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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tabe" data-source="post: 132401" data-attributes="member: 342">After weather delays in Minneapolis, my PS4 arrived yesterday and TPA was the first game I downloaded and installed.  So here are my impressions after about 45 minutes of gameplay:- first, nice touch that I didn't have to download the season 1 pack separately.  I'd already paid for it.  Added TPA to my download queue and when I came back a couple hours later from bible study, TPA was installed as were all of the tables.  Very nice.  And a nice contrast to Zen 2, which forced me to install all the packs I was importing one-at-a-time.  Annoying.- As others have mentioned, the sound quality is atrocious.  The first thing you're hit with when you fire up TPA is the lame "Pinball Wizard" riff of course - only now it's an incredibly bad version of an already incredibly bad sample.  The games themselves fare no better.  It blows my mind that TPA got released with the sound in this state.  I know, it's the "mobile" version of the sound.  To me, that explanation makes no sense.  The mobile versions of the sound files should have never been anywhere near the PS4 code base.  And somebody SURELY had to have tried the final PS4 release code before sending it to Sony, right?  It should be pretty embarrassing to Farsight that it went out in this state.  And here we are, nearly 3 months after release, and no fix?  Didn't Sony lift some of the restrictions on updating that are present on the PS3?  Why has this not been addressed?- first game I played was Attack From Mars.  First thought is that that graphics aren't the improvement over the PS3 version that I'd hoped for.  It looks nice but doesn't knock my socks off or anything.  Appears to play a little faster.  The loop STDM glitch is gone, which is awesome.  - tried all three lighting modes on AFM.  Didn't like Dark, Bright is too bright, so Neutral it is.  - next up was Cirqus Voltaire.  This is a table I gave up on on PS3 thanks to its messy graphics, glitchy gameplay and just general frustrations.  The PS4 version is a LOT better.  Graphically, this one is a big leap over the PS3 version.  Not perfect, or as great as it should be, but good.  Annoying that the name entry screen is buried on the little dot matrix at the back of the machine, making the letters a little tough to see and select.- then Black Knight and Gorgar.  Yep, these will still not get played by me.  Just don't like them.- finished with Funhouse.  Definitely not a big graphics boost for this one.  It looks alright but should look better.  We're next gen now, guys, Rudy's head should have a much higher res texture mapped onto it.  Feels like some little tweaks on this one, like making the skill shot possible (I actually hit one) and making the upper flipper a little easier to use.  Unfortunately, I ran into a lot of the "sigh...that's Pinball Arcade for you" stuff - balls going through the tips of your flippers, ridiculous bounce angles off the flippers (had one ball bounce off the middle of my left flipper at a perfect 90 degree angle), and so on.  Also lost two balls when the left flipper simply failed to flip, which was odd.  And I got 3 Rudy Gulps before it actually triggered the standard goal for getting one.- in general, other than the Funhouse stuff above, I found the flippers to be really responsive.  At least as snappy as the PS3 version, probably more so.- As others have mentioned, the Leaderboards are broken.  I don't understand this one either.  Is this some kind of Sony issue or is it Farsight?So, overall, pretty good but not quite what I'd hoped for.  The issues-that-shouldn't-be (sound) are disappointing.  That said, I'm done buying PS3 packs.</blockquote>

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