Guardians of the Galaxy

"If you go on to the Pinside marketplace and you want to buy a freaking Guardians pro, go look at how much money everybody is asking for a Guardians pro. I thought people would be asking like 5500, 6000. No, everybody wants like 6500 or 6800 dollars for a freaking game that is like four or five years old"

Stern remaking Guardians Pro makes business sense due to high resale prices

"the reason why Guardians never really took off is that game was supposed to be Iron Maiden and they reskinned it at the 11th hour to be Guardians of the Galaxy. So it is one of those games that was not designed from the ground up to be the theme that it ended up being."

Guardians of the Galaxy was uninspired because it was reskinned from Iron Maiden

"I do think that the hype and the attention around guardians is just gone I mean to me this title just feels like it came and went there wasn't much enthusiasm it just goes to show when you launch a game when with such poor code it's really hard to get the excitement back"

Guardians of the Galaxy hype is completely dead and won't recover

"I think a lot of people saw that game and it reminded them very much of just a combination of Metallica and Iron Man. Nothing sort of like completely new in the design department... even though they got the music, it's just not integrated. That game to me feels like it's still just sort of like they're building the ship in the ocean."

Guardians of the Galaxy feels rushed and incomplete, like a combination of existing games

"I think everyone who knows pinball without lime and sheets there is no way Guardians is ever going to become as magical as Batman. There's no way it's just different levels of talent working on the game... So I'm starting to think like Guardians was a little bit of like a rush job"

Kaneda believes Guardians of the Galaxy is inferior to Batman and was rushed

"you can't tell me that guardians of the galaxy is selling extremely well. I fail to see people unboxing L.E.'s. I failed to see the conversation around that game being very high. In fact, it almost feels like the game didn't even exist or come out"

AC/DC Luci reissue is driven by poor Guardians sales, not demand

"Everyone is just down and out on Guardians of the Galaxy. I don't think I've seen a title come out recently that just has so little enthusiasm for it."

Guardians of the Galaxy has little enthusiasm and is an uninspired copycat with terrible theme integration

"Is it too early to put a fork in this game? And I've been thinking about this for the last week is the Guardians of the Galaxy launch to me has just landed with absolutely no impact or no oomph."

Guardians of the Galaxy is falling flat and will be a flop

"there's absolutely no reason to get the limited edition. There's not a feature that's limited, there's not a top or that's like limited"

Guardians of the Galaxy has no compelling reason to get the Limited Edition

"None of the voice actors in the game itself are from the movie itself... it's just really bad to see a scene from a film you love. And then the audio coming from that scene is weird because the voice actors are not what you remember from the film"

Guardians of the Galaxy has terrible voice acting that ruins the theme integration

"A pinball machine without callouts doesn't work. It doesn't work it becomes a silent movie. The callouts are so important in terms of articulating and communicating to the player what to do."

Criticism of Guardians of the Galaxy's sparse code at launch

"They made the pro version of the machine by far look the best and and that I think should be switched... The problem is they made the pro look the best the pro has the best art package by far"

Guardians of the Galaxy LE didn't sell out - Stern made the Pro version look better than the $9000 LE

"Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Is the first gameplay footage we're seeing this? Like it's the worst way to see a game for the first time. This like over the shoulder cell phone video of a game with like the glare was terrible. The visuals were terrible."

Stern's reveal strategy for Guardians of the Galaxy gameplay footage was terrible

"It's the difference between Guardians of the Galaxy being a good game and Guardians of the Galaxy being a great game. That's how important the music is to this title and this franchise."

Licensed music crucial for Guardians success

"After Stern showcases what I believe to be one of the most beautiful Pinball machines they've ever made"

Guardians of the Galaxy is one of Stern's most beautiful machines

"When you remove that from the pinball machine and you remove the emotional nostalgic draw people had to that franchise and to that sort of property because it I mean really it was like a very original movie that transported us back because of what it did with music and I don't think removing the music is a negotiable thing I think it's a mandatory element if you're going to make that that game come to life via pinball"

Removing the music from Guardians of the Galaxy removes the emotional nostalgic draw

"I took it down and it was the one about Stern and Guardians. Before I air this great interview with Josh Kugler over at American Pinball, you're going to love it. This is a great interview. I just wanted to explain why I removed that rant of mine about Guardians and Stern and Cutting Corners and not getting what you deserve in the LE packages."

Kaneda removed his negative podcast about Guardians and Stern after they added two songs and better armor

"I think this is one of Stern's nicest looking pinball machines ever. I think just on a very sort of superficial looking at the game."

Guardians of the Galaxy is one of Stern's best looking pinball machines visually

"The music in this franchise is what this franchise is all about. You cannot bring the life of these films. You cannot make a classic game, right? You can make a good game based on Guardians of the Galaxy without it. But to make a great game, a game that will never leave people's game rooms, a game that like captures the game. There's the awesomeness of the films. You can't make it without the music."

Stern should pursue music licensing for Guardians of the Galaxy theme integration

"But this is gonna be a very important game for Stern... Because I think Stern needs more than ever Stern needs a home run They need a game that doesn't just look great They need a game that plays great They need a game that's got great quality And they need magic"

Guardians of the Galaxy is a critical game for Stern that needs to be a home run to restore faith

"I think Guardians of the Galaxy in terms of new predictions for Stern, Guardians of the Galaxy with Christopher Franchi and John Borg and Lonnie on code, I think my prediction is Guardians of the Galaxy is going to be a hit. Only if though they can get enough of the music from that film into the game because so much of what makes that movie awesome is the soundtrack."

Prediction: Guardians of the Galaxy pinball will be a hit, but only if they can get enough music from the film into the game.

"But then when you realize the truth that that game was originally supposed to be Iron fucking maiden and they just instead of having Eddie's head there, they just made it Groot and then they just re-skinned it and it feels like it"

Guardians of the Galaxy was originally designed as Iron Maiden