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  1. 12 minutes ago, J.T. said:

    I'll probably have a lot of time to play since it will probably get delayed for six years or so and I'll be retired by then.

    I actually wouldn't be surprised if it's out next year. Been heavy rumors about it running on two years now, and I think Rockstar is usually good at waiting until they feel something is closing in on the finish line before showing. 

  2. 12 hours ago, Casey said:

    I think one of the big leaks from the Activision merger case was that the next iteration of the X is going to be a digital version. Whereas Sony is giving their digital console the option of having a disc drive.

    I just got tired of being locked into Sony & Microsoft’s store prices. I want to play the enhanced versions of FF XIII-2, but their digital prices for all of those games are insane (IMO) and hardly ever go on sale. Or play a supposedly average (or bad) game like Rockay City, but the discounts are like 10%. Mehhh.

    Yeah, I have a few discs I want to play from my 360 and not having a disc has been frustrating. I almost bought RDR1 even though I own it the last time it went on sale for pretty cheap. It hasn't gone on sale since because a couple of months later was the release announcements on the other two consoles. I did at some point buy FFXIII digitally even though I own it. 

  3. 14 hours ago, Casey said:

    Don’t forget about Spider-Man! But even some of those aren’t PS5 exclusive, since they’ve been ported to PC. Only one that hasn’t been, that you mentioned, is Demon’s Souls.

    Anyway I joined the (refurbished) Series X gang. Now I just need to get rid of my Series S somehow. Might see if my local game store will take it for store credit or something.

    Every time I think about upgrading my S to an X, I'm reminded how little time I spend gaming lately. It'll happen. I'm just in no hurry for it.

    I do need to get one before they completely eschew the optical drive. 

  4. 8 hours ago, blitzkrieg said:

    The Brian Pillman Jr. spot wasn't where I expected them to go with him but it has me interested. Haven't been really blown away by the little of him I've seen in the past but maybe in a less workrate centric environment he might be able to find something to lock on to.

    Granted it was a pre-tape vignette, but that's the first time I have seen him where I've gone "he might be a decent promo." At least the curiosity is sparked.

    Also, I've seen Bron wrestle a few times, but I guess I've not heard much of his mike work. He speaking patterns and voice sounds a little close to his uncle right now. 

  5. 5 minutes ago, Log said:

    Ok, I know I said before I hoped Swerve won that match, but now we're getting Christian/Dragon on free tv, so really there's no losers here. Two of the best minds in wrestling right now are sure to put on something really fun.

    I rarely have time to watch wrestling on Cable these days, but this is a case of I hate it being on Saturday as opposed to next week. That's going head to head with Auburn/LSU and potentially a Braves game 5 for me. 

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  6. The Embracer rebranding kind of got tied into "mass acquisitions and expansions." It never sounded sustainable for a studio of that size or with that specific target base. You just hate it for developers and studios that thought they were getting a second chance/life by getting the support of a larger entity (even though that historically has not been the case).

  7. 3 hours ago, Tabe said:

    Yeah, they could probably go 3-0 in this stretch with the players running the show. 

    This just seems to be the norm with these suspensions. Even if you look at Ohio State during the Urban suspension, I believe there was one questionable game on that schedule, and that's kind of how we got to Ryan Day running the show today. 

  8. 4 hours ago, Casey said:

    Now we wait for Wednesday, where I can cash in my Microsoft Rewards points and pay like $80-$85 for the premium edition, and then play: Thursday night - Work Friday - then I’m off until the following Friday.

    If you have Gamepass, the premium upgrade is $31.50 I believe with the discount. Obviously requires gamepass to play the base game. I snagged it last week.

  9. I've really only been touching Solo content on MUT (I don't know why I do this to myself. It's not like I have time to do any kind of grinding). However, I've enjoyed Madden this year. I still use classic passing, and I've had some funky stuff with defense and even some weird runs bounce my way through glitchy animations, but it's definitely helping me get fired up for my Saturdays and Sundays to be way too much football.

    I also had a really nice touchdown run last night that's one of those pleasant, "I saw the field break a certain way" plays.

  10. 16 hours ago, Death From Above said:

    Every year there seems to be this silly discourse that big AAA games just aren't it anymore just because EA and Ubisoft smell their own farts but goddamn, what a time to be alive..

    and that's becoming less true because EA has started putting out the occasionally interesting single player game. 

  11. On 8/12/2023 at 11:01 AM, Matt D said:

    @Chaos I'm not sure where to go with you since you said you've been casual. So I give you choices. Please feel obliged to only pick one. You said you had peacock so one is the

     

    Since tagging is being annoying for me right now, I quoted this:
     

    My casual comment was more just due to the fact that I used to watch way more (in my early years on this board) than I do now. Over the last decade or so, my viewing has ebbed and flowed based on me catching the bug to watch stuff. Today, I mostly watch PLE's, AEW PPVs, a smattering of either brand on TV. I usually renew for NJPW World twice a year (around WrestleKingdom and around G1) to watch way less than I intend when I renew. I also will revisit stuff or check out stuff  that's posted here or through my own whimsical searching throughout the year. I'm pretty much an open book on what I will watch outside of just gruesome death match stuff. There's a lot of current stuff I've missed in the independent/TNA world. (My peak of indie watching was 03-06 when I watched a fair amount of ROH/IWA MS/Some CHIKARA). I'm fine with revisiting stuff or catching on blind spots (I've seen virtually no Joshi, and outside of 80s Flair and some of what I've watched the 80s WWF DVDVR set over a decade ago, the 80s. I also have only really seen 90s AJPW and a couple of the 90s junior NJPW stuff. For example, I know Hashimoto is a blind spot for me, and I know this board has a reverence for him).  I will watch anything from eras I've seen and loved or haven't at this point because there is so much that I've forgotten from just everything else I'm doing and spending less time debating things or from the podcast I did with friends a decade ago.

     
    Matt, I apologize for the delay in finding a pick for you.  Between schedules and knowing all that you've seen, I've kind of struggled with figuring out a choice for you. I'm going to give you a variety of options that will allow you to choose your own adventure and hope none of them are too boring or obvious choices. 
     
    First two options are matches I'm not sure I've seen previously, but I might try to remedy both in the coming days.
     
    The first option is James Gibson vs Matt Sydal from IWA MS. Gibson's independent run in 2005 was pretty incredible amongst all of the independents where he appeared and might be something I revisit. Meanwhile, Sydal hit my radar the year prior mostly due to that first IWA MS match against AJ Styles with a nasty lariat finish I still somewhat remember today (bummer that match isn't online).
     
     
    The second option is Generico vs Claudio from 2007 ROH, which I don't recall seeing because I had fallen out of watching ROH outside of sporadic stuff by 2006, and I think it'd be fun to watch this one with the knowledge of the WWE series they would go on to have 6-7 years later.
     
     
    The next three options are things that I've seen, and I recall enjoying at the time with only one of them being something I praised rapturously when I saw it back then.
     
    The third option (Mutoh vs Nagata's 01 G1 Final) I picked because for some reason it popped into my head, and I remember it to be one of the first puro video files that I opened around 2003-2004. I remember enjoying it a lot at the time. I'm not sure how it ages or how it ages as a G2 final.

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7f9yz2
     
    2005 stuck out a lot to me as I was going through stuff. I'm not sure why because I don't know I'd consider it an all time great year in wrestling; however, there are a lot of gems in it (for example, I recall adoring the Rey/Eddie 30 minute match that was on a random Smackdown in June of that year.) Anyways, a match I remember enjoying for both the antics, which stood out for this period of NOAH, and the match itself was SUWA vs. KENTA. In 2005. I remember this board and others raving about it at the time as well. It's another one I'm interested in reassessing for myself through a present day lense. 
     
     
    For the final option, I'm by and large not a huge Jeff Hardy fan; however, there are certain brief runs that stand out for him as a singles star. This time frame in late 07 to early 08 stands out to me, and it culminates with this cage match on RAW against Umaga who had a unique ability to bring the best out of the most unexpected people. (I believe the date is 1/7/08).
     
     
    Anyways, I'll attempt to catch up on what I owe over the weekend.
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  12. I touched XVI for the first time in a couple of weeks on Sunday, and I played through the Kupka/Titan fight at Drake's fang. The Kaiju stuff is definitely neat if not at times visually incoherent; however, it's probably good this game is overly forgiving because it doesn't always make it clear on avoiding certain attacks or how to go about attacking in these sequences. That would be fine if this game was trying to be a FromSoft game, but that's no the case.

  13. I'll have a few posts along with some better definitions of what I can watch tomorrow and the next day. However, the first of two matches that @SirSmUgly allowed me to dust off my wrestling writing chops. I don't expect that I'll consistently write to this level about every match, but I did for this and probably over did it. I'll write about his other suggestion and @Matt D's picks later this week.

     

    I find watching this era of WCW today fascinating because it was peak childhood enjoyment for me. I was the cliché kid during the Monday Night Wars due to watching the early part of Nitro, watching all of RAW and flipping back over during commercial breaks. I also would tape RAW and Nitro every week on the VCR due to the Nitro replay starting after RAW ended, and then I would look forward to ending my school day with the overused VHS that consistently captured 5 hours of Monday night water cooler discussion. With that said, I’ve forgotten so much of the not big moments of these shows, and my WCW viewership fell to nothing after the infamous 1/4/99 finger poke.

    With that said, WCW had bit players that I really enjoyed watching before I had a critical eye for pro wrestling. (In some ways you can argue, I’ve always had a critical eye for pro wrestling in the first match I would have proclaimed as my favorite 2.5 years prior would have been Bret Hart vs Mr. Perfect at SummerSlam 1991.)  Some of those carried over even into their early WWF/E runs (Perry Saturn and Chris Kanyon both come into mind). I’ve always wondered how those perceptions would change with my own ways of watching wrestling having evolved, so I found this random five minute Saturn vs Disco Inferno that I haven’t thought about in 27 years to be a present surprise, especially with my last major context for Glenn Gilberti (Disco) being his main event adjacent run in TNA around ~2003.

    By WCW’s commentary standards of always talking about the nWo and the war to save WCW, the story here was well established for the uninitiated. Disco suffers from repeated embarrassment of defeat after losing to Jacqueline in October, and he has disavowed himself of any gimmicky flash associated with his gimmick. An attribute that was less acknowledged to this match was that Saturn had Raven’s Flock in his corner, but he was without Raven. Saturn in many instances had acted as Raven’s heavy or Raven’s final test before staring down at the head of the flock. I feel like the lack of Raven should have been more significant to this match and its result in the moment.

    The bell rings, and you can sense Disco’s eagerness to push the pace on this match. He suffers by eating a scoop slam from Saturn who then taunts him by pointing outside of the ring. An early strike exchange benefits Saturn, who is trying to show “you think you want to work at this level, but your heart isn’t quite in it yet.” Disco finally gets the upper hand by repeatedly attacking the neck and throat before sending Saturn into the corner. The relentless attitude remains the prevalent theme of this battle, and it stepping outside intensifies this notion. Back inside, Saturn is able to regain control and remind Disco that losing focus for a second has consequences. Those include a throat across the top rope and a release pump handle suplex before Saturn’s own ambitions get ahead of him with a missed top rope drop. The brawl goes back outside, and Saturn tries to get his fellow flock members involved before dumping Saturn into them and then giving Lodi a chartbuster across the ring barricade for good measure.

    Disco attempts to continue the punishment by repeated strikes in the corner before mishandling an irish whip suplex. Saturn capitalizes with the intent of finishing things. A couple of suplex attempts fall into a countered powerbomb that allows Disco to hit the chartbuster, steal the victory, and race outside of the ring with an unexpected victory. This was a little forced/sloppy in spots, but it told a nice, condensed story for a five minute sprint, and it highlights the true power of Nitro at its peak, which was the unexpected fun encounters.

     

    EDIT: Finally got tags working. 

     

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  14. 6 hours ago, Matt D said:

    Ok, tagging is working right now, so I'll toss a reminder to people who I couldn't tag on Sunday and haven't posted a match this week yet (Unless I missed something, which is possible!):

    @John E. Dynamite, @Curt McGirt, @Chaos

    Mainly I'm just flexing my ability to tag.

    I've been tied up the last couple of days. I'll do my write up for last week and find something to pick either tonight or tomorrow.

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  15. 9 minutes ago, supremebve said:

    Speaking of Fallout,  Fallout 3 is great on the Series X. The graphical upgrades make it look more modern and the framerate improvements means it doesn't feel junky as shit like it did when it came out. Seriously,  I loved it when it dropped,  but it was a mess technically. I was hoping for a remake,  but it honestly doesn't need it. 

    Does the Gamepass version have all the DLC included? I keep meaning to look. I own a disc copy but only have a Series S for now. Plan to upgrade at some point, but I also have such limited time on gaming (I've been kind of building a priority list for this year to drop backlog 2-3 games before year's end... problem is my limited gaming this weekend went to sports games instead). 

  16. 1 hour ago, SirSmUgly said:

    Well, I wanted to give you Disco Inferno vs. Saturn on the 12/8/97 Nitro, but that's not easily findable online in full, and I don't know if you have Peacock/WWEN. 

    On that note, here's a match that stood out to me above your typical young lions match in WCW: Title vs. mask, Chris Jericho vs. Juventud Guerrera. 

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3vei7t

    I do have Peacock. I’ll give both a look. 

  17. I feel like my memory bank of fun or great matches has gone the way of an encrypted archive due to just engaging with stuff on a more casual level. As we do this, I hope I can make some fun picks. However, this one is pretty on the nose. I looked at where @SirSmUgly is on his WCW project, and I figured we'd pick something on the other side of the Monday Night Wars from the same time frame. I'm going with the first Austin vs Dude Love match for three reasons: 1) the Over the Edge Match is the more famous match (it'll give me an excuse to watch both for the first time in over a decade as well), 2) the finish to this match has always stuck out more in my head, 3) I became a pro wrestling fan over the summer of 1995. If I think of a year/period where my childhood fandom was at its peak, it would be 1998 because WCW was still fun in the undercard for a good chunk of the year, and WWF had not fully fallen off the deep end with bad Russo stuff and the overall poor quality of 1999. 

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7cq9kg


    EDIT: Because Dailymotion embeds in the preview, but is blank after posting. 

     

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  18. 2 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

    I hope everything works out for you! Buying new stuff can be a toss-up. I've gotten cool looking, newfangled record players before that flat just wouldn't work; I keep coming back to the trusty Audio-Technica group. Even got a double-deck cassette player and one of the decks broke within a couple months (though that could have been user error). 

    Yeah, I thought about going with the LP120, but both models have increased in price since I looked at them in the past. (The 60 is closer to what the 120 used to be).

    Uturn was a crowdfunded deal, and it seems like it's mostly had good responses. I think the cartridge and the stylus are both AT products.

     

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  19. I finally caved and got a turntable setup after years of putting it off while developing a small collection. The thing that reengaged this for me was I was on a beach trip with my current partner and her kids. While in 30A, I went to the indie record store there that's kind of priced sadly for the 30A crowd and not necessarily the hobbyist (it's still a neat spot there in Seaside). Anyways, I bought each of them an album on vinyl.

    I decided to at least just get a basic set up and maybe upgrade certain pieces from there over time. For now, I kept it around $400 and got a uturn basic orbit turntable (with preamp) and Edifier R1280DB speakers. A sound guy I know recommended me some higher priced klipsch speakers that were on sale, but by the time I'd have bit the bullet, they went back up (was at $370 and reg was $500).

    Everything should hopefully get here next week. I'm kind of excited to start this process and play some stuff that's just sat in a cheap crate for the last few years. 

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  20. 20 hours ago, Casey said:

    Somewhat related: I’m stupid and I need suggestions on good options for an AV to HDMI converter or whatever so I can stop using this small TV on my desk and hook up my PS2 to my 4K TV. Yes I realize they’ll look like shit probably but PS2 games look like shit anyway.

    There's some device I'm seeing get tested on Twitter that looks like it's upressing games by hooking up the console to it. It seems like it's getting promising results. 

    I think it's called Retroink (sounds like it could be pricey). Has anyone else heard anything about it? 

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