SirSmUgly

I'm probably going to play Persona on VITA at some point, but I'm not really a JRPG guy. Everyone loves it though, so I should give it a try. I'm going to do a Persona/Hatoful Boyfriend/Danganronpa series of playthroughs and get all the weird Japanese games that I want to try out of the way, maybe after I beat Fallout 4.

Look everyone, it's Tyler...trading wins with fucking Stardust on Superstars every week.

I loved SRIV (except for the fact that High Voltage might be a group of one-armed chimpanzees who have never coded in their lives because the damn thing locked up my PS4 randomly at least twelve times during my twenty hour playthrough). Beat it and immediately started to play Gat Out Of Hell. Stopped about ninety minutes in and just looked up the endings on YouTube. I had my fill of that gameplay. We need a reboot, preferably one that resets things and goes back to the end of SR2 so we can get back to a focus on Ultor and Troy, that sonuvabitch. Right now, I'm playing through Sonic Colors and enjoying it well enough, but I see why SEGA added the werewolf stages to Unleashed and the 2D Sonic stages to Generations from a gameplay standpoint; the boost gameplay is REALLY fun, but only in short bursts. It gets old quickly. Of course, it's also easier to make non-2.5D boost stages, so from both a fun factor perspective and a labor-intensive perspective, interspersing something else with those stages is a good idea. I also have been playing lots of VITA while I'm burning up the Stairmaster or elliptical. Quickly: Injustice: Gods Among Us is pretty fun single-player. I play a decent Batgirl. I think. It's hard to tell against the computer. I have bought this game twice now, actually, but it was worth it. I'm looking forward to the next game in the series now that MKX has been completed. Jeanne d'Arc is so goofy that I love it, and it's a pretty good tactics-like as well. It does get game-breakingly easy about halfway through, but I'll get through it anyway. Tearaway is adorable, but it doesn't really hold my interest. My first Tearaway card died after maybe a week, but Target was offloading VITA games for about six bucks apiece, so I got a new copy pretty easily. It's one that I'll enjoy playing with my kids someday, though. Super Meat Boy has been on my PC forever. I don't necessarily love playing pixel-perfect platformers, and frankly, I don't really love this game either. I'm all for difficulty, mind you, and I think that I physically threatened my VITA at a couple of points during the end stages of Rayman Origins, but this feels more like IWTBtG! than just a really challenging and rewarding platformer Backing Broken Age: I made a hyooooooge mistake. I loved Costume Quest and Trenched and of course Psychonauts, but Brutal Legend is a bad game made worse that I personally hate metal and the gameplay didn't even get close to making up for the soundtrack (though Peter McConnell's work in that game is suitably awesome), CQ2 was not good because the original creator of the idea left the company, and honestly, they haven't put out a good game since Stacking. Of course, I also backed Massive Chalice and still have not played it, so I could just need to play that to rediscover my love for Double Fine.

RAW is so stale. I wish they would change everything up. Visuals, commentary, everything. Go back to doing a Nitro-style set. Move the Titantron somewhere different in the arena or make it multiple screens all banded together instead of one big complete screen, like the board for the New Press Your Luck from a few years ago. Dump Cole, dump JBL. Stop micromanaging EVERY damn thing the commentators say. Dump the scripted promos. Stop making everyone wrestle to the hard camera. Stop shaking the camera to simulate impact. Maybe use some things like that sky camera/over the corner camera that WCW used on the first Souled Out. Change the color of the ring ropes. Use the video boards around the ring in an interesting way. Modify WWE style to allow for different regional styles to shine through. Allow secondary finishers to finish matches in order to increase the unpredictability of match finishes. Try more finishes besides "clean/DQ/countout," maybe the occasional draw, KO, or ref stoppage. Start shows with competitive matches that don't advance storylines. Start shows in media res occasionally, as Nitro once did. Use rankings to organize possible contenders; don't be a slave to them, but the WWE Top 25 rankings on WWE.com should be shown from week to week. Do more "from the control center" type summations for upcoming shows like NXT has started to do again. Do more random tournaments like KotR or hell, do a G1-style tournament. Again, NXT did the Dusty Rhodes Memorial Tag Team Classic, and it was an awesome switch-up. Actually have things happen on Superstars or Main Event that are referenced on RAW, but that you must get the Network to see in full, and vice versa. Don't make every entrance song either a shitty nu-metal or questionable CFO$ song and actually get some variety because people listen to rap and even country too, damn. Or they could go nuts and do some crazy shit like that WCW: Lockdown idea that I read about so many years ago, which honestly, I am intrigued by even though I know that it's not a good idea. That might actually solve all their problems! (No, it wouldn't.)

I watched the Canadian elections tonight, and they were entertaining, but I don't know if it was worth not seeing Owens/Henry. I mean, if they hyped that match, I would have actually watched RAW live for the first time in a long time.

If they don't put it on Kofi and have those guys Freebird the title, there's nothing else they can do that won't be disappointing outside of creating time travel and going back to get 1997 Bret Hart or 1979 Jim Breaks or 1988 Barry Windham or someone like that to win it in a long match.

Ambrose is a great answer. They pretty much had a great never-say-die type of babyface and they cooled him off twice when the crowd was ready for him. They should have just strapped a rocket to him to see what would happen.

Just book strong babyfaces. I know people roll their eyes at NXT, but that crowd generally loves heels like Sasha Banks, Kevin Owens, or Tyler Breeze right up until they face off with a well-developed, strong babyface like Bayley, Sami Zayn, or Finn Bálor. What strong, universal babyface has this company had in the past few years? Cena isn't that guy. Bryan is the only one who I can think of. Maybe Punk, too. Otherwise, they have a bunch of faces that people are bitterly split on at best and lukewarm for at worst. The company just sucks at booking and building up babyfaces, and that's compounded by a significant enough portion of the crowd who will push back against the booking of faces who they did not organically get behind. Maybe if the company just pushed the guys that were organically chosen by the crowd as their champion in a way that didn't overdo it, they'd have strong faces that would get the right reaction for the heels.

You noticed Bunger, but failed to even mention Biggerstaff. You're slipping, dude.

Rockstar equated "strong narrative" with "downer story" there for awhile with Max Payne 3, RDR, and GTA IV, and of those stories, I think RDR is the only one that regularly connected with people. My awesome parents bought me my NES in 1986 when I was only four. It took me a good year to beat SMB, if I recall correctly, but once my uncle told me about the Koopa shell ricochet trick, I was running up good enough scores to send them into Nintendo Power.

I just love that here in 2015, Vince fucking McMahon is having circles written and booked around him in large part by a dude who wrote for the Rachael Ray Show. Absurd. It's odd that RAW doesn't really leverage the fact that it's live programming and thus people should still be making sure to tune in to see it unfold. Hell, if you missed the first two hours, they'll recap everything important at the top of the third hour. They should really tinker with the format so that the announcers only allude to what people missed in the first hour or two rather than just giving it away. It might be wiser for them to edit the video clips of RAW and Smackdown (assuming Smackdown moves to USA and becomes a live show) that they put online so that they don't give as much away also.

Already seen Breeze wrestle Finn and it was mediocre. Unless Tyler's finally taking the gold, there's no reason to run that program right now. I kinda don't care as much about Joe. It's not fair to him because it was twelve years and numerous injuries ago, but he just doesn't have that physical explosiveness in the ring that made me really get into him. He never was the same after that one Sting match where he did the really foolhardy dive down a bunch of steps and onto his tailbone. This is not to say that you're wrong, Ramsey, as much as it is to simply remark on those two guys. At this point, though, I'm all for Breeze getting a run with the gold, so I hope they find a way to do that while transitioning to Finn/Joe at the same time. Crews is a filler challenger for now, I think.

Don't get me wrong, Rollins actually makes me pine for the days of WWF Champion Diesel, who was at least decent on the stick, but the fact that Cena's the only relevant wrestler on McMahon's roster says a fuck of a lot more about McMahon's total failure as a booker over the past eight years than it does anything about Rollins or anyone else on the roster.

Man, people make fun of wrestling attire all the time. Comparably speaking, if PN News came out on our screens right the fuck now, people here would be making fun of his goofy attire. I don't buy that claim of misogyny, at least here. Maybe in a pit like Wreddit or something.

I wouldn't call it lazy. It's more like hopeful. The women need a giant of some sort who can act as a base for their higher-end moves and who can toss them around. She can be more rotund or cut like Chyna for all I care, but I'd like to see a bigger woman in that sort of role.

It could just be me, but I'm pretty sure she got the same mega reaction in front of 13k in Brooklyn as she gets in front of the Full Sail crowd. She won't get over on the main roster, but it won't be because she has limited appeal. It's because Vince McMahon hates money.

This might seem a weird question, but is anyone excited for the Royal Rumble specifically to see if they'll once again book it in a way that the crowd vocally hates? I'm hoping that they figured out that all the super-smark types show up to RR in droves as it's the first PPV on the Road to WrestleMania, and instead of trying to please them, they just go full on troll. Bryan returns as #1 in the Rumble, tossed out by #2 The Miz in thirty seconds. Cena tosses all of New Day, Dolph Ziggler, Kevin Owens, Cesaro, and Sami Zayn in his RR debut. Reigns throws out Lesnar to win it.

Izzy putting her hands up to her head after Sasha snatched her bow off was great. She had a total "What the actual fuck?!" look on her face there that you can catch just before the camera goes away from her.

My issue with Nia Jax is that she should be busting out a powerbomb and a fat man splash in every squash. I mean, I like that Rock Bottom knock-off well enough (and the dude in the crowd who clearly yelled ROCK BOTTOM! ROCK BOTTOM! in a Jim Ross impression after she did it actually made me crack a laugh), but I want more killer offense in these squashes. Maybe someone should have her watch Yokozuna squash matches from when he first showed up in the company in late 1991 for purposes of emulation.

If they ever broke New Day up, Xavier Woods as heel Roman Reigns's hype man would be tremendous.

I don't get why WWE insists on their guys having to do interviews, but doesn't groom more managers. The whole point is to have a guy that covers for your guys that look great and can work, but can't talk. I can only imagine what '86 Jim Cornette or '88 Gary Hart could do for current-day Roman Reigns as a heel.

I think they accidentally pulled off a double-turn by having Samoa Joe eliminate Tyler Breeze in the battle royal, whose constant losing has essentially turned him into an underdog face as far as that crowd is concerned.

This actually sounds like a decent idea. The execution has simply sucked.

I love that those hosts kept calling the New Day pro wrestlers even after they corrected them with "sports entertainers."

From what I've learned over the past months, this has happened multiple times before (a group of luchadores splitting AAA for CMLL or vice versa all at once). Someone who knows lucha history in far more detail than me (pretty much everyone else posting here) can elaborate or correct me if I'm wrong, but I've come across this happening on multiple occasions in the '90s and '00s.