The Golf Club Arrives This Spring (Xbox One, PS4, PC)- Videos, Screenshots & Features

[OnlookerDelay]

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Check this out gang... apparently, HB Studios was to be the team who were going to code Tiger Woods PGA Tour 15 before EA Sports decided to cancel it:

"The team that had previously worked with EA Sports in the past on games like Madden NFL, FIFA Soccer and Tiger Woods PGA Tour was ready to get started working on the next Tiger Woods PGA title when they received word from Electronic Arts that the company wasn’t going to release a golf title in 2014. So, Wellard, Garcin and the rest of the Nova Scotia-based studio, filled with the urge to build a golf game, knew that the time was now to make a mark of their own in the sports gaming market. It was time to make a brand new, never-before-seen golf game for the, at the time, upcoming next-gen game consoles."

Here's a link to the full article:

http://gamesided.com/2014/01/24/step-inside-golf-club/

[Lieutenant Dan]

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From what I understand you can play your shot from anywhere as of right now. There currently is no designated out of bounds areas - but they will look into possibly implementing that at a later time.

Awesome. So I can play like I do in real life; from two fairways over

Not too excited about this. While a course creator is something many of us have wanted, if that is what they're hanging their hat on then it could get dull quickly if there is nothing else to draw you into playing. If it has the feel like you're playing a practice round with no crowd reaction, no commentary, no graphic overlays etc....well how often did you play a practice round in TW? And we all complained that game had bad presentation but this game looks to have much less.

Seymour...you represent the Rage of the Golf Gamer and you have kicked EA's *** all over the planet, oftentimes for the better and you're so verbose about it that it probably worked, or at least made it to the board room for discussion and summary denial

However where this title is concerned, I am ALL over it. I will continue my never ending career on TW14 until the next TW game comes out, but in the meantime this game offers something else, a really cool alternative that could create a great OS (and others of course) golfing community where we share courses and hack divots into them!

I can curse out ODogg for that skinny fairway that doglegs right in between my club distances, Bob can curse me out for a cliff side 260 yard par 3 on a links course (heheh, it's coming!)...the design possibilities can bring out the designer (and designer troll) in all of us.

I am so onboard...I can see wasting two lifetimes just creating, testing, and tweaking courses. It's like a sandbox golf game and it looks FRICKIN' fun!

[Golf Clubber]

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There is a post about closed PC Beta testing now on the game's website... I can't post the link with being new on here... but definitely check it out!

[OnlookerDelay]

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There is a post about closed PC Beta testing now on the game's website... I can't post the link with being new on here... but definitely check it out!

Thanks clubber, I sent my request in this afternoon.

[bcruise]

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There is a post about closed PC Beta testing now on the game's website... I can't post the link with being new on here... but definitely check it out!

I can.

http://thegolfclubgame.com/2014/01/24/closed-beta/

[LingeringRegime]

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Sign me up for the closed beta on PS4.

My Little Sony Vaio doesn't have the processing power for the PC version.

[MERACE]

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Thanks clubber, I sent my request in this afternoon.

Dittos!


-MERACE

[ODogg]

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I can.

http://thegolfclubgame.com/2014/01/24/closed-beta/

Thanks man, I just emailed them...hope I'm picked!!

Oh and just a comment to the guy above who was negative about the game it being a licensed PGA game...I couldn't care less to be honest...I don't think most people do either.. I only know a few of today's golfers and don't need them in a game to make the game worthwhile..

[OnlookerDelay]

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Oh and just a comment to the guy above who was negative about the game it being a licensed PGA game...I couldn't care less to be honest...I don't think most people do either.. I only know a few of today's golfers and don't need them in a game to make the game worthwhile..

Your post gave me pause and forced me to think - 'how does the lack of the likenesses of PGA players in the game affect me?'. It didn't take long for me to realize that it's little, if anything at all. The only time I saw the licensed pros in the TW series was when I was forced to play against them in the process of grinding for attributes. I never opted to play a match or a round for fun with them.

I don't see where the lack of licensed PGA players is going to hurt the sales of The Golf Club significantly. To the contrary, there might be some who pick it up because it doesn't have all the tinsel.

[brent3419]

i cant wait to see this game. i can see my self staying up all kinds of hours making and building courses, i do however want to know more info regarding the golfers in game are, how are they going to look, what kinds of attributes will there be, how many actually are on there, once this is shown, i will drop my cash on it

[ODogg]

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Your post gave me pause and forced me to think - 'how does the lack of the likenesses of PGA players in the game affect me?'. It didn't take long for me to realize that it's little, if anything at all. The only time I saw the licensed pros in the TW series was when I was forced to play against them in the process of grinding for attributes. I never opted to play a match or a round for fun with them.

I don't see where the lack of licensed PGA players is going to hurt the sales of The Golf Club significantly. To the contrary, there might be some who pick it up because it doesn't have all the tinsel.

Yeah exactly man, this ain't the NFL we are talking about here. Most of the game buying public knows one current golfer and that's Tiger Woods and maybe a small handful of others.

Golf the video game is bought by a lot of people like myself who enjoy golf videogames but don't really follow the PGA..so a license isn't near as crucial as most sports video games..

[OnlookerDelay]

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Golf the video game is bought by a lot of people like myself who enjoy golf videogames but don't really follow the PGA..so a license isn't near as crucial as most sports video games..

I don't know how typical I am of the average golf gamer, but I follow the PGA Tour quite heavily. I could probably reel off 100 PGA Tour player's names from memory, without coming up for air. Yet for some reason, when I play a golf video or computer game, I don't want to play as one of them. I like having my own identity as I play the game, as long as my attributes are at least as good in the game as they are in real life. I enjoy being able to play the game as if I had the skills of a pro, but it's not necessary for me to get enjoyment out of the game.

In the game, the licensed names mean nothing more to me than variable names on a spreadsheet. At least that's the feeling I've had playing "against" them in career mode in competing games.

[LingeringRegime]

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I hope that the character creation options are infinite like the course options.

How cool would it be if no other golfer would look the same?

[rolltide1017]

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Unfortunately, there is no character creation, at least not when the game launches. Here is what one of the devs said when asked about it:

Not in the first iteration. It's something we want to do, but it's an expensive part of the development in terms of time and money. So we decided to spend it on gameplay and the course creator.

[i3man]

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The swing motion in the game looks a lot better than TW ever was. With all the technology available I could never understand why TW could never get a swing motion that looked like actual PGA tour pros swinging golf clubs.

I had no intention of buying a PS4 or XBOX One but golf games have always been my thing and this does at least spur some interest in a new console...not sure it's worth $400 bucks though.