PGA TOUR 2K25

Im very torn on this game. Graphically it looks very nice. If you can crank it up, it just looks great. Little details like a divot flying into the air when you are making your approach shot, just, chefs kiss. Evo swing is absolute garbage. never should have been invented and should never ever be used again. Its just a terrible swing system. Upgrading clubs, forget about it. You simply can not upgrade your clubs enough to beat anything in the shop. Dont even get me started on VC coins. you play a full round, you get 54 coins. Each club has roughly 5 upgrade slots plus a full upgrade slot. Each upgrade slot costs 75 VC. When it comes time to fully upgrade your club and advance it to the next level, 750 VC and it destroys all the upgrades you added into it which then worsens your swing. So, to upgrade your driver, its going to cost roughly 1000 VC. that means it will take roughly 18ish rounds for that 1 club. Mind you, you do this over and over and over and over again. They nerfed the crap out of VC near launch and have never balanced it again. Why? cause they want you to pay real money to buy VC to upgrade all your ♥♥♥♥, Only to have to upgrade it over and over and over again. This is only 1 character. They want you to make 1 of every architype. By the time 2k27 comes out, if your lucky, you might have 1 or 2 characters fully upgraded, Then there is the fact that almost every green in the game feels like landing on glass and goes rolling off. God forbid you come up 1% short on the power its suggesting for your chip, you will then chip the ball about 5 feet. God forbid you go 1% over the power suggestion it gives, you will then go flying by the hole by 10-20 feet or more. The game is overly harsh and absolutely punishes you to death by just being a fraction off. Until you get your clubs fully upgraded, being .5mm off your mark will send the ball 50 yards in that direction, it is overly punishing. Now back to graphics for a moment, again, beautiful game, it is about as optimized as a turtle trying to run through quicksand. Menu system can take 5+ seconds to even start to respond to your command, IF it responds at all. Their servers are horrible, at the end of every round, the summarize page that comes up looks like a slideshow on a 286 computer trying to draw a picture. This game has been out for 2 years and none of these issues have ever been touched. 2k simply does not fix bugs. has not optimize the game at all, but when they see players having fun actually upgrading their equipment, they nerf the living ♥♥♥♥ out of it in order to try and get you to spend more money. 2k used to be a decent company till they decided to ♥♥♥♥ over their player base. Now I put them right up there with EA as 2 of the crappiest sports gaming companies alive.

as dj khalid said, lets go golfing

You can play golf in this game so that is always good

If you want a menu fest this game is for you. But by far the worst part of this game is the online matchmaking. Random connection losses to the servers mid game resulting in a loss... and it happens all the time! This has been reported since the launch... 2K couldnt care less. When it does run smooth... its an enjoyable golf game... But if online is what you want to play... dont bother. Too unstable and unpredictable to recommend. Not worth your money.

Do you like menus? Do you like having loading times between every menu choice you make? Do you want more menus? Do you want your gameplay to be interrupted by replays of random NPC players you dont care about making highlight shots? The game is an X/A button "SKIP SKIP NEXT NEXT" spam simulator to get through menus and cutscenes. Menus are insanely sluggish and annoying and nothing feels smooth at all. Fortunately, for the time you do actually get to play the game it's really fun. Addictive as ♥♥♥♥ and i can't stop swinging. Just wish I could swing more often. Good golf game drowning inside an ocean of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ laggy ass menus and unnecessary ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. It's just so frustrating cos the fun is there and that's why I'm giving it a thumbs up but god is it annoying.

Played my first major and without touching difficulty settings the top 3 of the leaderboard were -14 after 9 holes.... this is hard coded into the game and cannot be changed. ♥♥♥♥ game

won my first two tourneys pretty handily. was shooting consistent birdies when non simulated, actual my player shooting double bogeys and bogeys more than consistently. going into the third round of third tourney, was shooting 3 over par, simulated through 12 holes, when i take control I was shooting NINE OVER and had dropped to 85th from 2nd. it was impossible to come back after that as 1st had a 5 over score. all in all this just feels like a recycled money grab of a game. I know the only reason stuff like that happens is because they want you to buy VC and upgrade your MyPlayer so that doesn't happen, but it's still so frustrating that I win my first two and only get enough VC through sponsors and winning to upgrade TWO LEVELS. absolute garbage as usual, 2K.