Harry Potter
game"playing Harry Potter as just a pinball going experience is way more fun than Pirates of the Caribbean"
Harry Potter is way more fun than Pirates of the Caribbean as a playing experience
"And what this means is it's a great game. People don't want to get rid of it"
Harry Potter CE is a great game that people don't want to sell
"You put a Harry Potter arcade edition next to a $13,000 Stern LE and just then just go kick yourself in the nuts if you buy the Stern."
Harry Potter Arcade Edition at $10k makes Stern LEs look terrible
"I think there's going to be new titles that sort of become the standard foundation for what you build a collection around. I think Harry Potter is going to be that."
Harry Potter is foundational game for collections
"Potter shoots amazingly well. It's freaking Harry Potter and it's a work of art. You know, when you walk into someone's house and you see Potter, Pinball and then you walk over and you see star star machines look like, do they look like they cost a third of the price?"
Harry Potter will be the new benchmark making other games look inferior by comparison
"I said recently that I just don't think many Harry Potter C's will ever be up for sale. No. And how many was it last year, for sale? Right. It's like your wife, right? If you love her, I don't even finish this analogy in my head."
Harry Potter Collector Editions won't come up for resale because owners love them too much
"Harry Potter and Beetlejuice will probably end up being the new foundation for modern pinball collections that people are building."
Harry Potter and Beetlejuice will become foundation games for modern collections
"Harry Potter is a phenomenal game everybody is saying it I'm not the only one saying it yeah the code isn't exactly how I would have liked it it is a little overly complex but that's just J.J.P.'s thing"
Harry Potter is phenomenal but overly complex due to JJP's design philosophy
"I'm hearing they sold the most amount in the collector's edition trim. So that was a smart move by JJP when you think about it. 15 grand like the margin on that version has to be incredible and they've sold more of those than the other two editions of the game."
Jersey Jack Pinball made smart business move with Harry Potter Collector's Edition pricing
"I get in these arguments with people. They're like, the game is loaded, Kaneda. I'm like, where? It's got a lot of shots. It's got a lot of assets. But where's the loadedness in the game? Where's the magic?"
Harry Potter pinball is not actually packed with features despite popular opinion
"When I look at Harry Potter and it's selling very well, I still don't see the Harry Potter world under glass. There's no Hogwarts, the Quidditch in the upper left doesn't really feel like you're flying around the school like it does in the movie. Everyone's saying it's packed. I get it. It's modern, gas-lit pinball community now. Everybody says everything is packed when there's nothing really in the game at all."
Harry Potter doesn't truly recreate the magical world under glass despite being well-regarded
"Jersey Jack pinball just made what is easily the best shooting pinball machine they might have ever made... it's loaded with assets and it's an incredible theme, Harry Potter, and people are loving the game"
Jersey Jack made their best shooting game ever with Harry Potter
"I think I called it like I see it like I'm calling it Harry Potter's a hit it's going to be a hit game for Jersey Jack I don't love the way it's coded I hope they balance it better"
Prediction: Harry Potter's going to be a hit game for Jersey Jack.
"what I think JJP should have done is kind of like what spooky did can you imagine this like harry potter has like eight different machines in one and I don't mean the shots are different but when you start a game you just pick which movie you want to play through"
Jersey Jack Pinball should have handled Harry Potter differently - either 8 separate modes or 3 separate machines
"I 100% 100% we're going to see Harry Potter C.E.s sell for around $10,000 within a year. It's just it's just the way it's going to go"
Harry Potter will lose value and sell for $10k within a year despite being well-received
"By the time this code is 1.0, I guarantee you your Harry Potter CE will be $10,000. I don't want you to lose $5,000 and you're going to be playing a game that's not completed for like another year."
Prediction: Harry Potter CE will drop to $10,000 by the time the code reaches version 1.0.
"If I were you, the model to get is the arcade edition. Why? You are not going to have more fun paying more money."
Harry Potter is a hit but recommends Arcade Edition over higher trims
"I still think the code is a is a slot machine casino mess. I do everything's on at the same time. I still don't like the code of Harry Potter. But like the code issues are not enough of an issue...because like there's a lot in there and it's all on at once"
Harry Potter has positive reception despite code issues - beautiful Jersey Jack game that's amazing to shoot, but code is a slot machine casino mess with everything happening at once
"I could definitely see the $15,000 CE losing about $5,000 in value. I actually don't think the CE is going to hold that well at all"
Harry Potter CE will lose significant value due to oversupply
"if I were you, I still think the smart buy right now would be to get the arcade edition for $10,000 because I don't think the arcade edition is going to be worth like five in a year"
Arcade Edition is the smarter buy over Collector's Edition
"96 modes. Just think about that for a minute. 35 Guns N' Roses patches. Who thought that was a good idea?"
96 modes in Harry Potter is ridiculous and too much
"I still think the C.E. Toppers just so embarrassing... To stick that thing on top of this game it's like taking a dump on top of a Ferrari"
Harry Potter Collector's Edition topper is embarrassing and ruins the package
"The arcade edition is the way to go. 100% I think I think people order the C.E.s are going to be disappointed"
Harry Potter arcade edition is the way to go - best value
"David feels work is buried the movies buried it's like everything's going on at once... the code is letting that game down right now"
Harry Potter's code is poorly designed with buried movie modes
"I'm still not seeing reviews that are changing my mind about the code... I wanna see how people feel about Potter after they bang on it for a couple months."
Harry Potter code still needs improvement despite positive early reviews
"I'm still not seeing even with the recent code update. I'm not seeing the movie moments come through... It doesn't really change the game when you start a movie and I think that's something that is a major, major, major problem for me with Harry Potter pinball."
Harry Potter lacks immersive movie moments despite being a good shooter
"there's no way to justify Harry Potter CE at 15 when you can get the same exact game for 10"
No way to justify Harry Potter CE at $15k when you can get the same game for $10k
"The scoop on the right is not easy it is one of these shots where you're going to hit it only even with your like a good player you're going to be hitting it like 30% of the time at best if you're good at pinball"
The scoop shot to start movies is too difficult for casual players
"If I had to summarize this game right now it is a beautiful game to shoot with quite possibly one of the most confusing codes I've ever experienced in a pinball machine because there's everything happening at once at all times as you're playing the game."
Harry Potter has confusing code with everything happening at once, making it unsatisfying to play
"I don't see anyone saying that they've really fully improved the feeling that you're going through the movies, that when you start a mode, you really feel like you're jumping in to those Harry Potter movies."
Harry Potter by Jersey Jack will sell well but has code issues with movie modes
"instead of going to an artist and having them hand illustrate a Harry Potter pinball machine from scratch, you took some artwork, you fed it through some sort of computerized filter and this is what you got"
Harry Potter artwork controversy - corners were cut using AI instead of hand illustration
"There's more going on on the screen on Harry Potter than is going on below the glass. There just is."
Harry Potter has more screen action than physical playfield elements
"Potter is obviously the best of the bunch by a long shot. Absolutely. Potter is the most impressive game out of all of these"
Harry Potter is the clear winner among recent game releases
"The AI art on Potter is going to be one of the topics I talk about today. It's, I feel bad for them. I don't think they've realized it. I think it's, it's subtle until it's not subtle. And it's embarrassing to get caught with it like that."
Harry Potter has AI art issues that are embarrassing
"It is Eric's best design to date. It is the most fun Jersey Jack game to shoot to date. So we all agree on that. And then the big question mark becomes, but what about the code? What about the software? Is there like a real unsatisfying nature to the software and how it's currently coded?"
Harry Potter has great gameplay but terrible code that undermines the experience
"It doesn't matter if this game is good or bad or okay or a masterpiece. It doesn't matter. It's they're going to sell 8,000 units of this game. This will be the best selling game in the history of Jersey Jack easily."
Harry Potter will be Jersey Jack's best selling game despite expected quality issues
"So if what Eric and team wanted to accomplish was giving potter fans a feeling of connection to the characters and the moments they've loved, they currently are failing horribly at that with the way the current code is."
Harry Potter pinball is failing to deliver the promised character connection due to muted movie clips and cluttered display
"if you've ever seen someone who's never played pinball before, they're not getting to anything. They don't even know what's going on, and they never will know what's going on. I think in Harry Potter, you have to hit the scoop on the right side to start a mode. They are never going to hit that shot ever."
Casual players will never reach Harry Potter's modes because they can't make the required shots
"I'm worried that this game has got too much they're trying to do with the code so that when you hit start, you're not really sure what is happening"
Harry Potter's code is overly complex and unintuitive
"I would argue that the Wizard Edition, if it has the glossy radcals, is the way to go because I don't think everyone's going to love the matte finish of the CE artwork and I think the CE topper is atrocious"
Wizard Edition is better than Collector's Edition due to matte finish and bad topper
"this is the best shooting Jersey Jack game ever made. It is. It eclipses Elton John"
Harry Potter is the best shooting Jersey Jack game ever made, eclipsing Elton John
"The topper is atrocious. Eric should be embarrassed. He was known for his toppers... It is absolutely terrible. High school students could have came back with a better topper after a month"
Harry Potter topper is atrocious and embarrassing
"Harry Potter for $10,000 and it's the entire game mechanically is the best bang for the buck in all of pinball right now. They spent millions on the license. It's got a lot in it."
Harry Potter is the best bang for the buck in all of pinball at $10,000
"I think the sound effects and the call outs are so willy-wank a jackpot like slot machine sounding that it's a put it's a turn off because I think when I close my eyes and listen to this game, it sounds more like willy-wank and the chocolate factory and less like Harry Potter"
Harry Potter sounds like Willy Wonka instead of matching the theme
"The hell is this thing? The hell is that? Like, what am I looking at? It's like... It's like what happens when you... When you sign the interns at Jersey Jack a project and they come back with this. This is what you're going to put on top of your lifelong dream, pinball game. This. Okay. All right, Jersey Jack never cuts corners. Billionaire, backer. This is what you stick on top of your game."
Jersey Jack Pinball's Harry Potter topper is embarrassing and low quality
"If I had to give this game a score right now, just from what I've seen, I think it's a B. I don't think this is an A plus game."
Overall Harry Potter rating is a B - good but not great
"The ball never disappears. It never flies through the air. It never gets transformed it never goes in one place and comes out another mysteriously. I don't understand why everyone's just like this games of masterpiece this games pack this games loaded. I don't understand why am I am are you seeing something? I'm not"
Harry Potter lacks magical mechanics and the ball never disappears or transforms
"The answer is yes, but here's the big but, but only only like a few times and not through the modes. So what you're seeing is, is they bought the rights for the voices to do things like ball one locked and then they'll say something. Like, it's like, it's the consistent moments in the game. You know, that like every time you lock a ball ball one ball to will have a synced up video sequence that you will see. Okay, they yeah, it's in there. But what's not in their game is when you start a mode or you're doing stuff like, I don't know, let's say quiddage. Showing Harry on the broom, you're not hearing any of the actors talk to each other through any of the moments in the movie."
Harry Potter pinball has muted clips and lacks synced audio/video from the movies
"I think this is the most Jersey Jack pinball of all time. Jersey Jack with Harry Potter made the most Jersey Jack pin ever... It's just so much happening at once"
Harry Potter is the most Jersey Jack pinball machine ever made - overwhelming sensory overload like a slot machine
"90% of the clips in this game are muted. You are not hearing what's happening in the scene... I literally watched this for five minutes. I think I only heard Harry Potter talk once"
Harry Potter has poor theme integration - 90% of movie clips are muted with no character dialogue