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SaturnT3

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  1. They've been trying to "fix" Universe for well over a decade. Two different development companies have tried. Merging those features into MyGM would be a restart. As it is, it's been the yearly disappointment.
  2. That's why I said with a free play option. Pretty much like these guys said. Combining Universe features into MyGM would immediately get rid of the mountain of Universe legacy bugs and allow those who want a sandbox experience to reap the benefits of MyGM upgrades/enhancements. I continued the same MyGM save in 2K23 and eventually it got to the point that I could do whatever I wanted, because I had so much money.
  3. This is why I think MyGM with cutscene control and a free play option would scratch a lot of people's Universe itch.
  4. If you're someone who wants an arcade experience or something, I could see you preferring other games over this. If you want a realistic, simulation experience, I'd love to see the game that's better than this. A lot of the criticisms about 2K24 aren't gameplay criticisms, they're presentation criticisms. I think it has a lot to do with a lot of WWE fans being more interested in the non-wrestling aspects of WWE rather than the meat of the matches themselves. They want show opening pyro and specific entrance themes. They're less interested in Jey Uso bumping and selling and wrestling like he does and more interested in whether or not the crowd waves their arms during his entrance. You like what you like, but as someone interested in the wrestling first and foremost, this is the best wrestling game I've played.
  5. I think if McAfee's friends weren't in there'd be a different DLC layout. Maybe there'd just be 4 packs and he'd be combined into one of those. Maybe they'd put him, Punk, Jax, and Sane into a return themed pack. Maybe they'd have pulled Gallus and the two new Chase U people and made them a Rising Stars pack. They can do whatever they want with the roster and the DLC. You're acting like they had to have McAfee and four other people, and he demanded they cut four NXT wrestlers/alumni/whatever and replace them with his boys. There's no rational reason to believe that. People just literally made that up out of nowhere. At best, we'll get some random moves they had mo-cap for and new models we can use to create better looking refs/jobbers/etc than we could with the base creation tools. At worst, we'll get no new motions, but at least some well done models and maybe some new attire parts. It's the same as with Post Malone or Machine Gun Kelly. Maybe the (non)wrestlers won't be for you, but some of the parts that make them up could be useful. The alternative to including these guys isn't four of your favs, it's just less content.
  6. That's why I said "some people". I'm referring to posts like the one above. As I've said earlier, I'm disagreeing with the notion that including McAfee's friends somehow prevented other people from being included. I think they bring added mainsteam exposure, so they were deemed worth including. It's a lot like when THQ included Fred Durst in a game way back in the day. They came to the conclusion that it was worth it to get the right to use Rollin' in the game. I don't remember anyone complaining that the "slot" they gave Fred Durst should have gone to someone in OVW.
  7. People have convinced themselves that Pat McAfee "blocked" other people from being included by pushing to get his friends in. It's as illogical as people thinking Lash Legend or Lexis King or whoever would have been in if they hadn't squeezed Punk in. In reality, McAfee didn't keep anyone out of the game any more than Punk did. It's hilarious that some people have done a total 180 on it now that it's someone they weren't hoping for in the game.
  8. No, I say they'll expose people to the game. Does Lash Legend bring that level of exposure? Anyone who knows what a Sol Ruca is is already buying the season pass. Again, this is a business decision. I agree that more actual wrestlers would be better for the hardcore fan. I'm one of those fans. I want what you want. I'm just saying I understand the dollars and cents of it. If we're being honest, higher sales numbers are what's best for the series because it means a bigger budget for the next game. If you're not into the content that (potentially) facilitates that, that's fine. The idea that it somehow robbed us of other content is absurd. The people who screamed "SLOTS DON'T EXIST!!!" for years have suddenly done a 180, and it's insane.
  9. Because additional contracts, models, and motions don't just fall out of the sky. The idea that they could have added all of these other wrestlers and just chose not to makes no sense at all. If they thought Lexis King would sell, he'd be DLC. If they thought people would buy a pack to get Lash Legend, they'd have offered her. They're in this to sell content and make money. McAfee and friends get the game exposure. These lower level NXT acts get the game nothing. That's why the former is in and the latter isn't.
  10. Are you serious? Even if you ignore him being a mainstream celebrity, the guy's had multiple big Mania moments. WWE licensed Seven Nation Army for him. They gave him an entrance with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. He's been a bigger part of WrestleMania than 90% of the people in the game's roster and 100% of the people in NXT. WWE and 2K obviously see a lot of name value in him. Otherwise, he wouldn't have any leverage over 2K at all. The idea of him "having people excluded" is complete fan fiction, and the main thing I'm disagreeing with here. Again, they were obviously hurting for DLC that was worth the investment. No matter who you remove, Sol Ruca doesn't become any more of a draw. I have no use for McAfee's guys, Muhammad Ali, or Post Malone, but it's pretty clear they're in this game due to a lack of options. Very few new big name signings, and everyone in developmental is still VERY developmental. So they went big on celebrities. I'd have preferred more alumni too, but if we're being honest most people who play these games couldn't pick Paul Orndorff out of a lineup. I've been saying this for years, but this was the obvious outcome when people clamored for DLC that consisted of nothing but additional wrestlers. When there are no big name signings and you've already included everyone of note, those wrestlers have to come from somewhere. Dragon Lee has been on the main roster forever, but he's DLC because he's an addition people will extra pay for. What five wrestlers would you cut from the base game to include McAfee and friends (who got scanned the day before yesterday, by the way)? Do you think people are going to pay extra for Gallus, Duke Hudson, and Thea Hail?
  11. My point is there aren't 5 people in NXT not in the game who - combined - are as big of a draw as McAfee is. Just him plugging it on his podcast is probably more valuable than 5 people you could name from NXT. It's true developmental again. If it was black and gold 3rd brand NXT, I could see an argument here. Nakamura was a draw. Lexis King just isn't. Again, I'm not excited for it by any means. I'm just saying it makes sense.
  12. People are making this McAfee DLC way bigger than it is. They wanted him in the game because he's a big star, and his condition was that his boys had to be in too. It's not any deeper than that. If his boys weren't in, none of our favs would suddenly spawn out of nowhere. At most, the work that goes into their models could have gone into other alts or something. Considering they held Dragon Lee and Carlito back for DLC, it seems pretty clear they were hurting bad for viable DLC characters. None of the people in NXT that didn't make the cut are selling a DLC pack. I'm not excited for the pack by any means, but being up in arms about it seems a bit dramatic to me.
  13. I think best case scenario this will be a mechanism to get in the kinds of moves that would have been in the moves pack in past games, and worst case scenario it will be new models with no new motions at all. Assemble seems to think they captured specific "wacky" motions just for these guys, but that seems very unlikely to me. It'll either be a pleasant surprise with some motions being trojan horsed into the game, or a big nothing for most wrestling fans. Considering what's left on the NXT pile as far as the potential roster goes, I don't think they're losing a single sale by rolling the dice on McAfee and friends rather than having a pack with Lexis King and Lash Legend.
  14. None of them are wrestlers, so none of them have entrances or signature moves. If anything, this supports the idea that mo-cap wraps at a certain point. They can give them whatever motions they want.
  15. It triggers after a certain number of strikes hit by both players. If you want to trigger it yourself, your best bet is to hit the green target consistently, but don't hit the yellow sweet spot or else you'll automatically win the strike exchange. The whole idea is that it's what happens when there's a stalemate, so for it to happen you need to not lose but also not win.
  16. If you like Showcase, you like Showcase. You are literally the first person I've seen say they actually have an interest in playing through the mode. Everyone else I've seen defend it admit they have no interest in playing it, but insist it's "the only way certain alumni could get into the games". My point is that simply isn't true. A mode where you simply have to win to advance (rather than the game calling spots to you and forcing you to replicate them) would annoy me far less. That wouldn't really be a historical Showcase mode, though. It'd be more of a Towers mode. I'm not opposed to the old school wrestlers or arenas, I'm opposed to being forced to play through the matches move for move, exactly the way they happened. If you're into playing thought the matches exactly the way they happened, that's you. It seems to literally be just you, though. Everyone else just seems to want the wrestlers and/or arenas. So I think they should just do what most people want and not bother with what most people don't seem to want.
  17. Please. If they can do Sheamus '09 (without a bunch of storyline mo-cap) in MyFaction, they can do any version of anyone, with any entrance music and attire, even *gasp* HBK with stubble. I act as if Showcase eats up mo-cap time and resources that could go into modes people actually want to play like MyRise, MyGM, and Universe - because it does. I don't understand why my opinion is controversial. I think they should put time and money into things people want to play through and not put time and money into things people have been loud and clear about not wanting to play through. Just seems like common sense to me. I promise, they can do a version of HBK with stubble without doing a story mode nobody wants to play. I think the fact that they have to lock WrestleMania arenas and some of the most popular wrestlers of all time behind the mode to get people to play it speaks volumes. If those are the lengths you have to go to to force people to play through a mode, it's probably just not worth doing the mode in the first place. The time and resources put into a mode nobody wants to play could absolutely be better used elsewhere.
  18. Right, that would be like if they just randomly added Jean Paul Levesque in MyRise. Oh wait, they did that. Well it'd be like if they just did Superstar Billy Graham as a DLC character out of nowhere. Oh right, they did that too. And while more of Showcase is done largely via the slingshot technology, they still have to mo-cap the beginning and end of every transition, so it's still eating up mo-cap time and resources. The only logical defense of Showcase is if you actually want to play through the mode, and nobody ever makes that argument. Because they don't want to play through the mode. I'm in favor of adding anyone and everyone to the roster. I'm opposed to modes nobody actually wants to play. Nobody actually wants to play Showcase. The people who defend it just can't take their L on it "bringing people into the game who wouldn't be included otherwise". History shows those people are 100% wrong.
  19. Who are "they"? Definitely not 2K! Nothing has changed. People thought bringing back Showcase would bring more "legends" into the game. Those people were completely and totally wrong. This is actually the funniest thing from the old 2Kforums. There was this Rjbunchofnumbers guy who considered me his mortal enemy because I dared to suggest that Showcase was a waste of time and resources. It was at the height of the controversy about the Four Horsewomen not being in 2K16. He kept screaming about how the series doesn't need "NXT jobbers"! It doesn't need the For Horsewomen! It needs LeGeNdS! So he whined. And he cried. And he complained. And eventually...he got what he wanted! Showcase was back! And with it came... ...NXT alts of the For Horsewomen. The highest level of comedy.
  20. People have made this argument for years, and it's always been complete nonsense. They added Zeus via DLC and Jean Paul Levesque in MyRise. They can add whoever they want however they want. They absolutely do not have to add an entire resource hogging mode nobody wants to actually play to add anyone. It's a baseless argument people on the old 2Kforums board propped up because they couldn't accept that they were wrong. The Daniel Bryan Showcase didn't manifest Alex Riley, the Rey Mysterio Showcase didn't manifest Ultimo Dragon, and a Hulk Hogan Showcase won't manifest Big John Studd. They include who they include in the roster, and Showcase having any impact on that whatsoever is complete fan fiction.
  21. It's pretty crazy how they introduce Super Finishers as this huge, world ending thing...and then immediately downplay them by having us do them in the middle of Showcase matches. Showcase is absolute useless trash that 100% needs to be taken out next year.
  22. I think it's intentional. The ref has to see the pin, get into position, check the shoulders, and then start counting. I prefer this to teleporting into position the second the move animation starts. On a related note, I love how they've tweaked manual rope breaks. They stop counting but are still down (similar to a special guest ref stopping the count), and it's so much more true to life.
  23. I don't think it absolutely has to be a story that culminates at WrestleMania, I'm just saying original stories where you play as an actual wrestler rather than a CAW. People crap their pants when they see the word "Originals" after 2K20, but I think that DLC structure was sound. If those had been set in wrestling canon rather than fantasy nonsense (complete with period specific moves, weapon skins, arenas, and alts) I think it would have been very well received. I think people would be more invested in playing through an original story because they don't go in knowing what will happen, and things like period specific tables, ladders, moves, and different objects to retrieve in ladder matches would be really cool additions to the game. 2K is developing a pretty good track record of bringing things back better than they were the first time since the reboot. I think a mode in the same vein of RTWM, or a DLC package with the same structure as Originals for that matter, can 100% be done better than it was in the past. They've proven that they've learned from past mistakes, in my opinion.
  24. I'd like to see a RTWM style story mode(s), but I think it should replace Showcase rather than MyRise. I think a career mode will always have a place in a simulation game like this. I think the issues they had with Vince and Brock (which could just be the beginning) are going to make doing historical modes extremely difficult. I'd like to see RTWM story modes that cover multiple eras. That way they can provide story modes with actual wrestlers, and cherry pick who is and isn't in because they'd be writing a fictional story. It's all of the retro content people want from Showcase with none of the headaches or limitations.
  25. It's also worth noting that while you can't edit the MyFaction unlockables in CAS, you can edit them in the roster section, so the AI adjustments I'm doing can be done with those characters as well.
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