Especially when Dead Pool Home comes out and it has the same layout at Star Wars Home...

Yeah, but they picked a meh theme and failed to properly sell it to people. Dialed In is a fine game, despite the theme. (Would it really have been so much to make Dialed In about a superhero saving a town from destruction instead of just some random city employee answering a phone?) Sure, I'll give them credit for trying...but their attempt really fucked themselves over with lackluster sales solely because of the theme they created.

At least with deeproot doing RAZA they hit on a couple of broad themes that resonate a lot better.

Stern seems to have a lot of licenses under their stable. I wonder if they're actually signing license deals with intent to manufacture, optioning the licenses for rights of first refusal, or if they work with an agency that provides a list of licenses for Stern to choose from.

I'm curious about that process and the costs involved. It sounds like a licenses costs $100-250k spread out over a production run. Surely Stern isn't throwing that money away on licenses to sit on out of spite?

Cool thanks. That's sorta what I assumed was happening. It's just crazy how many licenses allegedly are attached to Stern without a peep about them.

Kudos to Jersey Jack getting in there with Disney. It'd be a shame if Stern had the entire Disney behemoth under their umbrella.

Why do you care who Bond is? They've changed the main actor a dozen times. Heck, it's sorta fun that they mix it up.

Or are you already positive the film is trash because a black woman can't possible portray a British Spy agent...because reasons you will only hint at. Like so what it's a woman. They'll still probably film her punching commies/fascists/generic-ne'er-do-wells in the face, drinking dry martinis, and having sex with hot lady assassin types. (And on some level I think it is dumb that they won't make a spy movie starring a black woman without attaching a valuable IP like Bond to the project to help generate some publicity because it sets an impossible standard and will upset a lot of people who care too much about things that don't actually matter)

I'm the snowflake because I'm laughing at a grown man that thinks a new movie somehow erases the movies he does love?

I'm just kidding by the way. I get that you are emotionally attached to James Bond and might be dismayed by the news, but who knows. It might kick ass. I thought the all girls Ghostbusters was pretty good (but I saw it for what it is, a fun popcorn movie meant to distract a person for a couple of hours)

Idk. I think the Star Wars movies were always for kids and are still extremely popular with kids. My nephews love the new movies as much as the old movies. My niece adores Rey. I didn't grow up watching or playing with Star Wars so the property has never meant much to me.

The only thing that has really changed is the tone of the movie. Slightly less violent and with a little more comedic elements. But that's what happens when toy sales dominate the box office earnings.

They're fun movies, but they're among the most cut and dry good vs evil stories ever told. They have some cool sword play and ships in outer space going PEW PEW PEW. I don't think anyone ever goes to Star Wars for the plot (good wins! except that one time during the best movie in the franchise)

You have thought about this way more than any designer at Data East/Sega/Stern. Damn shame, some good ideas there. (Jk, I know the bean counters are the buzz kill)

Let Steve Ritchie make F-14 2.0!

It’s hard when it’s a global product launch

Not only that, I think getting a bunch of fake enthusiasm is worse than people sitting around bored on their phones. It's why I dislike a few particular pinball commentators that have the worst tendencies of video game shoutcasters

Plus it makes moments like Dwight gushing over his GoT revamp more sincere. Also shout out for him taking the time to prepare notes for the stream. An afternoon of prep work made for a far better presentation overall.

I'm in the same boat. Jack is a nice guy, but I'm not interested in watching him play. I only tune into the "news" kind of streams. I think it's mostly because he's a solo act the majority of the time. The only stream I watch with any regularity is PAPA TV. They have a nice rotating group of different people and skill levels. (And two hours a week of watching pinball is about my limit)

Following a streamer is an asymmetric friendship. If Jack was a local player, I'd be happy to play with him at league or something...but I'd never text him out of the blue about hanging out to chase a GC score. And that's ok...just different personalities.

I respect his streaming hustle. That's a real grind. I hope Stern treats him well considering how much PR work he has to do for them.

I've always wondered about any pressure he feels from Stern when he does Jersey Jack stuff. I imagine Stern doesn't love it, but doesn't care enough to pay him to not do it. Stern will certainly continue to invite him over because he's so convenient for them and he can bring a large audience.

I wonder how much Stern considers making him an employee of some kind. He certainly does a bunch of videos for them, and you can see him modeling apparel in their store (although I notice it's a lot less than there used to be).

That's Keith playing and this is me playing

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It's pretty rare for him to toss it. Basically it seems like there are three or so T-Rex modes you qualify, and then feed the T-Rex. In one of those modes, he'll toss the ball instead of putting it back on the wireform. I think I saw the dino toss the ball maybe 3 times in the 2.5 hours of play. It's a neat effect that they may want to enable more in the software, but I can see how it can lead to some upsetting drains and possibly stuck balls.

I forgot half the stream was the pro, so he was tossing it a bit more.

The dino tossing the ball has no effect though. You can disable the toss on the premium and it'll put the ball on the ramp. The end result is the same, shoot the ramp, the ball returns via the wire to the left inlane.

I wonder how much of that is pre-rendered footage vs generated by Spike. I kinda wonder how much GPU power Spike 2 has in general.

And of course it’s a different team and project manager, although there is some overlap.

Well stuff like the map screen is being rendered by the game because it has to keep show all the locations of the various players and such.

Carrot flippers are bigger? Didn't realize

Seems like someone could make a killing making slightly longer flippers to tighten up the gap. Not only on Ghostbusters, but many other games. Sorta like the opposite of people that put on lightning flippers to make games harder.

Never understood why people care about code versions in software. The number is an arbitrary distinction and only meaningful to the programmers. The game looked mostly complete on the stream except maybe some additional polish and possibly more wizard mode work. Stern's last few games have all been feature complete within two or so months of shipping.

Well lets work backwards

Black Knight SOR = basically finished when it came out

Munsters = basically finished when it came out

Beatles = finished when it came out

Deadpool = done within three or so months

Iron Maiden = basically finished when it came out

GotG = done within four or so months

Star Wars = I'll admit to not being super familiar with this code history, but it seemed to come out basically done

Aerosmith = basically finished when it came out

Batman 66 = the one game that did ship with garbage code, but Stern was upfront about it and would go on to make it their deepest game to date

Ghostbuster = done within a few months, but still going to see a large overhaul because of complaints over the years

So in the last four years...Stern has done a pretty great job with getting games to feature complete code shortly after launch.

Y'alls beer drinkin is too highfalutin for me
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