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I think Diner is the next one. Get yourself a hotdog, came out the same year as FunHouse, won a viewer poll... it has to be Diner.
So what is the next new table from the newsletter?
I'm curious to see how much they need for Addams Family.
Q: Is the low quality sound of the PS4 version going to finally be fixed as well? Hope so.
A: Yes. It should be improved with this release.
Well Terminator 2 struggled near the end and barely made it to its goal. This one I'm expecting the goal to be $100k+, which would be a huge mountain to climb.
There is no way TAF struggles to hit its target. No way. It's way more popular than Terminator 2 as a pinball table.
Well Terminator 2 struggled near the end and barely made it to its goal. This one I'm expecting the goal to be $100k+, which would be a huge mountain to climb.
IMO their kickstarters "struggle" to hit their goals because backing the table via kickstarter is a worse proposition than buying the table when it is released... which is fine, nothing wrong with using kickstarter to gather people who actually want to fund the release of a product versus using it as some sort of discounted pre-order system like it's normally used as.
I backed the first (and maybe second, I can't remember) but not the most recent one. Why? It costs me more money and the code hassle isn't worth it (I think I had to actually buy the first KS table despite backing it). I'd have backed a KS table if it was in danger of not meeting the goal, but once the goal is cleared, imo, my money is better spent simply getting the table in a Season Pack for free, or just buying at release.
IMO their kickstarters "struggle" to hit their goals because backing the table via kickstarter is a worse proposition than buying the table when it is released... which is fine, nothing wrong with using kickstarter to gather people who actually want to fund the release of a product versus using it as some sort of discounted pre-order system like it's normally used as.
I backed the first (and maybe second, I can't remember) but not the most recent one. Why? It costs me more money and the code hassle isn't worth it (I think I had to actually buy the first KS table despite backing it). I'd have backed a KS table if it was in danger of not meeting the goal, but once the goal is cleared, imo, my money is better spent simply getting the table in a Season Pack for free, or just buying at release.
Yeah, the second paragraph is why I won't be backing this. I don't want to pay more than the table is going to cost at release, and I also don't want to deal with issues related to getting my table. I remember hearing about issues during one of the kickstarters related to the same thing you dealt with. Not something I'm willing to put up with.
I was thinking the same thing. Bundling multiple tables in a single Kickstarter would be the best avenue to take. I'm going to shoot an email to FS about this.Exactly this. I waited on all kick starter tables before backing for the same reasons. They should bundle other tables for the kick starter backers to make it worthwhile. They would have to raise the overall goal total but might be easier to reach.
I was at California Extreme over the weekend. It was so glorious to be able to play a ton of these tables in person again.
Sadly they had the two other Pinbot machines, which are fun in their own right, but not Bride of Pinbot which is my favorite. No Monster Bash either which was sad, I wanted to show Acid that one.
Played a ton of World Cup Soccer again, which is one of my favorite machines ever. I wish that was in Pinball Arcade so badly. Lots and lots of Black Knight 2000's amazing music too though. I came home wanting to buy a ton of the tables. I see Black Knight 2000 is in season 3 but that's the only table I really like out of it.
edit: Wait they stopped doing table packs for season 3 and now each table is $5? Lame
edit 2: Does the Black Knight 2000 music not have the lyrics to it? Or is this just the menu.
I had a 1.4+ million game of Space Shuttle at the show too I was pretty proud of.
Farsight said:"Thanks for the email {insert name here}!
Bundling tables with our kickstarter sounds like a great idea and an excellent way to increase the interest for newer players. While we've already set up the rewards for the upcoming kickstarter, understand that we appreciate any and all feedback!
Sincerely,
{Farsight name here}
edit 2: Does the Black Knight 2000 music not have the lyrics to it? Or is this just the menu.
I was at California Extreme over the weekend. It was so glorious to be able to play a ton of these tables in person again.
Sadly they had the two other Pinbot machines, which are fun in their own right, but not Bride of Pinbot which is my favorite. No Monster Bash either which was sad, I wanted to show Acid that one.
Played a ton of World Cup Soccer again, which is one of my favorite machines ever. I wish that was in Pinball Arcade so badly. Lots and lots of Black Knight 2000's amazing music too though. I came home wanting to buy a ton of the tables. I see Black Knight 2000 is in season 3 but that's the only table I really like out of it.
It really is, regardless of that upper flipper shot (though it's WAY more fun when it's working properly). Stupid fun game that's grossly underrated (or just rarely mentioned... I think any time it's brought up, it's in a positive way).-No Fear was the surprise hit of the show for us. Probably helped in part by the fact that the jump must have been broken because we could only either hit the glass or hop off the jump at best but it didn't stop us from trying. Super fun machine.
And it stars Rudy's Mountain Dew-chugging XTREME cousin Skull the Bone Head.It really is, regardless of that upper flipper shot (though it's WAY more fun when it's working properly). Stupid fun game that's grossly underrated (or just rarely mentioned... I think any time it's brought up, it's in a positive way).
We are stoked to announce that we have a massive update coming to Zen Pinball 2 on PS4! Starting on July 15, PlayStation 4 owners can download previously unavailable tables from the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita versions, allowing fans of the series access to a more complete collection. That’s right – you asked for it, and we delivered!
Players who downloaded any of the tables listed below on PS3 or Vita originally will be able to import them to the PS4 version of Zen Pinball 2 for FREE starting next week!
If you are purchasing these tables for the first time and would like to play them on multiple Sony platforms, please remember to buy them first on PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Vita and use the Import Tables function in-game via PlayStation 4. If you have questions about how this works, please let us know in the comments below. Happy flipping!
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The only thing in FarSight's defense is Zen isn't redoing the whole lighting engine / physics engine etc for the PS4 tables AFAIK, like with TPA - there's a significant bump in quality moving from a PS3 table to a PS4 one in TPA, and I'm not sure that's the case with Zen Pinball on PS4.
When Pinball FX3 releases, I'm curious to see if they retroactively go back and enhance every single table they made to take advantage of all the improvements it brings with it and give them out for free to people who owned them in the prior version. Perhaps they will, and that'd be great, but to me that's a more 1:1 comparison.
The only thing in FarSight's defense is Zen isn't redoing the whole lighting engine / physics engine etc for the PS4 tables AFAIK, like with TPA - there's a significant bump in quality moving from a PS3 table to a PS4 one in TPA, and I'm not sure that's the case with Zen Pinball on PS4.
When Pinball FX3 releases, I'm curious to see if they retroactively go back and enhance every single table they made to take advantage of all the improvements it brings with it and give them out for free to people who owned them in the prior version. Perhaps they will, and that'd be great, but to me that's a more 1:1 comparison.
New tables are up on the PlayStation store, but not bundled as far as I can tell. Are there no more packs...just individual tables?
Those are due next week (PS4).Right. And apparently no PS4 tables, either, which sucks.
Ah man that's too bad about WCS! Fortunately the one at this show wasn't too occupied most of the time as there was an Attack from Mars machine next to it which was much busier.Lucky bastard! Going to an arcade expo is something EVERYONE who loves games and pinball should do. I went to Louisville Expo and it was incredible!
What else did you play? I've wanted to try a WCS since I saw it at Louisville, but it was either out of order or PACKED with players, so I never got around to it.
Yeah! I realized after I had posted I could just play the trial version and find out, I picked up the table. Nothing like hearing "you can do it you can do it!" constantly in person.Yeah, its just the menus, it does have the lyrics.
If you had a bigger group it's tougher but most machines only had a single person on them, in which case we would just wait until they were done. If you don't wait and they finish and see no one behind them and they enjoy the table they're just going to keep playing it! That's how we ended up playing a handful of games of World Cup Soccer/Ms. Pacman and Puzzle Fighter, no one was behind us waiting. I couldn't believe puzzle fighter was so unpopular, we seemed to be the only two to play it that weekend and we had some intense games of it. Whoever set it up had the volume up ridiculously high at the start of the show so all of the music was blaring and made our games that much more intense. They fixed it later on Saturday night.Haha I must have seen you then because I kept walking by that machine hope it would open up. But honestly that entire row of games seem to have people on them at all times. I guess I'm not a pinball-con pro but I was a bit bummed how every remotely decent game seemed to have people on it at all times. The selection was fantastic but when 99% of the games are occupied at all times it becomes a bit less impressive. I guess you need to get in line or something but that's awkward by itself and even less of an option when you've got a few friends with you so we just wandered and grabbed stuff as it opened up.
I'm just casually playing through a lot of the season two tables right now. There are a lot of fun ones. I like ones that have a funny theme like "The Champion Pub". Other favorites so far is "Cue Ball Wizard" and "Haunted House".
Farsight has tons of problems but this game is still so awesome.
The Champion Pub is one of the only tables I have to turn the music off on. Drives me CRAZY.
I liked that table at first, but the gimmicks ran dry for me. I get so mad when I hit it up to the jump rope part. :|
...oh, and man, the mechanical sounds in ZP2 are SO much better. The flippers sound like actual powerful coils being slammed, not like somebody breaking a pretzel in front of a 1990s mp3 voice recorder.
I used to stay away from Zen pinball, I always thought their tables were cheesy and just didn´t feel right, but after being a bit bored with TPA I decided to download it again on my Vita and the more I play it, the more impressed I am.
The mechanical sounds are okay, but the lack of actual gameplay sounds is really difficult for me to get over. it always bugged me but I couldn't pinpoint it until they pointed it out in a QuickLook
I kinda just wish Zen made PA nowadays, but I wouldn't want to have only one or the other.