The Night Flier
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Pretty sure FS have been leaving hints on Facebook. Enough to get people pretty certain it's coming soon.
Ahhh that sounds wonderful!
Pretty sure FS have been leaving hints on Facebook. Enough to get people pretty certain it's coming soon.
With all the talk of Bram Stoker's Dracula, I still think that table will be either the first or second table of Season 4. Season 3 should end with Diner as Pack #29, and I'm going with Red & Ted's Roadshow as Pack #30. I know Red & Ted has a little bit of licensing, but I don't think it's an overwhelming amount. (Indeed, I think it would be less expensive than Bram Stoker's Dracula.)
Season 4 should see (in no particular order except as noted):
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1st or 2nd so as to be near Halloween for mobile users)
High Speed II: The Getaway
Jack*Bot
Cyclone
Earthshaker
Monopoly
Tales Of The Crypt
F-14 Tomcat
Safe Cracker
Eight Ball Deluxe
There was a comment that Season 4 would be much like Season 3 with high-quality, highly-sought after, reasonable-license cost tables. I think that sounds right to me. And those tables seem like they'd fit the bill. Other possibilites that wouldn't surprise me include:
Banzai Run
Seawitch
Fathom
Rescue 911
The only real wildcard is if there's a break-through in the negotiations over The Addams Family. If so, a KickStarter supported inclusion of that table would show up sometime in Season 4. But, I'm not holding my breath on that one.
Pretty sure FS have been leaving hints on Facebook. Enough to get people pretty certain it's coming soon.
Pretty sure FS have been leaving hints on Facebook. Enough to get people pretty certain it's coming soon.
I know this is a speculation thread, but I'll never understand why everyone thinks we'd get a Halloween themed table as the first table of a new season? It's never happened, so I don't get the thinking behind that? In any event, I hope those people are wrong, because the sooner we get "Bram Stoker's Dracula", the better. It's endlessly requested and it's sales would definitely give Farsight a boost.
In regards to your last 4 tables, I highly doubt we'll get any of them.
- A lot of people have asked for "Banzai Run", but it appears that the design would be difficult for Farsight at this point in time. They've also said as much.
The only time I've ever seen anything for "Seawitch" is from that early poll they took a while back. Beyond that, nobody really requests it besides a few people here.
Although "Fathom" is HIGHLY requested around here, I haven't seen hardly any requests for it on the FB page, and being an older table doesn't help it chances either, as Farsight is trying to get out as many highly popular, mostly late 80's-early 90's tables.
As for "Rescue 911", it's one of very few highly requested Gottlieb tables, but Farsight sadly doesn't seem too interested in it. They've had several chances to do it, but always choose another table, like the garbage that is "Lights, Camera, Action!" that next to nobody ever requested. I don't get the logic behind it, but whatever, it is what it is.
Getaway is bound to be coming. It will be weird on a mobile device. Nudging and manga save is awful on an iOS unit so I can't imagine shifting gears will be any more pleasant. I would guess this will be end of season 4 or at worst early season 5.
...In regards to your last 4 tables, I highly doubt we'll get any of them:
- A lot of people have asked for "Banzai Run", but it appears that the design would be difficult for Farsight at this point in time. They've also said as much.
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My response is actually mostly covered in the next quoted postThey could use a "push button" for touch screen controls and maybe map it to the R Stick up for the players that use a controller. IDK, I suppose it will ultimately depend on how they decide to map the controls for PC/Console at the same time, but having to go to a simplified shift mechanism for the touch screen controls on mobile would be the most likely work around, imo.
I was going to make the same comment about shifting, up or down will launch the ball.I just shift with my knee when my hands are busy with the flippers.. no wait that's when I'm playing in the garage, nevermind.
Other than during Video Mode there is no downshift (and there's no real need for it there - winning vm is easy staying in 5th gear right from the start) so I don't see why the standard launch button spot couldn't be fine for the shifter when using touch-screen controls. They could make a second button show up just during video mode or just ignore downshift altogether. During the rest of gameplay pressing the shifter up or down does exactly the same thing. I usually just press down to launch a ball every once in a while so the game doesn't start thinking there's a switch issue.
Because for the past two years we have gotten horror-themed pinball tables during the Halloween season. In 2012 it was the Elvira tables: Elvira & the Party Monsters & Scared Stiff. Last year it was Haunted House & Class of 1812.
So in keeping that trend going,we should get two horror themed tables this year. #30 of Season 3 & #31 (1st table of Season 4).
If that happens,then BSD is probably the last table in Season 3 - and Tales From The Crypt could start off Season 4 with a Data East table. If this doesn't happen - then I say BSD is the Halloween table that kicks off Season 4. It just makes sense.
Okay...let's take this one at a time:
I'm tackling this first. TPA posted this comment on their FB page concerning Banzai Run the other day:
The Pinball Arcade Sure is, we've discussed it... the playfield design could be a bit problematic, but if we are confident we can do it justice it may make it to the game some day. We all really like the idea.
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Banzai Run fits all the criteria for making it into TPA,and it has been done in VP. I firmly believe it will be coming into TPA at some point.
if you look here at the Official Stern poll sanctioned by Farsight - Seawitch lost by four votes to the winner which was Flight 2000. If we get another classic Stern table,this will be it.
If the same few people on FB keep requesting the same tables,that doesn't mean it is highly requested. It just means that those 7-8 people keep posting the same pins. Fathom is one of the highest rated SS games of all time.
Fathom is currently #66 on the IPDB charts - ahead of Junk Yard,Black Rose,Black Knight 2000, and Rescue 911. On Pinside's top 100,it currently ranks #74 - ahead of Black Rose,High Speed,Safe Cracker,and F-14 Tomcat...to name a few. Farsight has stated that they take those lists into account.
Yes, Rescue 911 is a highly requested table,for a Gottlieb. So was Lights,Camera,Action (at least in the official Gottlieb poll). Just because you think the table is garbage doesn't automatically make it so. (Though it isn't a stretch to say it'll probably be the weakest table in Season 3,IMHO). I think you see 911 eventually,especially if there is a Season 5 forthcoming.
Which I firmly believe there will be. You aren't going to be traveling to all of the gaming cons & pinball festivals promoting a game that you are planning to end in a couple of months.
Anyways,that is my opinion. Only time will tell just how correct I end up being...
Well, the main tables for September & October for the past two years have been horror themed. None from the PHOF Reissues. So having TFTC & BSD come out in consecutive months is a possibility for sure. But if it's only one scary table - then that will kick off Season 4.
As for the other four pins we've been discussing, there probably isn't a good chance that they all get made. But I do think we get two of the four before all is said and done.
Only time will tell...
Pretty much.
I think they've hinted at it more than enough times already.
I think Phantom of the Opera and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein are both contenders as well. Besides, Season 1 had both Elvira's and Monster Bash/Creature from the Black Lagoon. That's 4! Never a shortage of "horror" themed tables in the pinball world.
With all the talk of Bram Stoker's Dracula, I still think that table will be either the first or second table of Season 4. Season 3 should end with Diner as Pack #29, and I'm going with Red & Ted's Roadshow as Pack #30. I know Red & Ted has a little bit of licensing, but I don't think it's an overwhelming amount. (Indeed, I think it would be less expensive than Bram Stoker's Dracula.)
Season 4 should see (in no particular order except as noted):
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1st or 2nd so as to be near Halloween for mobile users)
High Speed II: The Getaway
Jack*Bot
Cyclone
Earthshaker
Monopoly
Tales Of The Crypt
F-14 Tomcat
Safe Cracker
Eight Ball Deluxe
There was a comment that Season 4 would be much like Season 3 with high-quality, highly-sought after, reasonable-license cost tables. I think that sounds right to me. And those tables seem like they'd fit the bill. Other possibilites that wouldn't surprise me include:
Banzai Run
Seawitch
Fathom
Rescue 911
The only real wildcard is if there's a break-through in the negotiations over The Addams Family. If so, a KickStarter supported inclusion of that table would show up sometime in Season 4. But, I'm not holding my breath on that one.
Well, the main tables for September & October for the past two years have been horror themed. None from the PHOF Reissues. So having TFTC & BSD come out in consecutive months is a possibility for sure. But if it's only one scary table - then that will kick off Season 4.
But so far, the last season, they've been doing only "low hanging fruit" (as in very little licenses required at all). This is the chief factor I can see why BSD will not be coming soon, doing this means they have returned to doing a bit heavier license tables again.
Now this doesn't sound good at all concerning BSD and other license tables.Is Farsight having financial issues that have driven them towards this approach?Is that why the tables are twice as expensive now?Are future tables endangered in general?You'd think that wouldn't be the case if they are even considering the Pinball After Dark spinoff.