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Hedgehog Pie posted:And those kid versions of the Nitro Girls are, er, definitely something! yeah what the gently caress is that about. really weird.
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Aesop Poprock posted:I can’t imagine little girls wanting to be nitro girls let alone their parents wanting them to grow up to be nitro girls. This is the sort of gift someone’s weird uncle gets because he has no brain filter to tell him all the reasons it’s a terrible idea Nah it's the kind of merch that gets made when people realize that little girls like wrestling too, but these same people are stuck in the mindset of "if they are little girls then the only thing we can sell them are frilly dresses." Not WCW related but semi related, didn't Maria, (pre grift days), try to get WWE to make some merch for girls based around the womens division and was fobbed off?
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Alaois posted:he was also immediately repackaged from The Ye-tay to Super Giant Ninja, a 7 foot tall man dressed in a bad halloween store Scorpion from Mortal Kombat costume Yeah, but he's still called Yeti during World War 3 even though he's dressed like giant Scorpion from Mortal Kombat. He's also literally the very first person eliminated out of sixty even though he was promoted for weeks as one of the monsters of the match.
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I will not lie but I enjoyed the hell out Public Enemy vs Nasty Boys. They don't do good ol' fashioned garbage wrestling like that anymore outside of the ECW tribute shows and those are just sad.
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I get the impression Public Enemy really lived up to their name. They never seemed to hang around at any wrestling organization for very long. Also, I read Kurt Angle's book years ago, he mentioned them and said what amounted to, "we didn't like them, so we had the APA work them really stiff in their last match."
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rujasu posted:I get the impression Public Enemy really lived up to their name. They never seemed to hang around at any wrestling organization for very long. Also, I read Kurt Angle's book years ago, he mentioned them and said what amounted to, "we didn't like them, so we had the APA work them really stiff in their last match." Public Enemy were the Nasty Boys without Hogan's protection. They were hosed up most of the time, didn't understand people that weren't on their level of hosed up and died young. Also the fact it was two white dudes co-opting militant african american culture is another one of those things that could only exist in the 90s.
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The American Dream posted:I spent 2 days painting my grandparents new shed for the money for Wwf warzone. woah that's a deal. (warzone and attitude were trash awful games and I knew the wcw n64 games were better but I was a playstation wwf mark so that's on me) also I want that dean malenko eyes of ice shirt, I know you own the rights to it wwe just reprint it
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Public Enemy also had heat in WWE because they turned down an offer from them and opted to sign with WCW instead, so when they went to WWF in 99 it was made sure that the locker room would hate their guts. That's why they were only there for like 3 months.
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But nWo was supposed to be 4 Ly... https://twitter.com/urbanheretic187/status/1171822401811865601 motherfucker.
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Considering who Rodman still pals around with, he's the only guy who took the NWO 4 Life seriously.
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MrBling posted:Public Enemy also had heat in WWE because they turned down an offer from them and opted to sign with WCW instead, so when they went to WWF in 99 it was made sure that the locker room would hate their guts. That's why they were only there for like 3 months. This is such a Vince McMahon thing to do. Sign wrestlers out of spite just to embarrass them under contract. This thread inspired me to go and check out some of their ECW stuff and man I never need to see them again.
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shiksa posted:(warzone and attitude were trash awful games and I knew the wcw n64 games were better but I was a playstation wwf mark so that's on me) Disagree. The N64 games were probably better (I didn't have much opportunity to play them) but War Zone and Attitude were solid, enjoyable games and were miles ahead of everything else that came out on PlayStation for WCW or WWF.
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rujasu posted:Disagree. The N64 games were probably better (I didn't have much opportunity to play them) but War Zone and Attitude were solid, enjoyable games and were miles ahead of everything else that came out on PlayStation for WCW or WWF. Had you had more opportunity to play the N64 games, you wouldn't be making this argument.
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rujasu posted:Disagree. The N64 games were probably better (I didn't have much opportunity to play them) but War Zone and Attitude were solid, enjoyable games and were miles ahead of everything else that came out on PlayStation for WCW or WWF. Smackdown! and Smackdown! 2 were both better than they were, and were for the Playstation, wtf
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Attitude and war zone would be ok games if the n64 wcw games never existed. Especially since the snes/sega era games were so bad. Those aki n64 games really blew everything out of the water they were so good. Even 20 years later it would probably be worth dropping $100 for a used n64 and the 4 aki games. Someone recently made a rom based on no mercy but it’s all turner era wcw wrestlers. It looks amazing.
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yeah if I'd never gone to my friends house and played wcw v nwo I probably would've liked them fine. smackdown 1 and 2 did rule a lot.
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ecavalli posted:Had you had more opportunity to play the N64 games, you wouldn't be making this argument. Randaconda posted:Smackdown! and Smackdown! 2 were both better than they were, and were for the Playstation, wtf I didn't play SmackDown! 2, but I preferred Attitude to SmackDown! 1. I dunno, I kinda bounced off SD! and didn't have any interest in playing SD!2. Here's how I'd rank wrestling games I put significant time into: No Mercy (N64) > Wrestlemania 2K (N64) > Attitude (PSX) > War Zone (PSX) > SmackDown! 1 (PSX) > WCW Mayhem (PSX) >>>>>>>>>>> Wrestlemania 2K (GBC) > WCW Nitro/Thunder (PSX) I should probably walk back "miles ahead of everything else that came out on PlayStation" - they were both miles ahead of Nitro and Thunder and slightly ahead of SmackDown! 1, and maybe SD!2 was better.
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War Zone was my fave wrestling game, even after the smackdown games came out. They even had a training mode that showed your inputs so you could figure out the timing and patterns because all the cool moves require a string of inputs. I never had an N64 so I can't talk on No Mercy(I think I played it like once).
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attitude definitely sucked in relation to warzone. it all felt more rinky dink and cheapo somehow despite technically having more MOVES~!
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The American Dream posted:Attitude and war zone would be ok games if the n64 wcw games never existed. Especially since the snes/sega era games were so bad. Exactly. They may not have looked/sounded amazing thanks to the lacking storage space on those N64 carts, but they had gameplay that simply embarrassed everything that came before — especially if you had four players in the same room. Hell, I'd argue that for pure gameplay feel and visceral fun factor, those Aki games easily beat out any modern WWE games. rujasu posted:
Putting WCW Nitro/Thunder at the rear end end of the list is entirely correct. That loving game was abysmal. That said, it had some hilarious wrestler intro videos.
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IIRC Thunder having the weirdest cage climbing mechanic. You could scale the sides of the cage like a fast spider but good luck actually doing anything with it.
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ecavalli posted:Putting WCW Nitro/Thunder at the rear end end of the list is entirely correct. That loving game was abysmal. That said, it had some hilarious wrestler intro videos. They had to have blown the entire budget for those games on those FMV's. I guess the best thing I can say for them is that they were fairly simple to pick up and play, but I don't know why you'd ever want to.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeEGs_ierWo I always enjoyed Kevin Nash encouraging you to pick somebody else. Didn't even want to work more than he had to in a video game
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Hedgehog Pie posted:Have some pity for those of us who rented Backstage Assault. i did not mind the mayhem/backstage assault sequence tbh. they were incredibly satisfying simulators of slow, clunky wrestling, the commentary was good and in the one that had a ring you could decide to rotate yourself away from your opponent and launch yourself to the arena floor from the top rope for no reason
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lost my old email posted:i did not mind the mayhem/backstage assault sequence tbh. they were incredibly satisfying simulators of slow, clunky wrestling, the commentary was good and in the one that had a ring you could decide to rotate yourself away from your opponent and launch yourself to the arena floor from the top rope for no reason I actually have good memories of Mayhem! Less so Backstage Assault.
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I picked up a used copy of Thunder at Blockbuster and it was so bad. I brought it back and the guy who sold it to me less than an hour earlier gave me a refund with no questions asked. He had to have played it and knew my pain.
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i don't like fighting games, and didn't like the idea of a wrestling game if i can't have 'great matches' in them, so didn't like the button combo fighting games in a wrestling ring that made it impossible to have a story-like match in any way. warzone and attitude were both that way but attitude had a ton more content so i did play that for a little while
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Cavauro posted:i don't like fighting games, and didn't like the idea of a wrestling game if i can't have 'great matches' in them, so didn't like the button combo fighting games in a wrestling ring that made it impossible to have a story-like match in any way. warzone and attitude were both that way but attitude had a ton more content so i did play that for a little while You feelin' okay, Cav? This was a weirdly sedate post from you.
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mearn posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeEGs_ierWo Sting is either high as gently caress or didn't give a single gently caress. I'm curious if they really dragged all those people in, individually, with their gear on, to tape those intros or if they did them on a green screen at shows. Piper says "I heard Nash say 'don't pick me!' so fine!" so in my dreams, they crammed the entire roster into the recording studio. Fake edit: 
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iamsosmrt posted:This is such a Vince McMahon thing to do. Sign wrestlers out of spite just to embarrass them under contract. The scary thing is, Public Enemy wasn't half as good in WCW as they were in ECW.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I'm curious if they really dragged all those people in, individually, with their gear on, to tape those intros or if they did them on a green screen at shows. Piper says "I heard Nash say 'don't pick me!' so fine!" so in my dreams, they crammed the entire roster into the recording studio. It's definitely green screen, but at the time, with WCW paying to fly everyone to every show, it probably wouldn't have been too hard to get whoever you need together.
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lost my old email posted:i did not mind the mayhem/backstage assault sequence tbh. they were incredibly satisfying simulators of slow, clunky wrestling, the commentary was good and in the one that had a ring you could decide to rotate yourself away from your opponent and launch yourself to the arena floor from the top rope for no reason Yeah, I thought it was weird how you could miss doing a flying move on an opponent who was lying on the mat, but I liked Tony Schiavone going, "How did he miss? Do we have to draw a big X on the guy's chest?!"
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ecavalli posted:You feelin' okay, Cav? This was a weirdly sedate post from you. thank you for caring for your family e-cav
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mearn posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeEGs_ierWo Was this the game where the wrestlers got different costumes based on what stable you put them in? I remember seeing a character model in one of the 90s games that had Hogan in Raven's Flock and it was pretty great.
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