Pinball FX's First Marvel Collection Bounces Onto Switch Later This Month

There is still a huge amount of work needed to bring FX up to FX3-quality visuals on the Switch... A shame, as this pack would have played perfectly and looked perfect in FX3 even years ago when they originally came out! I really hope some Switch patches are being worked on.

I'm a fan of the Zen pinball tables, but it's the old Williams tables that really get me going. The FX table offerings were pretty sparse at launch, but I'm glad to see them working to remedy that so quickly.

11 tables - thats a lot of content and challenge. Gotta love Zen for creating such quality tables, although i personally still think the Aliens table is their best ever.

I’m much more excited to see Williams’ excellent Star Trek: The Next Generation table coming to Pinball FX later this month.

Is this using the new engine or the old one?

@AG_Awesome They said the new engine would be coming to Switch, so I hope it should be the newer one.

This would be cool if the game wasnt broken. I cant even see zen studios addressing the issues. It's really not like them to do this.

@Ironcore I remember FX3 launching in poor shape but they eventually fixed it.

@Teksetter Yeah, most of the Marvel ones I already have on FX3. Wouldn't mind starting a FX collection of newer tables.

And here I'm still waiting for an updated Ms. Splosion Man table.

@riderkicker Sadly the Marvel ones were never released on the Switch for FX3 (why!?) so I'm hoping that FX gets its flippers' together soon enough so things aren't as blurry and dark as they currently are.

@Teksetter Yes me too. This marvel pinball definitely seems like garbage..

@MeatSauce the load times are ridiculous for something like this and I am on my Series X. Also hate that we have to be online….that said, they are some cool tables.

@canaryfarmer They weren't?! What tables did Switch get then? Most of my FX3 tables were rebuys from FX2.

@riderkicker For FX3? Everything but the Marvel tables, I think...the Star Wars ones were eventually released as a separate thing, even.

@canaryfarmer @riderkicker
Yeah, I was just going to say - I didn't know these Marvel tables were on FX3!? I only play Zen tables on my Switch, and never saw the Marvel tables on the Switch eshop.

I bought their FX3 Universal Studios tables (Jaws/ET/Jurassic Park) on sale for for Switch, and they were fun enough, but the lack of licensed music and voices kills the fun for me. If the Marvel pins are base on the Marvel movies, I imagine the licensing situation is the same (lackluster).

I'd rather spend a little more and get a quality, accurate sim of real-life pins like Indiana Jones, Addams Family, and this upcoming ST:TNG, than buy original tables that skimp on what they license from the original IP.

@Teksetter Fully agreed, I want to love the BTTF table, but I just can't, it's so...bluh with no BTTF score or voices behind it.

I still don't know why Zen couldn't port the Marvel tables to the switch forever ago, it's baffling it took this long.

Marvel couldn't bother getting the rights to some of their old classic superhero games on older consoles but instead decided to re-release an old generic pinball game with Marvel characters. smh

I tired of Zen "revolutionizing" their game every few years just so they can sell you the same tables over and over again. FX3 was the last one I'll invest money or time in.

Why would I buy these again when I already have them on FX3, which, at the moment, is the better of the two Zen platforms available on Switch? And how about an upgrade discount for folks who've bought these titles in the past? I know, I'm not being realistic!

@Burning_Spear They did it when adding some of the DLC from FX2 to FX3. But yeah, even then it was for a limited time, so not feeling too optimistic myself.

@Burning_Spear You are not wrong, however, they're not on FX3 for Switch! Downloading them for FX is the only way to get them for this particular platform.

@canaryfarmer @Teksetter Yeah, I don't get why they didn't bring them to the Switch either. Some might be based around the movies, but not all of them. FX3 had tables based on comic storylines such as World War Hulk & Fear Itself.

Not unless they have movies that I never got spammed about by friends/family members(not a big MCU fan).

@canaryfarmer Is it perhaps that some of these tables are on the Zen Wii U collection? I'm near-certain I have them.

I would have to know anything about the Wii-U to say xD

I take it this content is for the new engine FX iteration?

Also, on the Switch, Marvel tables never came to FX3, did they? I remember playing Zen's "Marvel Pinball" on the 3DS and Wii U I think.

Zen makes some really good pinball, but I am so sick of Marvel and Star Wars, I pretty much avoid anything associated with them. It's unfortunate Zen makes so much of their pinball based on those two properties.

Had these on Wii U. Those were some fun times, I miss Miiverse