Casey

All of the villains in She-Hulk would like a word.

World Tour's card restrictions only get more annoying, trust me. You'll be doing the Chicago area for the Punk persona card, but need a card that's a reward from, like, LA or something, but for that you'll need silver cards or whatever the fuck, etc etc. I mean, I like that they added another mode to MyFaction, but goddamn man. That's fucking crazy.

Well, for starters, her name isn't Tomo, it's Tomoko....

She also mentioned a belt collector aka Mercedes.

Next week, I believe. It might bring Athena up, but if the plan is All In for their match, it's still too early. Maybe we get a Billie/Mercedes feud in between? I'd be okay with that, the youngster can go. Speaking of All In - oh, poor Swerve. The way Ospreay was cutting that promo, specifically about Mox, leads me to believe he's retaining at Dynasty (and probably Double or Nothing, if they run a title match).

He teased this like 5 years ago, when talking about Luca Marinelli on his Instagram. Said he'd be the perfect Solid Snake if he put on a bandana.

You are the 1%

I don't know who you're using for the Iron Sheik stuff (or any live events), but never use Silver/Bronze cards unless you have no choice. I used an Emerald Chad Gable for the Sheiky Baby one, and just worked over his legs until they were red and did Gable's ankle lock, like, twice.

Nothing says super indie like Stardust being a co-founder of the company and their first World champion being a guy who worked for WWE for 20+ years. If they were indeed what you wanted, Chuck Taylor would've been the first champion. As for your point #3, they still do that. Difference between now and early AEW is that they aren't bringing in green as fuck workers and pushing them. Their hottest storyline lately was Mariah May, a super unknown to anyone who doesn't watch Stardom, feuding with Toni Storm - who carried NXTUK and was then shafted in NXT and WWE's main roster. Mariah is now a bigger star for it. Toni is a completely different character than pre-AEW Toni. Why can't "developing and pushing indie talent" co-exist with "former sportsentertainmentsuperstars"? Nobody knew who the Outrunners were half a year ago, and they just had a great showing against two ex WWE guys. Unless you watched New Japan, Kyle Fletcher was an unknown. Now he's co-maineventing with Ospreay. Takeshita? Brody King? They literally just put Momo Watanabe on a high profile PPV and we're sitting here crowing about AEW bringing in more and more WWE people? If that was the case, Mone would've faced like, I dunno, fuckin' Carmella.

Comedic route is perfect for a “just left AEW” Kenny Omega character in MyRise tbh. Even the interactions with Jade & Punk are eerily spot on.

At this point, I don't think they're waiting for Darby - I think they're waiting for their largest attended US show, at All In Texas. As much as I want Swerve to beat Mox, at Dynasty (where he won his first World title), and move on (back?) to Hangman and do an exploding barbwire deathmatch... I don't think it's gonna happen. I'd love it, but I can see the theory behind Mox dropping the title finally in front of 30k or whatever fans. But Swerve is that fuckin' guy, and TK needs to jump back on that bandwagon and just ride it.

I've got some bad news for you, brother.

I'm as disillusioned with AEW as Gordi is, but for different reasons, but holy shit I would take a thousand clones of Mercedes over Abadon. That feels like saying signing Toni Storm, or Swerve, or any other ex-WWE person, isn't worth it, and AEW should focus on wrestlers that are "different" and don't have the "fed stink" on them or something. It's worth it, most of the time. Let's take a breath and remember that Mercedes hasn't even been signed a year, and that's about how long it usually takes for the ex WWE people to find their footing and get a character that's worth a fuck. Ricochet being the exception as of now, he came in as what he was there, and quickly switched it up. Probably a few other exceptions that I can't think of. And Comoroto? Are we really mourning the loss of a perennial Dark guy? Really?

By virtue of not wanting to go insane, I always do Showcase on Easy just so I can blast through it, never think about it again and get the unlockables. The timed objectives this year throw a wrench into that. The AI is decent enough, but when you get to stuff like the 3 Minute Warning match, or (ugh) the MITB match, and add in timed objectives... it's really fucking annoying. I'm doing the same thing with World Tour. Supposedly the difficulty bumps up considerably once you get to the New York area, too. Lots of modifiers that cripple the gameplay IE no running, finishers, sigs, top rope moves, etc. The Island won't catch on just by the simple fact that the load times are insane for such a janky looking mode. I'm sure the PVP hogs will love it, but mostly everyone plays these WWE 2K games for stuff like Universe and whatnot. There were reports THURSDAY NIGHT that people in the Island mode already had 99 OVR CAWs. You have to spend VC to do that, especially that early. Insanity. Just to unlock some Nikes or whatever, and some trophies probably.

It’s a trailer made specifically for a website where fans rate movies. What do you expect lol