Everybody's Golf

[AdmiralViscen]

Everybody Buy

[Akala]

Still waiting on amazon delivery that got delayed by storm. 😔

[Joe Molotov]

Getting it.

[thisismyusername]

But I already own Everybody's Golf 5 and barely played it...

[a slime appears]

I don't buy cheap Hot Shots Golf knockoffs.

[chronovore]

I don't buy cheap Hot Shots Golf knockoffs.

Isn't Hot Shots/Minna No/Everybody's the same game?

[Himu]

This is good? Is it the online o hot shots? I don't follow this shit anymore. Is there a good sp mode?

[Bebpo]

I don't buy cheap Hot Shots Golf knockoffs.

Isn't Hot Shots/Minna No/Everybody's the same game?

It is, he's just trying to be edgy 

This is good? Is it the online o hot shots? I don't follow this shit anymore. Is there a good sp mode?

It's good but has its share of flaws. Online and SP are both fun, SP is grindy as fuck. You gotta play each course like 9-12 times to unlock the next. But if playing golf feels like a grind, this is probably the wrong game for you. like I don't mind playing the courses a bunch because it's not like there's a lot of them and it's fun working on better scores, improving skills.

Online is sorta a weekly leaderboard for each course that you're updated on the fly as you progress. No way to filter friends yet though which is stupid. There's also a real MP weird ass mode and a bizarre interactive home golf course hub.

The art also took a hit and graphics sorta like on PS3 (shimmering everywhere unless you got a 4k tv). Core golfing still rocks though.

[Himu]

Sounds kinda bad. Don't recall have to do all that in previous Hot Shots but hey, could be wrong.

[Bebpo]

You definitely had to grind in each HSG to unlock the next course. You'd unlock a vs match and then beat them to unlock the next course. This is because these games only have like 5 courses usually so they want to make you work for them. Difference here is you have to beat 3 vs characters to unlock the next course each time here.

[Himu]

I'll check it out

[Bebpo]

The thing is, this is the first new HSG in like 10 years. So like my first impression in the other thread, buy/not buy is pretty simple. Do you like HSG and want to play a new one? Yes/no. Like it's not perfect, but it's a new HSG. Plus it's pretty cheap (I got it for $30).

I just hope they add friend filters. Don't really care about competing against super amazing top20 in the world people, but I would like to compete against my friends without having to ask them on this forum what their best score is. Just need a friend filter in the leaderboards so I'm hoping they'll patch it in. HSG on PS3 had like 500 patches over its life.

[Himu]

I do want a new hot shots so that is yes

[thisismyusername]

The thing is, this is the first new HSG in like 10 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody%27s_Golf_6



NA: 15 February 2012



NA: 23 July 2013

[Bebpo]

Ok, 5 years Didn't realize the Vita game was HSG6 since the US name doesn't have the 6 in it. Thought it was a spinoff like the PSP games and the last mainline was the PS3 game that came out right after PS3's release in 2007ish. Didn't even know the Vita game had a PS3 release! Missed out on that.

[bork]

I think it may have been digital-only outside Japan?

[archnemesis]

I think it may have been digital-only outside Japan?

No, I own a physical copy of the European version. The Vita game is great.

[bork]

I think it may have been digital-only outside Japan?

No, I own a physical copy of the European version. The Vita game is great.

What's it called in Europe?  (And to clarify, I mean PS3)

[archnemesis]

I think it may have been digital-only outside Japan?

No, I own a physical copy of the European version. The Vita game is great.

What's it called in Europe?  (And to clarify, I mean PS3)

[AdmiralViscen]

I have the Vita game on cart, US. Really good game but pretty hard iirc

I wish I had known about the PS3 release

[bork]

I think it may have been digital-only outside Japan?

No, I own a physical copy of the European version. The Vita game is great.

What's it called in Europe?  (And to clarify, I mean PS3)

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When I look that up, it's listed as being the Euro version of Minna No Golf 5, not Minna No Golf 6.  Wikipedia says 6 was localized as Everybody's Golf in Europe and Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational in North America.  Doesn't seem like there's a physical version in English.

[archnemesis]

I must have the versions mixed up then.

[bork]

I must have the versions mixed up then.

it's confusing as hell with all the name changes.  I can't seem to find any info on the PS3 MNG6/World Invitational port in English apart from launch trailers and the like.  Must have been digital only.

[bork]

There was an English physical version in Asia:  http://www.play-asia.com/minna-no-golf-6-chinese-english-version/13/706btl

I wonder if it's still for sale anywhere...

[thisismyusername]

I must have the versions mixed up then.

it's confusing as hell with all the name changes.  I can't seem to find any info on the PS3 MNG6/World Invitational port in English apart from launch trailers and the like.  Must have been digital only.

AFAIK, it got a small physical release in the US but it's digital only. The portable version is physical and digital.

[Akala]

played it for a bit and it's cool but hot takes:
-fuck you DLC. on-disc unlock of remastered first course from HSG1? OMG. Paid the 4.99 for as got the game for like 31, but come on. also not sure if carts are DLC only, I assume I just haven't unlocked yet.
-wtf is there a black border around the screen on my TV? wish there was some kind of option to correct, no way am I messing with TV every time I play. also would like more options in general, esp brightness...it's a bit dim on my TV. no idea if there was a JP speech or if it is what it is.
-opening song is terrible

will play more later, technically supposed to be working.

[Bebpo]

Carts are unlocked at rank 3 along with the 3rd course from what I've heard. Fishing at rank 4. You rank up by beating 3 vs characters each rank and you unlock vs battles by leveling up from SP playing. Don't forget to turn on "serious mode" when you play SP to get more xp per play.

Yeah the course dlc is a bit lame. Though I think it's a good value at like $5 for a course considering how much replay each course has since there's only like 5-6 courses per game. Also the remake course was pre-order free dlc.

Not sure about the black border, there's definitely little stuff that needs to be patched in.


Haven't had a chance to play since the first night. I want to finish Uncharted LL first (hopefully tonight), but looking forward to getting back to this over the weekend.

[benjipwns]

will grab for sure on Steam sale

oh wait, they don't mean everybody

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along with TM2 and THPS1/2 the original is one of my PS1 games that I always have packed with my PS2 ones

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[AdmiralViscen]

played it for a bit and it's cool but hot takes:
-fuck you DLC. on-disc unlock of remastered first course from HSG1? OMG. Paid the 4.99 for as got the game for like 31, but come on. also not sure if carts are DLC only, I assume I just haven't unlocked yet.
-wtf is there a black border around the screen on my TV? wish there was some kind of option to correct, no way am I messing with TV every time I play. also would like more options in general, esp brightness...it's a bit dim on my TV. no idea if there was a JP speech or if it is what it is.
-opening song is terrible

will play more later, technically supposed to be working.

The black border is because this game goes by your PS4's base settings instead of just fitting to the screen on its own. You can fix it in system settings by going to sound and screen > display area settings

[a slime appears]

I don't buy cheap Hot Shots Golf knockoffs.

Isn't Hot Shots/Minna No/Everybody's the same game?

It is, he's just trying to be edgy 

That's the first time I heard that joke in 10 years.

I haven't played since HSG2. I am in the market for a new mini-golf sim.

 

[Bebpo]

Unlocked the 2nd half of the first course and did through the first of three vs characters on it. 2nd half (IN) seems a lot easier than (OUT) on the first course. I think my best official scores for 9H OUT are like -3 or -4 but I've done (IN) three times and gotten -6, -7, -6. 9H (IN) is pretty fun.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Oh man. I'm loving this game, but yeah. The grind is real. Last I played was HSG3 and this seems slightly grindier. I don't mind too much but I can see how this would turn some people off.

[AdmiralViscen]

I've played WT and I forget which other but they were pretty grindy too. It's too bad that it's just the one course to grind on at the start but I keep improving.

gaf is starting to rumble about some insidious P2W scheme that appears after rank 7 which is more concerning.

[thisismyusername]

gaf is starting to rumble about some insidious P2W scheme that appears after rank 7 which is more concerning.

Well, the last one got Lv. 5 and 6 club and ball DLC... so...

[thisismyusername]

[chronovore]

I don't buy cheap Hot Shots Golf knockoffs.

Isn't Hot Shots/Minna No/Everybody's the same game?

It is, he's just trying to be edgy 

That's the first time I heard that joke in 10 years.

I haven't played since HSG2. I am in the market for a new mini-golf sim.

 

You are being a TekunoRascal.

[Bebpo]

Had a pretty good run this morning on the 2nd half of the first course. Definitely feel like I'm improving. Just beat the 2nd vs character on the 2nd half. Couple more rounds to go then finally get to see a new course.

Also I've always thought chip-in shots were a bit bogus in this series. It's so much easier to chip in a shot from just outside the putting area than to put it in with all the slopes involved. With a chip-in because you're so close wind doesn't matter and as long as it's relatively flat all you have to do is hit the marker on the flag and perfect impact (or close) and it's almost 100% going in. Feel like there's probably strategy at some point in aiming for the fringe area rather than the putting area and chipping in vs putting for the best scores.

[AdmiralViscen]

Agreed

[Bebpo]

Ok, played a bunch today. Some thoughts:

-2nd Course Alpine Valley is fun. The height differences as usual add more strategy into shot planning.
-Played the first DLC course, it's ok, a plain easy course. But then I saw the 2nd DLC course was also a 1-difficulty plain easy course? Seems kind of pointless. I'd buy a $6 DLC course if it had good challenges and looked neat. Hopefully the remaining DLC courses will be more difficult and interesting.
-Submitted my daily scores and it's always interesting seeing the player count. Course 1/2 has like 30k players submitting a daily score. The DLC course #1 that was pre-order DLC has like 1.5k submitting a score.
-Ok I got challenged by the 50 birdies swim vs guy. The 15 seconds to take a shot or -1 penalty is BRUTAL, some of these modifiers really change up the gameplay (which is cool and I appreciate the replayabilty each course has because of them). We were neck and neck going +1/-1 back and forth with a bunch of ties. Got to the final hole tied and he hits it in the water on a par 3, saved my ass. Nothing worse than halfway through a 15-30 min set you miss your timing with a turtle or the wind is even stronger than you thought and the ball goes crazy and fucks up your whole game. At least in the 9H/18H against the CPU you can usually get far enough ahead to cover any mistakes on a hole. Been getting a lot of -7 to -11s on 9H and the CPU ends up with like -3 or -4 at best giving some leeway in rank 3.
-Golf cart is kinda fun, I ain't gonna hate on this

Even with the weird ass leveling and apparently end game grinding and the DLC courses so far being boring, game is still fun as hell. Really enjoy running the holes and fighting the Vs opponents, now with the added leaderboard/rivals dailies. If they just add friendlist rival leaderboards for your daily scores it'd be great. The daily stuff is kinda evil because now it's a goddamn MMO and makes you want to run each 9H course once a day and submit for the bonus items ><

[BobFromPikeCreek]

I somewhat retract my grind complaint. There is a grind, but it's weirdly frontloaded. They start you off with nine holes and it takes multiple hours to get the rest of the course, but after that it's a pretty consistent trickle of content. Just beat the first Rank 4 lady and having a blast with this game.

[archie4208]

I didn't realize there was a hard mode that expedites the grind until just awhile ago.  It kills two birds with one stone as I thought normal was too easy.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Turf war looks super fun. May have to set aside my PC gamer stubbornness and buy some PS Plus.

[Bebpo]

I didn't realize there was a hard mode that expedites the grind until just awhile ago.  It kills two birds with one stone as I thought normal was too easy.

Yup, helps a lot and still is pretty easy at least with the first two courses.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Just unlocked fishing. Pretty pointless and a weird addition, but it's nice I guess.

[Bebpo]

Do you get that at rank 4? I just beat the first vs character in rank 3.

You know, instead of fishing they should've included a tennis game you could play online. Wasn't there a hot shots tennis at some point?

[bork]

There was a Hot Shots Tennis game that came out on PS2/PSP, yeah.

[thisismyusername]

It came out on PS2?

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Hot Shots Tennis on PS2 was amazing. I'd go bananas if they made a new one with the same treatment they gave HSG here.

[Bebpo]

Yeah, if I was making the game I'd make it "Everybody's World" and it'd have golfing, fishing, tennis, cart races, and other stuff in a social online hub like the Sony version of Wii Sports but online connected.

Then again I just saw the game sells about 100k in Japan in its better selling entries like this one, and I doubt the worldwide sales are anything amazing, so now I understand the small team budget feel of the series.

[Bebpo]

This game is really making me want to try golf lessons. This close to getting a starter lesson package at the local 9 hole.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

You're a lawyer, aren't you? Surprised you're not constantly being dragged out to golf already.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Online options are pretty disappointing. A friend got it, but we can't go on the same online open course? Or play Turf war together?

[Bebpo]

Got to rank 4 yesterday. Beach course is fun. The last Vs. match of rank 3 with tiny holes was rough. I like my mega-cups or tornado cups

Also while graphically I'm not very impressed, the different time of day options help a lot. Some courses look bland during the day, but look really nice at sunset.

You're a lawyer, aren't you? Surprised you're not constantly being dragged out to golf already.

There are golf social things occasionally, but I'm too terrible at golf to go. I've done the driving range a few times and went actual golfing once and it went very bad so I stick to mini-golf. Would definitely golf if I was any good. Golfing videogames are always a lot of fun.

Online options are pretty disappointing. A friend got it, but we can't go on the same online open course? Or play Turf war together?

Yup, I'm hoping this will be patched in. This and lack of friend filter in leaderboards are the biggest oversights.

[thisismyusername]

How bad is the grind compared to World Invitational? Leveling up the characters to Max Loyalty + doing the championships over over and over for points and unlock ability was/is painful. I dunno if I want to get a PS4 to do that over.

Also someone recommended "Eagle" as a Pangya/MNG arcade golf on Android and that's... uh... not good. I mean it's not bad, but the app crashes on mobile start-up, which is 

[Bebpo]

It's honestly not that bad after the first course:

-Do 9 hole a couple times on serious difficulty (aka slightly hard mode), unlock Vs character
-Beat Vs character in a match
x3

= next course and next rank abilities, repeat.

The problem with the first course is you start out with only 9 holes and it counts the 2nd 9 holes as like course 2, so it takes twice as long on course 1 than the other courses. I'd have almost everything unlocked already but I play like 15-45 mins every few days since I'm playing other stuff, so I'm progressing slowly.

Though even though I've been playing the series since the first one, I was thinking that I probably never have unlocked the final course in any of the games. Right now I can basically birdie -1 every hole, so either -9 for 9 hole or -18 for 18 hole. At this point on Course 3, rank 4 serious mode that's just barely getting me wins against the cpu. I could see myself getting stuck at the next course and never seeing the final course in this one.

[archie4208]

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Just like real golf

[chronovore]

You're just giving demi fap material with that avatar.

[Bebpo]

Just like real golf

I know, this is why it makes me want to play real golf! 

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Just like real golf

I know, this is why it makes me want to play real golf! 

You ever go just whack some balls at the driving range? You don't have to have any skill and it's really satisfying.