Well... the avatar animation changes are pretty bad, but here's hoping they will work on them. I think they felt the new faces looked more "realistic" but what's with the caveman eyebrows? And, weird as it sounds, I don't like that my guy looks a lot less "friendly" than he was. Also, as long as they are tinkering with avatar customization, why can't they present more options for hair length and maybe even addition of facial hair (for us gray beard older guys)? Having said all this, I could live with the avatar weirdness but find the swing/stroke animation jerkiness to be really distracting and unacceptable. On full shots, it looks like my guy's clubs sling the ball down the fairway rather than hit it (this isn't Jai alai, WGT!!). Worst of all is the stroke animation on the greens. My guy doesn't take a smooth putting stroke anymore - instead, he kind of jabs at the ball and it really looks unacceptably weird and unrealistic. No golf coach would let you jab at the ball like that.
In the end, I don't love the new version but figure they will work to smooth things out. What's really needed is some investment in new courses. I know how difficult and expensive course production must be but seriously... they can't add a few new courses every now and then. That would be SUCH a welcome improvement.
Steve (freddydivit)