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New Minna No Golf (Everybody's Golf/Hot Shots Golf) announced for PS4
- Thread starter Enter the Dragon Punch
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absolute lol at them cutting a forza horizon or driveclub esque trailer except with shitty looking badly animated characters poddling around, driving golf buggies, sitting next to ugly fountains just for a clap hanz pun
game should be really great though it's annoying that this is the first showing in a year and we know so little
game should be really great though it's annoying that this is the first showing in a year and we know so little
CamHostage
Member
What I found interesting in the surrounding gameplay is that it finally takes in a bit of the Golf RPG that I thought was going to be a part of the franchise.
If you look at the distant-cousin Mario Golf series (the first Hot Shots Golf was by Camelot Software Planning, before they went over to work with Nintendo), there was in the GB days of Mario Golf an RPG component to the game. I always wondered if ClapHanz would pick anything up out of that concept as the franchise went on (especially after Hot Shots started expanding in Tennis and minigames,) so this is a positive for me. They always get golfing right, I wouldn't mind if they looked to expand the borders on the series if they keep that right.
(RPG-type section of Mario Golf Advance Tour)
The look of the characters, however, isn't doing the right things for me.
There is a feature I believe should have been in golf games 2 generations ago: the ability to walk/drive on the course and explore it. One of the fun moments in real golf is cranking that shot over or around an obstacle and then driving out to look for where it landed. Sadly, it involves tall grass at times...
I always thought golf games needed this as an option. I think we're finally getting it.
Think about VR too. Gamers will want to walk around and explore the famous courses in VR. No more warping to your ball. Finally, we are progressing to open world golf courses. Looks like we might get balls coming the opposite direction too from the next hole over.
Good stuff.
I always thought golf games needed this as an option. I think we're finally getting it.
Think about VR too. Gamers will want to walk around and explore the famous courses in VR. No more warping to your ball. Finally, we are progressing to open world golf courses. Looks like we might get balls coming the opposite direction too from the next hole over.
Good stuff.
Well put.
Classic example of a game trying too many things.. And not sticking to your guns.
Those avatars look terrible.
Dedication Through Light
Member
I like how people say the lack of golf when in the final moments of the trailer the classic rainbow colored nice shot hit of the ball in clap hanz hsg fashion is shown right there. I dont know what first trailer shows 100% of a games contents.
Shotgun Kiss
Member
I have no problem with an Everybody's Golf game "playing it safe", so I hope this is as fun as the others. If they fuck it up because they got experimental, I'll be really disappointed.
PuppetMaster
Member
Day 1. I loved MnG5 and the Vita one
Bolivar687
Banned
I was hoping for a Tennis game, the last PSP one they did was awesome.
This is a fair point but I don't believe the trailer actually hinted at that at all. One of the things that frustrated me about the last Everybody's Golf was that 'Real Golf Mode' (where the camera stays behind your character so you can't pick out a landing spot) was only in certain single player tournaments. Deciding roughly what club you need from your course knowledge, then watching the ball as it flies over a hill, hopefully dodging a bunker and ending up on the green but you're not sure, or hitting a great shot that LOOKS like it's 2 feet from the pin put it could be an illusion... That's golf.
And the ability to run after a ball to see where it's going in that mode would be helpful, so long as it was entirely optional and didn't break game flow. Most times I want to move from shot to shot as quickly as possible.
LithiumSpade
Member
I have put like a hundred hours into Everybody's Golf on Vita, I adore that game, it's just about perfect (and I don't even like golf!)
This looks shit.
And it does not make me happy saying that. As everyone else has already noted, the characters look exactly like 360 avatars, god knows what the point of that trailer was, and yes, haha guys. You're called Clap Handz and you picked a trailer song called Clap Your Hands. Hilarious.
I opened this topic thinking "oh shit, this might sell me on a PS4 when it comes out".
Now i'm just going to pretend it doesn't exist (unless later impressions seem good, obviously!)
But i'm really, really disappointed.
I didn't see your post before, but oh my god yes. I agree with all of this.
Fixed it for you
This looks shit.
And it does not make me happy saying that. As everyone else has already noted, the characters look exactly like 360 avatars, god knows what the point of that trailer was, and yes, haha guys. You're called Clap Handz and you picked a trailer song called Clap Your Hands. Hilarious.
I opened this topic thinking "oh shit, this might sell me on a PS4 when it comes out".
Now i'm just going to pretend it doesn't exist (unless later impressions seem good, obviously!)
But i'm really, really disappointed.
I didn't see your post before, but oh my god yes. I agree with all of this.
Fixed it for you
Willy Wanka
my god this avatar owns
The characters do look exactly like 360 avatars and it does have a strong whiff of F2P about it. I'll still give it a chance as long as the golf is as good as ever but I'm not particularly interested in the other activities.
vagabondarts
Member
This is the new PlayStation Home.
Really gross imo. I really loved this series of games too. This looks, not good.
Really gross imo. I really loved this series of games too. This looks, not good.
Or did MS steal Hot Shot's avatar system? Hot Shots (Everyone's Golf) has been around since 1997. The toons they showed in that trailer did look a lot like some of the avatars I've seen on XBL, but toons are toons.... there's only so many ways to design them.
depths20XX
Member
This is the best golf series there is but wtf was that trailer?
Not giving me a good feeling.
Not giving me a good feeling.
FriedConsole
Banned
I don't think it showed any actual gameplay. This seems like filler content. I have played every Hot Shots and love them all but I am not going to overreact to the nothing that was shown in that "trailer".
My prediction is that this one is just like every other Hot Shots and I am fine with that.
Newtype-001
Member
I thought it looked good.
JetSetRadio
Banned
Kicking that ball around in the PS3 lobby waiting for a tee time was so much fun!
sigh
sigh
maybe in a videogame the only fun thing would be driving the kart around the course. If in online games you had players shooting the opposite direction on the next hole it could be fun to watch that. Haha imagine 30 karts racing across the greens at the start of the online tourney...
LithiumSpade
Member
I mean, in terms of what we can see - the models are poor, the graphics are far worse relative to the strength of the platform they're on, I didn't spot any of the proper characters - who on earth is that trailer supposed to appeal to? If it's not indicative of the game itself, I would much rather that they released nothing and just reconfirmed it was coming. As I said, i'm open to hearing that it's great further down the line, but I stand by my point - that trailer, in my eyes (and several others in this thread) looked shit.
Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
Considering I put so much time on the PSP and PS3 games, this is a must.
bender
What time is it?
The lobby system in this series has always been goofy and I'm hoping all the side activities are just more things to do while you are waiting for the round to start. Not a huge fan of the avatars either, I'll miss the characterizations found in the previous games. I'll be there day one, this is one of my favorite series ever.
Hope the golf is good. Got hyped when I saw what game it was, but then the trailer did everything in it's power to turn me off of ever buying the game
I just want golf. I don't care about the character creation stuff or any kind of online play. Just give me solid golf with good courses.
I just want golf. I don't care about the character creation stuff or any kind of online play. Just give me solid golf with good courses.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
Im so glad i had bad tastes back in the day with games. Now that im getting into different franchises fairly late the crap i see everyone complaining about i can't understand because i never played a single game..my point? I thought that looked freaking amazing and colorful and fun but i guess thats not what the series is known for?
Omnistalgic
Member
the fook?
NeoGaf, one of a kind, I'd swear some posters are like retired game developers. Who notices all this stuff?
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
There's literally a post like this in every game announced at tgs aside from nioh which seems to be getting praise across the board(rightfully so) only game that looked off to me was resident evil everything else had me drooling
ProfessorMoran
Member
Woo woooooo wooo. This is going to be the best day of my life.
Jawmuncher
Member
Hope Kat comes back
Character DLC just needs to be a permanent fixture.
Character DLC just needs to be a permanent fixture.
Someone who has put at least 500 hours into the series and has also worked programming games (on amateur/student teams - I was the only one not to go pro, switched careers).
Pestilence11
Member
The trailer makes it look like it started on PS3. Hopefully that means they'll clean it up from here on out.
Here is a link to the Japanese website for the game. It shows a few screens that includes some actual golf pictures and shows a level up post for your character. Hopefully this helps some people stop complaining so much.
http://www.jp.playstation.com/software/title/newmingol.html
http://www.jp.playstation.com/software/title/newmingol.html
It's better than what they showed in the trailer but it still looks rough as hell. Really don't like where they've gone with the avatars. The characters in the last couple of games have been great. The course looks worse than the last PS3 game, imo. That just doesn't make sense to me.
CamHostage
Member
That's what I was thinking too, that they're diversions but probably not even mini-games as we'd think of them. (I actually originally thought that these were maybe just part of an in-game method of introducing the characters, but I was multitasking at the time and when I popped the video full-screen I saw how bad things looked and couldn't fathom they'd do controlled sequences with characters so ill-characterized...) I think non-golf activities will be part of the New Hot Shots experience, but people worried that it's going to be packed with distractions and lacking where it counts probably don't have much to fear.
Looking at the screens, it's not a tragedy, but I'd love to see a little more pizzazz slathered on the game before it hits PS4.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
That's what I was thinking too, that they're diversions but probably not even mini-games as we'd think of them. (I actually originally thought that these were maybe just part of an in-game method of introducing the characters, but I was multitasking at the time and when I popped the video full-screen I saw how bad things looked and couldn't fathom they'd do controlled sequences with characters so ill-characterized...)
Looking at the screens, it's not a tragedy, but I'd love to see a little more pizzazz slathered on the game before it hits PS4.
That looks good to me, very colorful...i like should be a nice entry point for me to the series. Does this generally come west?
Callibretto
Member
You might know it as hot shot golf in US and everybody's golf in europe.
A bit surprised with all the negative reaction here. I guess I had a different perspective. I love that they showed all the new stuff like the open world town, and various glimpses of minigames because I'm pretty confident that the golf part will be perfect. I just wish they showed tennis and the avatar could look better I guess.
A bit surprised with all the negative reaction here. I guess I had a different perspective. I love that they showed all the new stuff like the open world town, and various glimpses of minigames because I'm pretty confident that the golf part will be perfect. I just wish they showed tennis and the avatar could look better I guess.
Looks like others players have to wait for you to take the shot, and trash talk you while you are doing it?
The trash talk feature has been in most of the multiplayer versions of previous games in the series. You character will just say stuff like "hurry up" or "come on already"
You mean in local multiplayer?
Looks like others players have to wait for you to take the shot, and trash talk you while you are doing it?
Probably an option. Also in the video they had four players all teeing off at the same time.