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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 26951" data-attributes="member: 134">Rafie, I do enjoy Zen also.  I think their tables tell a great story and that drives me to want to complete everything.  I really found their Marvel tables to be fun and much more like real pinball in terms of layout (not the animations!!) than the regular table offerings.Ignore TPA for a minute though, and just concentrate on the tables.  Williams and company know a thing or two about layout and design.  when you see a table stripped bare, you realize how efficient they were with their graphics.  They also understood about contrast and making things easily identifiable.  Zen could learn a lot from them their.  Also, the light show on real tables usually is there to help you identify shots.  With all the extra animation going on with Zen, I find their light show to be minimal and not effective.  I really have to look at the DMD display to understand what is being asked of me, where on a real table I can tend to figure it out intuitively.That being said, once I figure out a Zen table, I'm hooked.  I can't tell you how much Iron Man sunk it's teeth into me, and Moon Knight was completely impenetrable for the longest time, but now I love it.  A lot of times it's also a matter of me figuring out which table angle I need so I can react in time for certain shots.  With TPA, I'm almost always table angle 1, with exceptions to CV and FH (too low for me).  With Zen, it changes table to table.  And is there a cam lock ability like on TPA, cause sometimes I find the perfect angle but the time it takes to pan down from the top back to the flippers causes me to miss shots or lose the ball.One last thing I like TPA for over Zen, but probably doesn't matter to everyone else.  TPA displays properly on my TV, Zen doesn't.  My tv doesn't do 720p, only 1080i.  Zen not only downconverts to 480, it letterboxes the screen!  So bad resolution and it's squished horizontally.  I think when I finally do get a new TV (and I'll get 3D) I'll come to appreciate Zen more.Still, I like 'em both.  Just currently nostalgia is winning the war of my wallet!</blockquote>

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