[ALL] The Golf Club (PS4/XB1/PC)

[buckeye]

How is it playing right now?

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[Garrett67]

I haven't played in a couple of weeks since doing the iRacing thing. They changed some stuff with the swing though. It appears that the actual speed of your swing (how fast you move the analog stick) factors in to how hard or what % of power you hit the shot.

They have added a desert theme and I'm currently playing the official course. I like how its playing though, its a little more difficult than it was.

 

[Handleit_44]

The Golf Club Comes to PS4 This Summer

We’re excited to officially announce that The Golf Club is coming to PS4 in Summer 2014! We’ve been working hard on the core of the game to get the fundamentals right, and we’re at a point now where we’re closing in on the finished game. If you were lucky enough to be at GDC this year, we were demoing the game on PS4 on the expo floor — and the overall response to the game has been phenomenal.

If you’re not familiar with The Golf Club, it’s a realistic golf simulation game that features procedurally generated courses. With only a few button presses you can be playing a brand-new course that you can share with your friends. For those who feel creative, we also have a fully-featured course editor that allows you to customize, tweak, sculpt, and craft any course you can imagine. All of these courses can be shared with your friends where you can rate them and favorite the ones you love.

The Golf Club also has what we feel is a fresh model for online interaction. Using what we like to call “ghost balls” you can compete against your friends’ best round on a course or your closest rival’s round without them needing to be online. You can create your own custom tours and tournaments and compete against the world — all completely asynchronously. You can compile your favorite courses, the hardest courses — or just the most interesting that you’ve encountered into your own personalized tour and share that with the world.

We’ve been excited about the unique features available on Playstation as well — and would like to talk about some of those developments now.

Since The Golf Club relies so heavily on user-generated content, discovery of that content is going to be a key problem to solve. Besides the rating and filtering system available in game, we’re planning to have curated selections and selections based on your performance and preferences surfaced onto your PS4 dashboard in the form of live tiles. Featured courses, courses by your friends, and other suggestions will appear and you can launch directly into the course just by selecting the tile!

We’ve also been exploring how to implement support for PS Move controllers — and our early prototypes are promising. It works pretty much how you imagine — hold the PS Move controller and swing as you would in real life and see your on-screen avatar mimic your actions. Getting it right is important though so that you can be competitive in your rounds whether you use a controller or Move.

And finally, we’ve had the amazing opportunity to be among the first developers to have access to the newly announced Project Morpheus VR tech prototype — and we’ve been exploring how we could possibly integrate this into The Golf Club. Golf seems like an excellent fit for this kind of technology — the ability to look around your environment and really live inside the procedural courses is exciting. We’re anxious to see what we can do with this new tech and how we can create a compelling VR experience for The Golf Club with Morpheus.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/06/06/the-golf-club-comes-to-ps4-this-summer/

 

[MrBill]

Based on comments from the developers yesterday, it looks like the PS4 and Xbox One versions of the Golf Club will be available the week of August 25th. Most likely the 26th considering most games launch on Tuesdays.

Here's the podcast we did with Anthony Kyne from HB Studios in case you missed it-

 

[Twigg4075]

So, what's the deal with this game? Is it still free?

 

[Garrett67]

Operation Sports Press Row Podcast just did an interview with him last week.

The game never was free. It was early release on PC. I've had it for months and just played it last night.

Very good golf game.

 

[Twigg4075]

So then how much is it?

 

[Garrett67]

I don't remember what I paid but I think its $34

 

[dave]

Based on comments from the developers yesterday, it looks like the PS4 and Xbox One versions of the Golf Club will be available the week of August 25th. Most likely the 26th considering most game launches on Tuesday.

Here's the podcast with did with Anthony Kyne from HB Studios in case you missed it-

This and Madden the same day? Wow. I already pre-ordered Madden 15 digital version on the PS4. Don't really care if I buy the physical product, save $11 in taxes, and won't lose the disc like I did with NBA2k14. Ugh.

 

[MrBill]

I had a chance to play the PS4 version for about 30 minutes at E3. I thought it was a solid game and would love to check out a demo.

 

[buckeye]

Same day?!? This may be a down the road purchase for me then. Unless it gets absolutely killer reviews...

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[Twigg4075]

I just went back and read the original 'features' and saw there will be no career mode.
Whatever the slightest interest I had in the game just went bye-bye.

 

[buckeye]

I just went back and read the original 'features' and saw there will be no career mode.
Whatever the slightest interest I had in the game just went bye-bye.

Yeah that hurts! With the new EA Golf set to release in the spring I can't say this game would get much play releasing the same time as Madden.



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[Garrett67]

Ea golf. 12-16 courses maybe. This, thousands of courses.

You can play tournaments.

 

[buckeye]

Ea golf. 12-16 courses maybe. This, thousands of courses.

You can play tournaments.

If EA product is like Tiger 14 I'm set... Either way i will still check this out.

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[Garrett67]

I mean , if you want a game like EA's game, then you should buy that.

The Golf Club isn't meant to be TW. I personally think TGC plays better golf.

In TW, you get better because your golfer gets better. In TGC, you play better because you get better. It's a big difference.

 

[MrBill]

I mean , if you want a game like EA's game, then you should buy that.

The Golf Club isn't meant to be TW. I personally think TGC plays better golf.

In TW, you get better because your golfer gets better. In TGC, you play better because you get better. It's a big difference.

Reminder that HB Studios has partnered with EA before on TW '10 for the PS2 and PSP. The Golf Club isn't going to be the first time they have built a golf game, which to me is a good thing as they already had a lot of in house experience to build the new game from with their own code.

 

[dave]

If EA product is like Tiger 14 I'm set... Either way i will still check this out.

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I know I'm gonna get EA's first next-gen golf game too. Hell, I love TW14 ... but this is a chance to give some support to a competitor with different ideas and that amazing course creator.
Pro football gamers would kill for the same opportunity.

I am definitely taking the plunge with this game ... partly in hopes it creates real competition in the genre.

 

[buckeye]

I know I'm gonna get EA's first next-gen golf game too. Hell, I love TW14 ... but this is a chance to give some support to a competitor with different ideas and that amazing course creator.
Pro football gamers would kill for the same opportunity.

I am definitely taking the plunge with this game ... partly in hopes it creates real competition in the genre.

I wouldn't go as far as the last point. APF and Backbreaker didn't sell anything until price drops.

If the Golf Club is a good/above average product I will have it.

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[dave]

I wouldn't go as far as the last point.

I did say "in hopes"