Pinball Arcade - (by FarSight) - Universal App

[bruab]

Boy, on the Twilight Zone table the ball sure gets stuck under the upper right flipper a lot. Does that happen on the physical table too?

[fenderbendr]

Originally Posted by drelbs

The Tales of the Arabian Nights table. (Still one of my favorites in the app!)

I bought it and I really like the Arabian Nights table. It runs pretty well on my 4th gen.

Can you try a table before you buy it? Are the pro versions worth it? If I were to get another table, which should it be?

Sorry for all the questions. Lol

[Rudi]

Originally Posted by BohemianCoast

I don't know what PA are thinking of, really. Pro Pinball got it right, when they decided that if you were making a machine for permanent freeplay use it had to be really hard; much harder than an arcade machine would be. But most of the modern tables on Pinball Arcade are vastly easier than the real thing. I'm not a particularly good player, and I got the wizard mode on Scared Stiff the first time I'd played the table. That's just silly. I don't want a pinball game to take several hours and require me to burn through the wizard mode several times to get a hint of the high score table.

It's annoying, really. I love this game, supported the KS, have bought every scrap of DLC apart from the ludicrously priced pro tables (I am not sure they run on my iPad 1 anyway)... but keep wishing that the games would play like real machines and that they'd fix the incessant bugs. I'd like them to get a graphic designer to sort out their menus too, but that might be pushing my luck a bit.

I never thought I would tell this, because I absolutely love pinball, but I will not buy twilight zone or any other modern table farsight will release in the future. It´s a shame that this sad company bought the rights for that fantastic pinball licences. Their tables are boring,boring,boring. I hate, that the tables are so damn easy. a pinball game should not last endless, until you let the ball drain, because it´s so boring easy.

[colorsound]

Originally Posted by HerbertKornfeld

Not true. It’s the first table from Color Monkey. The other tables were designed by NENA, the developers of the pinball engine. Those three aren’t anywhere near as good, like you mentioned, and you shouldn’t use those to judge the quality of Rob-O-Bot. They’re night and day different.

For whatever reason, they published Rob-O-Bot under NENA’s name. This was a mistake, I think. My guess is that they’re losing out on sales from people who are trying the “lite” versions of NENA’s tables before deciding to plunk down the couple bucks for Rob-O-Bot. Don’t make this same mistake.

Ah, gotcha.

I thought I read somewhere that they both contributed to developing this one.

You're right though, the other three shouldn't be used to judge the quality of Rob-O-Bot.

I am a big pinball fan, and this is one of the best for iOS.

(I also love gameprom, zen, ask homework, matmi, Tristan, pinball dreams, etc)
I play pinball arcade on my vita as well as zen, so they don't get much play on my ipad.

I hope that Rob-O-Bot starts a collection of tables made with this quality.

[fenderbendr]

Is the pro mode for TOTAN worth it's half off price of $1.99?

[LordGek]

Originally Posted by fenderbendr

Is the pro mode for TOTAN worth it's half off price of $1.99?

I have yet to see the point to these "pro" tables but maybe I'm missing something. It certainly isn't that they offer up more challenging/realistic version of the tables, as I understand, just that you can play with the real life table setting switches and enable a few cheat codes.

[Rudi]

Originally Posted by LordGek

I have yet to see the point to these "pro" tables but maybe I'm missing something. It certainly isn't that they offer up more challenging/realistic version of the tables, as I understand, just that you can play with the real life table setting switches and enable a few cheat codes.

That's what I thought, when I first read about the pro version, more realistic challenging gameplay. But the difficulty still not possible to change, stays at this strange, easy "family mode".

[DeanKeith]

I'm not finding PA too easy. I am certainly not new to pinball, but I have never been an expert. I will say I have had some rather long games, but it was quite exciting to me to make it farther than I’ve ever made it in the arcade. That is partially what I love about the app. I finally get to see more of the stuff I never was good enough (or rich enough with quarters) to ever get to.

Also, I have seen complaints (even in this thread) that the game is too hard. So for every hardcore pinball player saying it's too easy, there will be a pinball newbie that says it's too hard. For me, it’s just right.

So adding an adjustable difficulty setting is really the only way they can please everyone. It's unfortunate they are calling the operators menu "Pro" because that is really confusing.

I love the game, but here are the improvements/changes I would like to see:

1. Add some optional ways to browse the tables. I would be happy with a text list, and a button to sort them by:
   a. Alphabetical.
   b. Original release date.
   c. Most recently played.
2. Add an adjustable difficulty: Easy, Normal, Pro (pro would be a match for the physical table difficulty)
3. Change the additional-cost version of the tables from "Pro" to "Operator" to distinguish it from the difficulty setting

I am also having lots of problems getting my TZ table to work at same time as the others due to the Kickstarter reward being tied to my FarSight account rather than Apple ID. I hope they work that out as it's pretty frustrating. I wish "restore purchases" could just work for everything.

[Rudi]

Originally Posted by DeanKeith

I'm not finding PA too easy. I am certainly not new to pinball, but I have never been an expert. I will say I have had some rather long games, but it was quite exciting to me to make it farther than I’ve ever made it in the arcade. That is partially what I love about the app. I finally get to see more of the stuff I never was good enough (or rich enough with quarters) to ever get to.

Also, I have seen complaints (even in this thread) that the game is too hard. So for every hardcore pinball player saying it's too easy, there will be a pinball newbie that says it's too hard. For me, it’s just right.

So adding an adjustable difficulty setting is really the only way they can please everyone. It's unfortunate they are calling the operators menu "Pro" because that is really confusing.

I love the game, but here are the improvements/changes I would like to see:

1. Add some optional ways to browse the tables. I would be happy with a text list, and a button to sort them by:
   a. Alphabetical.
   b. Original release date.
   c. Most recently played.
2. Add an adjustable difficulty: Easy, Normal, Pro (pro would be a match for the physical table difficulty)
3. Change the additional-cost version of the tables from "Pro" to "Operator" to distinguish it from the difficulty setting

I am also having lots of problems getting my TZ table to work at same time as the others due to the Kickstarter reward being tied to my FarSight account rather than Apple ID. I hope they work that out as it's pretty frustrating. I wish "restore purchases" could just work for everything.

Yes, Difficulty settings would have been the solution for everyone.

[crunc]

Farsight screwed up the Kickstarter for TZ. I can have TZ, or I can have all my other games, but not both. If I relogin I get TZ+Pro, but all my other tables are gone. When I restore purchases my other tables are back, but TZ says BUY. Frustrating.