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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I don't see the problem with partial shots. If you don't like the way they are being implemented in the game, what is to stop you putting the marker at the full distance of the chosen club, just using the marker for directional purposes, and then playing the shot with less power accordingly? That way you are using partial swings.
My own main concern is that it might be too easy to hit straight shots. I'm reserving judgement on that until I see some actual gameplay. If it turns out that I can hit fairways off the tee 90+ percent of the time (real pros tend to be about 60 to 70 percent) I will lose interest rapidly.
@Forewarned wrote:I don't see the problem with partial shots. If you don't like the way they are being implemented in the game, what is to stop you putting the marker at the full distance of the chosen club, just using the marker for directional purposes, and then playing the shot with less power accordingly? That way you are using partial swings.
My own main concern is that it might be too easy to hit straight shots. I'm reserving judgement on that until I see some actual gameplay. If it turns out that I can hit fairways off the tee 90+ percent of the time (real pros tend to be about 60 to 70 percent) I will lose interest rapidly.
Let me rip the bandaid off:Go to 2k if you want to literally struggle to even attempt to hit a straight shot . The ways of swinging and dialing distance with the marker like it's the arcade 2005 era is * dead. I say arcade because the 360 era of it is very iffy. Hitting shots straight has always been an EA thing unless you're playing 14 on simulation mode. Go to 2k if you hate it.
I don’t understand why we don’t hold EA to a higher bar here?
They are making a fully licensed “Pro” golf game
Pro golfers don’t automatically hit perfect straight shots and all the fairways all day long.
EA’s approach here is not faithful to the sport they are attempting to represent.
I am going to hold my judgement until I can get hands on experience myself with the swing mechanic. Maybe even seeing a preview of a content creator playing a little before launch and seeing them experiment with it would be cool to see too.
@BuckHasTheBook wrote:I don’t understand why we don’t hold EA to a higher bar here?
They are making a fully licensed “Pro” golf game
Pro golfers don’t automatically hit perfect straight shots and all the fairways all day long.
EA’s approach here is not faithful to the sport they are attempting to represent.
What have you seen to make you assume that it will be trivial to hit the ball straight on all difficulty levels? I actually think the idea of having to intentionally deviate from straight on the backswing but not follow-through to apply draw or fade sounds like it could be tricky to master.
I played Rory and TW14
The latter of which was drop dead simple to hit every fairway and the former of which was just too easy in every single phase of the game(putting in Rory was some of the worst in any golf game ever -- devoid of any feel or touch with physics around cup interaction that were just totally wrong)
And we have the developers saying things like "we didn't want the short game to be too hard, so we nixed controlling distance with the analog swing" (paraphrasing)
Basically there is no mention or even insinuation of any challenge or mastery element to shot execution itself.Picking shot types is a different aspect altogether.
All indications are that actual perfect (or close enough) swing execution will largely be a foregone conclusion and the "challenge" will all be relegated to aiming arrow for distance control & direction, as well as perhaps proper shot type. Your point about the new way of executing draw/fade is well made however. That should be interesting and is good to see.
The aiming arrow/distance control system always becomes too easy to figure out and consistently "game" -- which sucks for online play and leads to very unrealistic scoring also.
@BuckHasTheBook wrote:I played Rory and TW14
Personally I'll reserve judgement until the new game is actually out. We simply don't know how challenging the new game will be yet.
It was close to impossible for me to hit a fairway with that diagonal swing when it was breezy.
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