Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Available Today - Post Your Impressions Here

[DivotMaker]

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No one has ever shot a 63 in a major, so Jordan beats that by at least 3 strokes (assuming it's a par 72 course).

Come on EA Sports. Get it together!

No one has scored in the low 50's IRL, but you can do it in RM in arcade mode as well as TGC....they are both VIDEO GAMES. They are not Golf simulations.

[hawley088]

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Now that I've had the game for a while, I can still say I'm enjoying it. At the bare minimum they'll add 6-10 more courses (I'd imagine more). That alone makes this purchase worth $60 for me. I spend 60 on two half decent rounds of actual golf. This provides far more hours of entertainment.

The one thing that is KILLING it for me though is AI scoring in career. I know it's been mentioned but my goodness. I'm playing the Spring Invitational in season 2. After round 1 I was at -6. Leader was at -7. Fast forward to Sunday. Heading into the final round I'm -19 and second place is -5. Seriously? The wind dropped to basically nothing days two and three and scoring TANKS. And it happens in every single tournament. Big numbers day one, then everyone goes backwards while I win by 15-30 shots.

If they don't add an option to increase AI scoring or patch the scoring system as it is now, career mode won't get touched. Right now I'm just going through the motions to unlock everything but once that's done its online tournaments only.

they need to add a dynamic difficulty that adjusts based your average score. If you want to play on classic mode and shoot -20 every round, the CPU will shoot the same

[PRO_TOO]

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Anyone in here trying to pass all the night club challenges?! I do it on pro level like I play my PGA tour. This mode is ok, but nothing special. I enjoy a "regular" round of golf much more but it brings some variety to the table.

[cblake78]

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Just won the Open at St Andrews...at -45 for the tournament. Next closest was -12, lol.

This is on the hardest difficulty, minus the green grid being turned off and being able to zoom.


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[pencerm]

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Welllll, at the Open Championship, Jordan Spieth shot a 12- on Sunday and beat me by a stroke so.....

I missed the birdie on 18 *sigh*. So I guess the courses aren't always like you say. I know what you mean though.

Well I'm glad someone has seen some competition. Funny story.. I put The Players on quick rounds because I was anxious to get to the U.S. Open.. It gave me 4 holes only for the 3 rounds and 6 for the final round. I figured on quick rounds I'd have less time to score and it would keep it close. This time Martin Kaymer shot -6 round 1. He was -9 round after two. -17 after 3. -19 final total. Effectively giving me no chance since I only had 18 holes total to work with. I can't win with this I guess.

[Keirik]

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What i don't get is how does this game take away so much of the customization aspects previous ones had? I cant actually create a golfer that looks like me, just some presets? I can't actually customize the style of clothing, just like 15 versions of a polo and 15 version of the same pants? No Payne Stewart style clothing or anything? That's pretty inexcusable to me. We aren't talking about a game where there are tons of people on the screen at one time. It's one. Me. No one else. Why can't it be really customized like they had in the game 5 freaking years ago?

[smitty67]

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What i don't get is how does this game take away so much of the customization aspects previous ones had? I cant actually create a golfer that looks like me, just some presets? I can't actually customize the style of clothing, just like 15 versions of a polo and 15 version of the same pants? No Payne Stewart style clothing or anything? That's pretty inexcusable to me. We aren't talking about a game where there are tons of people on the screen at one time. It's one. Me. No one else. Why can't it be really customized like they had in the game 5 freaking years ago?

Something had to be taken out so they could put all those animations in.

[VTKombat]

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Something had to be taken out so they could put all those animations in.

Real knee slapper.

[Keirik]

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But thank god they were able to model that one fictional golfer in like the Ghille suit for play

[TheBleedingRed21]

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Hadn't got to touch this again since release day sadly but just fired up a round at Sawgrass.

I don't understand the ease some are suggesting. My iron shots were going left and right like crazy.

I forgot how well commentary is in the game. Really really immersive and great foundation to build on.

Once this gets some patches and updates to content, this is gonna be a good little gem.

[capa]

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Is there any plan to redo or remove the ridiculous celebrations? Man, this is such an immersion killer. How could any developer or anyone familiar with the game of golf apply these over the top celebrations? I don't know what they were after but it really kills the realism factor for me.

C

[AmericasTeam]

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Is there any plan to redo or remove the ridiculous celebrations? Man, this is such an immersion killer. How could any developer or anyone familiar with the game of golf apply these over the top celebrations? I don't know what they were after but it really kills the realism factor for me.

C

It really is a killer. Not to mention, I continually have to tell my 3 and 5 year old boys that we don't act like that. It's embarrassing.

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[bubbaman11]

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The actual golf in this game is very good. I've seen people complain about the putting, but I like it. Is it a bit to easy to "hop" it over the cup? Probably, but I'd much rather they keep it as is - it's nice to feel that tension sitting over a putt, much like real life. And to whomever shot -45 in a 72 hole tourney, do that with 3 click on hard/advanced with the aids off. You can't honestly take your score seriously with zoom on (regardless of the rest of your settings), so why post it in the impressions thread?

They absolutely need to fix the garbage celebrations, create-a-golfer, add more courses, and do something with the pro career to help with immersion between rounds/end of season; but the game on the course with 3-click is excellent imo.

[OnlookerDelay]

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The actual golf in this game is very good. I've seen people complain about the putting, but I like it. Is it a bit to easy to "hop" it over the cup? Probably, but I'd much rather they keep it as is - it's nice to feel that tension sitting over a putt, much like real life. And to whomever shot -45 in a 72 hole tourney, do that with 3 click on hard/advanced with the aids off. You can't honestly take your score seriously with zoom on (regardless of the rest of your settings), so why post it in the impressions thread?

bubbaman11, the biggest draw for me in a golf game is how proportional and how fluidly kinesthetic the swing interface feels. The current swing interface in RMPGAT feels "twitchy" to me right now, including the putting. I wish I could get into 3-click play because it seems that's where RM's best play challenge lies, but I haven't been able to enjoy 3-click since I got my first taste of a well done thumbstick swing in Links 2004 on the original XBox. I tried it during Early Access on the XB1 version of RM, and I'm sorry, I just don't like watching meters during gameplay.

They absolutely need to fix the garbage celebrations, create-a-golfer, add more courses, and do something with the pro career to help with immersion between rounds/end of season; but the game on the course with 3-click is excellent imo.

I'll be totally shocked and sorely disappointed if they don't provide an option to turn off the ridiculous post-shot animations in the first update next week. Criticism of that non-optional "feature" has been the most consistently aired complaint I've heard. The career mode needs some help in making it feel like an event involving other players. Why they wouldn't let you play career mode rounds with other featured pros is a bit peculiar to me. I think it would help sell the competitive nature better if they would allow it as an option.

Something significant has got to happen in the analog interface department to get me onboard with this game. I suspect it will be several iterations before they get close to what I'm after, if ever. I'm also curious to see if the option to turn off the tempo "green light/red light" meter during the swing. That annoys the heck out of me, and actually turned out to be more of a hinderance than an aid!

[cblake78]

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The actual golf in this game is very good. I've seen people complain about the putting, but I like it. Is it a bit to easy to "hop" it over the cup? Probably, but I'd much rather they keep it as is - it's nice to feel that tension sitting over a putt, much like real life. And to whomever shot -45 in a 72 hole tourney, do that with 3 click on hard/advanced with the aids off. You can't honestly take your score seriously with zoom on (regardless of the rest of your settings), so why post it in the impressions thread?

They absolutely need to fix the garbage celebrations, create-a-golfer, add more courses, and do something with the pro career to help with immersion between rounds/end of season; but the game on the course with 3-click is excellent imo.

I can't take my score seriously and post my "impression" because I played with one or more settings on default? Got it. Having zoom on (to me) is the equivalent to having played a course in real-life several times and knowing it's ins and outs, so why is it considered as big of an advantage or "cheat" as some people make it out to be?

Even with the zoom feature off, how much worse can my score get? Even if you took away 10-15 or even 20 strokes, I still win that tournament by 9-10 strokes.

3-click just takes every bit of feel out of the game for me...I'd rather sacrifice lower scores for increased feel. But that's just me.