Rory McIlroy PGA Tour: Tour Pro Mode Reactions (Roundtable)

[RaychelSnr]

We learned a lot about the Tour Pro Mode in Rory McIlroy PGA Tour yesterday, including the inclusion of three potential backstories for your character. What we don't know is how big of an impact those back stories will play in your Golfer's career. The rest of the mode sounds pretty reasonable as well, but let's get some reactions from our writers.

What do you all think of Rory McIlroy PGA Tour's career mode?

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[GrandMaster B]

There should be a multi-player component to this don't you think. Playing against A.I. golfers in career mode is getting old. And you are not really playing against them anyways, just their made up scores.

[DivotMaker]

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Ben Vollmer: PGA Tour has some awfully big shoes to fill in the customization part of their upcoming game, given how The Golf Club pushed all the right buttons in that department.

Chris Sanner: While The Golf Club nailed customization, I have a feeling EA will give that area of the game a good bit of polish as well (sans the course creation potential).

Huh? If you are talking about GNCD and courses, yes, I agree. As far as customizing anything else, TGC is awfully short on customizations and IMO hit very few of the right buttons there. Am I missing something here? I play TGC daily and see very FEW ways to customize anything.

[jbd345]

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Huh? If you are talking about GNCD and courses, yes, I agree. As far as customizing anything else, TGC is awfully short on customizations and IMO hit very few of the right buttons there. Am I missing something here? I play TGC daily and see very FEW ways to customize anything.

Same here. Outside of courses it's just what you want to wear at that point. No porgression for your golfer (which I'm a fan of) and no customization for clubs, same generic set.

[ChaseB]

Same here. Outside of courses it's just what you want to wear at that point. No porgression for your golfer (which I'm a fan of) and no customization for clubs, same generic set.

Yeah I agree with you fellas. The course customization is tight, but there's plenty there outside of it that is still ripe. Perhaps it's what they were talking about and just are putting them together like you said.

[OnlookerDelay]

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It would be easy to get a little confused about what's being discussed regarding "Tour Pro" Mode in this game. They already have what is called a Tour Pro difficulty in terms of swing interface, yet this article is focused on an offline career mode. I've never been drawn in for long in any of the previous Tiger Woods series game's career modes. I didn't get much of a sense that I was playing against anything of substance, as in season mode, it boiled down to me playing against a spread sheet. I never got to see any of the other golfers in the tournaments, even the dozen or more featured pros.

So far I haven't seen much here to indicate there will be anything different, other than the fact that you'll have a caddy doing what you'd expect a caddy to be doing in a PGA Tour event. I'm still hoping that we'll at least have the option to play with one of the featured pros, when desired. I know some of the earlier screen shots showed another golfer and their caddy. For some reason, there's something rather empty feeling about playing in a tournament, yet you never see any other golfers in your own group, let alone on adjacent holes, or up ahead of you on the green. I'm hoping EA is going to move the meter forward a bit in this area than they've already shown us with RMPGAT.

[artgamer72]

Yeah I agree with you fellas. The course customization is tight, but there's plenty there outside of it that is still ripe. Perhaps it's what they were talking about and just are putting them together like you said.

Being ripe would mean it hasn't been picked yet. The people who you seem to think you agree with are saying there really isn't much tat could be picked.

[Battman]

I play every TGCTours tournament. I love this game. EA totally lost me as a costumer.

[turbineseaplane]

What are these guys talking about?

Other than courses in TGC (60,000+ and most are auto-gen garbage)... I can't even remember a "less customizable" golf game than TGC (you'd have to go back to the 90's)

[BenGerman]

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Huh? If you are talking about GNCD and courses, yes, I agree. As far as customizing anything else, TGC is awfully short on customizations and IMO hit very few of the right buttons there. Am I missing something here? I play TGC daily and see very FEW ways to customize anything.

Should have clarified: while I agree TGC has a lot to improve on in player customization, being able to design my own courses in such a manner is a huge plus, for me (and likely Chris). The Golf Club feels like the experience I want to create, rather than the one they give me - something that I get the feeling EA is pushing with this tour mode.

[DivotMaker]

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Should have clarified: while I agree TGC has a lot to improve on in player customization, being able to design my own courses in such a manner is a huge plus, for me (and likely Chris). The Golf Club feels like the experience I want to create, rather than the one they give me - something that I get the feeling EA is pushing with this tour mode.

Fair enough, thanks for clarifying. At least now we have competition in the Golf market and I'm thrilled to have more than one game to play since I am not interested in design nor do I have the time for it. Courses (quantity) is currently the only real advantage TGC will have other than pricing and those aren't insignificant. Anxious for EA's E3 Golf presentation so we can compare facts and features between both instead of speculation. Gameplay options will be a huge difference maker as well.

[BenGerman]

Definitely! The more options the better. I'm always hesitant to criticize having more options, even when I think the option is a bit silly (like being able to customize your abilities before you play a certain course). All the same, I'm really excited to see how the game looks. Ultimately, I think, most of us will be happy if the game plays a solid round of golf.

[tonybologna]

I wished this game would have been released for PS3 too. Not everybody has moved onto next gen in the PS4 & XBox One. I mean I can understand certain game series discontinuing on the PS3/360 but this as a new game should have at least been released for the 1st year on PS3/360.

I guess it was a business decision though. I guess golf games are no more on current gen. I'm not quite ready to bite the bullet & move up to PS4/XBox One myself. Disappointed that we don't have the option of getting this game for PS3/360.

[grahamc]

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I wished this game would have been released for PS3 too. Not everybody has moved onto next gen in the PS4 & XBox One. I mean I can understand certain game series discontinuing on the PS3/360 but this as a new game should have at least been released for the 1st year on PS3/360.

I guess it was a business decision though. I guess golf games are no more on current gen. I'm not quite ready to bite the bullet & move up to PS4/XBox One myself. Disappointed that we don't have the option of getting this game for PS3/360.

But PS4/XB1 aren't 'next-gen' - they're current gen. They've been around for 18 months or so, so I'm not quite sure how long people expect companies to cover both platforms at extra expense?

There's no way that the PS3/360 could handle the engine and graphics of the game, so they'd essentially be having to make four different versions of the game. Not gonna happen.

[zoom zoom]

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But PS4/XB1 aren't 'next-gen' - they're current gen. They've been around for 18 months or so, so I'm not quite sure how long people expect companies to cover both platforms at extra expense?

There's no way that the PS3/360 could handle the engine and graphics of the game, so they'd essentially be having to make four different versions of the game. Not gonna happen.

Yeah, no way are they going to pay for everything it would take to get the game out on last gen hardware. At least in Madden and NHL, where they just re-release the last version of the game with updated menus and rosters, this is a different beast. Not only would they have to create courses and content, they may not have the right to use anything from the old TW 14 game due to their separation from him. I mean, technically, just slapping Rory's name on it might not be enough.

There is no way they are going to make a game from scratch for the 360,PS3, and the consoles cannot do handle the new game which loads an entire course at one time. I think it might be cheaper to build a game from scratch than try to scale the new game back enough to get it working.

There are just way too many obstacles for this game to be profitable on last gen hardware.