The Addams Family is getting a Kickstarter this summer, officially confirmed by Farsight at last. No word on what the goal will be, but I'm willing to bet it's not going to be cheap.
James
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The Addams Family is getting a Kickstarter this summer, officially confirmed by Farsight at last. No word on what the goal will be, but I'm willing to bet it's not going to be cheap.
James
I got it on 360 for when I'm at my parents house and on PS3 when I'm at mine. Only got season 1+2, debating on picking up season 3 stuff individually or might wait for season pass.
I may have mentioned this earlier in this thread, but if they're going to have to go through this song and dance every time a licensed table is up for conversion, this project won't last much longer. They've exhausted all of the modern original tables, so if they can't recreate these licensed table without too much trouble, they'll have to start converting 80's and earlier tables (which some people will like, or course).Quote:
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Earthshaker, F-14 Tomcat, Firepower II (which is really Firepower 1 with a ramp, but whatever), Fire! Champagne Edition, Diner, Flash Gordon (ah-ahhh, he does the impossible!), 8-Ball Deluxe, High Speed 2, Riverboat, Jackbot, Xenon, etc. I think they've got a good number of things to choose from left.
James
Don't buy any of the new PS3 tables. Or even download the update if it can be helped. This game hard freezes constantly now. Infuriating.
Diner's coming. It won in a poll for Pinball Arcade.Quote:
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My local pinball arcade (a dozen machines kept in good shape in the back of a comic store, supplied by a collector who rotates them out) just got one called Big Guns, a Midway one I barely remember. Still haven't had time to tell if it's any good, but it's a Williams I'd only played once before. They also got Tales From the Crypt and Hurricane. I need to bring a duffel bag of quarters in there one day.
James
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Stop talking and start chalking!
Get the 8-baaaall, corner pocket.
-edit- Got sidetracked looking at pinball videos. I'd never heard of Orbitor 1, looks gimmicky as hell but I really want to play it now.
James
Saw a broken one of those, didn't really know what it would be like
PAPA has broadcasted the last few of their championship tournaments on Twitch. Curious about seeing how they would produce and package this for spectators, I watched a couple of matches. I'm always interested in seeing techniques from elite caliber players so I can improve my own game.
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That had to be one of the most boring endeavors I've ever endured. There was a whole lot of nothing going on. The drab commentary didn't help things either. I guess I shouldn't have expected much excitement from play-by-play commentary describing a metallic ball bouncing around a bunch of objects. It was like someone doing play-by-play on ditch digging. I guess the fact that they attempted it at all was......commendable?
Pinball is definitely not a spectator activity.
And the ball goes up the two ramp. Back down. Hits it with a flipper. Goes up the first ramp. What am I doing with my life?
I watched some DOTA and I thought the commentating was ridiculous. Video games aren't sports
I actually enjoy watching skilled people game, and that includes pinball. Commentary seems like a great way to leech excitement from it, though, unless it's something like the 8-Ball Deluxe video that explains what shots he's making and why.
James
That's Bowen Kerins, a well known personality in the community, and a very high-skilled player. He has done several dozen "tutorial" videos of tables. I've watched most of them, and even watch ones of tables I'm already intimately familiar with just to see any unique scoring techniques I may not have known about.
I'm much better at playing pinball on a real machine, over the video version of pinball. If there was a more intuitive way to nudge and bump the table with a controller, it would definitely change things for the better.
Oddly, I'm the complete opposite. Video pinball I can easily get scores double what I'd see on a real machine. I think it's exactly the same reason you don't like it- the nudge. I find the right stick gets more consistent results than bumping a real table.
DirtySouth- I was watching a couple of his videos the other night. He does good work, and I'll probably get back to watching more later.
James
There's a big, ol' Half Off Season One sale on PSN right now. Even the Pro upgrade!
After looking at the Pro functions, it hardly seems worth a damn if all you want to do is play vidya pinball like a normal nerd. I don't need no Game Genie or Pinballynda.com videos.
Season One is also 50% off on Steam right now. Worth it for TZ and ST:TNG alone.
Not Pinball Arcade, but this game is fantastic.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zacc...620449895?mt=8
There is an Android version too.