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Don't judge T2 by the post-TAF DMD era of pins, it's really not on that level. It's much more like the alphanumeric games like Funhouse or Whirlwind - get multiball, get jackpot/millions, get a sequence of awards that includes an EB (mirror/cellar/escape route). For its era T2 was perfectly excellent. Nowadays we're all used to all sorts of stacked-up modes, but in that day Payback Time during multiball was a colossal rush.White Water is just fun though it's hard to express why. On its face, it shouldn't be: deadly bumpers, repetitive grindy shots for the rafting, unbalanced scoring, underwhelming wizard award. Yet the real machine always somehow makes me want to keep playing it.Yes, Medieval Madness is overrated. It does everything superbly, but except for the one really sore sticking point of the Multiball Madness stacking. It's not fun to have to avoid the saucer and lose out bigtime on an accidental bounce into it. And fail to stack Trolls/Troll Madness properly and you have to go all the way around through Royal Madness for another try to be able to get Master of Trolls.RBION is the most underrated, although most TPA players have warmed up to it by now. It's closer to TZ's spiritual heir than anything else, with a metric crapton of stuff going on. If only TPA hadn't botched it, with the game-killing lost ball and idol bonus bugs and the hacked-to-hell leaderboard.I'd also call Monster Bash underrated. It belongs right up there with AFM and MM and TZ and TAF among the titans. It's highly rated by the numbers, but never quite seems to enter into these discussions. It gets unfairly neglected for being "AFM 3" and for rehashing overused monster/horror themes (CFTBL, BSD, Scared Stiff), but really what it does is perfectly blend them.
Don't judge T2 by the post-TAF DMD era of pins, it's really not on that level. It's much more like the alphanumeric games like Funhouse or Whirlwind - get multiball, get jackpot/millions, get a sequence of awards that includes an EB (mirror/cellar/escape route). For its era T2 was perfectly excellent. Nowadays we're all used to all sorts of stacked-up modes, but in that day Payback Time during multiball was a colossal rush.
White Water is just fun though it's hard to express why. On its face, it shouldn't be: deadly bumpers, repetitive grindy shots for the rafting, unbalanced scoring, underwhelming wizard award. Yet the real machine always somehow makes me want to keep playing it.
Yes, Medieval Madness is overrated. It does everything superbly, but except for the one really sore sticking point of the Multiball Madness stacking. It's not fun to have to avoid the saucer and lose out bigtime on an accidental bounce into it. And fail to stack Trolls/Troll Madness properly and you have to go all the way around through Royal Madness for another try to be able to get Master of Trolls.
RBION is the most underrated, although most TPA players have warmed up to it by now. It's closer to TZ's spiritual heir than anything else, with a metric crapton of stuff going on. If only TPA hadn't botched it, with the game-killing lost ball and idol bonus bugs and the hacked-to-hell leaderboard.
I'd also call Monster Bash underrated. It belongs right up there with AFM and MM and TZ and TAF among the titans. It's highly rated by the numbers, but never quite seems to enter into these discussions. It gets unfairly neglected for being "AFM 3" and for rehashing overused monster/horror themes (CFTBL, BSD, Scared Stiff), but really what it does is perfectly blend them.
