maskedmaniac

As long as there are some facial animations I'm good. I'm really hoping this game gets a PC release at some point. It would be great if it made it on Steam with a workshop for modders. There's a reason people still play No Mercy to this day, me included. You can mod pretty much every aspect of that game. If AEW gives us even a fraction of that just by being able to mod wrestlers and arenas it will become an instant classic.

The graphics don't bother me too much, but I really hope they add some facial animations to the final product. Having all the models just have the same stoic look on their face for the whole match kinda ruins the immersion.

This is a great Bret Hart. Is that a mod? How did you do the back logo on the tights?

This might be a day one buy for me if it's anything close to No Mercy. I hope it gets a Stream release down the line for modding.

RIP Dark Knight.

Reversing grapples is still so confusing to me. Sometimes I can reverse an attempt by pressing triangle before they ever get their hands on me, other times I get the reversal prompt when I'm in a hold, and other times according to the tutorial you have to guess if it's either a weak or strong grapple with square or x (on PS4), but yet I never really know if it will be a regular reversal or I have to "guess". This is the one factor of the game play that really frustrates me so much, the rest I can deal with. Anybody else figured it out yet?

Man, I'm giving up on the creating feature for this game. I can't really create a new wrestler or even change the skin color of one I download because the game will just freeze. It's a shame because I'm really liking the game but all these freezes just ruin the fun for me.

Anybody seeing more crashes since the last patch? I've had my game crash on community creations and caw mode constantly, multiple times per day.

Fire Pro uses animations I believe and it's considered the best wrestling game out there.

I say both honestly. 100 caw slots, that's more than enough for both and the in-game roster gives you some of them already like Rock, Austin, Hart, Hogan, Warrior, Savage, Andre...

I'm hyped for this game and think it will be more fun to play than the WWE offering, however, I feel that it will also sell poorly due to people being turned off from it due to the art style.

This is pretty damn good! I just played a couple of matches on Allstars this morning and if this game was backwards comp on the PS4 or XBOX series I would play it over WWE 2K every day.

Oh man, this. Don't get me started. First of all, KingKhan, the fact that you're still 18 and barely an adult and the woman you fell in love with is almost 40 kind of explains your situation. I had never truly been in love until about the age of 35, that is when I met someone that seemed to like me more than anyone else before and she made me feel so good. She was only maybe 4 years younger than me but everything seemed to click for the first six months or so but once I tried to get the relationship to a more serious stage I started seeing that she wasn't interested in that and that's when the rampant lying started, or at least that's when I started noticing it. The point is, she had a boyfriend and I was just the side guy, I found this out thanks to social media. What I'm trying to say is that you are very young and she was much more mature than you. Relationships are like this and you already have this experience out of the way. I didn't have this knowledge until a few years ago and that is why I got played so many times by girls, now I know better at an older age. You will meet more girls in the next few decades and now with what you know you won't make the same mistake again. Some girls just like to play with guys emotions, it makes them feel good, like some sort of cheap thrill. And you're right Gens, the truth is much better than being lied to even if the truth will hurt. At least that way you can live comfortably knowing that the decision you made is definitive as far as staying with someone or leaving them because you are okay or not okay with how they are. Nothing worse in a relationship than being with someone you secretly hate on the inside because you suspect they are lying to you and playing with you .

He has the stone cold elbow too.

All the people shitting on this game because it resembles No Mercy have no idea how good of a simulation that game actually was. It gave the player everything that wrestling was back in the day from Japan to Mexico to the American style. You can't do mixed/hybrid style fighting or MMA style movesets in the modern 2K games like you could in the AKI engine. No Mercy has animations and positions that 2K doesn't even have making it better suited to simulate matches. Different fighting stances. In NM depending on where you hit your opponent they will fall to the ground and grab their stomach, their head, their leg etc. In the 2K games they all just fall back like a sack of potatoes regardless of where you hit them, they all sell the attacks the exact same way. NM had less button mashing that 2k games have now. Don't confuse antiquated graphics with a game not being simulation. No Mercy wasn't an "arcade" style game at all, I don't know where people get that from? If this game plays like NM did then it will be a way better simulation of actual wrestling than 2K offers. I do agree though, the graphics look like PS3/XB360 era.