Irrational rant to follow, flame and moderate as necessary:
As I get older, my patience wears thinner every day, and few things discourage me more than having my ball drain through absolutely no fault of my own, making any precision or skill I displayed meaningless.
The recent release of The Pinball Arcade has only reinforced my intense hatred of the gutter. It hasn't even been a week yet and I'm already ready to give up on it because of this. I'm not having fun at all, I only feel like I'm getting constantly ripped off. Every time the ball unceremoniously drains down either side like a little pissant for the 800th consecutive time, I just groan like Sideshow Bob getting hit in the face with a rake. How games like Pinbot were never recalled by Consumer Affairs, I'll never know. Imagine if you were playing Super Mario Brothers and the floor suddenly disappears under you with no warning killing you instantly just because the game feels like being a dick.
How can I overcome this? How do you pros personally deal with it? How do the developers rationalize this blatant thievery, and why would they think that people would enjoy it?
Nudging doesn't help with this. The ball drains with a metoric force and it is unavoidable 1/1000 times.
As I get older, my patience wears thinner every day, and few things discourage me more than having my ball drain through absolutely no fault of my own, making any precision or skill I displayed meaningless.
The recent release of The Pinball Arcade has only reinforced my intense hatred of the gutter. It hasn't even been a week yet and I'm already ready to give up on it because of this. I'm not having fun at all, I only feel like I'm getting constantly ripped off. Every time the ball unceremoniously drains down either side like a little pissant for the 800th consecutive time, I just groan like Sideshow Bob getting hit in the face with a rake. How games like Pinbot were never recalled by Consumer Affairs, I'll never know. Imagine if you were playing Super Mario Brothers and the floor suddenly disappears under you with no warning killing you instantly just because the game feels like being a dick.
How can I overcome this? How do you pros personally deal with it? How do the developers rationalize this blatant thievery, and why would they think that people would enjoy it?
Nudging doesn't help with this. The ball drains with a metoric force and it is unavoidable 1/1000 times.
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