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Apr 16, 2012 16:12
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The Kins posted:From the Pinball Arcade Facebook: Eh, what are they supposed to say 'nope, never' I'll believe it when I see it 
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Apr 16, 2012 16:23
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If they can pull off Twilight Zone and nail the physics, it will be the greatest moment in the history of digital pinball. I believe CBS still owns the Twilight Zone license, so I'm not holding my breath until we get an announcement or "leaked" screenshot. But if Pinball Arcade really is working on securing big licenses, Addams Family (ABC) could be in the realm of possibility.
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Apr 16, 2012 16:29
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Would it be possible for them to make a perfect replica of the twilight zone table without the twilight zone branding? Would that be blasphemous around here?
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Apr 16, 2012 16:39
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Cartoon Man posted:Would it be possible for them to make a perfect replica of the twilight zone table without the twilight zone branding? Would that be blasphemous around here? Wouldn't be the first time. A lot of Zens tables are closely modeled on real-life tables but with their own theme applied.
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Apr 16, 2012 16:44
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Have any of the old-school table designers gone and worked with Zen or Farsight or any other companies in creating new digital only tables? That would be pretty rad.
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Apr 16, 2012 16:46
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Cartoon Man posted:Would it be possible for them to make a perfect replica of the twilight zone table without the twilight zone branding? Would that be blasphemous around here?
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Apr 16, 2012 16:47
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I'm so loving loving Pinball Arcade. Not so much the tables as I have TOTAN in the William's Collection, Black Hole is fun but punishingly difficult and Ripley's is just flat-out dull to me. TOM is great though. I'm more excited about what the future holds. I really hope they throw in some more obscure '70's and '80's tables that I haven't heard of played though.
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Apr 16, 2012 16:49
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Oldstench posted:I'm so loving loving Pinball Arcade. Not so much the tables as I have TOTAN in the William's Collection, Black Hole is fun but punishingly difficult and Ripley's is just flat-out dull to me. TOM is great though. I'm more excited about what the future holds. I really hope they throw in some more obscure '70's and '80's tables that I haven't heard of played though. Imagine the love you have for that one table multi(ball'ed)plied by 4.
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Apr 16, 2012 17:23
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Yodzilla posted:Have any of the old-school table designers gone and worked with Zen or Farsight or any other companies in creating new digital only tables? That would be pretty rad. J-Pop was butthurt on his Facebook page a while back about not being asked by FarSight to come on as a "consultant". I think basically they just can't afford that right now. It's a small team, and everyone is pulling double and triple duties (you think that interface was designed by a dedicated interface designer?). I'm sure if this is successful enough for them to make enough cash to pay old-school table designers to hang out around their offices they will do so.
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Apr 16, 2012 17:33
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Parallax Scroll posted:
One thing I would add to this is that hitting the light up targets right about the right flipper will light up the drop targets on the lower playfield, which makes them score way higher. Once I learned this, my pattern for the first ball became Complete BLACK and/or HOLE drop targets > Hit as many of those lightups as possible (hopefully all of them) > Head to the lower playfield, get the multiplier to 5x and rack up points and try to advance the top rollover to Extra Ball. I can't remember exactly how it works, but hitting all of those light targets mentioned above will cause the right (I think) set of drop targets on the lower playfield to advance the bonus for the rollover at the top of the upper field. As far as I can tell, once you advance the rollover bonus to Extra Ball it will stay that way even if you lose a ball. So once I've got that going I'll try to light hit just three of those lightup targets to keep the rollover from going to Special.
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Apr 16, 2012 18:04
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Wow just found out there's a Lord of the Rings table like under a block from my house  also got Junkyard, a table I enjoy a lot less, in a bar I enjoy going to a lot more. I wish they'd swap or something
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Apr 16, 2012 18:08
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You know since I don't play the games as much as some you guys probably do, it never really occurred to me just how much the physics were tweaked in The Pinball Arcade until I played Medieval Madness on both versions; It greatly affects the way I play the table. In the Williams Collection version, when the ball is dumped out the moat into the left side of the orbit from a castle shot, if I hold the left flipper down the ball bounces, but only a small amount, and it resettles on the left flipper. In the Pinball Arcade version, when the same thing occurs, the ball bounces high enough and to the left that it falls into the left inlane and has enough momentum to cross over to the right flipper if I keep the left flipper held down, making successive castle shots easier then on the Williams Collection version (although the castle shots still seem to be risky because there's a chance of the ball going straight down and draining if it doesn't go into the moat.)
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Apr 16, 2012 19:13
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Oldstench posted:I'm so loving loving Pinball Arcade. Not so much the tables as I have TOTAN in the William's Collection, Black Hole is fun but punishingly difficult and Ripley's is just flat-out dull to me. TOM is great though. I'm more excited about what the future holds. I really hope they throw in some more obscure '70's and '80's tables that I haven't heard of played though. I just can't get into TOM because of the score inflation. For some reason, I just can't seem to give a poo poo about tables where you routinely score millions of points like it ain't know thing. Probably some weird hang up on my part, and I do make exceptions (TNG table is my favorite of all time, but that's mostly my love for all things Star Trek). I will sink an hour a day into Black Hole and TOTAN, but as fun as the TOM table is, the scoring really kills my buzz. Anybody else around here feel that way?
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Apr 16, 2012 19:28
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Not really but I understand where you're coming from. My biggest problem with games like this is that I'll eventually get to a point where if I want to have any hope of doing better than I've done it just takes so much goddamn time.
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Apr 16, 2012 19:33
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Yodzilla posted:Not really but I understand where you're coming from. My biggest problem with games like this is that I'll eventually get to a point where if I want to have any hope of doing better than I've done it just takes so much goddamn time. I'm not quite sure how to explain it. I've loved pinball for a long time but I've never really explored the "culture" around it with the exception of reading through this thread. Like, I know score inflation is a thing, but I think for me it just makes it harder for me to feel a sense of accomplishment with those tables. I'm pretty much a scrub, but I know for instance that it'll make me feel awesome when I finally score over a million on Black Hole or Gorgar, but I just don't feel the same when it comes to tables like TOM. I'm probably just a weirdo.
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Apr 16, 2012 19:40
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FishBulb posted:Does anybody have a link for like, a youtube video talking about all the more 'advanced' pinball flipper tricks? I can pass the ball from one flipper to the other no problemo but I know theres a lot more stuff you can do and I'd like to nerd it up the next time my kid wants to watch the loving Bubble Guppies or whatever. There's a DVD called Pinball 101 which is great, they had a screening of it at TPF. Or just watch some of the videos on http://papa.org/blog/games-of-the-week/, they're mostly game specific but in at least a couple of them, they explain what they mean by terms like "cradle separation", "tap pass", "post transfer", etc. Specifically, the one on Paragon goes into great detail on how to do a tap pass.
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Apr 16, 2012 20:33
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I do agree that the millions really feel cheapened by tables like TOM and Johnny Mnemonic where "billion is the new million". Just call it a thousand again, please? I kind of like tables that fall in the middle like FunHouse or TOTAN. A million is a completely feasible score once you know any of the goals, but anything over 10-20 million is a good score for novices. Big shots are worth two million or less. That's the way to do it, not TOM's "Ten million for the skill shot! hooray! Your score is so high! You're so good at pinball!  " Theatre of Magic is still a really fun machine, though. You just have to imagine the last few zeros on the score don't exist.
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Apr 16, 2012 20:34
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FishBulb posted:Pinball Map has informed that there are like 7 Harley Davidson tables in ABQ. Also: http://pinside.com/pinball/map http://www.pinballrebel.com/locator/index.php
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Apr 16, 2012 20:37
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Yeah, as I was playing TOM right after finishing Black Hole I looked at my score and thought to myself I just beat my Black Hole high score with my first hit of the right flipper. And it wasn't barely but it was obliterated.
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Apr 16, 2012 20:54
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Tempura Wizard posted:I do agree that the millions really feel cheapened by tables like TOM and Johnny Mnemonic where "billion is the new million". Just call it a thousand again, please? I kind of like tables that fall in the middle like FunHouse or TOTAN. A million is a completely feasible score once you know any of the goals, but anything over 10-20 million is a good score for novices. Big shots are worth two million or less. That's the way to do it, not TOM's "Ten million for the skill shot! hooray! Your score is so high! You're so good at pinball! I had an incredibly lucky game on TOTAN where I got about 33 million without even really trying, and felt all  about it. Then I remembered that I recently friended ParallaxScroll and pardonmehippo and felt like an incredible failure.
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Apr 16, 2012 20:55
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DrNutt posted:I just can't get into TOM because of the score inflation. For some reason, I just can't seem to give a poo poo about tables where you routinely score millions of points like it ain't know thing. I know exactly how you feel. I remember when you only needed something like 70,000 points to win a free game, but you had to play your rear end off for 5 balls to get all those points. Of course, this was back in the 1970s when I was a kid, and you got 2 5-ball games for a quarter.
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Apr 16, 2012 21:17
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KamikazeJim posted:[...]until I played Medieval Madness on both versions[...] Nevermind - I just figured it out. DrNutt posted:I just can't get into TOM because of the score inflation. For some reason, I just can't seem to give a poo poo about tables where you routinely score millions of points like it ain't know thing. Oldstench fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Apr 16, 2012 |
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Apr 16, 2012 21:32
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Oldstench posted:
Yeah I should have specified I was playing the Android version as AFAIK no other platforms have the DLC yet.
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Apr 16, 2012 22:51
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KamikazeJim posted:Yeah I should have specified I was playing the Android version as AFAIK no other platforms have the DLC yet. What are the non-Williams tables that have come out so far? Those are the tables I'm most interested in since I already have the Williams Collection (though the leaderboard support and friends list integration means I'll probably be rebuying the Williams tables anyway, because I am a sucker).
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Apr 16, 2012 23:12
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DrNutt posted:What are the non-Williams tables that have come out so far? Those are the tables I'm most interested in since I already have the Williams Collection (though the leaderboard support and friends list integration means I'll probably be rebuying the Williams tables anyway, because I am a sucker). http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pinball+arcade+dlc
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Apr 16, 2012 23:15
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iOS update just went live. "We've released the iOS update that includes Medieval Madness, Bride of Pin•Bot, the fix for the retinal display on the new iPad as well as several other improvements. Medieval Madness is completely free to play (with ad support between games) until we release the new two DLC tables." edit: On the iPad 3 the table list/game setup menu doesn't scale right, but it works. Daedalus1134 fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Apr 16, 2012 |
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Apr 16, 2012 23:42
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DrNutt posted:What are the non-Williams tables that have come out so far? Those are the tables I'm most interested in since I already have the Williams Collection (though the leaderboard support and friends list integration means I'll probably be rebuying the Williams tables anyway, because I am a sucker). None so far as DLC, but The Machine: Bride of Pin*bot wasn't on the Williams Collection. In the base game, TotAN is the only Williams machine, although Black Hole was on the Gottlieb Collection. Theater of Magic and Ripley's are both completely new to digital pinball. Medieval Madness is the other new table and it was already on Williams collection. The rest of the rumored DLC looks like this (repost from a few pages ago): quote:Cirqus Voltaire (taken from Facebook post on December 26 - release date unknown) So there's the possibility of as many as 7 more tables that appeared in the Williams collection may appear over time as Pinball Arcade DLC.
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Apr 16, 2012 23:48
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My local arcade just got a newly shopped Black Knight, and holy balls is that machine harder in real life than in the Williams Collection. I played three or four times and never got anything resembling a decent score. No matter how good the physics in digital pinball get, it's still pretty different from the real thing.
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Apr 16, 2012 23:57
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I love how Black Hole is all casual about earning extra balls. I don't think it even makes a noise, it just turns the light on. As opposed to newer tables, that are all like "EXTRAAAA FUUUUCKIIIIING BAAAAAAALLL!!!! PEWPEWPEWPEW!!"
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Apr 17, 2012 01:12
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I'd never played Bride of Pinbot before. Imagine my surprise when one shot on that table is worth 1,000,000,000 points. Point inflation 
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Apr 17, 2012 01:42
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KamikazeJim posted:So there's the possibility of as many as 7 more tables that appeared in the Williams collection may appear over time as Pinball Arcade DLC. I'm okay with that, it's probably a lot easier for them and I'd rather have those tables in a digital format I can play without swapping disks anyways. Also I don't have to buy the tables I don't care about, like Funhouse and Space Shuttle!
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Apr 17, 2012 01:47
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IllegallySober posted:I'd never played Bride of Pinbot before. Imagine my surprise when one shot on that table is worth 1,000,000,000 points. It doesn't really count though. Billionaire scores are given their own high score board on the real table and your score will never get anywhere near a billion points without that shot.
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Apr 17, 2012 01:47
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Daedalus1134 posted:iOS update just went live. Finally!I couldn't hit update/download new tables fast enough!
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Apr 17, 2012 01:50
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Have they said when the update with the new tables is coming to 360/PS3?
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Apr 17, 2012 01:52
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Anyone else have problems with the background music in Bride of Pinbot cutting out? I'm playing on my iPad.
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Apr 17, 2012 02:02
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Holy poo poo BoP is awesome.
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Apr 17, 2012 02:17
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Now I need to figure out how to peel my drat iPad away from my fiance. 
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Apr 17, 2012 02:20
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Probably won't last long but I'm number 59 in medieval madness and in the top 54 on BoP right now!
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Apr 17, 2012 02:31
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Luigi Thirty posted:Anyone else have problems with the background music in Bride of Pinbot cutting out? I'm playing on my iPad. On the iPad2 and yeah it just kinda stops after a while. Also my scores get registered twice at the end of games but those are the only things wrong I see with BoP. And speaking of Bride of Pinbot hooooly poo poo is it just as creepy and awesome as I remember it being. Also I completed all of the standard goals in my first game.  Medieval Madness though...good lord is this table ugly on the iPad2. BoP doesn't really suffer from this at all but the flat lighting in MM just makes it look like absolute dog poo poo. I know this device is capable of more, I just wish Farsight would take advantage of it. Also for some reason on MM, and I've only seen it on this table, multiple balls don't really collide with each other as just sort of get magnetically repulsed from each other from about an inch away. I have no idea why it would be different here but there you go. e: thankfully they fixed the crash upon lock in iOS. here's betting that's what was getting the update rejected
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