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Message: <blockquote data-quote="invitro" data-source="post: 220621" data-attributes="member: 446">SoT most definitely has references to the TV show.  I get that you guys don't like how it does its references.  I'm not making any excuses at all for the GoT art.  I just don't see how it's any worse than most other Stern or Sega games, going back twenty years.Freres didn't do many duds, but he did do Hardbody, and he's listed as one of four artists on the 2013 Star Trek.  I'll bet that Stern gives its artists much less time to do their work than Williams did, and Stern probably forces its artists to use computers, unless a time limit does that.Hardbody and Party Animal are almost 30 years old, but you didn't say worst art in the last 30 years, you said worst ever.  And their art is bad not because it's cheezy (cheezy isn't necesarily bad, I think?), but because it's so ugly that looking at it makes me feel nauseous.  (I think GoT is pretty cheezy itself: it's about boobs, blood, and medieval stuff.)Any other pinball machine's art is a relevant comparison to GoT.  I certainly agree that the GoT art is worse than the Hobbit art that I've seen (but not by a lot), but you guys are making some claims that are much stronger, like being the worst art to ever deface a pinball machine <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.  That claim is certainly bonkers.I've been depressed over the state of pinball art for 15 years, at least since WMS died, and also for the Sega tables that were a little more ignorable because I could play the WMS beside them.  So I'm very glad to see an outcry about GoT.  I just don't understand why an outcry about Stern art in general didn't come sooner... it's probably too late to go back to hand-drawn playfield art now (other than limited editions, and I mean hand-drawn everything, including letters and numbers). <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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