Sports Story is... A bit of a mess, huh? Not gonna lie, pretty disappointed in its current state. I hope they push through some big bug fixes soon, at least.
Not sure how much is actually WORSE than Golf Story, which was also a bit buggy at launch as I recall, but still. I feel like that team maybe ended up with too high expectations and then struggled to reach them, possibly backing themselves into a corner with a too-early release date to put it in that Direct. Just speculation, though.
Encountered a cool glitch in Sports Story where I got stuck in place while trying to kick the pinecone. Instead, the game just let me kick the pinecone in any direction from afar.
I’ve seen Smash Bros. mods that let you do this with the Falcon Punch by hitting opponents from afar, but never encountered it happening in another game from a glitch.
He stuffed the last greasy mouthful of double beef burger into his mouth. Juggling its packaging in one paw and propelling his trolley with the other he kept on walking down the fairway of life. Brown remnants of some sauce snaked down his chin. The glistening temporarily stained skin made him look like there had been a major culinary accident in the vicinity. This was eating on the run golf…
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Really disappointed in Soccer Story. I had high expectations since it was wearing its inspiration in Golf Story on its sleeve, but it's just soooo much worse. And it weirdly copies things to the extent that it feels less like it was inspired by Golf Story and more like one of those cheap mobile ripoff titles that try to coast off the popularity of a good game.
At least the Real Deal Sports Story comes out in a few weeks. And I played Soccer Story on Game Pass and so I didn't actually spend any money on it hahaha
This is the Takapuna Golf Course in Auckland, New Zealand.
It is in the middle of Auckland's north shore suburbs.
According to their website, they are one of the most popular golf courses in Aotearoa and have an annual visitor count of 60,000 people. They don't clarify if that is individual unique visitors or recounts, but lets be generous and say its unique visitors. 60,000, not bad.
This is Eden Park Stadium (the little square on the right) and oh look there's another golf course on the left there, ignore that one for now.
(the above two images are at the same scale)
Eden park has a capacity of 50,000 people. Ed Sheeran was here earlier this year and sold out the two nights he performed. That's 100,000 people in a weekend all in that little red square. 60,000 in a year no longer seems so great.
60,000 people per year is also only 160 people per day. 160 visitors to a golf course that is 470,000 square meters in area. Now the average property size in Auckland is 500 square meters. So the golf course takes up the area of 940 houses.
940 homes worth of land for 160 people.
And that is Auckland housing sizes. Auckland is horribly designed and very spread out. Let's instead look at Barcelona, considered one of the most well designed cities in the world.
This is Takapuna golf course side by side with Barcelona
(The scale is as close to being equal as I could get them, I don't have ArcGIS data for Barcelona so had to use google maps)
Each red square overlaid on Takapuna Golf Course is exactly 133m in height/width, the same size as each city block in Barcelona, road width included.
There are 23 Barcelona blocks worth of space in Takapuna Golf Course with room to spare. About 640 people live in each Barcelona block, that's 15000 people.
15000 peoples worth of homes and living spaces, sacrificed so 160 people can play golf in a day.
Now this is just one golf course in a big city, what's 15,000 people to a city of 1.6 million, who cares right?
Here is a wider shot of Auckland City.
Those red dots? They're golf courses.
There are 16 golf courses inside the metropolitan area of Auckland City (4 not pictured as Auckland is too spread out to get one clean screenshot). Keep in mind these are not rural golf courses out in the country, these are right beside housing developments and shopping malls. And for the record I could not find a single golf course in the Barcelona metropolitan area, you had to go out into the country before finding one.
So lets multiply that 15,000 people by 16 golf courses?
240,000 people.
With Auckland City's golf courses you could house 240,000 people comfortably with some good urban planning.