https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/acdc-such-high-hopes

1) Didn't mean to imply anything about TWD voicework by linking an early thread about ACDC.

2) As far as it goes, I don't see random lines from the series being thrown out all the time being a major selling point for the machine, so it doesn't bother me. I do find the happy redneck callouts unsuitable for theme though, maybe they can tone them down. In a perfect world Andrew Lincoln would do custom voice work like he is leading you through the zombie attack, doing callouts specific to the pin. My guess is there are various reasons why this didn't happen.

Sorry RGR, didn't mean to specifically single you out, I just pulled the earliest ACDC impressions thread I could find. It was the responses to it in the thread that struck me, not so much your review.

I guess my point in linking the thread was to provide some perspective on the whole "worst game ever, so disappointed" being expressed by many people about the blurry video, early code stuff we have seen so far with TWD. Very similar in tone and content to the ACDC thread. Just reading that thread would lead you to believe it was going to be the biggest turd Stern ever shat out of its factory (insert obligatory Avengers joke here).

Perhaps TWD will end up being generally acclaimed like ACDC, or slammed like Avengers, who knows, but it is still early days.

Great video, thanks RGR! Nice playing too. Glad to finally get a real look at the lighting effects and hearing the music and sound effects clearly. I didn't even find the hillbilly callouts as irritating because of the music.

As per usual, going to come down to code code code. I can only hope that the code on there is a very early release version and they have a much more improved ready to go out when the majority of Pros start shipping. Buying a machine and then sitting on the current code for six months is something I have no interest in.

I was looking for that too, and was pleasantly surprised. When the ball gets in the pops on my STLE it can hang around longer than what I was seeing in the video for TWD.

Glad to see the GI going completely dark at some points, fitting for the theme.

Not trying to hype the LE, but I think the lighting, the extra magnet at the well walker and the lifting ramp/bicycle girl bash are going to be cool additions to the machine. Still not sold on the crossbow though.

Understand your frustration, but we know nothing about the licensing restrictions from AMC. Maybe they weren't allowed to use any voices from the show. Maybe getting actors from the show to do custom voice work was not allowed either by AMC or by some exhorbitant cost. Dunno. Some intellectual properties are more locked down than others. It isn't like Stern never uses voice actors from the properties when they can.

That being said, a Walking Dead branded pinball machine is going to attract more players and buyers than a generic zombie themed pin ever would, and my guess is to the vast majority of people who plunk down quarters in locations could care less whose voice is doing the callouts as long as the game is fun.

Don't know about anyone else, but I didn't thumbs down because you didn't like it, I thought that your original review provided absolutely no value.

You went in with a mindset that all of Borg's games bore you, "boring ass lame stern play", it is biased all over the place. It wasn't a review, it was just trollish garbage.

Sorry, but I find no value in any sort of blanket statement. However if you would've just said "I didn't like it" then I wouldn't have thumbs downed. Everyone is entitled to an opinion. How someone expresses that opinion though matters, at least to me. I chose to express my opinion of your opinion by thumbs downing. Sorry if that bothered you.

Again, never once said your opinion was invalid. How can an opinion be invalid? It is a completely subjective thing. In your subsequent posts you have actually mentioned specific things about the machine you didn't like which make sense. Doesn't change the fact that your initial post on the subject was useless.