Decker

Also heads up : Sony has released a PS5 version of the old PSP game Pinball Heroes. They had 8 tables, based on Playstation franchises like WipEout, Motorstorm, Fat Princess, Pain and Uncharted. I had all the tables back in the day.
It doesn't look great, and in scrolling mode is a little hard to follow, but it's still pretty cool. Free with PS Plus Premium.

Decker

It's finally coming out! Who's excited to buy all their old tables again?

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Spiderbite

^If they are truly updated and play better, I have no problem with it.

I always have view pinball like this to be a relative bargain. Considering if I go to the local place that have a small variety of new tables, those now run a buck to a $1.50 to play once. And if you want to buy one...just one...it is 7 grand.

So, I am fine paying even a couple of hundred dollars for stuff like this due to the gameplay I get out of it in comparison to the real thing.

Though I do have a friend who is recently dove headfirst into the virtual pinball community and now he is building his own table. The custom games and rebuild of old and new real tables you can get for free are phenomenal. But even though the tables and software are free, him building one is still costing him thousands. At least it will play like a real table and have unlimited games though.

Jcheckel

I had no problem and intended to rebuy all if not all of my tables. Hell, I had enough credit saved up in MS Rewards that I could’ve bought everything today. But as of right now I’m not buying any tables. They lied to us for a year talking about how coins would allow individual tables to be bought, offer better discounts, faster updates, and even allow cross buy. Suddenly, right before console release they backtrack on all of that because some PC users cried about coins. Now we’re stuck with mainly bundled tables, purchases on only one platform, and they didn’t even bother with a sale on tables for launch like they said they would. They didn’t get rid of coins though, they’re still purchasable, but only can be used on stupid cosmetics or the over priced Pinball Pass. For $15 a month or $100 a year you can access most of their tables, I think there are some that it doesn’t include, and unlike what they said prelaunch it also doesn’t work cross-platform.

Decker

I will buy some of the new tables today, but fuck the Pinball pass and am pissed that there isn't the promised discount for the older tables.
I will buy them once they go on sale. Until then I'm fine playing them on the Pinball FX3 PS4 version.

Decker

Well I had been looking forward to this day and hadn't bought any tables in quite a while. I bought the Secrets and Shadows pack, the Gearbox pack, the DreamWorks pack, Snoopy pinball, World War Z, the new Star Wars two-pack and that original Lovecraftian horror table. That's $70 for fourteen new tables. Happy to grab them.
But fuck if I am gonna rebuy all my old tables at full cost. No way, no thanks. They might be better in the new game, but it's not all that noticeable to me TBH. I own them and can play them any time I want without giving Zen another cent. That's fine by me. Honestly I don't think the new menus are any sort of improvement either.
And screw those mictrotrasactions. It's gross and unseemly. I really hate it and am sure others will as well.

Spiderbite

I downloaded it last night and played the free (old) Western table. I didn't think it looked any better and it actually played worse. There was some severe lag in the flippers so no way am I buying any tables until that is fixed.

And why are so many complaining about the Pinball Pass? It seemed you could buy the tables you want (granted by mostly bundles which sucks if you want Indvidual tables) but you can at least buy them instead of the bullshit Pinball Pass.

I had no problem rebuying old tables if they were truly had a substantial upgrade. No discount or transfers of the old tables is total horseshit though if that Western table is any indication of the "upgrades" made. I really doubt I will re-buy the old tables unless they go on a fire sale.

Decker

Yeah I have no interest in giving them $100 so I can play (most of) their tables for a year. I'm playing tables today that I bought ten years ago for $5. That suits me just fine. The Pinball Pass is bullshit.
And I didn't know about the cosmetics. No wonder that menu is so ugly and bare bones. They want you to buy cosmetics via microtransactions? Even grosser than I thought.

GatorDeb

For the newly released Pinball FX, are the trials of 2 minutes per table introductory or is it like that all the time, i.e. with FX3? Because 2 minutes at a time is all the attention span I have anyway