syndalisGetting ClassyOn the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Productsregular
When I was in my 20s we used to play the n64 wrestling games all the time.
Had about 20 local friends who all had created wrestlers on the system, and we would run our own shows, complete with swapping teams, betrayals, last minute victories, title matches, matching tag team costumes... the whole thing.
We pretty much overwrote the entire roster with our creations, too... left a few but it was our federation by the time it was over.
Those games were the best party games ever.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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TL DRNot at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered Userregular
I miss the glory days of the WCW. How did they fuck that up so badly. It didn't make sense to me as it was happening. Let alone now.
They lost major viewership to the WWF who had the 'edgier' product, while they had a ton of crazy expensive contracts with older talent. On top of that Hogan had creative control in his.
They did a hailmary by poaching WWFs lead writer (Vince Russo) whose style is 'carcrash booking' (It doesn't matter what happens, as long as it is unpredictable so people watch next time).
Russos idea for making the WCW better was by making it even more crazy and unpredictable than the WWE. But it just became incoherent and then the Fingerpoke of Doom happened, which resulted in a lawsuit between Hogan and Russo, both were benched but still paid millions.
The New York Times had a good article published in 2006[1] that contains a number of amusing telegrams, largely collected from the book "Telegram!" by Linda Rosenkrantz[2] . A few favourites are:
Western Union charged by the word, turning the loquacious terse, and sometimes ambiguous. A reporter asked the actor Cary Grant about his age.
HOW OLD CARY GRANT?
The actor supposedly replied:
OLD CARY GRANT FINE. HOW YOU?
And
Both Mark Twain and Arthur Conan Doyle supposedly sent similar telegrams to a dozen prominent men, all of whom packed up and left town immediately.
When I was in my 20s we used to play the n64 wrestling games all the time.
Had about 20 local friends who all had created wrestlers on the system, and we would run our own shows, complete with swapping teams, betrayals, last minute victories, title matches, matching tag team costumes... the whole thing.
We pretty much overwrote the entire roster with our creations, too... left a few but it was our federation by the time it was over.
Those games were the best party games ever.
WWF No Mercy is the greatest wrestling game ever made.
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GonmunHe keeps kickin' me inthe dickRegistered Userregular
When I was in my 20s we used to play the n64 wrestling games all the time.
Had about 20 local friends who all had created wrestlers on the system, and we would run our own shows, complete with swapping teams, betrayals, last minute victories, title matches, matching tag team costumes... the whole thing.
We pretty much overwrote the entire roster with our creations, too... left a few but it was our federation by the time it was over.
Those games were the best party games ever.
WWF No Mercy is the greatest wrestling game ever made.
Followed closely by Wrestlemania 2000 since it was the pre-cursor to No Mercy. God I loved those games. Made so many stables and crazy wrestlers.
I have never grasped the appeal of wwe type wrestling
In other news everywhere is selling cheap vegetable seed. I spent less than a fiver in three different shops and have enough to start a moderate smallholding
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syndalisGetting ClassyOn the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Productsregular
Im just really surprised that nobody has come along and completely aped that format of fighter for a new generation of console players... because it is so fucking good, and the Smackdown model that has seemingly overtaken it is so awful in comparison.
SW-4158-3990-6116
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
When I was in my 20s we used to play the n64 wrestling games all the time.
Had about 20 local friends who all had created wrestlers on the system, and we would run our own shows, complete with swapping teams, betrayals, last minute victories, title matches, matching tag team costumes... the whole thing.
We pretty much overwrote the entire roster with our creations, too... left a few but it was our federation by the time it was over.
Those games were the best party games ever.
WWF No Mercy is the greatest wrestling game ever made.
Followed closely by Wrestlemania 2000 since it was the pre-cursor to No Mercy. God I loved those games. Made so many stables and crazy wrestlers.
That feeling when you figure out how to copy your opponent's finishers and taunts.
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simonwolfi can feel a differencetoday, a differenceRegistered Userregular
I probably spent more time in one of the old Playstation WWF games than I have spent in any other video games
making stables
setting up crazy matches
promoting my main heel, the sinister Homosexual Agenda
Also, story line involving Perry Saturn in a bikini contest.
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AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
Yesterday was such a good day. Like, if I had one day to live over and over again like Bill Murray and it had to be that day, I would sign off on that 100%.
An amazing day.
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There's something about this girl's voice from Be Your Own Pet that just gets me all hot and bothered...
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GonmunHe keeps kickin' me inthe dickRegistered Userregular
When I was in my 20s we used to play the n64 wrestling games all the time.
Had about 20 local friends who all had created wrestlers on the system, and we would run our own shows, complete with swapping teams, betrayals, last minute victories, title matches, matching tag team costumes... the whole thing.
We pretty much overwrote the entire roster with our creations, too... left a few but it was our federation by the time it was over.
Those games were the best party games ever.
WWF No Mercy is the greatest wrestling game ever made.
Followed closely by Wrestlemania 2000 since it was the pre-cursor to No Mercy. God I loved those games. Made so many stables and crazy wrestlers.
That feeling when you figure out how to copy your opponent's finishers and taunts.
I just did them all from scratch myself and gave them the craziest movesets. A 6'9 albino who can flip off of a guys chest in the corner? Why the heck not?!
Yesterday was such a good day. Like, if I had one day to live over and over again like Bill Murray and it had to be that day, I would sign off on that 100%.
I probably spent more time in one of the old Playstation WWF games than I have spent in any other video games
making stables
setting up crazy matches
promoting my main heel, the sinister Homosexual Agenda
That sounds like a Vince McMahon idea to me.
Also the appeal to WWE for me at least is that it's a crazy story generator. I watch the product in the background unless the match is particularly good but I love trying to guess the direction the writers are heading, how the real world intermingles with their fantasy world.
The rights to WWE games lie with a different publisher nowadays (2K, who have some good sportsgames after the collapse of THQ) but for this year they again seem to be going with Yuke, the famously crappy developer.
Last I watched wrestling I was like in 3rd grade. Never really got it. That is the only addition I can make.
Though coming to work today was interesting.
Girl sits down next to me on the subway and I am like she is cute and go back to playing dominion. We get off at the same stop and I realize she is fun sized. Like 4'8" or something.
Then waking to work I see a car to go smart car bring towed for parking stuff. Random guy next to me and I get a laugh out of it then go out separate ways.
Yay random human interaction.
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CindersWhose sails were black when it was windyRegistered Userregular
I probably spent more time in one of the old Playstation WWF games than I have spent in any other video games
making stables
setting up crazy matches
promoting my main heel, the sinister Homosexual Agenda
That sounds like a Vince McMahon idea to me.
Also the appeal to WWE for me at least is that it's a crazy story generator. I watch the product in the background unless the match is particularly good but I love trying to guess the direction the writers are heading, how the real world intermingles with their fantasy world.
The rights to WWE games lie with a different publisher nowadays (2K, who have some good sportsgames after the collapse of THQ) but for this year they again seem to be going with Yuke, the famously crappy developer.
Actually there was a blurb by the CM at 2k who said something like yeah our names was on least years game but that game was pretty much done when we bought the license this year expect a whole new product.
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GonmunHe keeps kickin' me inthe dickRegistered Userregular
My knowledge of Wrestling extends to the Ultimate Warrior being weird.
HOAK HOGAN!
He's actually going to be getting inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame this year the night before Wrestlemania. Somehow he managed to patch things up with the McMahon's which is surprising considering WWE released the DVD entitled "The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior" a few years back.
Last I watched wrestling I was like in 3rd grade. Never really got it. That is the only addition I can make.
Though coming to work today was interesting.
Girl sits down next to me on the subway and I am like she is cute and go back to playing dominion. We get off at the same stop and I realize she is fun sized. Like 4'8" or something.
Then waking to work I see a car to go smart car bring towed for parking stuff. Random guy next to me and I get a laugh out of it then go out separate ways.
Yay random human interaction.
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surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular
My knowledge of Wrestling extends to the Ultimate Warrior being weird.
HOAK HOGAN!
He's actually going to be getting inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame this year the night before Wrestlemania. Somehow he managed to patch things up with the McMahon's which is surprising considering WWE released the DVD entitled "The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior" a few years back.
Looks like his destiny has always been to be who he is.
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man that shit sounds awful
For those who haven't seen it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhS4ZDnRqJQ
not that I'm complaining.
Had about 20 local friends who all had created wrestlers on the system, and we would run our own shows, complete with swapping teams, betrayals, last minute victories, title matches, matching tag team costumes... the whole thing.
We pretty much overwrote the entire roster with our creations, too... left a few but it was our federation by the time it was over.
Those games were the best party games ever.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerpoke_of_Doom
it's that when they kept going down that road, always going for immediate payoff over long term logical booking that shit fell apart for wcw
there are some awesome documentaries out there about it. generally heavily wwe tinted but still.
I don't know...one minute we're hearing about Jacob getting a story about lesbian groping, the next we're waxing nostalgic about The Undertaker. lol
Or no payoff at all (Year long build up to Sting/Hogan at Starcade which sadly didn't go well).
WWF No Mercy is the greatest wrestling game ever made.
Followed closely by Wrestlemania 2000 since it was the pre-cursor to No Mercy. God I loved those games. Made so many stables and crazy wrestlers.
In other news everywhere is selling cheap vegetable seed. I spent less than a fiver in three different shops and have enough to start a moderate smallholding
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
That feeling when you figure out how to copy your opponent's finishers and taunts.
making stables
setting up crazy matches
promoting my main heel, the sinister Homosexual Agenda
An amazing day.
I just did them all from scratch myself and gave them the craziest movesets. A 6'9 albino who can flip off of a guys chest in the corner? Why the heck not?!
Yay!
That sounds like a Vince McMahon idea to me.
Also the appeal to WWE for me at least is that it's a crazy story generator. I watch the product in the background unless the match is particularly good but I love trying to guess the direction the writers are heading, how the real world intermingles with their fantasy world.
The rights to WWE games lie with a different publisher nowadays (2K, who have some good sportsgames after the collapse of THQ) but for this year they again seem to be going with Yuke, the famously crappy developer.
edit: god damn it the pulled all the videos of the se7en debut that include him ranting at the end.
it was the shit
also im tired cuz i am the worst
http://fivethirtyeight.com/
thought it might interest you
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
I think you're enjoying the wrestling talk a little too much.
Though coming to work today was interesting.
Girl sits down next to me on the subway and I am like she is cute and go back to playing dominion. We get off at the same stop and I realize she is fun sized. Like 4'8" or something.
Then waking to work I see a car to go smart car bring towed for parking stuff. Random guy next to me and I get a laugh out of it then go out separate ways.
Yay random human interaction.
Actually there was a blurb by the CM at 2k who said something like yeah our names was on least years game but that game was pretty much done when we bought the license this year expect a whole new product.
He's actually going to be getting inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame this year the night before Wrestlemania. Somehow he managed to patch things up with the McMahon's which is surprising considering WWE released the DVD entitled "The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior" a few years back.
this was a terrible mistake
Looks like his destiny has always been to be who he is.
"My new name is seven by the way."
You know how to amend this mistake. I need not speak of it.
come on let's go for a hike
Hulkamania is sweeping the country