I haven't watched any of the three matches I plan to watch yet. The length of Omega / Ospreay is a bit bleurgh but I'll give it a go.
As time goes on 30+ minute matches are becoming the equivalent of a three hour film for me and I very rarely feel like they couldn't have achieved the same in two thirds of the time.
Nah this is a thriller from start to finish. FIGHT FOREVER. (Preordered that today by the way) Well worth your time.
Also I take back everything I said about Satoshi Kojima. He was excellent.
However, Disco calling Tanahashi a sack of gravel with a haircut is unfair to gravel. He’s trash and should be nowhere near MJF.
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I make fun of him as much as anyone else but when people say ‘Why would you want an absolute mark like Tony Khan’ in charge it’s because he will pay the annual salary of a wrestler to give Daniel Bryan the Final Countdown as an entrance song just so he can mark out to it.
Ironically the wrestler entrances in the game are SECONDS long.
That's probably to give you less time that half the roster looks like they were made by people who've never seen the wrestlers in question.
CM Punk looks like Popeye.
Haven't watched any. I'm not interested enough to put myself out to be honest apart from the two big singles matches and apparently Danielson got injured and it ruined the end.
Keen to see the reviews for the AEW game, what I've seen of it I can't tell if it's amazing or comical. If it gets the thumbs up I'm snapping it up, loved the old N64 ones
He does. And Andrade just looks like an entirely different person. And there are plenty of other dodgy ones too. Might've been Nick Jackson who looks like a Sontaran version of himself.Originally Posted by Shindig
CM Punk looks like Popeye.
He apparently apologised on Twitter saying 'My elbow drop hit his cock. Sorry. But it's not on purpose because I don't have that kind of technology'. I thought he did well given most of the older guys were in tag matches, he still has a good amount of mobility for 52.
I assume the AEW game has improved since the original screenshots and that kills my interest. I wanted a game where everyone was cosplaying as Giant Gonzalez.
Kojima is still fun and still does long singles matches in All Japan and NOAH. He was a beast in his 30s.
I remember the early shots had Kenny Omega looking like a pumped up Vince McMahon wet dream
Like an elaborate balloon animal
Fuck.
I was pissing myself seeing so many AEW marks saying it looks amazing on Twitter.
Someone on Twitter has copied the models from the Fight Forever data and used them in WWE2k23. They actually look really good, it's just that they're badly put together in FF.
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If they can't get the likenesses right despite having the license they should take the Pro Evo approach and give them all off brand names.
Denny Amiga, Max Fredman, John Boxey, that sort of thing.
Max and Jeremy Buck.
I’ll be getting a review wrote but it does feel more immediate than the WWE games. There’s not a lot in the package, though. Partly because it’s a first year product and secondly due to AEW being a smaller promotion.
I've not played Xbox since I came home leathered one night about 15 years ago and pissed all over it, but going off the screenshots floating around on Twitter, this game could easily pass for 2008. Dreadful.
Oh blimey. Guess it makes sense SRS might be over for MITB.
Raw sounds like it had some "why put these guys in a match when neither needs to lose?" booking with Hayes losing his main roster debut the day before a NXT title defence and Sami losing to Gunther (though I will be watching that.)
I know I shouldn’t get my hopes up but I’ve just looked at the odds for MITB
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You will be disappointed when Damian Priest wins.
If it’s about the business then Logan Paul should win it while LA Knight uses his organic over ness to justify his own title run.
Logan Paul for depressing business reasons, Priest has a better baked in story, Knight is the most over.
Dunno if I'd have it in that order as most likely, Paul could as easily be there to set up his next singles match and it's a toss up between Priest and Knight.
I watched Omega / Ospreay last. Ight. Too long as expected but really good, and despite being too long it it still felt about a tenth of the length of either of those awful Edge / Orton matches.
I wouldn't be too upset with a Priest win, but it's got to be him or LA Knight.
Omega vs. Ospreay I dunno. Agree it felt too long and it was just for the sake of it really. Not a bad match, but absolutely nowhere near their Tokyo Dome effort. I just think Omega is incapable of matching his Japan level in AEW, regardless of the circumstances.
The only two that make sense in the kayfabe world is Priest and Logan Paul.
Priest is my pick for who should win. You get him right on the cusp of will he/wont he? For a face turn, or to get into a fight with Balor in a power struggle. This way assumes Balor beats the joker. You can play off the 'you wouldn't cash in on me, would you?" for a little bit. Have Balor be left in compromising positions a few times with Priest really looking like he wants to, but doesn't.
If the joker keeps his belt, then you need Logan Paul with it. Constant teases should be the name of the game to get in Seths head, but I bet they'd have him announce ahead of time they'll set up a match for SummerSlam.
Knight is over, but you need to use that organically and not with the briefcase.
I very much doubt they'd go this way and switch the title so soon but could also see a version of this where Priest wins, HELPS Balor and you have the shot of them with the briefcase and world heavyweight belt but Balor looking shifty about Priest.
Probably a very low percentage chance of that though.
Fight Forever is pretty poo.
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RIP Droz
Incredible.
I really don’t want to go full Jim Cornette mode here, but I hate it.
I get the feeling from his segment on Smackdown that they’re actually going to pull the trigger on LA Knight and I’m absolutely ready for it. The fans are just desperate to shout his catchphrases.
Also good to see them laying the groundwork for Solo having his head turned too.
Within 6 minutes Christian decides to eliminate himself and Trent eliminates himself along with Sammy Guevara.
The game looks so fucking shit.
Please no Logan Paul win.
I know Alexander-Arnold wants to try a new position but that's taking the piss.
Crowd is fucking amazing.
Watching this cos a mate is there and might spot him in the crowd.
Anyway why is LA Knight so fucking over? Last I watched nobody gave a shit.
I don't know either. I find the yeah thing annoying myself.
Seems to have come from nowhere too.
Rick O'Shea
He should be in every ladder match.
Ricochet should me more over that dude is mental
Also Logan please win you're a cunt bur you're so good at this
Fucking hell.
Logan Paul and Ricochet just went all out with that spot.
That was madness, split second from two broken necks
Priest is alright but LA Knight is the most over person in the company. SHITE
lol didn't see that happening.
You don't but the briefcase on a super over face unless the plan is to cash it in immediately.
He should be dethroning Gunther if he's anywhere near that Honky Tonk record.
He’s not technically a face tbf. He’s meant to be a heel but is over organically.
I do like Judgement Day so it’s not the end of the world
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