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<blockquote data-quote="SilverSuper" data-source="post: 95383" data-attributes="member: 3372"><p>Are you sure you're not romanticising TPA out of missing pinball? I liked TPA at first for several months when I hadn't touched a real machine for quite a while, but after traveling to a few places where they had tens and hundreds of real machines and buying my own machine I think that TPA is simply horrible at recreating the experience of real pinball. Sure it's fun to play it as long as you don't have a real machine fresh in mind, you can compete on the scoreboards and it can be used to refresh table rules and play before going to real machine tournaments, but it fails hard at recreating real tables and will continue to do that until it's reworked and properly balanced. TPA is really far off when it comes to difficulty, realism, physics compared to the real tables it tries to recreate. Some tables are dumbed down to the point where you just want to facepalm. TZ is a joke on TPA (although they deserve some credit for the accuracy of some of the shots) and on MM the ball just bounce passes to the left flipper when the ball is coming down the rigtht joust orbit while it just drains rolling over the flipper on a real machine. People are putting 4 hour long recordings of a single game of TPA on YouTube, it's ridiculous.</p><p></p><p>It felt like the PC-release of TPA would take forever and instead of waiting any further, I drove 1200 kilometres each way to buy myself a Twilight Zone. Now that the PC-release is close I'm not sure if I want to play any virtual pinball simulations or not. Having a single real machine is way better than playing multiple virtual ones.</p><p><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/977148_10151482535616626_292858971_o.jpg." alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The work put in on TPA isn't that great either:</p><p>-Other people have done better work recreating pinball-tables in their sparetime. <a href="http://home.gethome.no/jpsalas/" target="_blank">http://home.gethome.no/jpsalas/</a></p><p>-It does not try to recreate real pinball because it's not tight like a real table and it's severely dumbed down and inaccurate, probably done to earn a buck on random people while lying about the attempt to recreate pinball</p><p>-Quantity over quality, way to many tables before even succeeding to recreate a single table up to a reasonable level of quality</p><p>-It makes you facepalm when you have the chance to compare it to a real machine</p><p>-Several tables seem to have been released without enough playtesting and polishing, the initial release of Whirlwind was a disaster</p><p>-Errors in gameplay on several tables</p><p>-Fails at simulating a coil driven flipper and does not have multiple triggers on the buttons so you can activate only the bottom flippers like on a real machine with more than 2 flippers</p><p>-Backhand shots are not possible like on a real machine, at least on some platforms.</p><p>-Shot difficulty is way off</p><p>-Unrealistic ball bouncing off the rubbers, especially on the ones at inlane/outlane</p><p></p><p>I understand your excitement, but for people who really like pinball it's better to put down $1000-1500 for a modearate wear Funhouse or Whirlwind or any other decent to play cheap to buy machine instead of pretending TPA is fantastic. I'm probably going to give TPA a go when it's released on Steam, but then again the energy seems better spent on getting another pinball machine instead of pretending with virtual ones. I made excauses for 20 years not to buy a pinball machine, it's too large, to heavy, too expensive, too hard to maintain, before I realized it's just to buy one if you're really into pinball. Be a doer, not a don'ter. TPA is for don'ters, just another excause not to buy a real machine. Embrace your life before it's over. They probably won't let you have a machine on your room at the retirement home.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SilverSuper, post: 95383, member: 3372"] Are you sure you're not romanticising TPA out of missing pinball? I liked TPA at first for several months when I hadn't touched a real machine for quite a while, but after traveling to a few places where they had tens and hundreds of real machines and buying my own machine I think that TPA is simply horrible at recreating the experience of real pinball. Sure it's fun to play it as long as you don't have a real machine fresh in mind, you can compete on the scoreboards and it can be used to refresh table rules and play before going to real machine tournaments, but it fails hard at recreating real tables and will continue to do that until it's reworked and properly balanced. TPA is really far off when it comes to difficulty, realism, physics compared to the real tables it tries to recreate. Some tables are dumbed down to the point where you just want to facepalm. TZ is a joke on TPA (although they deserve some credit for the accuracy of some of the shots) and on MM the ball just bounce passes to the left flipper when the ball is coming down the rigtht joust orbit while it just drains rolling over the flipper on a real machine. People are putting 4 hour long recordings of a single game of TPA on YouTube, it's ridiculous. It felt like the PC-release of TPA would take forever and instead of waiting any further, I drove 1200 kilometres each way to buy myself a Twilight Zone. Now that the PC-release is close I'm not sure if I want to play any virtual pinball simulations or not. Having a single real machine is way better than playing multiple virtual ones. [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/977148_10151482535616626_292858971_o.jpg.[/IMG] The work put in on TPA isn't that great either: -Other people have done better work recreating pinball-tables in their sparetime. [url]http://home.gethome.no/jpsalas/[/url] -It does not try to recreate real pinball because it's not tight like a real table and it's severely dumbed down and inaccurate, probably done to earn a buck on random people while lying about the attempt to recreate pinball -Quantity over quality, way to many tables before even succeeding to recreate a single table up to a reasonable level of quality -It makes you facepalm when you have the chance to compare it to a real machine -Several tables seem to have been released without enough playtesting and polishing, the initial release of Whirlwind was a disaster -Errors in gameplay on several tables -Fails at simulating a coil driven flipper and does not have multiple triggers on the buttons so you can activate only the bottom flippers like on a real machine with more than 2 flippers -Backhand shots are not possible like on a real machine, at least on some platforms. -Shot difficulty is way off -Unrealistic ball bouncing off the rubbers, especially on the ones at inlane/outlane I understand your excitement, but for people who really like pinball it's better to put down $1000-1500 for a modearate wear Funhouse or Whirlwind or any other decent to play cheap to buy machine instead of pretending TPA is fantastic. I'm probably going to give TPA a go when it's released on Steam, but then again the energy seems better spent on getting another pinball machine instead of pretending with virtual ones. I made excauses for 20 years not to buy a pinball machine, it's too large, to heavy, too expensive, too hard to maintain, before I realized it's just to buy one if you're really into pinball. Be a doer, not a don'ter. TPA is for don'ters, just another excause not to buy a real machine. Embrace your life before it's over. They probably won't let you have a machine on your room at the retirement home. [/QUOTE]
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