Quoted from jar155:For modern pinball, however, I have to say that Pat Lawlor wins. He just has such a huge variety of designs and really knows how to make a game feel great, regardless of theme or rule set.
Quoted from jar155:The biggest issue I have with Borg is that he is the king of recycling ideas and mechs. He really needs to do something different in the future.
Really??? Pats games recycle as much or more than Borg's by a mile. The majority of Pat's games have all been variations of each other. The one time he really tried a different layout in the last 20 years was Nascar - which didn't really work out all that well. I guess he didn't have a shot through the pops on Family Guy.
I love Pat's games and have 4 of them currently, but they are all extremely similar in layout. There's only so much room on a playfield, and the good designs tend to get re-used, and repeated by the same designers. It's just how it is. Borg is on a roll right now IMO, and re-using the combination of the NBA ball launch and IJ Ark in Aerosmith was an awesome move - and very different. Neither of those previous implementations panned out, but in AS it's great! It's actually a testament to his skill as a designer to re-use things that didn't work out previously, for the win. That actually IS taking a chance.
