Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Screenshots and Features

[allstar3970]

To be fair, the TW teams likely has 5% of the budget/resources/manpower of NBA 2K series. But it is easier to just picture the devs sitting back in their chairs being "lazy"

[globalbeats7]

unfortunately, TW will never be what some of us hardcore sim gamers want it to be. EA just wont do that with their golf game...and at times I feel like they not only wont do it, but they cant. I will wait until someone else comes along with a game, until then my last copy of TW will do just fine for years to come.

[DivotMaker]

Quote: Originally Posted by globalbeats7

unfortunately, TW will never be what some of us hardcore sim gamers want it to be. EA just wont do that with their golf game...and at times I feel like they not only wont do it, but they cant. I will wait until someone else comes along with a game, until then my last copy of TW will do just fine for years to come.

Lets see how you feel after EA releases information regarding gameplay......

[Matt10]

Um is anyone else excited to read different swing styles? I'm sold on this alone, man. Maybe I can use Zach Johnson's or Dustin Johnson's swing style. We know Ricky Fowler's got a great swing as well.

I bet Stack and Tilt guys are hidden

(I know wayyyyy too much about golf swings).

[lnin0]

Who cares about fundamentals & physics when you have illuminated balls !!! Oh, wait, I do. FEA

[N51_rob]

Some of you are going to see your time here come to and end if the EA bashing doesn't come to an end. Trollers you've been warned.

[8iron]

I really liked 13 and have played it enough to unlock a few of the DLC courses without paying a thing for them. Hopefully they stick with that model, its an excellent compromise in my opinion.

One thing I think could have been easily improved and I hope it is, was weekly country club standings. All you had to do to be club champion was play the most holes. It seems that there should be a way to weight skill and results at least equally into the standings, especially since the World Rankings are already in career mode and it seems like the math could just be tweaked to do something similar with the CC weekly standings.

[geisterhome]

Quote: Originally Posted by Seymour Scagnetti

Wow, if that are the main changes then this edition is completely underwhelming except I guess for the arcade crowd. What is there to get excited about? LPGA, who the hell cares, 95% of the gamers have little interest in playing the LPGA tour because buyers are overwhelmingly male. Night golf with glow in the dark balls? That's fun for about 20 minutes. A legends mode that will be buggy and arcadey where it will be impossible to finish because the last few objectives you will need to shoot a 52 to beat them. It just sounds like last year's Tiger kiddie mode with old guys instead. We need a totally revamped career and presentation mode where you actually feel like you are on the PGA tour and not playing against a score sheet. There is no excuse not to have that because its not a next gen limitation. Where you win a tourney and they show highlights afterward and trophy presentations, PGA stats and playoffs and the commentary and crowd actually react differently from the 1st round to the 4th round. Difficulty enhanced where you are not hitting fairways 95% of the time. Scoring updates that make you feel like you're actually competing against other golfers. I know more info is coming but usually if the revamped presentation, career and online underwent major changes then they would be advertising that right away and not be gushing about glow in the dark balls and terrible story modes that get boring fast. The devs need to understand that what sells sports games is the feel of realistic immersion and the TW series has failed miserably on that. That's why games like the Show and NBA2k series has been so successful. They make you feel like you are playing a real season with a real team with comprehensive stats overlays, deep commentary and numerous cut scenes that draw you into the game. The vast majority of gamers play because of franchise mode and that's what gives the game replay value.

1000% true

i would be the first one to buy that game if those things would be implemented! will hold off until then..

[13]

I just want to love a TW game again.

Me and my buddies used to have EPIC battles on 05-06. Haven't really enjoyed a TW game since then.

It's not really even the arcade factor that made it enjoyable, but moreso that there wasn't anything that really bothered me, that was noticeable.

I'm a big sim head, and would love a golf game that represents exactly what you see on Thursday-Sunday, but realistically, I don't think this series will ever be there, but I'd at least like to see them try.

Things that still bother me, about the next gen efforts, are ball physics, presentation and the way players swing like wet noodles. There is no force or power. Looks like they are just going through the motion. Also the lack of swing animations to this point has been inexcusable.

It sounds like this year, they have addressed it, but we'll see to what extent.

[OnlookerDelay]

Here's a feature bullet that was listed on EA Sports UK's website that didn't appear in the USA:


Hello Friends – Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® 14 has significantly upgraded the presentation elements as there are new tournament introductions, additional broadcast cameras, live updated stats throughout the round and much more! With the addition of over 3,000 camera shots, players will experience a tournament-like broadcast each and every time they tee off.

This is welcome news to me; I thought Tiger Wood 13 camera work was some of the weakest of the series. It sounds like they've recognized and addressed this. It also sounds like the Live Tournaments are going to be a lot more vibrant, with what sounds like hole-by-hole scoring updates for the entire tournament field and the ability to play in a semi-simultaneous grouping of up to 24 players (using shot tracer arcs and possibly live chat). It will be interesting to see how this new Live presentation will work. I just hope we can use these new camera options in Live Tournaments, unlike last year.