WhenSpamAttacks writes: "It’s rare that an Xbox Live Arcade game comes along that, 1. I’m interested in enough to check out, and 2. is actually good. Pinball FX 2 is both interesting and a blast to play. To quantify how many quarters I’ve saved would be near impossible. To think I’ve been missing out on some of the finest pinball action outside of arcades is very disappointing. The first [Pinball FX] game never came across my radar, but Zen Studios has everyone covered."
James writes: "An exclusive interview with Zen Studios as they chat about the free-to-play Xbox, PlayStation and PC game, Pinball FX"
Lol another sub service? Are we seeing a trend here folks? Is this the next step after battlepasses?
Sure, there was online gaming back in the day but the modern age of online video gaming began almost twenty years ago with Xbox Live 1.0.
Haha. Yep. To be fair, I feel that it was actually worth it because it kept a good minimum standard. There was horrible lag back in the day and a lot of cheating/hacking. More so than today.
That is arguable seeing as how good similar PC services are these days. The lack of cheaters on console is the closed ecosystem rather than extra effort by MS/Sony
"To be fair, I feel that it was actually worth it because it kept a good minimum standard. There was horrible lag back in the day and a lot of cheating/hacking. More so than today."
The horrible lag back then was due to peole not having the speeds needed to run games, peoples internet speeds were all over the place. Hacking is as bad today, if not worse than back then. People now have access to sophisticated hacking programmes that were nowhere near as prevalent as they are today. Anticheat software was also available way before Xbox Live and the paid online services became a thing.
I gamed online a lot from 1999 onwards and had great times playing without having issues with people cheating and no one had to pay for an online subscription.
Zen Studios has announced Pinball FX, a new pinball experience, for the Nintendo Switch and it will come out some time late 2021.
I used to love pinball growing up. Hell, I even played the crap out of a number of shitty NES pinball games. Maybe I should finally break down and give it a try.