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<blockquote data-quote="bavelb" data-source="post: 12009" data-attributes="member: 358"><p>Pinball means fighting the odds that are fully turned against you: you will fail, all you can do is improve and make sure you fail a bit less next time.</p><p></p><p>Not just by improving your skill and reflexes, but also by getting to know the system and ruleset that you are fighting against. Its a battle of wits and skill vs emotion. The machine is evoking an emotional response that you need to suppress. PErhaps that is the "Zen" quality people tout. In the end it's a game about development: you get better at the game/table in very measurable quantities.</p><p></p><p>I guess why games like Demon Souls/Dark Souls resonate in a similar way to me: beating insurmountable odds. </p><p></p><p>I find myself going back to simpeler, smaller games these days. Yes I enjoyed Skyrim, yes I'm playing Diablo3 (on inferno-difficulty, hello insurmountable odds again), and I play almost every major release. But almost nothing gets as much time these days as games that provide bitesize chunks like Pinball Arcade or Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalker 2013. The value for money on those kind of titles is almost incomprehensible. Maybe because those smaller games alllow you more room to grow and improve?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bavelb, post: 12009, member: 358"] Pinball means fighting the odds that are fully turned against you: you will fail, all you can do is improve and make sure you fail a bit less next time. Not just by improving your skill and reflexes, but also by getting to know the system and ruleset that you are fighting against. Its a battle of wits and skill vs emotion. The machine is evoking an emotional response that you need to suppress. PErhaps that is the "Zen" quality people tout. In the end it's a game about development: you get better at the game/table in very measurable quantities. I guess why games like Demon Souls/Dark Souls resonate in a similar way to me: beating insurmountable odds. I find myself going back to simpeler, smaller games these days. Yes I enjoyed Skyrim, yes I'm playing Diablo3 (on inferno-difficulty, hello insurmountable odds again), and I play almost every major release. But almost nothing gets as much time these days as games that provide bitesize chunks like Pinball Arcade or Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalker 2013. The value for money on those kind of titles is almost incomprehensible. Maybe because those smaller games alllow you more room to grow and improve? [/QUOTE]
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