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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 24827" data-attributes="member: 134">I'm gonna add in one other point that nobody has mentioned...your viewing angle and the reflections on the glass.  Seems minor, but unless the viewing angle in real life matches that of the one you're using in TPA, it can screw you up.  Shoot, I have my preferred angle to play, usually angle 1, but then I'll switch to a table like CV where I like angle 2, and if I leave it in angle 1 I'll blow certain shots that I realize I've just plain learned the timing and visual cue for.I mention the glass reflection too, cause that has played havoc on me.  Playing in a dark arcade like the Vegas Pinball Museum is set up like, the glass became my enemy.  Yes I got the awesome light show, but I'll be damned if that ball got lost in the shadows and reflections.Ultimately I look and TPA and VP as pinball tutorials.  As already mentioned, you learn the rules, learn the shots and combos, in general you understand the table.  There's been times (usually with MM) where I'm not even playing for a score, but to just hit one shot over and over again until it's second nature.  Hard to justify doing that when quarters are flying out your pocket.  I just walked up to a Wheel of Fortune table the other day and was so lost as to what I even needed to do, my shot selection was just pure randomness, and the table ate me alive.  Then there was the fact that the right flipper would collapse if you tried to catch a ball and it hit the end of the flipper!</blockquote>

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