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7 hours ago, John E. Dynamite said:
Nifty trivia - Okada has scored 31 pinfalls in IWGP Heavyweight Championship matches and now all but one have been after a Rainmaker.
YMMV on whether this counts but I had Omega down as the one man Okada didn't need the Rainmaker to pin with the title on the line thanks to the first fall in their 2/3 match.
Looking back it was the same hold used then as the one to pin Jericho, so it wasn't completely out of nowhere. I like to think it was an intentional callback of some kind, though not one AEW would brag about. I call it the Winnipegger.
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32 minutes ago, Oyaji said:
Ibushi finally signing only after Omega leaves is some tragicomedy bullshit. Why? Kenny was saying that Ibushi would definitely be showing up at aew in the future.
If you are not a fan of Kenny, Ibushi signing means a clearer route to 'Ibushi: IWGP Champion' without Mr Creative Control casting him as a supporting player in a never-ending autobiopic.
If you are a fan of Kenny, Ibushi was signed as the most realistic bait of getting him to come back. New Japan have got two dome shows to fill next year, and someone really wants to have a match against Ibushi there.
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4 hours ago, Hand-Drawn Sprite Man said:
Question: how do the Wii/Wii U versions of multi-platform games compare to their Sony and Microsoft counterparts. About the same?
At the moment, I'm thinking mostly about the Wii U versions of the Batman: Arkham games, Bayonetta, Assassins Creed III and IV, and the sports titles (Madden. Pro Evo Soccer, FIFA, etc.).
Varies wildly on an individual basis Wii U end, unhelpfully.
- Bayonetta ran way better on Wii U than PS3 which isn't saying much, and has cosmetic but cool Nintendo-themed extras. An example: choose the Samus costume and guns turn into her arm blaster, panther within turns into morph ball (with bombs when you jump that do small damage) and you can wiggle the visor on or off at any time including cutscenes.
- Haven't played Arkham City on any format but have the Wii U version lined up because I'd potentially value the gamepad features more than peak performance like I did with Deus Ex.
- I'd steer clear of FIFA Wii U as it is exhibit A of EA not having a good relationship with Nintendo. A lot of Wii U releases were either bare bones or late ports with everything thrown in and I think in general sports games tend to be the former.
I don't recall any Pro Evos on Wii U but I have a Wii port in my backlog because the idea of a big studio making a football game that plays completely differently to every other big studio football game of the last twenty-five years AND being good is something I can't ignore when they're stacked up on shelves for 'please rehome' prices. Wii remakes of games on rival home consoles in general will always be fascinating to me. They're like an alternate timeline where the PS2 never died.
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Exploiting AI is usually the most effective tactic in the single player of the few MK games I have played, so escalating that to an SNK boss at the end goes down better with me than it does in most actual SNK fighters.
My not-so intensive contribution to the Final Fantasy discussion is that I'm currently playing VI and it's a heap better than VII IMO.
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NJPW has been booming while using broadly the same result-conscious booking they always have and the Elite will be familiar with that so they could easily cherry pick what they thought would carry over. But with wins and losses not mattering being a common complaint towards WWE in recent years the simplest interpretation is probably as a 'yeah, we're not going to be like that'.
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Saw Tony Khan pop up on the front page of BBC News today because he told a Fulham fan to go to hell on twitter. Best part is, the tweet that prompted the response was an extraordinarily civil 'Leave my club please'.
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For reference, Tanahashi on Strong Style:
http://yottsumepuroresu.blogspot.com/2014/05/njpw-hiroshi-tanahashi-talks-about.html
He's not a fan.
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Patience usually pays off with NJPW a hell of a lot more than the competition because they have a good record with long term booking and there are examples of results getting fan blowback at the time that retroactively turned out fine. This doesn't really apply to the years-long neglect of the tag division. Giving the tag titles its own 'division' of teams assembled from singles nearly-men to make room for a trillion singles belts is one of the Americanisms I never wanted. With the swelling of talent vying for the top of the card pre-assembled into factions you'd think a stronger set of tag titles would be a no-brainer.
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Apologies if this is in bad taste, but I was always amused by the reference to the male performer as 'The Big Guy' in this review of Sunny's porn appearance and against my better judgement that tweet bought it all back.
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Looking at Tanahashi's photo I'd say he's already succumbed to his genetic destiny by becoming a grumpy vet and is hiding it from his fans with the power of his hair alone. There's a wig-snatch double turn in there for sure.
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On 6/17/2018 at 8:52 AM, Ryan said:
In terms of legit high level backgrounds in pro fighting, it is Suzuki and Kushida. Plenty of the roster were very good to amazing amateur wrestlers. That means nothing now. Cobb and Kenny in theory go on there. Yano and Yujiro were very good amateurs. Nakamura was the toughest when he was there and younger. Nakanishi and Nagata were very high level, but that meant nothing the way they were thrown into fights, plus both are fairly long past anything like that, especially Nakanishi.
Thank you for reminding me of Toru Yano: hot amateur prospect and the confusion accompanying his subsequent career path.
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On 6/13/2018 at 8:54 AM, Niners Fan in CT said:
Shouldn't ZSJ be in this? He had a huge run in the NJ Cup and a solid match with Okada. He's well known and a legitimate treat to anyone in the field.
I'm hoping he will be - low-impact bouts for his opponents, singles submission school for the young'uns, style deviation for the fans and I'd imagine a booker's dream when it comes to pulling off random-ass G1 results. It's been a while since they've had anyone in the Nishimura role.
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On 5/5/2018 at 4:18 AM, Keep Calm, Akira Hokuto On said:
Currently playing Jungle Beat (DK). It's a lot of fun, but I can't figure out if the bongo controller is a work of genius or evidence someone at Nintendo secretly hates game players. Made the mistake of trying to play with the wife in the room. Won't be doing that again.
Frantically pounding on bongos to fury-smack a giant ape around on screen is the kind of gratification I dream of whenever I'm button mashing for a torture attack in Bayonetta. I've no interest in the New Play Control version.
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Inadvertently saw the new year in playing Ninja Gaiden Black. Could be worse.
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On 12/23/2017 at 4:39 PM, Curt McGirt said:
Dammit, quit talking about ICP. You're making me want to go dig out my Stranglemania 2 VHS (bought for one whole dollar) to see them rewind Combat Toyota getting dumped on her head thirty times in a row.
Just googling Stranglemania 2 gives that clip as the first result.
'Lemme tell you something. When you get powerbombed your knees aren't supposed to fucking touch the ground.'
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1 minute ago, Raziel403 said:
Okada is/was Lightning in a bottle though,.
With regards to the judgement of New Japan management I remember reports of them being high on him from day one, and it being odd at the time that they would 'adopt' someone who had already been trained and debuted in Toryumon of all places. There must be some insight there because by the time the Rainmaker character appeared he'd been around for seven years and no one was buying it.
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7 hours ago, sevendaughters said:
lot of potential, fiery, technically sound, think maybe he looks too young to work the gimmick of some sordid nightstabber and is a small heavyweight/large jr. but you can tell that they love him and their judgment is usually pretty dead on and their hit rate in bringing excursioneers back and retooling them has been solid. honestly I thought when Takaaki Watanabe left he would come back and job for life but he's EVIL and he has a good look and a sick STO and he's a believable and safe brawler. R3K look like two members of a J/K-pop boyband and the girls dig it. And Hiromu is just wtf.
Agreed, and you're missing one name. The last time someone came back and was bumped up the card to such a WTF degree was Okada. People hated him getting a title shot.
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NJ and AJ seem to have been buddies for most of the time between their two big splits, save for the period where the Sasaki/Choshu beef kept them apart. Since the second half of the 00s off the top of my head we've had Kojima as joint champ, Tenkoji in (multiple?) RWTLs, Kawada in the G1, Tanahashi losing a Champions Carnival final, Nagata winning one, Kea at the dome and Mutoh holding the IWGP.
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Don't think I've liked stick click in any context.
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17 hours ago, odessasteps said:
This. It was more fun to just drive around than solve the crimes.
This is my experience with all Rockstar games (replace drive with ride for Red Dead.)
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I don't know how the original six star could have been interpreted as anything other than 'please, please stop taking my match ratings so seriously'. I don't think he's ever been big on the reverence he gets and the breaking point was probably the build up to Wrestle Kingdom where he's watching the challenger in the main event cut promos about how he's better because Dave gives his matches more snowflakes. The thing with a six and a quarter star rating is there's no way to brag about it without looking like a goof.
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Vanquish is odd in that I currently think of it as a great that I could play forever, but I didn't think much of it on my first playthrough. It's a short game so it's not in 'this JRPG really gets going after twenty hours in so stick with it!' territory, but until you're confident enough to boost into the heart of conflict and mix things up you're left with a drab cover shooter.
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I'm an idiot because I don't see why Nintendo using someone else's rom dump is significant.
Puroresu General Discussion for 2019
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And one of Tenzan's title wins was an accident!