No Point Stance
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Okay, I'll bite. Who's the greaser Jeff Hardy?
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Uhhhh... it's almost EXACTLY the same game YET AGAIN. Right down to the retarded 'my first coding job' cockup of both guys running and colliding with each other if they're close together that should have been fixed years ago.
It's starting to look like 2K have decided 'well, Yukes and THQ showed the fans contempt for years and they still bought it, so why bother trying to make it any fucking good this year?'... -
Two hopeful requests:
- the Fujinami-Hase 1993 G-1 final
- the mid-2000s Noah 6-man main from that show in the extraordinary building with the giant stained-glass windows.
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Very cool. I'd love to read the whole thing if you ever get it fully translated and the 'Engrish' ironed out. Thanks so much for sharing this bit.
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About all I could suggest would be a natural rivalry with Punk (assuming he returns) over Punk appropriating the Go 2 Sleep.
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YES~! Much obliged, thanks!
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Does anyone have the old photo of Michael Hayes and Terry Gordy next to a payphone, apparently stoned out of their minds? Thanks in advance.
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RIP Dave Brockie, AKA Oderus Urungus.
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Not sure many can match how nerdy I got with VPW2. I still have a ziplock bag with 5 N64 memory cards filled with CAW's. If they didn't erase, a common problem.
Tag matches were great. My Angle/Benoit team was the best. Even on the hardest difficulty I pretty much had that game mastered. I was so crazy I'd be watching tapes and say Tanahashi would do a new move I'd make a note and go in and tweak his moveset.
I did pretty much the exact same thing, obsessively documenting movesets and other minutiae for the purpose of CAWs - and I remember the horror of discovering a memory card had wiped and taken 8 of my painstakingly created wrestlers with it; cue cries of 'No! Not Satoru Asako TOO!"...
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Greedy fucking weasels.
Also, why in the fuck do we have to create tag teams, etc in Universe Mode and then have to do it all over again in the pointless My WWE main menu option if we want those teams recognised in exhibition matches?
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Latest grievances (360 version):
- there seem to be no sound effects for any of Hennig's big moves, robbing them of all impact and 'oomph'.
- suddenly I am unable to change a match in Universe mode (by which I mean rebook whatever crap the computer's thrown together) without the game crashing before the wrestler select screen.
They better be planning on patching this game.
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Virgil should consider himself lucky the game doesn't have an entrance where the wrestler comes out and stands by an empty autograph table.
Bravo, sir.
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Yeah, but wrestlers still wander out of the ring for no good reason to wreck the announcers' table...
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That goddamn last match... First the real, actual match it was based on insulted me as a wrestling fan, then the videogame version managed to insult me as a videogame fan too.
FWIW, I don't think Wrestlemania mode compared at all favourably to last year's Attitude era, and stands as a colossal missed opportunity.
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Thanks, I'll give it a go.
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This game's a rental, definitely not worth the purchase if you have last year's version, IMHO. I have a serious case of buyer's regret.
Any tips on beating the last 30 Years Of Wrestlemania match? The fucking Rock seems to be scripted to become captain counter in the closing stretch and once you've eaten a couple of rock bottoms it's pretty much game over. It's super-cheap, like more annoying by far than anything in last year's Attitude Era mode. I have come alarmingly close to kicking my 360 across the room after losing a dozen times in a row in the exact same fashion.-
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I think I realised in the mid-90s that Eddy (his own preferred spelling of the name, as he notes in his book) was my favourite wrestler, and somehow he remained in that spot for me through the highs and the lows right up until the present day. He was THE total package, as versatile a performer as there has ever been and someone who excelled in every category. I act a little bit and watching that 2005 heel turn promo reminds me how incredible and convincing Eddy could be on promos, even granting some much-needed credibility to a stupid and unbelievable angle like a paternity struggle over Rey's kid.
When Eddy died it hurt for me like no other wrestling death before or since, possibly in part due to the fact that I'd just read and really enjoyed his autobiography. When Vince and the soulless pieces of crap writing for the WWE decided to then exploit and mock his passing it was time for me to turn my back on the WWE. I've never watched a single Raw or Smackdown since they used Eddy's death for the cheapest of cheap heat (though I think I've watched a total of four or five of their PPVs since) and I will never again respect Misterio or Randy Orton for their part in agreeing to metaphorically piss on Eddy's grave. It was truly a sub-Fritz Von Erich piece of 'booking' and made me furious; how it must have made his family feel is another thing altogether. I also can't help but find blame for the manner of his passing in the pressure he must have felt to bulk up in WWE.
It's interesting to think of what might have been, the good and the bad. Who knows if Benoit would even have gone insane like he did if Eddy hadn't passed away? Regardless, nothing can take away from the legacy Eddy Guerrero left us, an amazing body of work from a guy who will never be forgotten.-
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I'm watching the Eddie Gilbert Favorite Angles comp and I'm curious what was the deal with Eddie and Doug shooting on IWA (or WING or whatever it was) and pledging their allegiance to Baba? Was it just Eddie and Doug being Eddie and Doug or did they get a small AJ run? Did the Japanese fans even care who they were? I didn't think Eddie worked much in Japan.
If I recall, they hated being the horror movie guys and were leaving to go to All Japan and then did that whole shoot promo and the whole deal was over and they didn't go.
I have a VHS around someplace of a non-kayfabe video interview Eddie did on his career, circa 1993. I'm guessing it was (more or less) the original shoot interview. Anyway, in discussing the W*ING incident he says that the impetus for it going down was Leatherface (later Super Leather) AKA Mike Kirchner, a friend of the Gilberts, had to do some jail time. While he was inside, Eddie says, Roberto Rodriguez, who wrestled as Jason The Terrible (the Puerto Rico version, not the Calgary guy), had stolen Kirchner's Leatherface gimmick and sold it to a man. I'm guessing he meant the mask, apron and maybe the saw. The Gilberts were mad but let it go, until Jason The Terrible was booked to go over The Moondogs (also friends of Eddie and Doug) in a tag match, and THAT was when they decided to burn their bridges with W*ING. Eddie actually said that they had implored the promoter (Mickey Ibaragi maybe?) to not put Jason over and even to have his partner score the pin if the Moondogs had to job but it ended up being Jason, who they already despised, and that was that for them.That's what I remember from my one viewing of the interview tape about 19 years ago anyway!
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That sounds about right but I do seem to remember the wrestlers entering at intervals, just like the Royal Rumble.
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I'm pretty sure I've seen an FMW handheld in which Dr. Hannibal wins a rumble (last eliminating Tarzan Goto, after a bag of 'blinding powder' to the eyes and the fisherman supplex hold).God damn, I loved Luther and Hannibal when I'd see them on old scratchy VHS dupes back in the day.
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That Hennig model is dreadful.
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Another reason that engine blows, on top of ricockulous move interruptions and the loss of moves like la majistral.
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And also not giving him the rope neck snap despite IT BEING IN THE GAME BEFORE and him finally being a playable character.
Aaaand there's the deal-breaker that's demoted this game from 'probably gonna pick it up this week' to 'maybe in a while when I can get it cheap 2nd hand'.
The Wrestling Book Thread
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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So, how would one go about getting a copy (in any form) of the Gary Hart book at present?