EA PGA Golf dying a slow death?
I actually believe it is generous to say it's slow... I was really excited for this game and wanted it to succeed in the worst way. My personal opinion is that we stay engaged in something if it c...
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I think an easy fix that would make it more realistic (and hopefully the devs think about this) would be a fatigue factor. Imagine if as you go through the weekend your 350+ drives are whittled down to 300 or less because your fatigued. Or say you play every tournament up to The Masters in week 12 - you’re absolutely gassed and get railroaded at Augusta - so you have to pick and choose what tournaments to skip and rehab or rest during those weeks.
I think if EA were to model it after the UFC game career mode where between tournament rounds you had outside events you could do. Sponsorship events, charity events, etc that would add more to it than just playing round after round mindlessly.
Also it makes 0 sense to me that your spendable money for your “my golfer” isn’t based on career earnings or at least partially affected by that. If I’m winning major after major and all these giant purses that should give my golfer the ability to buy better equipment. And the brand specific gear should be something you have to play to earn. It would be fun if as you won more and became more popular brands like Titleist, TaylorMade, Nike, etc offered sponsorship and partnerships that gave you access to better gear and equipment. But you had to choose and sign contracts. So you can’t just have access to everything but only the specific sponsors you sign with.
Just my two cents on what would improve the game from an offline mode perspective.
I play real golf every day, walking my hilly home course. I only get fatigued if it’s 99 degrees 100% humidity and I drank too many beers. Fatigue makes no sense in this sport 🙂.
- @7AnimalMother That would be awesome if there is a between the round activity of drinking beer or even some tequila at 99 deg with 100% humidity.
While you may not get “tired” swinging a golf club an average of 70 ish shots (more when you count round warm up, practice swings, etc) absolutely fatigues the muscles. Doing so week after week absolutely fatigues the muscles and leads to overuse injuries.
I would also say it’s a good bet that the top players in the world probably have a higher swing velocity and the added pressure to perform at top tier levels probably puts undue strain on their body that your casual walk playing 9 or 18 with no pressure maybe not even really keeping score probably does not.
- as someone who golfs often or goes to the range if I can’t play a round - I can absolutely tell you I’ve felt fatigued muscles - back, shoulders, legs, hands - from repeatedly swinging. If there was never any fatigue or injuries players would never need to take weekends off yet they do. No player plays every single tour even to my knowledge. There’s a reason for that.
@n-a-t-e-ylight04 wrote:No player plays every single tour even to my knowledge. There’s a reason for that.
Being 49 myself and playing every day, I don’t get physically fatigued. That said at a tour level, while I still dont believe physical fatigue is really a thing for most , I’ll buy mental fatigue or travel fatigue. You are right that players don’t play every event. Granted some don’t qualify for certain events, and some have already had such a large degree of success, that they don’t need to grind for the $$.
