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Dungeons & Dragons by Stern

Jib said:
Also Venom needs an option to not start the boss battles if you're the right level imo, give you the option to continue to just level without fighting the bosses and losing your grid progress.
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I might be misunderstanding your point here, but once you have completed three mini modes and qualified a boss battle on the centre ramp you can shoot the left ramp to go back to character select instead and continue levelling / completing the grid.

James said:
Thinking on it, absolute best version of one shot pinball I have played, actually, is Batman 66 - and the features the side villains get, the tournament strategy is mr freeze and… mad hatter? I forget without being in front of the game, but essentially it saves villain progression across balls and freezes timers which can rack up serious points.
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I know I’m in the minority here but I owned B66 for a while and didn’t really enjoy it, and it was almost entirely down to the Mr Freeze / Bookworm stack. If I didn’t qualify both in ball one then I’d just restart the game over and over until I did. Felt like it was the only way worth playing and I quickly got bored.
 
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JustLikeMe said:
I might be misunderstanding your point here, but once you have completed three mini modes and qualified a boss battle on the centre ramp you can shoot the left ramp to go back to character select instead and continue levelling / completing the grid.
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I meant either if you've completed the grid and don't want to battle yet or if you don't want to change character. OR if you accidentally hit the centre ramp but really didn't want to 😂 it should give you a choice I think to battle or not rather than auto start it. Just my opinion though.
 
D&D has come a long way since the early days. I’m afraid Stern will need a huge effort to convince D&D gamers to buy this pin. A lot of what I saw was very basic, AI/random generated dungeons + Stern mech and sculpts on some of their games are fricking cheap looking and unconvincing. The Dragon.. I mean.. really. My 8 year old son has more convincing Dragon toy mechs.
 
Kenny Taylor said:
D&D has come a long way since the early days. I’m afraid Stern will need a huge effort to convince D&D gamers to buy this pin. A lot of what I saw was very basic, AI/random generated dungeons + Stern mech and sculpts on some of their games are fricking cheap looking and unconvincing. The Dragon.. I mean.. really. My 8 year old son has more convincing Dragon toy mechs.
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*puts on tin foil hat* pretty sure I saw 3D print layer lines on that dragon mech
 
Gonzo said:
I really don't know anything about the theme but that looks a damn good machine.

So the pro still has the dragon which doesn't move as much, still has the shield and still has the trapdoor? Unless I'm mossing something that would appear to be the way to go on this one?
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The Pro has a Dragon that just moves up and down and doesn't have bidirectional sensing for the bash and it doesn't fire pinballs.

The Pro is also missing the Led Zeppelin style trap door entrance to the dungeon. You probably initiate it by going through the spinner or something.
 
Was kind of tempted. Then briefly looked at the LE price and reality caught back up.

Even at a couple of grand less for the premium I simply can’t justify the price. I must live in a very different financial world.

Still want to play it though.
 
Davey D said:
Ruined by playing on a wide-screen lcd :popcorn::sad:
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Well, that's an FPGA Mister recreating the OG hardware exactly. The choice to put it in 16 by NEIN is mine as 4:3 actually doesn't look especially better in this instance. I've owned BVMs, Blast City'l cabs, consumer Trinitrons, B&O consumers sets, Framemeisters, OSSCs the lot and trust me, this is a good experience. Don't choke on that popcorn 🤓
 
huggers said:
Well, that's an FPGA Mister recreating the OG hardware exactly. The choice to put it in 16 by NEIN is mine as 4:3 actually doesn't look especially better in this instance. I've owned BVMs, Blast City'l cabs, consumer Trinitrons, B&O consumers sets, Framemeisters, OSSCs the lot and trust me, this is a good experience. Don't choke on that popcorn 🤓
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😁 :thumbs:
 
kevlar said:

Looks...OK. I have no problem skipping this one though. I may feel differently after playing.
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I really like the theme. We play a lot of D&D-adjacent board games, and this looks like the pinball version of the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game. It also looks like it plays similarly to Venom, which I enjoy shooting - just not the mess of a ruleset.

I can definitely see it working and being super-cool if you like that sort of thing, but I can also see it being hellish for casual players due to the combination of an A:IQ-esque ruleset and the Venom-esque (and John Wick) speed.

Looking forward to playing!
 
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