PS5, PS4 Is Getting a New Brothers in Arms, But Only in Pinball FX

I loved Pinball FX 2+3 but this new Pinball FX has new owner's Epic Games grubby hands all over it. Ridiculous pricing strategy with the pinball pass, and not bringing over any old tables (despite being able to do so in previous versions) is just pure greed.

@pip_muzz agreed…. It’s really a mess. I will probably succumb to my desires, as video pinball is one of my favorites.

They announced a follow-up to Demon’s Tilt, that’s the only digital pinball I’m going to need for a while.

How does this work? Do I have to buy each piece of DLC for full price again? Or do I pay a one-time upgrade fee?
I already found it annoying that I had to pay full price for all the (Star Wars) PSVR tables while owning the the non-VR versions.

Remember Brothers in Arms?

It's back. In pinball form

@pip_muzz yes they made a right pigs ear of it!

I might be interested if they support PSVR2.

Anyone else go through a similar mental slip up of reading “brothers in arms” and automatically think there’s a Band of Brothers game being made/already out?

I do…….every time there’s a “Brothers In Arms” article

Yep, I've got a fair collection of pinball FX tables, but I've totally stopped buying them even on sale since the announcement about no importing whatsoever. I'll stick with what I've got thanks, you lost yourselves a customer Epic, there's no way I'm going in for another subscription service.

@BusyOlf You think thats bad, i keep thinking of that "Dire Straits" song.

@commentlife - Great news didnt know that was coming, love Demon's Tilt 😁

I already bought a lot of Pinball FX tables. No way I’m paying for all of them again.

The only thing that might change my mind is if they have an option for TATE mode. This probably only applies to me - I doubt a lot of people have installed a rotating wall mount for their TV, just to play pinball or vertical shmups. But most of the pinball games on Switch have this option - including Pinball FX - so I can’t imagine it would be too hard to add it to the PlayStation version, even if I’m the only person that might use it. 😊

I’ve bought so many tables over the years. Then did it again for VR. Didn’t regret anything, but unless every table is VR compatible, I’m not interested.

@Smiffy01 quality tune though, reminds me of Miami Vice

Last pinball game I played was Space Cadet on Windows 95 😂 that's a classic game.

I own all 99 original pinball tables for pinball FX 3. I became a loyal customer buying each new table at launch because of the free upgrade from PS3 to PS4! No way am I paying $15 per new table or renting tables with pinball pass.

@Futureshark @pip_muzz Dubious importing policies aside, the franchise and it's developer are owned by the Embracer Group, not Epic Games. This would explain the trio of Gearbox games in this article, as Gearbox is also owned by Embracer.

So this week let’s recap….

We are getting new banjo content…. But it’s a figure.
We are getting classic Star Wars BF 2… but it’s PSP version
And now this……

It’s like the game industry knows what we want but go for lazy easy cash ins and not what we want.

I’m a bit sick of it all tbh.

Soon enough Xbox will own so many 3rd party studios so many beloved IPs will be lost in a “4 big games a year GPU calendar” and even then most of them resemble GaaS.

Sony sleeps on enough of its own awesome IPs…..

I get the industry thinks we all want innovation….

But we also want fun and beloved characters and worlds….

Motorstorm
Killzone
Wipeout
Resistance…. Let’s start there.

Days gone.

The Xbox list is even longer…..

The third party list is massive…..

I look at the slated releases this year and yeah a couple leap out at me…..

But If we had a New SSX, Burnout, Killzone, Banjo….
Half life…. Rallisport, ridge racer, Splinter cell…. Coming….. my oh my….. wave race….. all flying onto their various platforms and multiple plats….. it would be so exciting…..

Instead we get the psp ridge racer….

It’s good and all…..

But come on: let’s have a few of the classics brought back

That thing which only 2% of the planet would want. Great for pinball fans I guess 🧐

@Stocksy The slow death of the Wipeout series still baffles me. Wipeout 1 sold me on buying a PS1 back in the day.

The remaster of the PS3 ones were ok I guess, but would it be so difficult to give us a new game? We’ve only waited 20 years-ish. Or even just a remake of Wipeout 3 Special Edition would be great. Imo the best in the series.

You also have Pinball arcade season 1 and season 2 on PS4. They can be bought physically. 2 separate games with 20 classic tables on each disc.

Pinball FX is like computer pinball. Pinball arcade, developed by FarSight takes a more realistic approach. The tables are true to life as are the physics.

Genuinely proper classic tables that you have to learn how to achieve all the goals. You could spend months on one table, it's that addictive.

This, Pachinko, Rayman in Mario Rabbids, Splinter Cell in Rainbow Six.

Pinball FX is fine but still who really wants this? People desperate for some connection to Brothers in Arms really? Playing the games is far more interesting (no against Pinball games just I think this is a waste of IP use). Even Telltale games were more useful use of the IP then this is even if not always the best quality over the years over time due to how Telltale's fate was sadly.

Do companies realise it's smarter to just have a merch line then it is some pathetic DLC or 'we are holding them hostage and putting this character or IP in this other thing to bait you'.

Other IPs made sense for Pinball tables and even then I don't know enough about how Pinball FX or other pinball games handle their tables that much only haerd bits and pieces.

Like seriously what gives either don't use it or use it but use it wisely then wasting our time. I'm not a brothers in arms fan, sure I played Hell's Highway (I enjoyed it even if it's one of toughest shooters I've played/beaten somehow and a fair tactical shooter though) and I'll get the others if I see them physical but still.

I get it's the simplest way to use an IP sure but still who cares, give us what we actually want or something of a 'better' in-between option then this terrible in-between option. I have no interest in merch but it's better then wasting time on DLC this way. Or a book, or a movie, posters, whatever else then this.