Topic: The Pinball Arcade --OT

So thanks to a friend of mine I have been in a pinball mood lately so I decide to pick up a few tables for this game. I have to say I am really enjoying these games. The fact that they use real tables for this game is really nice seeing them brings back memories. Anyway right now I only have the Arabian Nights one, Black Knight and The Creature from the Black Lagoon but I will probably pick up more down the road.

So anyone else playing this game. Perhaps we can trade some tips or just discuss our favorite tables.

Been playing this the past few nights current my best score on the Arabian Nights table is 14 million.
Thinking this weekend I might pick up a few more tables.

I can never seem to understand pinball well, although I have a friend who's really into it. The ones Pinball Arcade has that have attracted me are: Black Hole, Gorgar, Pinbot and Bride of Pinbot (hey, I'm a lonely guy!), Genie, umm... I'm forgetting them all now. Oh yeah, Fun House. I remember that one at Great Games in Duluth GA I think. They had Addam's Family too but I haven't played that one yet.

Circus Voltaire seems pretty good and is a cool one to play with the dark lighting setting. I wish the lighting would be improved even further, but from what I understand the Ps4 version of this is one of the best, much better than the mobile editions.

Found that some tables benefited from changing the ball color, like Black Knight and the green ball is a good contrast.

edit: forgot to mention Elvira and the Party Monsters and the recently added Centaur, two others I like a lot. The latter is especially COOL!! Great sound effects.

Fun House with the big clown head in the top which laughs at you.

Taxi is also pretty awesome. If I had to pick one taxi would be the level.

Have Williams arcade on the vita.

@stalepie the rules for each table are in the notes, some are really obscure so have a look before you play.

Yeah I was looking at Taxi and Fun house but I think this weekend I will pick up Medevil Madness.

Taxi is great as its a natural fit for pinball, pick people up and drop them off I bought Williams arcade for a fiver with 8 or more tables. It was the psp version but I play it on the vita.

Well I picked up this weekend Medevil Madness, Bride of Pinbot, Haunted House, and Teed off. Really enjoying them. Haunted House is really fun with the 3 playing fields and 8 flippers.

So the latest patch for this game did something unexpected all tables are unlocked as if you bought them. No word yet on how long this will last but if you have the game you can now try out every table for the time being.

Noticed this, too. Absolutely bizarre. This can't have been a mistake, can it?

@get2sammyb: I am not sure. The only reason I can see it as a mistake is why give something away for free when you charged for it before. Unless it's some free weekend thing or something.

@Tasuki: Yeah, that's the thing - it can't be a mistake because how could they have messed up so badly to the point where they made the entire game free! XD

Here's what they've said on Facebook: "It's a temporary glitch, but take advantage while they are there!"

What a blunder!

@get2sammyb: Hmmm interesting guess I will be playing that tonight.

So as I was trying to play the Street Fighter V beta an update happened to Pinball Arcade and now all the tables are locked again. It was nice while it lasted.

Boo! I'm a bit disappointed with the support this game's gotten in general. I think the tables are great, but they seem really slow to polish it up. As far as I'm aware, you can't reassign the controls. The menus are terrible in general. There are only Trophies for the first season. It just seems half-baked everywhere outside of the tables themselves, which is a real shame I feel.

Compare it to Zen Pinball, though - where the tables generally aren't as good, I feel - and it looks like an amateur project.

I don't know maybe it's cause I am not big into trophies that the lack of trophies don't bother me and the menus I could really care less, I'd rather them put all their work into the tables.