The Golf Club/EA PGA 2015

gilberto_eire wrote: »

If anyone does decide to buy this, get it from the US store.... cost me E26 as opposed to E35.

There were times before I considered using the US store for a newish game but with having a physical copy, I'd have had a resell value that far exceeds the savings online.
However since this game is download only, you're just saving yourself near E10.

What's the game like?

First of all i just wanna say i've been waiting for this game for ages couldn't wait tbh, downloaded it the minute it came out, from the moment i stepped up to the first tee i was dissapointed, where do i start, The graphics are woefull, the speed of the swing is not realistic, but the main problem i find with it is the lack of career mode, The game just feels empty to be honest, there's nothing to play for, you can play against your mates but there are no rewards for winning, what i loved about the TW is you start off as an amateur and work your way up, on this you just start off as a golfer with a set of golc clubs that can't be changed, it feels like a Demo yad download and ya get 3 holes. Going back to the graphics, this is PS1 stuff, laggy and jumpy, and dont get me started on the course editor. The commentary is a nonsense too, not that Commentary is taken into consideration, The bottom line this game is lacking big time, it has no soul, will i play it again? Yes, because i do love golf, there's no loading between each hole which is one of the small positive things i can say about this nonsense. i thought i was finished with the TW Series (EA Golf now) but i now appreciate it for the fact it has a great career mode.

Kens Rating's (outta 10)

Sound 8/10 (nice crisp sound on impact with the ball)
graphics 2/10 ( This is next gen right? Enough said)
lifespan 0/10 ( as explained in my review)

overall 2/10 (waste of €35, keep your money for EA Golf 15)

Pixelbastardo wrote: »

Anyone pick this up on PS4 from the US store ?

Yep I did it's not bad there was a big patch a couple of days after it came out and fixed a lot if framerate issues, it's hard don't expect Tiger Woods!

well I've no friends to play with but when you play you see the ghost balls of your competitors if you play a tournament, its hard as is the real game of golf, I've found trying to pick the right shot when your near the green a bit of a nightmare, but starting to work out what to do.
I also see that we are going to get a PS4 version of Everybody's Golf in the near future, Sony probably decided they needed to give the PS4 an arcadey golf game as the Xbox One has Power Star Golf.
Think this is being released in Europe tomorrow, I think if you like golf games you will enjoy this.

It wasnt added to the EU store today, maybe next week.

I'm hoping to pick this up soon enough, maybe we can get a few games going on here? I've heard tomorrow for EU release, if its cheaper on the US store though I'll probably just get it on that.

Will check psn when i get a chance later, but i read yesterday that this releases today for EU.

Picked this up last night and played afew hours, getting the hang of it now. I think its worth it for the price, but hope the updates make it a more fleshed out golf game, with a better selection of professionally made courses and online match making and stuff, and performance/visual tweaks are on the way too. My only worry, is getting too much into this will ruin PGA Tour's next release.. i guess you can always turn the difficulty up ^^

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Lads set up a tournament when you get it. I've select four of the easy course to kick off, from the main menu select play, when selecting mode choose play tour. Select your player. On the next screen select more, on the select tour screen press triangle and search for boards.ie and you will find my "boards.ie Open"
Feel free to add me MacReady69

I'll add u mate I'm starting to come round to this game these tournaments and Tours do give it a bit extra and something to play for, it's the first golf game of this type ( no career) so it was a bit of a shock to the system.

It's tough you can be going along grand and then you make a mistake and it throws out your whole round, I'm pretty rubbish and I'm not improving ಠ_ಠ

The graphics aren't all that great at all. Sitting far away from my 50" tv it looks alright but when I move a metre away I can clearly see that it has got some issues. The V-sync option helps a small bit but still isn't great.

Aside from that the gameplay is pretty good. It is reasonably difficult but I am crap at golf games. The right flick of the analog stick will get a sweet shot, slight deviation and you'll slice it. Kind of like real life.

I'm not sure how long it'll keep me interested but the abundance of courses to select helps.

Ivefoundgod wrote: »

One thing that really annoys me is how slow the game is to boot up, after I get the "hit X to continue" it loads for about 5 minutes! Very annoying.

That doesn't happen me whatsoever. Loads quite fast.

Playing this on and off over the weekend, had about 6 or 7 rounds so far. I entered a Tournament on the Operation Sports site on the OS Hills course and by god is it tough. Shot a +24 in the 1st round, +15 in the 2nd and two more to go and to be honest I didn't hugely enjoy it mainly because of the course. The greens are artificially difficult, either completely flat and easy to putt on or like putting on glass with slopes up to and away from the hole. There are bunkers placed exactly where you land leaving a spot of fairway about 5 metres wide to land on. It ruins the immersion for me as golf courses just aren't made like that and the fact that a site like OS is using this course is making me wonder what the other courses in the designer are like. If thats the standard creation from users I'll be very disappointed.

On the plus side I do enjoy the mechanics and the gameplay itself just hoping the course creations are bit better than the one mentioned above.

Anybody looking to keep an interest in this game the best way is to create Tournaments, I've got the hang of the course creator and I must say it's amazing,add me on Xbox one, Earthworm Bim is my gamertag I am in the middle of making a course called Dublin Bay Links i'll be setting up Tournaments on it as soon as I'm done making the course