Anyone else encouraged that he mentions the Switch first when announcing what consoles it’s available for?
Reyfou
This is my most anticipated game of the year.
See how it will be a buggy mess.
FrankPapageorgio
June 29th.
Anyone else just skip right to the end of the video?
PixelHustler
Any chance this will be voucher eligible?
Jakeaintn0snake
It’s going to be so bad. I can’t wait
PaleFrequency
I have been looking forward to this for ages, will be nice to have a more arcade style of game with better visuals than fire pro.
Reptiles-Firearms84
And it’s free that’s dope
sour_surprise
I will happily buy this on Switch if it launches without any serious hiccups!
Blvd_Nights
I’m super excited about this as those N64 wrestling games are some of my favorite memories. In the same way that Shredder’s Revenge was for me last year, the combat and the controls need to feel like something you remember while also adding more to it.
Hoping this reviews good and that it runs well. This will probably be a day-one pick-up for me if the stars end up aligning.
Anon_throwawayacc20
It still worries me how little gameplay they’ve shown instead of just tiny montages.
blazingchaos91
Hopefully a lot of love was put in the switch port
TecmoZack
Yaaaaaas
hyperforms9988
Cautiously optimistic. Going this route with the gameplay is a double-edged sword. It was great during the No Mercy days because gaming was in a completely different place at the time, No Mercy fit the era that it was in, and it could hold your interest for hours and hours and hours as a result. Could a game like that do the same in this era? I guess we’ll find out.
The thing that’ll make or break this for me personally is a career mode. There is one in the game, but beyond mentioning that it’s a thing, I don’t think I’ve seen or heard much if anything about it. This is personally where I’d love to see this game’s more old-school sensibilities come to life because I miss some of the career modes of yesteryear… namely stuff like Here Comes the Pain’s career mode. I miss when things weren’t voice acted because it meant that the game could generate all sorts of scenarios at random and on the fly between different wrestlers. You find yourself getting sucked into storylines and rivalries and for the time it felt pretty natural. Wrestler names can just be dropped into pre-baked lines of text, and it opens up so many possibilities of just being able to drop practically anybody on the entire roster into a pre-defined storyline and have those wrestlers interact with each other in that storyline like it’s no big deal… because it *is* no big deal when it’s text. I don’t own WWE 2K23, but MyRise for example has a story path for the next big thing in wrestling. He’s known as “The Lock” and his story as far as I know goes one way. Don’t like The Lock? Tough, because that’s what voice acting does to stuff like this. You are this character whether you like it or not, and I’ve always hated stuff like that. That trade-off was never worth it to me, but maybe I’m the only one that feels that way.
Primal_Directive
Fingers crossed they can deliver on “we wanna make No Mercy but modern”. Last game they came close I can think of was Def Jam Vendetta.
TemurTron
.3 seconds of gameplay footage is always an encouraging sign. This game’s had a lot of production issues, it’s going to be a train wreck at launch. It’s insane they’re charging full retail for it.
MyCodenameIsIan
Could just be wrestling tribalism but there were lots of development hell/over budget rumours circling this game.
Perhaps it’s just inexperience developing/marketing videogames but I don’t even think they had a publishing partner for a long time.
I’m excited for an N64 throwback game but I’m definitely waiting for reviews before purchasing.
AirSetzer
Yukes usually equals Yikes.
wefler
WWE’s psyops needs to be studied it has such a huge chokehold on wrestling. Anything that’s wrestling that’s not WWE gets an immediate negative reaction.
progxdt
We all know Steam Deck fans are going to take a dump on it now. /s
I hope it sell well everywhere. There hasn’t been any wrestling games in years that really grab attention of non-wrestling fans. WWE 2K23 definitely killed it with simulation, but I don’t want to invest lots of time into building out rosters, cards and wrestlers. It’s why I stopped playing Madden.
RexyMundo
Is the game going to be using the AKI engine like the THQ games on N64?
I heard it was going to be Here Comes The Pain from the PS games. I never played those games but heard they were good.
I hope it’s bringing back the No Mercy style AKI games. That engine was still good in the Def Jam games during the GameCube/PS2/XBox era.
scottyjrules
Hyped for this but waiting to see reviews before I buy. Hopefully it’s not a buggy mess on Switch…
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June 29th for the release date
Anyone else encouraged that he mentions the Switch first when announcing what consoles it’s available for?
This is my most anticipated game of the year.
See how it will be a buggy mess.
June 29th.
Anyone else just skip right to the end of the video?
Any chance this will be voucher eligible?
It’s going to be so bad. I can’t wait
I have been looking forward to this for ages, will be nice to have a more arcade style of game with better visuals than fire pro.
And it’s free that’s dope
I will happily buy this on Switch if it launches without any serious hiccups!
I’m super excited about this as those N64 wrestling games are some of my favorite memories. In the same way that Shredder’s Revenge was for me last year, the combat and the controls need to feel like something you remember while also adding more to it.
Hoping this reviews good and that it runs well. This will probably be a day-one pick-up for me if the stars end up aligning.
It still worries me how little gameplay they’ve shown instead of just tiny montages.
Hopefully a lot of love was put in the switch port
Yaaaaaas
Cautiously optimistic. Going this route with the gameplay is a double-edged sword. It was great during the No Mercy days because gaming was in a completely different place at the time, No Mercy fit the era that it was in, and it could hold your interest for hours and hours and hours as a result. Could a game like that do the same in this era? I guess we’ll find out.
The thing that’ll make or break this for me personally is a career mode. There is one in the game, but beyond mentioning that it’s a thing, I don’t think I’ve seen or heard much if anything about it. This is personally where I’d love to see this game’s more old-school sensibilities come to life because I miss some of the career modes of yesteryear… namely stuff like Here Comes the Pain’s career mode. I miss when things weren’t voice acted because it meant that the game could generate all sorts of scenarios at random and on the fly between different wrestlers. You find yourself getting sucked into storylines and rivalries and for the time it felt pretty natural. Wrestler names can just be dropped into pre-baked lines of text, and it opens up so many possibilities of just being able to drop practically anybody on the entire roster into a pre-defined storyline and have those wrestlers interact with each other in that storyline like it’s no big deal… because it *is* no big deal when it’s text. I don’t own WWE 2K23, but MyRise for example has a story path for the next big thing in wrestling. He’s known as “The Lock” and his story as far as I know goes one way. Don’t like The Lock? Tough, because that’s what voice acting does to stuff like this. You are this character whether you like it or not, and I’ve always hated stuff like that. That trade-off was never worth it to me, but maybe I’m the only one that feels that way.
Fingers crossed they can deliver on “we wanna make No Mercy but modern”. Last game they came close I can think of was Def Jam Vendetta.
.3 seconds of gameplay footage is always an encouraging sign. This game’s had a lot of production issues, it’s going to be a train wreck at launch. It’s insane they’re charging full retail for it.
Could just be wrestling tribalism but there were lots of development hell/over budget rumours circling this game.
Perhaps it’s just inexperience developing/marketing videogames but I don’t even think they had a publishing partner for a long time.
I’m excited for an N64 throwback game but I’m definitely waiting for reviews before purchasing.
Yukes usually equals Yikes.
WWE’s psyops needs to be studied it has such a huge chokehold on wrestling. Anything that’s wrestling that’s not WWE gets an immediate negative reaction.
We all know Steam Deck fans are going to take a dump on it now. /s
I hope it sell well everywhere. There hasn’t been any wrestling games in years that really grab attention of non-wrestling fans. WWE 2K23 definitely killed it with simulation, but I don’t want to invest lots of time into building out rosters, cards and wrestlers. It’s why I stopped playing Madden.
Is the game going to be using the AKI engine like the THQ games on N64?
I heard it was going to be Here Comes The Pain from the PS games. I never played those games but heard they were good.
I hope it’s bringing back the No Mercy style AKI games. That engine was still good in the Def Jam games during the GameCube/PS2/XBox era.
Hyped for this but waiting to see reviews before I buy. Hopefully it’s not a buggy mess on Switch…