pdb1:
JD:
DonCaron:
You both hit it so right on .
Thanx for the gumball MICKEY !
Thank you Don for confirming that this isn't an issue of cost . But rather that damn HOOK , or HOOK's . That mesmerized us and sucked us in . To our hearts delight . For a good many years . Amazing simply the coolest . So sad to see it fading . Not just for myself . But what a universe we had huh ?
JD, Don, Paul.
I respect and understand your viewpoints regarding the new game, but I am not in complete alignment with them.
It was a bit of a shock to my system too when I first started playing the PCEA version, but I quickly realised that I could not keep playing both that and the flash game as I ended up being terrible at both. So I've exclusively been playing the EA version since January and now it is the flash version that seems strange to me.
JD, in contrast to you I actually prefer the swing motion of the avatar in EA. It's too large and the resolution is poor, but the swing is more complete and realistic to my eye. The flash avatar has a ridiculously fast through swing that would break the sound barrier in real life, whereas the EA one is smoother. maybe if the avatar itself was smaller it would look less cartoon-like, but that's a resolution issue.
Anyway, my point is that I chose to persevere with EA because I saw enough that was similar to make me want to try and get the better of it, and so I'm not grieving the end of flash any more. I'm not saying I prefer it, just that I made the choices that I needed in order to be able to play on, and although it took a few months I can say that I'm close to as happy with EA as I was with flash now. It's a trade-off - some of the annoyances of flash are gone, and EA brings new ones to replace them.
Each to their own but speaking just for myself, I have put enough time, energy, brain-power and yes money into playing and learning the flash game over the last 10 years that I simply wasn't prepared to abandon it because I dislike and resent some of the changes that are being forced upon us.
I hope to go on playing this for many years to come because even in the EA version the photo-realistic courses are unmatched by any other game out there, and I revel in that. I too have recently been playing other golf games, and they bring amazing things to the table....but to my eye they still don't look as good. And that's also why having a course designer in WGT will never work in my opinion. Any new (real or fantasy) course designed that way will look different, just like Cabo and Whistler look low-res and poor to me. I enjoy them, but they are not a good fit among the rest of the WGT course portfolio.
So if you have the energy and will to give the EA another more concentrated look then my experience is that it may pay off in the long run. But you'll have to really concentrate and pretty much play it exclusively, because regularly switching between the two versions just muddies up the experience of both.
For me, perseverance is worth it. For others, it is apparently not. That's each player's choice.
Nigel.