Arcade Collecting > Pinball
Um... a billion?
Neverending Project:
--- Quote from: shardian on May 22, 2009, 08:10:51 am ---I assume the score inflations are to encourage non-pin players to dump more money.
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This is what I assumed too, but (in my case anyway) it had the opposite effect. I was put off by the ridiculous scoring. Somewhere in between 10 points per drop target and 10 million must be the sweet spot.
Zero_Hour:
--- Quote from: Neverending Project on May 22, 2009, 11:21:36 am ---
--- Quote from: shardian on May 22, 2009, 08:10:51 am ---I assume the score inflations are to encourage non-pin players to dump more money.
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This is what I assumed too, but (in my case anyway) it had the opposite effect. I was put off by the ridiculous scoring. Somewhere in between 10 points per drop target and 10 million must be the sweet spot.
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I always assumed (in the DMD era at least) it was mostly arbitrary. ON EM & even older SS machines it cost money to make a larger score possible - adding extra scoring reels, or larger numeric displays. One of the things a DMD would allow a programmer to do, is exactly what you see with AFM - ridiculously high scores. I can't think of any machines contemporary to AFM that took it to that extreme.
And it's hardly confined to pinball - just look at the way scoring has inflated in video games over the years.
--- Quote ---...all you do is make the same shots over and over just like you do on any pinball machine.
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QFT
Jeff AMN:
You guys are still not getting it. AFM's inflated numbers aren't to suck anybody in, they're part of the theme of the game. It's just a bit of humor.
Non-pinball players would say, "oh sweet, I got 2 billion!" ...and then the high scores would come across and they'd notice that 350 billion is a decent score. The gimmick is just a joke, not an actual attempt to pull one over on anybody.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on May 22, 2009, 04:47:58 pm ---We know
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...and we still think it's stupid.
Jeff AMN:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on May 22, 2009, 04:47:58 pm ---We know
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...and yet you are still acting like you don't.
What's the big deal about scoring anyway? With arcade games you generally can't compare 1 million points to another game's 1 million points. Why should pinball be all that different? One thing that makes a lot of games different from one another is how they handle bonuses, multipliers, and jackpots. If scoring was more or less uniform, a lot of excitement from discovering the different game modes would be diminished.
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