Comments on: Thoughts: Pinball Arcade.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:28:09 +0000

It’s based off of TV shows. Every big name game also sells a Season Pass for their first year of DLC because people are now accustomed to “Season” meaning “all the episodes released in a year”. And they can’t call them Table packs because that’s reserved for the smaller two table DLC.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:24:53 +0000

The issue with the physics in that particular case is that because it’s a simplified computer simulation it’s far, far too consistent; you hit either side of the centre ramp and the ball *will* go careening off down the left drain. The problem may also exist in the real table, but if it does it’ll be drastically lessened by real world table physics being less predictable based on how broken-in the table is and the balls having the freedom to move in three dimensions, which they can’t here.

Anyway, other people apparently play that table and have fun with it, so it’s probably just a matter of learning to avoid it.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:18:20 +0000

People at university were obsessed with the Medieval Madness table in our common room, and some of them became unreasonably good at it. You’re right that it did have a pretty decent sense of humour for a pinball machine.

By: Smurf

Smurf — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:00:23 +0000

Surely calling them “Table Packs” would’ve made much more sense. What with them being packs containing pinball tables.

By: Smurf

Smurf — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:58:48 +0000

Season packs? Do pinballs tables have seasons? Have they just looked at episodic games and gone “oh, they call them season packs”?

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:01:00 +0000

That’s a really cool way of designing a digital pinball table! Do you think that might be a factor in the physics issue you’ve identified? That is, might the original table have some flaw in it that the developers inadvertently brought over?