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[Tom Nook]

That's from WWE 2K18???

2k18 might get worse.

 

[Mr. Luchador]

I'll say I'll not buy this.
I'll laugh at the buggy gifs.
LOL at people who bought and then raged it was terrible
Then buy it when it's released on PC.
Just like the last 3 years.

Wait, they do that? Almost every single thing I hear about wrestling games today makes me wonder why anyone would play them.

PC Servers still work for 15, 16 and 17 if you want to get custom creations. Not sure about online games, but then who plays this online.

 

[PedroRVD]

Is it still rocket science to learn to play these games?

I gave up with 2k16 ... I miss those times I played wrestling games with my friends. Now there is no way to explain all the buttons and moves to them

Damn ... even I used to forget how to play if I didn't play for a week ...

 

[Timu]

17

I was about to say.

17 looked worse than I thought!

 

[ScaryShark]

Just like the product its imitating: bad and made to prey on your nostalgia to get money out of you.

This franchise is DOA as long as they insist on it being annualized.

 

[DAREALGUMMY]

Like people who watch Raw

I'm starting to break away. I have slowly just stopped watching all of it then this week, I didn't even care. It's bad when a lot of my favorite stars are on it.

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

wonder if 2k18 will be as bad as watching raw is

 

[Son Of Sparda]

I feel like they say "updated graphics engine" every year and then every year the game looks like this

(this is from 2k17)

I haven't bought a new WWE game in recent years but this looks awful. Damn.

 

[ScaryShark]

I'm starting to break away. I have slowly just stopped watching all of it then this week, I didn't even care. It's bad when a lot of my favorite stars are on it.

Just watch the highlights on YouTube and you'll have a 95% grasp of what is going on (usually not much) at any time.

Enjoy your 3 hours and less ads every week.

 

[Hasney]

wonder if 2k18 will be as bad as watching raw is

Nah, the glitches are entertaining making it better than Raw.

 

[xviper]

they should focus more on Online servers, each release, online works for like 2 months then the servers fuck up

i haven't played a wrestling game since 2k15, i will buy 2k18 only if they bring back the ability to invite friends AND play against\with random people online

 

[Hasney]

they should focus more on Online servers, each release, online works for like 2 months then the servers fuck up

i haven't played a wrestling game since 2k15, i will buy 2k18 only if they bring back the ability to invite friends AND play against\with random people online

They've said that online is also the end game of career mode, so you'd fucking hope so.

 

[CydonianKnight]

I get suckered into playing these games every year by my brother who says the game has improved. Sadly, I always end up seemingly playing the same game. Amazing that Yukes is still getting mileage out of this engine. You'd think it would've run out of gas by now and maybe taken a year or so off to build an entirely new engine. Or at least split off part of the team to work on a new engine.

 

[Darkstorne]

I'm actually cautiously optimistic about this. I might be one of the few people who has enjoyed the shift towards sim wrestling over arcade (but would still love to see dedicated arcade WWE games every now and again too). The main issues with the gameplay to me were the submission system and all the damn bugs and glitches. The MAIN issue with the game is the disgustingly dated visuals, and they'd massively benefit from dropping to 30fps if that's what it takes to get decent shaders, lighting, and hair physics into this thing.

So long as the gameplay has had a solid year of polish too, I'm interested in seeing more. Still waiting on reviews before I buy, but at least I'm not writing it off before I've even seen anything like I did with last year's entry.

 

[Kane1345]

I'll need to see the receipts as always.

 

[Bruce Springsteen]

Never forget

 

[Hasney]

There's some additional details at Forbes, but mostly the same

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianm...meplay-and-presentation-details/#719ce1d42b7a

Career mode has free roaming backstage again and I've heard someone mention that stables will work together in Rumbles now

 

[Demoskinos]

I'm going to be skeptical as hell of this but its been awhile since Ive dipped my toe into the WWE games and with Kurt Angle in this year I might actually be tempted....

 

[Marvel]

I thought Raw was a lot better and that's saying something because Raw wasn't even that good. At least I could get a quality match out of Raw though.

I actually really liked Raw 2 but I know I'm in the minority on that one.

Big fan of those two games, especially Raw 2 Ruthless Aggression.

Loved playing as RVD and Jericho in 2. Excellent animations.

 

[Malygos]

Please have Trump as an unlockable character

 

[Mr. Luchador]

Please have Trump as an unlockable character

Don't worry. There will be 100s of CAW versions to download from.

 

[Data West]

Never forget

TNA
TNA
TNA

 

[Timu]

Never forget

This pic is still awesome!

 

[KHlover]

Career mode for female CAWs? Pretty please?

 

[Tagyhag]

Never forget

2K17

They'll get there someday!

 

[SlipperyFishes]

Wait, they do that? Almost every single thing I hear about wrestling games today makes me wonder why anyone would play them.

You should look into Fire Pro Wrestling World

 

[Hasney]

Career mode for female CAWs? Pretty please?

Not this year, already confirmed at Forbes.

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

Updated graphics engine... Finally going to hit those seventh generation standards?

Updated graphics from Yukes? Same developer using a PS2 engine?

Ha

PS1.

 

[ScientificPizza]

wow *8* players???

yukes are trash i'll never buy another game made by them

 

[Dr. Kitty Muffins]

I like all of these improvements but I REALLY want the core gameplay to be significantly better. That's why I haven't purchased a wrestling game in a long time.

I think it would help if the action was faster and less plodding.

 

[DJKhaled]

they should focus more on Online servers, each release, online works for like 2 months then the servers fuck up

i haven't played a wrestling game since 2k15, i will buy 2k18 only if they bring back the ability to invite friends AND play againstwith random people online

Wait, you haven't played since a game that came out in 2014 but are saying each release it gets worse? How can you say that if you don't play it?

 

[RBH]

Not too much about gameplay engine changes in that article.

Meaning it will probably be the same garbage gameplay engine as years past.

 

[yansolo]

Nothing will ever beat the wrestling games of the late 90s early 2000s. WWF Smackdown on the ps1 is one of the best wrestling games ever.

These seem to look worse and play shitter each year.

 

[Sho Nuff]

WILL THIS BE THE YEAR!??

(No lol)

 

[StalkerUKCG]

Presentation was one of the key areas that the developers--a collaboration between Visual Concepts and Yuke's--wanted to focus on. For starters, WWE 2K18 will feature an updated graphics engine, which the developers claim went through a substantial rewriting process over the last two years. It now features dithered rendering, new skin shaders, real time reflections, and physically based rendering--all of which will add greater elements of realism to the characters, while also giving a much stronger atmosphere to the many environments. From the technical demo we saw, which unfortunately featured the new lighting and post-processing effects paired with older character models from 2K17, the game does look noticeably improved over the last title.

^Get to this and then we can talk

 

[Xaero Gravity]

I was about to say.

17 looked worse than I thought!

They don't put any effort into the Diva character models. I don't mind myself because I never play as them anyway and I'd rather they focus their time and effort on the bigger names, as selfish as that sounds

 

[PROh1bited]

Wow. The Elimination Chamber is finally getting reworked! Entrances even! I don't think it's been touched since it was introduced in HCTP.

 

[B1gg_Randall]

Never forget

Kills me every time! LMAOOOO

 

[Ithil]

They claim this "the graphics and gameplay are overhauled and everything from ground up" shtick every single year.

 

[DMczaf]

Yukes has been developing WWE games for 17 years.

Yukes has been developing Wrestling games overall for 22 years

AKI got 4 years.

 

[BoboBrazil]

They claim this "the graphics and gameplay are overhauled and everything from ground up" shtick every single year.

Yep. Yukes is trash.

 

[ScientificPizza]

They claim this "the graphics and gameplay are overhauled and everything from ground up" shtick every single year.

yeah. we're a year away from tna being ten years old and yukes haven't even come close to those models

even their hyper realistic cena is bad. i'll never give yukes the benefit of the doubt. i'm astonished they're still the ones making these games

 

[Mobile Suit Gooch]

Not this year, already confirmed at Forbes.

You'd think with the whole women's revolution and stuff like that, they'd add a female career mode.

 

[PartyChan]

3 months out and they couldnt even toss us a screenshot?

 

[xxsavagedragonxx]

the glitches will be, as bobby rhoode would say, "glorious"

 

[DMczaf]

3 months out and they couldnt even toss us a screenshot?

And the game goes gold in 2 months.

Yukes holding it down for nearly 2 decades!

 

[KAP151]

Literally the same shit every year from them. They never deliver a polished product. You can add all the sizzle you want yukes, but your steak sucks.

 

[Sibersk Esto]

8 man matches are going to be so busted.

 

[BoboBrazil]

And the game goes gold in 2 months.

Yukes holding it down for nearly 2 decades!

I bet they don't even send review copies out. I think they pulled that trick last year. Yukes is garbage. Don't believe their bullshit promise of upgraded visuals they do every year.

 

[A-V-B]

^Get to this and then we can talk

All they need to do is fix the eyes and teeth and it'll blow my friggin mind 100%