EA Sports PGA TOUR Impressions (Console)

[golfnut67]

Next hole. 12 yards from the pin, off the green. Chipped it in. That's 2 holes in a row.

And I don't know if it's me but the drives are rolling out in a very strange way. The ball hits the ground, and just rolls and rolls, even uphill.

I'm not bashing here guys, literally 4 holes in and wanting SO BADLY for this game to be incredible. It looks incredible. So far it's very underwhelming to play.

[scagwi]

My summary thus far:

Gorgeous graphics
Crap performance
Way too easy gameplay

Someone at EA (that dev w/ Apex maybe?) did say a 4 year old could play it.
I didn't think he meant on "the hardest difficulty" though

[MrArlingtonBeach]

Watching some streams on Twitch - gdog playing the Amateur at St Andrews...

- I have seen caddies
- Commentary is good, but Frank Nobilo gave him a hard time for hitting an approach to...10 feet?
- gdog is knocking everything close...he just hit a "hack shot" with 8-iron from 167 yards out of the "rough" where he had a 100% lie? So no penalty for being off the fairway?

[jbd345]

Graphics are insane
No way to turn vibration off? Trying through the system settings. Can’t stand it in the backswing.

This may have the best presentation I’ve seen in an ea sports game.

Overall I’m surprised how deep this game is. Hopefully with a day 1 patch it can iron (hehe) up some of the stability issues.

7/10 right now.

[green94]

2 quick cosmetic notes:

-Each golfer has 4 outfits - for brand nerds like me you will be satisfied assuming all of these are user accessible.
-Played Torrey in the morning and there seemed to be some change to the lighting as the round went on - going to look at this more later but it did seem like it went from sunrise to mid morning which is a compromise I’m willing to live with

[golfnut67]

Drives are rolling way too much. I just had a 265 carry, slightly uphill, that rolled 63 more yards(!) after touchdown. Uphill. Sheesh.

[MrArlingtonBeach]

Quote: Originally Posted by MrArlingtonBeach

Watching some streams on Twitch - gdog playing the Amateur at St Andrews... - I have seen caddies - Commentary is good, but Frank Nobilo gave him a hard time for hitting an approach to...10 feet? - gdog is knocking everything close...he just hit a "hack shot" with 8-iron from 167 yards out of the "rough" where he had a 100% lie? So no penalty for being off the fairway?

I have also noticed that gdog has used the "Finesse" shot type on almost every single hole.

[scagwi]

Quote: Originally Posted by MrArlingtonBeach

I have also noticed that gdog has used the "Finesse" shot type on almost every single hole.

In real golf -- what is a "finesse" shot?

Does one sort of lightly massage the grip?