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Episode 250: Cayle George returns
PodcastAnalysis updated 2d ago58 min listen
The former #1 player in the world shares his thoughts on recent games, formats, coding, ROM's, and of course, exploits.
Highlights
- Kaylee George was the number one player in the world back in 2017
- Indisc tournament organizers (Carl D'Angelo and Jim Belsito) expanded from smaller core to larger organizing team
- Stranger Things is one of the least inspired playfields Stern has released in a long time
- Stranger Things wizard mode only awards points rather than engaging gameplay
- Black Knight: Sword of Rage's layout feels uninteresting and may not be fixable in software
- Escher won a Pinmasters match on Star Wars using the Leia character strategy to score ~250 million
- Papa tournaments set up games extremely difficult (pulling line posts, swapping flippers, tight tilts) forcing competitive home players to follow suit
- Attack from Mars with Total Annihilation mode requires four different shots vs. one lock shot for regular multiball
Notable quotes
“I first started playing that back when it was at a different location, and a bit smaller event... those guys are great competitive players, so I think they understand what the good competitive players want out of a tournament”
“It's funny because I see newer players go to a tournament, and they do very well in their leagues... and they're just cursing the games... they haven't realized the games have been altered”
“It's as if somebody was asked to make a game and then they said, OK, great. The best way to make this is to send you off and put you in a little box off to the side and you're not going to interact with anybody and nobody's going to give you feedback”
“When they run into roadblocks that are a disappointment, that's tough to come back from.”
“I think it's an unfortunate choice for Black Knight because it's a novelty to put it there versus an actual useful thing to the majority of players.”
“That game has a mode that is trying to be an homage to Total Annihilation... Why would they not duplicate that mode, essentially?... It just strikes me as being lazy.”
Entities
- Stern Pinball· company
- Expo Flipout· event
- Indisc· event
- Pinberg· event
- Pinmasters· event
- Attack from Mars· game
- Black Knight: Sword of Rage· game
- Star Wars· game
- Stranger Things· game
- Papa· organization
- Alexander Kazmarchuk· person
- Carl D'Angelo· person
- Escher· person
- Jack Tadman· person
- Jared August· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Jim Belsito· person
- Kaylee George· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Zach Sharp· person
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