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<blockquote data-quote="Crawley" data-source="post: 282032" data-attributes="member: 2300"><p>I haven't been playing a lot of digital pinball of late but its even harder to go back to TPA after Zen's efforts. So listening to the potential tables they could do, based on your hypothesized license restrictions, the only table that had me interested in going back for would be Laser War. I know that's not a hugely requested table but when going to Vintage Flipper World that is one of the tables I'll play over and over as its so much fun. Think it would work well in TPA for a non-serious gameplay table.</p><p></p><p>The only other ones that had a mild interest that they could possibly do are Grand Prix (e.g. Nascar), Rollercoaster Tycoon, Transformers, and Monopoly. But even those I'm not sure if I'd really put all that much time in to them given I'd rather play the Zen physic tables. </p><p></p><p>Not sure what Farsight can do to remedy drumming up interest again. The TPA engine is 6 years old now and while they've tacked on a ton of features and improvements over the years when you compare it to a newer engine like FX3 (or even Zaccaria) it appears pretty well aged. So that's a big part of the problem. A TPA2 engine which has many of the requested features built in, with more realistic physics engine that improves upon FX3s, along with some meaty tables from Capcom, Stern, Gottlieb, and even other companies (e.g. Houdini, Oktoberfest, Total Nuclear Annihilation) would garner interest again. But that would take quite a bit of time, expense, and without the Williams license may not be worth it in the end.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crawley, post: 282032, member: 2300"] I haven't been playing a lot of digital pinball of late but its even harder to go back to TPA after Zen's efforts. So listening to the potential tables they could do, based on your hypothesized license restrictions, the only table that had me interested in going back for would be Laser War. I know that's not a hugely requested table but when going to Vintage Flipper World that is one of the tables I'll play over and over as its so much fun. Think it would work well in TPA for a non-serious gameplay table. The only other ones that had a mild interest that they could possibly do are Grand Prix (e.g. Nascar), Rollercoaster Tycoon, Transformers, and Monopoly. But even those I'm not sure if I'd really put all that much time in to them given I'd rather play the Zen physic tables. Not sure what Farsight can do to remedy drumming up interest again. The TPA engine is 6 years old now and while they've tacked on a ton of features and improvements over the years when you compare it to a newer engine like FX3 (or even Zaccaria) it appears pretty well aged. So that's a big part of the problem. A TPA2 engine which has many of the requested features built in, with more realistic physics engine that improves upon FX3s, along with some meaty tables from Capcom, Stern, Gottlieb, and even other companies (e.g. Houdini, Oktoberfest, Total Nuclear Annihilation) would garner interest again. But that would take quite a bit of time, expense, and without the Williams license may not be worth it in the end. [/QUOTE]
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