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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vikingerik" data-source="post: 188363" data-attributes="member: 3745">Well I played Junkyard while it's the free table.  And I'm not impressed.  The physics are wrong.  You can't have fun bashing on the wrecking ball like you're supposed to, because TPA's flippers are so anemically weak up the middle.  You can't hit the wrecking ball on any kind of rolling shot, only from a full catch, which is exactly the opposite of how a real Junkyard is supposed to play.  (MM has the same problem on shooting for the castle.)  Also the physics don't allow shooting the Dog ramp on the fly from the left popper, it's impossible, you have to do it from a catch.  Junkyard is supposed to be decently flowy (as most Oursler games) but TPA's physics don't work right for it.Junkyard is also really boring on the high end.  I have as much patience for grinding as anyone, but man those same four identical modes over and over with nothing else to do and no interesting interactivity from stacking or anything.  (See Monster Bash for a set of simple modes done right with lots of emergent behavior.)  That's Williams' fault not Farsight's, but it doesn't make me want to buy the table.</blockquote>

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