TheVileOne
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Davis got two takedowns, spent about a minute on top, and did nothing else. He's a terrible fucking fighter and Bones is going to obliterate him and his embarrassing facial hair.
These are the top dudes of that division. Which is why it's so lame. Davis can't do anything except go for takedowns and hope to control his opponent. Machida has a lot of ability but he's not big or strong for 205, so the only real way he can win is to dance around and catch dudes off-balance. Gustafsson ain't no good, he's just tall, Shogun is completely shot at this point. I would not be surprised if he lost to Sonnen, he damn near lost to Brandon Vera. Rashad should probably be at MW. Glover is the only real bright spot in that division outside of the champ.
A light heavyweight in the UFC doesn't go six in a row and go 7-1 by being just tall and no good.
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Time for Machida to stop being "elusive."
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Ratings numbers if that's of interest to anyone:Show averaged 679,000 viewers. Peak was 856,000 viewers with the announcement of Ortiz vs. Rampage on PPV.
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Doesn't mean they would never fight each other though.
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Dana White said today they could do Vitor Belfort vs. Rashad Evans if Belfort wants to move up in weight.
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Man the Arkham team doing a Spider-Man game would be tops.
We haven't gotten a truly good Spider-Man game in a long time.
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The show is pretty stacked, I think it will pull a decent rating. At least higher than the last Summer event.
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LOL at GSP saying Rory "beat up Ellenberger."
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I fully admit I'm not a very good gamer, but I'm still proud of myself for getting 100% on all the Arkham City side quests.
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I've had this game on my shelf for over a year and I finally got to sit down and play it nonstop. I beat the regular campaign and all the side quests. And now I'm stuck scouring for these two Catwoman trophies I can't find at all.
The Natural, I probably lost a solid 2-3 hours on the VR training side quest and constantly failing. I don't understand what I really did to nail those rings when I actually did, but those were the most frustrating gaming hours of my life ever.
Anyway, what I like the most about this game is all the sort of odd extras that you can do. Like after you fulfill side quests you can go back to check on certain characters and they will still give you new dialogue or actual new cut scenes with dialogue. And when you do these things you actually get rewarded for it with the interview tapes and the like.
Also I saw the Arkham Origins panel at Comic-Con and it was pretty disappointing. I like both actors as Batman and Joker, Roger Craig Smith and Troy Baker, but they were just off that day. For whatever reason they didn't want to do Batman and the Joker that day. They came off as a little nervous and intimidated, it was weird I think the developers blew it because they didn't really show us anything. We didn't get to see really anything new or get any boss fights or game play levels. Just to give you an example, when I was at E3 in 2011 they showed us a few different slices of Arkham City. They showe us the gladiator arena fight and confrontation with the Penguin and actually what turned out to be the final chapter of the Catwoman side quest (when she robs the vault). Now I already got to play a bit of Origins at E3, but it would've been nice to see some new footage of the game for the Con to show us why this game will be a worthy entry into the franchise and why we should buy it.
Now on Arkham City, it's hard for me to put into words how much I love this game. I just wonder if the game will ever get the credit as being one of the greatest Batman stories ever (serious) because it is in fact a game. I mean the first game was a trip. Batman pretty much went to hell and back, but he seemed to come out of it OK. I was a little underwhelmed honestly that at the end of Asylum everything just seems to go back to normal. Everyone's OK. No one is really dead. Batman is just able to fly off. This story was much harsher and emotional. Batman gets put through even worse punishment. He makes it out of it but you don't feel like he's won. I think the only thing I kind of wanted to see was maybe see Batman just kind of return to the cave and strip everything off. We didn't ever really see him have a vulnerable moment in this piece at all. Even when he's in danger, he's still in Batman/savage predator mode. I kind of would've liked to see him maybe have a Jack Bauer breaks down moment and then have that Dark Knight Returns moment where he "finds his strength" again and goes back to work.
The first game, I had this constant dread and abject sense of terror in dealing with the Joker. I can't remember the last time I found Joker so frightening. It wasn't quite the same here, but I think what I got out of the Joker storyline in this game was more along how creepy and weird the Joker/Batman relationship and dynamic was. I like that the game went there and even at the end Joker is like declaring his "love" for Batman. Frell, he sings "Only You" to him. But I mean the game kind of addressed that on some weird, messed up level the Joker and Batman are friends.
Ra's Al Ghul fight was awesome. Scaling to the top of Wonder Tower was awesome.
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Not sure what the sound of money going down the toilet sounds like but whatever it is Rory heard it over and over and over again with that fight. Dana would be nuts to give Rory a title fight after that snoozer.
Good lord was that fight a fucking sleeping pill or what?
The fight most people were looking forward to as well. Sounds like I didn't miss much. Tempted to watch the above fight to see how bad it is.
Welcome back TheVileOne, was wondering where you was.
LOL, I was wondering where the forum was. I just noticed a PM from Epwar on another forum the link for this one. I thought DVDR got like nuked or swallowed up by the internet or something.
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Man MacDonald/Ellenberger was such a bust. What was Ellenberger trying to do out there? Did he think he'd be able to land that one good shot on Rory?
Johnson/Moraga was a lot of fun. Glad to see a champ go for the finish and get it that late into the fight even if he was ahead on the score cards. Usually the champ will just coast to the finish.
I'd say Benavidez/Johnson II is inevitable at this point, provided Benavidez beats Formiga.
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Machida must be fucking terrible then since he only had to beat a broken down Tito Ortiz, a juiced up Thiago Silva (one of the names you mentioned above), and Sokoudjou to get a title shot and then he got derailed by Shogun after he won it. And then an old broken down Randy Couture to get his second shot against Jones where he got choked out and dropped like a sack of potatoes.