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IT'S MY TIME!...to make the [Wrestling Thread]

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    Just saw Thatcher's entrance. Were they so worried about Walter comparisons they changed the music?

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  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    edited February 2
    Huge story on Bloomberg about TK and AEW

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-02/wwe-challenger-aew-fueled-by-tony-khan-s-wrestling-obsession


    Also I’ll just cut everyone off at the pass and say the article says Fight Forever launches this month.

    It’s not going to don’t get worked it’s probably based on old rumour, the game clearly is in a bit of development hell. It probably was going to come out this month at some point but it’s obviously changed.

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  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    Really curious how WWE 2K23 is going to affect Fight Forever.

  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom Registered User regular
    Per Keiji Muto, Keiji Muto has back pain, hamstring tears in both legs and a separated thigh. Will still fight Naito in the main event of his retirement show in 19 days https://www.f4wonline.com/news/other-wrestling/keiji-muto-suffered-hamstring-tears-in-both-legs-at-great-muta-final-bye-bye

  • MagellMagell Detroit Machine Guns Fort MyersRegistered User regular
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Really curious how WWE 2K23 is going to affect Fight Forever.

    I don't think it will. People have been hungering for an alternative wrestling game and this is going to fill that niche well. The only thing that would hurt it is if they just dropped a remaster of WCW/NWO Revenge or No Mercy.

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    Huge story on Bloomberg about TK and AEW

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-02/wwe-challenger-aew-fueled-by-tony-khan-s-wrestling-obsession


    Also I’ll just cut everyone off at the pass and say the article says Fight Forever launches this month.

    It’s not going to don’t get worked it’s probably based on old rumour, the game clearly is in a bit of development hell. It probably was going to come out this month at some point but it’s obviously changed.

    While I think it would be mega cool if Fight Forever drops like Hi Fi Rush did, out of nowhere, I doubt they'd do that sort of thing without a huge financial backer of some sort.

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  • MagellMagell Detroit Machine Guns Fort MyersRegistered User regular
    Huge story on Bloomberg about TK and AEW

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-02/wwe-challenger-aew-fueled-by-tony-khan-s-wrestling-obsession


    Also I’ll just cut everyone off at the pass and say the article says Fight Forever launches this month.

    It’s not going to don’t get worked it’s probably based on old rumour, the game clearly is in a bit of development hell. It probably was going to come out this month at some point but it’s obviously changed.

    While I think it would be mega cool if Fight Forever drops like Hi Fi Rush did, out of nowhere, I doubt they'd do that sort of thing without a huge financial backer of some sort.

    They've been running ads for it on Dynamite for the last four months so it's not like there is no marketing.

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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom Registered User regular
    The issue with Fight Forever seems to be the excess amount of blood and that it lingers; they took it to the ESRB for a rating and twice couldn't get it dropped down to a Teen rating because of it IIRC

    It did stand out to me in the trailer, how much was on the mat and wasn't disappearing (in WWE games you could always make people bleed, but when it showed up on the ring mat it'd be there for seconds and then fade away)

  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    So just let it eat a Mature rating or whatever? Are there actual living human beings on planet Earth who pay attention to video game ratings anymore?

    I'm asking, because I'm not a parent, so I'm pretty ignorant here. Seems to me there's a lot of kids playing COD or whatever.

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  • AlphaRomeroAlphaRomero Registered User regular
    It does seem pointless since teens will be asking their parents to buy it regardless.

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    i'm sure some chart somewhere says M rated games sell less than T and lower games. Just like movies that try to get PG-13 ratings over R: you just want to remove as many barriers from people being able to give you money for a game as possible.

    With that said, I feel like everybody is just buying digital or on Amazon these days, and they don't really do age checks, right?

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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom Registered User regular
    Steam does prompts with an age verificator where you select your birthday+year, which obviously people can lie about

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    You mean it wasn't everybody's birthday about a month ago?

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    Steam does prompts with an age verificator where you select your birthday+year, which obviously people can lie about

    *Two 13-year olds in front of a PC trying to buy an M rated game*
    "Uh, it has an age verification check."
    "Ummm...just enter a number to make you really old."
    "I know! How about 1990? That'd make me 30, like super old!"
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  • VyolynceVyolynce Registered User regular


    RIP to a guy who easily could've been in his brother's shadow forever but found his own path to fame.

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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom Registered User regular
    Mountain Dew Pitch Black wasn't a one-off https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/wrestlemania-wwe-sponsors-revenue-1235315938/
    And a critical piece of the sponsorship puzzle for the WWE in recent years has been brand integrations. At the Royal Rumble last week, there was a “Mountain Dew Pitch Black Match” which took place in (near) darkness, and [WWE senior VP and head of global sales and partnerships Craig] Stimmel suggests that there will be “surprises” at WrestleMania as well, specifically calling out a new sponsor, Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

    “I don’t want to give away too much, but it’ll be around a match, and the sponsorship of that match, and what they’ll be able to bring to that match,” he says. “So we’re going to do things that fit inside of our storyline as well.”

    Other sponsors this year include Pepsi, Take Two and Mars/Snickers.

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  • MagellMagell Detroit Machine Guns Fort MyersRegistered User regular
    Cinnamon Toast Crunch is an easy one it's just a table's match with a paint job on top of it, same with a take two bar.

    Pepsi is like a scaffold match, but the loser gets tossed into the pool of pepsi.

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    I imaging Pepsi and Snickers will just sponsor something like the Andre the Giant battle royale or something

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    With that said, AEW should bring back that Cracker Barrel match.

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    Magell wrote: »
    Cinnamon Toast Crunch is an easy one it's just a table's match with a paint job on top of it, same with a take two bar.

    Pepsi is like a scaffold match, but the loser gets tossed into the pool of pepsi.

    If a CTC match doesn’t involve someone getting the cinnamon coating blown in their face like Fuji dust I riot.

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  • Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan Registered User regular
    With that said, AEW should bring back that Cracker Barrel match.

    Mimosa Mayham II: Presented by Korbel and Tropicana.

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  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    Magell wrote: »
    Cinnamon Toast Crunch is an easy one it's just a table's match with a paint job on top of it, same with a take two bar.

    Pepsi is like a scaffold match, but the loser gets tossed into the pool of pepsi.

    Like some kind of Pepsi Plunge?

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    I guess it did feel like a missed opportunity to not brand Mimosa Mayhem, but I guess companies might not want someone falling to their death into a pit of their champagne/orange juice combo.

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  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    I mean, they are getting like 8 figures for these sponsorships, not a bad deal

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  • MagellMagell Detroit Machine Guns Fort MyersRegistered User regular
    I guess it did feel like a missed opportunity to not brand Mimosa Mayhem, but I guess companies might not want someone falling to their death into a pit of their champagne/orange juice combo.

    It was sponsored by Nocking Point win and Chris Jericho's champagne.

  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    Magell wrote: »
    Cinnamon Toast Crunch is an easy one it's just a table's match with a paint job on top of it, same with a take two bar.

    Pepsi is like a scaffold match, but the loser has to drink a can of Pepsi.

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    Instead of thumb tacks, Cap'n Crunch.

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    edited February 2
    If there is not a hard Captain Crunch hat used as a weapon I will riot.

    Bonus points for commentators being forced to say "Oh right in the crunchberries" once or multiple times.

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  • PwnanObrienPwnanObrien He's right, life sucks. Registered User regular
    Huge story on Bloomberg about TK and AEW

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-02/wwe-challenger-aew-fueled-by-tony-khan-s-wrestling-obsession


    Also I’ll just cut everyone off at the pass and say the article says Fight Forever launches this month.

    It’s not going to don’t get worked it’s probably based on old rumour, the game clearly is in a bit of development hell. It probably was going to come out this month at some point but it’s obviously changed.

    The cover for the issue...
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  • NiryaNirya Registered User regular
    Hahaha that image is so fucking bad.

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    graphic design is my passion

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  • Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    Huge story on Bloomberg about TK and AEW

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-02/wwe-challenger-aew-fueled-by-tony-khan-s-wrestling-obsession


    Also I’ll just cut everyone off at the pass and say the article says Fight Forever launches this month.

    It’s not going to don’t get worked it’s probably based on old rumour, the game clearly is in a bit of development hell. It probably was going to come out this month at some point but it’s obviously changed.

    The cover for the issue...
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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    badly photoshopping Tony Khan's face onto what appears to be the Ultimate Warrior is bad enough but what the fuck is up with the Scholastic book fair ass font

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  • ShadowenShadowen Snores in the morning LoserdomRegistered User regular
    Magell wrote: »
    Cinnamon Toast Crunch is an easy one it's just a table's match with a paint job on top of it, same with a take two bar.

    Pepsi is like a scaffold match, but the loser gets tossed into the pool of pepsi.

    Is Coke okay?

    (obvious punchline: coke is always okay for wrestlers)

  • PwnanObrienPwnanObrien He's right, life sucks. Registered User regular
    DJ Eebs wrote: »
    badly photoshopping Tony Khan's face onto what appears to be the Ultimate Warrior is bad enough but what the fuck is up with the Scholastic book fair ass font

    Love to bring my pen and my 2003 digital camera to the AEW show.

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  • ArchangleArchangle Registered User regular
    Vyolynce wrote: »


    RIP to a guy who easily could've been in his brother's shadow forever but found his own path to fame.
    Guy was super talented - not only a decent, athletic wrestler in an age where huge, immobile body builders were given top billing, but wrote his own poems and was capable of reciting them perfectly without referring to notes or scripts (looking at you Lex Luger).

    He also got paid for almost 5 years by WCW without wrestling a single match - he'd call up the office and pitch story and gimmick ideas, but no-one ever acted on them and the money was still deposited into his bank every month anyway.

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  • ShadowenShadowen Snores in the morning LoserdomRegistered User regular
    Archangle wrote: »
    He also got paid for almost 5 years by WCW without wrestling a single match - he'd call up the office and pitch story and gimmick ideas, but no-one ever acted on them and the money was still deposited into his bank every month anyway.

    Ideas are cheap, except when you're contracted to get money for them.

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    Also a huge dong, allegedly.

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