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<blockquote data-quote="TJGilbert21" data-source="post: 290342" data-attributes="member: 2371"><p>I have been OUT OF IT! I just discovered that the WMS license went to Zen after FarSight lost is last year! Of course, I immediately downloaded the Williams Pinball app (I'm on iOS), and I am so far just BLOWN AWAY by the detailed graphic and lighting quality of the tables—it's the kind of quality TPA offered on PS4 that iOS TPA players have never gotten. I'm also impressed by the sleekness of the user interface, although it is WAY overcomplicated with so many of these tedious In-App Purchasing methods like Tickets, Zen Coins, Parts, what-have-you gimmicks! I have never in my LIFE seen so many of them in one app before!!</p><p></p><p>The thing that TPA has absolutely right is that they are ALL ABOUT pinball. There aren't any of these other features that you have to faff about with. It's just launch the app and play! Zen is just SO convoluted with all their menus and customization options and achievements. Whatever happened to just playing pinball?? At first all of Zen's achievements and challenges seemed to be a lot of fun, and offered a new element to the game, but after a while, I realized that it was just taking away from the pinball itself, and was simply using <em>pinball</em> as a mechanism for unlocking more coins and tickets and whatnot. And I can't stand that they don't have the traditional score-keeping, which TPA preserves. Even if you get a high score, you don't enter your initials, you don't join the high score roster, and you don't get to hear the high score celebration music!</p><p></p><p>In the end, it's clear to me that FarSight and Zen had different missions: preserving pinball so current and future generations could enjoy it, and making money, respectively. I tend to side with FarSight, as they worked harder to preserve the pinball experience. Sure, they could use help with their graphics, their lighting is abominable, and their interface work is just plain sloppy at best, but every table has its original monochrome DMD display, and there are no timed challenges, no tickets, coins, or parts to collect to distract from the very reason you opened the app in the first place. And I agree with [MENTION=7699]HighFive[/MENTION] that nudging on TPA is just better.</p><p></p><p>I'm sure I'll have more to say as I continue to try to wrestle with Zen's Williams Pinball app. I still can't seem to find the Classic Arcade physics feature that everyone's been talking about... Anyway, those are my first impressions after just downloading the iOS app today! More to surely follow!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJGilbert21, post: 290342, member: 2371"] I have been OUT OF IT! I just discovered that the WMS license went to Zen after FarSight lost is last year! Of course, I immediately downloaded the Williams Pinball app (I'm on iOS), and I am so far just BLOWN AWAY by the detailed graphic and lighting quality of the tables—it's the kind of quality TPA offered on PS4 that iOS TPA players have never gotten. I'm also impressed by the sleekness of the user interface, although it is WAY overcomplicated with so many of these tedious In-App Purchasing methods like Tickets, Zen Coins, Parts, what-have-you gimmicks! I have never in my LIFE seen so many of them in one app before!! The thing that TPA has absolutely right is that they are ALL ABOUT pinball. There aren't any of these other features that you have to faff about with. It's just launch the app and play! Zen is just SO convoluted with all their menus and customization options and achievements. Whatever happened to just playing pinball?? At first all of Zen's achievements and challenges seemed to be a lot of fun, and offered a new element to the game, but after a while, I realized that it was just taking away from the pinball itself, and was simply using [I]pinball[/I] as a mechanism for unlocking more coins and tickets and whatnot. And I can't stand that they don't have the traditional score-keeping, which TPA preserves. Even if you get a high score, you don't enter your initials, you don't join the high score roster, and you don't get to hear the high score celebration music! In the end, it's clear to me that FarSight and Zen had different missions: preserving pinball so current and future generations could enjoy it, and making money, respectively. I tend to side with FarSight, as they worked harder to preserve the pinball experience. Sure, they could use help with their graphics, their lighting is abominable, and their interface work is just plain sloppy at best, but every table has its original monochrome DMD display, and there are no timed challenges, no tickets, coins, or parts to collect to distract from the very reason you opened the app in the first place. And I agree with [MENTION=7699]HighFive[/MENTION] that nudging on TPA is just better. I'm sure I'll have more to say as I continue to try to wrestle with Zen's Williams Pinball app. I still can't seem to find the Classic Arcade physics feature that everyone's been talking about... Anyway, those are my first impressions after just downloading the iOS app today! More to surely follow! [/QUOTE]
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