The Ultimate Battle Free Pinball Thread
08-29-12 | 11:15 AM
#1151
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Still not up for the PS3/Vita though. 
08-29-12 | 11:17 AM
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Sounds like Pack 4 should be up in a week or two, according to some random guy on their Facebook page.
08-30-12 | 09:56 PM
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Got Best Buy's @Gamer magazine in the mail today (the September issue). Intentionally or not, they revealed the Popcap table in their reviews section. I'll spoilerize it in case anyone wants to be surprised (weirdos).
Spoiler:
08-31-12 | 12:03 PM
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They’re coming… the fundead invade pinball in Zen Studios’ latest pinball DLC, Plants vs Zombies Pinball! This table will be the first new table for Zen Pinball 2, and will include a variety of fully 3D interactive zombies and fully 3D plants to help keep the zombies from eating your brainz!
Features include:
• New effects! The table becomes fogged over during the “Going Nuts” mission and players can use a genuine Melon-Pult to keep zombies at bay!
• Preparation is the key to victory: Collect money and sunlight in times of peace to purchase the plants that will fight off the zombies
• New XBLA Achievement: “You Have Mail” (50 GS) and new PSN Trophies: “Letter from Mom” and “Malfunction”
Plants vs Zombies Pinball will be available for download on September 4th on for Zen Pinball 2 on PlayStation Network for $2.99, with Cross Buy entitlement on PS3 and PS Vita, and September 5th for Pinball FX2 on Xbox Live Arcade for 240 MSP. Unearth those flippers and get ready to soil your plants!
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08-31-12 | 01:08 PM
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Bye Bye $3! 
It does look nice.
It does look nice.
09-01-12 | 12:19 AM
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Yup. And more importantly, so is the free Zen Pinball 2 upgrade, new trophies, improved physics and especially, free Vita Cross Play. I bought a new memory card to make sure I have enough memory for the game and all the tables (1 GB total, they estimate)
09-01-12 | 10:25 AM
#1159
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Nice, i'll have to upgrade my Zen tables, and if it wasn't for the fucked up cost pick up another vita card.
09-01-12 | 01:26 PM
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I concur. The 32 GB would be nice, and it's "dropped" to $71.99 on Amazon, but I didn't want to spend even that much on a Vita card, so I found this site on Google Shopping where I bought a 16 GB card for $39.99 shipped (33% off MSRP). Can't totally vouch for the site yet, but they shipped the card extremely quickly via USPS with tracking number and figure I'm safely protected by Google Wallet.
09-02-12 | 07:25 PM
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I was hoping for a Peggle table. 
09-04-12 | 10:04 AM
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Looks like a couple of PBFX2 table packs are half-price right now:
Marvel: Vengeance and Virtue - 400 (was 800)
Pinball FX2 Core (Full) - 400 (was 800)
No idea if this is a daily or weekly sale, or a permanent drop, so I'd buy now just to be safe. . .
Marvel: Vengeance and Virtue - 400 (was 800)
Pinball FX2 Core (Full) - 400 (was 800)
No idea if this is a daily or weekly sale, or a permanent drop, so I'd buy now just to be safe. . .
09-04-12 | 10:12 AM
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Re: The Ultimate Battle Free Pinball Thread
Looks like a couple of PBFX2 table packs are half-price right now:
Marvel: Vengeance and Virtue - 400 (was 800)
Pinball FX2 Core (Full) - 400 (was 800)
No idea if this is a daily or weekly sale, or a permanent drop, so I'd buy now just to be safe. . .
Marvel: Vengeance and Virtue - 400 (was 800)
Pinball FX2 Core (Full) - 400 (was 800)
No idea if this is a daily or weekly sale, or a permanent drop, so I'd buy now just to be safe. . .
09-04-12 | 10:16 AM
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Re: The Ultimate Battle Free Pinball Thread
V&V is part of the Back to School sale. I didn't notice Core in that list, but it might be temporary too, even though it could use a price drop by now.
09-04-12 | 03:09 PM
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Just a few more hours....
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Any other Pinball FX2 fans think that robot in the back of the table seems awfully familiar?
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Any other Pinball FX2 fans think that robot in the back of the table seems awfully familiar?
09-04-12 | 03:26 PM
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Only got to do one run through on the PvZ table last night, but it was awesome. So well done as per the usual.
09-04-12 | 03:52 PM
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09-04-12 | 07:40 PM
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After waiting all day for the Store Update, I was finally able to download Zen Pinball. Just got to try PvZ for a minute on the Vita -- It's SOOOOO good. Bright screen. Great physics. Perfect controls. It's really a reason to get a Vita; the ZP2 game turned out that good. Really puts the semi-low-rez Pinball Arcade to shame (and that's a perfectly functional Vita game, just nothing like this). So excited to have my 16 tables on this system. Thinking seriously about re-buying Captain America and Epic Quest for the third time each (have them both on the iPad as well) just to get them on this system.
BTW :Fantastic Four didn't make the ZP2 launch. Don't know why but the guy for Zen had said weeks ago that was going to be a possibility
BTW :Fantastic Four didn't make the ZP2 launch. Don't know why but the guy for Zen had said weeks ago that was going to be a possibility
09-04-12 | 08:35 PM
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After waiting all day for the Store Update, I was finally able to download Zen Pinball. Just got to try PvZ for a minute on the Vita -- It's SOOOOO good. Bright screen. Great physics. Perfect controls. It's really a reason to get a Vita; the ZP2 game turned out that good.
09-04-12 | 09:46 PM
#1170
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Well, I did encounter a glitch in El Dorado where the ball got stuck and I had to quit the game. And the smaller screen makes the LED screen hard to read.
But overall it's a hell of an impressive port, right down to the seven (!) camera views you can select on the fly -- and that's not counting the full-table portrait view (which is too small for my taste and pointless since you don't use the wonderful Vita shoulder buttons).
But overall it's a hell of an impressive port, right down to the seven (!) camera views you can select on the fly -- and that's not counting the full-table portrait view (which is too small for my taste and pointless since you don't use the wonderful Vita shoulder buttons).
09-04-12 | 10:31 PM
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In some of the most unfortunate timing seen since a hurricane bore down onto New Orleans during the Republican National Convention (which, admittedly, was only last week), the good folks at FarSight chose today as the day they finally released add-on pack 3 (Gorgar and Monster Bash). Consider your thunder sufficiently stolen.
09-06-12 | 04:05 PM
#1172
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I hate to say it, but that Plants v. Zombies table is dull as hell. It's one of the first recent FX2 tables where I thought to myself "I could keep playing, but I'm just going to let the ball drain and play something else."
09-06-12 | 04:16 PM
#1174
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It's very generous with extra balls, and the center drain is very narrow. I think I played for 15-20 minutes on the first ball, got the achievement and was like "Well, meh."
09-06-12 | 04:18 PM
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Yeah, it's kind of stupid how easy it is to get extra balls. I didn't get my high score doing anything too impressive, it was just the culmination of about 10 multiball's and like 8 extra balls.