Rasslin' Video Games

[NikoBaltimore]

7 minutes ago, Jiji said:

Models look like WWE All Stars. 

I'm honestly okay with that. I thought Shida looked better than Kenny and Jericho in the trailer. And I was hoping the mobile game would be available tonight but hopefully that's not too far off. 

[Doragon]

Models look kinda HCTPish to me.

The Director of WWF No Mercy is involved.

[Jiji]

So was Iwashita the main designer of the VPW engine? If they give us that kind of engine with All Stars models I will be sooooo happy. 

[Niners Fan in CT]

Okay so 'No Mercy' director is the man behind this.   So smart of them to also put out some mobile games.  This is great. 

[Jiji]

Kenny's model looked strange in that it looked like it was a 16:9 aspect ratio crammed into 4:3. Other than that, looked cool. 

[Doragon]

The game will be easy to pick up and hard to master. Similar to No Mercy.

[John E. Dynamite]

I can't find a single credit of Iwashita's after the VPW/WcW vs. NWO/No Mercy/Def Jam: Fight for NY run. That would have been right around when when AKI switched over to Syn Sophia, but he isn't listed in the credits of the Style Savvy games. I have no idea what he's been doing all this time.

[Casey]

honestly the models do look like updated AKI models. As long as the gameplay is like those games or something similar, and not All Stars, I’m sold. 

[Doragon]

 Seems the animations are made like the old days instead of using mocap. 

[For Great Justice]

Well I’m stoked. Feels like you could just put a “from the Director of WWF No Mercy” sticker on the cover, stick to the VPW formula, make sure you have an extensible (easily copyright—bypassable) CAW mode and go make a jillion dollars. That’s all people want, I think. You can invest in a deeper GM / booker mode in the next installment to bring them back.

[Jiji]

Ladders on cells with 20 tables too. Add that shit in later. Just get core gameplay tight as a foundation with this first one. 

Bold decision to go with the pornhub logo too.

Edited November 11, 2020 by Jiji

[Casey]

Did anyone else get serious Devolver vibes from the presser? I loved that.

[Jiji]

This really does look like modernized AKI graphics. Fuck. At first I wasn't really feeling the aesthetic but from a distance it looks so good. Excited. 2021 would be nice but really, I think making sure it's a good game and not rushing it is way more important. It would be very difficult to overcome a shitty debut.

[Casey]

Yukes said in 2019 they were working on a non-WWE wrestling game, so I think it’s fair to say that it was the AEW game all along most likely. That was in August, I believe?

I’m placing money on a 2021 release, personally. Maybe not Q1, but definitely within the year I’d say.

[Niners Fan in CT]

I think the graphics look pretty good (seen below).  It's not like the WWE games have been masterpieces in that department of late either.  I'm most interested in the gameplay.  

 

[tbarrie]

3 hours ago, For Great Justice said:

Well I’m stoked. Feels like you could just put a “from the Director of WWF No Mercy” sticker on the cover, stick to the VPW formula, make sure you have an extensible (easily copyright—bypassable) CAW mode and go make a jillion dollars. That’s all people want, I think. You can invest in a deeper GM / booker mode in the next installment to bring them back.

Just to be a random data point, I totally expect wrestling games to have a good GM/booker mode, and couldn't care less how good the CAW feature is, or frankly whether it exists at all. No idea how common consumers like that are, but we do exist.

[The Natural]

Full presentation.

[The Natural]

 

Liked the presentation and the footage shown of the console game.

Edited November 11, 2020 by The Natural

[The Natural]

Bonus.

[Eoae]

38 minutes ago, Casey said:

Yukes said in 2019 they were working on a non-WWE wrestling game, so I think it’s fair to say that it was the AEW game all along most likely. That was in August, I believe?

May.  

[Niners Fan in CT]

The face scans are better than I thought they'd be. 

[Craig H]

Honestly, I love the graphics. What I've wanted for a long time was an updated No Mercy look. My friends and I thought at the time that No Mercy, WM 2000, WCW/nWo Revenge models looked like action figures, like an upgraded Wrestlefest. And now this looks even more like action figures, which I think is pretty much perfect. I don't want it to fully look like All Stars, but just have them look like beefy action figures or something. Something that has weight to them.

I'm excited. Who gives a shit if it's Yukes. It's not their fault that THQ and 2K kept them making the same shitty fucking game year after year when they wanted to do something different. Not only that, look at how bad 2K20 was without Yukes.

[The Natural]

5 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:

I think the graphics look pretty good (seen below).  It's not like the WWE games have been masterpieces in that department of late either.  I'm most interested in the gameplay.  

 

I'd take great gameplay over great graphics all the time. Ideally you want both.

Edited November 11, 2020 by The Natural

[The Natural]

8 hours ago, Jiji said:

Ladders on cells with 20 tables too. Add that shit in later. Just get core gameplay tight as a foundation with this first one. 

Bold decision to go with the pornhub logo too.

New arrivals on AEW's website.

[Eoae]

The face scan looks good, but the upper body looks odd to me.  It looks like Kenny Omega wearing a Kenny Omega body suit.

Not that interested in wrestling video games any more, but I'm really intrigued by this project. 

Edited November 11, 2020 by Eoae