The Golf Club next gen golf game coming this spring

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Golf sim The Golf Club coming in spring 2014 to PS4, Xbox One, PC
Golf fans will have a new option this year: The Golf Club, a simulation golf game from Lunenberg, Canada-based HB Studios that is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC this spring, the company announced today.

With The Golf Club, HB is aiming to deliver a realistic golf experience that is also accessible to newcomers with "minimal to zero loading times," according to a post on the game's official website. HB also wants to provide players with a game that is eminently social and customizable. To that end, The Golf Club includes a full course creator with procedurally generated courses that players can then tinker with; they also have the ability to build a course from scratch and alter elements like holes, rivers and trees. You can see a demo of an early version of the course creator below.

Users can also put together their own tournaments and tours, and then share their creations with the world. For players who don't want to bother with creating courses, The Golf Club will ship with a number of courses designed by HB Studios, although it doesn't appear that licensed versions of real-life courses will be included. Users will be able to play the created courses that others have uploaded, and because The Golf Club saves every round you play in the cloud, players can compete with friends who are offline by playing against "ghost" balls.

HB Studios, which was founded in 2000, is known for developing versions of EA Sports games on lower-priority platforms, such as Madden NFL 13 on PlayStation Vita and Wii and Madden NFL 12 on PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Wii. The company has also made its own games for other publishers, such as NBA Baller Beats with Majesco Entertainment and MLB Home Run Derby with Major League Baseball Advanced Media.

The announcement of The Golf Club is welcome news to fans of video game golf, since until now, there was no new golf game scheduled to come out this spring. Electronic Arts, publisher of the long-running Tiger Woods PGA Tour series, announced last October that it was dropping Woods' name from the franchise. The company also provided a glimpse of developer EA Tiburon's golf title for Xbox One and PlayStation 4, but a report from last April indicated that EA wasn't planning to release a new golf game until 2015.

More information about The Golf Club is available on its website. You can check out a gameplay trailer and 20 screenshots above.



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'realistic golf experience that is also accessible to newcomers'.....so, not realistic because golf is not really accessible to newcomers in the least. That said, sign me up, I want it. Reminds me a little of Links or at least not Tiger.
 
Lnin0 said:
'realistic golf experience that is also accessible to newcomers'.....so, not realistic because golf is not really accessible to newcomers in the least. That said, sign me up, I want it. Reminds me a little of Links or at least not Tiger.
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You can say that again. My first (and only) time ever golfing we played 8 holes, I probably made contact with the ball on 3 out of those 8 holes. After swinging over and over and over again I just would give up and say maybe next hole.
 
Interested. Got bored of Tigerwoods about 8 games a go ( how I miss the PGA Tour days on the megadrive), and with Links obviously not coming back, it is nice to have a realistic sim based golf option again. I do agree with another poster though, "Looks janky". Hopefully that will be rectified come release.
 
Standard bring back Links post.



I'll keep an eye on this. Stopped playing Golf games when the EA ones became so bad.
 
Lnin0 said:
'realistic golf experience that is also accessible to newcomers'.....so, not realistic because golf is not really accessible to newcomers in the least. That said, sign me up, I want it. Reminds me a little of Links or at least not Tiger.
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Neither is racing, but simulation racing games mange it with things like assists ( ABS, TC, Auto..etc). Golf games ( any game) can also do this.
 
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Wow, looks really impressive so far. Looking forward to a next gen golf game. EA better step it up with their game in 2015. Glad to see some competition.
 
I want this to be good and challenging. I hated how Tiger I could birdie or eagle every hole.

Links was awesome.
 
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Ramp up the difficulty in Tiger(no manual spin on ball, harder to swing etc), use your own crummy character and then you won't eagle/birdie holes everytime. Was fun playing that way. Still, I'm ready to move on from Tiger Woods.
 
The only sport I play long term (in real life) is football (soccer). I did played a lot of Basketball back in high school.

But if there is a good Tennis game with Ana Ivanovic in it, I may consider buying. :p

Back to the game, seriously think the visual can be beef up a few knots.
 
starseeker said:
The only sport I play long term (in real life) is football (soccer). I did played a lot of Basketball back in high school.

But if there is a good Tennis game with Ana Ivanovic in it, I may consider buying. :p

Back to the game, seriously think the visual can be beef up a few knots.
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Pfft Li Na all the way. Don't think I'll be able to get up in the dead of night to watch the women's final in Australia though.
 
OS posted some more info with a link to the developer's forum. From the details, I am not hearing the 'accessibility' thing but that is good. I would rather have a straight sim golf game that puts the reward in mastering the gameplay, not in rewarding upgrades that further diminish the challenge.

Still, has a lot of the Link PC vibe to those shots in how the camera is not as close to the golfer as in TW. The colored ball trailers and seeing the four shots launch at the same time also reminded me of Links from the Xbox.
-Tours and Tournaments can be created and shared with the world.
-No AI players, any competition will be with ghost balls/other user players.
-Game will be quickly iterated after release, makes you wonder what the business model will end up being.
-No PS Move/Kinect support initially.
-Swing mechanics are analog stick driven.
-No career mode.
-Everyone has the same attributes, so no advancing of skills or anything like that.
-Can’t set club distances, preference was to have everyone compete as equals.
-At the moment, no officially licensed gear appears to be in the game.
-All Fictional Courses
-Every created course is rated on a 1-10 scale by users and can be stored as a favorite.
-Each course is rated from Easy to difficult based upon how users are playing it.
-Three ways to play: Stroke play, match play, four ball.
-No difficulty modes. Since its you and the course, your difficulty mode is the difficulty of the courses you decide to play.
-You can start with a completely blank slate and create courses one hole at a time.
-No arcade features like power boosts, etc. Goal is to give a simulation golfing experience to users.
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http://www.hb-studios.com/forum/index.php?board=15.0
 
Lnin0 said:
OS posted some more info with a link to the developer's forum. From the details, I am not hearing the 'accessibility' thing but that is good. I would rather have a straight sim golf game that puts the reward in mastering the gameplay, not in rewarding upgrades that further diminish the challenge.

Still, has a lot of the Link PC vibe to those shots in how the camera is not as close to the golfer as in TW. The colored ball trailers and seeing the four shots launch at the same time also reminded me of Links from the Xbox.

http://www.hb-studios.com/forum/index.php?board=15.0
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I like the way this is sounding. But does it have multiplayer? No direct comments about that. That is a must for me to buy.
Sorry should have read the FAQ. I am keeping a keen eye on this.
 
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Pfft Li Na all the way. Don't think I'll be able to get up in the dead of night to watch the women's final in Australia though.
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I have no sport channel. So make no difference to me. Call me vain, but I like Ana Ivanovic mostly becuase she looks the best among current top seeded players, & have decent talent. She have not won anything major for the last 4 years though.

The new Teenage sensation, Genie, from Canada looks sweet as well.
 
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I have no sport channel. So make no difference to me. Call me vain, but I like Ana Ivanovic mostly becuase she looks the best among current top seeded players, & have decent talent. She have not won anything major for the last 4 years though.

The new Teenage sensation, Genie, from Canada looks sweet as well.
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True but she likes Justin Bieber and I cannot stand for that.
 
The good.... at least for me. I like the random generated courses. Keeps things fresh. I'm not a golf expert so whether it's The Masters or this game's Random Course X, as long as the course is fun to play that's what counts.

The bad.... this paragraph....

HB Studios, which was founded in 2000, is known for developing versions of EA Sports games on lower-priority platforms, such as Madden NFL 13 on PlayStation Vita and Wii and Madden NFL 12 on PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Wii. The company has also made its own games for other publishers, such as NBA Baller Beats with Majesco Entertainment and MLB Home Run Derby with Major League Baseball Advanced Media.
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In other words, this third rate studio. Who even knew Madden 12 even came out on PS2? Talk about grasping for the last drop of sales.
 
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