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Post by shiranui on Oct 30, 2006 19:09:18 GMT -5
Showdown: Legends of Wrestling is probably the worst wrestling game I've ever played, even Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This At Home with its heat-seeking tyres, bricks, bottles and cow body parts was a masterpiece compared to it.
Showdown was so glitch-ridden and awful to play that I simply couldn't play it any longer than an hour. Hell, Atsushi Onita FMW on the Super NES was almost better than Showdown simply because it had a picture of Megumi Kudo on the title screen.
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Post by Johnny Danger (Godz) on Oct 30, 2006 19:18:39 GMT -5
Now thats not true, I've played that FMW game, it was.....hardly even able to be called a game. Showdown was better than that!
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Post by shiranui on Oct 30, 2006 19:23:00 GMT -5
Now thats not true, I've played that FMW game, it was.....hardly even able to be called a game. Showdown was better than that! Well yeah, to be quite honest I was able to play Onita FMW for about three minutes before I lost all my motoric and cognitive functions due to the game's sheer awfulness. You seriously could not play that game. But it still had Megumi Kudo's picture on the title screen.
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Post by Johnny Danger (Godz) on Oct 30, 2006 19:25:23 GMT -5
Yukes Guy: Hey, the sucker-...err, I mean, consumers, are always asking us to integrate features from popular Japanese-produced wrestling games, well, next year we're going to give them what they want.
THQ Guy: No that's totally unacceptable, no one is interested in that Fire Pro crap, just a handfull of internet nerds who no one cares about
Yukes Guy: No no I totally agree.....its this popular classic game called Onita FMW
THQ Guy: Tell me more.
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Post by shiranui on Oct 30, 2006 19:30:51 GMT -5
I really think we should start writing reviews about bad wrestling games such as the aforementioned Onita FMW.
Although that would probably mean that I'd have to play it again... but at least the text I'd write after a long (in this case, six minutes) Onita FMW session could be somewhat interesting.
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Post by Johnny Danger (Godz) on Oct 30, 2006 19:35:09 GMT -5
Yeah, mine would be unreadable after the filters get done with it.
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Post by shiranui on Oct 30, 2006 19:45:05 GMT -5
I'll give it a shot anyway.
I'm going to subject myself to the ungodly torture that is Onita Atsushi FMW when I get home from work tomorrow, and then I'll write and post my incoherent rambling (aka. "indepth review") somewhere on the forum. After that experience I'll probably be bearing numerous mental and physical scars, but I have to do it. I have to.
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Post by Johnny Danger (Godz) on Oct 30, 2006 20:14:13 GMT -5
thank god, now I'll never have a reason to ever play it again.
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Post by "The Natural" Bustin Loads on Oct 30, 2006 20:35:46 GMT -5
Goddamn, what's keeping IGN from posting some of the legends already?
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Post by Bhester on Oct 30, 2006 20:47:32 GMT -5
Goddamn, what's keeping IGN from posting some of the legends already? Yeah, what crimeny jeezeing gives?
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Post by Johnny Danger (Godz) on Oct 30, 2006 21:18:29 GMT -5
I've always disliked IGN. So goddamn slow and lazy.
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Post by Sajoa Moe on Oct 30, 2006 21:20:51 GMT -5
Maybe they're taking a week off.
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Post by Ace Diamond on Oct 30, 2006 22:35:20 GMT -5
I've always disliked IGN. So goddamn slow and lazy. And major asskissers, they never took THQ to task on why they didn't put custom soundtracks in.
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Post by Johnny Danger (Godz) on Oct 30, 2006 23:02:59 GMT -5
I've always disliked IGN. So goddamn slow and lazy. And major asskissers, they never took THQ to task on why they didn't put custom soundtracks in. Or about the CAW crotch blur, or the crappy supply of weapons, or roster issues, or....anything else. Can't lose that exclusive preview contract where they sit on everything and barely show anything, after all.
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Post by Bhester on Oct 30, 2006 23:07:38 GMT -5
By the way, Hogan and Mankind are up
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Post by The Vitamin Z on Oct 30, 2006 23:12:51 GMT -5
Anyone notice on the IGN video for Mankind today that Lillians voice was heard, but it was the male announcer in the ring?
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Post by stevolution on Oct 30, 2006 23:13:32 GMT -5
I read an interview with some guy from THQ recently in which when asked about why custom soundtracks aren't in they guy said something along the lines of "We're equal opportunity here at THQ. We didn't want anyone feeling left out." If I were a Jedi Master I'm pretty sure I would have felt millions of Gamecube fans crying out in anger at that point.
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Post by Nickie James on Oct 31, 2006 0:04:29 GMT -5
Anyone notice on the IGN video for Mankind today that Lillians voice was heard, but it was the male announcer in the ring? *looks at Lillian's face* .. I'm not surprised. Maybe Tony Chimmel sounds like a girl or Lillian sounds like a man. LMAO.
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Post by Tea & Crumpets on Oct 31, 2006 5:35:50 GMT -5
And Mankind is STILL in the corporation attire. Can';t they ever give him his 1996/Boiler Room attire for once? All he ever gets is the same f'ing white shirt, black tie and pants. The Boiler Room attire was so much better. Also it'd have been nice if for once they'd shown one of the new legends or faces of Foley, rather than 2 that we've had numerous times before. (3 identical Hogans in 1 game= 3 times before). Oh, and they've given Mankin 10 durability and 10 hardcore. They should've left that for Cactus Jack, but no, cactus will probably get 8 durability and 7 hardcore, because the programmers are dumber than shellfish. EDIT: Also how bad is the commentary for Mankind? JR and King call his Double Arm DDT the mandible claw, and call his Mandible Claw the piledriver.
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Post by Joekishi on Oct 31, 2006 6:48:27 GMT -5
I bet it'll be Rock and Austin. Yeah because we don't know what they look like already. actually they haven't shown which Rock it is, but knowing THQ it'll be same '99-2000 rock they've put in the last 2 games I WANT HOLLYWOOD ROCK DAMMIT so his moves make sense
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