Some excellent suggestions in there. There are plenty of great options from their previous incarnations of the game, and I often find myself wishing that the current dev team had gone and played those earlier games a lot, so they could realize why many people seem to say this version is still lacking so much.
@Noya_WesaI agree with you. I have no idea what the development team did, but I would have hoped that they had reviewed ALL the golf games from the past and present and took the best qualities of each and improved on them where it was possible with todays technology. Because I believe it was noted that they built this game from the ground up.
However, what it feels we got instead was a rehash of the Tiger Woods series... basically TW 2023, but a slimmed down version.
I personally think this game could have been so much more if they had been willing to learn from others and just built a better mouse trap.
@Noya_Wesa and @ELF014 I agree with your posts that research was needed from past incarcerations. The Tiger Woods PGA Tour series was a major part of EA’s rotation. That series could have been the foundation the current game should have learned and build upon. Madden, NHL and FIFA adds features and builds on the foundations of previous versions. I am surprised the current game just started from scratch even though EA owns the intellectual property of the TW series and the developers had access to it.
I probably have more that 10 features but I kept the most obvious ones. Speaking of shot clock, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2011 had options for 10 and 20 seconds for shot clock up to a 60 seconds. I would prefer a shot clock than wait 3 min for AI opponent to make shot. The AI opponent will go in a squat position, then go to shot position, and then stand up again; this cycle repeats until 3 min are up. This is more common in challenge and career modes after the AI makes a bad shot. The 3 min waiting animation evokes some bad imagery because it reminds me of an Immodium AD commercial. This might be a symptom of Assured Impairment.
@PalomaMarvel24 I am surprised the current game just started from scratch even though EA owns the intellectual property of the TW series and the developers had access to it.
They had to start from scratch after switching to the Frosbite engine.
@Katybee_1313Madden, NHL and FIFA also switched to Frostbite engine and features still remain. NHL did something very well. NHL’s Swing stick was the mechanics introduced for the Frosbite Engine; but the pre Frostbite mechanics and even the original 1994 mechanics was also retained. Given they own intellectual property for the TW series, EA had a chance to make the TW14 features viable for the Frostbite engine. But they blew it…they blew it. Just paraphrasing a quote Robert De Niro said in Copland.
