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<blockquote data-quote="Trackball" data-source="post: 242418" data-attributes="member: 5924"><p>Oh, I do. I subscribe to PAPA's YouTube channel, and I watch Bowen Kerins' excellent tutorials. Laughed pretty hard at his first drain on Demolition Man, and got a real kick out of his Jack-Bot Casino Run. They also helped me a lot with TPA.</p><p></p><p>But I also realize that real, physical pinball is a very different beast from digital. As one guy in another thread pointed out, this is partly due to, of all things, the framerate: a game operating at 60 frames per second means there are only 60 possible angles per second a ball could travel at upon hitting and being launched by a flipper. Contrast real pinball, where (to use his example) a difference of a thousandth of a second can be the difference between a clean ramp shot and a brick off a post.</p><p></p><p>That's one reason I so respect the highest levels of players of fighting games like Street Fighter or Super Smash Bros, or even shooters like Dodonpachi. They have their timing and reflexes honed down to the <strong>frame of animation.</strong> That's hardcore.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks, man, but...please don't take this the wrong way, but I don't play these games to nine-out the scores and get to the top of the global leaderboards. I play these things for fun when alone, or to beat the other human in the room if there is one. If this were a PAPA tournament (which I hold no delusions about being A-division-ready for), I wouldn't dare intentionally end my game early--then again, those games are set up to be so difficult, you can't really carry on ridiculously-long games anyway. Even <a href="https://youtu.be/yY0GJaPpXco?t=5m26s" target="_blank">Keith Elwin's epic Funhouse ball</a> at Louisville 2015 could "only" go about 24 minutes. </p><p></p><p>Thanks to Relaxation for letting me know the term is "sandbagging." If I feel tired playing TPA, I deliberately stop nudging so I can get to other things--or other video games. Imagine thinking "man, I wanna play some Zelda right now."</p><p></p><p>While I do respect the time and effort you guys put into this great simulation, and your talents are commendable, my goal playing Pinball Arcade is to set me up for the real machines. I recently had the chance to play my first physical pinball in about 20 years, but man, was I in for a rude awakening--I should make a thread in the Real Pinball forum detailing my experiences.</p><p></p><p>tl;dr: I think Farsight made a big mistake making the tilt on this game as forgiving as it is. It leads to hours-long games from the best players.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trackball, post: 242418, member: 5924"] Oh, I do. I subscribe to PAPA's YouTube channel, and I watch Bowen Kerins' excellent tutorials. Laughed pretty hard at his first drain on Demolition Man, and got a real kick out of his Jack-Bot Casino Run. They also helped me a lot with TPA. But I also realize that real, physical pinball is a very different beast from digital. As one guy in another thread pointed out, this is partly due to, of all things, the framerate: a game operating at 60 frames per second means there are only 60 possible angles per second a ball could travel at upon hitting and being launched by a flipper. Contrast real pinball, where (to use his example) a difference of a thousandth of a second can be the difference between a clean ramp shot and a brick off a post. That's one reason I so respect the highest levels of players of fighting games like Street Fighter or Super Smash Bros, or even shooters like Dodonpachi. They have their timing and reflexes honed down to the [b]frame of animation.[/b] That's hardcore. Thanks, man, but...please don't take this the wrong way, but I don't play these games to nine-out the scores and get to the top of the global leaderboards. I play these things for fun when alone, or to beat the other human in the room if there is one. If this were a PAPA tournament (which I hold no delusions about being A-division-ready for), I wouldn't dare intentionally end my game early--then again, those games are set up to be so difficult, you can't really carry on ridiculously-long games anyway. Even [url=https://youtu.be/yY0GJaPpXco?t=5m26s]Keith Elwin's epic Funhouse ball[/url] at Louisville 2015 could "only" go about 24 minutes. Thanks to Relaxation for letting me know the term is "sandbagging." If I feel tired playing TPA, I deliberately stop nudging so I can get to other things--or other video games. Imagine thinking "man, I wanna play some Zelda right now." While I do respect the time and effort you guys put into this great simulation, and your talents are commendable, my goal playing Pinball Arcade is to set me up for the real machines. I recently had the chance to play my first physical pinball in about 20 years, but man, was I in for a rude awakening--I should make a thread in the Real Pinball forum detailing my experiences. tl;dr: I think Farsight made a big mistake making the tilt on this game as forgiving as it is. It leads to hours-long games from the best players. [/QUOTE]
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