially the gallery bit. Can't tell you how many times the spectators get in the way in these greens, it especially drives me crazy when I am by the green and I can't see my path to the hole or they are standing right behind me to where I would hit them in my back swing lol.
And the leaves have driven me insane for years. You touch a leaf and your ball drops straight down. It drives me crazy lol.
Thanks for my laugh of the evening.