E6 versus Perfect golf for skytrak?

[Monovision]

I'm looking for a cheap sim. TGC a bit too pricey for me (though I know they have the lifetime purchase option). It sounds like perfect golf is a bit better than E6, and the user courses would allow play of some courses not yet licensed.

Before I pull the trigger on JNPG, anyone have any helpful input? The Perfect Golf reviews on Steam are pretty horrid, but I'm hoping those are non-sim players used to adrenaline games.

[Fieldygolf]

I have all three and in all honestly tgc is miles better game play wise, graphically. The practice mode in e6 is pretty sweet but graphics outdated for me. Perfect golf I have too many miss reads so not fired it up for a while

[Dan McWhirter]

If you tried only the e6 demo, it is not representative of the latest. All three are cool. I subscribed to all three, but I'm not anywhere close to having a favorite.

[Chughes82]

I play exclusively PG so I can't evaluate the others. I am very happy with PG. I very rarely have misread problems, until i get down to about 6-7 foot chips. Putting is fine. There is an excellent online tourney community. I'm sure the other sims are great too, but I wouldn't be frightened off by Steam PG reviews. Check the web for skytrak or gc2 PG player reviews, not just Steam. There are excellent courses available and course creation software is reportedly close to release, which will likely have the course list grow exponentially.

[Sledge0001]

I have JNPG, TGC, WGT and Demoed E6. For me hands down TGC is the clear winner and well worth the investment. To me TGC feels and plays more like real golf. E6 really needs a graphics overhaul and I couldn't get over the weird ball flight that JNPG has. The important thing to note that all of these will add to the enjoyment of your system.

[pwade3]

Are the graphics any better with TGC compared to JNPG or are the close to being the same?

[Sledge0001]

The graphics are much better on TGC in my opinion. JNPG is good but TGC is better.

[st_golfer]

I play exclusively PG so I can't evaluate the others. I am very happy with PG. I very rarely have misread problems, until i get down to about 6-7 foot chips. Putting is fine. There is an excellent online tourney community. I'm sure the other sims are great too, but I wouldn't be frightened off by Steam PG reviews. Check the web for skytrak or gc2 PG player reviews, not just Steam. There are excellent courses available and course creation software is reportedly close to release, which will likely have the course list grow exponentially.

As a general fan of JNPG, I will say that this is still a game with a bright future, but at the moment it looks exactly like what it is, a game in its infancy. The people who have dedicated themselves to the testing and promotion of JNPG have done a great job finding the warts. But Perfect Parallel has been very slow with updates lately. Much of that likely has to do with it being a small shop that already has a franchise product in golf graphics that is used by major networks. It seems that one of the great early promises JNPG had - potential access to real live courses that have already been road tested by their franchise products - is not coming to fruition due to licensing agreements. Totally understandable, but a big bummer. Couple that with their course design software also stuck in closed beta for the same reasons, and there has been only a trickle of good simulator-friendly courses that have debuted in 2016. There is hope for recreations to come out by individual course designers.

As for the simulator game play, as noted above the only major issue is with chipping. JNPG is the ONLY software package that refuses to read my soft chips with a 60 degree wedge. Skytrak and TGC read them with hardly an issue. That means that in order to score well on JNPG you have to have a strong approach game or get really creative green side and hope for the best. ALL the other parts of the game (long game, approach, and putting) work just fine.

The sim tour community over there is a good one, nice folks all.

If you chose JNPG, you would have a good experience. But right now TGC being a more mature product is becoming evident, and short term I think is the better product.

[pwade3]

Great info, thanks for that. Can you select different tee boxes for different players in stroke play with any off them? I would like to play with my daughter who needs forward (red) tees. If so will it be automatic for the person when it is there time to tee off so I don't have to select the tee box each time.

[st_golfer]

Yes, JNPG supports multiple tees. That is TGC's one major downfall so far, but I understand in the next major release ("TGC2"?) that is supposed to be addressed. But when that is, no idea.

But even with the multiple tees, I have noticed that the forward tee boxes on many courses on JNPG are not what I would call "red tee" length. The game is first and foremost a PC/console game, where three clicks of a mouse gets you 300 yards down the middle. The forward tees on some courses are what the sim tour has to play just to make it playable. Some courses have what are called challenge tees, which tend to be akin to a par-3 version of the course. But everyone has to play those tees, you can't have one playing a challenge tee box and others playing a "normal" tee box.

[pwade3]

Okay, thanks again. Looks like it will have to be JNPG for now as it needs to at least have some advantage over me or she will get frustrated. I guess I will end up with both eventually but not sure my GTX 960M card can handle TGC very well anyway which means another expense of new laptop. I will see how JNPG works out for now. Thank you for the info everyone, appreciated. Cheers