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Sydney Bottocks
Oct 15, 2004
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As long as my brother and I can create mutants on our PCs and pit them against each other in via World Wrestling Entertainment Two Thousand Fifteen For the Personal Computer (PC), then I will be a happy camper. :)

(still gonna wait for the inevitable Steam sale tho :v:)

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Sydney Bottocks
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Sold, and that was before I even read about how ridiculously easy it apparently will be to mod the game. :v:

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Shima Honnou posted:

I'm the one guy with the hat surgically implanted into my face.

I'm the guy with the CM Punk hat pulled so far down that it covers my eyes:

Sydney Bottocks
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I've been having fun making goofy-rear end rasslers in WWE 2K16, but the new Fire Pro on Steam is pretty much gonna be a day one purchase for me.

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AlmightyPants posted:

Is the new Fire Pro using skinned 3D models or is it all 2D sprites or something?

There isn't much info as of yet, but I'm guessing it'll be 2D like the previous entries in the series. Which is fine by me, the 2D graphics are charming and I get irritated at times with the 3D WWE games' weird graphical issues (custom titles not fitting properly on wrestlers' waists, ropes and belts clipping thru wrestler bodies, stuff like that).

Sydney Bottocks
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triplexpac posted:

Oh no, Van Hammer died in my TEW game after Exploding For No Apparent Reason

Clearly I need to start playing TEW again here :stare:

Sydney Bottocks
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Grabbed FPW today, and one of the first CAWs I downloaded was Frank "The Trayshman" Reynolds. Who proceeded to defeat Sabu in a barbed wire death match. 10/10, GOTY right there.

Sydney Bottocks
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PWX is great because it's so hilariously bad, like a "so bad it's good" movie-type of entertainment.

My favorite personal moment that showed me just how wonderfully bad it is was the one time during a CPU-run match, a wrestler got busted open and the animation bugged out, which meant the wrestler basically spurted blood non-stop for the rest of the match, to the point where it eclipsed the Eddy/Muta scales.

By the time it got to the "victory" animation, where the winning wrestler celebrated in the ring while the other wrestler lay on the mat in the background with blood just constantly jetting out of his forehead, I was literally crying from laughing so hard. You just don't get that level of entertainment out of a competently, professionally made game.

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C. Everett Koop posted:

if you don't think that's realistic well buddy have i got some czw to show you

Oh I didn't say it wasn't realistic, now. Just hilarious. :v:

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FullMetalJackoff posted:

I miss the entrances most of all. From importing theme music from the hdd, tweaking lighting colours / effects, niceley transitioned character motions, to all the words you could chain together during entrances for the announcer to call you. Never again have I experienced Amazing Evil Ninja Bossman, locker room bag tamperer and master of the backstage crate drop.

Or the times when the person who was supposed to interfere in a match on your behalf started beating you up instead, because the AI was borked and never targeted your opponent. :laugh:

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Galaga Galaxian posted:

lol if you think Fire Pro World is gonna get a sequel any time soon. Its existence is a miracle as is.

:smith:

Takuan posted:

The way some people are talking, Fire Pro may not even get all the announced DLC. :smith:

That being said, Fire Pro is pretty friendly towards porting CAWS from older editions... In that the vast majority of the available CAW parts and moves and AI settings are identical to previous versions. There are hundreds, possibly thousands of edits on the Steam Workshop for Fire Pro that are direct ports from Fire Pro Wrestling Returns/D/GBA

Is FPW doing that badly sales-wise? I know it's more than likely dwelling in the domain of niche wrestling game enthusiasts like us, so it would be disappointing but not surprising if it wasn't meeting sales goals.

Sydney Bottocks
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I don't think I have it installed any more, but a couple of years back I had Pro Wrestling X installed via Steam, and let the computer sim a four-way match. At one point a wrestler got busted open, and the animation glitched out so that blood kept spurting from his head for the remainder of the match in what I can only assume was true Mass Transit-style. Even at the end, when the victor had his hand raised, the glitched blood was still spurting like a fountain in the background. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at a video game glitch before or since.

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coconono posted:

yeah that was the one where the programmer didn't get up to pee frequently enough and hosed up his legs or something. It was a valiant attempt by people completely out of their league.

I hadn't heard about that, but I vaguely remember reading that at some point he ended up doing time in jail, for a DUI or public drunkenness or something like that, which slowed development on the game.

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Gavok posted:

The Chikara game now has a trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DUISpEKd0I

It's going to be on PC first in the fall, then eventually consoles.

I looked at the official page for the game, and it said you can create your own wrestlers, feds, etc., so I will definitely be keeping an eye on this.

Sydney Bottocks
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:stare:

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You know the thing about The Man, she’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When she comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be livin’. Until she bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then, you hear that terrible high pitch screamin’, and the ring turns red, and in spite of all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, the fans get up and leave because Lacey took all her heat.

Sydney Bottocks
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Gavok posted:

I know the TNA game was 11 years ago, but just look at the difference in model quality.



I laughed way too loud at this.

Sydney Bottocks
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Dacap posted:

https://twitter.com/vikingsizegamer/status/1183744608561487872?s=21

I can’t believe how terrible these models are. This looks significantly worse than ‘19’s

The wrestlers all have the same :goleft: expression on their faces

Sydney Bottocks
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I sure can't wait to play the wrestling game where all the wrestlers look like they just pulled a 12-hour shift and then the boss just called them up and asked if they could come in early again tonight

Sydney Bottocks
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I have to say, when this pile o' shite hits the bargain sales prices, I may consider getting it. Because if there's one thing I get many a chuckle out of, it's ridiculously bad video game jank.

Sydney Bottocks
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They should make a Mount & Blade II-style game, but instead of running around a fictional medieval kingdom conquering rivals, you're running around wrestling during the 1980s territory days (or the indy circuit for more modern times). You could even settle down and have kids to carry on your wrestling legacy (or settle paternity suits from one-night stands).

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Is it worth getting solely for comedy value, i.e. glitches, making up mutant wrestlers, etc.? It's $15 on Steam, which is about the most I'd be willing to pay.

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coconono posted:

I'll wait for it to show up in the PSplus freebies section.

Yeah, on reflection I don't want to give WWE whatever portion of the $15 they would get from me buying this dumpster fire of a game.

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forkboy84 posted:

If it was the free game on the Epic Store I'd say you could do better things with the bandwidth & disk space. It's not broken in a fun way, it's just bloated, boring and poorly made.

Yeah, decided I'm gonna give it a miss. If for no other reason than the idea of tacitly supporting WWE by buying this game--even if it's heavily discounted--isn't something I really wanna do.

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Gumball Gumption posted:

Ric looked like an oiled up nude goblin

PAC DLC skin confirmed

Sydney Bottocks
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TEW was definitely one of those things where I'd get super into it, eventually get burned out/bored, step away for a long while, then eventually get super back into it again. I think the last time I played it was the 2008 or 2010 version or whatever? I remember downloading a then-current "real world" mod and trying to make TNA actually viable by firing a bunch of the elderly/dead weight workers, before realizing that the ones with name value could work to put over guys I wanted to build up (because the way the game worked was, the more name value guys you had in matches, the higher the show's ratings were, or something like that), so I reloaded and had Hogan jobbing to whoever night after night until his contract ran out. :v:

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FullMetalJackoff posted:

The load times of HCTP and the entrance theme sound quality of No Mercy.

forkboy84 posted:

And the controls of WWF Attitude

And the cutscene voice acting and tag team/interference AI of Raw 2 :v:

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Angry_Ed posted:

There's no cutscene voice acting in Raw 2...or :thejoke: ?

:thejoke:

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Artelier posted:

I got Wrestling Empire on PC and it's incredible.

I was playing Not Daniel Bryan, and was feuding with Not Austin Aries, and we were both in some 8 man cage match. Before the match, Not Austin Aries asked if I wanted to have a hair vs hair match, to which I responded yes. 15 minutes later, Not Daniel Bryan won the match, and all other 7 wrestlers had their heads shaved

Also I like the part where the referee confiscates the dynamite and tosses it out of the ring but we're all in the way and everyone dies

I seem to remember playing it ages ago, and I had some sort of match with explosions where the referee literally lost one of his legs, but he still managed to stay in for the duration and count the pin at the end

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Drakkel posted:

GM Mode 2k22 is you playing John Laurinaitis and it's just you scrolling through porn at your work computer every day and every couple weeks or so there's a minigame where you send layoff texts to a dozen or so wrestlers.

And the porn also doubles as your "talent recruitment" effort as you leaf through the nudes of various women at modeling agencies.

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Drakkel posted:

GM Mode also includes a diplomacy minigame where you have to go to FOX executives and come up with a list of excuses for why the ratings are dogshit and also why you keep firing all the talent they want.

You also have to dodge the sacks of money they throw at you to sign CM Punk. If you manage to dodge all of them successfully, then he goes to AEW and gives them big ratings while the Fox execs explode in rage.

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IGgy IGsen posted:

I have seen that too and it looks like rear end. I'll never play one of these games, I'll just watch them.

E: Also playing wrestling video games lol. Sim supremacy.

I don't think I've actually played a wrestling game since like 2006, I usually just make up a roster of mutant hillbillies and sim every match, to see if the engine can deliver some hilarious botches.

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STONE COLD 64 posted:

they can do it but they better not make give Vince a juicy cut of any money from it

Sydney Bottocks
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It's been a while since I played an MDickie wrestling game, is that also the same menu song that goes KEEP IT HARDCORE

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Angry_Ed posted:

Don't forget Five Stings and Five HHHs :v:

They'll need to add a sixth HHH to represent his current state :zombie:

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Drakkel posted:

Can't wait for the most loaded roster in 2k history featuring classic characters like HHH '97, HHH'98, HHH' 00, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Tri, HHH '02, The Game, HHH '10, and the Skull King

You forgot the WCW DLC featuring Jean-Paul Levesque

Sydney Bottocks
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Triple H should be on that list as he was released from this mortal coil

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zetamind2000 posted:

Nothing in WWE2K22 will ever compare to MDickie's open world mode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHocYWWtylc

Holy poo poo

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Astro7x posted:

What is the appeal of watching the computer have matches? I never understood this

Because some of us like to run our rasslin' games like outlaw mud show promotions and watch as the parade of CAW mutant rasslers we made up proceed to commit botch after hilarious botch for our amusement

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STONE COLD 64 posted:

that looks like rear end

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