Skyrim and High Scores

[thesilliestgoose]

I recently started playing Bethesda Pinball, mostly as a curiosity for Skyrim. My only prior experiences with pinball were Space Cadet on old Windows machines, and a little bit of Odama on Gamecube. I find that it is quite a fun experience!

I was wondering about scoring within Skyrim. You have a persistent character with gear, skills, factions, and quest progression maintained between games. Since this is the case, it seems that starting a game at Level 20 on Quest 11 may result in a different score than someone starting at Level 1, even if they somehow played identically. If this is the case, does that lessen the value of the high score board?

[Lord Squeak]

Well, presumably, anyone could powerlevel by massproducing iron daggers, so eventually it evens out the field. ;)
But yea, it does make a difference if you haven't played it much. (or so I've heard)

[jamman39]

Skyrim is probably the best single player table in Zen's catalogue but probably one of it's weaker ones for tournaments.

I bet they could make a tournament mode for the table that starts each character at Lvl 1 and starts each player on the same mission

[jamman39]

Since it sounds like you are new to Pinball FX, if you like the persistent single player of Skyrim, Zen did it once before on a table called Epic Quest.

Skyrim is a better table overall but I think the loot you get in Epic Quest is better and the tables compliment each other pretty well. Skyrim is dark and serious, where Epic Quest is colorful and zany

[thesilliestgoose]

Gotcha, so the high score really matters more for my own accomplishments, rather than being a perfect metric of who has done better at a particular play session.

I'm actually playing on the Android app, since I had Play Credit! I may start branching out into more pinball though: it's much more interesting than I realized!

[Lord Squeak]

Skyrim is a bit of an special case, sort of like back in the days when people installed Doom on everything from toasters to microwave owens. only here it's Skyrim on a pinball table. It's all about the meta-game. Single player game indeed. Cool idea, but perhaps not what people was expecting.