broseph123
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Has anyone heard anything good/bad about it....or even been lucky enough to play it?
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"With SPECUAL 3D BACKGLASS!!!!!"
It seems even pinball, one of the most classic forms of gaming, is being touched by the 3d craze
Also, idk if its just me, but that playfield looks kind of simple.....
You'd think they would "upgrade" the dot matrix display to a 3DLCD, and have stupid glasses hanging off the front of the machine.
Using an LCD is not a simple hardware switch over. It would be expensive and a major undertaking.
Anyways I'm pretty discouraged by the disembowlment that Stern is giving these new machines. Crappy software can break an otherwise good machine but good software can't save an otherwise crappy machine. FTR I haven;t played it. Like most others I've watched the youtube videos. What I do know is what I want/need out of a machine to have fun and this game is reeeeeaaaalllly lacking in the fun components for me. The toys are cheap and being interactive is next to nill. Lame stand up targets and a few pops ... woo hoo! Bah ... this seriosuly sucks because I was really looking forward to buying this. Ironman puts this to shame and even that pin doesn;t trip my trigger but it's most definently better than Avaturd. My personal opinion of course.
Using an LCD is not a simple hardware switch over. It would be expensive and a major undertaking.
Anyways I'm pretty discouraged by the disembowlment that Stern is giving these new machines. Crappy software can break an otherwise good machine but good software can't save an otherwise crappy machine. FTR I haven;t played it. Like most others I've watched the youtube videos. What I do know is what I want/need out of a machine to have fun and this game is reeeeeaaaalllly lacking in the fun components for me. The toys are cheap and being interactive is next to nill. Lame stand up targets and a few pops ... woo hoo! Bah ... this seriosuly sucks because I was really looking forward to buying this. Ironman puts this to shame and even that pin doesn;t trip my trigger but it's most definently better than Avaturd. My personal opinion of course.
I don't think driving an LCD would be that hard unless you want to force it's integration beyond what is needed. Just sticking an LCD with a media engine in there with an SD card that contains all of the content would be the extent needed for the hardware. Then use a simple protocol communicating scores and other game state as well as all of the media triggers, etc...
Maybe we will get an update to the paradigm by 2020.
Hey, I see that some people are bashing the Avatar pin, just be grateful that there's ANY pinball machines being made... and we forget that these are meant, for the most part, to be put in a public place to draw attention and earn money.. and this one fits that bill for sure. I don't think they're catering to the home collectors as much... Even though that's probably decent (10% perhaps?) percentage of their sales.
LCD would be dangerously close to a video hybrid ala pinball 2000. And we all know how great pinball 2000 was.
"With SPECUAL 3D BACKGLASS!!!!!"
It seems even pinball, one of the most classic forms of gaming, is being touched by the 3d craze
Also, idk if its just me, but that playfield looks kind of simple.....