After A Few Months
After a few months playing EA PGA Tour here is my opinion. As an avid golfer for over 30 years I am looking for realism. I play with a controller using the stick for the swing. Swing difficulty ...
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The few times I played Sim, I went with the settings. For example, if the settings said between 8 - 12 mph, I know it's going to be between 8 - 12 mph in the arrow of the wind. It's the same I did while playing TW14 with arrow only. Although there, the way the arrow was moving gave me more info than in this game. But maybe an expert Simmer like Elf is doing it another way. Still with RNG, sometimes the ball can go anywhere if I do an overswing with Drive.
@Katybee_1313 wrote:The few times I played Sim, I went with the settings. For example, if the settings said between 8 - 12 mph, I know it's going to be between 8 - 12 mph in the arrow of the wind. It's the same I did while playing TW14 with arrow only. Although there, the way the arrow was moving gave me more info than in this game. But maybe an expert Simmer like Elf is doing it another way. Still with RNG, sometimes the ball can go anywhere if I do an overswing with Drive.
I never considered myself an expert simmer. I feel everyone has the capacity to play this game effectively. I just like to try and challenge myself... to have a game that plays similar to real life conditions.
I'm all for being inclusive for all styles of play, but EA's game is lacking in the feel of the actual sport. It is truly geared towards the Simcade experience.
I still struggle to see how polsters are blaming Simmers for what is wrong with the game. I have not gotten one thing that I have suggested they change. An option to hide the aiming reticule or options to increase green speeds are to of the more simple request I have made. And neither would affect the current status of the game.
The cup physics did need to be adjusted from how they originally played... there were no lip outs... and the ball was so receptive you could hit a 25 foot putt from 1 foot and it would still go in. I don't think it was unreasonable for people to ask for this to be fixed... the problem was EA's response. EA totally screwed the pooch with their new implementation. They couldn't get it right the first time, and made it even worse trying to fix it.
But I digress... in heavy winds you still have the wind meter. So based on a few early shots you get a feel for what to expect.
@ELF014 wrote:I still struggle to see how polsters are blaming Simmers for what is wrong with the game. I have not gotten one thing that I have suggested they change. An option to hide the aiming reticule or options to increase green speeds are to of the more simple request I have made.
Like Allan said in the other thread, there's a simple solution for you. Play PGA 2K23 having all those features, and stop trying to make this game PGA 2K23 version 1.2. If I wanted all that stuff, I would be playing PGA 2K23 and not be wasting all my valuable time here to try to change another game.
@Katybee_1313 wrote:Like Allan said in the other thread, there's a simple solution for you. Play PGA 2K23 having all those features, and stop trying to make this game PGA 2K23 version 1.2. If I wanted all that stuff, I would be playing PGA 2K23 and not be wasting all my valuable time here to try to change another game.
I have gone back to play 2K23... and did so months ago. The changes I am advocating for doesn't affect how you play the game, so I don't understand what your issue is.
I'm just highlighting the fact that a lot of the anger being posted here is misplaced. You can blame the simmers all you want. They have no influence on EA.
I think we can all agree what they implemented is terrible... they should have realised it themselves and never released it. But they did, and have done nothing to correct it.
This game was sold as a sim... so I think the criticism has been fair.
