Quoted from Mrhide

the movie is very ordinary...

There's always "ONE" that complains about something

And on MAACA it's always the same "ONE", hey Phil??  

Maybe it's too deep for you and you don't get it??  

For those of you who can't read emoticons, I'M PULLING HIS LEG!

Mike

little crappy video of Batman TDK pinball in action

http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r160/palmsarcade/Batman/?action=view&current=Batman014.flv

A friend of mine was at Starburst today and they were setting one up in the showroom. He played a few games and was............disappointed.

Quoted from HP5P

A friend of mine was at Starburst today and they were setting one up in the showroom. He played a few games and was............disappointed.

How anyone can formulate a reasonable opinion in one or two games is beyond me. There's been pins I've owned for weeks before I determine whether or not the game is any good.

I had a friend who also went last Saturday to play it at SB.  He mentioned there were some issues with it and he too was disappointed with it as well.

Of course, I have also seen some games at SB that left something to be desired with their setup.

Quoted from cooke

How anyone can formulate a reasonable opinion in one or two games is beyond me. There's been pins I've owned for weeks before I determine whether or not the game is any good.

It's easy. In a word. "Stern".

I was putting some hope in the license and Gomez. Gomez is very vocal so I am interested in hearing the story on this pin someday.

Maybe you just have to wait for Rev 2.0 to come out.

Quoted from necro_nemesis

It's easy. In a word. "Stern".

My friend actually went to Starburst yesterday to pickup a Target and some other parts as he wanted me to go and service his T3 and LOTR, which I did last night. His entire collection is Stern, so there is no bias here. I plainly asked him what he thought of TDK and his comments less than favourable and then he totally slammed IJ4 which I found even more shocking. With their next two games being CSI and 24, both TV shows past their prime, the future does not look great to me.  

In the positive I did play his LOTR for a while last night and it was OK, someday I might actually have to buy one.

Played the new Batman last night.

I'd have to say at this point it's impossible to forumlate an actual opinion on the machine.  Played it, the shot layout and toys are interesting, but the software is so incomplete it's hard to know if the game will be fun the play or not.

None of the modes work
The crane only works the first time, if you start it a second time it doesn't come out onto the playfield
Mystery will only warad 500,000
None of the main inserts the the charaters light up or do anything.

While I'm interested in playing the game in a more finished state I'd have to say the game felt allot like LOTR in playabilty and shots.  It has the POTD, the left orbit loop into a scoop same as LOTR, the shot to start the crane is similar to gimil, it has it's own unique features as wel.  It does seem like everything will stack which will be pretty cool, at one point had 2 modes that didn't work going and 2 multiballs so that was interesting.  

So can't really say if I like or dislike it, but I'm interested to see if further finished and really will reserve judgment until then.  

Saw the movie and played the pin yesterday as well.

I liked the movie, didn't like the pin enough to want it.

It does look good, crane is a cool toy but as others mentioned, software isn't finished at all (WTF about that ? A new game with no software ? Anyway...). I found it to play rather slow and wasn't excited at all. That beeing said, i only played two games (and really didn't feel like playing more). I wish i heard the sounds more, music seemed good, animations on the DMD could have been made by my 5 years old for all i can tell, nothing to get excited about again.

Will be interesting to play if they ever make a software for it but for now, you really don't want it in your basement. The Joker toy thing is useless as well, rotating pics ??? Awsome...

new version of the software .. 1.3
http://www.sternpinball.com/downloads/BATenglish.zip

Aza, where did  you play it? arcade on st-cath?

Quoted from kicknhard

Aza, where did  you play it? arcade on st-cath?

I was with Aza and JD yesterday and watched them play at the Colossus Theater in Laval.
Put it this way, JD asked me if I wanted to finish his game!!