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Harlock posted:How reflective of the final game is the demo? I really love Hot Shots Golf because it isn't as serious as Tiger Woods, but doesn't go too far off the spectrum beyond power shots. The items seem like they would bother me depending on what they do. The items don't make too big of a difference. They might give you a little more distance or let you take a shot you wouldn't normally be able to take (such as using a bob-omb to shoot from the rough without penalty) but it probably won't give you a huge advantage. If you really don't like them the game plays fine with them off.
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Maple Leaf posted:I will help! Could you do a gif of Diddy's Par?
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drat, getting no driver in club slots mode suuuucks. 17/20 points in the DK Jungle challenge for a Dry Bones costume. Maybe next time.
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Zaphod42 posted:My short game has improved dramatically since I noticed that when you start putting, you have "close/medium/far" as shot options, like how you have 6 "power shots" normally.
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That explains everything about why sometimes I have to way overshoot the distance bar, but other times you don't want to do that and you shoot way too far (if its on close or not).
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I'm still having trouble properly judging wind. If a ball spends a second in the air with a crosswind of 5m/s, would the ball land 5 meters off? Also, is the grid always 1 meter per square or does it use a different scale on higher clubs?
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May 5, 2014 18:20
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horriblePencilist posted:I'm still having trouble properly judging wind. If a ball spends a second in the air with a crosswind of 5m/s, would the ball land 5 meters off? Also, is the grid always 1 meter per square or does it use a different scale on higher clubs? I think you may be looking too far into it. I mean maybe I'm just not a pro-golfer but I normally just eyeball the arc and compensate accordingly. anything under 10m/s or so isn't going to require a huge amount of compensation unless it's on a drive or it's blowing straight at you on a chip shot, something like that. More than that and you'll just want to pull it wider. It should become second nature after a little while. I don't think anyone really does any math on it.
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horriblePencilist posted:Could you do a gif of Diddy's Par? Did my best: 
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Is the online good? This game looks surprisingly fun.
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Kurtofan posted:Is the online good? This game looks surprisingly fun. It's about as good as Nintendo online is going to get. You still have to deal with the friend-code nonsense but it's fairly unobtrusive. When you host a tournament you receive a code and anyone else with the code can find it. You can also join random tournaments, including Nintendo-hosted ones. You also get ghost data for anyone in the tournament so when you take a shot you can see everyone else's progress on that particular stroke. PantsBandit fucked around with this message at 18:58 on May 5, 2014 |
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I really wish there was a sandbox-mode where I could edit my starting position, wind or always do perfect shots so I can analyze the effect of terrain and weather conditions better. Getting identical conditions in the regular game is really hard and between the loading, animations, menus and text the whole thing takes too long. Also thanks Maple Leaf for that amazing gif. PantsBandit posted:It's about as good as Nintendo online is going to get. You still have to deal with the friend-code nonsense but it's fairly unobtrusive. When you host a tournament you receive a code and anyone else with the code can find it. You can also join random tournaments, including Nintendo-hosted ones. You also get ghost data for anyone in the tournament so when you take a shot you can see everyone else's progress on that particular stroke. Don't forget about communities, which allow you to play with random people under special conditions or play with folks from the internet without having to add them. Also, the Nintendo-hosted tournaments award you with participation prizes, such as exclusive swag for your Mii.
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I did some match play last night and that also went amazingly smoothly. You even get little passive aggressive emotes on the bottom screen that you can spam while the other player is taking their shot. Turns out there's also a ton of gear unlocks you can only get in versus mode, they give you an outfit based on whatever country you chose to rep at the start and playing with people from other countries makes it possible to unlock their national stuff too. Between that and the tournaments and whatever weird world tour thing that toad on the entry floor is teasing, I'll definitely end up spending more time playing this game online than off.
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Is there a way to practice on a single hole that I'm missing? There's a couple Seaside holes I'm having trouble with and I'd like to be able to practice those without having to play through the other 16 every time.
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jivjov posted:Is there a way to practice on a single hole that I'm missing? There's a couple Seaside holes I'm having trouble with and I'd like to be able to practice those without having to play through the other 16 every time. I know you can set up a single or multiplayer game and do like just the back 9, or a random X holes. You could set it up to do just one hole and restart it a bunch, but I'm not sure if you can specifically say "start on hole number 5" though, I can't remember the options...
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Maple Leaf posted:Did my best: I don't usually do these requests, but I just have to ask, can you get Waluigi's birdie animation? Sorry if it's a bother.
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Here's a Waluigi only tournament in DK Jungle since I haven't tried this course out yet Waluigi open - 05-8841-0523-9813 DK Jungle, items, ends in like 24 hours Also has anyone completed the 18 hole Sky Island challenge thing? I beat the 9 hole challenge but I dunno if I have the patience to do all 18. I remember Toadstool Tour had a similar mode that gave me a lot of trouble
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May 6, 2014 01:01
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Welp I just bought this poo poo, I loved Mario Golf before so I'm eager to play it again.
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Hakkesshu posted:It is seriously the worst. OKAY YAAAEEY AH-HURHAAAR I have an Eggman mii I am using and the OKAY YAEEEEYYY AH-HURRHAAARRR is absolutely perfect for him. xD
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How do you find out standings at the end of a community tourney anyway? Does it just happen the next time you go to that game mode after the end time?
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Startyde posted:How do you find out standings at the end of a community tourney anyway? Does it just happen the next time you go to that game mode after the end time?
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Maple Leaf posted:Did my best: Can you tell me were your finding them I don't want to buy this game I just want to see all the animations.
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SilverSupernova posted:I don't usually do these requests, but I just have to ask, can you get Waluigi's birdie animation?  That'll be $29.99 Dr Leisure Suit posted:Can you tell me were your finding them I don't want to buy this game I just want to see all the animations. I'm making them myself, sorry 
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Princess Zone - 52-8280-9778-6075, Peach Gardens, Ladies Only (Peach, Daisy, and Toadette), Items. Are you the princessiest goon? Only time will tell.
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Maple Leaf posted:
In that case I'd like to make a request for every animation in the game.  So is will someone that not fond of golf like this game from my understanding the old mario golf games were just golf with mario in it which sound boring but I heard that this game has (for lack of a better word) mario things in it like items and other stuff?
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majormonotone posted:Princess Zone - 52-8280-9778-6075, Peach Gardens, Ladies Only (Peach, Daisy, and Toadette), Items. what about birdo
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Dr Leisure Suit posted:So is will someone that not fond of golf like this game from my understanding the old mario golf games were just golf with mario in it which sound boring but I heard that this game has (for lack of a better word) mario things in it like items and other stuff? quote:Mushroom - Makes the ball roll further. Also comes in the Triple variety.
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Loving this game so far, but has anyone experienced small chunks of lag when they're swinging? Sometimes my game will freeze for a fraction of a second when I'm taking a shot and it completely fucks me up. Happens with 3D is both on and off.
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Just to make sure, coins aren't used for anything other than buying gear, correct? I'm planning on buying new gear as it becomes available, but don't want to do that only to find out that there's more stuff to purchase later on.
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Pretty much, but you can also buy mulligans from shady dealer Kamek..
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UltimoDragonQuest posted:Probably not, but you should try the demo. The demo doesn't have a lot of items, but items don't change the game as much as Mario Kart. Because of the nature of golf, this is a lot more time trial than grand prix. That's what I figured oh well, never liked golf so I guess I'll just have to wait till someone make a video of all the animations.
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Man, putting is stupid. Just got it earlier loving it so far.
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Just now noticed this on the Nintendo website, the schedule for upcoming official tournaments: http://mariogolf.nintendo.com/tournaments/tournament-schedule/ Later this month the Callaway promos start, and there's going to be a series of regional handicap tournaments too, so I guess handicap does actually count for something. I also get the impression that you need to earn a trophy in the current regional to get access to the next world tournament, and world tournament trophies will earn you an invite to the Castle Tournament in June. At least that's the feeling I get from this website/talking to toads in Castle Club.
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bonzibuddy64 posted:Pretty much, but you can also buy mulligans from shady dealer Kamek..
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a clogged toilet posted:Just now noticed this on the Nintendo website, the schedule for upcoming official tournaments: http://mariogolf.nintendo.com/tournaments/tournament-schedule/ I hope that low-handicap includes scratch/plus handicap players. I'm guessing it probably does.
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This game is great. I just picked it up today, and instead of studying for finals I've sunk about 6 hours into it. One thing annoys me so far, though: In the goon tournaments, there's one entrant who has ridiculous scores. He is like -18 on one of them. His drives go about twice as far as mine, and I have no idea why.
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ryan_woody posted:This game is great. I just picked it up today, and instead of studying for finals I've sunk about 6 hours into it. Might be using a Star Character or a whole bunch of drive-up gear on his Mii.
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Star characters have better drives, you need to unlock them by doing challenges though.
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Start some tournaments that ban miis and star characters if that bothers you, that Waluigi tournament is a good example.
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I'm glad I went back to redo my world tournament performance...my very first game was the tourny and I got an abysmal +7. Redoing it today gave me a decently respectable -4. Not a stellar performance, but I'm okay with it.
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a clogged toilet posted:Just now noticed this on the Nintendo website, the schedule for upcoming official tournaments: http://mariogolf.nintendo.com/tournaments/tournament-schedule/ Actually you can access the schedule in the game as well. UltimoDragonQuest posted:Probably not, but you should try the demo. The demo doesn't have a lot of items, but items don't change the game as much as Mario Kart. Because of the nature of golf, this is a lot more time trial than grand prix. The Bob-omb doesn't affect the drive, it ignores the terrain. Say you're in a bunker, if you'd use the Bob-omb you could go with a fully powered 1W-drive no problem. Really useful.
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