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Theme importance??

By jints56

5 years ago


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    “Would you buy a great game regardless of theme??”

    • Would buy if even Milli Vanilli 6 votes
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    • Would buy even if Justin Bieber 1 vote
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    • Wouldn’t buy because it would drive me crazy 92 votes
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    • Who cares. I just want something to bitch about. 15 votes
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    #9 5 years ago
     
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    Quoted from Guinnesstime:

    IMO, there's THEME and there's THEME INTEGRATION. They're different.
    Example: Stern Star Wars is just a theme. I absolutely LOVE Star Wars as a theme, but is there anything there that really hooks you into Star Wars? Does it feel like Star Wars (answer is hell no).
    Iron Maiden is theme integration. You may not be the biggest fan of the band, but wow, it just all makes sense.
    I'd write more but I'm out of beer.

    Yes, there's the giant hyperloop toy, the "exploding" Death Star toy, the light up Falcon, the "use the force" outlane ball save feature, tie fighter bash toy, etc. Combine that with licensed music, licensed actor audio and actor video and feels a hell of a lot like Star Wars, lol.

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    #14 5 years ago
     
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    Quoted from Guinnesstime:

    The hyper loop is a rehashed HS2 turbo charger except this one blocks your view and I can run marathons more often than the Death Star explodes. The the Tie Fighter on some al dente Rigatoni does it's job (boing) but is less than spectacular and wow doest the light up Falcon just ooze excitement? No sir.
    But there is a DVD or 2 playing in the background. That's cool.

    Ok...I could literally say the same thing bad about any pin feature such as the ramps in Iron Maiden are like those in dozens of other pins and the shot on the backboard is a poor version of the LOTR ring shot that instead of the ball doing something cool just sadly falls down...lol. Seriously though I think both games have cool features and are loaded with references to their respective themes.

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