Michael Sweetser Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Knockout mode is WAY too much fun. My self-titled character was doing very well as a boxer before, well.. I gotta conserve my stamina more, and block more, and generally suck less. The career mode is fun with the random events, and with the fighter aging and losing a bit off his fastball. I find it very well done. And holy shit the Bruce Buffer intros give ya chills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 I think the scoring system is broken. Fun game though. I highly recommend playing with Mark Hunt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Sweetser Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 I tried playing against Mark Hunt with Frank Mir. That went poorly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 He does those crazy, wild, swinging hooks when his opponent is rocked. That rules. And boy does he rock his opponent on the reg. I thought I beat Lombard with Magny via decision multiple times but each time he got the nod. I used distance strikes and even rocked him multiple times (I guessed that Magny would beat Lombard via decision this weekend, so I was trying to replicate that). I didn't want to accidentally KO him, so I couldn't go in for the kill. Still, I was more accurate, had 37 more sig. strikes, and almost 100 more total strikes. More takedowns too and while he swept me a few times, I still thought I won the grappling exchanges. WHATEVER, GAME. The grappling is way, way better. I love how if you defend transitions initially, you'll gas out your opponent and have a much easier time with your own transitions. Very nice touch. Only thing I'm disliking is they don't have the directional indicator for blocking transitions when holding R2/RT like they do in practice mode. It's hard to tell which direction I'm supposed to be blocking sometimes. And those fucking sweeps... Still, the in-game stuff seems like a significant improvement. Fights are better paced and everything seems pretty well balanced in comparison to the first one. The matchmaker feature is a babystep to where it ought to be: a full-on UFC matchmaker experience where you run the company and deal with injuries/retirements/etc. That's a must for the third version or I'm likely not buying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tromatagon Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 I lost to CM Punk As Bruce Lee Fuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewar Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 I lost to CM Punk As Bruce Lee Fuck You are no longer my favorite Casey. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tromatagon Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Casey Ryback should have been way higher than me anyway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 The greatest UFC2 video on youtube: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tromatagon Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Agreed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 I watch that video and I find myself thinking, "man, you'd think they'd have updated Bruce's animation sometime since the PS2 days". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 That was hilarious. I also bought UFC 2 and really like it. Career mode is pretty bland, but the game plays really well. I would also imagine that issues like wonky judging can be fixed with title updates. From what I understand, UFC 1 had a slew of issues that were all patched up and it was one of the better efforts put forth by devs after a game came out to really fix everything that was wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Sweetser Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 I finished my career mode at 14-8 with a loss to Robbie Lawler. My main issue was that I started my eponymous character at my actual age (36) which led to a shortened career. As you could see in the Punk video, I was very sloppy and had zero stamina past the opening rounds. It was early KO or nothing and later in the career, it was nothing more and more (although I did get a shocking KTFO on Lawler in our first encounter). In the retirement fight, Rogan and Goldberg even talked about how my character was never a star but could always give you a good fight. Little touches like that were cool. It doesn't appear I can export from career mode to the regular mode, however, which sucks bigtime. The most I can do is import my character's appearance into Ultimate Team. On my next character (probably a women's bantamweight) I intend to focus more on takedowns and wrestling, especially considering how terrible everyone apparently is at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 In the two fights I've had in career mode, I took both opponents down and quickly got to mount to rain down punches. So far, it doesn't seem like you're penalized for restarting training mini games, which I kind of like. If you can get up to an A, you're free to then just keep boosting your stats during training camp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Yeah, the support for UFC 1 was shockingly great. I didn't expect that from an EA game but here we are. We already got 3 DLC characters with Sage, Jessica Aguilar, and some mystery fighter. Any idea who it is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tromatagon Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Conan O Brien probably. He played Conor on his show and it looked like his model had hair that isn't in create a fighter. EDIT: Alphabetically, it's probably Joe Rogan. Go to an online game and welterweight and you can see his spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 If you log-in to Marvel Heroes 2016 on Saturday and Sunday, they'll give you a playable Daredevil for free. Even if you don't play it now, but think you may sometime in the future, I'd do it. It's a free character! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamp, broken circa 1988 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Time for another stardew valley story. I regret not having a screen cap or footage or something.I'm letting my friends name my animals (with the exception of my dog Human and eventually my horse Phillies). I bought two chickens today. The first chicken was named by my street fighter practice buddy's girlfriend. The chicken is now named Magnet. She apparently was inconsolable for an hour when she came up with it. The second chicken was going to be named by my friend in Japan. She stammered and hem'd and haw'd until I said "say the word on your mind right now." Which ended up being a Japanese term for a penis. So when I went to buy the chicken I went through all the steps- click buy animals, click chickens, click the coop I wanted to put them in... when the Enter Their Name field popped up, the name that was filled in by default was, swear to fuck, "No." I'll say it again- this game is special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Koch Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Conan O Brien probably. He played Conor on his show and it looked like his model had hair that isn't in create a fighter. EDIT: Alphabetically, it's probably Joe Rogan. Go to an online game and welterweight and you can see his spot. Joe Rogan posted that he's a character in the game this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tromatagon Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Unlocked with the konami code at the press start screen (using O and X on ps4) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Sweetser Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Confirmed here. Rogan's rated 87/79/83 for an 86 overall, even higher than Punk's ridiculous 82. You can have Bas v. Rogan now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tromatagon Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 82 is still the lowest in the whole game. Joe has some sick spinkicks and shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 I'm honestly unsure of who would win an MMA fight between Rogan and Punk. I'm leaning towards Joe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 82 is still the lowest in the whole game. Joe has some sick spinkicks and shit He's a Taekwondo guy, of course he does spinkicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Sweetser Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 I'm honestly unsure of who would win an MMA fight between Rogan and Punk. I'm leaning towards Joe. At least in the game, I beat Rogan with Punk by grounding him and grinding out a decision. And yeah, those kicks were fucking lethal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 I didn't know Joe has a black belt in Taekwondo. That makes it a lot easier to decide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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