3/15/2023 0 Comments Zen pinball 2 loading slow on ps3Even if you ignore Tate Mode, the Switch’s Joycons allow you to space your arms out like a real pinball machine. But, even if you don’t, you can lay the Switch on your lap or on your bed and play it that way, hunched over it like a vulture. If you have the Flip Grip, it’s even better. It’s almost like using an entirely different pinball engine. You can play in Tate Mode using it, which works wonderfully but completely changes the look and feel of the tables. It lacks the intimidating beauty of his other work. It needs to be said: No Good Gofers is Pat Lawlor’s ugliest table. And it got me thinking: what console has the best set-up to play video pinball? And, since I’m in a household that (1) never learned to share and (2) is overflowing with people gaga for pinball, fuck it, I used all three (to account for my “pay for everything” rule, my Dad bought Volume 5 on his Switch out of pocket. Except one thing: Zen Studios actually sent me codes for all three console platforms. So, I guess since I’m here to review tables, there’s really not much more to talk about. Just have your high blood pressure medication nearby for Tales of the Arabian Nights. You’re bound to feel you got your money’s worth, no matter your taste in pins. Volume 5 is the second best set, even if it’s lacking a masterpiece-caliber table. Then I dropped the ranking of Arabian Nights from “Great” to “Good” and ended the debate. Initially, I had Arabian Nights slightly over-rated, which made the debate on whether Volume 5 or Volume 1 was the better set an actual debate. Not only that, but it becomes the second set of three tables where all three scored a “good” or better rating from me, putting the price per a quality table at $3.33. It should be no surprise that Volume 5 joins their company. Though, to Zen’s ultimate credit, all four sets up to this point have been worth the $9.99 purchase price. Besides the Universal Monsters pack, it seems like the three tables in Volumes 1 – 4 were paired at random. But, instead we get Pat Lawlor’s odd-ball (possibly half-assed) golf table thrown in with Cirqus Voltaire and Tales of the Arabian Nights. Yes, fiend, because I’ll steal more balls than Ralph’s Discount Pet Neutering.Īnyway, Zen could have just as easily swapped out No Good Gofers for Theatre of Magic in Volume 3 and made Volume 5 the three most famous works of Popadiuk. Want to hear a joke? What do pinball fans who give thousands of dollars to garage engineers for custom pinball tables and get shafted desire to do? Pop a dick. Two of today’s three tables are the works of John Popadiuk. The really strange thing is how there’s seemingly no rhyme or reason to which tables Zen packs together. Honestly, as long as we get them, I don’t care how it happens. I expect we’ll probably soon be paying $14.99 for sets of three, or $4.99 for individually-released licensed tables. Or if more people buy these sets enough to justify the licensing costs, so we can get Twilight Zone, Addams Family, and more. Of course, if they can tap into the extensive Williams/Bally alpha-numeric display library, they’ll have a LOT more classic pinball machines to pool from. In fact, following the release of Williams Pinball Volume 5, they’re down to three such tables: WHO Dunnit, Jack*Bot, and Cactus Canyon. Zen Studios is running out of Williams/Bally dot matrix display tables they can convert for Pinball FX 3.
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