Nevus
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I am wondering how many KLOV members have committed to WOZ?
#62 here
#62 here
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While I love the idea that another company is making pinball machines, I hate that they've actually topped Monopoly, Shrek and even Shaq Attaq as a bad license idea.
Too rich for my blood, but in my local area group, there will be 8 WOZ's, so at least I'll get to play!!
Disagree. Its a great theme and if I had the cash Id order one, as Jersey Jack is like 20 minutes from me.
If you think WOZ is a bad theme go to any casino in the US and see how packed the WOZ slots are. One of the best grossing video slots in the industry right now.
I guess, though I don't think success in one market automatically carries over to others. The people coming to a casino are coming to gamble... If the WOZ slots weren't there they would play whatever was.
A pin doesn't have that advantage. What do you think would fair better in a bar, AC/DC or WOZ? I think it's going to appeal to the pin hardcore in the home market, but it's a huge risk for an op. I'm not saying its not going to be a great game either, just that it's going to turn off most of what I'd consider pinballs core audience (men 25-55).
This applies to anything ever made. I mean a Gameplan pinball would have been good if done right. Rollergames would have been a good game if done right. Ford cars would be good if they were done right. Pepsi would be better than coke if done right.... it would be a great success if done right.
WOZ is the first and probably the only NIB game I'll ever order. I don't have any kind of reverence for JJP and I'm not a fanboy. In fact I'm pretty outspoken on the issue of whether or not the game will be "all that." I am hoping it will be, but nobody knows. I managed to scrape up the money to get in on the pre-order on the basis of the talent he has on his team and on the idea that I believe he honestly wants to build a world-class game, and not just siphon money off of a bunch of white dudes with way too much disposable income (which IMO is Stern's current business model).
If I had to order now, I couldn't. I just made my final payment a few weeks ago and I couldn't pony up the same money if I had to start over now, so I'm locked in. But I'm not an unconditional fan. I do expect this game to deliver. We shall see.
As far as the theme, I like it. I think it's a "deep" theme and I'm hoping that the ruleset matches. There are some enthusiasts you just can't please and I applaud JJP for not even trying to pander to the more outspoken people in the field who bitch and moan that this-or-that must be made into a theme as if they're representative of the ideal pinball demographic. I think JJP knows more about this than Stern, but we shall see.
I find it amusing the same people who love LOTR, a story about adventurers heading into a strange, far off place to battle the forces of evil on a long arduous journey fraught with many perils, so they can safely return home, thinks WOZ is a horrible theme idea, a story about adventurers heading into a strange, far off place to battle the forces of evil on a long arduous journey fraught with many perils, so they can safely return home.
I see one as a kiddie movie (albeit with some dark undertones) and one not. You can call it timeless, but I didn't even like it that much as a kid -seemed like it was made for girls.
If the Hobbits were singing Lollipop Guild on the way to Mount Doom, I'd find LOTR just as lame.