Wrestling Games 2013

[Sabre]

The new Lionsault DLC looks terrible. What's the problem with recycling the one they used years ago?

Seth Rollin's old finisher as Tyler Black is now in the game, as is El Generico's top rope brainbuster. I've downloaded great CAWs of both guys, so it's a nice perk to have these moves available.

Yah, that Lionsault if awful.. Why is it diagonal??

It doesn't even look like he connects with the ropes and he just weirdly accelerates in the air onto the other wrestler. The other moves are great but that one just looks terribly lazy.

Most likely due to the physics of all Arial moves automatically spawning to where the opponent lies on the Mat where as previous versions were pre rendered "zoom to middle of the ring", ala the old people's elbow.

 

[Captain of Outer Space]

Well, fuck this. I downloaded the DLC and it reset Universe, Superstar Threads, everything I pretty much played the game for. Hopefully I get more than $10 when I sell it.

 

[vivisectvi]

You should have read this thread first, bro.

 

[Sabre]

Yup the game has done that for 3 years I believe if you don't save and quit > reload.

 

[vivisectvi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Gs37AV3gufk#!

 

[Sabre]

Nothing new there really, austin hasnt had a propper "middle finger" taunt for a few years, its usually been his index finger tho.

 

[vivisectvi]

That's the first time I'd ever seen it. I never even thought to look, lol

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

It's called the Small Package Driver in the new DLC movelist.
God's Last Gift, Rollins vs. Cesaro

The Omega Driver is also in the game, for any Chuck Taylor fans.

That's different. Looks like a more fluid "Pittsburgh Plunge" that Shane Douglas was using in the 90's.

 

[BUTT]

IGN is reporting that Take Two got the WWE license.

 

[vivisectvi]

WWE x Borderlands: book it, Vince!

 

[Baby Shoes]

For some reason I was thinking Take Two did the Lego games (but that's Telltale, right?) so I was thinking Lego WWE.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

They do 2K, so instead of WWE 14 we will get WWE 2K14.

I wonder if they'll do a live mode.

 

[Baby Shoes]

I'm thinking of their NBA game and The Association mode.

You create a wrestler and work him through NXT until you get to the main roster.

 

[Exslade ZX]

That's great news to me, as I'm now expecting top notch presentation. 2K games tend to look just like their real life counterpart.

 

[vivisectvi]

I just hope they keep some form of the Universe mode (without the bugs) in this game. Also the higher end hyper realistic character models for all of the wrestlers instead of just the popular few (Undertaker, etc).

 

[JN News]

For WWE 13 on PS3, how do you perform double team moves, as well as tag team finishers?

 

[Mattdotcom]

If you or your partner have someone in a weak grapple (headlock, armwringer, etc), the other team member can grapple the two of you and do one of four moves. The easiest way to do double teams is to whip your opponent into your corner and tag out. That's also how you do your tag finisher when you have one stored.

 

[JN News]

Also, how do you unlock John Lauranitis & Booker T for gameplay?

 

[Mattdotcom]

For Booker you can do a King of the Ring tournament I think

 

[KingPK]

For Big Johnny you need to create a new show and PPV in Universe mode.

 

[fazzle]

http://www.polygon.com/2013/2/13/3986288/wwe-2014-video-game-license-take-two-yukes-thq


2K to keep Yukes as the developer of the WWE games.









Fuck.

 

[bps21]

Well...they're acquiring it mid development on the next game. Hopefully after they'll put other people on it.

 

[vivisectvi]

I'm fine with Yukes staying on as developer. Outside of the glitches, they make good wrestling games, IMO. Most of the terrible decisions (removing moves, etc) for these games have come from the "designers" at THQ anyway.

That being said, the article also says that TT will retain "key personnel" from THQ. God I hope this doesn't mean that the dumbass braintrust of Bryan Williams and Cory Ledesma still have jobs with this franchise. Ugh..

 

[MillenniumMan831]

Eh, who needs two counts anyway?

Actually, the lack of two counts infuriated me way more than I thought it would.

 

[vivisectvi]

Well to be fair, this game is the first time I've encountered that bug (I also hate the shit out of it). I'm sure it would've gotten fixed prior to launch if THQ actually employed competent QA testers. Hopefully there is still a chance of a patch for '13.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/tech/post/_/id/4228/wwe-take-two-agree-to-deal-on-wwe-2k

A lot of the posts here indicated that the new game would look similar to older installments because it was already in development. However, they make a lot of references to the NBA 2K series in this article, so it seems like the developers of that engine will be heavily involved in the creation of the WWE game. I hope it's really different personally, just so they try something new. The franchise has gotten p. stale over the past few years from what I've heard.

 

[vivisectvi]

Triple-Ugh..

Creative Director Cory Ledesma, Senior Game Designer Bryan Williams and douchebag extraordinaire Community Manager Aubrey Sitterson have been hired on by 2K. Frankly, people should be more upset about this than over 2K retaining Yukes. Cory and Bryan are a couple of fuckwits. One of their bright ideas was to remove hundreds of moves from WWE12.

One of Aubrey Stitterson's shining moments as THQ Community Manager was to accuse the gamers who were experiencing the one-count glitch of "not playing the game properly" and "not working it like a real match" - completely ignoring the video evidence and countless people saying that they were having long drawn out matches and STILL getting only one-counts.

These are also the guys who were in charge of the QA testing for the games.. I really hope that 2K has a team in place to oversee these guys so that they don't get up to their old ways.

The only positive piece of news out of this is Aubrey's latest post at 2K, indicating that WWE13 is going to be fully supported by 2K (which I can only read as an indication that a patch will be incoming).

http://www.2ksports.com/news//419?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=General&utm_campaign=WWEGames

 

[2GOLD]

Those two dicks always write checks the games can't cash. Then when they are told the bugs, they never BOTHER to fix one fucking bug. If anything, the games would come back worse following the updates, which I still don't know how they pull that off.

 

[A Happy Medium]

I have a fantastic idea....they should hire Peter Molyneux. That'll make these games deliver, or at least go up in flames in a much more entertaining way.

 

[vivisectvi]

Dragons vs Demons