Agreed. Like I said, I'm not much of an online gamer. I play mainly sports games and it's solely for the simulation aspect of them. Grinding thorough seasons and chasing championships in the career/dynasty modes. I loved tiger woods games like 10 years ago as a party game but I was not impressed with their seasons back then, they were too easy, so once I stopped living with people that I played tiger with I stopped buying them. I think my gap was from about 2004 or 2005 through 2012. I got roped back in because of Augusta and the improvements I read about in the career mode with being able to adjust ai scores. And so I got 12 and 13 and now this is the closest to what I've always wanted a golf game to be with the additions to 14.
I still think the 2 things lacking are the fully dynamic career having to battle to stay on tour. And I think they need a Ryder cup and presidents cup. I know that with all the licenses there's only so much they can do, and I agree with the 4 majors instead of one of those. But I think ea should look into generic name tournaments that are the Ryder and presidents cups with different names like the have done with all the majors in the past. I would love to have those tournaments because of the fun aspect of them and something else to work for throughout the seasons, not because of the names/license. On the other hand I think it adds so much more to have all 4 real majors and I actually did not enjoy playing most the majors because of their lack of names and such. They just felt like another tournament, where a generic Ryder cup would still feel like a Ryder cup tournament without the name because of the differing playing style.
But other than those 2 things, this is everything I've wanted this series to be, so thank you to the entire team at ea. I'm sure there will be things that can use tweaks to improve, but overall I think this is going to set a new level as far as golf games go for me and what I've been wanting. Oh and not to mention playoffs for ties!!!!!!! It sucks that using a shot arc is showing someone's likeness because that is the only other thing that I would want is to see at least what my playing partners were doing and what my opponent in playoffs were doing each shot, but that would require licensing every name in the game and that's simply too much for the franchise. But playoffs is a very welcome addition that I am happy to see.
Overall, I'm stoked, one week to go!!!!!