Why is it mixed reviews on steam?

[Big-Lord Beefcake]

Is it a bad game

[qu3ntenten]

one of the reason being FX3 tables we're not transferred over to FX and force to repurchase tables again.

and 2nd some dont like the new physics and also not being optimize and required high pc specs.

i dont have any issues with above i enjoy the new physics but then again i only play williams tables.

[Paratech2008]

There are also tables having bugs like Bride of Pinbot that break the table and nobody knows if it'll ever be fixed.

People have complained about bugs in the Williams 8 collection and when they'll be fixed nobody knows.

[MikeFulton]

Originally posted by Big-Lord Beefcake:

Is it a bad game

Many people who had bought tables in FX3 thought they should get those tables for free in FX. Zen didn't do that. Instead, they offered discounts, rather substantial ones when combined with a sale -- up to 85 or 90% off. but that wasn't good enough for some people and they left bad reviews as a form of protest.

Most of those reviews have nothing at all to do with the quality of the game.

[Lambros]

For me the bad reviews would entail too many ball drains. Plus they left for epic for two to three years had no production on Steam except for Indiana Jones then came back to Steam and pulled a fast one with the engine change. Plus quality of some of their own tables like Star Wars being abysmal. And there is no ultrawide support for this but there is for Pinball M. Kinda middling creativity wise they could do more with a lot of tables but they are half assed in that they drain fast and dont reel you in to enjoyable sequential gameplay because again too many ball drains.

Its like they forgot they sold you the virtual table but keep the difficulty magnetic monster plus.

[Lambros]

Among many, fix the Adams Family too many ball drains!

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Originally posted by Lambros:

For me the bad reviews would entail too many ball drains. Plus they left for epic for two to three years had no production on Steam except for Indiana Jones then came back to Steam and pulled a fast one with the engine change. Plus quality of some of their own tables like Star Wars being abysmal. And there is no ultrawide support for this but there is for Pinball M. Kinda middling creativity wise they could do more with a lot of tables but they are half assed in that they drain fast and dont reel you in to enjoyable sequential gameplay because again too many ball drains.

Its like they forgot they sold you the virtual table but keep the difficulty magnetic monster plus.

A fast one?

lol.....

https://www.pinballfx.com/?page_id=7115

Engine change was known for quite a while before release.

[Pinballwiz45b]

Originally posted by Lambros:

For me the bad reviews would entail too many ball drains. Plus they left for epic for two to three years had no production on Steam except for Indiana Jones then came back to Steam and pulled a fast one with the engine change.

Lol, no. VR and Apple Arcade, both using Unreal Engine 4, beat Epic to the punch.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1530770/Star_Wars_Pinball_VR/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zen-pinball-party/id1536783591

[riefpirate]

I wish they would add the tables moved to the FX3 game this one bites!

[Pinballwiz45b]

Originally posted by riefpirate:

I wish they would add the tables moved to the FX3 game this one bites!

Not going to happen. The vast majority of new originals use video displays, which aren't compatible with their in-house engine.

7 new tables are also M-rated and on a separate game.

If Zen can't modify the ESRB rating of FX3 on consoles, say goodbye to several great Williams tables that feature as such.

[Jambon Emmental]

Regardless of the reason for the mixed reviews, I think the current score of 68% is a fair reflection of how good it is. There's lot to enjoy but a lot of scope for improvement.

[Yakass]

I think Zen have made a number of missteps that have put gamer's noses so far out of joint that their frustration over a single issue has been enough to result in a bad review of the game in general... even if they have over a 100 hours in the game.

I did that myself at first but then realized I was being hypocritical because despite that bad review I was still playing and enjoying the experience overall. When I stopped to think about that I realized it wasn't fair on Zen, because aside from a few quibbles (which in hindsight would only effect 1% of the player base) I was having a good time playing.

So I pulled my head in and changed the review to positive

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

I don't know. I always just view these products at platforms for tables. So, if I have tables i enjoy from the previous iterations, I keep those. If a table I want is exclusive to these newer iterations, I grab them. So I suppose I never felt the sense of "why don't my tables carry over?" that some people do. I just go back and play them on earlier installments. It's not that big of a deal to me.

For this installment, all I know is I love the Knight Rider table and that's enough for me lol.