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Pinside is a Joke if allows ratings for TAF gold, LOTR LE, IMVE (etc..)

What's next a separate category for Luci or for Met pro LED edition?

At least SM VE has new dots and call outs.

It has been that way for awhile and gets worse with each successful new release. I tend to agree with you but there are those that feel each game plays differently enough to be listed separately.

Ratings are over rated.....they don't really matter. They are fun and novel at best. People that care about bragging rights or resellers care how high a game is ranked.....

They are meant to be fun but people have biases so very hard to make a rating system that is objective.

Multiple versions do clutter it up but the pro and premium/LE versions can have different game play. AC/DC pro is arguably very ugly with the Angus face but the premium is much more pleasing to the eye. Art is part of a game rating. SM/SMVE could probably be lumped as could IM/IMVE as gameplay is the same but if features are different as pro vs premium/LE then it makes a difference. This has been discussed many times. Bottom line is we all have our own opinions about what games we like and why we like them.........at the end of the day I don't need a rating system to tell me what games I "should" like or buy.

I can understand ranking some Pros separately from some Prem/LEs. However, isn't IMVE the exact same package as the original IM? These really shouldn't be listed separately. I understand that the ratings are fun and nothing more, but let's give them some semblance of meaning at least.

It makes sense for indicating in your collection which version you have, although it starts to not make sense when you have the ratings split up like that.

This topic has been brought up many times before, and there's certainly some ways out there to deal with it, but none are easy fixes.

I also believe It's not a priority but Robin ha been open to suggestions on this. Definitely agree an easy way to group them is nice and perhaps a weighted ranking system....only to prevent a game with 10 rankings that are ranked top in every category jumping to number one.....very easy to skew. Hard to find a balanced scale for a new game to compete against an older title with hundreds of rankings.

Enjoy it for what it is and if a game you own is the flavor of the month woo hoo I guess. I like looking through the list occasionally to remind me of games I forget about or have not played.

I agree TAF and TAF gold should be the same rating. Same with spider man black and original spider man. It starts getting tougher with games like XMen pro and Xmen LE, they look different and play different...they are not the same game. Spider Man VE has all different dots and what not...not the same game either.

Only noobs pay attention to rankings. There are a ton if gems that don't even scratch the top 100 list.

Quicksilver, Seawitch and Stargazer.......just to name a few

I think it's all good to get really in to the rankings if that's your thing. I'm not sure it really means much.

Pro/VE/PREM/LE/ should have 1 rating. They are all the same basic playfield and all are the same theme.There are so many great titles like BSD that should be 8-10 places higher but there are 2 trons, 2 mets, etc ahead. I know ratings don't mean sht but if we have them lets do them right.

Yeah

I rate Ironman VE

Have to disagree on this one. Some Games have some significant changes to the play field from Pro to Premium/LE making the gameplay totally different.

It would have to be decided on a case by case basis and that won't make most people happy. IM and IMVE are obviously the same game. SM and SMVE have totally different modes, code, graphics, etc. The only major pro vs LE/Premium game difference that I can think of is GoT. Otherwise, most versions are close enough to the same, though I admit that this is a highly subjective matter. hence the inability to easily fix it.

Hurry up and list it for 15k before the ratings drop lol

Do you really think that all Stern Pro and Prem/LE models should share a rating? Some of these pins are significantly different and by grouping them would skew the ratings even more in my opinion. I know the ratings seem "busy" with so many pin variations but in most cases I think they deserve an individual ranking.

A one-click option to filter and selarate the rating system with only newer Sterns, JJP, Heighway, Dutch, Whizbang, with all versions etc would be interesting to see. Maybe something we could store in our user preferences?

Judging by the Top 10, my best pins are getting crappier every time Stern releases a new machine.

I can understand that as well. The all time classics should have a separate rating system. I'd like to see my Scared Stiff and Twilight Zone stay in the top 10 or 15 pins for my own personal satisfaction.

Honestly my take is that you can look at ratings overall to get a feel for common issues or likes, but you really have to play a game yourself to see if it fits you or not...

That's right bitches, suck it. IMVE is the top dog. Número Uno. Gold metal!

IMVE

Now act like you're supposed to and get in there and manipulate the crap out of those ratings until it is number 72. Get going. You know you want to.

Someone listed all the varieties of AC/DC between Premium, Pro, LE, Luci, LED, etc and I think it was 9 different varieties. We certainly need 9 separate AC/DC machines to rank. Robin, make it happen!

If IM and IMVE are different, then so should WOZ, WOZ ECLE and RR WOZ.

Personally, I think they all should be treated the same, but there is no consistency with how this is done.

I was actually going to go in and give it a 10. The longer that stays at number 1, the more the list is exposed as a sham. It's a shame, because a lot of the rankings are spot on.

And yet every time you fire one up, remember how badass it is, and the ratings go out the window. I would venture a guess that over half the "new flavors of the month" ratings are by people that don't even own the games. The good classics are getting harder to find, and there's a new, expensive ass machine every week that has crap code, ghosting, etc.

I wouldn't sweat it....your lineup rocks ( except I'm going to vote 11 on AlienLE, btw)

Shouldn't there be three different 8 Ball Deluxes too?

Don't forget about prototype machines...

Pinsider "wolfy" jumped right in with 1's across the board. I am sure he won't be the last.

Whatever. Lol

A got pro and a premium are completely different games, I'm not saying they should have 2 different listings......I'm just saying. ...There completely different. ........just saying

I don't know if IMVE is truly #1 but I do know that IM is WAY better than #33!!!

I have IMVE and it is also the third highest ranking pin out of the one's I've rated.

It's legitimate to break out Pro vs Prem/LE for Sterns, as their playfields are different... for example GOT Pro is missing an entire upper playfield. On the other hand IMVE is the same playfield and same rules as IMOG, so it should be one category as far as ratings go, but if you want to track who owns which version it's legitimate for Pinside to track both. SMVE also has the same playfield and same rules as SMOG/SMB, so it's legitimate to argue either way... but SMVE is more debatable as the art, sound and DMD are different, but it's the exact same game.

I don't blame Pinside, the problem is the manufacturers releasing as many of 5 variants of the same game... and the consumers who buy into it. We're now stuck with this mess for better or for worse, so you'd be best to accept it... but I would recommend that the Pinside guys spend some time to consolidate models where possible in the game rankings and reviews.

Nelson approves!

It kind of reminds me of the baseball card industry in a way. In the 1980's and prior, you pretty much just had one version of each card to to collect. Then in the 1990's you started getting multiple sub-sets, autographed chase cards, and serially numbered LE cards with chrome, sterling, silver, and gold versions of each one. What was once a simple, straight-forward, and charming hobby suddenly became virtually impossible to keep up with even if you were focusing on just one player's cards and not going for all the sets. Maybe that's not a valid comparison, though. It is a "cardgument" after all.

Iron Man Classic. 10K by xmas

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Does this really matter to anyone? Are some of you basing your purchases and what games you keep on the pinside ratings?

They are all nonsense. New buyers inflate ratings, people with 90's b/w games then freak out and give them bad rating so there precious games are not bumped. Buy and play what games you like, who gives a rats ass about the rankings on pinside. There are about 3 reviewers that I always look for when I'm checking out a game, I completely ignore the other ratings.

If any old school Bally fans want to start a side group to go sway ratings then let me know.

I figure we need about 15 of us per game rating it super high (as they should be) and we can go move some of them into the top 10 (where they should be).

We could start up an old school email list and then have a coordinated effort and timing for specific games. Put in out new rating on a Saturday so they all update in the system when it batches on Sundays.

Please look at my wish list and downvote those games.
I want to get them cheap.

I've heard this suggestion before. Every version of a game should be lumped into a subgroup and the highest version of a game should be the one listed on the ranking list. So for example, if GOT pro had a score of 7 and premium had a score of 8.5 and LE had a score of 8.2 then the premium would be the one shown on the ranking list. That might be hard to overhaul the system like that though.

Yes, agree

People who get riled up over pinside game ratings are a joke. They are not important.

I do think Pros/LE/PRem are different games. In the case of a machine like Walking Dead it's a big difference.

But I said Taf gold and LotR LE those are the same game just like IMve is the same as IM

Dude you've got to be kidding

I am not talking about making fake ratings. I am talking about concerted effort to rate games which dont have many ratings and deserve their proper place in the top 100

Quite a few of us Bally classics lovers that could easily go put in our ratings on a different game each week and make a real effort to bring more value to the pinside top 100.

Take on an assigned game, go play it a bunch and then provide proper reviews and ratings.

Want to really see the fanboys melt, then just look what happens when the precious ratings are turned upside down and the top 10 is all solidstate classics, LOL.

note: I only put in honest ratings, but it just so happens I like differnet games than the crappy rehash stuff that has been coming out lately.

I do think it is funny that you have put in the effort to rate exactly 1 machine.

My minty TAF will be worthless soon....

Yea and I just did that after like two years in the hobby. That's how little I give a shit about ratings or posting scores.

IM is the whole reason I got into the hobby. My gateway drug.

I disagree with pretty much every rating in the top 100 so its all crap, a very loose guideline for potential purchases? sure, fun to rate games? yeah but otherwise who cares, seems the only reason to be interested in what others think of a game is for setting a price that is either way to high or way to low, MM 10K and Popeye 2k is a joke, MM is clearly the better game but 5 times better, not for me or SweetPea.

This is dumb, because now that IMVE is #1, by next week it will drop to 50 because there will be a bunch of 1s and 2s ratings by dumpers to try and push it down. The whole charts need to be retooled badly.