Fee-fi-fo-fo-fum and we have not even teed off yet.
Lets also hope communication is good here including day 1 transparency over pricing.
Swing wise I am on the fence. At the end of the day no video golf game is going to be too good at really capturing that RL essence IMO, but what they can do is not get so video gaming fiddly that we lose golfs sweet essence. Seems you guys have given it much thought though which is promising.
Looking forward to seeing what the actual game play is like for sure
In all honesty that's what I am looking for most of all. A good rock solid sim offering best in class realism whilst also robust against cheating.
Not sure how much more transparent it can be. It's 19.99 for the EA release on Steam (which is free) It's been stated many times, you buy the game and play. For me if they offer DLC's for a manufacturers top line of customizable shafts for clubs I have no issue with that. That's what happens in real life. And just because you have that in the game doesn't mean you're buying an enhancement that's going to give you special shot powers over other players. Hell you may buy them and find out that with you're swing style you shoot worse. Almost every video game on the market today offers DLC's for a price, car packs etc.
Game play is also going to be dependent on your computer. This is a fully developed video game that uses amongst other things, real time weather influences and various physics engines. It's going to require a certain amount of horsepower to play comfortably and also at the highest settings.
If you're a gamer who's had any exposure to games such as Doom 3 when it was first released back in the day, well you know what happened there. Hell iD pretty well drove video card companies to R&D insanity trying to come out with cards to run that game at Ultra High settings. If you're running old Intel 3000 HD graphics and a 1.7 C2D processor you're not going to be playing this game at it's full potential and that has absolutely nothing to do with PP / PG. That's on you.
What I find funny and just a little sad, because it's so apparent now how deeply ingrained it is in the majority of them, is how suspicious and absolutely paranoid players / customers coming from WGT are. It's not without reason or justification either. That company out and out simply put, throws so many traps and crass revenue abusive elements into that game that anyone with any sort of intelligence can see what they're doing. One only needs to look at the latest ball gifting with no confirmation step fiasco. They do that sort of thing all the time and it's for one purpose only.
So while I don't think PP needs to go overboard with it, I do think perhaps in some cases like DLC's it would be in their interest, where players who are coming from that game over here to see what it's about and how it plays etc, to make sure it's very clear on costs and added costs, in game monies to be paid for whatever so that those fears are stomped out right away. And they are legit fears for those players. I myself spent over 600.00 of my own money there on clubs, ball types etc, some from being dumb, but mostly because I was under the impression I was buying upgraded equipment that would allow me to play too a higher level - that assumption was and is utterly false.
My purpose is not to slam TGC as I have it and I play it, (occasionaly) but I've been testing PP for some time now and you can't even compare the two if your looking for a true representation of a "real" round of golf. And PP is still in Beta stage.
