Can someone explain me pinball games? why someone would play them...

Can someone explain me pinball games? why someone would play them? i understand if it's a physical pinball but a videogame? why would you go out of your way to spend money on a pinball game nowadays?

Well, why would you go out of your way to shitpost on a pinball thread nowadays?

Can someone explain me porn games? why someone would play them? i understand if it's a physical woman but a videogame? why would you go out of your way to spend money on a porn game nowadays?

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There's only one pinball game you'll ever need.

why?
Also that doesn't work for porn games, since like any sane person would do, you just search for the images/videos instead of playing the game.


that doesn't count. it was a game you played because there wasn't anything else on school computer when we were young.

i'm saying in this modern age why would anyone play pinball games? to see a number go up and brag about to your friends that don't give a shit?

Cause there's not many places that have physical pinball machines anymore, and I think only Stern still makes new ones. Those old pinball machines were great so a game that replicates them well enough like Pinball Arcade is popular among people who were born before 2000 unlike most of Holla Forums. And it's cheaper than buying a table which can be thousands of dollars for the more popular machines (Arabian Nights, Twilight Zone, Scared Stiff, etc.)

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Also, it's a lot of upkeep to maintain a pinball machine if you have your own and some people just don't want to deal with it. I used to have a Jurassic Park machine, but I sold it cause it was a pain in the ass to maintain and cost too much money.

Physical pinball machines are a fucking mess to keep in proper working order.

Can someone explain to me why Holla Forums is becoming autistic?
This isn't a joke, i mean people that are LEGITIMATELY AUTISTIC.

Someone that looks at a pinball videogame, and says "why do you play that, what's the point?" is ACTUALLY AUTISTIC.
I don't want to hear excuses, this is a symptom of autism, real autism.
Why the fuck do we have so many autists on this board now?
Even prolific autists, that will derail entire threads with their autism.
What the fuck is happening here?

muh nostalgia

It's easier than owning an actual machine and physics have gotten pretty spot on lately. Pinball fx2 is a blast. There's an easy to learn hard to master appeal to it

what a loser


respect the autist

clearly autism

You play to get good, like anything else, you fucking dope. It's not like the basic gameplay changes because it's suddenly digital instead of physical.
You're still describing basically everything, whether it be damage multipliers, combos, streaks, what ever. At least pinball gives you some hand-eye coordination.

I have a Joust machine (Joust is my favorite arcade game) and my nephew would ask "what's the point, where's the story and shit".

Just young and stupid I guess.

I thought I'd never see the day

Then fucking ban them.
You can't post here if you're under 18, so obviously they should be banned.
If they still hold such an absolutely asinine opinion past 18 they're clearly mentally challenged so they're basically underage anyway, so they should be banned regardless.

This is a video game board, not a nursery for autistic children to trash around and shit their diapers.

You must be new yourself.

More kids are being vaccinated.

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because some of the pinball tables aren't about just looking a ball go around the table. the table itself is fun. it's basically like playing a minigame collection.

Still no argumented answers i see. I'm just going to only answer to legitimate posts.

What i don't understad is the sense of it. For the most part pinball plays itself, with no real challenge or strategy to it. the only thing you do is press ONE button, wait for the ball to fall after bouncing around, repeat. No additional challenge, no increase in difficulty, nothing. Sometimes multyball but even then you don't really lose anything as long you save at least one ball.


At what? waiting for the ball to fall then push one button again, repeat?
So do fighting, bullet hell, shooter and basically any non-shit game. Not only they do it better but even the game is better.


Your comparing something totally different. In Joust you have to manage you speed and height while fighting enemies with increasing difficulty.

Can someone explain me games? Why someone would play them?

Can someone explain me driving games? why someone would play them? i understand if it's a physical car but a videogame? why would you go out of your way to spend money on a driving game nowadays?

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Hello yes, is this the local bait thread? I'd like one order of shitposting, hold the sage, and an order of autism with a side of asshurt.

Can someone explain me caveman games? why someone would play them? i understand if it's Detroit but a videogame? why would you go out of your way to spend money on a caveman game nowadays?

Ah, I thought this was a simple "what's the purpose of X" thread. Instead it's an even more retarded "I don't know how to play therefore it's shit" thread.

I know this is bait, but fuck it I'm bored enough to bite

A lot of pinball machines have strategies to playing them other than hitting the ball randomly and not having it fall down. A lot of the more complicated machines can even have plotlines and such to follow which you need to do in order to get the most points out of the machine. If you try to let a pinball machine play itself, you're not going to have a long play on it. Also, most machines have three buttons while others have four depending on the machine and that doesn't take into account bumping the machine.

There are increases in difficulty and challenge in the machine which reward bonus points to the player. This could be hitting a certain point on the machine in a few seconds or some other programmed task into the machine. It's a very large test of skill to be good at a pinball machine.

It's all about timing and coordination and learning the table. You can't go into a pinball table expecting to be good at it, I've taken weeks before just to learn one table, just like learning a level in an FPS game.

Can't really measure whether or not these genres of games are better than pinball in terms of learning hand eye coordination. There are pinball machines that I've played with more depth than some modern games and spent more time with those machines than other vidya.

You have to manage the position of your ball, the timing of the bumpers, where to hit on the table for the bonuses on the table and/or the plotline of the table in order to rack up a high score just like Joust. What gets hard about pinball machines is being able to clear a chunk of the table all in one play.

TL;DR: Just get yourself a copy of Pinball Arcade and have some fun without needing to run around with pockets full of quarters.

sick starfighter but i just cant enjoy it without the thumbs up guy. that dudes too tense, he outgrew the wonderment of outer space.

not only that but with video games you can have as many pinball games that are made in a space as small as your computer or vidya consoles. thats the best part about video games and computers, its all right there real convenient like.

Some pinball games do stuff you can't do on a pinball machine. Take Sonic Spinball for example.
Unless your ball can magically grow feet and walk around you can't do that in real life.

Oh idlve never thought about this. Interesting

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Can someone explain me autism on Holla Forums? why someone would spurg out? i understand if it's real life autism, but a autistic cute chinese cartoon girls doing cute things appreciation website? why would you go out of your way to shitpost on a fascist amphibian Egyptian deity appreciation board?

Can someone explain me crashing planes? why someone would crash them with no survivors? i understand if it's a CIA master plan but a big physical plane? why would you go out of your way to crash a plane nowadays, brother?

Can someone explain me dubs? why someone would roll for them? i understand if it's a single number but a double? why would you go out of your way to point out dubs an antartican penguin trading forum nowadays?

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Can someone explain to me mercenaries? Why would someone work for them? I can understand if it's a physical mercenary but a masked man? Why would you go out of your way to earn money from a big guy nowadays?

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OP is obviously a child or a boring adult who has not played the master of all virtual pinball games.

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OP is obviously a child or a boring adult who has not played the master of all virtual pinball games.

NOW

I

SEE

YOU

I like pinball actually, but what?

What are you a faggot?

his first good game starts at about 6:19 ball 2 is where he gets it going

i've never played a real pinball machine

Best pinball game coming through.

The pinball game on Wii U, whatever it is, has some good tables. I particularly like the Mars table.

So you understand computer games, and you understand pinball. But somehow you don't understand computer pinball… you have completely lost me. Do you understand computer hearts? Or computer card games in general?
Do you know what a game is? Shit, you sound like a fucking moron.

Post your favorite pinball table ITT.
Mine is funhouse.

I always thought Black Hole was cool as shit.

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There's no substitute for the real thing but where I live there is no real thing. I'm innawoods.

It's fun seeing all the crazy doodads and thingamabobs move. Real machines are obviously infinitely better, but simulators aren't bad.

Anyway, pinball is pretty much at the conceptual pinnacle of game design, along side the "stack the falling puzzle blocks" genre. Sorry you haven't quite figured this out yet, bub.

fucking plebian

taste

I actually went to the pinball museum in vegas. Emulators will never get the real feel of a pinball machine, but it comes close.

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