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Hirams Bitch posted:I mean I guess technically this is true. I bought WCW Backstage Assault. I own WCW Backstage Assault. Honestly, it's been worth the money I paid for it. At this point I should note that I paid 90 cents for it.
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The Goog posted:I bought WCW Backstage Assault. I own WCW Backstage Assault. Honestly, it's been worth the money I paid for it. From its wikipedia page quote:To date, the game has sold only 200,000 copies
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Jan 11, 2012 22:07
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I never played Backstage Assault, but I did buy a used copy of WCW Thunder at Blockbuster. After 60 agonizing minutes, I took it back because I thought it was broken or something. I still can't believe they gave me my money back, no questions asked.
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Jan 11, 2012 23:30
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Wasn't Thunder the one where you could put dudes in different stables? That was kind of sweet, nWo shirts everywhere woooooo
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Jan 11, 2012 23:31
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Astro7x posted:In my quest to watch the entire Monday Night Wars, I am up to January 1997 right now. I find myself getting more and more bored with the Nitro... all the enhancement matches are horrible, the tag team division is almost equally as horrible. I can't stand watching the Faces of Fear, probably the only tag team from that era to never hold the tag titles. The first Souled Out was probably one of the worst PPVs I've ever seen too. Trust me, up until two weeks before Mania that year, Raw was worse.
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triplexpac posted:Wasn't Thunder the one where you could put dudes in different stables? That was kind of sweet, nWo shirts everywhere woooooo That's all stables pretty much did was change the attire the wrestler was wearing. But the game was overall horrible as you had to memorize button press combinations and button mashing resulted in repeated arm bars and arm drags. The best part of the Nitro and Thunder games were the rant videos on the Character selection screen. Thunder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGp3KUb68Ms&feature=player_detailpage#t=130s Nitro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVjNru-rvX0&feature=related
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Jan 12, 2012 05:09
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God in the first video Sting looks like he couldn't give less of a poo poo, and he calls the Scorpion Death Drop the Stinger Death Drop, what in the gently caress....
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Jan 12, 2012 08:30
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Raven's rant video in Thunder is pretty much a verbal summary of his career.
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Jan 12, 2012 08:41
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The best part of the Nitro and Thunder games were that button mashing would always let you escape a pin, but a submission special move was a guaranteed win. And then playing against a friend who didn't know this.
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Jan 12, 2012 17:29
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I remember renting Backstage Assault for PS1, being surprised to find it at the video store because it was about a week before the official release date, and thinking I had rented a prototype that accidentally landed in the hands of the podunk mom and pop video store on the corner in my hometown because the game was so terrible.
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Jan 12, 2012 18:54
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Astro7x posted:That's all stables pretty much did was change the attire the wrestler was wearing. That's all it took to be in a WCW stable! What's that? You're in the Misfits In Action? Time for some camo! What's that? You're in the flock? Time for jorts and bad tattoos!
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Jan 12, 2012 18:57
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flashy_mcflash posted:That's all it took to be in a WCW stable! What's that? You're in the Misfits In Action? Time for some camo! What's that? You're in the flock? Time for jorts and bad tattoos! I'll have you know Stevie Ray in the nWo was COMPLETELY different than any Stevie Ray that came before or after
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Jan 12, 2012 19:34
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Astro7x posted:That's all stables pretty much did was change the attire the wrestler was wearing. But the game was overall horrible as you had to memorize button press combinations and button mashing resulted in repeated arm bars and arm drags. Oh crazy, coked up Anvil...
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Jan 13, 2012 05:54
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Is 200,000 copies of a video game sold good or bad?
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flashy_mcflash posted:What's that? You're in the flock? Time for jorts and bad tattoos! And flannel! Don't forget flannel.
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Jan 13, 2012 07:15
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crankdatbatman posted:Is 200,000 copies of a video game sold good or bad? And WCW was paid on a yearly or per game basis so it's not like they were living or dying on specific sales figures.
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crankdatbatman posted:Is 200,000 copies of a video game sold good or bad? For comparison, WWE '12 has sold something like 700,000 copies just on PS3.
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Jan 13, 2012 07:34
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Was Kidman's gimmick when he was in the Flock that he was on heroin? Also, was Sick Boy called that because he was dopesick?
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Jan 13, 2012 08:12
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crankdatbatman posted:Is 200,000 copies of a video game sold good or bad? It all depends on how much it cost to develop, market and ship the game.
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Jan 13, 2012 08:28
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For the average game these days, 1,000,000 sold is the break-even point (or so I was told by an economics professor who closely follows the video game industry), but yeah, it entirely depends on the budget of that particular game.
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xK1 posted:For the average game these days, 1,000,000 sold is the break-even point (or so I was told by an economics professor who closely follows the video game industry), but yeah, it entirely depends on the budget of that particular game. Average = AAA Title. Back when Backstage Assault was released, the cost to design a videogame wasn't where it is today. However, it was EA and they probably put some good resources into it. Probably did some experimental body tracking or something silly like that for a crappy WCW title. I'm betting 500,000 was a break even point and they only sold 200,000.
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Jan 13, 2012 08:44
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It was released in December 2000 for PS1/N64. I'm sure there was a ton of recycled stuff from the previous WCW games and it was not terribly expensive.
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Yeah you can't exactly compare sales of a game from 12 years ago put out by a company on the verge of death to modern sales figures. edit: Although, to actually compare it to something that came out at the same time, apparently Smackdown 2 sold 1.87 million copies. Lloyd Boner fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Jan 13, 2012 |
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Jan 13, 2012 08:54
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The only good wrestling games on PSX were the Smackdown! ones.
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Lloyd Boner posted:Yeah you can't exactly compare sales of a game from 12 years ago put out by a company on the verge of death to modern sales figures. ECW Hardcore Revolution sold 220,000 in the same year. With the WWF Attitude game engine. I bet Acclaim still somehow lost money.
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Jan 13, 2012 09:03
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Lone Rogue posted:ECW Hardcore Revolution sold 220,000 in the same year. With the WWF Attitude game engine. I bet Acclaim still somehow lost money. Name your child "Tommy Dreamer" for cash and prizes! Write it on your tombstone too.
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Lone Rogue posted:ECW Hardcore Revolution sold 220,000 in the same year. With the WWF Attitude game engine. I bet Acclaim still somehow lost money. They somehow took WWF Attitude and made it worse. Acclaim did not know how to make match modifiers, instead they would just give you a long list of match combinations to chose from. The match selection screen listed every single match type TWICE! Once as a normal match, and again as an elimination match.
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the_Vandal posted:Was Kidman's gimmick when he was in the Flock that he was on heroin? Also, was Sick Boy called that because he was dopesick? Pretty much, yeah. And while Raven wasn't particularly thrilled about Van Hammer joining the Flock, Hammer's drug problems made him a perfect fit.
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Jan 13, 2012 17:27
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the_Vandal posted:Was Kidman's gimmick when he was in the Flock that he was on heroin? Also, was Sick Boy called that because he was dopesick?
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Jan 13, 2012 17:39
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All the members of The Flock sortof made sense except for Reese who was an outcast because he was really tall.
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Jan 13, 2012 17:48
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Was Saturn's problem that he randomly suplexed the poo poo out of people?
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Oatgan posted:All the members of The Flock sortof made sense except for Reese who was an outcast because he was really tall. Bocc Kob posted:Was Saturn's problem that he randomly suplexed the poo poo out of people? 
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Bocc Kob posted:Was Saturn's problem that he randomly suplexed the poo poo out of people? shameful secret love of mops.
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Jan 13, 2012 18:00
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I always liked Perry. He had such a look and made everything look painful. And he had a siren for a theme. I want a Perry Saturn documentary. Make it happen Vince. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zChsn8__kRI edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R9ddhHle9Y <--- DDP and Saturn 
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oh god... what the hell is wrong with Saturn. As if having Saturn tattooed across his stomach as bad enough, he got Tyson level poo poo going on with his face.
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Miching Mallecho posted:edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R9ddhHle9Y <--- DDP and Saturn Saturn is like the best dude ever.  "Yeah, I was homeless and on meth, but then I cleaned myself up and now I play Madden.  "
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Oatgan posted:All the members of The Flock sortof made sense except for Reese who was an outcast because he was really tall. It was implied that he was filled with peanut butter.
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the_Vandal posted:It was implied that he was filled with peanut butter. That reminds me, there was a story in I think the old celebrity meetings thread that was in GBS where some dude talked about how Reese was, for some reason, an in-joke among him and his friends and they'd call into the WCW radio show (or internet show? something like that) and constantly pester the host about Reese/the Yeti. I wish I had the story myself. CombineThresher posted:Pretty much, yeah. And while Raven wasn't particularly thrilled about Van Hammer joining the Flock, Hammer's drug problems made him a perfect fit. Hammer in the flock was hilarious because of the ridiculous attempt at grungy psuedo-goth makeup and the mesh shirt with a hole cut in front of the nipple so you could see his nipple ring.
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Bocc Kob posted:Saturn is like the best dude ever. Pretty much. Check out his YouShoot if you haven't already - Saturn's a really honest, humble guy who was at the mercy of his addictions for a long time. I'm really glad he cleaned up his act and found some peace in his life.
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Lone Rogue posted:Average = AAA Title. Backstage Assault is just WCW Mayhem with the rings stripped out of the game. I'm pretty sure all the engine and all the character models are the same, so the initial cost of development was already taken care of.
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