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It's supposed to be campy.........

yes, insanely so - exactly why I’m interested!

Played GTF 5 times at TPF. Some impressions here. I went in really wanting to like it because I really like the art and have been following the hype. In person, I thought the game looked awesome. The signature and LE cabinets look awesome. The deluxe cab looks fine, but it looks every bit as good as the other models when sitting in a line up.

The live action scenes from the trailer seemed much less awkward in person. They grew on me. Whether they would drive me nuts in the long run owning the game and playing it hundreds of times, I'm not sure. It's a possibility.

One thing working against the game at the show is that they didn't seem very dialed in. Shooter rods were badly aligned so it was tough to get the ball in play. Ball would get out of control often, bouncing over the flippers, bouncing over the stopper that pops up between the flippers. Magnets in the back that are supposed to stop the ball and drop it into a saucer didn't always succeed. Also, the volume was up super high and it was pretty high pitched and piercing. The dimples on the playfield were pretty out of control, some machines there seemed more affected than others. Some little details about the build quality and durability of the stuff on the playfield gave me pause.

The music choice bothers me. Dub step just doesn't feel like the right choice for the theme.

It's pretty hard to grasp the rules of new games at a show and I didn't have much success with GTF. I was disappointed that none of the shots had that addictive feeling that made me want to keep hitting them. Granted, I was inclined to keep going back and waiting in line to play again. That was definitely not the case for Godfather and FF.

Overall, I would love to spend more time playing it. But, I wouldn't run out and buy one.

Jack Danger was saying on his stream last night that he will stream this after MGC.

With the amount of airballs I have seen in gameplay footage along with a lot of airball comments from people who played it at TPF, maybe they should release an ULTRA LE called Galactic Air Force. You could sell a kit that adds wings onto the cabinet sides. Iceman can pretend he is a pilot fighter combating "woke" pinball culture. Pew pew.

Hopefully he wears eye protection so he doesn't get dimpled by an air ball...

If you love GTF! …. you’ll go gorillas over GAF! Fold and flight action.

Did you guys see David Fix saying they've sold 2000 of these?

No. Where did he say that ?

Yup. We’ve been discussing it on the “Next American Pinball” thread.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

Art work, the look of the game-stellar, especially the back glass.
Code, needs work but there is a path.
Design of the playfield, how it shoots………..hmmmm…….it’s got issues. Can they be fixed? The layout can’t be moved, it’s set. Can you replace or modify the tank so the ball doesn’t fly back at you? Change the target surface to absorb the velocity? That’s above my pay grade. Hope it can. A 2/3 win is tough on a 11-16k machine. I am surprised the shortcomings were not addressed in the design process.
Did they take 2,000 deposits, probably, one of them is mine. Did so based on their other machines and reputation for quality and reliability. I am considering walking away from the deposit. Won’t be the first time I’ve paid a “stupid” tax. we will see, life goes on. My 2 cents anyway.

If true, that's an awful lot of fudge packed and ice cream licked!!!

"Supposed to be campy" doesn't mean it gets an automatic pass even though its awful. Campy can still be done well or poorly. This seems to be much more in the latter catagory. Man some of ya'll are marks.

Oh and I guess we're pretending fudge packer is an equal opportunity statement now? Allright lol. Yep, when we were all in 5th grade laughing at calling our buddies a fudge packer it meant that they liked having anal sex with women. (no I am not offended by it, or pretty much anything)

Seems like a lot of people think "campy" is supposed to mean "corny and not funny." I can assure you that isn't the case!!

Check out a John Waters movie sometime!

Are some people still on the "this pinball machine is homophobic" train?

Selling 2k GTF! deluxes at $8k = $16M. Pretty good haul, if true. Expecting to hear rumor that David Fix was not fired for his role in the disastrous rollout but was actually promoted to AP’s president. Are these paying customers?

No way that's true.

Not at all lol I just find it weird that people want to tip toe around fudge packers meaning 99.9% of the time when not talking about literally packing fudge. I really don't care if a game dropped every slur in the book, I'm more offended that haha packing fudge...for ice cream and cookies..is a joke that anyone over the age of 10 finds funny, and not for WoKe reasons...just because like I don't know... its just not funny? My sense of humor can be pretty dumb too, like I really got a kick out of the back door joke in Elvira HOH, but this is just like not clever at all.

I am. You don't have to agree with me, but the expression "fudge packer" was interchangeable with another "f" word used to describe gay men in the 80s. Maybe you weren't ever called that in your life, and made to feel like a zero-value human being. It wasn't OK then, and bringing it back up as a tongue-in-cheek bit of humor is no more excusable than bringing back a derogatory term about race that isn't used anymore as now being funny.

The team that built this game is definitely old enough to understand the reference.

Make your choices about what you want to buy, but this, at least for me, is the end of quarters going into AP games. It's too bad, because there are some genuinely good people who work there.

You are “offended” that someone else found something funny that you don’t? There is a sitcom from the 90s called ‘Friends’ that would ROCK YOUR WORLD!

PEE PEE POO POO FART FART FART!!!!!!!

Maybe orders from distributors?

Sticks and stones and all that, but i respect your opinion.

I’m not into ‘fart humor’, either, but I don’t get bent out of shape that others are. And I don’t try to stop other people from being ‘offensive’ - I just turn my head and move on with my life. I am an adult.

Man! Shit escalates quickly in here. I’m looking forward to playing this game on route. I love the original theme and I like the fact that it’s not a movie or any type of superhero theme, or another band for that matter.

Could turn out to be pretty unique down the road. Hell I might even buy one in the future.

This speculation thread is at a point where it should be shut down.

without a single gameplay video ever being released. RIP.

Pretty sure that's never happened?

The hype thread is for general chitchat, criticism, and woke debates.

Owner's threads are for jerking each other off about how awesome the game is, and pitchfork mobs when code updates slow.

This is the established order of things around here! If one of the threads isn't to your liking perhaps the other one will prove to be.

We're getting perilously close to invoking Godwin's law.

Thank you for clarifying the obvious and reinforcing my opinion. Being crass and disgusting has no place here.

The joke was supposed to be very bad. Which means its good. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Camp! Humor! wooooo
Also, it was on the same level as fudge packing. Should be right up your alley! No pun intended of course.

PS- does cringing count as being bent out of shape? I could see an argument either way.

The N word you refer to is still highly prevalent in American society and used to great comic effect by many black comedians to this day . Don’t let a word have power over you’re sensibilities and state of mind / well being

I can't imagine how this could be true, but I hope it is.

Here's the thing: This release has provided a tremendous amount of laughter and joy in my life. I really want to see the same approach to the release of the next two slated original themed games. I want them to learn zero lessons from this. Maybe they double down and go even harder.

A man can dream.

Also, If AP sold 2,000 of these already without any real gameplay video, I'm pretty sure the Fed will decide to raise interest rates by a solid 75 bps.

Nutzis

So you're saying it's OK because this machien was made by gay people?

I'm just fine and I very much appreciate your concern. And I agree, in the right time and in the right place, a well-timed pejorative expression can be really funny. To me, though, this just isn't one of those places. I'm not sitting here with outrage and fire coming out of my ears, but I think some things are better left in the past, especially in a pinball game, where it just isn't the same as a great comedian's set.

Oooh shit....

Next Stern = Dave Chappelle theme! I'm in!

Another pro to licensing a theme is you have a giant company like Disney going through their own properties constantly looking for anything remotely offensive to be removed/changed. No risk of old man humor accidentally offending modern audiences.

It's also just a so-so joke that is at best lazy

Just like Gottlieb in the 80’s!
We can do this!

So I'm guessing an Andrew Dice Clay pin is off the list?

Let's get a Anthony Jeselnik pin in this biatch. Dropping Babies Multiball.

I don’t think the ‘fudge packing’ joke is funny. Can you BE any more dense?

It’s some guy on the Pinside thread saying Kaneda said that David Fix said they sold 2000 units. Geez

Seems like a company with thousands of orders in hand would - have released a positive game play review - be hiring new employees - be placing hundreds of thousand dollars in parts orders - be offering game specific parts in their store - be operating at a hurried pace. Seeing more holes in this claim than Swiss cheese.

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Nothing but vanilla and milquetoast from here on out. Some very sensitive people
for sure.

There it is. Will it get to 6k ? Just need a little more in here