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.

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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]

Quote: Originally Posted by DivotMaker

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]

Quote: Originally Posted by jbd345

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]

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]

Quote: Originally Posted by ChaseB

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.