Jiji Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 8 minutes ago, Technico Support said: My god playing Nitro for Playstation after all the anticipation was just crushing. Such a terrible game. I think it was after that that I paid some sketchy strip mall game store in Annandale $100 to mod my PSX so I could get the New Japan game instead. Money well spent. For real though. It looked INCREDIBLE in the magazines and then it was just a shitty, SHITTY fighting game. At least the taunt videos in the select-a-wrestler menu provided some comfort. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Oh, and just a reminder, 15 years ago this week, HBK decapitated Shelton Benjamin: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted May 6, 2020 Author Share Posted May 6, 2020 20 hours ago, Hagan said: Good man, Niko. Cueing up Piper's Greatest Hits while I grade papers. Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Oyaji said: For real though. It looked INCREDIBLE in the magazines and then it was just a shitty, SHITTY fighting game. At least the taunt videos in the select-a-wrestler menu provided some comfort. BUTTON COMBOS TO PULL OFF A MOVE. Fuuuuuuuckkkkk yoooouuuuuuuuu. This and the Akklaim WWF games from that generation, just awful shit that was, I guess, made by fighting game people. Why the holy fuck would I want to face my standing opponent and hit triangletriangletriangleupdown to hit a Texas Cloverleaf??? On a side note, somewhat related...I'd played NJPW 2 and 3 and was so psyched when I heard that the same company (Yuke's) was developing the first Smackdown game for PSX. Then it dropped with a dumbed-down control scheme and was just much more simplistic in general and I was just like what the everloving fuck? Edited May 6, 2020 by Technico Support 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 I believe Nitro (and Thunder) was made by a company who had only made a fishing and/or hunting video game prior to the WCW games. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawful Metal Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 WCW vs. the World FTW! What an awesome roster that was. New Japan Andre! Tiger Mask! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Yeah, Nitro can piss off with their unnecessarily complicated control scheme. It had such potential with the huge roster and arenas and the only way I could enjoy the game was when playing with a friend. I still remember when I first saw the roster for WCW vs the World and can't believe who was all in it. That game alone makes me want to hook up the PS2 so I can play though I am almost considering other options since I need to dig everything up again. I did like World Tour for 64 even if the selection of "fictional" wrestlers was pared down considerably. But it was still really fun and man was Revenge just wonderful to play. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 I absolutely loved those fictional arenas in the WCW games. In WWE2K17 or 18 I found myself with a ton of random free time, so I did a territory system in my universe mode with WCW, NWO, DOA, EWF and Independent Union and had a ton of fun making it. I wanted to do one based off Power Move Pro Wrestling but never got around to it. THAT was a super underrated game, and the gimmicks were pro wrestling as hell. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godfrey Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 My favorite PS1 games (aside from FF7) were WCW vs the World and Toukon Retsuden 3. I loved all the fictional characters and didn't realize they were a 1 to 1 with Japanese guys right away. Their Vader was a sailor with a buzzcut named The Turk or something, I used him the most. TR3 had a very primitive CAW which I wore out. I'm pretty sure all you could do was color swap the existing guys but I made it work. Had to grey market jail break my PS1 to play it too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 20 minutes ago, Godfrey said: My favorite PS1 games (aside from FF7) were WCW vs the World and Toukon Retsuden 3. I loved all the fictional characters and didn't realize they were a 1 to 1 with Japanese guys right away. Their Vader was a sailor with a buzzcut named The Turk or something, I used him the most. TR3 had a very primitive CAW which I wore out. I'm pretty sure all you could do was color swap the existing guys but I made it work. Had to grey market jail break my PS1 to play it too. I think TR2 had the color swap CAW system. TR3 definitely was more fully featured. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Luckily, I had the thing that plugged into the back of my PS1 (or was that PS2) to play imported games and not have to mod it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edwin Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Virtual Pro-Wrestling 2 is better than all those games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Zakk_Sabbath said: I absolutely loved those fictional arenas in the WCW games. In WWE2K17 or 18 I found myself with a ton of random free time, so I did a territory system in my universe mode with WCW, NWO, DOA, EWF and Independent Union and had a ton of fun making it. I wanted to do one based off Power Move Pro Wrestling but never got around to it. THAT was a super underrated game, and the gimmicks were pro wrestling as hell. AREA FIFTAY WAAAAN! All those Toukon Retsuden clones were fun. Loved the shit out of that game. As bad as the Acclaim games were, I still loved them because of the rosters, moves, and options. And Attitude even had a season mode. It sucked but I was like 17 14 at the time. It didn't matter much. edit: Just saw a clip of TR3 and it had the Steiner double team bulldog. That is phenomenal. I got the TR game for N64 after getting my first job mostly just for the manual with the artwork that NJPW featured with the sweet cartoony takes on their roster. Love it to bits. Edited May 6, 2020 by Oyaji 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 I remember seeing a trailer for All Star Pro-Wrestling and thinking it was the pinnacle of graphics and was pretty much real life. Here I am in 2020 and the only wrestling games I'm currently playing are Fire Pro World and TEW. Graphics mean nothing (though I really did dig ASPW - it was like a spiritual successor to TR in that they are really wooden but have lots of wonderful individualized moves and countermoves). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 18 minutes ago, Edwin said: Virtual Pro-Wrestling 2 is better than all those games. I played it for a short time through another method but since I have the 64 hooked up again I'm set to buying it. Of course depending on where I get it from it could take awhile. But I'm looking forward to it. I didn't play it long enough to see if I liked it better than the American games but for the short time I played I sure had a lot of fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Speaking of Japanese games, ... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 VPW 2 I would say, to this day, is the best game at recreating junior heavyweight high flying wrestling matches. Fire Pro does some elements well, but dives are a pain in the ass to hit generally. The 2K games are a fucking nightmare to hit dives and generally speaking are pretty sluggish. VPW is smooth, bb. Nothing like a great VPW2 jr. heavy tag match with Sasuke and company. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edwin Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 The 2.99 kickouts on VPW are fantastic, too. I know someone did a VPW MMA mod. which had RINGS, Pancrase, PRIDE, etc., but that's forever gone. I never got the hype for any of the Fire Pro-Wrestling games. They seemed too basic for my taste. The last wrestling game I enjoyed was SmackDown Here Comes the Pain. I remember I had some sweet CAWs -- namely Tiger Mask, Dynamite Kid, Kawada, Misawa, Kobashi, Liger and Fujinami. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edwin Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 I know he's not generally loved by everyone, but I'm a big fan of Daisuke Sekimoto. He's a much better Manabu Nakanishi than Manabu Nakanishi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf&Subs Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 I have no idea why anyone would not like Daisuke? If he wasn’t so short, he would be a big player in Japan, instead of a respectful guest spot. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Contractual mention of Giant Gram 2000 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Fire Pro is incredibly deep, but I do love VPW 2. I played around with the MMA matches in VPW 2 a ton. Now I'm tempted to re-hook up my N64 and play some of it tonight, but I'm pretty sure I threw away my translation guide from Gamefaqs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawful Metal Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Which Japanese game had the X-Rays after head drops? That was wicked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf&Subs Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) 8 minutes ago, odessasteps said: Contractual mention of Giant Gram 2000 I think I’d like it better if I had a fight pad, and there was an easy way to play it online. Single player is fine, but you can’t fuck with the system enough to make it as close to a sim as possible. Edited May 6, 2020 by LoneWolf&Subs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurningBeard Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 One of my big wrestling gaming regrets is never having the opportunity to play any of the King of Colosseum on PS2. The rosters were insane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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