I'll just edit out the name from his post so no one else gets spoiled.
But yeah, this show rules.
As for the morphine, the dude has some serious emotional issues, so it's his way to cope.
Played 'em both and they're both great. As for not being highly rated, I'd say they rate very well for pins of that era. With pinball at its popularity peak at the time, there were sooooo many different machines being produced...so for a pin to stand out and be remembered, it had to be good and...
Because otherwise the Stern pins wouldn't feel close to the real machines at all in terms of flipper bounce, ball control, etc. Maybe Stern would be OK with that, but I would hope not.
With as complex as the rulesets are these days, I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't at least try to get ROM emulation in place. It would save them a ton of time in the long run if this is going to be a long term relationship, hypothetically speaking of course.
With that said, I absolutely love their polish and presentation...and their P.R. (the three P's?). If they can start putting out tables with more realistic physics (the final and most important P, imo), then I'll be tickled pink.
The fact that you can trap/catch just about any ball in Zen (including balls coming down the inlanes) is what ruins it for me. I know I've said it before, but for me much of the thrill in playing a real pinball machine is the battle to control the ball and to keep it alive...and that just isn't...
I've wondered about that...I always figured it was some kind of steamy, inner rebellion that led to the change. The truth is much more tame, it seems...or "wild", as it were.
If they did, I'd be all in, as their physics model is really the only thing holding me back from enjoying their current lineup...well, that and the tiny flipper gap too.
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