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Diabolik900 posted:Doesn't this describe pretty much every wrestling game before World Tour? The War Zone/Attitude devs even felt the need to put a cheat sheet in the pause menu, which I think is just about as clear a sign as you can get that the control scheme is flawed. Naw. Besides a few WWF fighting games that came out in the mid 90s, no wrestling games used that system until Nitro. All the old Acclaim ones used a tug-of-war-style grappling system, and pretty much everything else used some kind of grappling system too.
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Zack_Gochuck posted:All the old Acclaim ones used a tug-of-war-style grappling system That sounds like the old LJN 16bit games. The Acclaim Warzone/Attitude had button combos, at least on the N64.
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ZixTheYeti posted:That sounds like the old LJN 16bit games. The Acclaim Warzone/Attitude had button combos, at least on the N64. Warzone did on the Playstation, I remember only wanting to play Stone Cold because I had the combo for the stunner memorized.
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ZixTheYeti posted:That sounds like the old LJN 16bit games. The Acclaim Warzone/Attitude had button combos, at least on the N64. Those are the very games I'm talking about, my friend! Acclaim published those games under the LJN name to get around Nintendo's strict licensing regulations. Zack_Gochuck fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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Hedgehog Pie posted:He might have been cooling off at times, but it's crazy when you go back and watch old WCW shows to get the feeling that Goldberg was long-term killer over. The aftermath of the fingerpoke has the NWO hugging in the ring, grinning their heads off. Goldberg shows up, and the crowd goes mental! They want to see this big scary dude batter the middle-aged frat boys. Then he gets humiliated and you can almost hear the resulting I too wanted to see Goldberg kick rear end all time. Those things you listed, I remember feeling so frustrated and angry as a fan back then, basically I felt cheated as a TV viewer. What I disliked most about Russo's work in WCW was not just the worked shoots, which were awful, but the blurred lines between heels and faces. I could't figure out who were the bad guys, the New Blood or the Millionaires Club? Everyone acted like a jerk, nobody was likeable anymore.
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MassRafTer posted:Nitro tonight is the GO HOME SHOW FOR HALLOWEEN HAVOC 97! Plus the Nitro before that one! That's right TWO NITROS! Imagine that. We're currently watching the Syxx's final Nitro match. He's gonna get Steinerized.
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Anybody remember the "Steinerline" theme that was used for Rick and Scott back in the day? Am I misremembering or was that an incredibly corny theme that yelled "STEINERLIIINEEE!" numerous times? I'm at work and can't look it up.
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D Lambent posted:Anybody remember the "Steinerline" theme that was used for Rick and Scott back in the day? Am I misremembering or was that an incredibly corny theme that yelled "STEINERLIIINEEE!" numerous times? I'm at work and can't look it up. Steinerized!
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D Lambent posted:Anybody remember the "Steinerline" theme that was used for Rick and Scott back in the day? Am I misremembering or was that an incredibly corny theme that yelled "STEINERLIIINEEE!" numerous times? I'm at work and can't look it up. STEINERIZED? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBd5qAtY_9s
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THATTTT'S IT! Yeah, the last time I heard it was around 1997, so I had a very vague idea of what it actually said.
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Is there a reason Scott decided to get all roided out while Rick got fatter? Also where the hell did Midajah come from? I remember her and a few other WCW valets like Torrie Wilson and Stacy Keibler coming from out of nowhere around 1999.
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1st AD posted:Is there a reason Scott decided to get all roided out while Rick got fatter? Stacy Keibler started as a Nitro girl if I remember correctly. Then she teamed up with loving LODI AND LENNY LANE in Standards and Practices. Which was kinda like Right to Censor, if I'm not mistaken.
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Forget Hoodslam, I have an important announcement all WCW fans must watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RXI6wRPQhA
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Bigass Moth posted:When does Sid return from the hell that is up north? GAB '99.
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Rad R. posted:What I disliked most about Russo's work in WCW was not just the worked shoots, which were awful, but the blurred lines between heels and faces. I could't figure out who were the bad guys, the New Blood or the Millionaires Club? Everyone acted like a jerk, nobody was likeable anymore. People say this, but I dunno I thought it was pretty clear that the New Bloods were heels and the Millionaires Club were the faces. The MC was full of all the old guys people loved, and the New Blood were the disrespectful youngsters trying to take the top spots through cheating and sneakiness rather than "earning it".
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triplexpac posted:The MC
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triplexpac posted:People say this, but I dunno I thought it was pretty clear that the New Bloods were heels and the Millionaires Club were the faces. It's weird that they thought people would like a group named the Millionaire's club.
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Von Linus posted:It's weird that they thought people would like a group named the Millionaire's club. Yeah I'm not going to say the name was a great idea, but it's also not like they were running around in solid gold suits throwing money at their enemies. It was just a name, I don't think they even had a tshirt.
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triplexpac posted:People say this, but I dunno I thought it was pretty clear that the New Bloods were heels and the Millionaires Club were the faces. But I think it was a way to (badly attempt to) draw lines between smarks and marks, where the smarks would side with the younger guys who were sick of seeing the Nashs and the Hogans on top, and the non-smarks would side with their old favourites. The actions of the New Blood were heelish, but WCW fans were conditioned to cheer for heelishness for years with the NWO.
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flashy_mcflash posted:But I think it was a way to (badly attempt to) draw lines between smarks and marks, where the smarks would side with the younger guys who were sick of seeing the Nashs and the Hogans on top, and the non-smarks would side with their old favourites. The idea of somebody being paid thousands (if not millions, because WCW) of dollars to understand wrestling fans going "Smarks will cheer for Jeff Jarrett and David Flair over Ric Flair" is infinitely amusing.
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I was a teenager at the time and thought the New Blood was super cool, so I think I was 100% Vince Russo's target audience.
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MassRafTer posted:Forget Hoodslam, I have an important announcement all WCW fans must watch. I spotted Nitro Girl Spice. This is a thing I am interested in.
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1st AD posted:Is there a reason Scott decided to get all roided out while Rick got fatter? Scott's always been a body guy while Rick was more focused as being the brawler and not into physique. The differences just became more pronounced over time.
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Great White Hope posted:The idea of somebody being paid thousands (if not millions, because WCW) of dollars to understand wrestling fans going "Smarks will cheer for Jeff Jarrett and David Flair over Ric Flair" is infinitely amusing.
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Is there a particular reason they treated Flair like such poo poo when they weren't actively neglecting him, or was it just the general "WWF guys are better than our guys" attitude at its peak?
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Pinstripe Hourglass posted:Is there a particular reason they treated Flair like such poo poo when they weren't actively neglecting him, or was it just the general "WWF guys are better than our guys" attitude at its peak? The cheapest of heat.
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ayn rand hand job posted:The cheapest of heat. Plus the politics of Nash and Hogan, I'm sure. (I bet MRT has info here)
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Rodney the Piper posted:Plus the politics of Nash and Hogan, I'm sure. (I bet MRT has info here) There's probably a multitude of reasons. Nash and Hogan politicking a bit, Flair's age, the entire nWo/WCW dynamic, and Sting not wrestling for a year probably played into it.
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The way Bichoff tells it, while never disputing that Flair announced it months prior, he was sending a message to the locker room. There's some rear end covering and he probably did it because he was pissed off at that moment. It was the dumbest example to go after and made him look like a maniac instead of telling the locker room he was serious about no-showing. Reid came in first place. 
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Say Nothing posted:Didn't Bischoff fire Syxx to 'send a message to the locker room'? Waltman was off injured and I can't recall any reason being given for his firing. Eric had a $3 Fedex coupon.
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