Cliff Hanger

Apparently, New Jack is gonna have a whole separate entrance for No DQ matches where he brings the garbage can full o'weapons and dumps them into the ring, and his theme song (presumably a knockoff) will play thru the whole match just like old times.

Wrong member of the Paul family. I don't think I'd trust Jake to throw a worked punch. That said, Stacks DID challenge their dad to a match, so hell, let's find Jake a match too and make it a family affair.

Even with KSI out of the bag via the Swirch 2 shop we still have one unannounced character left for the WM pack. (I don't really give a shit about Punk and Charlotte or whoever else with their WM41 gear and, to the extent possible, entrances.) Should start getting videos any day now for Bull and friends.

I really should've figured that whether it was tonight or later, Naomi's cash-in would be a jump to Raw. It gets some distance between her and Jade (the last thing we'd need is Jade v Naomi again in three weeks) and sets up Naomi vs Stephanie as a top program.

Had you told me Friday that one match on this show would have several minutes of crowd crawling, i doubt I would have picked correctly. Wild-assed main event. Not a lot of big surprises outside it. Everything was at least fun. Loved Kelani Kingston, Lash carrying Nia (not a surprise since we've seen her do that with Otis but still) and the ultimate finish of the BR. Trish can still go, dammit. Tag match was a lot of fun. Glad TJD retained; i figure they will have to hold the belts until Liv is healthy barring unforeseeables.

Hey, note to everyone, but especially @SirSmugly and @RazorbladeKiss87 who responded to the first post, that I was partially wrong about THPS3+4 not having a Solo Tour mode. You unlock it when you 100% the Crew Tours. Eta: one day I will figure out how to tag users

Retrosoft announced the mystery wrestler for their fall update, and it's Randy Savage? I wouldn't think that was possible unless his Legends deal is expiring and not being renewed.

Honestly, that part made me think of Age of Ultron (the comic event, not the movie) but it's obviously not as well-remembered (in either sense of the phrase) as SoS.

It felt very much like they used the fighting-game model for DLC rather than the sports-game model. I think that works better if you do one pass per year rather than finishing what was announced at launch and turning around and saying "for another $25 we'll give you another pass with fewer wrestlers but it'll have a neat arcade ladder!" before the game is even 6 months old. As for both the terrible tag AI and the lazy-man's-No-Mercy story mode, I never did unlock Brodie Lee and I blame tag matches. Two weeks til Bull Nakano in 2k!

So why throw Drake in there and not Bryce Donovan? If one VP member stays off the Gauntlet, shouldn't that mean you keep your champ (even from a lower tier show) jobbing to a guy who already beat two other guys without a rest break? I smell a betrayal from Monroe on Sat. The Culling are about survival of the fittest, but Spears loses because he saved Niko from getting a honk-honk. Does he really mean it? Somehow, this is simultaneously the least-bad use of Paxley since she was run out of the Diamond Mine. God i feel sorry for these folks. Inamura vs Femi is probably my personally most-anticipated WWE match this weekend, and they can't sell 750 tickets because of when and where they're doing the show.

THPS3+4 not only omits the free-roaming aspects of 4 on PS2 (which I knew about and still bought it), but doesn't have the 1+2 remakes' ability to do the campaigns separately with each character to re-do goals and rewards. In 1+2 yoy got a 'crew tour" where goals were communal but stats had to be picked up by each char, and a "solo tour" where you had separate progression for every skater. In 3+4, unless there's an unlock I haven't reached, if you pick up 9 stat points with Tony Hawk and then switch to another character you just start with 9 points to distribute and repeating goals requires doing the Single Session mode. I've had fun in the 2 hrs I played, but this is absolutely not gonna get the level of attention from me that the first remakes did, and I do regret buying the DDE instead of waiting its first big sale.

The fucked thing is that this is still the most interesting (to me) WWE "major" of the weekend, followed by the Bash, with SNME only rating "welp, I guess if I really need MORE wrestling Saturday night after All In and the Bash, maybe I'll check reactions to see if there was anything worth checking out." I would really like for them to vow not to ever do a non-Mania triple-shot like this again, but I guarantee we will get af least one more before they give up.

Finished Gex 2. I said before that the comedy had aged badly but the platforming holds up better than expected, and that opinion hasn't really changed in spite of a final boss with just enough reliance on luck to make me do a mid-fight save state to get the W. Played a little bit of 3 but (a) the gameplay changes seem to make more problems than they solve and (b) the comedy is much hornier and thus cringier, thanks to the addition of a then-recent Playmate in live-action drop-ins to give you info between missions. I expect to get back to it eventually, but with THPS 3+4 out tomorrow night for pre-orders, I won't be making significant progress for a while.

I barely managed to do that Cody challenge, and only did when I woke up an hour and a half earlier than usual. I always, always forget about count-outs; I'll start a match planning to do one, then by the time I have the 90 points the thought has escaped my head. Thankfully, the card packs made it a wildly productive morning: I got Legends II DDP and Faarooq, the last Oddity I needed for Elite Wyatt, and then I saw that I now only needed one Bronze (Tozawa) to finish a Superstars block and snatch some tokens, I didn't notice that that Tozawa would put me over the top to get the Diamond Jacob for collection. Loaded him up with shitty bronze plates to get THOSE tokens, and then I had enough along with the 100 from Cody to buy two reds from the token shop. Shame the Jacob is the only thing I'm likely to use out of all that. As for Numbers Game II, I'm gonna *try* to only buy Rude and the 70 (Miz?), brcause I know that I will never buy cards from those blocks again. Does anyone know why Shaq's theme song is called "Bible Fight"? All i can hear in my mind's ear when I see it written is Peter Griffin yelling that.

I would buy this but my search is weak. When my parents bought a big ass Onkyo cabinet with our first CD player when I was 12, I inherited the JC Penney turntable/dual cassette/radio rig that had been in the living room since I was 4. My brilliant innovation was to hook the RCA audio output from the SNES into the aux port on the stereo and the video into the VCR, because my TV didn't have RCA jacks, and then laugh when I went to Scout camp and my brother couldn't figure out how to make it work. (The unit had an 8-track player, but I only ever saw one 8-track cassette in my home, a Dobie Gray best-of.) Shirakawa/Mone was real good; if Mercedes didn't have the All In match coming I might have been surprised by the finish. Toni bringing down the exact same meal Mercedes ate at the commentary table was a nice touch. 4-way was fun. Okada/Ibushi was good in that it's clear Kota isn't on the verge of death or dismemberment anytime he gets in the ring anymore, but no one who hadn't seen their earlier work together would really have a reason to get excited. A real Texas Death Match? Hell yeah. The Superman movie hype has me by the throat, as if John Byrne had drawn someone lifting me with one hand on my neck and then throwing or dropping me. Storm's hype segment with Brosnahan made me recall the Queen of the Ring hype segment where she complained to the director that he shouldn't have cut out her gratuitous nude scene despite him telling her the movie had to be PG-13, and that they couldn't use it. Now I kind of want her to bring her gloriously filthy mouth to Maxima.