Pokemon Pinball announced soon. What do we think about it? I'm buying it outright if it has a safari zone upper playfield.
I'm good. I used to be the biggest Pokemon fan in the world but it's hard to enjoy it anymore, it's literally gone to shit. Merch of the characters and stuff just makes me sad anymore.
>>12307662We already have at least two pokemon pinball video games. This is about something much more insidious and if it involves gamefreak or nintendo then it 100% is.
>Pokemon>>>/vp/>announced soon>>>/v/ >>>/notretro/>I'm buying it outright if it has a safari zone upper playfield.>>>/trash/
>>12307662I liked the games, it's one of the few poke things i could go back to along with the tcg games on gbc. and sure i'd try a physical version.
>>12307723Pinball is /vr/>>12307718I'm very obviously talking about a licensed machine independent of both Nintendo and GamefreakMy bad, I didn't realize /vr/ was infested by newfaggot children since the last pinball thread.
>>12307865only pinball machines up to 2007 are allowed
>>12307865>Pinball is /vr/this shit is the reason why jannies need to go back to doing their job. if you give a topic an inch theyll be back to take a mile. herp derp this thread isnt deleted that means this is retro.
>>12307902faaaaaaaag
>>12307723>>12307886All pinball machines are allowed on /vr/, not just old ones. The mods should clarify, but that's my understanding. As evidenced by the fact that they've never taken action that would suggest otherwise.I think it's a good rule. It would be too weird to segregate post-2007 pinball talk elsewhere, since it's such a niche subject. Let it all live on /vr/. There's rarely more than one pinball thread at a time, anyway.
>>12307662>What do we think about it?It's gay and boring if it's a Stern. Man I can't bear that company anymore, I don't even want to play their games at my local bars. I miss Williams/Bally so much.
>>12308376you're really gonna diss my boi Stern like that
>>12308385Yes. They did some great DMD machines, but their tables have become stale, and the gameplay boring with too much time spent looking at their shitty LCD screens to watch bad flash animations.All the recent ones I've played have been a snorefest and I walked away while I still had coins in my pocket: Mandalorian, Jaws, Godzilla, Stranger Things, etc.Jurassic Park was somewhat decent, but the old Data East still mogs it to hell.
>>>/trash/
>>12308196I don't mind the anons who don't appreciate pinball for the piece of americana it is, but I do wish they'd give it a try.
>>12307662>Pokemon Pinball announced soonSource!?I fucking shit on your porch if you're pulling my chainPinball RS is my GOAT
>>12307718>>12307723>>12308521seethe more
>>12308395Damn you didn't like godzilla? I did
>>12307662Wish I had $15k to spare on one
>>12308395Godzilla hating ass bitch
>>12308881generally the leaked upcoming titles in pinball rumors tend to be accurate, because pinball people are really bad at adhering to NDAs
>>12308395>godzilla bad>DE jurassic park better than Stern'sdid keith elwin piss in your cornflakes or something?
>>12310783>>12311052>>12311634I put at least five coins in that game, with a friend of mine who was much more autistically into the rules that me (I care about the rules but I don't try to maximize every shot). I don't know what to say, it felt boring and I didn't enjoy it.
peeball>>12308395Did you just blow in from stupid town?
>>12307723lol you are seething
>>12308376Well Stern designs used to be somewhat formulaic, but what's your problem with them these days now that Keith Elwin has come along?
>>12308881https://www.reddit.com/r/pinball/comments/1pjlf5k/footage_of_gomez_confirming_either_pok%C3%A9mon_or/And the rumors heavily lean toward pokemon
>>12312651>Well Stern designs used to be somewhat formulaicRight. What's their obsession with forcing a shitty Mystery Award?>what's your problem with them these days now that Keith Elwin has come along?I don't know what tables this guy designed, but I've yet to have fun with a LCD Stern.
>>12312690In a lot of Stern games the strat is to save your mystery award for multiball when you get down to two balls where it is guaranteed to give you an add-a-ball. Or fewer than two balls, if you're quick enough.Is your objection that the mystery awards aren't valuable enough most of the time? If they were too valuable it would be too rng.
>>12311742>I don't try to maximize every shotAh, that explains it.
I guess the rumor is it was originally a JAck Danger game but then Gomez took over as Jack moved back to his old role of social media and part time designer. Gomez's last couple designs where he took over for other designers have been pretty solid (Deadpool and Bond), despite Bond's launch code being pretty dire, later code made it way better (kind of like Guardians)Hopefully Dwight is on code for Pokemon, the theme is tailor made for his style
>>12312690My buddy got a Dungeons & Dragons and it's pretty fun. Some weird shots, but the RPG elements are neat.
>>12307723>>12307886>>12307902all pinball has always been allowed on this board.
>>12313310My objection is that the mystery awards are seemingly in all their games and it's a gimmick I dislike.
>>>/tg/
>>12313763Read the sticky
>>12315979>Safe CrackerMy black friend.
>>12313763If you truthfully feel that it belongs there you would have made a thread there yourself.
Pinball is cool. I wish I knew a place near me with real pinball machines.
>>12317851It's a shame that so many places buy thise new tables at that, it's so hard to find a place that cares enough to have and maintain classic and antique tables.
>>12317851pinballmap.comor if you live it europe you might try this:https://findapinball.com/en/But I think pinballmap has european pins too now.
>>12318009Well, there are a lot of Chicago Gaming remakes around now. I see them on location, are they not on location where you are?
>>12318021All the pinballs in my town. Feels good being western european.
>>12318024All I can find are newly manufactured stern tables. I wouldn't mind if they were leveled properly, but the owners failed that basic standard.
>>12307712Do I have something to tell you about everything else.
>>12318784ironically pinball has been one of the few things to escape the enshittening. pinball in the 2010s-20s has been better than the 00s, and arguably, in some ways (rules and code particularly) better than the golden era of the 90s. Location pinball is also way better, there are more hardcore arcade owners that actually take care of their machines way better than the putt putts and mall arcades of the 90s.
>>12319339>rules and code particularly) better than the golden era of the 90sLol no. Give me back my modes.
>>12317851>Sopranos Pinball Quasimodo predicted this
>>12319342ok, shoot both ramps on godzilla and then the scoop and you can pick which monster battle mode you want to start.open the briefcase on john wick and shoot it in to start modesshoot the side ramp on james bond for henchmen modes or the right ramp for villain modesguardians of the galaxy pick a mode when you plunge the ball, start more modes at the scoophobbit spell elf dwarf or human and then shoot the mode ramp to start one of the 2374651287462 modesjjpirates start modes at the jack sparrow shotrush shoot a record shot then shoot the time machine to start a modelabyrinth shoot white shots until the start mode light is lit then shoot start modeso yeah modern games have plenty of modes
>>12308852>pinball>americanaDunno, I never got the impression that pinball was a particularly American thing
>>12319353In which of those games can I stack modes and block with the timer with a multiball?
>>12319473I forgot that used to be a thing. Been a while.
>>12317851>the closest pinball arcade to me is an hour away
>>12319439You would be right if I had said bagatelle
>>12318784Ok, quit being a faggot and say it.
>>12319473the only game that ever did that as far as i know was monster bash.Most modern rules designers are anti-stacking, or limit stacking. The most stacking friendly rules guy is Keith Johnson - even so in most of his recent games it's usually one standard mode at a time but you can stack the mode with multiple other features and multiballs. For example Hobbit you can stack modes with smaug multiball, with beast hurryups/beast multiball, feast frenzy, super spinners...In GnR in the pre-song buildup phase, you can stack the 4 enhancer multiballs (noise/pyro/lights/amps) and lock balls to make your song mode into a multiball.In pirates you can stack all 5 movie multiballs and tortuga multiball (there's a special bonus for the 6 multiball stack) and also have a movie mode running
>>12319439pinball as we know it today (flippers/etc) was invented in Chicago
