Led Zeppelin

game
47 mentions Positive: 19Negative: 23Hot Takes: 5 79% hostile
Ask Kaneda about Led Zeppelin
"lead Zeppelin by Stern pinball is really, really lazy. It's really, really boring... Look at the slingshot plastics on lead Zeppelin. Nothing. There's nothing there. It's like they decided to put absolutely no art on any of the plastics on this game"

Led Zeppelin has fourth worst artwork - boring and lazy with no effort on plastics

opinion negative Ep. 659 · Mar 17, 2022
"My condolences to everyone who owns a Led Zeppelin. You have nothing special in your possession. I don't care what you say. Led Zeppelin was not made with passion."

Led Zeppelin pinball was made without passion and is worthless

hot take negative scorching Ep. 639 · Jan 8, 2022
"Led Zeppelin, was definitely a miss. It was definitely lazy."

Led Zeppelin art package was definitely a miss and lazy

opinion negative Ep. 636 · Jan 3, 2022
"I also think this was Stern's response to Guns N' Roses and it was sort of like a pathetic response. I mean, even in their press release, they tried to say this is like going to a Led Zeppelin concert. If you put Led Zeppelin next to Guns N' Roses, it's embarrassing."

Led Zeppelin was a pathetic response to Guns N' Roses

hot take negative scorching Ep. 634 · Dec 28, 2021
"Led Zeppelin is the most uncreative, unimaginative game I've ever seen"

Led Zeppelin is uncreative and unimaginative

opinion negative Ep. 621 · Oct 11, 2021
"And I think Led Zeppelin will go down as a total miss... It's just not very creative. It's not very imaginative. You know, a spinner that rises up and that's the main man. Come on. We can do better than this."

Led Zeppelin will go down as a total miss, lacks creativity

hot take negative medium Ep. 601 · Jul 22, 2021
"I love that all of you out there are like yes, yes, yes, that's worth more that's worth more. I'll give you more for that and then everyone's like what about Steve Ritchie's Led Zeppelin? Hey, this is going up in value too and everyone's like well, no actually not. We that's where we draw the line um, we are not going to invest in Steve Ritchie's uninspired Led Zeppelin game"

Led Zeppelin pinball remains unpopular even as other game prices skyrocket

opinion negative Ep. 592 · Jun 25, 2021
"have you noticed how many Led Zeppelin LE's are popping up for sale? And we called this when Led Zeppelin came out. We called it when Led Zeppelin was a barren playfield... your LE, is not going to be one of those LE's that becomes very sought after down the road."

Led Zeppelin LEs failing in resale market as predicted

opinion negative Ep. 590 · Jun 21, 2021
"But Led Zeppelin is not brilliant design. Look at the upper flipper, Neil. It doesn't really have much purpose. It's a great flowing game. But we can't use the word brilliant and Led Zeppelin in the same sentence."

Led Zeppelin is not brilliant design and will be forgotten when Brian Eddy's new game comes out

opinion negative Ep. 572 · Apr 21, 2021
"I still think Led Zeppelin is a Baron Wasteland game... That shooter rod on Led Zeppelin makes me want to commit Harry Carey. How did anybody over at Stern look at that shooter rod and say you nailed it."

Led Zeppelin is a barren wasteland game with terrible shooter rod

opinion negative Ep. 561 · Mar 8, 2021
"You can't tell me Steve Ritchie took a very long time to design Led Zeppelin... Led Zeppelin is so damn barren"

Led Zeppelin shows lack of effort from Steve Ritchie

opinion negative Ep. 557 · Jan 26, 2021
"I want a game with some magic under the glass. I want to see a passionate inspired game filled with fun stuff under the glass and I just don't see it there... when you look at Led Zeppelin, I don't see anything under there that feels like they really had to think about this."

Led Zeppelin lacks passion and magic under the glass, feels uninspired

opinion negative Ep. 556 · Jan 26, 2021
"Does it not already feel like everyone is already looking past lead zeppelin? I don't think I've seen a stern launch in recent memory in which people have moved past it so quickly... it is the most hideous looking pinball package I've ever seen"

Led Zeppelin pinball is quickly being forgotten by the community and looks hideous

opinion negative Ep. 555 · Jan 20, 2021
"I will tell you that Led Zeppelin is one of the most uninspired lack of creative games I've ever seen and that band deserved more."

Led Zeppelin pinball artwork and design is terrible and uninspired

opinion negative Ep. 551 · Jan 6, 2021
"My initial thought was this and looks incredibly empty sorted black night like the non-LE version of black night. Just looked ridiculously empty right... This was just like yeah, yeah, it's visually underwhelming"

Led Zeppelin looks visually underwhelming and empty

opinion negative Ep. 549 · Dec 31, 2020
"I really do think that Stern Pinball's marketing department is communicating something that's not really accurate and I think they saw what GNR did. I think they saw how Guns N' Roses is a concert in a box and they're just saying that their game is the same thing but it is absolutely nowhere near that"

Led Zeppelin is lazy marketing copying GNR strategy without any of it being in the game

opinion negative Ep. 547 · Dec 28, 2020
"Do I have to cough cough Led Zeppelin? It's okay. I don't think anyone's looking at Led Zeppelin saying, wow, how did they do that? They must have been so passionate about Led Zeppelin to create that."

Led Zeppelin pinball lacks passion and innovation

opinion negative Ep. 545 · Dec 22, 2020
"When it comes to Led Zeppelin, I rate this game around the B. I think it's sort of like a middle of the road offering from Stern."

Led Zeppelin pinball is a middle of the road offering from Stern with great flow but uninspired artwork

opinion mixed Ep. 544 · Dec 19, 2020
"But for a lot of people out there, man, Led Zeppelin, Steve Ritchie, it feels very cookie cutter, feels very uninspired."

Led Zeppelin feels very cookie cutter and uninspired despite Steve Ritchie design

opinion negative Ep. 543 · Dec 18, 2020
"they were very lazy and just slapped album art across every single panel on the cabinets"

Led Zeppelin's art package is lazy and disappointing, just slapping album art on cabinet panels

opinion negative Ep. 542 · Dec 16, 2020
"It almost feels like this game was just designed and they slapped the Led Zeppelin theme on top of it. It really does."

Led Zeppelin pinball feels like a generic game with the theme slapped on top, unlike Guns N' Roses which was designed around the theme

opinion negative Ep. 542 · Dec 16, 2020
"Now did they steal that idea from Kaneda? Because I said that that would be amazing and I can go back and I can play for you the podcast"

Kaneda claims he originated the progressive song-building idea

opinion positive Ep. 541 · Dec 15, 2020
"I think the pro and premium versions of this game are some of the ugliest art packages I think I've seen in Pinball"

Led Zeppelin's art package is one of the ugliest in pinball history

opinion negative Ep. 541 · Dec 15, 2020
"you know I don't really like Iron Maiden and when I listen to the Iron Maiden catalog it reinforced why I don't really love Iron Maiden but Zeppelin, man I think they're way better than Iron Maiden"

Led Zeppelin is a much better band than Iron Maiden and will make for a better pinball theme

opinion positive Ep. 540 · Dec 14, 2020
"The guy they definitely got taken out. It's like the biggest, biggest heartbreaker and the stupidest move is to remove stairway to heaven. How can you have a Zeppelin game without stairway to heaven?"

Steve Ritchie strongly criticizes removing Stairway to Heaven from Led Zeppelin pinball

hot take negative scorching
"It's like the biggest, biggest heartbreaker and the stupidest move is to remove stairway to heaven. How can you have a Zeppelin game without stairway to heaven?"

Removing Stairway to Heaven from Led Zeppelin game was stupid

hot take negative medium

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