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lilshawn:

--- Quote from: pinballwizard79 on August 02, 2010, 10:03:45 pm ---Agreed with Jeff, thats not the video I hoped for but at least its something.

Damn those plastics are ugly, faded & muted on what could have been a rich & colorful PF.

I hope its cool though

--- End quote ---

could just be the camera and the unusual lighting...

Xiaou2:
The type of Inkjet printer they use produces very poor color ranges... and
thus colors are drab, dark, and faded looking.  Its most especially noted on photographs,
which is basically what they use in most of their games.

 The low resolution does not help either.


 As for the layout... its crud, as expected.  There is no real flow to it... and a
stop-n-shot player isnt going to be challenged/impressed with it either.
All the shots look easy as pie, and plain old boring.

 The thing is butt ugly, does not represent the movies beauty at all.

 The soundtrack was probably so bad/annoying, that they chose to use a generic backing
track on the video.  heh

 The gameplay so bad, that they didnt show any (camera movement/placement tricks,
and edits).

 
 The simplest things like fiber-optic flowers w/ color cycle leds Should have been put it.
It wouldnt have increased the cost a few dollars, and actually drew more attention
than the crappy 3d backbox... as well as actually adding to the value and beauty of
the machine.   Of course, its pretty much a mute point, when they decided to use
such a poor quality print job...

RayB:
Xiau2: Why would you assume it's "inkjet" ?? Inkjet prints would run/smear when come in contact with moisture. From what I've seen it looks like they are using old fashion "halftone" style printing method that pre-dates digital printing. It results in photos made up of little dot patterns and look like how newspaper photos used to look (ie: like crap).

Here's an exagerrated B&W example of a halftone print:


Maybe it saves on ink costs? Still odd considering the low cost/ high quality of professional digital print services these days.

Jeff AMN:
I also like that he thinks that a printing style can make a photo's colors look different from a line drawing's colors. Whether it's a photo or an illustration, color is color when it comes to be printed. Photos don't get washed out any more than any other color. Whatever the process they use, it has nothing to do with them using photos in conjunction (or rather than) photos. And besides, many playfields look great. Few playfields look as colorful and lively as The Simpsons Pinball Party or Family Guy. It did help that they had the input of the shows' artists, but they didn't use any special printing processes for those games.

In short, Xiaou2 continues to not know what he's talking about.

Pinball Wizard:
Remember this is not a complete game at the show. This is a sample game. When we first saw spiderman in the wild it had all red plastics, no artwork. When you saw that did you immediately think WTF this game has stupid plastics? Judge on the production run for artwork. I'll have to agree that the playfield does seem too easy.

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