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Eh yeah, surely not, I greatly praised the game(s) whenever they deserved it and criticized whenever they deserved it, no idea what this kind of shit post has to do here, you can leave your nonsense fanboyism outside the door please. The motion capture in this entrance is extremely mid and in some passages even bad, if you can't see that then I'm sorry. By the way, seeing a comparison video just shows how bad this entrance really is. I mean seriously, for one of the main guys in this game with the most attention since people were hyped for him since 2k22 was freshly out, 2K said they're proud of what they did with him and for that, this entrance is really mediocre. They had so much better ones in 22 with way more care and passion. Sorry for only having a TikTok video as comparison. https://www.tiktok.com/@funnyassmarlo/video/7194542736450784558

Not gonna lie, the entrance is good, but 2 steps behind my expectations. First, no codyvator, come on, how can you mess that up, at least, at the very least, have the camera angled up from down position and have him pop up between smoke like they did on raws without his codyvator, basically like the old Ascension entrances, how does he just appear out of nothing here? That's not good. And then, you once again see that he wasn't motion capturing and since this is the first game LA Knight doesn't do motion captures and entrance captions for more than half the roster anymore like he did before for every game till he stopped with 22, this can only hurt the entrances and it did, a lot of "air" between his walk to the ring where the motion capture guy doesn't do much and it looks a bit energyless, like no enthusiasm. It's still good, but I really expected more, the MC here is extremely mid, sorry.

Oh that for sure, we should get news and videos and Screenshots non-stop from now on (kinda). I'm a bit worried there is almost no discussion here so far.

I'll be honest. I don't have too much hope for this. But then, I don't know what I expected. Don't get me wrong, I loved 2K22. Probably my most played WWE game in a very, very long time, maybe even more than 19 and I thought they did so, so much right with it. But everything we saw and heard and read from 23 so far, looks, to the littlest details, just like 22, in a way other games would simply release a big 2.0 patch for it. The graphics, the engine, the mode descriptions like My faction being back, not even slightly reinvented, even the cards look exactly the same (I swear if you don't unlock the attires and models for every mode this time....). My GM also sounded like just getting a tiny improvement with the little that we know. The main mode of the game also seems to be the same style again which bores me to death since forever. Sure it allows for certain attires and legends, but that's a positive and a negative in itself. Not even mentioning the fact that all these created attires, for no reason, never really come back for the next game, even tho they're created and exist. They could simply keep them added, but they rarely ever do and at best, put them into the creation mode. Watch Rey having 1 attire this year (plus what they use if he's in Cena's story mode) and see the rest vanishing into the past. Plus, we know for a fact that that like 80% of the themes in the game are now downgraded to the new garbage remix versions from Def Rebel (and a lot of ugly renames of wrestler happened) and I am not looking forward to that. Also, what slightly scares me, the game is out in under 2 months, Jesus, shortest marketing for the game ever? If it's out in 2 months, where was the cut off this time? I feel like A LOT of people who came back recently will be missing the game this time. What I am looking forward to tho, are of course potential new wrestlers, especially NXT people like Breakker being confirmed, and I hope they go all out here on NXT guys, already confirmed legends like RVD or Kurt Angle, finally a new match with WarGames and the extended create an entrance mode to be back and I'm slightly looking forward to the announced improvements of the Universe mode. Tho, they lied about that for the last like 9 titles in the last 10 years I don't even start to believe anything here. I am really mixed with what we know so far, it doesn't help that they're hitting us like a brick that it's just there in under 2 months (which means development is 100% finished and they are already working on the day one patch, nothing major can change from here on out anymore) But of course I'm on board and I will be getting it, so let's just hope for the very best here and for a strong community with a healthy CAW output.