Quoted from zsciaeount:Looks like a reskin of Austin Powers.
Right down to Zombie Fat Bastard!
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Quoted from Rarehero:That was my logic with Lebowski, as it's one of my favorite films - what am I gonna do, NOT buy Lebowski!?!?
Say what you want about the tenets of the CARGPB, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
Quoted from Whysnow:I think it is silly as hell, but that said... If I had tons of extra cash I would buy every new pinball that comes out just to have it and play it. I also would have a house big enough for 100+ pins so I could house them all.
And live-in strippers to play them all.
Quoted from Chambahz:This is not meant as a knock against you, but in all fairness, you have FIFTEEN pins and clearly a house big enough for them all.
If you wanted a new pin bad enough, all you have to do is reduce your collection size.
Great problem to have, eh?
Whysnow is wisely watching his total cost of ownership (TCO), judging from his (awesome) collection of older pins. The TCO (net cash flow) for his whole collection could be less than what he might lose buying a new Stern. I get his point.
Quoted from zucot:It's already been confirmed that there's no custom vo from the actors. Maybe we get some cuts from the show.
This is not necessarily a bad thing. On CSI, the cuts from the show are great, but the custom voice work has some awful moments ("see if there's any blood on the ball").
Quoted from luvthatapex2:I see that even the PRO has drop targets this time. Thats a first since they started making PRO models.
CSI, Nascar...
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Quoted from CaptainNeo:you just have to look every where else besides this site. Deals do not happen often here. In the real world, things are more reasonably priced.
Zombies are props. They're part of the story, but they aren't THE story. The real story is the people on the show. I just watched an episode in season 4 that blew my mind. I think there were zombies in about 4 minutes of the 43-minute show.
Quoted from joelreeves:Just look at the flowers...
Yeah, that was the episode. What a cute little girl OMG SHE'S BATSHIT CRAZY.
Quoted from Aurich:We enjoy our "soaps" because they have a veneer of zombie gore covering them. Just like all the other premium cable soaps with similar sugar coatings to let us enjoy swallowing them.
So yes, they're props. But it's also what we want on our pinball I suspect. Not a bunch of people talking and having dramatic moments. EPIC ARGUMENT MULTIBALL!!
I'm chuckling at this because I joke to my wife every night: "I'm going down to the basement now to watch my zombie stories". There's definitely a soap opera element to it.
But just to have a friendly argument on this point, consider LOTR (the pin). Sure, there are Orcs and a Balrog, but what really makes LOTR a beloved pin are the callouts from Gimli, and hearing speech that takes you back to a specific scene from the Trilogy. To really take TWD to the same level there should be a mode for that scene in the RR tunnel where they mow down a bunch of zombies, and Maggie and Glenn are reunited. If you win the mode, Maggie says "You won't need a picture of me ever again." Maybe that's too sappy, but there are better examples. Herschel is really the Gandalf of the bunch, and to omit his speech from the game would be criminal.
Quoted from TaylorVA:Lyman has his work cut out for him.
I think you mean the sound guy. I could be mistaken, but it sounded like he wasn't allowed to use any of the show's music directly (like David Thiel did in CSI to great effect). So instead we have this music that's sort of like the show's theme music, but not really...yuck. And of course the lack of character voices totally sucks. Then the icing on the cake is the announcer, who is really bad. Nobody I know here in Georgia talks like that, and if they did I would not hang out with them. If Stern can't get at least one of the actors or actresses to do speech for this game, or at least use clips from the show, I won't be owning it.
Post edited by swampfire: I didn't realize Stern lost David Thiel!
Quoted from Chambahz:Swampfire please stop already. I don't think anyone disagrees with you, that the pin would have more character using the actors actual voices, but HOW MANY TIMES ARE YOU GOING TO REPEAT YOURSELF???
Edit: after reading a TON of other posts, I'm the one in the minority.
Feel free to continue to complain about the call outs!
It's OK, I have been beating a dead horse, so I'll stop. I'll just end with a final "what could have been" comment. John Borg and Lyman Sheats have never let me down, so I know that the layout and rules are going to be great. The art is fantastic (it took me a while to come around to that; watching the show helped). The sound effects and the dots are great. The music and speech are fatally flawed.
Done with this game for now.
Quoted from zucot:You guys need to chill. It's lyman.
Yes, but it's not David Thiel. 
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