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Post by TheOnePistol on Aug 16, 2010 19:53:32 GMT -5
I just recently bought Monsters inc Pinball Panic.
AND BOY IS IT HARD!!!!!
Can anyone give me tips on how to play cuz i must be doing somthing wrong, i know the best way to get points is to get tasks from roz, but i always get hit with the cheap shots, like the ball going down that side hole. al always make it to about 200,000 points then i loose my last ball.
i suck i cant even beat boos high score, let alone randalls with is in the millions.
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Post by V on Aug 16, 2010 20:02:45 GMT -5
Unfortunately, I don't know how to help. But yes, it IS hard. My mom already beat Boo's score... man, two years old and she's in the high scores. XD
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Post by mistica0christina on Aug 16, 2010 20:09:56 GMT -5
Sorry but I've got no advice on you there, I do have the game but due to it's mediocre gameplay, I'm afraid I haven't beaten it and probably never will because compared to other pinball titles, it's not that good and of course it has the game based on a film curse...mostly videogames based off or from films aren't very good and the few that are don't tend to be spin off titles.
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Post by TheOnePistol on Aug 16, 2010 22:51:44 GMT -5
Ironicly almost right after i put this up, i went and played it again, and got 8th place, with 560,132 points, XD im starting to get the hang of it.
also iv notice randall is actually being nice in this game, its kinda wierd. oh i love pinball. XD
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Post by mistica0christina on Aug 16, 2010 23:37:12 GMT -5
Please keep in mind that Pinball panic is geared towards a kid audience so the strange stuff like "You got the skills" or "Not bad" was done to be more of a way of motivating kid gamers into continueing the game but as far as gameplay, in my opinion, it just isn't the best. There are better pinball games out there, even older games in relation to Pinball are better than this for numerous reasons...personally I prefer Sonic Spinball, it's not as repetitive or cliche for a pinball game.
The game is nice from a collector's perspective but a gamer's....not as much.
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Post by TheOnePistol on Aug 17, 2010 10:47:20 GMT -5
man i tell ya for a kid game its hard! XD
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Post by pitbulllady on Aug 17, 2010 21:37:56 GMT -5
I've never had a chance to play the game(anyone know if it will work with Windows Vista?), but I've got some high-def screen caps from it, which I must say are among the best images of Randall, anywhere, in terms of detail. If you have a high-def monitor, you can actually see the blood vessels in the "whites" of his eyes(yes, they are red-he has red blood like ours, not some wierd color like green), the radial vein in his forearm(that's the one that nurses and Red Cross people go for), and a plethora of scars, including one that runs vertically through his lower left eyelid down onto his cheek, and must have come really close to costing him that eye at some point.
I don't find it odd that Randall is being nice at all. Like I've said, his behavior in the movie is the result of acute, prolonged stress. In the game, apparently, all that has been resolved, so he's back to acting normal. I know we'd discussed the game before on here, in another section, and it was thought at the time that the game took place in a sort of "pre-movie" time frame, before Randall got involved with the Scream Extractor, but I guess the fact that BOO is one of the players whose score you have to beat sorta rules THAT out, doesn't it? Maybe this, like "Scream Arena", in one of the positive signs that Randall will return and work out all the issues with the others.
I suck at games of any sort-not enough hand-eye coodination. Too old, basically, so I'd probably get pwned by a toddler, too.
pitbulllady
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Post by mistica0christina on Aug 17, 2010 22:27:14 GMT -5
I've never had a chance to play the game(anyone know if it will work with Windows Vista?), but I've got some high-def screen caps from it, which I must say are among the best images of Randall, anywhere, in terms of detail. If you have a high-def monitor, you can actually see the blood vessels in the "whites" of his eyes(yes, they are red-he has red blood like ours, not some wierd color like green), the radial vein in his forearm(that's the one that nurses and Red Cross people go for), and a plethora of scars, including one that runs vertically through his lower left eyelid down onto his cheek, and must have come really close to costing him that eye at some point. I don't find it odd that Randall is being nice at all. Like I've said, his behavior in the movie is the result of acute, prolonged stress. In the game, apparently, all that has been resolved, so he's back to acting normal. I know we'd discussed the game before on here, in another section, and it was thought at the time that the game took place in a sort of "pre-movie" time frame, before Randall got involved with the Scream Extractor, but I guess the fact that BOO is one of the players whose score you have to beat sorta rules THAT out, doesn't it? Maybe this, like "Scream Arena", in one of the positive signs that Randall will return and work out all the issues with the others. I suck at games of any sort-not enough hand-eye coodination. Too old, basically, so I'd probably get pwned by a toddler, too. pitbulllady Pinball Panic, along with Scream Arena, are considered spin off titles, they are not canon to Monsters Inc due to the fact that the goals and such of this game have NOTHING to do with the story of it. The only connection to MI that these games have are just the characters and the fact that Disney Interactive slapped the MI logo on it. Spin off titles are practically never canon, spin off titles from movies tend to serve one purpose which is to help promote films. The only games that relate to film that could be considered canon are either games based straight off of a film, games designed to purposefully be a sequel to a film, or games purposefully designed to be a prequel...and even then, in some cases, fans won't always consider games like these to be canon. I personally am not a big fan of games based off of a films due to the fact that over half of the time, the games won't always relate to the film that they are based on, sometimes even having events or storylines added that were never in or even had anything to do with the original film. Most film based games don't even have the original voice actors to boot, I can kind of understand it when the film is live action but when a game company can't get voice actors to come back for a game based off of an animated film, that's seriously messed up! X-play put it best that games that relate to film have the "games based on a film curse" which basically means you get one of the following. 1. Great movie but game sucks which could make the film suck instead. 2. Horrible film, awsome game that causes you to watch the film and probably wished that you would have made yourself blind! 3. Horrible film, horrible game, waste of money. 4. Great movie and somehow by the grace of god, a great game that didn't get screwed up. Considering that a good majority of the MI games were spin off titles, I don't consider any of them to be canon and so, no information from them are used in anything I do fic related due to that fact alone. Theonepistol, as for the game being hard, hate to say it but Disney Interative aren't too good with games, they will have some strange stuff in their games sometimes....as for Pinball Panic's difficulty, the only challenge is just that high score and really nothing else. The only difference between the two difficulty settings is the fact that you get less turns on the harder mode, otherwise than that, it's still the same boring game. I honestly question if anyone who works at Disney Interactive are even gamers at all because trust me, they do some weird stuff with games...take TS3 for example, the game was freaking easy until the final boss fight then suddenly, they shifted the easy setting to a WTF setting and if it's frustrating for an adult to play through the final boss, imagine what it's doing to a kid! Either way it's not pretty.
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Post by TheOnePistol on Aug 18, 2010 14:10:28 GMT -5
yes i have windows vista and mine plays just fine, it i think it was worth it, i love this game
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Post by TheOnePistol on Aug 18, 2010 14:12:15 GMT -5
and i didnt mean werid in literal, im just not used to hearing randall shouting out complements every five sec, lol i shouldnt hav said wierd i should have said different
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Post by mistica0christina on Aug 18, 2010 17:03:39 GMT -5
I'm not saying that the game was unusual but from a gamers perspective, it's not that good, from a Randall fan's perspective, it's okay, I guess.
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Post by pitbulllady on Aug 19, 2010 12:05:52 GMT -5
I've never had a chance to play the game(anyone know if it will work with Windows Vista?), but I've got some high-def screen caps from it, which I must say are among the best images of Randall, anywhere, in terms of detail. If you have a high-def monitor, you can actually see the blood vessels in the "whites" of his eyes(yes, they are red-he has red blood like ours, not some wierd color like green), the radial vein in his forearm(that's the one that nurses and Red Cross people go for), and a plethora of scars, including one that runs vertically through his lower left eyelid down onto his cheek, and must have come really close to costing him that eye at some point. I don't find it odd that Randall is being nice at all. Like I've said, his behavior in the movie is the result of acute, prolonged stress. In the game, apparently, all that has been resolved, so he's back to acting normal. I know we'd discussed the game before on here, in another section, and it was thought at the time that the game took place in a sort of "pre-movie" time frame, before Randall got involved with the Scream Extractor, but I guess the fact that BOO is one of the players whose score you have to beat sorta rules THAT out, doesn't it? Maybe this, like "Scream Arena", in one of the positive signs that Randall will return and work out all the issues with the others. I suck at games of any sort-not enough hand-eye coodination. Too old, basically, so I'd probably get pwned by a toddler, too. pitbulllady Pinball Panic, along with Scream Arena, are considered spin off titles, they are not canon to Monsters Inc due to the fact that the goals and such of this game have NOTHING to do with the story of it. The only connection to MI that these games have are just the characters and the fact that Disney Interactive slapped the MI logo on it. Spin off titles are practically never canon, spin off titles from movies tend to serve one purpose which is to help promote films. The only games that relate to film that could be considered canon are either games based straight off of a film, games designed to purposefully be a sequel to a film, or games purposefully designed to be a prequel...and even then, in some cases, fans won't always consider games like these to be canon. I personally am not a big fan of games based off of a films due to the fact that over half of the time, the games won't always relate to the film that they are based on, sometimes even having events or storylines added that were never in or even had anything to do with the original film. Most film based games don't even have the original voice actors to boot, I can kind of understand it when the film is live action but when a game company can't get voice actors to come back for a game based off of an animated film, that's seriously messed up! X-play put it best that games that relate to film have the "games based on a film curse" which basically means you get one of the following. 1. Great movie but game sucks which could make the film suck instead. 2. Horrible film, awsome game that causes you to watch the film and probably wished that you would have made yourself blind! 3. Horrible film, horrible game, waste of money. 4. Great movie and somehow by the grace of god, a great game that didn't get screwed up. Considering that a good majority of the MI games were spin off titles, I don't consider any of them to be canon and so, no information from them are used in anything I do fic related due to that fact alone. Theonepistol, as for the game being hard, hate to say it but Disney Interative aren't too good with games, they will have some strange stuff in their games sometimes....as for Pinball Panic's difficulty, the only challenge is just that high score and really nothing else. The only difference between the two difficulty settings is the fact that you get less turns on the harder mode, otherwise than that, it's still the same boring game. I honestly question if anyone who works at Disney Interactive are even gamers at all because trust me, they do some weird stuff with games...take TS3 for example, the game was freaking easy until the final boss fight then suddenly, they shifted the easy setting to a WTF setting and if it's frustrating for an adult to play through the final boss, imagine what it's doing to a kid! Either way it's not pretty. I can't comment on the ease/difficulty of any said game, since I'm SO not a gamer myself, and I no doubt could be pwned by a toddler at any game, BUT I can add this: Jess Winfield, one of the writers/directors/animators for the "Lilo and Stitch" tv series and one of the Disney employees who was at least partially responsible for the content of some of their games, did tell us over on what is now the TV.com forums that Disney DOES consider the games to be canon. "Scream Arena", for example, clearly takes place after the switch to Laugh Energy, so in that respect, it follows the time-line of he movie. With "Pinball Panic", I guess it's harder to determine the time line, but again, with Boo in there at least mentioned, it would have to be "post-movie" as well, which would account for all the additional scars that Randall bears on his head and body. From an artistic perspective, I find it intriguing that the game's designers/animators spent so much time on the detail of the character, for what was really not a major game release but just one in a series of three games. Randall is even more detailed here than in the movie itself, right down to stuff like the blood vessels in his eyes and the ligaments in his wrists as he tosses the ball up and down and back and forth in his hands. pitbulllady
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Post by RandallBoggs on Aug 19, 2010 18:25:47 GMT -5
Good point Pitbulllady. When I pointed out Scream Arena, as well as Scream Team, as contributors to the whole timeline, someone (think it was you) said that Disney/Pixar DOES consider them canon. But never knew who that was until now.
Scream Team occurs in the past while Scream Arena is in the future. They don't conflict with the base, the film. Monsters Inc. games based on actual film (Monsters Inc.: The Game), mostly follow the story, but many parts are not canon. For instance, in the final stage of the PS2 version, Sullivan faces off against Waternoose, who has Boo in the upper "shell" of this sorta cannon device that fires off shots at you. The shots are fuled by canisters Randall delivers up on the second floor, though once you get there, he takes off. This conflicts with what actually happened.
Scream Team shows the basis that Randall was the two's trainer, and already a verteran on loan at the time. Scream Arena shows that he makes it back, and is in good health and spirits apparently.
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Post by mistica0christina on Aug 19, 2010 20:51:19 GMT -5
*facepalms* Sorry but as a gamer, I'm going to say no on this and considering that Disney Interactive in my opinion isn't that good of a gaming company, unless the game actually states "prequel, sequel, or takes place during so and so movie", I don't consider a cheap version of dodgeball aka Scream Arena or a pinball knockoff aka Pinball Panic to be canon!
They spent that much detail on a cutscene?! Gosh, they should have spent that much time and effort on the whole f*cking game...cutscenes are nice but if you don't have a game with good gameplay than the only thing good about it is just the cutscenes and for a game, that's not saying much. After I had played it, I had reviewed the game on my site and I will say as a fan of pinball games, I was very disappointed on this game, there was so much more that could have been done that wasn't done and also, I still don't know if the voice I'm hearing is actually Buscemi or not, I wouldn't be surprised if they got someone else to do it considering that to some actors, a game is just a game and nothing more....a rather disappointing thing for fans who happen to be gamers to deal with.
I'm more willing to consider Scream Team to be canon than the other two considering that Scream Team sounds like a prequel game to me....but the rest are still spin offs which to me aren't canon! Unless I can find actual proof in the film or even the games themselves that can convince me otherwise, a spinoff is still a spinoff and a good majority of the MI games are.
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Post by V on Aug 20, 2010 16:39:01 GMT -5
The voice IS Steve Buscemi. I remember seeing his name after checking out the credits.
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