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Then it's just... a worse pinball machine. A pinball machine without the charm of mechanical engineering or physical craftsmanship.
by Kapura 3y ago
Then it's just... a worse pinball machine. A pinball machine without the charm of mechanical engineering or physical craftsmanship.
- reaperman 3y agoMy favorite pinball game machine costs $7,000. https://sternpinball.com/game/deadpool/ https://sternpinball.com/game/deadpool/ I won't be buying that any time soon, but I can absolutely grab a $20 pinball simulator for my $300 VR headset.
- mrandish 3y agoI can understand that point of view and used to think the same. I even tried a little virtual pinball unit at some discount warehouse club and it sucked. Then I actually tried a really good virtual pinball cabinet running recent, high-quality open source tables at 120fps 4K HDR with haptic feedback transducers providing positional tactile feedback to the point where I could close my eyes and feel the virtual ball rolling across the table from side to side. It also had a 6-axis accelerometer allowing me to 'nudge' the table to influence the trajectory of the ball just like I do on one of the real pinball tables I own. I was impressed enough to set up a virtual pinball table of my own and now that I have extensive experience with both - I like playing them both. Playing a virtual pinball vs a physical pinball is simply a different kind of experience. Neither is a replacement for the other. When played on a high-end, perfectly-tuned table, virtual pinball is like a cross between a pinball game and a video game. It shares similarities with both but is its own distinct thing that's different and (IHMO) quite enjoyable.
- reaperman 3y agoNotably, that setup seems to cost the same as an actual commercial pinball table, ~$7,000. Granted you can play many different pinball games on one table, but it's not exactly comparable to an affordable software option.