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[zmax - sim]

Haha.....still the same garbage.


Like I said previously, this is sounding like a $10 update.

[nightowl]

 

 

 

I have to add one more thing I just thought of..

 

I, still, totally hate how they've tied conditions to the actual course.

Just.  Hate.  It.

 

You end up not so much picking a course, but wading through the arduous course list (already arduous yet again) basically just trying to find some suitable settings that don't have greens where everything rolls off the front or a well hit shot with some height won't stay (when it looks like it should).

 

I think there's some technical reason they've done it this way.  They claim that "the courses are works of art and meant to be consumed as the designer intended"...but I find that to be a bit eye rolling and definitely a stretch.  This is video game golf folks...calling the "designers" (especially using that course designer) "artists" is really stretching some word definitions.

 

Just frustrates me.

 

I know what you mean.  The designer can always upload the same course several times, each with different conditions and times of day.  Wouldn't it be simpler to give users some options for playing a single course?  I just don't get it.  Options is definitely one area where PG beats TGC2 hands down.  I was playing the front 9 of a new course in TGC2.  Really looked good, even spectacular, in some respects.  But what is it with the fairway textures?  So rug-like.  It really can mar an otherwise great-looking course.  (And HB has had how long to rethink it?)  Rant over. 

[DoGgs]

I forgot about steam refund, is it less than two hours playtime? I really want to get it and spend an hour playing, then do a little video with my thoughts, 2 hrs should be plenty.  I always said i had zero faith in HB to deliver a great golf game, i know i'm not wrong, i have seen plenty of play footage from guys like tim wilson and have noticed so many negatives, and so many things that smack of TGC 1.  Looks like they did nothing with the pitch shot, its still an easy way to get ya bird, no thought process to the shot, flop looks like its a mess.  The height the ball gets from chip shots makes the shot look like a mini flop.  Have also spoken to one very good player from TGC and he says that tour clubs is broken, its way too difficult compared to player and the dispersion arcs feel random, almost like ball squirt revisited.

Rough properties look the same, too penal and akin to hitting out of velcro

ball roll is still way too much on the greens i have seen  (sorry jcat but you are wrong with that one)

textures are even uglier in the new lighting

All in all it's not looking good right now, and their record for updating and improving the game is pretty non existent in terms of core gameplay.

[Mike Jones]

Locking this thread as there is a new topic available now that the game has been released.