Quoted from TheFamilyArcade:It's hard too "stalk" one of the most frequent posters on Pinside, so I'll assume your kidding. I happen to agree with you entirely on ACDC, and I go back and forth between wanting to sell it (for precisely the reasons you've provided) and keeping it forever (for the reasons you rated it #1).
Just curious man. I respect your opinions, so wanted to know. The only time you ever disappointed me was when you bailed on Avengers, but I understood your reasons.
Maybe I need to stalk you a little more aggressively, because I have not noticed you posting one way or another on met. You're pretty effusive when you like something. Where does MET fall into the mix?
Right on man. No hard feelings. I love avengers but bailed on it for one reason and one reason only....I would get it tuned and playing fantastic, then two days later it would play like crap so I'd spend a couple hours getting it tuned and playing perfectly again and loved it. Then, two days later it played like shit again. It was a see saw battle I didn't want to deal with anymore. Besides that, I loved the game and still go to bat for it despite it needing a polished update. Throughout my whole buy/sell/trade madness affair, i think it's better than TFLE, xmen, and almost acdc. If it weren't for all the babysitting and lack of code support from Lonnie and Gomez, it would have been acdc out the door last year instead of it.
Ya ratings don't matter in that sense anymore to me. Special thanks to the revival of this thread. I play it how I see it. And here's how it is:
According to pinside rankings, LoTR is all 6's in my book except the following:
Gameplay: 5/6 - deducted a point because once in awhile there is a slight klunk factor with the ring shot, gandalf shot, and right loop shot.
Cab artwork: 5/6. Pixelation.
Sound quality: 5/6. Deducted a point for sound quality mainly in part due to the operating system inside. Maybe this quality will be resolved if a VE is ever made? But like you said one time rob, my LoTR was the best sounding LoTR you ever played and I agree, I have not found or played a better sounding LoTR.
That's it, all the rest are 6's!!!
Let's look at Metallica as it stands today during its honeymoon phase but also having 100+ games on it:
All 6's except the following categories:
Game rules: 5/6. Rules are great but it's no acdc or LoTR. Another update and it just might be?
Cab art: 4/6. This would be lower if it weren't for how much I like the LE cab and roadcase cab.
Fun: 5/6. Deducted one point here in part of the same reason the rules are a 5/6. The game rules start off a little slow. But once you get it going, hell, it's a 7/6 fun factor!
So that's how it is and how I roll. Metallica just happens to be above LoTR for now. But does that mean I would rather have Metallica over LoTR or LoTR over STLE? Or such? No. If I had to make a choice that I could only ever own Metallica or LoTR, I'd probably choose LoTR.....but may choose Metallica if asked next week. That's how close .1 rating really is. Love it all and unlike some I don't just throw 10's out like candy.
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