Any of you guys play Suikoden II? I'm not even a big RPG fan but I bought it because people are always talking about it.
I had the original release, sold it off some years back. What I remember from it:
1. If you're importing your save, you don't get your character for it until a ways into the game.
2. Always sharpen your weapons when you can, I remember getting stuck at a battle with no way to go back.
3. There's some special reward if you can reach... I forget. It's some town at some time on the counter, but I completely forget what it was. I may buy this for vita and try it myself, once I look up what it is.
What has he done though? Sure he's granted x amount of wishes. But what has he done for wrestling? You keep saying this, but what has he done? He's the 'clean face' the 'media' darling, etc, but how has that helped WWE?
They know they won't have to worry about him murdering his family or getting pulled over with drugs. For a company that participates in stuff they don't care about like concussion research and gay gaming events to promote acceptance or whatever, he's the right person for the role that he fills. Very low risk, imposing figure visually without being too roid-crazy-looking. Pretty simple. It's not what he did for wrestling. It's what he did for the company, and that's helped them evade bullshit.
Flair and Inoki drew more in Korea than anything John Cena's ever drew in his career though if we want to go that route. Cena might be in an era of being more accessible but then you could say Stone Cold or Hogan was more important because wrestling was at its biggest.
Hogan is and will always be the biggest.
I rewatched Hogan vs Warrior today, and it's a pretty solid match for what it is. I mean, it coulda been the two dudes exchanging shoulderblacks for 5 minutes and ending the match, and the crowd still would have been ape shit. And for the WWF, that makes it the best match on the card regardless of quality(which I agree with, especially for that era of wrestling.)
But one thing I liked that I never really noticed before was Monsoon's line about 'The Hulkster just took one giant step towards immortality.' Some might have seen that as 'oh we gotta put over Hogan',' but Warrior was already put over. He beat Hulk Hogan. You couldn't be put any more over in professional wrestling. Ever. But I feel like Monsoon saying that about Hogan just added to his legendary status at that time. Even though he lost, it kind of made it seem like Hogan was ascending while still putting the young guy in the number one spot. And it even ended on Warrior's music.
It's got a great ending. Not my favorite Warrior or Hogan match, but it's probably one of the most important matches of all time. And it's better than I remembered.
For me, that was the last match that had the "big match" feel to it. I don't know when it shifted, and it may just be how I remember it personally, but I feel like they used to try and promote shit in the same way that boxing did, where it was a big deal and you'd really be missing out if you didn't catch it. There were other big matches since, obviously, and many have been big and/or important as far as a guy finally getting his or whatever, but that one felt like it was promoted in a way to try and hook people.
