For me, it is really refreshing to see Jack Danger being super innovative with his new designs for Stern, the layout for Uncanny X-men is seriously impressive, but where it falls short is the theme. Stern has been making Dad Rock and Comic book pins for too long, and while some are better than others, it's still unfortunate to see unique layouts wasted on subpar IPs.
I went to expo this year it’s been many years since I have gone. I was blown away by how many more manufacturers there are now. Seems like the industry is in a boom period. Kinda exciting to see. I went on the Stern Factory tour, they only been there two years and it was amazing. That being said the rent and the nut on that facility alone has to be massive why probably they are raising prices. They also have more buildings besides that one I’m assuming for inventory of finished games. I tried to play all the new games at expo but it’s so loud and it’s hard to immerse yourself in these games. Avatar did nothing for me. To be honest the only game that was there that kinda blew my mind was Elton John. But I’m not into the theme. Way too feminine for me. If that was a Michael Jackson game it would’ve been a record seller for sure. Finally X-Men was the better game I played it a lot. The voice acting is terrible and music not so great. The animation is a let down. The gameplay yeah it’s good. Only thing I didn’t like was that lower left flipper area kinda of annoying but I see where they were going either way that. It’s definitely challenging which is good. Art around the LE looks great with purple I have to say great combo. Will I add any of these game to my collection I doubt it. Maybe X-men LE if I got a really good deal, but by then I’m sure I’ll just end wanting a different pin more. Great video by the way keep them coming buddy. Also I played Alien finally from pinball brothers the theme is great, but game is broken literally. The machine could barely launch the ball at times. If Jersey Jack just did Aliens as a theme the James Cameron one would have been amazing. Probably one of the best action movies of all time. What a missed opportunity.
You are wrong on Godfather CEs that’s the only CE that JJP sold out of in one week after release. There are plenty of Elton CEs still for sale.Couple of people trying to sell one cheap out of 1000 sold means nothing . Theme is subjective me if Three Stooges sold 50 pins I would be amazed . lol Avatar is a gorgeous pin and has some cool shots . I bought a Godzilla premium couldn’t care less about the theme like most buyers did. Godfather is a brutal pin they made it worse with their last update . But the Topper is insane on that game. And it’s a super fast pin . Give it a shot
OMG you've lost your mind. JJP said they would make 1000 CE so are you telling me JJP sold 1000 Godfathers. Are you joking right now? They couldn't give them away... multiple dealers still have them brand new in a box. THEY DID NOT MAKE 1000 Godfathers period of any type! And btw you're dead wrong... JJP sold out of Guns N Roses CE in FIVE MINUTES not ONE WEEK! Which proves that the THEME MATTERS. GODFATHER IS A TERRIBLE THEME as is AVATAR! My guess is Godfather CE how many got made 200 maybe, Avatar I think will end up with 200 or so, Elton John probably the same whereas Guns N Roses sells out in five minutes. If JJP announced Matrix those CE would sell out in two minutes.
As to Three Stooges only selling 50 pins... OMG once again you're dead wrong. This isn't my opinion I say in these videos all the time I don't like the movies SCREAM but if you made a SCREAM pinball it would sell 2000 to 3000 copies over night. I don't want a Scream pinball but it would be smart for someone to make one. I'm just calling balls and strikes Three Stooges pinball would be a massive seller!
Music pins need to stop and or be assigned to a sister branch that exclusively makes music pins. - play a pin and throw in headphones if you want to hear the same seven songs while playing a pin. Crazy how xmen only got like twelve seconds of dialogue, ending in “it’s a better game” when the ONLY thing it has is the layout. Every other aspect of the pin is sub par to extremely terrible. Don’t get me wrong avatar is also a massive let down because the theme is garbage can trash. I wish more time was spent critiquing the flaws of xmen for ppl that haven’t played it. 98 percent of its entire audio package - THE ENTIRE AUDIO PACKAGE is absolutely terrible and garbage to a degree that most ppl thought it was half baked ai music. Speaking of ai, ppl also thought the voices were ai because of how bad they were. The animations are LAUGHABLE to an EXTREME degree. A college student could have produced better animations in one month. This isn’t an exaggeration to anyone reading it. There is ONE exception and that’s the wolverine and saber tooth fight, CLEARLY done by a different person it seems. Also, even with that one being the best, it’s basically three 1 second clips repeating on a loop. I really can’t stress how terrible the sound and visuals are on this game. And it’s not something code will address, it’s by design. Lastly, code. It’s a child’s level of coding. The game feels like it’s made for babies that never played pinball before as far as the code is concerned. Multiballs will trigger just because you’re playing, stacking doesn’t make sense and isn’t even plausible as shots just build multiball despite your best efforts to save it for stacking. Multi balls happen WHILE IN MULTI BALLS. The modes are terrible and non cohesive. Just nonsense all around. The fact you can’t choose your xmen is laughable and a disgrace. You’re playing as “pinball person” in an XMEN game. You experience every single thing xmen offers in truly under 7 seven minutes. (Entire game is explored) for 14 THOUSAND DOLLARS. - even if it’s the pro at 7k - a little over FIVE MINUTES OF CONTENT? Honestly if avatar had ANY OTHER THEME it wouldn’t even be a discussion. You get the value of money from avatars code. Xmen is a massive failure of game in all areas besides shots. They need to gut the ENTIRE CODE. (Sounds, animations, modes ect) and start over. Xmen could have been a masterpiece, but the code would require an entire restart which they won’t do.
Stern don't do a game unless you get the assets.... *looks around at Jaws, John Wick, Bond, Mando.. Godzilla... * Do you actually make review videos or just complain about themes in every video? cmon man you literally purchase all of these games yet still go on and on about themes.
Avengers - Venom - Deadpool - Jurassic Park - X-Men - Foo Fighters - all more recent games no assets. And FYI... we're talking about in a time when pinball prices have skyrockted. NO assets have a huge impact on the value of the game when you're asking for 15k. Would Venom had done better if it was based on the movies or Avengers based on the movie. They made Deadpool a character mainstream America had never heard of before until the movie solely based on the popularity of the movie but you do a cartoon version. Avengers they made a second Avengers solely based on the popularity of the movie but again its a cartoon.
@@Hauntworld avengers “suffers” in popularity due to its convoluted rules, not because it’s based on the comics. Venom “suffers” because of a stripped out Pro playfield and a seemingly easy play through. Deadpool was put out in 2018 and literally back on the line this summer - doesn’t suffer from anything. Jurassic Park doesn’t need the movie assets.. it’s literally number 3 on pinside 100 and a popular pin. X-men is based on the comic, idk what assets it needs.. Foo Fighters is actually a better take on a music pin and not the same ole concert pin like every other music pin. I don’t think it suffers because of missing concert footage. Avatar has footage right.. audio isn’t even sync’d lol.. god knows when they’ll push out an update. Everything with them is “soon” I don’t understand what you mean by value? Resale value?? I didn’t know this hobby was the only hobby on the planet where NIB purchased continued to appreciate in value indefinitely. What you continue to fail to realize is that LE prices have been negatively impacted by the number produced. Stern was too slow to pull back their production number and it’s impacted resale values. Metallica remastered LE has a run of 500 and sold out almost immediately. If Stern wants to stabilize their secondary market, they need to produce no more than 500 LEs.. maybe even go to 400. I think they’ll sell out much easier and then push buyers towards NIB premium purchases.
@@michaelfokas8884 EXCUSES! Number one the PRICE is the MAIN reason all these games aren't selling. But when you're going to hike the price to out of reach levels then you better nail the theme which means getting assets! Duh!
@@Hauntworld yea but I’m still confused at what games don’t have assets that are doing poorly? John Wick? That game is actually really good and should hopefully get better code wise overtime. It’s got 45 mins worth of video assets and a ton of music. I think it came out of the gate weak because of the whole gun controversy and sheep following a few RUclipsrs who had hissy fits
@@michaelfokas8884 listen up brother... I'm not strictly blaming lack of assets as to why a game isn't selling. I'm saying and let me be clear for you here... when you're asking 12 to 15k for a new pinball game then you better ball out that theme and assets are a part of it. Furthermore they need to pick themes that people care about not ones we don't care about. Godfather is the worst choice of a theme in pinball history. Elton John I mean seriously. Venom that might be the second worst theme choice in history. John Wick I love John Wick but even though Stern had assets they destroyed the artwork it looks awful and to top it off he's not holding a gun. If him holding a gun is an issue then don't do John Wick right?
Music pins need to stop and or be assigned to a sister branch that exclusively makes music pins. - play a pin and throw in headphones if you want to hear the same seven songs while playing a pin. Crazy how xmen only got like twelve seconds of dialogue, ending in “it’s a better game” when the ONLY thing it has is the layout. Every other aspect of the pin is sub par to extremely terrible. Don’t get me wrong avatar is also a massive let down because the theme is garbage can trash. I wish more time was spent critiquing the flaws of xmen for ppl that haven’t played it. 98 percent of its entire audio package - THE ENTIRE AUDIO PACKAGE is absolutely terrible and garbage to a degree that most ppl that it was half baked ai music. Speaking of ai, ppl also thought the voices were ai because of how bad they were. The animations are LAUGHABLE to an EXTREME degree. A college student could have produced better animations in one month. This isn’t an exaggeration to anyone reading it. There is ONE exception and that’s the wolverine and saber tooth fight, CLEARLY done by a different person it seems. Also, even with that one being the best, it’s basically three 1 second clips repeating on a loop. I really can’t stress how terrible the sound and visuals are on this game. And it’s not something code will address, it’s by design. Lastly, code. It’s a child’s level of coding. Barely any light show during modes, just “new blinking insert to shoot” and the “big reveal” is that the GI turns blue when you “go to the furture” - which does nothing, besides have you shoot to escape the future (great idea….) The game feels like it’s made for babies that never played pinball before as far as the code is concerned. Multiballs will trigger just because you’re playing, stacking doesn’t make sense and isn’t even plausible as shots just build multiball despite your best efforts to save it for stacking. Multi balls happen WHILE IN MULTI BALLS. The modes are terrible and non cohesive. Just nonsense all around. The fact you can’t choose your xmen is laughable and a disgrace. You’re playing as “pinball person” in an XMEN game. Honestly if avatar had ANY OTHER THEME it wouldn’t even be a discussion. Xmen is a massive failure of a game in all areas besides shots. They need to gut the ENTIRE CODE. (Sounds, animations, modes ect) and start over. Xmen could have been a masterpiece, but the code would require an entire restart which they won’t do.
For me, it is really refreshing to see Jack Danger being super innovative with his new designs for Stern, the layout for Uncanny X-men is seriously impressive, but where it falls short is the theme. Stern has been making Dad Rock and Comic book pins for too long, and while some are better than others, it's still unfortunate to see unique layouts wasted on subpar IPs.
I went to expo this year it’s been many years since I have gone. I was blown away by how many more manufacturers there are now. Seems like the industry is in a boom period. Kinda exciting to see. I went on the Stern Factory tour, they only been there two years and it was amazing. That being said the rent and the nut on that facility alone has to be massive why probably they are raising prices. They also have more buildings besides that one I’m assuming for inventory of finished games. I tried to play all the new games at expo but it’s so loud and it’s hard to immerse yourself in these games. Avatar did nothing for me. To be honest the only game that was there that kinda blew my mind was Elton John. But I’m not into the theme. Way too feminine for me. If that was a Michael Jackson game it would’ve been a record seller for sure. Finally X-Men was the better game I played it a lot. The voice acting is terrible and music not so great. The animation is a let down. The gameplay yeah it’s good. Only thing I didn’t like was that lower left flipper area kinda of annoying but I see where they were going either way that. It’s definitely challenging which is good. Art around the LE looks great with purple I have to say great combo. Will I add any of these game to my collection I doubt it. Maybe X-men LE if I got a really good deal, but by then I’m sure I’ll just end wanting a different pin more. Great video by the way keep them coming buddy. Also I played Alien finally from pinball brothers the theme is great, but game is broken literally. The machine could barely launch the ball at times. If Jersey Jack just did Aliens as a theme the James Cameron one would have been amazing. Probably one of the best action movies of all time. What a missed opportunity.
You are wrong on Godfather CEs that’s the only CE that JJP sold out of in one week after release. There are plenty of Elton CEs still for sale.Couple of people trying to sell one cheap out of 1000 sold means nothing . Theme is subjective me if Three Stooges sold 50 pins I would be amazed . lol
Avatar is a gorgeous pin and has some cool shots . I bought a Godzilla premium couldn’t care less about the theme like most buyers did. Godfather is a brutal pin they made it worse with their last update . But the Topper is insane on that game. And it’s a super fast pin . Give it a shot
OMG you've lost your mind. JJP said they would make 1000 CE so are you telling me JJP sold 1000 Godfathers. Are you joking right now? They couldn't give them away... multiple dealers still have them brand new in a box. THEY DID NOT MAKE 1000 Godfathers period of any type! And btw you're dead wrong... JJP sold out of Guns N Roses CE in FIVE MINUTES not ONE WEEK! Which proves that the THEME MATTERS. GODFATHER IS A TERRIBLE THEME as is AVATAR! My guess is Godfather CE how many got made 200 maybe, Avatar I think will end up with 200 or so, Elton John probably the same whereas Guns N Roses sells out in five minutes. If JJP announced Matrix those CE would sell out in two minutes.
As to Three Stooges only selling 50 pins... OMG once again you're dead wrong. This isn't my opinion I say in these videos all the time I don't like the movies SCREAM but if you made a SCREAM pinball it would sell 2000 to 3000 copies over night. I don't want a Scream pinball but it would be smart for someone to make one. I'm just calling balls and strikes Three Stooges pinball would be a massive seller!
Music pins need to stop and or be assigned to a sister branch that exclusively makes music pins. - play a pin and throw in headphones if you want to hear the same seven songs while playing a pin.
Crazy how xmen only got like twelve seconds of dialogue, ending in “it’s a better game” when the ONLY thing it has is the layout. Every other aspect of the pin is sub par to extremely terrible.
Don’t get me wrong avatar is also a massive let down because the theme is garbage can trash.
I wish more time was spent critiquing the flaws of xmen for ppl that haven’t played it.
98 percent of its entire audio package - THE ENTIRE AUDIO PACKAGE is absolutely terrible and garbage to a degree that most ppl thought it was half baked ai music.
Speaking of ai, ppl also thought the voices were ai because of how bad they were.
The animations are LAUGHABLE to an EXTREME degree. A college student could have produced better animations in one month. This isn’t an exaggeration to anyone reading it. There is ONE exception and that’s the wolverine and saber tooth fight, CLEARLY done by a different person it seems. Also, even with that one being the best, it’s basically three 1 second clips repeating on a loop.
I really can’t stress how terrible the sound and visuals are on this game. And it’s not something code will address, it’s by design.
Lastly, code. It’s a child’s level of coding. The game feels like it’s made for babies that never played pinball before as far as the code is concerned.
Multiballs will trigger just because you’re playing, stacking doesn’t make sense and isn’t even plausible as shots just build multiball despite your best efforts to save it for stacking.
Multi balls happen WHILE IN MULTI BALLS.
The modes are terrible and non cohesive. Just nonsense all around.
The fact you can’t choose your xmen is laughable and a disgrace.
You’re playing as “pinball person” in an XMEN game.
You experience every single thing xmen offers in truly under 7 seven minutes. (Entire game is explored) for 14 THOUSAND DOLLARS. - even if it’s the pro at 7k - a little over FIVE MINUTES OF CONTENT?
Honestly if avatar had ANY OTHER THEME it wouldn’t even be a discussion. You get the value of money from avatars code. Xmen is a massive failure of game in all areas besides shots.
They need to gut the ENTIRE CODE. (Sounds, animations, modes ect) and start over.
Xmen could have been a masterpiece, but the code would require an entire restart which they won’t do.
Stern don't do a game unless you get the assets.... *looks around at Jaws, John Wick, Bond, Mando.. Godzilla... *
Do you actually make review videos or just complain about themes in every video? cmon man you literally purchase all of these games yet still go on and on about themes.
Avengers - Venom - Deadpool - Jurassic Park - X-Men - Foo Fighters - all more recent games no assets. And FYI... we're talking about in a time when pinball prices have skyrockted. NO assets have a huge impact on the value of the game when you're asking for 15k. Would Venom had done better if it was based on the movies or Avengers based on the movie. They made Deadpool a character mainstream America had never heard of before until the movie solely based on the popularity of the movie but you do a cartoon version. Avengers they made a second Avengers solely based on the popularity of the movie but again its a cartoon.
@@Hauntworld avengers “suffers” in popularity due to its convoluted rules, not because it’s based on the comics. Venom “suffers” because of a stripped out Pro playfield and a seemingly easy play through. Deadpool was put out in 2018 and literally back on the line this summer - doesn’t suffer from anything. Jurassic Park doesn’t need the movie assets.. it’s literally number 3 on pinside 100 and a popular pin. X-men is based on the comic, idk what assets it needs.. Foo Fighters is actually a better take on a music pin and not the same ole concert pin like every other music pin. I don’t think it suffers because of missing concert footage.
Avatar has footage right.. audio isn’t even sync’d lol.. god knows when they’ll push out an update. Everything with them is “soon”
I don’t understand what you mean by value? Resale value?? I didn’t know this hobby was the only hobby on the planet where NIB purchased continued to appreciate in value indefinitely. What you continue to fail to realize is that LE prices have been negatively impacted by the number produced. Stern was too slow to pull back their production number and it’s impacted resale values. Metallica remastered LE has a run of 500 and sold out almost immediately. If Stern wants to stabilize their secondary market, they need to produce no more than 500 LEs.. maybe even go to 400. I think they’ll sell out much easier and then push buyers towards NIB premium purchases.
@@michaelfokas8884 EXCUSES! Number one the PRICE is the MAIN reason all these games aren't selling. But when you're going to hike the price to out of reach levels then you better nail the theme which means getting assets! Duh!
@@Hauntworld yea but I’m still confused at what games don’t have assets that are doing poorly? John Wick? That game is actually really good and should hopefully get better code wise overtime. It’s got 45 mins worth of video assets and a ton of music. I think it came out of the gate weak because of the whole gun controversy and sheep following a few RUclipsrs who had hissy fits
@@michaelfokas8884 listen up brother... I'm not strictly blaming lack of assets as to why a game isn't selling. I'm saying and let me be clear for you here... when you're asking 12 to 15k for a new pinball game then you better ball out that theme and assets are a part of it. Furthermore they need to pick themes that people care about not ones we don't care about. Godfather is the worst choice of a theme in pinball history. Elton John I mean seriously. Venom that might be the second worst theme choice in history. John Wick I love John Wick but even though Stern had assets they destroyed the artwork it looks awful and to top it off he's not holding a gun. If him holding a gun is an issue then don't do John Wick right?
Music pins need to stop and or be assigned to a sister branch that exclusively makes music pins. - play a pin and throw in headphones if you want to hear the same seven songs while playing a pin.
Crazy how xmen only got like twelve seconds of dialogue, ending in “it’s a better game” when the ONLY thing it has is the layout. Every other aspect of the pin is sub par to extremely terrible.
Don’t get me wrong avatar is also a massive let down because the theme is garbage can trash.
I wish more time was spent critiquing the flaws of xmen for ppl that haven’t played it.
98 percent of its entire audio package - THE ENTIRE AUDIO PACKAGE is absolutely terrible and garbage to a degree that most ppl that it was half baked ai music.
Speaking of ai, ppl also thought the voices were ai because of how bad they were.
The animations are LAUGHABLE to an EXTREME degree. A college student could have produced better animations in one month. This isn’t an exaggeration to anyone reading it. There is ONE exception and that’s the wolverine and saber tooth fight, CLEARLY done by a different person it seems. Also, even with that one being the best, it’s basically three 1 second clips repeating on a loop.
I really can’t stress how terrible the sound and visuals are on this game. And it’s not something code will address, it’s by design.
Lastly, code. It’s a child’s level of coding. Barely any light show during modes, just “new blinking insert to shoot” and the “big reveal” is that the GI turns blue when you “go to the furture” - which does nothing, besides have you shoot to escape the future (great idea….) The game feels like it’s made for babies that never played pinball before as far as the code is concerned.
Multiballs will trigger just because you’re playing, stacking doesn’t make sense and isn’t even plausible as shots just build multiball despite your best efforts to save it for stacking.
Multi balls happen WHILE IN MULTI BALLS.
The modes are terrible and non cohesive. Just nonsense all around.
The fact you can’t choose your xmen is laughable and a disgrace.
You’re playing as “pinball person” in an XMEN game.
Honestly if avatar had ANY OTHER THEME it wouldn’t even be a discussion. Xmen is a massive failure of a game in all areas besides shots.
They need to gut the ENTIRE CODE. (Sounds, animations, modes ect) and start over.
Xmen could have been a masterpiece, but the code would require an entire restart which they won’t do.