I prefer the social scoring systems on the Playstation, which are based on your ranking on a table’s leaderboard, and not the raw number of points. This means lower scoring tables, also known as more challenging tables that don’t hand out points like candy, are less relevant. Unfortunately, Steam uses the same “wizard” score concept as the Xbox 360, where you earn a collective score based on the number of points you’ve got.
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At any rate, you’ll have the exact opposite of the Nintendo problem, where all the social scoring stuff is useless because most people with Wii U’s can’t be bothered to set up friends lists because Nintendo spent so many years thinking of the children and therefore hiding friends list behind code numbers that you had to email each other (PSA: they no longer do that). You might even have three or four people on that list who don’t have console systems or iPads and therefore haven’t focused their Zen Pinballing elsewhere. Your Steam friends list is an ideal place for competitive high scoring.
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If you’re a PC guy - and you people are really an uptight group, so I can’t imagine that many of you play pinball, where you have to cede so much control to gravity and physics - Steam is a fantastic Zen Pinball platform for its breadth. It’s almost as if Apple has made a store that isn’t easy to navigate!) Which you’d never know from looking at the game’s list of in-app purchases, which doesn’t include Paranormal.
( Update: Zen Studios helpfully pointed out that Paranormal is indeed available for the iOS. Any Zen collection without Paranormal is no Zen collection to speak of. Which is another reason you really don’t want to play on the iPad. But the bottom line is that there are plenty of tables on all the platforms, so you can’t very well pick one platform because it has 47 tables instead of 42 tables, especially when you’re only ever going to really care about five or six of those.īut, really, any platform where Zen Pinball exists needs only one table selection test to pass muster, and that’s whether Paranormal is one of the available tables. That’s certainly where I see the most tiny boxes when I boot up the front end and have to pick a table. I think you get the most tables on the Xbox 360. There are enough tables on any given platform that you’re going to get some great ones, some good ones, some not so good ones, and some awful ones. But that’s not really an issue given how many tables Zen has made and how widely they’ve disseminated them. From here, you’d normally go where you can find your favorite tables. Until the iPad gets some sort of built-in tactile physical buttons (please don’t show me that there’s some sort of add-on available, because the only thing I’m ever going to plug into my iPad is the cord to recharge it), it will never work for pinball or action games. And it damn well better be, because it’s unplayable. However, with its two dollar tables instead of the usual three dollar tables, Zen Pinball on the iOS is cheaper than anywhere else. Who can be bothered to hover his fingers a millimeter above the touchscreen while the ball zooms around the table? And all those times I’m positive I fingertouched the iPad at just the right moment, but the iPad takes issue with the amount of pressure I did or didn’t apply. It ranks somewhere between genocide and parking tickets.
Zen’s tables look fabulous on the Retina display, but controlling flippers with a touchscreen is an atrocity.
Where does a guy pitch his pinball tent? Now that the Xbox 360 has been thrown over by a Playstation regime in my house - move over Tony Hawk Ride! - what’s the Zen Pinball platform of choice these days?Īfter the jump, my frank advice for the roving bands of homeless pinball wizards.Īs a wandering Zen pinballer, the first thing I know is that the iPad is not a viable place to play pinball. But what a confusing pursuit these days, with the next-gen systems and the iPad and the sudden ongoing relevance of Nintendo. So pinball is a strictly virtual pursuit for me. Not to mention there’s no room in my garage for a real pinball table thanks to all the plastic instruments and the Tony Hawk Ride skateboard I’m storing out there. Of course, they also have moving parts that fall apart. An actual physical pinball table offers the dumb, loyal, here-and-now consistency of analog objects without EULAs. It won’t be traipsing off into other dimensions or realities, where you have to consider buying it again because maybe it looks better, or maybe that’s where your friends are playing now, or maybe you need to set a high score there because you have the compulsive need to at least get your name on a leaderboard. One of the advantages of an actual physical pinball table is that it’s always and only going to exist on its original platform: the real-world.
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