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No Point Stance

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  1. They dropped the ball bigtime by not mentioning the 1993 televised in-ring interview prior to his big Wrestlemania comeback match, where he poured out his heart RE head collapse, divorce and apparent end of career, before saying something like "I didn't know what to do", only for a particularly compassionate fan in the crowd to yell "Kill yourself!".
  2. I've never seen the match but for some reason always had it in my head that Steiner was trying out a flipping version, like a moonsault fallaway slam if you weel.
  3. That Footloose tag sounds really good. I've never been clear on what a blockbuster supplex is; is it the move also commonly known as a fallaway slam, IE Scott Hall's 'sack of shit'.
  4. I got a chuckle out of the still they showed of Hogan and Beefer around the 40 minute mark, a front row fan leaning into shot holding a 'BRING BACK G.L.O.W.' sign. Hey, he got his wish, sorta.
  5. This all sounds good to me. I don't suppose they've brought back the chain wrestling from 2K19? Because that would be a big incentive to me buying now and not waiting months for a major price drop.
  6. The great documentary 'Memphis Heat' is up on full on YouTube. I have no idea if it's been officially authorised for upload or not, so maybe jump on it now in case it's gone later. Memphis Heat 2011 (youtube.com)
  7. YouTube is littered with fan-made sizzle reels of wrestlers, including at least two I've seen of Williams looking like a terrifying monster in AJPW. If WWF had wanted to, they absolutely could have gotten him over two fans with maybe two 30-second spots of highlights; build the threat around the possibility of Doc landing the backdrop driver on Austin's recently broken neck (don't forget, Austin never had to take the move, just get waistlocked and fight for the ropes a few times), maybe bring in someone non-cartoony as his mouthpiece, and you've got the makings of a solid six-month run at least.
  8. Is this an actual term we're using now? Cause I like it. Definition please.
  9. The exact moment I flipped from thinking Warrior was cool to thinking he was a dick.
  10. IIRC it was WWF Warzone that started that (thankfully short-lived) period of wrestling games using stupidly complicated Mortal Kombat-style input. Dreadful times.
  11. A bit that always struck me as poignant from Foley's book was an anecdote from just before he and Gordy went out for their Kawasaki Dream match, when Gordy said something to the effect of 'please don't let me look bad out there', essentially acknowledging that he was painfully cognisant of his own deterioration from his pre-overdose abilities.
  12. Oh wow, thanks - I didn't think it had made it to an official epub release.
  13. Man, good luck finding an affordable copy. I thought I had a PDF of it but realised recently that I was sadly mistaken.
  14. RE: WWE2K I think last year I played maybe an hour or two of one of the two storyline modes and then never returned to it. Partly because I discovered that GM Mode is the best thing ever and partly because I've always hated the company's stupid scripted storylines approach to television, never mind videogames. It seriously just seemed like page after page of insipid dialogue and social media references broken up only by tapping a button for the next line of lame dialogue and now and then an uninspiring match between uninspiring made-up wrestlers. Okay, that's awesome.
  15. Kamala could pull off a helluva jumping splits back in the day.
  16. I've always assumed the voiceover was pretaped, but who knows?
  17. Saggs looks no more than maybe five years older than he did in his early 90s heyday. He did a recent shoot interview in which he seemed really decent and grounded too. Even back in the day I always got the impression that his partner was probably a bit of a millstone around his neck, like (to make a wholly inappropriate literary reference) Knobbs was Lennie to Saggs' good-natured and tolerant George.
  18. Please tell me the GM mode is back (and hopefully expanded). It's likely the only reason I'd buy this year's game.
  19. Yah, fuck that. Anything built around microtransactions can kiss my ass.
  20. What even is Faction mode? What little I know of it suggests that it's some kinda card trading game, which always sounds like a pathetic waste of space and development resources. Think I clicked on it once in 2K23 and then reset the console two pages into the intro, I was so uninspired.
  21. I went from being a dedicated, vocal and educated fan of UFC (and MMA in general) to never watching, nor wanting to watch, that shit, in a span of just a few years. There were minor issues for me (like Dana cosying up to Trump and Joe Rogan gradually getting douchier), but the main factor was their not severing ties with that POS Conor McGregor when word started to get around here in Ireland that he had, on at least two occasions, perpetrated serious and extremely violent sexual assaults on women (and bear in mind these alleged rapes took place years before the 2023 NBA bathroom incident). Promoters need to stop treating their drawing cards as teflon. They've done wrong? Fuck 'em. But, y'know, corporate greed and all...
  22. Ugh, clicked on this blind and it's The Young Bucks. Somehow they've found a way to look even more like goofy pussies than they did before.
  23. WWE might as well just release a 'rapists and other sex offenders' pack as DLC at this point.
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