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It does seem rushed and not very polished. One could hope the game will be polished after a few updates, but seeing Cory Ledesma's name in the credits casts a few doubts.
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ugh. I wanted to enjoy the game (as simplistic as Wrestlefest is), but the buggy nature of the game, the ugly graphics, and the sloppy controls ensure that I cannot. I figure they didn't want to release the old game simply because 90% of the roster is dead, but it isn't Wrestlefest without Hawk yelling that he snacks on danger and dines on death.
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| # ? Feb 21, 2012 15:00 |
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Armitage posted:It does seem rushed and not very polished. One could hope the game will be polished after a few updates, but seeing Cory Ledesma's name in the credits casts a few doubts. I have no idea who that is, so I Google'd his name and I refuse to believe he came anywhere near the GameCube games. The only update that would polish this turd is a complete revamp. The popularity of the original was largely due to the pixel art.
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| # ? Feb 21, 2012 15:39 |
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Are you saying people liked Wrestlefest back in the day because of pixel art? All games were pixel art, it didn't really play into my love of the game. I liked that dudes had their finishing moves, it was badass.
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| # ? Feb 21, 2012 15:47 |
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Anyone who wants some gallows humour in your WWE 12, do this: 1. download a Chris Benoit CAW and change his call name to 'The Monster' 2. put him against Randy Orton in a Last Man Standing match 3. Watch as Cole/Lawler say the most embarassing things in the world.
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triplexpac posted:Are you saying people liked Wrestlefest back in the day because of pixel art? All games were pixel art, it didn't really play into my love of the game. Yeah, pretty much. Wrestlefest was a pretty sharp looking arcade game at that time, and it still holds up art-wise. In terms of gameplay it was never a stellar game. It was one of those games they'd set up in the front of the arcade to draw in customers based on it's look/sound and popularity of wrestling. I'm a pretty old man, I remember being floored when me and my buddies saw that game. About 10min. later I was the only one still interested.
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| # ? Feb 21, 2012 16:01 |
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Wrestlefest was meant to be enjoyed with four people in the Royal Rumble mode. Sometimes two if you and a buddy want to beat the Legion of Doom.
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| # ? Feb 21, 2012 16:09 |
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Xbox Gold cards are $36 on Amazon. Tempting.
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| # ? Feb 21, 2012 16:43 |
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I was waiting for information to leak about Wrestlefest, and now I've seen it, and I am beyond socks for christmas disappointed. It all just looks so lazy and terrible. The matches feel dead without any music. The animations are really stiff and half-assed. It all looks like the final project for an amateur game design class. There are certain little things about the original game that seem like they were "modernized" to be "better" in this one: things like bouncing off the ropes faster, re-recording the ref's count, and putting in a power bar to determine a kickout among other things. But they're implemented in such a terrible way. Look at their running the ropes animations: they're choppy and don't match the speed that the sprite is moving at! I have a programmer friend who's been following this game with me, and his take on it seems depressingly true: "And the unfortunate part is that someone probably accepted this laziness because of the nostalgia factor. It may have been the devs. It may have been the producers taking the game and saying 'Good enough.'" The worst part of it all is how there was a Wrestlefest fan project that got a C&D because this was being released.
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CVagts posted:Xbox Gold cards are $36 on Amazon. Tempting. Sure, you could waste your money like that, OR go to Newegg and get it for $35.99. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...-_-74103258-L0I
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| # ? Feb 21, 2012 19:57 |
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I got Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom and the new characters are great. Using my team of Chris, Frank West, and Phoenix Wright and just annihilating everything with slapstick nonsense is great. Also the new Heroes vs Heralds mode is great.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2012 01:11 |
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I enjoyed headbutting Galactus with MODOK. I also do not comprehend the reversal system on WWE12. I keep playing on easy so I am able to mount offense ever. vvv Yeah. Which means all I'm doing is button mashing in the vain hope that I time it right. I just discovered the online mode isn't as impossible to connect to as I'd assumed, and fighting other people, I get lucky maybe once every 10 moves. Not enough to win a match. Then there's "can't connect to this because Downloadable Content is different." Which doesn't make sense, since I fought against a guy playing Batista, who I never downloaded. Steve Vader fucked around with this message at Feb 22, 2012 around 02:42 |
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Steve Vader posted:I enjoyed headbutting Galactus with MODOK. For some reason the button no longer matches with when you have to hit it. You now p. much have to hit it before the icon ever appears.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2012 02:35 |
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Maybe this is a stupid question, but is there a Mac version of the EWR/TEW games? I haven't bought one in a while, but being that I've been a little more involved in the WH2k/PP forum, I think it'd be enjoyable to play along with at least one of you folks.
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MisterZimbu posted:I'm fairly impressed that they managed to make a port of a 20 year old game that looks and plays significantly worse than the original. It's not a port. A port is, generally, the exact same game, sometimes with added content. Like the Playstation 2 port of Resident Evil 4. Wrestlefest is just a lovely remake.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2012 04:45 |
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At least it's not as bad as Sonic the Hedgehog on Gameboy Advance.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2012 04:49 |
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Oh God hahaha. I have a friend who actually bought that back in the day.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2012 04:51 |
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Horse Pro posted:The worst part of it all is how there was a Wrestlefest fan project that got a C&D because this was being released. I bet they saw that and thought, "Hey let's slap some iPhone game together and all the people excited for that will buy it!" Also Wrestlefest and No Mercy are still great
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Steve Vader posted:vvv Yeah. Which means all I'm doing is button mashing in the vain hope that I time it right. You can't button mash in WWE '12, they nixed that this year. If you hit a button during the "reversal sequence" and it isn't timed right, you don't get a second chance. It's way more organic than the previous game, and you just have to play it enough to get a feel for the timing. Personally I think this is a huge improvement and makes the game way more fluid once you get the hang of it. quote:Then there's "can't connect to this because Downloadable Content is different." Which doesn't make sense, since I fought against a guy playing Batista, who I never downloaded. Get on and download (I believe) Alicia Fox. THQ decided to toss some extra network coding poo poo onto one of the free DLCs and then never TOLD ANYBODY ABOUT IT, which is causing a LOT of online frustration. The even more hosed up part is that once you DO download the update you'll get the same error message with people who haven't snagged the free DLC, and it's all because THQ doesn't know how to communicate with their goddamn fanbase.  To drive this point home, I replied to a tweet that Marcus Stephenson (one of the developers of WWE '12) made in response to a fan who was pissed that Chris Jericho was not included in any way, shape or official form on the roster. Marcus said something to the effect of "If I could tell you the reasons he isn't in this game I would, but I can't, so I'm not going to" to which I replied "Stop copping out and be honest. STOP IT. Why EXACTLY is Jericho not in the game, EXACTLY? #NeedToKnow" His public response to me (which he deleted a few hours later for reasons I won't even go into): @stephensonmc posted:@SmarkySmark it is honest, you just can't handle the truth. I... I've given up with this goddamn company. 
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| # ? Feb 22, 2012 05:14 |
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Yeesh, that's messed up. I have Alicia Fox downloaded. So maybe other people don't and that's the problem. Interesante, por favor.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2012 05:27 |
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With all of the problems WWE 12 has, I'm shocked that Chris Jericho not being in it could be on anyone's mind. It's like complaining about Verizon not having a blue iPhone when they're charging 4000% markup on everything.
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Nut Bunnies posted:With all of the problems WWE 12 has, I'm shocked that Chris Jericho not being in it could be on anyone's mind. It's like complaining about Verizon not having a blue iPhone when they're charging 4000% markup on everything. Eh, I'm not so sure. Jericho has been out for a few years and still managed to pop up in the THQ games, but FINALLY his inclusion would be relevant and this happens to be the year he's absent? Unacceptable. Don't get me wrong, this is NOT the biggest flaw with WWE '12 by a country mile. But it is a pretty big log on the "gently caress THQ" fire.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2012 06:00 |
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It's most likely a royalty issue where they couldn't come to terms.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2012 07:15 |
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Seriously. I've just NOT played online WWE12 for about 20 minutes now against Brock Lesnar and Undertaker who are just kicking the hell out of me and my bailed-out computer partner constantly. It is impossible to reverse anything, and it's like I'm not even playing. I think I've gotten two instances of offense the entire time. I've just put the controller down and decided to just wait until they finally bother to pin one of us and end it. At least I found out you CAN throw people off the cell somehow. How the hell do you reverse anything ever? The best I did was just sit there and SLAM THE RT BUTTON CONSTANTLY and it worked once, for a second.
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Steve Vader posted:How the hell do you reverse anything ever? The best I did was just sit there and SLAM THE RT BUTTON CONSTANTLY and it worked once, for a second. There's your problem right there. Slamming it constantly isn't going to work. In this game you have to tap the reversal button at the proper time during the opponents grappling animation. It's a big pain in the rear end to get the timing on because you have to learn to read the opponents moves. Practice, practice, practice. I've been playing the God of War Origins collection and the dodge roll is seriously useless in these games, having a weird delay before you actually do the roll. So get your parrying button ready. They are pretty solid so if you're a fan of the series I'd say they're worth a play.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Maybe this is a stupid question, but is there a Mac version of the EWR/TEW games? I haven't bought one in a while, but being that I've been a little more involved in the WH2k/PP forum, I think it'd be enjoyable to play along with at least one of you folks. No Mac versions for those games. But you can always run windows through a virtual machine and play the games that way.
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I really wish someone would make a new, different wrestling manager sim. I am sick of EWR/TEW. I downloaded the new iPhone one, Wrestling Manager or whatever, and it's so lovely. I had my hopes up too 
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I just wanted to chime in wih how disappointed I am with WrestleFest. I'm still hoping, perhaps against hope, that the console version will be better. I played about half a match and turned it off in disgust.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2012 18:02 |
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I'm done with trying to do anything online in WWE 12. Seems I can't download more than four things (CAWs, logos, arenas, etc) in one session without the game freezing. Is there even a point in sending these guys an email or a bug report at this point? I've isolated it to four 'things' which is already more work than the good-for-nothing beta testers did.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2012 19:36 |
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No, there's no point contacting THQ about it. SDvsRaw 2011 had the same issues but was still somewhat usable. Every subsequent thing they've done to the servers has made the problems even worse. I really want THQ to lose this license.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2012 19:40 |
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I haven't been able to get anything from Community Creations at all since the patch went up. The paid DLC all went very fast though. 
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| # ? Feb 22, 2012 19:56 |
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It's especially annoying if "You've Got Fans" is your only remaining achievement. I don't usually spaz out over achievements but this is the first time I've tried in earnest to 1000/1000 a game.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2012 20:06 |
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I have most of the same lovely problems with the Character Creation, but I just recently started playing online, and it's not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I actually did a full Royal Rumble, which was fun (when it's not against people who've somehow mastered reversals and thus deny me any offense ever, and then NEVER PIN ME AND JUST BEAT ME UP FOR 20 MINUTES). It's possible playing late at night helped, though. vvvv I haven't bought a wrestling game in years before this one, and I got this one because DEMOLITION is in it and I want them to always be in it. And I'm having fun with it. Steve Vader fucked around with this message at Feb 22, 2012 around 20:11 |
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I am amazed you people still buy the games. I have rented them since, poo poo SvR2007 came out. There has to come a point when you realize that, as a consumer, you are getting hosed in the rear end. That point was a presidency ago.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2012 20:09 |
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The thing is, the rest of the game is good. IMO, really really good and the best wrestling game in years. There are still tweaks and improvements that can be made but Universe Mode still continues to surprise me with unintentional humour or downright bizarre intersections with current WWE booking. I don't regret buying it at all, but the online experience, all of it, is absolutely abysmal in my experience.
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Yeah I haven't bought an SvR game in a long time. Even if they fixed all the broken poo poo with online and stuff I just fundamentally don't like they way they look or play. I can't wait for tHQ to lose the license personally.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2012 20:13 |
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flashy_mcflash posted:The thing is, the rest of the game is good. IMO, really really good and the best wrestling game in years. There are still tweaks and improvements that can be made but Universe Mode still continues to surprise me with unintentional humour or downright bizarre intersections with current WWE booking. I don't regret buying it at all, but the online experience, all of it, is absolutely abysmal in my experience. So buy it used. All the stuff you listed as liking is free on the disc. The online stuff you need a pass or new copy for. Buy it used, they make zero money, and you can play the parts you like.
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FishBulb posted:Yeah I haven't bought an SvR game in a long time. Even if they fixed all the broken poo poo with online and stuff I just fundamentally don't like they way they look or play. I can't wait for tHQ to lose the license personally. Brawler built around reversals with wacky physics. How hard is this to figure out?
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| # ? Feb 22, 2012 20:21 |
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Honestly, just Euphoria engine and procedurally generated animations would make the best wrestling game ever no matter what. Imagine if literally every time you did a vertical suplex, it subtly changed based on injuries, ring position, etc. instead of being a canned animation.
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Kiwi Bigtree posted:Honestly, just Euphoria engine and procedurally generated animations would make the best wrestling game ever no matter what.
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