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[Host Samurai]

The roster is 50% of what makes a wrestling game fun IMO. I like to use the wrestlers available to me, in terms of WWE games rosters SYM or HCTP had the most star power. It was pretty much a dream game in terms of roster. Everyone from the Attitude era, Legends, ECW and WcW guys loaded up the roster and there was a very deep CAW mode where you can create pretty much everyone. The game play was good and was loaded with superstar specific moves and animations. Now they put no effort in the superstars, they give Edge RVD's cartwheel kick for example lol.

My ideal game now would be of course a legends roster running on the AKI engine or a Fire Pro/ VPW like roster that has a mix of faux names based on real wrestlers. The current WWE guys don't translate well into games IMO.

 

[RBH]

WWE Superstars 2/9/12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmB1gt7Cfw0


Jack Swagger vs. Santino Marella
Primo and Epico vs. JTG and Michael McGillicutty
Johnny Curtis vs. Yoshi Tatsu
Justin Gabriel vs. Heath Slater

 

[Kyoufu]

WWE Superstars 2/9/12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmB1gt7Cfw0


Jack Swagger vs. Santino Marella
Primo and Epico vs. JTG and Michael McGillicutty
Johnny Curtis vs. Yoshi Tatsu
Justin Gabriel vs. Heath Slater

Why does this still exist?

 

[mechashiva]

Why does this still exist?

So Yoshi Tatsu can win matches.

 

[Arrowgigantic]

http://twitter.com/#!/CMPunk/status/167865412778864640

“@thatkidpuppy: @CMPunk reccomend a tattoo I should get and I'll do it! Anything but a dick.” Two dicks.

Punk is good.

 

[RBH]

Why does this still exist?

International markets.

 

[GameplayWhore]

EDIT: And just because my previous post was probably lost in a sea of gifs:

plea to get "AKI" to make a wrasslin' game via kickstarter

Just putting it out here, but we are all aware that actual programmers and designers leave companies after a while, right? An AKI game right now may very well be shit, as there has likely been enough turnover that the people who know how to make good wrestling/fighting games. It's like asking Rare to make another Goldeneye -- the people who actually made Goldeneye (not all of them, but enough to make a difference) left Rare thirteen years ago and have been part of Crytek for three years.

Look at this shitty*, shitty list of recent games. Not counting ports, the last game they made in the genre people here want was eight years ago.

Ye gods, I just looked it up, and the last really great Yuke's wrasslin' game came out the same time (hint: it does have the name of a TV show in it).

Looking at recent titles, probably the best people to bug for a good game would be Midway Studios San Diego (now THQ San Diego). Their last decent wrestling title was only one year ago.


...then again, I'm still waiting for a sequel to Pro Wrestling.



* shitty from a wrasslin' fan perspective. I'm sure Girls Mode will be great.

 

[RBH]

Does AKI still own the rights to the gameplay engine that they used for the N64 games, the Def Jam games, etc.?

 

[Ultratech]

Why does this still exist?

So jobbers can job to jobbers?
*shrugs*

 

[British Monsoon]

Oh WTF?

TAJIRI's promotion SMASH is closing down next month. Seems there was a disagreement in direction between TAJIRI and CEO Masakazu Sakai. Going forward TAJIRI wanted to use more younger, unknown wrestlers, while Sakai wanted to bring in more popular, and therefore expensive, wrestlers.

It's a real shame as SMASH was pretty unique in puroresu, their shows were always a lot of fun.

 

[FallingEdge]

Oh WTF?

TAJIRI's promotion SMASH is closing down next month. Seems there was a disagreement in direction between TAJIRI and CEO Masakazu Sakai. Going forward TAJIRI wanted to use more younger, unknown wrestlers, while Sakai wanted to bring in more popular, and therefore expensive, wrestlers.

It's a real shame as SMASH was pretty unique in puroresu, their shows were always a lot of fun.

Current rumor is that Tajari might come back to the WWE on their new crusierweight show (assuming that the show happens).

 

[GameplayWhore]

Does AKI still own the rights to the gameplay engine that they used for the N64 games, the Def Jam games, etc.?

The real question should be: Is it substantially more expensive to create it from scratch than it is to try to up-port the old engine?

I'm surprised that Def Jam Vendetta was made by a developer different from the one that made Day of Reckoning. Their engines felt extremely similar to me (and awesome).

 

[Kaladin]

Current rumor is that Tajari might come back to the WWE on their new crusierweight show (assuming that the show happens).

You don't think Vince would shut down a company to bring back a talent only to cancel the show he would be a part of?

 

[British Monsoon]

Current rumor is that Tajari might come back to the WWE on their new crusierweight show (assuming that the show happens).

That would be a pretty huge selling point for me - it would be great if they mixed in veteran cruiserweights/juniors like Tajiri, Ultimo, Liger along with some of the best young juniors about at the moment, like PAC, AR Fox, Zack Sabre Jr, etc. /pipedream

 

[Perspicacity]

Quackenbush should try to license Chikara to run Saturday mornings on the WWE Network alongside John Cena's Rock 'n' Wrestling

 

[billy beane]

That would be a pretty huge selling point for me - it would be great if they mixed in veteran cruiserweights/juniors like Tajiri, Ultimo, Liger along with some of the best young juniors about at the moment, like PAC, AR Fox, Zack Sabre Jr, etc. /pipedream

And they'll all job to Hornswaggle.

 

[DMczaf]

Punk looks sad. He must remember Comic Con, where he did this shit better.

It's still real to me.

 

[Kyoufu]

http://twitter.com/#!/CMPunk/status/167865412778864640

Punk is good.

That was good. :lol

 

[Mr. Enigma]

HBK is answering questions on Twitter right now and he seems salty as fuck. Everything is mega sarcastic.

 

[Jamie OD]

Why does this still exist?

International TV rights.

 

[British Monsoon]

New All Japan show with two GREAT title matches - firstly, Kenny Omega defends the AJPW World Jr. Heavyweight Title against the legendary Kaz Hayashi, and then in the main event Pro Wrestling NOAH's Jun Akiyama defends the AJPW Triple Crown Championship against Takao Omori. Plus, in the wake of Nagata breaking Masa Funaki's face, Masayuki Kono and Minoru Tanaka challenge the NJPW pair of Yuji Nagata & Wataru Inoue in a tag match, while the team of Keiji Mutoh, Akebono & Ryota Hama take on the Big Japan trio of Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi, the AJPW All Asia Tag Team Champions, and Yoshihito Sasaki;

AJPW, 03.02.2012 - "40th ANNIVERSARY EXCITE SERIES 2012"
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
2,150 Fans - Super No Vacancy Full House

http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x1x1ce

AJPW vs NJPW;

01. Masayuki Kono & Minoru Tanaka vs Yuji Nagata & Wataru Inoue

AJPW vs BJW ALL ASIA TAG TEAM SCRAMBLE;

02. Keiji Mutoh, Akebono & Ryota Hama vs Daisuke Sekimoto, Yuji Okabayashi & Yoshihito Sasaki

AJPW WORLD Jr. HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE MATCH;

03. Kenny Omega (c) vs Kaz Hayashi

AJPW TRIPLE CROWN CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH;

04. Jun Akiyama (c) vs Takao Omori

 

[tm24]

Zack Sabre Jr

Sabre will always be one of my favorites for calling himself King of The Flippies in his Chikara debut promo

 

[Kaladin]

Anyone interested in watching the Chikara Season 11 premier together tonight? We'll start immediately after Smackdown at 10:15pm EST. If you'd like to join, you can buy the event at Smart Mark Video for $10 in MP4 format. It takes ~30 minutes to download.

http://www.smartmarkvideo.com/mp4-d...-2012-the-thirteenth-hat-palmer-pa-mp4-video/

On the card for tonight:

1. Season 11 Prologue
2. Mike Quackenbush vs. Green Ant
2. Jigsaw vs. Kobald
3. Gran Akuma vs. Icarus
4. 3.0 vs. Tim Donst & Jakob Hammermeier
5. Hallowicked vs. Archibald Peck
6. Hieracon vs. Ophidian
7. The Colony (Fire Ant & Soldier Ant) vs. THe Batiri (Obariyon & Kodama)

There are bonuses, but we might or might not stick around for those.


Who's in?

If this becomes popular enough, we might start watching the events on the Friday after they're released after Smackdown. We'll have to do some interesting scheduling for multi-event releases.

 

[GBONZZZZ]

It's still real to me.

Uh........

 

[CrunchinJelly]

It's still real to me.

LOL. I wish this guy would just retire already. He has nothing to offer in 2012.

Kane has still got it, though.

 

[Kaladin]

LOL. I wish this guy would just retire already. He has nothing to offer in 2012.

Kane has still got it, though.

2012 is Cena's prime, he's going to be in his second straight match of the year this year.

 

[Jamie OD]

Oh WTF?

TAJIRI's promotion SMASH is closing down next month. Seems there was a disagreement in direction between TAJIRI and CEO Masakazu Sakai. Going forward TAJIRI wanted to use more younger, unknown wrestlers, while Sakai wanted to bring in more popular, and therefore expensive, wrestlers.

It's a real shame as SMASH was pretty unique in puroresu, their shows were always a lot of fun.

SMASH was fun but a lot of their novelties like the European wrestlers wore themselves out pretty quickly. The women's division was pretty great though. I'm a big fan of Kana, Syuri and Makoto and this was their biggest platform for them to get noticed. Kana's going to be fine and Makoto will hopefully go back to Ice Ribbon but I don't know what will happen to Syuri.

 

[tm24]

Anyone interested in watching the Chikara Season 11 premier together tonight? We'll start immediately after Smackdown at 10:15pm EST. If you'd like to join, you can buy the event at Smart Mark Video for $10 in MP4 format. It takes ~30 minutes to download.

http://www.smartmarkvideo.com/mp4-d...-2012-the-thirteenth-hat-palmer-pa-mp4-video/

On the card for tonight:

1. Season 11 Prologue
2. Mike Quackenbush vs. Green Ant
2. Jigsaw vs. Kobald
3. Gran Akuma vs. Icarus
4. 3.0 vs. Tim Donst & Jakob Hammermeier
5. Hallowicked vs. Archibald Peck
6. Hieracon vs. Ophidian
7. The Colony (Fire Ant & Soldier Ant) vs. THe Batiri (Obariyon & Kodama)

There are bonuses, but we might or might not stick around for those.


Who's in?

If this becomes popular enough, we might start watching the events on the Friday after they're released after Smackdown. We'll have to do some interesting scheduling for multi-event releases.

Ugh, i would do this but i got roped into watching Star Wars tonight! I already have it downloaded but havent had a chance to watch. This thread has made it hard to watching wrestling by yourself.

 

[BillRiccio]

Anyone interested in watching the Chikara Season 11 premier together tonight? We'll start immediately after Smackdown at 10:15pm EST. If you'd like to join, you can buy the event at Smart Mark Video for $10 in MP4 format. It takes ~30 minutes to download.

http://www.smartmarkvideo.com/mp4-d...-2012-the-thirteenth-hat-palmer-pa-mp4-video/

On the card for tonight:

1. Season 11 Prologue
2. Mike Quackenbush vs. Green Ant
2. Jigsaw vs. Kobald
3. Gran Akuma vs. Icarus
4. 3.0 vs. Tim Donst & Jakob Hammermeier
5. Hallowicked vs. Archibald Peck
6. Hieracon vs. Ophidian
7. The Colony (Fire Ant & Soldier Ant) vs. THe Batiri (Obariyon & Kodama)

There are bonuses, but we might or might not stick around for those.


Who's in?

If this becomes popular enough, we might start watching the events on the Friday after they're released after Smackdown. We'll have to do some interesting scheduling for multi-event releases.

You know I'm in dude, going to be quite the night of wrasslin!

 

[Kaladin]

Ugh, i would do this but i got roped into watching Star Wars tonight! I already have it downloaded but havent had a chance to watch. This thread has made it hard to watching wrestling by yourself.

When does your Star Wars end?

 

[DMczaf]

 

[Guzim]

Now where are my ice cream bars?!

 

[DMczaf]

Now where are my ice cream bars?!

If the wrestling buddies are any indication, I bet they launch the Ice Cream Bars without CM Punk as well.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

They are bringing back wrestling buddies? WWE really is trying to emulate the late '80s.

 

[Guzim]

If the wrestling buddies are any indication, I bet they launch the Ice Cream Bars without CM Punk as well.

With double the Orton!!

 

[tm24]

When does your Star Wars end?

Im on the west coast, so it wont be til 12 EST and that's assuming the date goes horribly wrong

 

[Mr. Sam]

wrestling buddies[IMG][/QUOTE]

Any source for this? What's going on? Up is down; black is white.

 

[Kaladin]

Im on the west coast, so it wont be til 12 EST and that's assuming the date goes horribly wrong

I'm sure we could re-schedule for tomorrow night, I think you would be one of our regulars if this becomes a thing.

 

[GameplayWhore]

Wow, that's supposed to be Orton? I was trying to figure out if it was Triple H or Batista (I was looking at the facial features but not the tats).

Is ... is the guy on the upper right who's less white than John Cena somehow Shaemus?

 

[tm24]

I'm sure we could re-schedule for tomorrow night, I think you would be one of our regulars if this becomes a thing.

Yeah, if I dont get in on this one, ill join in for others. Seriously, live commentating on a show with people youre watching can make any show fun, even late IWA:MS shows! On good shows it makes it even better!

 

[Mr. Luchador]

Anyone interested in watching the Chikara Season 11 premier together tonight? We'll start immediately after Smackdown at 10:15pm EST. If you'd like to join, you can buy the event at Smart Mark Video for $10 in MP4 format. It takes ~30 minutes to download.

http://www.smartmarkvideo.com/mp4-d...-2012-the-thirteenth-hat-palmer-pa-mp4-video/

On the card for tonight:

1. Season 11 Prologue
2. Mike Quackenbush vs. Green Ant
2. Jigsaw vs. Kobald
3. Gran Akuma vs. Icarus
4. 3.0 vs. Tim Donst & Jakob Hammermeier
5. Hallowicked vs. Archibald Peck
6. Hieracon vs. Ophidian
7. The Colony (Fire Ant & Soldier Ant) vs. THe Batiri (Obariyon & Kodama)

There are bonuses, but we might or might not stick around for those.


Who's in?

If this becomes popular enough, we might start watching the events on the Friday after they're released after Smackdown. We'll have to do some interesting scheduling for multi-event releases.

What time is that UK time? I'm in if I'm awake.

 

[Net_Wrecker]

Does AKI still own the rights to the gameplay engine that they used for the N64 games, the Def Jam games, etc.?

Yep. I remember reading about that Pro Wrestling X project and he was EXTREMELY close to licensing the AKI engine, but the offer he made was apparently too low. They still have the engine locked in a vault, just take a look at that Yakuza game they developed for the PSP.

 

[Kaladin]

What time is that UK time? I'm in if I'm awake.

3:15:00 AM in London.

 

[Mr. Luchador]

3:15:00 AM in London.

Just after the basketball... If I'm awake I'm in.

 

[Liquidsnake]

You don't think Vince would shut down a company to bring back a talent only to cancel the show he would be a part of?

Perfect.

 

[BillRiccio]

Just announced for CHIKARA in Long Island. To much awesome, i gotta change my pants.

 

[Mr. Luchador]

Just announced for CHIKARA in Long Island. To much awesome, i gotta change my pants.

Me too.

 

[BoboBrazil]

Anyone interested in watching the Chikara Season 11 premier together tonight? We'll start immediately after Smackdown at 10:15pm EST. If you'd like to join, you can buy the event at Smart Mark Video for $10 in MP4 format. It takes ~30 minutes to download.

http://www.smartmarkvideo.com/mp4-d...-2012-the-thirteenth-hat-palmer-pa-mp4-video/

On the card for tonight:

1. Season 11 Prologue
2. Mike Quackenbush vs. Green Ant
2. Jigsaw vs. Kobald
3. Gran Akuma vs. Icarus
4. 3.0 vs. Tim Donst & Jakob Hammermeier
5. Hallowicked vs. Archibald Peck
6. Hieracon vs. Ophidian
7. The Colony (Fire Ant & Soldier Ant) vs. THe Batiri (Obariyon & Kodama)

There are bonuses, but we might or might not stick around for those.


Who's in?

If this becomes popular enough, we might start watching the events on the Friday after they're released after Smackdown. We'll have to do some interesting scheduling for multi-event releases.

How's the quality of this compared to the dvd? What's the resolution and bitrate?

 

[GameplayWhore]

cabanavUMB.jpeg

Just announced for CHIKARA in Long Island. To much awesome, i gotta change my pants.

:O

This looks awesome, but there's something I have to do that afternoon.

Argh. I guess DVDs it is.


edit: Gonna have to put "The Ogg and I" into my todo list.

editedit: Oh, lookie, I'm not in state during that one. DVDs it is, again.

 

[Kaladin]

How's the quality of this compared to the dvd? What's the resolution and bitrate?

The quality looked similar to the dvd when I previewed it, and the file size is 2.0 GB. I'm not at my computer to look for other #s though.