Someone needs to take the dropshadow and bevel/emboss tools away from the Stern artists. Just unilaterally ban them so they're forced to be more creative.

I can't believe how much I dislike the look of this game, and I was in on an LE with my distro. Dream theme.

These are just 3D renderings, so hopefully they have an opportunity to address it.

I don't recall ever seeing them do this. The 3D renders coupled with placeholder art on the LE and no art (!) for the Premium leads me to believe that this reveal was rushed.

Why show horrible placeholder side/translite art if the point of releasing the pictures is to pump everyone up?

It seems impossible that NOBODY in charge at Stern looked at this art package and said "hey...maybe not so much."

The random collage of 3D-rendered bricks/photographs of fire/thick-stroked cartoony inserts, etc seems like a first-pass blocking layout. It's at least 3-4 revisions behind where it should to be.

And there was some borrowing going on (left is GoT upper PF, right is MM slingshot).

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So I noticed that there's no line item in the feature matrix around audio from the show...has anyone heard anything different? The Hound doing call-outs is AWESOME, but I want to hear from all of the other cast members.

This is my main concern now as well.

The art ship has sailed, so I'm 99% out on the LE unless the light show and dots are basically the best of all-time. The LE is about paying for bling, and this is lipstick on a pig territory. Not worth $1,200 extra. That's craziness.

So that leaves the Premium, and if there's no audio from the show I'm 100% out.

Feel like I should respond to this since my original comparison picture was taken in a bunch of different directions and I saw that it was posted on Stern's FB out of context with some not so great comments, which I felt bad about.

I would never in a million years say that it was "stolen" or whatever, because MM is one of my favorite games and of course I know that Greg worked on it. It has one of the best art packages in all of pinball. In the context of my original post, I commented on the archer being borrowed in that it felt like another art element that was mashed together with a bunch of other unrelated assets to create an early draft of the playfield.

I still stand by feeling that the playfield is generic and decidedly not GoT in tone or style...and I think the fact that they used random "medieval" archer guy from MM versus a costume/figure that's GoT-specific supports that feeling.

That's hilarious.

I can already hear the "squish!" sound effect when a head lops off.

Who will be the first modder with vinyl blood-splatter for the blade?

You shouldn't spend any more time on this. It'll only make you and the rest of us even sadder over what should've been.

The translite/cabinet work you did MAY influence what they do with the Premium artwork, so a million kudos for that.

The likelihood that they'll go back and redesign the playfield is basically nil. I think our best hope is that the rest of the game is awesome and people put out some great mods.

From pinballinfo forum post:

Steve really liked the idea of having a true 'pinball lady' as part of the game, and thought that having played many different machines in the past would help with understanding the script and the tone of certain phrases (for example, the enthusiasm in a 'super jackpot!' or how you might be berated for losing the ball or for tilting). So off I went to a recording studio and had Steve Ritchie and Dwight Sullivan (the game developer) talking to me through headphones, and guided me through the script line by line. (By this point i'd watched up to the end of season 4 - still hooked). Steve and Dwight were both fantastic, so supportive and not just patient with each line but really enthusiastic too, even 3 hours in.

Hmm...interested to see how this will turn out.

Hopefully The Hound is doing jackpot, tilt and drain callouts too. Also hoping that they're not just using her as a cheaper replacement for show voice clips.

Throne room BG with the throne looks WAY better. Will have to see how it interacts with that flasher (if at all).

Plenty of opportunity for some great lighting mods in and around the throne.

Geez, tough crowd now.

They're going to die by a thousand social media cuts unless they just do a content dump and lay it all out there. At this point the launch, along with their social media plan, is spoiled. Don't bother leaking things out slowly.

I've personally moved past the "omg, this is garbage" phase into the "relax, it's only pinball" phase. Stern was my only shot at an epic total package for GoT pinball and it's gone. Nothing I can do.

Now I'm just waiting to stand in front of one and give it a try.

I'd guess that the explosions are jackpot effects.

The Hound sounded good.

Also extra time to work on code and get the Premium playfield kinks worked out on the LEs.

I was speaking more about TWD. They sent me extra plastics for a ramp that had lots of airballs and a kit to put protective feet on the bicycle girl ramp because it was chewing into the PF.

Cloudy windows on AC/DC are a great example too, though.

They also added a dark fade to the top, which should blend nicely into the black armor.

So a friend just pointed this out, but it looks like when they went from 3D render to production they reversed one of the "badges" and now the shadows are facing different directions.

Maybe shadows from the pyramid? Look like googly eyes to me. Wonder what's going on there.

Looks like they also improved the background brick texture by scaling it down so it's more readable as a wall.

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I thought that it was really fun watching Steve both play his latest game and watch someone else play it for the first time. You could tell that he was very into it and proud to describe the rules and features.

Someone mentioned this in another thread, but it looks a lot like the old Pirates! game.

I played the crap out of that game in the early 90s.

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Wow, the PF art is different, too. Didn't see that coming.

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They even added little snowdrifts to all of gears and bits on the plastics. That's awesome.

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