Swing Mechanics & the Aim Marker
Really looking forward to EA golf making a return but I can’t help thinking that the new game is picking up exactly where it left off with the Rory game. I spent most of yesterday evening playing th...
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@gasman1 Well said gasman1... I share your concerns over this. My mind was conjuring up unpleasant memories Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR's swing interface as I read that yesterday.
I agree with all comments in here so far.
I'm so disappointed to hear that, after all the talk of an all new swing a while back, they reverted to just using the same old "put the arrow here and basically swing a full swing....and boom"
It's (not affectionately) referred to as "dial-a-distance" and is so antithetical to how one should approach the game of golf.
It turns the whole experience into an exercise of moving an arrow around the course in zoomed views and just swinging a full swing.
The actual act of performing the golf swing almost becomes an ancillary waste of time. One could almost just have the arrow and a "button" to make the avatar do a swing.
Without question, this is the biggest risk to this game and it's potential success and longevity.
Golf games have evolved a lot in the last 10 years since EA has been largely out of the space, and analog swings (and the hardware for them) are at a point where we should be (at least optionally) enjoying methods of control that we can learn and master and fully user control.
That's the fun. That's the challenge. That's the longevity.
And EA has chosen to "punt" and use a really old and outdated approach here.
It's so disappointing and dramatically overshadows any excitement about the excellent graphics.
It is far from "put the arrow here and basically swing a full swing....and boom". The swing is so inconsistent, if you hit at the marker it always goes further and even in most cases, if you under-hit it, it still goes too long. Right now the game is a massive frustration and the swing is so inconsistent that for me the game is unplayable due to always bogeying almost all holes. I was a pro golfer on all the Tiger Woods games and always played on the hardest of settings but even in Arcade this is just terrible. just glad this is part of my subscription and that #i didn't buy this. I'm so gutted because I've been crying out for a Tiger Woods like golf game again.
So so disappointed
The ball flight is based off the blue line. Not the landing zone.
