Pinball FX 2

[HalcyonDaze00]

Haven't played FX2 for ages, might top up my points and buy a few new tables

[The Beans]

The Gorgar/Monster Bash pack is now available on Live for The Pinball Arcade, 400pts.

[The Beans]

Just an update for anybody looking to buy the Gorgar/Monster Bash tables for The Pinball Arcade.
The rotten combination of Farsight and Microsoft strikes again, this table pack has been taken off Live Marketplace.

[SexyWayne]

Good thing I nabbed em yesterday then, Monster Bash I'd never played before.. really good table

Edit: just done a quick search, seems there's a bug on the Monster Bash table during the Frankenstein multiball, where simply nudging the table to the left scores a hit on frankenstein... leading to overinflated scores

Edit #2: yep the bug is definately there, just tried it, and despite that I only scored 145 odd million, my highest score before I knew about the bug is 155 odd million, even when cheating I still suck at pinball

[The Beans]

Good thing I nabbed em yesterday then, Monster Bash I'd never played before.. really good table

Edit: just done a quick search, seems there's a bug on the Monster Bash table during the Frankenstein multiball, where simply nudging the table to the left scores a hit on frankenstein... leading to overinflated scores

Edit #2: yep the bug is definately there, just tried it, and despite that I only scored 145 odd million, my highest score before I knew about the bug is 155 odd million, even when cheating I still suck at pinball

The new release date for the Gorgar pack is now 28th of august and it looks like the bug you mention isn't going to be patched by then. If Farsight even bother patching it at all. It's great being able to play these old tables but The Pinball Arcade is becoming a decidedly shoddy piece of work. The whole concept is wonderful but Farsight seem to be struggling with the QA side of things.

Also, next table for FX2 is the Popcap table. Zen will be announcing it soon.

[felgekarp]

Their last couple of iPad updates have had a few bugs in them as well, they do seem to work them out eventually though.

[Shinobi]

So this is just a re-release of Williams Arcade Classic's for 360? I have Williams Pinball a few years and Gorgar is one of the playable table's from a selection of about 15 still not good enough to unlock ''Jive Time'

Downloading the Demo the Tables available only 'theatre of Magic' is the only one not available on Williams Pinball.. Pity they don't release Bride of Pinbot or Xenon

[The Beans]

So this is just a re-release of Williams Arcade Classic's for 360? I have Williams Pinball a few years and Gorgar is one of the playable table's from a selection of about 15 still not good enough to unlock ''Jive Time'

Downloading the Demo the Tables available only 'theatre of Magic' is the only one not available on Williams Pinball.. Pity they don't release Bride of Pinbot or Xenon

Ok, I'm talking about the 360 version here.
The main game comes with four tables, three of which aren't on Williams Pinball Hall Of Fame - Black Hole, Ripley's Believe It Or Not and Theater Of Magic. The other table is Tales Of The Arabian Nights.

So far each DLC twin pack has featured a game from WPHOF and a new table.

Pack 1: Bride Of Pinbot/Medieval Madness (available now)
Pack 2: Funhouse/Cirqus Voltaire (available now)
Pack 3: Gorgar/Monster Bash (out again on 28th august)
Pack 4: Black Knight/Creature From The Black Lagoon (out whenever)

The PA versions of the WPHOF tables are much improved in the graphics department.

[Shinobi]

So this is just a re-release of Williams Arcade Classic's for 360? I have Williams Pinball a few years and Gorgar is one of the playable table's from a selection of about 15 still not good enough to unlock ''Jive Time'

Downloading the Demo the Tables available only 'theatre of Magic' is the only one not available on Williams Pinball.. Pity they don't release Bride of Pinbot or Xenon

Ok, I'm talking about the 360 version here.
The main game comes with four tables, three of which aren't on Williams Pinball Hall Of Fame - Black Hole, Ripley's Believe It Or Not and Theater Of Magic. The other table is Tales Of The Arabian Nights.

So far each DLC twin pack has featured a game from WPHOF and a new table.

Pack 1: Bride Of Pinbot/Medieval Madness (available now)
Pack 2: Funhouse/Cirqus Voltaire (available now)
Pack 3: Gorgar/Monster Bash (out again on 28th august)
Pack 4: Black Knight/Creature From The Black Lagoon (out whenever)

The PA versions of the WPHOF tables are much improved in the graphics department.

Typically there bundling stuff like Arabian magic which they released on the Williams Collection, on with unreleased Tables. Pinbot and Bride of Pinbot are different games aren't they Memorys a little hazy? They have a Bride of Pinbot table down the Pier in Paigton they did last year

[The Beans]

Typically there bundling stuff like Arabian magic which they released on the Williams Collection, on with unreleased Tables. Pinbot and Bride of Pinbot are different games aren't they Memorys a little hazy? They have a Bride of Pinbot table down the Pier in Paigton they did last year

Pinbot is on WPHOF. It's from the mid eighties.
Bride Of Pinbot is a different table from 1991.

I'm not keen on the bundling. I don't mind buying a table I've already got from the WPHOF collection if it's a table I like, but having to buy the crappy Gorgar so I can play Monster Bash is a bit sucky. If they bring Jive Time out Farsight will have to bundle it with something really awesome to get my money I think.

[SexyWayne]

I actually prefer some of the older more basic tables, I've gotta have spent 2 or 3 hours just playing Gorgar and Firepower on the Williams collection since Saturday afternoon, even my two kids have been walking around saying "me got you"

As for the difference between the Williams collection tables and Pinball Arcade's tables.. imo the Williams collection tables are of a higher quality, the tables look way better on the Williams collection and also Pinball Arcade doesn't have a single camera I can get really comfortable with, I know they're both from the same developer but imo it just goes to show the difference between a full retail release and a 80mb download.

[The Beans]

I actually prefer some of the older more basic tables, I've gotta have spent 2 or 3 hours just playing Gorgar and Firepower on the Williams collection since Saturday afternoon, even my two kids have been walking around saying "me got you"

A lot of people seem to like Gorgar. Those kind of tables are too primitive for me. I'm bored of them after a few minutes. Getting through the Master Challenge on the Williams collection only to find my reward was the prehistoric Jive Time table ranks up there among my most disappointing moments in gaming. I think if I'd played pinball tables in the early to mid eighties I might enjoy tables like Gorgar, Firepower and Black Knight a lot more for the nostalgia but I'm a pinball ignoramus that was introduced to the pinball thing by the mad feature-rich tables of Pinball FX2.

[SexyWayne]

I know exactly what you mean, my first real pinball love was and still is White Water by Williams.. and thats all ramps, noise etc..

it's only due to the Williams collection on PS2/Wii that I started to appreciate the older tables more, considering their age a lot of em have pretty good scoring systems, I agree with you about Jive Time though, on the Wii version it's already unlocked.. so it's hardly anything to look forward to on the 360 version

[felgekarp]

I could quite happily just play Bride Of Pinbot all day, if there's one table I'd like to play for real it's that one. I don't mind most of the other older ones that are on these collections, I think the only one I'm not really a fan of is the Black Hole one.

[crusto]

I actually prefer some of the older more basic tables, I've gotta have spent 2 or 3 hours just playing Gorgar and Firepower on the Williams collection since Saturday afternoon, even my two kids have been walking around saying "me got you"

A lot of people seem to like Gorgar. Those kind of tables are too primitive for me. I'm bored of them after a few minutes. Getting through the Master Challenge on the Williams collection only to find my reward was the prehistoric Jive Time table ranks up there among my most disappointing moments in gaming. I think if I'd played pinball tables in the early to mid eighties I might enjoy tables like Gorgar, Firepower and Black Knight a lot more for the nostalgia but I'm a pinball ignoramus that was introduced to the pinball thing by the mad feature-rich tables of Pinball FX2.

Me too, I only properly discovered pinball as I became a young adult and started getting into pubs etc. machines such as star wars, Indiana jones etc. I loved em I wish I could play some digitised versions of those...

I would love one of my own in fact, my kitchen is probably large enough,if I get rid of the dining table...