Edit: Man, would it kill them to get someone like Steve Ritchie to talk about the game itself? Not that I'm not a fan of the FS dude, but someone directly involved with the game to at least give their stamp of approval would mean a heck of a lot to people. Ritchie seems like he'd be the kind of dude who'd do it at the drop of a hat, too. He's definitely not shy in this "making of" AC/DC (a must watch for everyone in this thread).
PS. New thread worthy?
No, but you need to put forward an attractive value proposition. The value proposition should not be "pay more than everyone else" unless there are perks to doing so.
I agree. Mainly I'm confused as to why you wouldn't give the people who are "making it happen" access to this table across all platforms. They helped make it happen, so why shouldn't you treat them like the fantastic people they are?
Point missed
Plenty of discussion on it in the OT for it, though.You and me both. Since PA came out, I've come to realise I'm far more a fan of the alpha-numeric games than the DMD ones. DMD IMO relies too much on telling the story and providing a captivating gameplay experience via animations and novelties, while earlier ones had to rely solely on the playfield and sound to suck you in. If you're looking at the DMD, you're not looking at the playfield and your concentration isn't 100% where it should be. If the only info on the backglass is your score, then you rarely look at it and you're completely involved sucked in to where you should be.
even though i'm very much a guy who loves the DMD games, i'd be really interested to see how something like that turned out. i've really enjoyed my time with the alpha numerics that we have in Pinball Arcade and would love to play more.You and me both. Since PA came out, I've come to realise I'm far more a fan of the alpha-numeric games than the DMD ones. DMD IMO relies too much on telling the story and providing a captivating gameplay experience via animations and novelties, while earlier ones had to rely solely on the playfield and sound to suck you in. If you're looking at the DMD, you're not looking at the playfield and your concentration isn't 100% where it should be. If the only info on the backglass is your score, then you rarely look at it and you're completely involved sucked in to where you should be.
It seems weird that I'd prefer something that's been featured less in PA, but man... basically all the DMD games they've included, even though they're from different designers, play EXACTLY the same. Shit, I had a post written up and ready to go on PAFans about how they had so many games designed by the same guy (CFTBL, MM, MB) until I realised they were all different. At least someone like Steve Ritchie kept the playfields (mostly) clean and flowing when DMDs came out, these other guys basically just rebadged the same game over and over again
You might be familiar with Dutch Pinball's effort to create a DMD system for Bride of Pinbot. I've had a similarly crazy idea (though probably harder to implement) that would involve retro-fying (retro-fitting?) DMD games with alpha-numeric displays and a modified ROM to pull back on some of the modes. I think it'd be awesome.
Just a great looking table that rounds out the theme incredibly well and has great sounds to go with it.
)Sorry, meant Black Knight. Brain fart.
Yep, Taxi was a delight from the PHoF:WC disc. Man, I can't wait for everything on that disc to be on my PS3 HDD...
Maybe it's just been the DMD games they've been choosing that's been the problem. TotAN and ToM are (imo) too similarly-themed and MM/CFTBL/MB are just too damn similar in general. None are bad at all (hell, they all play amazingly well) but the reason they're all so close to each other in the ratings on IPDB is that they all play very similarly and everyone likes them.Don't worry, I wasn't trying to put words into your mouth
I'm really surprised there isn't more variety in the DMD titles. Fish Tales was MASSIVE (at least, here in Australia) and there's not been a peep of it. White Water, The Getaway, Road Show, No Fear... all great, very little licensing to worry about except for maybe the music in Getaway/Road Show and the No Fear license) but not one peep about them.
I've never actually seen/played a No Fear IRL, I've just read really good things about it. And you're right about the DE/Sega tables as well... given they're almost all based on fairly expensive (I'd imagine) licenses. Thankfully my mate has a WWF that I can play pretty much whenever I want
That's where I think I sit in the middle. No doubt I'd love to kick around an EM or two, but from my limited knowledge, there was never really the variety in table design that started from the early 80s. IMO the perfect combination of EM and DMD-focused SS games are the alpha-numerics that were around in the 80s. Love the charm of them obviously having all this silicon technology and finding out exactly what they can do with it. Once DMDs came, that seemed to kinda stop.
Ffffuuuuucking hell. I need to delete you from my 360 friends list pronto.
