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WWE 2K16 |OT| 3:16 is not the metacritic score
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Empyrean Heaven
Member
So the future stars pack is up on PS4, but for some reason I can't download it for free with Season Pass...
giancarlo123x
Banned
Store is probably still updating and adjusting prices. Give it a little time.
shanafan
Member
JohnDoe8865
Member
Is there a similar "workaround" for 2K16?
So long as game breaking bugs don't affect the bottom line, it's all good apparently.
WWE and 2K sign multiyear extension.
WWE and 2K sign multiyear extension.
Well you'll still be playing WWE 2k16, so I'm sure you'll run into issues.
BoboBrazil
Member
Lol
Out tmw: https://wwe.2k.com/news/wwe-2k16-hall-of-fame-showcase
Various gifs at https://twitter.com/WWEgames
The Elite
BOSS
Yeah, Raw 2 did. I believe most of the PS3/Xbox One SvsRaw games did as well. Including WWE 13 and the WWE 2k games.
I am hoping it is coming to WWE 2k17 for PS4. Now that Sounds of the Show has been announced for MLB 16: The Show on PS4 an easy way to import music into the game to use as music exists.
Host Samurai
Member
Why does this game have only ONE standing power bomb (Jackknife)? Its annoying that they had plenty in 2K14. Now I can't edit Vader's or my CAW of Sids specials. Times like this I really wish they implemented the create finisher. Its the little things like timing and taunting that made the moves distinct. Bummer
Strangelove77
Member
So this is $40 on PSN right now. How is it?
I actually haven't played a wrestling game since the Smackdown PS2 games. I gave up on wrestling around that time.
Now I'm sorta kinda into it again. Kinda.
I actually haven't played a wrestling game since the Smackdown PS2 games. I gave up on wrestling around that time.
Now I'm sorta kinda into it again. Kinda.
In the same boat but from Gamecube to Now.
Honestly? The game can be fun in short spurts. Gameplay is fun, flaws aren't revealed too quickly. I loved the Austin Career mode stuff. pretty enjoyable.
The Story mode for your created guy is super lackluster and it takes way too long to set up your character and jump in/skip the tutorials.
Universe I haven't really tried since Im not sure how if I would enjoy the idea of making my own storylines in my head.
shanafan
Member
I open Notepad, and create face/heel roster, along with champions, and proposed matches. It can be pretty fun!
Brings me back to the TMN7 days.. major props if you know the reference.
Demoskinos
Member
I'd say keep expectations low and you can have a decent time. The huge offender to me is they still haven't gotten their creation suites up to par with what I'd like. The game play itself is a bit better paced this year but overall no huge huge changes that are going to really change minds about the franchise one way or the other. If you still hated previous games you'll hate this one if you liked previous ones you might find some fun.
Trying this out. Insane that there's no detailed control tutorial (that I can see anyway).
How, if possible, do I pick an opponent up from the mat so they're facing away from me?
Is it possible to spin them around while they're dazed and on their feet, too? edit- figured this one out too. Would still rather directly pick up to behind.
How do you get into the paper-rock-scissors tie up? This seems to happen at the beginning of a match constantly and never again. Is it possible later in a match?
How do you put an opponent into that stamina-regaining hold - usually a headlock while they're sitting I suppose. - Edit - Think I figured this one out. Hold X behind them while they're sitting?
How, if possible, do I pick an opponent up from the mat so they're facing away from me?
Is it possible to spin them around while they're dazed and on their feet, too? edit- figured this one out too. Would still rather directly pick up to behind.
How do you get into the paper-rock-scissors tie up? This seems to happen at the beginning of a match constantly and never again. Is it possible later in a match?
How do you put an opponent into that stamina-regaining hold - usually a headlock while they're sitting I suppose. - Edit - Think I figured this one out. Hold X behind them while they're sitting?
The Albatross
Member
Holy shit this game is garbage. I bought it because it was on sale last week on Xbox One, and I'm doing the showcase mode... and every match is just so infuriating. The last WWE 2K game I played was 2K13 or 14, the Wrestlemania focused one, and while that mode had flaws, it wasn't as terrible as this one.
I'm in just the third match against Bret Hart and every challenge is so annoying. "Irish whip bret hart into the barricade." it takes so much time to set it up and ... it doesn't do anything. He gets whipped in and that's the end of it. Then, damage a supine bret hart. Ok. And it launches a QTE that you wait like 45 seconds for for the event to come up. It took so damn long I wasn't paying attention and missed it the first time. So I replay the match, do it correctly the second time, but then I can't get stupid Bret Hart onto his back to initiate the "Grapple a prone bret hart" challenge, so basically I'm trying move after move to get him on his back. Finally, I get him on his back with some luck hitting him with a chair, and then he reverses the move, and puts me ina back breaker to make me submit.
The game is garbage. Collision detection sucks, your wrestlers punch at air 20% of the time. At one point I picked up a ladder and went to hit my opponent with it, and my guy just swung at air 3 times and kept missing the opponent. The opponent eventually got the ladder from me, went to hit me, and missed me 3 times because the ring stairs were in between us on the ground.
The lack of a training mode or even a manual for the game is a joke. There are so many complex controls that you wouldn't know how to do unless you look them up online. "How do you do limb damae" "how do you grapple an opponent on the mat" "how does the submission system work," they don't tell you any of this shit so you have to google it... And then sit through some 16 year old's YouTube video as he tells you to Like Share and Subscribe for 5minutes and then finally reveals how the stupid submission system works. There isn't even a description of the overly complicated meters in the bottom left of the screen.
Further, the things they said they improved, like implementing a strategic reversal system, are simply bull shit. The reversal system is as worse as it's ever been. The CPU still reverses nearly everything when you just have the stupid Showcase mode moment setup... the number of times Bret Hart reversed my feable attemps to throw him into the barricade were so frustrating. Or, when I'm just trying to get him out of the ring and he constantly reverses the Irish whip. When I do win one of these modes, I don't feel any sense of accomplishment or any interest in ever replaying that match, I feel a sense of relief that I got through the stupid thing. There is no challenge for trying to setup a wrestler on the ropes for an arbitrary, pointless spot that means nothing but giving you a red check mark. It's not challenging to do it, it's just annoying to do it because you need to hope that your useless grapple, at any point, doesn't get reversed and then you have to start the process over again. The hardest thing in this mode is trying to do the stupid scenarios they need... Why does Bret need to be on his belly? Why does it matter? Why can't you just put him on his back and hit the "Awesome" button and then stone cold miraculously turns Bret Hart over? Instead, my challenge was trying to figure out what combination of moves might put Bret on his stomach instead of his back, and after suffering through 10 minutes of a frustrating match, when I finally got the stupid idiot onto his belly, he reversed the move and put me in a weak ass submission hold that Stone Cold submitted to.
WWE 2K16 is just a bad game. People who play it every year might think that it is okay because they play the game every year, and every year the game is dog shit, so when it's slightly improved dog shit one year over the previous one, people say "Oh, it's definitely improved this year!" But it's just been improving on constant dog shit. Everything is so convoluted and doesn't make any sense. Why is the grapple system so convoluted? Why isnt it explained anywhere? Why do you do standing manuevers sometimes, and other times go into a grapple, and sometimes body slam a guy, but then sometimes put him into a rear chin lock? Why isn't this explained anywhere in the game? It seems like Yukes, or whoever, is trying to make a more simulation-based combat game, but they half-ass it, so while they want you to think of it as a slower, thinking man's simulation wrestling game, they don't explain any part of the simulation even once... God forbid if you haven't been buying this shit game every year, you're stuck with no idea what is going on and what you're supposed to be doing in the ring.
I'm having friends over for Wrestlemania on Sunday and I thought, hell, why not fire up a little 4 player WWE before Wrestlemania... but that'd be impossible. The control scheme is so freaking stupidly complex, the only thing people would know how to do is to strike... WHo ever thought that stupid rock/paper/scissor mini game was a good idea is beyond me. I'm not going to fire up a wrestling game and then say "Oh, so every match starts off with an X/B/Y mini game where you have to hit Y and I have to hit X, if I hit X, then I transition into a submission move, where two meters appear on the screen... You have to jiggle the stick until a red dot appears and hold the stick there before I jiggle my stick, and then you have the upper hand, and we do it again, and then I have the upper hand and we do it again." When that whole system does NOTHING. Why not just let me suplex the guy instead?
The game has no excitement. It's completely stale. The CPU's ability to reverse anything whenever they want is utter dog shit, it makes for no flow in the game. I lose the Showcase matches trying to setup their stupid scenarios ("Damage Bret Hart at Ringside" or "Perform a stun gun on Bret Hart" ..... Ok? Why? It's not like this leads into any video or gives me any sense of the match...?), basically just trying to get idiot Bret Hart into position, wasting time, and he ends up pinning me after like a back body drop. In their effort to emulate a wrestling match, they've complete missed the mark.
The crowd is also so goddam dull too. I finally did the stupid Austin / Bret Hart double turn match, and you have JR at the end of it saying "The crowd is chanting AUSTIN AUSTIN!" and in the game you just don't hear anything... Just the same dull silence that fills every other moment in the game. Again, still no excitement in this game. The game then gives you the video vingette of the double turn, and how Hart turned into a heel and Austin became a face, and then at the next PPV of Hart vs. Bret... the crowd reaction is the same to Hart as it is to Austin... a dull moan as he emerges from the non-curtain. Same thing for Austin. It's just so weak.
-edit-
The utter shit of this game doesn't even end in the ring. I go to Options and see "Gameplay Manual," which has a tile on the menu, and I'm like, oh, cool, a manual. I click on it and it tells me "To view the gameplay manual, go to this website..." They seriously have a menu option called "Gameplay Manual" that tells you to open your computer browser ... wtf.
I'm in just the third match against Bret Hart and every challenge is so annoying. "Irish whip bret hart into the barricade." it takes so much time to set it up and ... it doesn't do anything. He gets whipped in and that's the end of it. Then, damage a supine bret hart. Ok. And it launches a QTE that you wait like 45 seconds for for the event to come up. It took so damn long I wasn't paying attention and missed it the first time. So I replay the match, do it correctly the second time, but then I can't get stupid Bret Hart onto his back to initiate the "Grapple a prone bret hart" challenge, so basically I'm trying move after move to get him on his back. Finally, I get him on his back with some luck hitting him with a chair, and then he reverses the move, and puts me ina back breaker to make me submit.
The game is garbage. Collision detection sucks, your wrestlers punch at air 20% of the time. At one point I picked up a ladder and went to hit my opponent with it, and my guy just swung at air 3 times and kept missing the opponent. The opponent eventually got the ladder from me, went to hit me, and missed me 3 times because the ring stairs were in between us on the ground.
The lack of a training mode or even a manual for the game is a joke. There are so many complex controls that you wouldn't know how to do unless you look them up online. "How do you do limb damae" "how do you grapple an opponent on the mat" "how does the submission system work," they don't tell you any of this shit so you have to google it... And then sit through some 16 year old's YouTube video as he tells you to Like Share and Subscribe for 5minutes and then finally reveals how the stupid submission system works. There isn't even a description of the overly complicated meters in the bottom left of the screen.
Further, the things they said they improved, like implementing a strategic reversal system, are simply bull shit. The reversal system is as worse as it's ever been. The CPU still reverses nearly everything when you just have the stupid Showcase mode moment setup... the number of times Bret Hart reversed my feable attemps to throw him into the barricade were so frustrating. Or, when I'm just trying to get him out of the ring and he constantly reverses the Irish whip. When I do win one of these modes, I don't feel any sense of accomplishment or any interest in ever replaying that match, I feel a sense of relief that I got through the stupid thing. There is no challenge for trying to setup a wrestler on the ropes for an arbitrary, pointless spot that means nothing but giving you a red check mark. It's not challenging to do it, it's just annoying to do it because you need to hope that your useless grapple, at any point, doesn't get reversed and then you have to start the process over again. The hardest thing in this mode is trying to do the stupid scenarios they need... Why does Bret need to be on his belly? Why does it matter? Why can't you just put him on his back and hit the "Awesome" button and then stone cold miraculously turns Bret Hart over? Instead, my challenge was trying to figure out what combination of moves might put Bret on his stomach instead of his back, and after suffering through 10 minutes of a frustrating match, when I finally got the stupid idiot onto his belly, he reversed the move and put me in a weak ass submission hold that Stone Cold submitted to.
WWE 2K16 is just a bad game. People who play it every year might think that it is okay because they play the game every year, and every year the game is dog shit, so when it's slightly improved dog shit one year over the previous one, people say "Oh, it's definitely improved this year!" But it's just been improving on constant dog shit. Everything is so convoluted and doesn't make any sense. Why is the grapple system so convoluted? Why isnt it explained anywhere? Why do you do standing manuevers sometimes, and other times go into a grapple, and sometimes body slam a guy, but then sometimes put him into a rear chin lock? Why isn't this explained anywhere in the game? It seems like Yukes, or whoever, is trying to make a more simulation-based combat game, but they half-ass it, so while they want you to think of it as a slower, thinking man's simulation wrestling game, they don't explain any part of the simulation even once... God forbid if you haven't been buying this shit game every year, you're stuck with no idea what is going on and what you're supposed to be doing in the ring.
I'm having friends over for Wrestlemania on Sunday and I thought, hell, why not fire up a little 4 player WWE before Wrestlemania... but that'd be impossible. The control scheme is so freaking stupidly complex, the only thing people would know how to do is to strike... WHo ever thought that stupid rock/paper/scissor mini game was a good idea is beyond me. I'm not going to fire up a wrestling game and then say "Oh, so every match starts off with an X/B/Y mini game where you have to hit Y and I have to hit X, if I hit X, then I transition into a submission move, where two meters appear on the screen... You have to jiggle the stick until a red dot appears and hold the stick there before I jiggle my stick, and then you have the upper hand, and we do it again, and then I have the upper hand and we do it again." When that whole system does NOTHING. Why not just let me suplex the guy instead?
The game has no excitement. It's completely stale. The CPU's ability to reverse anything whenever they want is utter dog shit, it makes for no flow in the game. I lose the Showcase matches trying to setup their stupid scenarios ("Damage Bret Hart at Ringside" or "Perform a stun gun on Bret Hart" ..... Ok? Why? It's not like this leads into any video or gives me any sense of the match...?), basically just trying to get idiot Bret Hart into position, wasting time, and he ends up pinning me after like a back body drop. In their effort to emulate a wrestling match, they've complete missed the mark.
The crowd is also so goddam dull too. I finally did the stupid Austin / Bret Hart double turn match, and you have JR at the end of it saying "The crowd is chanting AUSTIN AUSTIN!" and in the game you just don't hear anything... Just the same dull silence that fills every other moment in the game. Again, still no excitement in this game. The game then gives you the video vingette of the double turn, and how Hart turned into a heel and Austin became a face, and then at the next PPV of Hart vs. Bret... the crowd reaction is the same to Hart as it is to Austin... a dull moan as he emerges from the non-curtain. Same thing for Austin. It's just so weak.
-edit-
The utter shit of this game doesn't even end in the ring. I go to Options and see "Gameplay Manual," which has a tile on the menu, and I'm like, oh, cool, a manual. I click on it and it tells me "To view the gameplay manual, go to this website..." They seriously have a menu option called "Gameplay Manual" that tells you to open your computer browser ... wtf.
The Albatross
Member
God damnit how does this stupid chain wrestling system even work? I lock up with the stupid idiot Shawn Michaels, and then they immediately just back each other into a corner so I can't even initiative the chain thing... IT says "Press X to attack your opponent in CHain wrestling." So... I press X when locked up and they just do the back into a corner animation.
Goddamnit.
Goddamnit.
The backup into the corner thing happens when you tie up and both hit the same button I believe. You have to hit triangle, square, or circle at that point to play the rock, paper, scissors thing. Then if you win that you'll go into the chain thing where you use the stick to find a sweet spot to work them down/regain stamina. During THAT time you can strike them with square or do something with X, don't recall off the top of my head.
shanafan
Member
I pick Brock to win.
El_Cinefilo
Member
I've recently got back into this and tried the Mycareer mode. Such a mixed (mostly bad) bag.
There's so much potential for this to be a really cool mode but it feels so half assed.
- Even if you're the number one contender you won't get a title shot unless you enter in a rivalry with the champ. I don't remember the game explaining this.
- I understand why you can't hold all the titles at once but if you win a title and then decide to go for the next it just gives the belt back to the person you just beat?
- just been promoted to the main roster and I'm facing Sting on superstars. They shouldn't have the main event big names on that show.
- my god those interview sections are terrible.
- why does it sometimes make you start a rivals match and then if you interfere you don't even control your character? I don't want to just watch the computer fight.
There's so much potential for this to be a really cool mode but it feels so half assed.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
Lately, every once in awhile I get a desire for a wrestling game and check to see the price for the PC version for WWE 2K16 which can already be found relatively cheap and I get an urge to buy it but then I come back here and elsewhere and remind myself why I stopped supporting this series and how much of a crushing disappointment 2K has been since they took over and the urge goes away.
CATDAFELIX
Member
Picked this up from the season pass sale. Been waiting for this to go down in price since it's $109.00 CAN for the deluxe edition....
Started with Stone Cold 2K Showcase and had no idea what I was doing lol. I haven't played a WWE/WWF title since WWF SmackDown!/Know Your Role on PS1 and WWF SmackDown! Just Bring It/Shut Your Mouth on PS2. I've shadowed the 2K15 and other gaf topics for this series and really wanted 2K16 but it had to be cheap.
The one main question I got is if I download a user created superstar can I use the template/character as my own Career character? I'm looking to download a Jay Lethal caw and use him on a fresh career. I put a couple of hours into my career already and I hate the look of the one I made. It did take over 2 hours with all the custom move sets/entrance/character. God damn at the amount of moves!
Started with Stone Cold 2K Showcase and had no idea what I was doing lol. I haven't played a WWE/WWF title since WWF SmackDown!/Know Your Role on PS1 and WWF SmackDown! Just Bring It/Shut Your Mouth on PS2. I've shadowed the 2K15 and other gaf topics for this series and really wanted 2K16 but it had to be cheap.
The one main question I got is if I download a user created superstar can I use the template/character as my own Career character? I'm looking to download a Jay Lethal caw and use him on a fresh career. I put a couple of hours into my career already and I hate the look of the one I made. It did take over 2 hours with all the custom move sets/entrance/character. God damn at the amount of moves!
CaptainZombie
Member
I've had the game on ps4 since launch so I bought the PC version last week during the steam sale. Is the PC version supposed to have input lag? I'm using a wireless Xbox one controller. I hop back on the ps4 version and no input lag. I'm running a pretty beefy PC 4790k, 16gb DDR3, and a 1070 so spec wise I'm good. Not even 2k15 was an issue on PC for me last year. Any thoughts?
barneystuta83
Member
Picked this up on GWG.
Damn, I need a tutorial. Really bizarre nothing is included.
Not played a WWE game for years.
Any good online YouTube tutorials, just for the basics?
Damn, I need a tutorial. Really bizarre nothing is included.
Not played a WWE game for years.
Any good online YouTube tutorials, just for the basics?
shanafan
Member
Play through the NXT mode. There is a tutorial in there.
KDash31987
Member
Don't really have much experience with wrestling games or wrestling in general, so I'm glad to find out that there is some kind of tutorial, because I'm really confused about how to play this. I have no idea what I'm doing!
I am enjoying the creation mode quite a bit, though. I made a few already: A (lousy) Lou Ferrigno-inspired Hulk, Harley Quinn, Supergirl, and She-Hulk.
I am enjoying the creation mode quite a bit, though. I made a few already: A (lousy) Lou Ferrigno-inspired Hulk, Harley Quinn, Supergirl, and She-Hulk.
DJ Lushious
Member
How in the world do I get the CPU to tag me back in? I had a Tag Team match and once I tagged my partner in he bogartted the rest of the match, no matter what I did.
Just keep hitting the button that makes your hand reach out for the tag. EVENTUALLY it'll happen.... Eventually.
jordan0386
Member
I maxed out Strike Speed, Chain Wrestling Speed, Pin Escape, Reversal, Strike Reversal, Grapple Reversal, and Aerial Reversals for every Superstar. And turned off Reversal Limit.
Playing and watching matches feels much much much better.
So if you have two bucks and change to spare, download the Accelerator and check it out for yourself.
I'll do it again for 2K17.
Playing and watching matches feels much much much better.
So if you have two bucks and change to spare, download the Accelerator and check it out for yourself.
I'll do it again for 2K17.