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Definitely the best HIAC ever! Being able to do stuff like a Batista Bomb, F5, or Pedigree through the top, and have both wrestlers fall through and land hard in the ring laying there dead made for some great drama.

One of my all time favorite moments in any wrestling game was when I, as Randy Orton, RKOed HHH through the Cell top. Orton fell with him through it per usual but since I landed at the very edge of the breakable panel, Orton landed OUTSIDE the ring to the outside while HHH landed inside, and he got up before Randy did, though both of them were laid out for awhile.

Beyond that, even though being able to break up any move you wanted got some complaints from people I personally loved it,it added an entire new dimension to tag, fatal four way, triple threat,etc. matches. Due to being able to break up moves DOR 1 and 2 were a BLAST to play with three of your friends. I enjoyed being able to save my tag partner from taking damage from a finisher by breaking it up rather than just having to helplessly watch him get Tombstoned.

It also lead to being able to do some great spots, like giving HHH a Sweet Chin Music when he has someone set up for the Pedigree.

Yeah, I was really hoping they wouldn't go multiplatform with SvR. I haven't bought an SvR game since the original. Not that some of the games following it weren't okay, but SvRs flash over substance gameplay irks me. Start with a great gameplay engine and then build up the features as you go along, I say.

I would recommend DoR 2, I bought it the day it came out and wasn't disappointed. Since its cheap now, its worth checking it out. If you like No Mercy then you will definitely like DoR 1 or 2. In some ways I prefer it, since you can reverse finishers and submissions arent an instant win once a body part is worn down like in NM.

I have been used to being let down by THQ and Yukes since JBI.

Luckily they turned things around with the awesome SYM, and the absolutely classic HCTP.

Ufortunately after HCTP was the original SvR. Never, never have I been so let down by a game. I mean, JBI was pretty bad but at least it was a step forward in gameplay compared to SD 2. The most baffling thing to me is that meanwhile, Yukes is releasing the awesome DoR and DoR 2 which were the best WWE games since No Mercy, along with HCTP.

If Yukes can put out something like the DoR games, with stuff like a finisher from every position for wrestlers, great HIAC with weapons and ability to do moves anywhere, a pretty good Royal Rumble from the get go, reversals unique to different weight classes and styles, a submission system that MAKES SENSE, etc. etc...why the hell cant that same company get the SD series right?

It just pains me to think what we could have if the DoR series was on its 4th or 5th game at this point. The gameplay was pretty much almost perfect already by the second game [and yes, I realize the Gamecube series had other games in it before DoR but even counting those it took them 4 games to pretty much perfect the gameplay].

Even in its worst days Nitro got better ratings than ECW or Smackdown do now, for the most part.

Even Thunder did, actually. So that statement isn't really true. Ratings weren't great compared to when the nWo was hot but WWEs ratings now arent Attitude Era box office either.

Not saying WWE is going to die anytime soon, though. I just dislike the attitude that NOBODY WATCHED WCW WHEN IT WAS DYING GUYZ! Otherwise WWE better start getting some fans, they have hit latter day WCW levels.

To be fair, the entire time Austin was heel the crowd wanted to cheer for him most of the time. It was a simple fact of Austin still being popular with the fans and they didn't buy him as a heel much. The crowd cheered for Austin because they wanted to. I liked his heel run a lot but him being face made a lot more sense to me considering the crowd wanted him to be.

To me, the ultimate example of this is Randy Ortons random face turn in 2004. Hes a dick for years, beats up helpless old guys. Acts like he is better than everyone else and has Evolution cheating for him to get the majority of his victories. Then he gets the same treatment he gave everyone else and suddenly we are supposed to like him and hes a great kid?

Whole thing was really poorly done. If they had kept Orton as a tweener, lone wolf type and slowly transitioned him into a more face role while feuding with HHH and Evolution it would have made sense, but he immediately became a smiling, handshaking babyface. A complete reversal of his character. It made no sense, and was just awful.

I never bought into any of HHHs face turns either. They never give a very good reason for it.

A recent example: Matt Hardy basically trying to kill his brother, saying a bunch of terrible things about him, screwing him out of his title and making him miserable for half a year. Then he is gone a couple months, comes back and all is forgiven. Sure.

I am way into hip hop...trust me, Cenas album sucks.

Could it be worse? Of course...but just because the guy is a wrestler and his album isn't completely horrible doesn't mean he gets a free pass. If he was such a good rapper, he would have made more albums. Its not as bad as say, WWE Originals, but that doesn't mean it deserves any praise.

Its like excusing the Marine for being an average action movie and Cena for being a crap actor because hes a wrestler. He still sucks at acting and the movie was still crap.

A lot of options since WWE never does anything new.

Edge vs. Jericho
Christian vs. Jericho [done before but would be awesome now that they are different characters]
Christian vs. HBK
Christian vs. Orton [they had a great match on RAW one time when Orton was a face]
Edge vs. HBK [they have battled in the past, and the whole Rated RKO thing, but I would like to see a proper singles feud based around HBK being the original Rated R Superstar]
MVP vs. Orton
MVP vs. Edge
Morrison vs. HBK, Cena, Edge, Jericho, pretty much anyone really. He hasn't had many singles feuds as Morrison beyond CM Punk.

It looks a little bit like the WWE Undisputed Title judging from that shot...which is my favorite belt aside from Big Gold.

So I like it. At least it looks more like a real title belt compared to the WWE Title anyway.

Why do people think its so hard to turn these old guys heel?

Hogan was able to turn heel after over a decade of being the most beloved face in North America [maybe the world for that matter]. HHH was able to turn heel before just from one Pedigree to HBK [who had been a heel for most of his singles career prior to that including since his return up to that point]. Ric Flair was able to be a heel despite his beloved status just from running with a heel stable in Evolution.

I mean, people act like the crowd wouldn't boo HBK if he screwed over HHH and helped Legacy beat his ass. Then they point to situations like the Chris Jericho storyline where WWE never intended him to be a heel and say IF THE CROWD DIDNT BOO HIM THERE, THEY NEVER WILL!

Why WOULD THEY have booed him there? His faked injury? Accidentally allowing his wife to get punched by a heel? WWE never intended him to be booed, they didn't have him come out and rub it in the fans faces that they thought he was hurt then proceed to fake more injuries, they didn't have him show no concern about his wife and then laugh about it later.

If WWE gives the fans some real reasons to boo a John Cena or an HBK, you know, an ACTUAL HEEL TURN, the majority of crowds are going to follow along and boo the guys.