Quoted from swampfire:No, I'm not discounting what you're feeling, just trying to understand what you meant by "feel". It's the engineer in me; I like concrete examples. My old Grand Am felt cheap to me because plastic parts fell off of it constantly, and an armrest came off in my friend's hand. Examples like that.
They feel "echo-ey" Empty. like they are made of thinner wood. The lack of things like star posts and multi tiered plastic stacks. No wire forms. No Subways. fewer inserts. the bulb mounts are individually wired plastic holders and usually not circuit boards with connectors. LOTS of "toys' are just printed plastic or off the shelf action figures. Magneto, Wolverine, the hulk. They all just look like kids toys. not pinball toys.
Take, for instance, the bigfoot in whitewater. He was custom made for that game. His sculpt is just for white water. I think that makes it unique. ACDC has the bell, and that's good. But that toy in its full function is only on the LE. not the pro. The examples go on and on. But I can't get past it when shopping pins side by side. The new sterns LOOK ok at first clance. but the FEEL isn't there for me. my order in preference of feel is williams/bally, data east/early sega, then Late Sega/Stern. It is what it is and it has little to do with game play. Just the feeling of how the game sounds, works and looks, and how it affects me personally to drop multi thousands of dollars on a big toy. I will gladly buy the shadow and demolition man for the price of on avengers LE.
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