2011 Pro Wrestling Thread

Anyone seen the previews on TV for the new WWE game, All-Stars? I feel kind of meh on it. First off, the characters all looked effed up and on 50 thousand steroids. What's with the super deformed and muscular torsos? Secondly, why not just use the regular Smackdown vs. Raw models and gameplay? Or if you're going to have an old school game, go back to the arcade-style WWF Wrestlefest:

 

I agree they should go with the tried-and-true SvR style. I think they are trying to go with more of an arcade-style approach...not like WrestleFest, but like WrestleFest probably would/should be 20 years later. I'll probably buy it, just so I can use the old-school guys...then again, I bought Legends of WrestleMania for that and the gameplay was fucking horrible.

 

Can't they give us the arcade-game feel and keep the same controls? If that were the case, I'd probably pick it up after the price dropped.

 

This would be awesome. I don't actually know what the controls for All-Stars are. If they're like SvR, then this game will be amazing. If they're like Legends, it'll suck on multiple levels.

 

I agree with you on Legends. I saw it in a bargain bin for $10, the sequel, and bought it, figuring, "What the hell, why not? It can't be that bad. SvR is good."

Within a week I had it up on eBay. Bad, awkward gameplay, and pretty much no redeeming story or modes to fiddle around with.

 

Gotta disagree with you here. Maybe it's just because I'm a trophy whore for the PS3 but I enjoyed that game. Beat it like six hours but still.

 

PS2 version. I only have two games for PS3 - FF13 and God of War III. Damn this working thing...

 

I think they're still doing SvR; this is more of a game for the casuals. They tried this with Wrestlemania and ... not so good. I don't think this is intended as a replacement for SvR, though that game's getting dated fast.

I've always wondered if anyone could do a wrestling game that's not treated as a legitimate athletic contest. Maybe you start as a jobber and have to work your way up by performing worked matches well and developing your persona and charisma. The wrestling controls would be mapped like Dance Dance Revolution, where you have to follow a sequence of buttons and directions in order to properly pull off/take a move. Sort of a DDR/RPG hybrid.

Would probably have to be an independent gamemaker to do this, because even though WWE is a lot more open about the worked nature of their business, they still want to put on the show that it's sports, and so they wouldn't promote a game in which all the results are predetermined. TNA, on the other hand, has nothing to lose on that front, so why not?

 

Well, that's along the same lines of the idea I had the other day regarding the "True story of WrestleMania" DVD.

I was talking to my wife and told her that what I'd love to see, more than anything, is a documentary along the lines of Beyond the Mat that goes deep inside the creative process and does a detailed look at, say, WrestleMania 27 from the backstage perspective.

You go match by match, charting the development of the storylines, the creative meetings to see them talk about what's working with the angle, what's not. You show the two athletes (Like Cena and Miz) working together backstage to craft a good angle and good match and chart it from the time the angle is introduced (Rumble for Cena/Miz) until after the Mania match is complete.

I think it would be fascinating to see WrestleMania come to life from a creativity standpoint but I highly, highly, highly doubt we'll ever see that as the WWE would never have the balls to get that real.

 

The download packages don't come quick enough. It took them a month or so to the Nexus download out, and then that story line changed in a matter of weeks afterward.

 

Mick Foley had that idea of following Vince around for a few weeks before WM and writing a book about it, and Vince was willing to let him do so. Then Foley got other ideas about the ECW PPV and Terry Funk, and decided it would be too much for him to do.

I agree though, it would be a fascinating look. Just like when they showed the background stuff with Wrestling with Shadows.

 

For all you old school wrestling fans (kinda like me), former manager Sir Oliver Humperdinck passed away.

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2011/03/09/17558006.html?sms_ss=twitter&at_xt=4d86529d79238334,1

Most remember him for his run with Bam Bam Bigelow in the WWF, but he made quite a name for himself in Florida during the territory days. RIP.