ReverendHammer posted:Also probably for some of the lesser known sports no one would remember who those people were anyway. Just a bit jarring to hear the audio cut. Oh, it's easy to work out who those people were, just check promotional material: http://ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2852&picno=4581&zoom=1 All of those people are at least notable enough to have a Wikipedia article. One's dead, which might be a bit of a problem, but the main problems are money and effort. Personally, I like No Fear, but it's easy to make me like a pinball if you start out with a shredding Vince Pontarelli guitar soundtrack. The outlanes are killer, though, especially the right one, and the returns on weak shots are incredibly dangerous.
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LordPants posted:I was really cold on this season and now I'm thinking, welp, I better just buy the whole thing. With each of the last two seasons I was like "alright, I'm just going to wait and cherry pick this season" and wound up buying the whole thing. Gonna do it again, and again and again...
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TheMcD posted:Oh, it's easy to work out who those people were, just check promotional material: http://ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2852&picno=4581&zoom=1 The only other name I recognize was Jeremy McGrath. Wasn't Ivan Stewart the one they had for Stadium Off Road? quote:Personally, I like No Fear, but it's easy to make me like a pinball if you start out with a shredding Vince Pontarelli guitar soundtrack. The outlanes are killer, though, especially the right one, and the returns on weak shots are incredibly dangerous. I will admit I like the music. Wouldn't mind listening to those outside of the game. But other than it just seems like a repetitive orbit and ramp game... unless there's some interesting scoring strategies I'm not aware of.
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ReverendHammer posted:I will admit I like the music. Wouldn't mind listening to those outside of the game. But other than it just seems like a repetitive orbit and ramp game... unless there's some interesting scoring strategies I'm not aware of. I would not call the scoring strategy on No Fear interesting. Time out the modes until you get to No Limits, then trap a ball on the left flipper and use the right flipper to loop the left ramp.
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# ? Nov 28, 2015 11:39 |
So, what's the verdict on TPA's No Fear? Personally, I'm not a fan. I like the table in general, but the TPA version is just hell. It's very fast and very unforgiving. The ramps and Asphalt loop all have tendencies to STDM on rollbacks, the outlanes are incredibly hungry, and shots like the Skydive, Skull and Asphalt loop are very stingy and need to be nailed juuuust right or they'll brick on the post and get sent out of control (towards Hungry Hungry Outlanes). Losing lit extra balls if you don't collect them on the same ball sucks too. I find myself constantly restarting just to attempt a Grand Champion score, let alone a leaderboard score. I feel like I need to 1) get the Raceway extra ball, 2) get at least two challenges going and 3) make progress towards the Asphalt extra ball, and I very rarely manage to do all three. Also, the sound quality sucks rear end again. God loving damnit, Farsight.
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# ? Nov 29, 2015 04:55 |
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I'm guessing we'll never get World Cup Soccer?
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# ? Nov 30, 2015 04:49 |
Niwrad posted:I'm guessing we'll never get World Cup Soccer? Licensing issues might be the reason we wouldn't see it. You'd have to license Striker (who owns that mutt, anyway? FIFA? Warner Bros. - who designed him? U.S. Soccer?), and you'd probably have to license the '94 World Cup as well, which probably is a problem... probably.
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TheMcD posted:Licensing issues might be the reason we wouldn't see it. You'd have to license Striker (who owns that mutt, anyway? FIFA? Warner Bros. - who designed him? U.S. Soccer?), and you'd probably have to license the '94 World Cup as well, which probably is a problem... probably. FIFA will probably need the money for legal fees soon anyway. So after spending the weekend playing around with No Fear, I'm also not a huge fan. There just doesn't seem to be much to do with the table. It also seems to dump it down that right outlane pretty badly.
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# ? Nov 30, 2015 05:06 |
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When is the new Stern thing happening?
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# ? Nov 30, 2015 05:20 |
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I believe they said they'd have more details in November, but they're nearly out of time. So, who knows?
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# ? Nov 30, 2015 14:09 |
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Are we sure they meant November '15?
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# ? Nov 30, 2015 14:57 |
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I've been playing Game Of Thrones here and there at Buffalo Billiards (yay for my workplace being four blocks away)... is it just me or do some shots just seem a lot more difficult to make than you'd expect? I've bricked so many orbit shots I'm trying to decide if they just need a lot more accuracy by design or if I just suck as a human being.
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# ? Dec 2, 2015 07:07 |
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I have the same problem on GoT. It seems like it should shoot a lot easier (read: like Star Trek) than it does. I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing, especially since most of the great players I know pretty much tear that game apart.
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# ? Dec 2, 2015 14:56 |
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ReverendHammer posted:I've been playing Game Of Thrones here and there at Buffalo Billiards (yay for my workplace being four blocks away)... is it just me or do some shots just seem a lot more difficult to make than you'd expect? I've bricked so many orbit shots I'm trying to decide if they just need a lot more accuracy by design or if I just suck as a human being. I miss working at the Omni hotel, lunch breaks were awesome.
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Clouseau posted:I have the same problem on GoT. It seems like it should shoot a lot easier (read: like Star Trek) than it does. I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing, especially since most of the great players I know pretty much tear that game apart. I was wondering if I should treat it as a slower playing Medieval Madness. Which is fine... I need a change of pace from high speed orbit-and-ramp games.
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# ? Dec 3, 2015 01:57 |
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TheMcD posted:So, what's the verdict on TPA's No Fear? I switched to a lower view, but that made the Jump ramp nearly impossible to hit. I get disoriented and dizzy and play like poo poo if I use a non-locked view, so that means this table is basically unplayable for me. Which is a shame, because I quite like the real thing.
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# ? Dec 3, 2015 14:21 |
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PA didn't count my Black Rose score for the new tournament. Is that a thing that happens? I ended the game with 5 seconds left, entered initials, and when I pressed A it immediately started a new game. The new game with 0 points is what got submitted (steam version).
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# ? Dec 5, 2015 21:41 |
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Rob Zombie Spookshow International teaser is out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uXQ7ppJLYQ
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# ? Dec 11, 2015 18:51 |
OK, come on, there is absolutely no reason for this game to come shipped in family mode. You're buying a Rob Zombie pinball that's limited to 300 units, you know exactly what you're getting into. Looks fun, shame I'm never going to get to play one.
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# ? Dec 11, 2015 18:56 |
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Looks neat. America's Most Haunted was a good game, and they're pretty much the only boutique company that has manufactured games, and seemingly done so without falling hugely behind on deadlines, promising the world, or running off with everyone's money.
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Clouseau posted:Looks neat. America's Most Haunted was a good game, and they're pretty much the only boutique company that has manufactured games, and seemingly done so without falling hugely behind on deadlines, promising the world, or running off with everyone's money. You gotta respect 'em for that.
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# ? Dec 12, 2015 01:15 |
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Found this in my backyard today.
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# ? Dec 12, 2015 01:24 |
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If you backed the Timeshock Ultra kickstarter, a PC build has finally been released for backers. It's really barebones but it's still Timeshock.
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# ? Dec 12, 2015 01:45 |
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iastudent posted:Found this in my backyard today. I would gladly lose at least $20 to that table.
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# ? Dec 12, 2015 02:01 |
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The only game in that line up I don't like as much is Pirates, but even that isn't too bad, it just isn't as interesting to me as the other ones. That pirate ship toy is dang cool though, one of my favorite toys Stern has ever rolled out.
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# ? Dec 12, 2015 02:05 |
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This pizza place I'm at has 3 broken tables and no working ones
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# ? Dec 12, 2015 02:16 |
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FishBulb posted:This pizza place I'm at has 3 broken tables and no working ones Buy them super cheap and fix them up yourself, its the only way.
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# ? Dec 12, 2015 03:04 |
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Farsight posted on Facebook that the next table will be Judge Dredd (Bally, 1993).
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# ? Dec 12, 2015 07:34 |
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Inferior Third Season posted:I'm also really disappointed in the TPA No Fear table. As opposed to every other machine that I've played on both TPA and in real life, the virtual version is more difficult than the real thing. I think the most annoying part is that the Jump ramp plastic hides a significant chunk of the table when using the most overhead view option available (does anyone actually normally play with any of those low angles?). I have no problem seeing things on the real table, though the angle of view is nearly identical. I've been enjoying it... but I haven't seen the real thing in 20 + years, so I can't judge how accurate it is. I think I'm just a sucker for a good Rock N Roll sound track? Music matters in pinball.
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Do not even ask posted:If you backed the Timeshock Ultra kickstarter, a PC build has finally been released for backers. It's really barebones but it's still Timeshock.
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The Kins posted:Farsight posted on Facebook that the next table will be Judge Dredd (Bally, 1993). So I'm curious: Are they going to do the table as released, or as it was designed? 'Cause the ball lock of orbiting planets is pretty awesome.
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# ? Dec 12, 2015 23:49 |
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Domus posted:So I'm curious: Are they going to do the table as released, or as it was designed? 'Cause the ball lock of orbiting planets is pretty awesome. Details?
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# ? Dec 13, 2015 00:08 |
Allen Wren posted:Details? http://ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1322 posted:The planet "Deadworld" feature located on the upper left playfield was redesigned for all production games from the version that existed on prototype games (test games) like the one shown in the flyer. The test game version would lock balls on a ring that rotated slowly around the planet, until the third ball was locked, and then all three balls would be released by the Space Station Robotic Arm (a magnetic crane) for multi-ball. It does sound like a technical nightmare, the kind of thing that would give operators fits. EDIT: I mean, they COULD do it - they'd have to use the L-1 ROM, and it's available online, so it's out there. I figure :farsight: will win out, though. No chance they do something extra. TheMcD fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Dec 13, 2015 |
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# ? Dec 13, 2015 00:11 |
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So, my local pinball place is closing at the end of the month. I stopped in to say goodbye and
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# ? Dec 13, 2015 20:11 |
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TheMcD posted:It does sound like a technical nightmare, the kind of thing that would give operators fits. I don't think it's :farsight: at all. Their licensing deal with the pinball companies require them to make the machines copies of the original production run ones. This is why there's no bug-fixed ROM for totan etc in the game. Their licensors would throw a shitfit if they tried to include anything outside of the machines they sold.
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# ? Dec 13, 2015 20:18 |
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Boxman posted:So, my local pinball place is closing at the end of the month. I stopped in to say goodbye and Is that CP? Because if so I think I kind of have no choice but to go next weekend
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# ? Dec 13, 2015 20:23 |
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This seems like an incredible opportunity to pick up some machines, if they're not already spoken for.
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# ? Dec 13, 2015 20:38 |
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Boxman posted:So, my local pinball place is closing at the end of the month. I stopped in to say goodbye and Is Goin' Nuts actually fun in real life, or is it still literally hitler
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# ? Dec 13, 2015 21:03 |
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kill it. kill it with fire.
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# ? Dec 13, 2015 22:17 |
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LORD OF BUTT posted:Is Goin' Nuts actually fun in real life, or is it still literally hitler I didn't even think there was a finished ROM for it
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