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It’s exactly what I expected it would be, which is a fun wrestling game that’s also pretty barebones because it’s not an annualised entry in an existing juggernaut of a franchise that’s got decades of development behind it. The only thing that really surprised me was the price being way up there instead of at the lower AA end of the scale, but I guess it’s 2023 and everything costs more now.
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it sounds like i'll never buy this game until it's about 10 dollars at the most, or 15 dollars.
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Jun 30, 2023 10:53
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 Remembering that time Sting fought a big Cum Truck in a Lights Out match on AEW Dark. There was a lengthy skateboarding sequence and Meltzer rated it 7 stars.
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Jun 30, 2023 11:23
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Jun 30, 2023 11:24
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woah giant sting cans in the custom arena editor sweet
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Drakkel posted:I'm guess I'll have less in-game hours in Fight Forever than any given WWE game but far more Actually Playing time because like 95% of the "fun" of WWE games is making CAWs and watching the CPU fight I'll never understand what people like about watching the CPU fight. It's weird to me, because if I have the free time I'd either just want to watch some of the 12+ hours of wrestling each week or play a different game
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Sorry, Tony, but if I can’t make a CAW that looks like me if I hadn’t eaten so much cake as a child and cycled through so many antidepressants, and have that CAW come out to Kenny’s heel entrance complete with CAW dancing girls that look like Asuka and Misato from Neon Genesis Evangelion, then this is just another L for the eLite.
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Really enjoying this so far, although every so often I'll have a weird graphical glitch pop up. In one match I was playing as Penta and got caught between the ring and the outside, like my head was popping up from the canvas and I couldn't move. That lasted like 5 seconds and then I was fine. And once I was working on a CAW and the animations got real buggy, like these random black boxes popped up on the screen. Again, lasted a few seconds and only happened once. The gameplay is incredibly fun; I had no trouble figuring out the basics in my first match, but I've done about a dozen matches now and can tell I've gotten the swing of things a lot better. Road To is pretty great so far. I teamed with Hangman and lost to Sting and Paul Wight, then I superkicked Hangman and beat him at the PPV. I was wandering around New Orleans and CM Punk challenged me to face him in his return match. I squashed him, then squashed Jungle Boy, and now Jericho wants me to join the Inner Circle.
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you unlock peoples signatures in the wrestler info screen by beating them in exhibition. Thats cool now i can bootleg poo poo way easier
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I’ve only had one real bug so far playing online, where we went through a little chain of reversals and the physics broke, leaving me running in place against the ropes while the other player whiffed every attempt at hitting me They eventually went up to the top turnbuckle and did a dive at me which popped me back into the ring
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started road to with christian cage and the 1st tony kahn call is funny. I say i dont want a spot in the old man gimmick battle royal.
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Jun 30, 2023 13:17
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The hardcore matches in this are insanely fun, there's little more amusing than trying to bully someone onto a big spot on a thumbtack field
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finally out for delivery hooray I have a question. Do existing wrestlers also get stat ups for doing career mode or just the cash or whatever? Like can I transform Hangman into some 110 OVR Shin Hangman by eating unfortunate looking enchilada plates
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Jun 30, 2023 13:28
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projecthalaxy posted:finally out for delivery hooray Just coins (in lieu of stats upgrades) - existing characters stats are permalocked to whatever they shipped with. You can edit their move sets though (but not change the skills necessary for some types of moves)
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blunt posted:Just coins (in lieu of stats upgrades) - existing characters stats are permalocked to whatever they shipped with. You can edit their move sets though (but not change the skills necessary for some types of moves) gotcha gotcha I am excited to see what it all plays like, as I mentioned before I don't necessarily have the No Mercy nostalgia or indeed No Mercy training and experience so I'll be adapting on the fly like the T1000.
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Suplex Liberace posted:its way more like the gamecube games this is the most accurate & succinct sentence stated about the gameplay. it's missing just a handful of things that made the AKI ones feel so tight and determined, but it also ups the hijinks and fluidity. there are a few mechanics that reward playing it like the AKI games, though, like the instant reversals if you grab someone who's rising from the mat; it lets you be frantic, but wants you to be patient.
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I see. Thank you for the correction. I've played DoR for like 5 hours ever instead of 2, so I'm practically the world expert.
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Sadly, Penta in Road To Elite does not have Alex Abrahantes talking for him.
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My assumption with the bared boneness of the game is that they focused on the gameplay, which most people seem to be having fun with, and everything else was on the back burner because that other stuff can be patched in or added via DLC. The core gameplay probably has to be what it’s going to be from the start so people actually enjoy playing the game, but you can always add updated story modes, new wrestlers, a better creation suite, etc. down the road. It is a bummer that so many cool wrestlers are not in the game but just accepting that they cut the roster off at a certain point is all you can do. Maybe they didn’t just want to slap a Swerve skin on an existing character model and have the character not actually feel like him? I dunno. I don’t know how much work goes into each character and how specific their movements, characteristics, etc. are to each person. Hope to get some more time in this weekend and do the story mode. Not sure if I’ll make a custom character or not; I’ve never really been someone to dive super deep into that stuff.
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The main things I can remember about DoR: giving my guy two riot shields that hung off his wrists that clipped through the floor which was funny and also that one Shawn Michaels 4 way elimination match everyone hated
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The Unrestricted this week with the dev is a good listen where he says that Tony is basically putting revenue from the game back into the development to keep it going.
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The CAW stuff gives me flashbacks to WWE 2K15 when they rebuilt the game from the ground up, so a ton of modes and match types were straight-up gone. At least here you can create women.
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Ganso Bomb posted:
this is where the game shines the most for me: everyone I've played feels radically different and the game expects you to play them like they wrestle. the WWE games always struck me as lacking in that; choosing different wrestlers just seemed like picking what animations happened for what button presses, with mild differences in how quickly they moved. i wish they'd tighten the striking & grappling a little bit tho.
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After putting a couple hours into CAW, Road to the Elite, and Exhibition Matches last night as a sampler, I'm trying to decide the best route: enjoy what it has now (fun gameplay) and potentially have my fill early and stop caring about it forever after a dozen hours OR sit on it and play other games I got in the Steam Summer Sale for awhile and let the DLC trickle in and then enjoy it later as a more complete experience (with the risk being that it never gets The Big Update that reminds me to go back to it).
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Jun 30, 2023 14:19
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Liger's horns are a mask layer but you can't actually...layer them on a mask.
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Gambit from the X-Men posted:this is where the game shines the most for me: everyone I've played feels radically different and the game expects you to play them like they wrestle. the WWE games always struck me as lacking in that; choosing different wrestlers just seemed like picking what animations happened for what button presses, with mild differences in how quickly they moved. Yes! Most of the WWE games allow you to run around like Mysterio regardless of who you're playing or their size or style. FF will punish you if you try that, rightfully so.
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That Dang Dad posted:After putting a couple hours into CAW, Road to the Elite, and Exhibition Matches last night as a sampler, I'm trying to decide the best route: enjoy what it has now (fun gameplay) and potentially have my fill early and stop caring about it forever after a dozen hours OR sit on it and play other games I got in the Steam Summer Sale for awhile and let the DLC trickle in and then enjoy it later as a more complete experience (with the risk being that it never gets The Big Update that reminds me to go back to it). Did they say when the DLC that was available with the preorder actually comes out? Can’t remember if I saw that anywhere and I think I assumed it was launch day DLC.
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ConsolidatedLard posted:Roster is just, like, shockingly lacking. No Acclaimed? Nobody from House of Black, other than Malakai? Top Flight, Gunns, Private Party, 2.0, Santana and Ortiz? Hayter? Serena Deeb? Leyla Hirsch? Penelope Ford? Literally everyone currently in the Dark Order outside of John Silver? Sure, they say they'll add to it with future updates but I mean, who knows how long it'll take for anyone who hasn't already been announced to get added. I mean, they made sure to keep in a guy who isn't even with the company anymore and a few people who haven't wrestled a single match on TV in over a year, so leaving out a ton of people who have been with AEW since close enough to the beginning feels especially egregious. Some of this stuff is why I'm a bit less keen on the idea that they're going to be supporting this game with DLC and not just starting development on a second, better game. A lot of the particularly bad stuff here is likely not going to be fixed, like I highly doubt they're going to patch in a better CAW mode or new match types, and the DLC roadmap is like a shotgun blast of random wrestlers that didn't make the cut plus some minigames I will never play. All wrestling games have this problem to an extent because you can't keep adding new characters during development, but the game just does not feel like AEW at times because of the constant reminders of how outdated the roster is and it's not something that I can see them fixing with a couple new wrestlers every few months as new DLC. The game feels a bit like an early access title but it costs $60+ now and I have to assume it's basically feature complete at this point. I'm happy to support them by buying it because I want them to get the opportunity to make a second attempt at a new game and not spend a couple years putting out dlc packs for this and charging us out the rear end to make the roster feel more like current AEW.
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I think/hope that they're self aware enough to know how much goodwill they'd burn by moving back to an annualized model.
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flashy_mcflash posted:I think/hope that they're self aware enough to know how much goodwill they'd burn by moving back to an annualized model. This is it. I will support this game a ton if it has the amount of quality of life updates and dlc as say something like fall guys or no mans sky. If they try to make me buy the game over and over I'm out
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Pylons posted:We're already getting that Battle Royale mode so I think they plan to support it pretty heavily. This reminded me of some complains about the Casino Battle Royale in the game, which I know is a different thing but Battle Royale made me think of it. I saw some folks complain that the match doesn't feel like AEW at all because it doesn't run the same way an actual casino battle royale runs where X number of people come out for each suit. Would that actually be fun in any way at all? I think even the WWE game maxes out at 8 characters on screen now; is the game fun at that point or is it annoying with so many characters in such a confined space? I guess it'd be nice to have more than 4 people in the ring at once, but I can't really conceive of a better way of doing that match type more in line with real life AEW unless you had 8 max people in the ring, and when you were down to 4 then the next suit of 4 wrestlers came out.
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Shard posted:This is it. I will support this game a ton if it has the amount of quality of life updates and dlc as say something like fall guys or no mans sky. If they try to make me buy the game over and over I'm out I've never gotten the impression they want to annualize this, I think we might see a second shot announced a year from now (so 18-24 months between titles) at the absolute earliest. This is already on the new consoles, so long as they can update it there's plenty to improve on. Gambit from the X-Men posted:this is where the game shines the most for me: everyone I've played feels radically different and the game expects you to play them like they wrestle. the WWE games always struck me as lacking in that; choosing different wrestlers just seemed like picking what animations happened for what button presses, with mild differences in how quickly they moved. I've played with Orange Cassidy, Adam Cole and Eddie Kingston and they feel very different, you have to keep in mind the approach each takes. Might have to try Rey Fenix or Sammy to see how a real flyer goes in the game. also whatever weird graphical issue or resolution thing they've done on the in-match graphics on Switch, they need to figure that out soon, because it's real weird to go from like "nice HD on the OLED" in handheld mode for the menus and videos to then seeing the in-match characters look extremely 480p.
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When I started Road to Elite I kept thinking "Man, this whole thing is so Japanese" having completely forgotten the developer was from Japan
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Ganso Bomb posted:This reminded me of some complains about the Casino Battle Royale in the game, which I know is a different thing but Battle Royale made me think of it. It bugs me slightly that they call it the Casino Battle Royale when that's something different, but the actual gameplay doesn't bug me, no.
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Ganso Bomb posted:This reminded me of some complains about the Casino Battle Royale in the game, which I know is a different thing but Battle Royale made me think of it. I think people who buy the AEW game want the game to be like AEW instead of completely unrelated things with AEW branding.
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