I swear the sports games have to be on of the biggest rakets ever. >Pay full price for game >Pay for monthly online sub >Pay for sports game online pass >Pay for sports game online booster pass
Congratulations you can now play on equal footing as other online players and it only cost you like 230 bucks not including the subscription fee for whatever console youre on
That's what I mean. And people wonder what causes devs to try and do dumb shit to get as much money out of games, it's because sports games have been doing like every kind of awful thing for years and other devs what that kind of money
Don't forget the lootboxes. With actual players locked behind lootboxes.
When you think about people rolling gacha with anime bawds being bad, just remember for a second, that there are normalgays who instead roll gacha with Black folk playing Black personball, and the worst part is that there are much more of them, than people rolling anime bawd gacha.
Throwing money at acute sexual stimuli is in the end understandable weakness. But throwing money at groids...
Seriously finding out that sportsball games have full-scale gacha mechanics were quite a revelation to me.
This is sort of kind of get, there are new campaigns, new maps, the devs switch around and they keep doing the israeli trick where you keep "balancing" guns so your game is a perpetual state of FOTM loadouts and NEW BROKEN BUILD?!!?!?!? YouTube shit so people can actually feel like there's something happening all the time, sports games just update rosters and that's it I guess?
>Be me, back in the late 90's >Mom watches Attitude Era wrestling with me >She bought the Chyna Playboy edition out of pure curiosity >Had a snow day the day after she bought it >She left the magazine on her nightstand >The instant she left for work I grabbed it and turned to the Chyna spread >It was so awful that I couldn't even fap to it >I placed it EXACTLY in the same position that I found it on her nightstand >Mom comes home and walks into her room >Immediately calls me out for looking at the Playboy >She just makes fun of me and asks me what I thought about Chyna's weird ass
Those were the days.
[...] >not posting 2007
Im guessing yall just didnt play the best wwe game of all time
>bring up the Smackdown vs Raw series
Y'all are literally the beginning of the end. I still remember returning my game when they disabled female wrestlers in the main campaign of SvR2006.
Smackdown sucked. Attitude was the better game. >b-but
Attitude had better customer characters, everything was voiced, they didn't get halfway through recording voices and decide to just cut the concept entirely, and they didn't put the Rock over .
I refuse to believe wrestling is popular at all anymore
I lived through when Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant were everywhere and when Stone Cold Steve Austin and the Rock were everywhere and when John Cena and Batista were everywhere and there's absolutely no equivalent today
Wrestlemania as a brand is big (bigger than the World Series now), but this era of pro wrestling in general is the least watched in history ratings-wise. And live attendance seems to go through wild fluctuations of hot/cold compared to previous eras.
Yeah because who the frick watches 3 hour episodes of RAW live? I know back then you boomers couldn't watch something later if you missed it but it's different now, gramps.
WWE is the tv version of the Pokemon franchise in that since it's mostly driven by merch sales that powers the juggernaut, it doesn't actually matter how the main thing is doing.
It's actually driven by TV deals - merch and live ticket sales is nothing for the WWE now compared to the billions they get for RAW, Smackdown, and the WWE Network. They don't even have the PPV model now because NBC gives them billions to put it all on their failing streaming service.
WWE gets more money from TV deals that they ever have, even though the product is watched by less and less people each year. It's a strange time to be alive.
It's been shit for a long time where they were even losing long-time fans. It's got better though and it's picking up viewers again. It won't ever be as popular as the Hulk Hogan/Stone Cold era days though.
My late 30s cousin is still into it big time. I assume it just looks boring now because you don't follow it. NASCAR is the same way for me. I grew up watching NASCAR since I'm from a redneck family but now I can hardly recognize a single driver so it makes it seem soulless to me. But again my cousin is still into it.
it's doing pretty decent, like year after year profits.
Star power is in a fricky state right now since they're still pushing a nepo baby and feeding him everyone popular, and the other championship is worn by a guys who's gimmick is being really fricking homosexual.
love Codester
love goth kid community theater
love jap girls with exposed thighs and clown make up
simple as
Wrestling genuinely makes more money than ever right now, and in terms of being in a hot period it's the closest it's been since the end of the Attitude Era (though not THAT big). 00s/early 10s wrestling popularity was HARD carried by Cena, now there's an American alternative and more people into international wrestling than ever what with NJPW gaining western fans year over year and the obvious appeal of lucha libre when the US gets increasingly more hispanic. A non-WWE promotion did over 80k people in Wembley Stadium last year. Stone Cold wrestled his first (probably only) match since 2003 a couple years ago, and Sting is retiring in a month.
I dunno if that's wrestling's fault more than there's just too much entertainment nowadays and everything is so isolated and segments into hardcore fanbases. When there are cameo appearances in media nowadays it's always some homosexual from the internet you never heard of and are supposed to be amazed that they're there whereas back in the old day Hulk would make an appearance and even people who weren't fans of wrestling were still excited to see him.
These are commercial ratings anon, viewership numbers. I don't know why the frick anyone would bother critically rating wrestling unless they were a complete nerd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_Media_Research#:~:text=Nielsen%20TV%20ratings%20(commonly%20referred,States%20using%20a%20rating%20system.
How a show is doing in terms of viewership in the US is called its ratings because of Nielsen's monitoring of views.
I know man. I look at modern wrestlers and think "whats their gimmick? What's their special move? I can't tell if they're bad guys, good guys, or neutral".
Old wrestlers were like different super heroes and villains. Now everyone looks generic as frick get people tell me wrestling is bigger now than it's ever been.
I do agree they turn way too often now, and there's way too few 'true' heels, everyone is sort of over.
They do occasionally get something really good going, like the original shield, their breakup, and everything following... And then inevitably ruin it or run into the ground.
Seth Rollins is a great example. One of the coolest new wrestlers around, and then they turned his gimmick into flamboyant gay zoomer with a million catchphrases.
Too many cooks in the kitchen.
I don't know where the money's coming from. TV is still big, but Vince can't keep the shows on USA or NBC. The crowds for the televised shows and PPVs are empty. Crowd sounds are piped in pre-recorded reactions to cover up the empty chairs and chants that aren't PG.
A few years back it was still fun to watch the taima streams and shitpost with 8/wooo/ (frick 420/wooo/) about how shit it was and how Vince kept pushing Roman Noodles over and over when everyone wanted actually interesting guys like Braun Strowman, Neville, Bray Wyatt's gang to win instead. Every interesting storyline went nowhere, it was all PG and female matches.
The rare actually cool gimmicks get stomped out because Vince wants some homosexual to be put over instead. Undertaker keeps getting dragged out of retirement to desperately plead for views and ratings. Gimmick matches like hardcore barely exist anymore because violence and blood don't fit the PG rating. Gimmick matches like tables or cage matches hardly use the gimmick at all.
They're afraid to do anything interesting because a badly prepped stunt killed Owen Hart and Chris Benoit and his family were drugged and murdered and the cover story was that Chris had done it himself
tbf Stallone also isn't that tall of a dude, but anyone will look small compared to Hulkster who's 6'7'' (or was before his age made him shrink a little)
It, like 99% of media and things in general these days, is overly sanitized, corporate and predictable. It's all merch, catchphrases and the entire thing is designed to produce as many tweetable hashtags as possible, like Roman Reigns' current record.
They don't care about Roman being entertaining or having good matches (or matches that don't all end with moronic Solo shit 50x in a row) they just care to keep him champion for that long so they can go on and on about how it's record breaking and blah blah blah. Nothing feels genuine anymore.
It's a shame because not too long ago, wrestling was genuinely great, when Trips and Vince were running things half half, there was a lot of weird vince shit and old guys/legends, mixed with Triple H's newer talent and it worked great. There was a period with lots of storylines that were 'really popular indie wrestler comes in and fights really popular wwe guy' and they let the matches be pretty crazy/not entirely the safe WWE style, too.
But now it's all just, egh. Forgettable. Every character is a face, people barely ever get to actually wrestle, it's all a bunch of factions and there's way too many wrestlers in general. The biggest heel in the company is Dominik and people basically just pretend to dislike him for... Some reason, he hasn't done any heel stuff in years now. I cannot remember the last person to have actual heat.
>Put Logan in the ring with some of the best wrestlers the company has (and Seth) >Give him months of rehearsal time that nobody else on the roster gets (the other part time guys still mostly know how to put a match together) >Still has just okay matches >Gets heel heat solely because he's a dickhead in real life
Logan has overperformed for the level of experience he has. No doubt if they made him work a match called on the fly it'd be sloppy, but I think his athleticism and charisma would still make for a half decent match. I think if he commits to the company they should give him a world title run at some stage.
And yeah, best heels are bad people irl. I mean look at Shawn, Vince, Punk.
>And yeah, best heels are bad people irl. I mean look at Shawn, Vince, Punk.
Difference being they got great heat when them being shitheads wasn't common knowledge, and could get huge pops as faces even after it was. Logan didn't work as a face at first because he's not likable, and if he didn't have built-in heat he couldn't generate much on his own. He's athletic but having him in marquis singles matches and holding belts, meh. I guess a midcard title run where he narrowly retains like what he's got going now is the best thing he can do.
I hope they do a match where Sheamus or Gunther beats the piss out of him.
>He's athletic but having him in marquis singles matches and holding belts, meh. I guess a midcard title run where he narrowly retains like what he's got going now is the best thing he can do.
Usually a midcard title run is to groom someone for a top spot. I can see Logan getting bored of wrestling when he finds a new grift, but for now he's the kind of guy WWE brass coom over.
He's tall, good looking, good body, can work, can talk, major celebrity with a pre existing fanbase who actually like wrestling (kids and tweens). It's like after years of forcing bland shitters like Roman, Cena and Orton down everyone's throats they fell ass backwards into finding the perfect star.
He's very very good. The Kevin Owen match was like a throw back in some ways, he put so much energy into it and his raw experience level meant some of the blows and what not were stiffer and more impactful than normal. Made it a real body on the line sort of match. Whatever one might think of the guy, considering how rich and successful he already is, how much he commits to his WWE stuff is actually impressive, he could have easily phoned it in, he's upstaged many of the veterans.
I don't even understand. Isn't American wrestling only for entertainment rather than a true sportive competition?
What do you even do in this game? Some fake combat?
>I mean, I'd rather buy a real fighting game than a video game about fake fights.
anon you do realize all of them are fake right? mortal kombat isn't real my man. you are not really ripping a guy's spine from his body and setting him on fire.
Yeah, I'm obviously not a fan so my opinion is irrelevant, but I'd rather play a real fighting game with flashy moves and connecting combos than playing something akin to "Win by faking injuries the fastest" (just like in Football).
I don't even understand. Isn't Batman only for entertainment rather than a true vigilante person?
What do you even do in these games? Some fake combat?
You remember when you were a kid, you and your friends discovered wrestling and for a brief moment thought it was all real? That the fights aren't fixed, the wrestlers hate each other and The Undertaker is actually a zombie demon who can turn the arena's lights on with his mind?
WWE games are like that. It's all real in the game.
I think I pretty much always knew it was fake to some extent. I knew some of it was make-believe and performative, all of the supernatural high jinks for instance. But I still believed they were legitimately competing sometimes and that some of the arguments they were having were real. I guess I believed it was mostly real but that some of it was faked for entertainment purposes.
>You remember when you were a kid, you and your friends discovered wrestling and for a brief moment thought it was all real?
No. I'm so glad I wasn't a moron kid. Another one is how you dumb frickers couldn't leave your house in Pokemon R/B/Y because you didn't recognize a carpet at the entrance. Shit makes me giggle every time. Dumb kids.
When you're really young, you love wrestling because you think it's all real. When you get older, you hate wrestling because you realize it's fake. When you get wiser, you come back to loving wrestling BECAUSE it is fake. Where someone exists on that spectrum tells you a whole lot about who they are.
It's a soap opera with fighting involved instead of middle aged women arguing.
Also some legitimate gymnastics/athletics shit.
That's literally all it is.
I'll be that guy and answer like you aren't a moron. Wrestling is "fake" in that who won was never determined by who is the more skilled wrestler but rather by how the story arc is being written. But it is not fake in the sense that the wrestlers aren't actually hurting each other, even if it's mostly unintentional. It doesn't matter how padded the ring's mat is, how much they use manipulative camera angles, etc to make it look like they were dealing more damage than they actually did, at the end of the day Hulk still lifted Andre up and slammed him onto the mat. Like Diamond Dallas Page said, YOU CAN'T FAKE GRAVITY. It's not like we're just in the dark as to why wrestlers have a life expectancy that's almost 20 years lower than the average person, why so many get CTE and spine issues, etc. Because getting slammed into the mat and botched manuevers are hell on the body.
You cant explain wrestling like this. Its still fake and gay. That would be like saying "The fight scenes in Jon Wick are not fake, even if unintentional, the actors do get hurt." How does that give wrestling any merit at all? Wouldnt you just like to watch actual combat then? Wrestling is entertaining because youre able to script conflicts in a way thats engaging for the viewer. You cant always choose the winner in the UFC or Boxing, but you can script every part of it, including the buildup in wrestling.
If that sounds gay, then its gay. If you like that, you like it. But who cares if the bozos get hurt or not doing it lol.
It's a TV show about wrestling but the actors are some of the most highly skilled athletes in the world who all do their own stunts. It's spectacular, silly and amazing to watch in person. Premium muscle theatre when it's at its highest highs is hard to not enjoy.
>Actual fighting is 99% two guys whiffing strikes at each other for 15 minutes, or hugging each other on the floor until one taps out for 15 minutes.
This. I enjoy boxing matches but real boxing is not Ippo, real boxers can't take 1/10 the amount of punishment the average boxer in Ippo inflicts on their opponent in a big match. Takamura vs Hawk would result in both of them dead by the end.
That's not what the anon was saying.
The anon was answering how a WW vidya works. It's basically just "what if wrestling was real" and all the crazy shit they do wasn't fake/acted up but real.
>Wouldnt you just like to watch actual combat then?
I dunno, compare the fighting industry to the action movie industry, or video game industry. Action is hard to fake, that's why when it's good, it's good. Real action is better overall, but it can't compare to the heights of fake action. That's why everybody wants to be a wizard and nobody wants to be a warrior.
>That's why everybody wants to be a wizard and nobody wants to be a warrior.
I get what you're saying and don't really disagree with your point, but I'm pretty sure warriors/barbarians are more popular in every single game in existence when they are an option.
It's a show you fricking autist. It's entertainment. It's taking wrestling and wrapping it a cloak that makes it actually interesting to watch because real wrestling is fricking boring, just guys caught in a grapple for a few minutes. Pretending for a moment you even play games, do you just refuse to engage with any game or entertainment media with combat because it's not "realistic" enough?
Wrestling is so fricking moronic and anyone I've ever known who was into it was a degenerate
>degenerate
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Wrestling is incredibly gay, but that doesn't mean the wrestlers aren't hard as frick guys who would absolutely beat the piss out of you in five seconds or less. The mistake is thinking that because wrestling is fake and gay that means the wrestlers are pussy b***hes. I assure you that they are not.
>The mistake is thinking that because wrestling is fake and gay that means the wrestlers are pussy b***hes
In modern day, yes. Most are limp-wrists who grew up playing Mario. Wrestlers back then came from hard times or criminal backgrounds, which led them to producing KINO fueled by the adversity they faced in the past.
The fact that they don't beat the piss out of people and each other at the drop of a hat anymore (because they come from decent normal backgrounds these days) doesn't mean that they couldn't if they really wanted to. I'm not trying to make wrestlers sound like badasses because like I said I find it really gay and the wrestlers I know are just massive nerds who like wrestling instead of warhammer or whatever, but the point is that "massive" is the operative word lmao. The guys are huge and they spend hours throwing each other around.
It just annoys me to see the athleticism and dedication (and injuries) of wrestlers discounted because people are too judgmental to get past the pageantry of it all. And there's a big sniff of intellectual elitism too to the disdain for wrestling, because wrestling is "low class" and most wrestlers are not that bright. Wrestling is easy to make fun of, which is exactly why the people who make fun of it are usually themselves dumb as frick.
it was hard enough to avoid beating the shit out of the ref for fun when he was a white dude.
I'd be compelled to do nothing but that with the refs shown in OP's image
It's really just a low quality soap opera using fake fighting as a storytelling aspect. Used to make for fun enough video games until they went "simcade"
As others said, it's unironically just live-action anime. It's watching roided up dudes acting like DBZ characters and then us pretending that that's not what we're watching.
It's a hyper masculine soap opera with partially improvised fight choreography that you can watch in person if you want, sometimes things happen that the writers can't possibly have planned for and they have to pivot to something ridiculous, like The Shockmaster. Or there's always the chance of a genuine serious injury like Vader's eye popping out of the socket or more recently, Cody Rhodes' entire chest turning purple from a huge muscle tear. It used to be that the grievous injury was part of the written content, which usually involved Mick Foley, who pretty much accepted that his role was to add verisimilitude by getting authentically shattered on a semi-regular basis.
You know how Japan has a ton of stage plays based on anime and games and light novels and shit, and there's these choreographed fight scenes in them? Pro wrestling is like that but with (usually) more grounded storytelling.
The actual problem with sports games is they've sacrificed fun for the sake of being more authentic and realistic. NBA Jam really pioneered the idea of taking "just the fun parts" of the game and moding that into something completely different that nobody anticipated.. when the ball caught fire and the net burned away that was a huge huge thing at the time.. NFL Blitz was the same way (both were Acclaim games) and everybody wondered why football wasn't just NFL Blitz and why that wasn't on tv like every night
The reason the NFL doesn't allow Blitz-style games or a ton of other shit that actually happens in the NFL, is because of CTE. They completely removed concussions from Madden because of it too. They don't even allow certain hits to be included or penalties like late hits because it's deemed "too violent". They want a family friendly and safe image while also shoving gambling at you every 5 seconds.
There's also the (much bigger imo) problem that people won't buy a sports title that doesn't have real teams and players, because they want to play as THEIR favorite team with its current roster. And nowadays getting those licenses are too expensive (I don't think there's such a thing as a modern sports game churned out for a quick buck. Because even if it's really poorly coded and missing features previous games had, shit like Madden and FIFA must pay an absolute frickton in licensing just to get made) or impossible due to exclusivity arrangements. An NBA Jam or NFL Blitz can't exist today. Sure, you can make the game but the minute you have to invent fake teams you've lost 90% of your audience.
I don't think most of them bought the new one every year, same with Dynasty warriors right?
still they've been dethroned by gaccha gamers in their money burning antics
I see mmo whales at outliers and don't count them for this equation.
No because at the end of the day, he hasn't actually committed a crime he can be charged with iirc. We do however now get to mock him forever for being a BBCposter who types like the boomer he is.
The only crime he committed was not paying the subhuman prostitute who agreed to get defecated on for money. It's pretty unfair that women can debase themselves so much and somehow not be judged for it.
First off, Walt had a full, defined moustache while Vince barely has something beyond stubble. Secondly, it was part of the Uncle Walt persona that made him beloved by all, while Vince's in-character trait is being a scumbag.
You'd think but you don't just port over the assets from the previous game, slap on some new shit and call it a day. That's not how coding works, you need to implement the new stuff properly working in tandem with the old stuff. And that's assuming the game's lead designer doesn't decide to gut a feature from the previous game because they thought it was implemented badly, and now you have to goddamn recode everything so it's no longer programmed to work in tandem with that thing that's now gone.
AND ALL OF THAT is on top of the fact that the publisher wants you to churn this b***h out at a very set date when the game is very clearly not done. Time and money, 99% of instances it the devs being aware of a flaw in the game and not fixing it was because of time and money. Devs aren't lazy, every game goes through crunch and they have to absolutely work their ass off to get every game out on time. People point to Romero playing Quake more than doing his job and seem to forget he got booted for it. No dev that is lazy gets to keep their job, but time and money (and let's be fair, sometimes incompetence) means they can never do everything they want.
She did. I like her current look, but she went way, way overboard with the tattoos. Went from looking like a cool alt chick like in her later NXT days, to now, where she just looks like a legitimate crack prostitute half the time.
Nah, I don't think she's pinned a male before. She's fought men a couple of times but even in today's day, they realize if they had her pin any man clean who wasn't a jobber, it'd make him look like a joke.
So, never? Guys on the roster just to be jobbers are just there for a cheap paycheck, but even goofy shit like Mick Foley's Mankind gimmick with Mr. Socko was taken seriously.
What really kills me about Truth is that the guy is in his fifties and can still do crazy shit in the ring that most guys half his age can't.
I fricking love his moveset. He has an inverted suplex stunner as his finisher that's called Truth or Consequences that I can't even remember the last time he's done it since he's never booked to win in legitimate matches.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Lie Detector goes hard, if someone like Ricochet started using that as a transitional signature it'd get crazy over
>they realize if they had her pin any man clean who wasn't a jobber, it'd make him look like a joke
Stone Cold pulled out of a match with Marc Mero after he got powerbombed by Sable so yeah
yearly sports games suck, but I am glad that games are being made for people who don't normally buy video games. The thought of a dudebro buying a PS7 for NBA2K30 and then buying God Of War 4 because he might as well and he thinks vikings are cool is a pretty good way to get more people into gaming. I just wish sports games weren't so unbelievably predatory, the testing grounds for ideas considered too divisive and unpopular to be able to be rolled immediately into more in-depth games. Basically providing proofs of concept for shit that will be shoved into the next samey ubisoft open-world experience
It's basically a yearly subscription fee kind of thing for madden or fifa morons at this point. And I'm sure there's probably some kind of season pass on top of that, as well, but they aren't about stop now. It's just something they buy once a year. But it's more loyalty to just liking the NFL or soccer than it is fanboyism like you see with a Nintendrne.
The only difference between sports games and WRPG is instead of killing enemies you're scoring points. That and sports games have 100s of playable characters.
to be fair wwe games had always felt different in each entries. svr06 doesn't play like 07, 2k19 doesn't play like 2k16, and each games have different campaigns to separate them enough from each other.
not defending the annual practice as a whole, but wrestling games is one sports genre where the annual release is justified.
the way they currently do it, by mixing it with real life
good example is how punk came back and immediately got injured and will now miss wrestlemania
lots of people are saying it's work (it's not). by blurring the lines and including things from real life, there's less of a suspension of disbelief. it's incredibly good when it works.
You would think he'd be in decent shape after taking 10 years off. AJ Styles is older than him, hasn't taken time off and wrestles a much higher impact style.
3 months ago
Anonymous
punk has always been shit
3 months ago
Anonymous
AJ is based though
punk is a whiny homosexual who couldn't cut it before and definitely can't cut it now
3 months ago
Anonymous
aj is on some kind of light steroids, probably even just trt to stave off aging and muscle loss. cm punk eats vegetables, won't drink one beer, and is injured every month.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Punk had a b***h fit and left, got destroyed in his pitiful attempt at copying Ken Shamrock and going to UFC, then fricked around for a few years.
3 months ago
wopleda
It's a shame the ONLY good thing about modern Punk is his wife.
By not reminding the viewers that's it's fake every 30 seconds. Take the rules/ref seriously. Don't do dumb shit. Have less gymnastics routines and better fundamental mat work.
My favourite WWF game was No Mercy for N64, the one that needed to be recalled because it erased your saves after a few months
Vince i'm sorry i spazzed out on you when we were shooting roman candles at each other and you shot me and i got upsetti and gave you and indian burn, and we never talked again. Thanks for letting me play No Mercy at your place and shit
What about Japanese wrestling is interesting to you? My biggest suggestion would be to just watch the PPVs and only watch the top of the card. Go to Ganker and check out the thread of whatever promotion you're interested in.
I know a guy who's a big wrestling fanatic, has been for 20+ years. He lives in a modular home in a run-down neighborhood, 43 years old, no wife or kids, Nintendo fanboy, looks like a sweaty homeless person, and he never has money.
sports tribalism compounded by consumerist tribalism drives people to keep throwing their money away, and it's brought to you by the hypergreedy publicly-traded Black personporations who brought you microtransactions, day one dlc, locked on disk (rip physical media) content, and featuring the political-will-dissipating manufactured culture war. Now where's your subscription
this is going to be off-topic and for that I do apologize, but I am rather intoxicated and this idea struck me clear and true: do you think that it is a technological inevitability that we will be able to have some kind of chip in our brains that manually gives us hits of dopamine and serotonin, and that we are doomed to have that technology be controlled by masters who will use it to ensure that your doing of the most menial, tedious, tiresome labor imaginable is simultaneously making you more happy than any human being who ever existed, more serenely happy and truly, angelically at peace while being exploited to the maximum level until your body gives out? Every tedious nut and bolt tightened to mechanical precision in a twelve-hour shift in a factory-mine gives you a jolt of the kind of pure nostalgic warm pleasure you get from remembering a childhood crush kissing you, just this absolutely perverse undermining of what it even means to be a human being? Are we doomed, like as a species?
Actual answer?
Because it's like one of two or three games they buy in a year and they'll play it for literal hundreds to thousands of hours over the course of that year.
You and me both anon, I looked at my steam spending the other day since the linnk was posted in a thread on here and saw I spent over 15 grand in the last 10 years, on steam alone. I've probably put that much into the my consoles as well over that same time.
it fricking sucks in retrospect
I currently have 13,000 hours in Rimworld and I am not a happy person in general, I wish I could be a gym rat NBA2K guy. I wish I could drink protein shakes and do pull-ups and never have to think about politics or money and frick random women and never really have to worry about anything in life
If you think gym rat nba2k guys are 'happy' and 'don't worry about anything', then you're not that smart.
Most people who go to the gym are miserable or depressed.
Take tiny steps to making yourself more mentally healthy. Maybe it means cleaning your room/apartment on a regular schedule, or going on walks/short runs in the morning, but do something. And each day things will get a little bit better. It sucks man, I've been there and was stuck there for years, but you can get through it. The most important thing to remember is no one can actually help you but you, and you have to be willing to do the work to get the help that you need. It's a scary thing to feel, the helplessness of knowing that it's all on you, but it's worth pushing through.
>15 grand in the last 10 years
What the frick dude? I mean what the actual frick? That's equivalent to buying 20 brand new AAA games every year at full price on launch day plus all available DLC. I couldn't even think of that many games I'd want to play if I had the money. Please explain how you can reasonably spend that much and not even realize it.
I've started to notice that this isn't just sports games. It's actually a fairly common phenomena. Lots of people, for some ungodly reason, just replay the same game a million times, over and over, unendingly.
I don't get people like that. If I played my favorite games over and over again, it would just make me hate them.
The actual reason people like wrestling, is because it's not serious. It's low-brow, carnie culture that is written with the same phycology as cartoons from the 80 and 90s ere, like He-man or whatever.
The reason wrestling is actually bad now though, is all these hipsters (jut liek with videogames), don't wat to just shut their brain off and watch a fun show, they want to instead dedicate their lives to talking about it as an art form.
The reason we don't watch boxing o something else, is because wrestling is about good v evil, not about who's a better fighter.
The "wrestling community" though have ruined it, dissecting it and desperately wanting their little hobby to be taken seriously and worse trying to get fricking women to watch it. Conversely, more women were into wrestling when it was a family day out in the 80s to go see a show, and less women now watch it when though half the shows are pandering to them.
The pseuds who "critique" the matches don't even want the wrestlers t look like wrestlers, they want to self insert Mary Sue style, so when a kid turns on the TV they see some chap who wouldn't even be able to do security for a nightclub, beating fricking monsters.
It's perverse. Everyone now must elevate their hobby to the level of high art, butt hey ruin it in the process.
The Japanese don't spend all his time talking about wrestling, they go and watch it in silence after work. That's how it should be.
>So I was browsing through Ganker >WHAT >the vidjia board >WHAT! >The board for video games. When I ran across this news story. So it turns on ol' McMahon is apparently on of those interracial sissies >WHAT >I said he's one of those SHITTED degenerates >WHAT >One of dem race traitors >WHAT >I said he's one of those black wiener spammers. And he just kept trading texts with this woman he wasn't even frickin and honestly Stone Cold started feelin a bit guilty >WHAT >I said I felt bad >WHAT >I said it pulled at my consciousness >WHAT >I said it tickled my pity bone 'cause after all ol' Stone Cold delivered so many ass whoopins to old Vinny ya gotta wonder if I didn't somehow contribute to his cuckold crazy >WHAT >I said I'm scared I made him one of those NTR Black folk >WHAT >A e-thot enjoyer >WHAT >I said I'm scared I beat him so bad he's gonna start producin some of that israelite type of porn so before that happens I figure I can either be nice and try to get him therapy >WHAT >I said get him a shrink >WHAT >I said commit him >WHAT >I figure I'd send him to a psych but then I remembered they'd just prolly put him on hormones so I figure I just go whoop his ass! So ol' stone cold is gonna go get in his truck, he's gonna go down to the court room and he's gonna Stunner Vince 1 2 POW right there and then get him off the internet and that's the bottom line! 'Cause Stone Cold said so!
Why do people sportsball/bumfights at all? Like, are you slop lovers, do you slurp the slop? Do you enjoy the Black personball beat em up hahaha ball cross line I now act like life has meaning.
I don't know dude, I don't understand shabbos goyim.
I played NBA2k until 2k14
I grew up playing basketball and still to this day as a middle 30s frickwit hoop once or twice a month with the same group of dudes I've been hooping with for the last 15 years.
It's just one of those things I've been into my entire life, can't really explain why.
It’s the only game these braindead apes are playing and so they feel justified into basically paying a $70/year subscription fee
It feels wasteful to the rest of us because we play a frickton of games
why aren't there savory pop-tarts? Like cheese and crackers vibes, but I could toss it in the toaster. Some little fakey bacon bits. I am too stoned right now.
Same reason people care so much about pro sports - they're unthinking consoomer sheep
I swear the sports games have to be on of the biggest rakets ever.
>Pay full price for game
>Pay for monthly online sub
>Pay for sports game online pass
>Pay for sports game online booster pass
Congratulations you can now play on equal footing as other online players and it only cost you like 230 bucks not including the subscription fee for whatever console youre on
>btw pc gaming is too expensive
I just made the example on console because we know the average Joe who plays sports games doesn't do it on pc
PC gaming is too cognitively expensive.
Don't forget the lootboxes. With actual players locked behind lootboxes.
That's what I mean. And people wonder what causes devs to try and do dumb shit to get as much money out of games, it's because sports games have been doing like every kind of awful thing for years and other devs what that kind of money
>tranime
Don't forget to for your dailies!
When you think about people rolling gacha with anime bawds being bad, just remember for a second, that there are normalgays who instead roll gacha with Black folk playing Black personball, and the worst part is that there are much more of them, than people rolling anime bawd gacha.
Throwing money at acute sexual stimuli is in the end understandable weakness. But throwing money at groids...
Seriously finding out that sportsball games have full-scale gacha mechanics were quite a revelation to me.
>now don't mind me while I sink $100 into this free gotcha game to get some anime jpegs. It's fine, because the game is free!
Why do you make hourly threads?
soul vs soulless
>they discarded the original tasteful nipple design
I HATE SOULLESS NU DEVS SO MUCH
Because they play nothing else.
why do people buy every new CoD that comes out?
This is sort of kind of get, there are new campaigns, new maps, the devs switch around and they keep doing the israeli trick where you keep "balancing" guns so your game is a perpetual state of FOTM loadouts and NEW BROKEN BUILD?!!?!?!? YouTube shit so people can actually feel like there's something happening all the time, sports games just update rosters and that's it I guess?
Why do people buy?
For the yearly hair updates.
We're getting there, 4 or 5 more years and we'll finally have realistic looking hair.
let me guess, you need more?
thats not wcw vs nwo for n64
>Chyna did a bunch of porn and then killed herself
I get sad all over again every time I'm reminded
I wish she did said porn when she was still a swole Amazonian mommy. And when she wasn't coked-out on drugs.
This. Anyone pretending she was unattractive and that they wouldn't plap Chyna if they could is either lying, or a homosexual.
She is too tall and muscular to be attractive, not to mention that she needed surgery to get her manjaw removed
You fricks would SOIL your little tighty-whities with ejaculate if a woman like that offered you sex.
Hyena clit to so I hear
That's hot
>Be me, back in the late 90's
>Mom watches Attitude Era wrestling with me
>She bought the Chyna Playboy edition out of pure curiosity
>Had a snow day the day after she bought it
>She left the magazine on her nightstand
>The instant she left for work I grabbed it and turned to the Chyna spread
>It was so awful that I couldn't even fap to it
>I placed it EXACTLY in the same position that I found it on her nightstand
>Mom comes home and walks into her room
>Immediately calls me out for looking at the Playboy
>She just makes fun of me and asks me what I thought about Chyna's weird ass
Those were the days.
Can you hit me up with your mom? Just a number is fine.
wouldn't mind smack down vs raw for ps2
>bring up the Smackdown vs Raw series
Y'all are literally the beginning of the end. I still remember returning my game when they disabled female wrestlers in the main campaign of SvR2006.
they got rid of that a while before then
Yeah
>not posting 2007
Im guessing yall just didnt play the best wwe game of all time
fuuuuuck. 2007 really was peak. Some of the later games had better stories, but it got so many things right.
>he posted the PS2 version instead of the superior Xbox360 version
Weak
I need less. Wrestling games peaked here.
Yep, wrestling games have sucked shit for 20+ years
i'm all set
CUZ I'VE TRIED TO WORK THINGS OUT
BUT A LITTLE MISTAKE HAS SLOWED MEEEEEEE
DOWN
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Smackdown sucked. Attitude was the better game.
>b-but
Attitude had better customer characters, everything was voiced, they didn't get halfway through recording voices and decide to just cut the concept entirely, and they didn't put the Rock over .
here comes the pain was the peak.
To support my tribal chief
I refuse to believe wrestling is popular at all anymore
I lived through when Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant were everywhere and when Stone Cold Steve Austin and the Rock were everywhere and when John Cena and Batista were everywhere and there's absolutely no equivalent today
the mog is real
>60 year old men on vee
lmao this really is facebook
WrestleMania is 2 nights nowadays, both pull in about ~100k audience. Netflix just paid 5 billion for 10 years of WWE broadcasting.
>Netflix just paid 5 billion for 10 years of WWE broadcasting.
Maybe I'll actually watch modern WWE now
or just rewatch the old ones if they put everything on it.
They should once the Peawiener deal expires.
Wrestlemania as a brand is big (bigger than the World Series now), but this era of pro wrestling in general is the least watched in history ratings-wise. And live attendance seems to go through wild fluctuations of hot/cold compared to previous eras.
Yeah because who the frick watches 3 hour episodes of RAW live? I know back then you boomers couldn't watch something later if you missed it but it's different now, gramps.
The shows also used to not be this long, RAW was only 2 hours until 2012, Smackdown afaik still is (I haven't watched in years).
WWE is the tv version of the Pokemon franchise in that since it's mostly driven by merch sales that powers the juggernaut, it doesn't actually matter how the main thing is doing.
It's actually driven by TV deals - merch and live ticket sales is nothing for the WWE now compared to the billions they get for RAW, Smackdown, and the WWE Network. They don't even have the PPV model now because NBC gives them billions to put it all on their failing streaming service.
WWE gets more money from TV deals that they ever have, even though the product is watched by less and less people each year. It's a strange time to be alive.
honestly I'm just sort of glad that wrestling is still going strong
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WrestleMania_39#Auschwitz_imagery_controversy
lol
It's been shit for a long time where they were even losing long-time fans. It's got better though and it's picking up viewers again. It won't ever be as popular as the Hulk Hogan/Stone Cold era days though.
>Boomers on Ganker
My late 30s cousin is still into it big time. I assume it just looks boring now because you don't follow it. NASCAR is the same way for me. I grew up watching NASCAR since I'm from a redneck family but now I can hardly recognize a single driver so it makes it seem soulless to me. But again my cousin is still into it.
WWE is more profitable than it's ever been in it's history, troony
it's doing pretty decent, like year after year profits.
Star power is in a fricky state right now since they're still pushing a nepo baby and feeding him everyone popular, and the other championship is worn by a guys who's gimmick is being really fricking homosexual.
love Codester
love goth kid community theater
love jap girls with exposed thighs and clown make up
simple as
Wrestling genuinely makes more money than ever right now, and in terms of being in a hot period it's the closest it's been since the end of the Attitude Era (though not THAT big). 00s/early 10s wrestling popularity was HARD carried by Cena, now there's an American alternative and more people into international wrestling than ever what with NJPW gaining western fans year over year and the obvious appeal of lucha libre when the US gets increasingly more hispanic. A non-WWE promotion did over 80k people in Wembley Stadium last year. Stone Cold wrestled his first (probably only) match since 2003 a couple years ago, and Sting is retiring in a month.
I dunno if that's wrestling's fault more than there's just too much entertainment nowadays and everything is so isolated and segments into hardcore fanbases. When there are cameo appearances in media nowadays it's always some homosexual from the internet you never heard of and are supposed to be amazed that they're there whereas back in the old day Hulk would make an appearance and even people who weren't fans of wrestling were still excited to see him.
They're such fricking carnies that they are making more money than ever while getting the worst TV ratings they've ever gotten
Who exactly rates tv shows? because people who rate films and vidya are by and large moronic and I assume the television guys are no different.
These are commercial ratings anon, viewership numbers. I don't know why the frick anyone would bother critically rating wrestling unless they were a complete nerd
okay, don't know why that isn't called viewership or something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_Media_Research#:~:text=Nielsen%20TV%20ratings%20(commonly%20referred,States%20using%20a%20rating%20system.
How a show is doing in terms of viewership in the US is called its ratings because of Nielsen's monitoring of views.
I know man. I look at modern wrestlers and think "whats their gimmick? What's their special move? I can't tell if they're bad guys, good guys, or neutral".
Old wrestlers were like different super heroes and villains. Now everyone looks generic as frick get people tell me wrestling is bigger now than it's ever been.
I do agree they turn way too often now, and there's way too few 'true' heels, everyone is sort of over.
They do occasionally get something really good going, like the original shield, their breakup, and everything following... And then inevitably ruin it or run into the ground.
Seth Rollins is a great example. One of the coolest new wrestlers around, and then they turned his gimmick into flamboyant gay zoomer with a million catchphrases.
Too many cooks in the kitchen.
I don't know where the money's coming from. TV is still big, but Vince can't keep the shows on USA or NBC. The crowds for the televised shows and PPVs are empty. Crowd sounds are piped in pre-recorded reactions to cover up the empty chairs and chants that aren't PG.
A few years back it was still fun to watch the taima streams and shitpost with 8/wooo/ (frick 420/wooo/) about how shit it was and how Vince kept pushing Roman Noodles over and over when everyone wanted actually interesting guys like Braun Strowman, Neville, Bray Wyatt's gang to win instead. Every interesting storyline went nowhere, it was all PG and female matches.
The rare actually cool gimmicks get stomped out because Vince wants some homosexual to be put over instead. Undertaker keeps getting dragged out of retirement to desperately plead for views and ratings. Gimmick matches like hardcore barely exist anymore because violence and blood don't fit the PG rating. Gimmick matches like tables or cage matches hardly use the gimmick at all.
They're afraid to do anything interesting because a badly prepped stunt killed Owen Hart and Chris Benoit and his family were drugged and murdered and the cover story was that Chris had done it himself
As a kid I never realized how big Andre the Giant was until I saw Hulk dwarf Stallone in Rocky 3
tbf Stallone also isn't that tall of a dude, but anyone will look small compared to Hulkster who's 6'7'' (or was before his age made him shrink a little)
The last really memorable event was Wrestlemania 30, and that was 10 years ago.
i think it's gotten more niche but the fans that are in to it are really in to it
Its gotten more niche and shit like AEW doin moronic pussy shit, WWE with its moronic shit, and Phil doing...that in UFC hurt its view.
It, like 99% of media and things in general these days, is overly sanitized, corporate and predictable. It's all merch, catchphrases and the entire thing is designed to produce as many tweetable hashtags as possible, like Roman Reigns' current record.
They don't care about Roman being entertaining or having good matches (or matches that don't all end with moronic Solo shit 50x in a row) they just care to keep him champion for that long so they can go on and on about how it's record breaking and blah blah blah. Nothing feels genuine anymore.
It's a shame because not too long ago, wrestling was genuinely great, when Trips and Vince were running things half half, there was a lot of weird vince shit and old guys/legends, mixed with Triple H's newer talent and it worked great. There was a period with lots of storylines that were 'really popular indie wrestler comes in and fights really popular wwe guy' and they let the matches be pretty crazy/not entirely the safe WWE style, too.
But now it's all just, egh. Forgettable. Every character is a face, people barely ever get to actually wrestle, it's all a bunch of factions and there's way too many wrestlers in general. The biggest heel in the company is Dominik and people basically just pretend to dislike him for... Some reason, he hasn't done any heel stuff in years now. I cannot remember the last person to have actual heat.
Logan Paul is the biggest star in wrestling.
>Put Logan in the ring with some of the best wrestlers the company has (and Seth)
>Give him months of rehearsal time that nobody else on the roster gets (the other part time guys still mostly know how to put a match together)
>Still has just okay matches
>Gets heel heat solely because he's a dickhead in real life
Logan has overperformed for the level of experience he has. No doubt if they made him work a match called on the fly it'd be sloppy, but I think his athleticism and charisma would still make for a half decent match. I think if he commits to the company they should give him a world title run at some stage.
And yeah, best heels are bad people irl. I mean look at Shawn, Vince, Punk.
>And yeah, best heels are bad people irl. I mean look at Shawn, Vince, Punk.
Difference being they got great heat when them being shitheads wasn't common knowledge, and could get huge pops as faces even after it was. Logan didn't work as a face at first because he's not likable, and if he didn't have built-in heat he couldn't generate much on his own. He's athletic but having him in marquis singles matches and holding belts, meh. I guess a midcard title run where he narrowly retains like what he's got going now is the best thing he can do.
I hope they do a match where Sheamus or Gunther beats the piss out of him.
>He's athletic but having him in marquis singles matches and holding belts, meh. I guess a midcard title run where he narrowly retains like what he's got going now is the best thing he can do.
Usually a midcard title run is to groom someone for a top spot. I can see Logan getting bored of wrestling when he finds a new grift, but for now he's the kind of guy WWE brass coom over.
He's tall, good looking, good body, can work, can talk, major celebrity with a pre existing fanbase who actually like wrestling (kids and tweens). It's like after years of forcing bland shitters like Roman, Cena and Orton down everyone's throats they fell ass backwards into finding the perfect star.
He's very very good. The Kevin Owen match was like a throw back in some ways, he put so much energy into it and his raw experience level meant some of the blows and what not were stiffer and more impactful than normal. Made it a real body on the line sort of match. Whatever one might think of the guy, considering how rich and successful he already is, how much he commits to his WWE stuff is actually impressive, he could have easily phoned it in, he's upstaged many of the veterans.
The people who buy these games are stupid enough to think that newer = better regardless of whether or not it's true.
status symbol
Correct answer.
It's the only thing they buy and do. They're simple.
>one year of dev time and all they have to show for it is hair at the front and an expanded nipple
That's all they need to do. Their pay pig customers gobble it up anyway, so why bother with any more than this? They can be happy they got this much.
to be in with popular trends and have more of an excuse to play
>float hair
>looks like improperly modded skyrim hair
why do this
I don't even understand. Isn't American wrestling only for entertainment rather than a true sportive competition?
What do you even do in this game? Some fake combat?
This is such an autistic post that I want to beat the shit out of you
I mean, I'd rather buy a real fighting game than a video game about fake fights.
Oh, my bad, I really thought it was some Wrestling thing rather than MMA.
>I mean, I'd rather buy a real fighting game than a video game about fake fights.
anon you do realize all of them are fake right? mortal kombat isn't real my man. you are not really ripping a guy's spine from his body and setting him on fire.
this is UFC
not wrestling
UFC is mixed martial arts and potentially deadly in terms of the combat itself
scratch this
my bad
it's wrestling
I only glanced at the image lol
lmao
>level starts
>objective: fake losing
wrestling is real in the game. just like star wars isn't real IRL but you can still play a game where you kill people with lightsabers.
Yeah, I'm obviously not a fan so my opinion is irrelevant, but I'd rather play a real fighting game with flashy moves and connecting combos than playing something akin to "Win by faking injuries the fastest" (just like in Football).
>I'd rather play a real fighting game with flashy moves and connecting combos than playing something akin to "Win by faking injuries the fastest"
Oh, you were baiting.
I already told you wrestling is real in the context of the game. It's a real combatative fight as opposed to a fake performative fight.
I don't even understand. Isn't Batman only for entertainment rather than a true vigilante person?
What do you even do in these games? Some fake combat?
You remember when you were a kid, you and your friends discovered wrestling and for a brief moment thought it was all real? That the fights aren't fixed, the wrestlers hate each other and The Undertaker is actually a zombie demon who can turn the arena's lights on with his mind?
WWE games are like that. It's all real in the game.
>The Undertaker is actually a zombie demon who can turn the arena's lights on with his mind
that one is true though
I think I pretty much always knew it was fake to some extent. I knew some of it was make-believe and performative, all of the supernatural high jinks for instance. But I still believed they were legitimately competing sometimes and that some of the arguments they were having were real. I guess I believed it was mostly real but that some of it was faked for entertainment purposes.
>You remember when you were a kid, you and your friends discovered wrestling and for a brief moment thought it was all real?
No. I'm so glad I wasn't a moron kid. Another one is how you dumb frickers couldn't leave your house in Pokemon R/B/Y because you didn't recognize a carpet at the entrance. Shit makes me giggle every time. Dumb kids.
When you're really young, you love wrestling because you think it's all real. When you get older, you hate wrestling because you realize it's fake. When you get wiser, you come back to loving wrestling BECAUSE it is fake. Where someone exists on that spectrum tells you a whole lot about who they are.
whether it's bait or not, you gotta be the biggest homosexual on Ganker right now.
>What do you even do in this game?
I liked making my own fighters and have them act out stupid ass storylines.
we know, TFR OP.
This is like the guy who argues Santa isn’t real because of the logistics of him visiting every house in the world in the span of a few hours.
do you also think a game like time splitters is real and people actually go back in time
It's a soap opera with fighting involved instead of middle aged women arguing.
Also some legitimate gymnastics/athletics shit.
That's literally all it is.
I'll be that guy and answer like you aren't a moron. Wrestling is "fake" in that who won was never determined by who is the more skilled wrestler but rather by how the story arc is being written. But it is not fake in the sense that the wrestlers aren't actually hurting each other, even if it's mostly unintentional. It doesn't matter how padded the ring's mat is, how much they use manipulative camera angles, etc to make it look like they were dealing more damage than they actually did, at the end of the day Hulk still lifted Andre up and slammed him onto the mat. Like Diamond Dallas Page said, YOU CAN'T FAKE GRAVITY. It's not like we're just in the dark as to why wrestlers have a life expectancy that's almost 20 years lower than the average person, why so many get CTE and spine issues, etc. Because getting slammed into the mat and botched manuevers are hell on the body.
You cant explain wrestling like this. Its still fake and gay. That would be like saying "The fight scenes in Jon Wick are not fake, even if unintentional, the actors do get hurt." How does that give wrestling any merit at all? Wouldnt you just like to watch actual combat then? Wrestling is entertaining because youre able to script conflicts in a way thats engaging for the viewer. You cant always choose the winner in the UFC or Boxing, but you can script every part of it, including the buildup in wrestling.
If that sounds gay, then its gay. If you like that, you like it. But who cares if the bozos get hurt or not doing it lol.
It's a TV show about wrestling but the actors are some of the most highly skilled athletes in the world who all do their own stunts. It's spectacular, silly and amazing to watch in person. Premium muscle theatre when it's at its highest highs is hard to not enjoy.
Because actual fighting doesn't look like this. Or have storylines. Or music, or pyro. Or crazy twists. Or blends real life with narrative.
Actual fighting is 99% two guys whiffing strikes at each other for 15 minutes, or hugging each other on the floor until one taps out for 15 minutes.
>Actual fighting is 99% two guys whiffing strikes at each other for 15 minutes, or hugging each other on the floor until one taps out for 15 minutes.
This. I enjoy boxing matches but real boxing is not Ippo, real boxers can't take 1/10 the amount of punishment the average boxer in Ippo inflicts on their opponent in a big match. Takamura vs Hawk would result in both of them dead by the end.
That's not what the anon was saying.
The anon was answering how a WW vidya works. It's basically just "what if wrestling was real" and all the crazy shit they do wasn't fake/acted up but real.
>Wouldnt you just like to watch actual combat then?
I dunno, compare the fighting industry to the action movie industry, or video game industry. Action is hard to fake, that's why when it's good, it's good. Real action is better overall, but it can't compare to the heights of fake action. That's why everybody wants to be a wizard and nobody wants to be a warrior.
>That's why everybody wants to be a wizard and nobody wants to be a warrior.
I get what you're saying and don't really disagree with your point, but I'm pretty sure warriors/barbarians are more popular in every single game in existence when they are an option.
It's a show you fricking autist. It's entertainment. It's taking wrestling and wrapping it a cloak that makes it actually interesting to watch because real wrestling is fricking boring, just guys caught in a grapple for a few minutes. Pretending for a moment you even play games, do you just refuse to engage with any game or entertainment media with combat because it's not "realistic" enough?
>degenerate
You must be 18 or older to use this site.
Wrestling is incredibly gay, but that doesn't mean the wrestlers aren't hard as frick guys who would absolutely beat the piss out of you in five seconds or less. The mistake is thinking that because wrestling is fake and gay that means the wrestlers are pussy b***hes. I assure you that they are not.
t. have friends who wrestle
>The mistake is thinking that because wrestling is fake and gay that means the wrestlers are pussy b***hes
In modern day, yes. Most are limp-wrists who grew up playing Mario. Wrestlers back then came from hard times or criminal backgrounds, which led them to producing KINO fueled by the adversity they faced in the past.
The fact that they don't beat the piss out of people and each other at the drop of a hat anymore (because they come from decent normal backgrounds these days) doesn't mean that they couldn't if they really wanted to. I'm not trying to make wrestlers sound like badasses because like I said I find it really gay and the wrestlers I know are just massive nerds who like wrestling instead of warhammer or whatever, but the point is that "massive" is the operative word lmao. The guys are huge and they spend hours throwing each other around.
It just annoys me to see the athleticism and dedication (and injuries) of wrestlers discounted because people are too judgmental to get past the pageantry of it all. And there's a big sniff of intellectual elitism too to the disdain for wrestling, because wrestling is "low class" and most wrestlers are not that bright. Wrestling is easy to make fun of, which is exactly why the people who make fun of it are usually themselves dumb as frick.
>video game
>fake combat
For bigger nipples, obviously.
no Tobago homosexual, no Green shirt moronic = NO BUY, MARK
it was hard enough to avoid beating the shit out of the ref for fun when he was a white dude.
I'd be compelled to do nothing but that with the refs shown in OP's image
because they're raging FOMOtards
cause publishjers still dont understand that you'd make more money from a GAAS model like fortnite than yearly releases.
I don't want to understand it
>wrestling
>sport
never understood the appeal of wrestling and wrestling fans are for some reason huge homosexuals with autistic levels of commitment to it.
t. euro
It's anime.
Once you understand that, everything falls into place.
>never understood the appeal of watching people beat each other up
you have got to be unironically moronic
>never understood the appeal of something I don't like but for some reason some other people like it wtf?
It's really just a low quality soap opera using fake fighting as a storytelling aspect. Used to make for fun enough video games until they went "simcade"
Anime for rednecks
As others said, it's unironically just live-action anime. It's watching roided up dudes acting like DBZ characters and then us pretending that that's not what we're watching.
It's fun
>the neck breaker into the mat
BAH GAWD SHE'S BROKEN IN HALF
when he had her in that 69 position I was like "oh wait hold on" because I just realized that man was doing that with a little girl
BAH GAWD ALMIGHTY HE KILLED HER
It's a hyper masculine soap opera with partially improvised fight choreography that you can watch in person if you want, sometimes things happen that the writers can't possibly have planned for and they have to pivot to something ridiculous, like The Shockmaster. Or there's always the chance of a genuine serious injury like Vader's eye popping out of the socket or more recently, Cody Rhodes' entire chest turning purple from a huge muscle tear. It used to be that the grievous injury was part of the written content, which usually involved Mick Foley, who pretty much accepted that his role was to add verisimilitude by getting authentically shattered on a semi-regular basis.
You know how Japan has a ton of stage plays based on anime and games and light novels and shit, and there's these choreographed fight scenes in them? Pro wrestling is like that but with (usually) more grounded storytelling.
You guys are sleeping on the original, LoZ Link, who didn't have and didn't even need the Master Sword to beat Ganon
Pro-wrestling died when they stopped using Cena.
pro wrestling died when they started using cena you mean
they're fun and work perfectly with a lot of popular vidya mechanics. For example rpgs and sports are like a perfect combo
Yeah but do you buy the same game every year in any other genre?
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https://vocaroo.com/13nVHiXOFBkE
What?
Its one of Vince's texts
What?
It made him resign
What?
It made Haitch look stupid again
What?
It implicated Brock
What?
Probably others involved as well
What?
Probably made Rock skip Mania
What?
Made Brock miss the Rumble for good reason.
What?
Gave us that terrible McAfee spot
What?
Had a bunch of literal who's with literal who musics
nice and hard!
What?
The actual problem with sports games is they've sacrificed fun for the sake of being more authentic and realistic. NBA Jam really pioneered the idea of taking "just the fun parts" of the game and moding that into something completely different that nobody anticipated.. when the ball caught fire and the net burned away that was a huge huge thing at the time.. NFL Blitz was the same way (both were Acclaim games) and everybody wondered why football wasn't just NFL Blitz and why that wasn't on tv like every night
The reason the NFL doesn't allow Blitz-style games or a ton of other shit that actually happens in the NFL, is because of CTE. They completely removed concussions from Madden because of it too. They don't even allow certain hits to be included or penalties like late hits because it's deemed "too violent". They want a family friendly and safe image while also shoving gambling at you every 5 seconds.
There's also the (much bigger imo) problem that people won't buy a sports title that doesn't have real teams and players, because they want to play as THEIR favorite team with its current roster. And nowadays getting those licenses are too expensive (I don't think there's such a thing as a modern sports game churned out for a quick buck. Because even if it's really poorly coded and missing features previous games had, shit like Madden and FIFA must pay an absolute frickton in licensing just to get made) or impossible due to exclusivity arrangements. An NBA Jam or NFL Blitz can't exist today. Sure, you can make the game but the minute you have to invent fake teams you've lost 90% of your audience.
you can see the nipple upgrade clearly
I don't think most of them bought the new one every year, same with Dynasty warriors right?
still they've been dethroned by gaccha gamers in their money burning antics
I see mmo whales at outliers and don't count them for this equation.
Professional wrestler Kevin R. Nash was anally obliterated during the sweltering summer of 1992.
Same reason you buy yearly tranime
Different nipple
Is it true what they say about Kevin R. Nash?
Afraid so, he confirmed it
haven't watched wwe since vince bent the knee to saudi arabia. are they STILL trying to push roman?
The nipple improvements are essential
So what's the latest on Vince? Is he in rich boy jail yet?
No because at the end of the day, he hasn't actually committed a crime he can be charged with iirc. We do however now get to mock him forever for being a BBCposter who types like the boomer he is.
The only crime he committed was not paying the subhuman prostitute who agreed to get defecated on for money. It's pretty unfair that women can debase themselves so much and somehow not be judged for it.
No, he's already fired though
>Victims
Man he never should've grown the stache, he just looks objectively worse with it.
he's cosplaying as walt disney
First off, Walt had a full, defined moustache while Vince barely has something beyond stubble. Secondly, it was part of the Uncle Walt persona that made him beloved by all, while Vince's in-character trait is being a scumbag.
I miss the VGCW. I miss people seething over L I DAN
I think everyone does
Unironically better writing than WWE had for a decade at that point
Theoretically yearly games should have amazing buildup of features and polish over time
You'd think but you don't just port over the assets from the previous game, slap on some new shit and call it a day. That's not how coding works, you need to implement the new stuff properly working in tandem with the old stuff. And that's assuming the game's lead designer doesn't decide to gut a feature from the previous game because they thought it was implemented badly, and now you have to goddamn recode everything so it's no longer programmed to work in tandem with that thing that's now gone.
AND ALL OF THAT is on top of the fact that the publisher wants you to churn this b***h out at a very set date when the game is very clearly not done. Time and money, 99% of instances it the devs being aware of a flaw in the game and not fixing it was because of time and money. Devs aren't lazy, every game goes through crunch and they have to absolutely work their ass off to get every game out on time. People point to Romero playing Quake more than doing his job and seem to forget he got booted for it. No dev that is lazy gets to keep their job, but time and money (and let's be fair, sometimes incompetence) means they can never do everything they want.
They’re fools
ADRENALINE
IN MY SOUL
something something WWWHHHOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAA
i hate that every entrance and song these days has to have some stupid crowd shit or chant
modern wwe is so overproduced
idgi, more flash?
I want to make a joke about a graphics setting being on or off but I'm not sure which one it'd be
Not to defend current day wwe, but people are taking pictures on their phones now, not cameras
His nipple textures are higher resolution its clearly worth it
Nipple is better on the right
Belt is better on the left
The only reason I still occasionally tune in is to watch this dyke mating press b***hes.
She looked better in the past
She did. I like her current look, but she went way, way overboard with the tattoos. Went from looking like a cool alt chick like in her later NXT days, to now, where she just looks like a legitimate crack prostitute half the time.
wow, she might be the most attractive woman who still kind of looks trans, she looks weird but also extremely hot
Way up her pussey and Way up her ass as far as they will go but even farther.
Her smile and optimism: gone
all she needs is long hair
>that thing she does where she dangles the belt between her legs and waves it around
they know...
literal Samus Aran physique
she's got the Fusion shoulders and everything
i've been on the hunt for a passable muscle troony for years.
Are there any where she's mating pressing one of the men?
Preferably one of the larger more masculine men?
And he has a look of terror on his face?
Asking for a friend.
My friend likes Fu on M and wishes she had a penis.
Nah, I don't think she's pinned a male before. She's fought men a couple of times but even in today's day, they realize if they had her pin any man clean who wasn't a jobber, it'd make him look like a joke.
I miss when not every wrestler had to be taken seriously.
Santino was dimes, and he made that cuck homosexual Corny shit his pants.
So, never? Guys on the roster just to be jobbers are just there for a cheap paycheck, but even goofy shit like Mick Foley's Mankind gimmick with Mr. Socko was taken seriously.
R-Truth has been a dedicated comedy guy for like 12+ years now.
R-Truth's current run is gold. Probably the only part of recent shows I find consistently entertaining.
I wonder why Vince likes him so much
Vince hasn't been in charge or had anything to do with booking in years.
What really kills me about Truth is that the guy is in his fifties and can still do crazy shit in the ring that most guys half his age can't.
I fricking love his moveset. He has an inverted suplex stunner as his finisher that's called Truth or Consequences that I can't even remember the last time he's done it since he's never booked to win in legitimate matches.
Lie Detector goes hard, if someone like Ricochet started using that as a transitional signature it'd get crazy over
>they realize if they had her pin any man clean who wasn't a jobber, it'd make him look like a joke
Stone Cold pulled out of a match with Marc Mero after he got powerbombed by Sable so yeah
she has a really nice bum.
What was the last WWE2k game worth playing?
yearly sports games suck, but I am glad that games are being made for people who don't normally buy video games. The thought of a dudebro buying a PS7 for NBA2K30 and then buying God Of War 4 because he might as well and he thinks vikings are cool is a pretty good way to get more people into gaming. I just wish sports games weren't so unbelievably predatory, the testing grounds for ideas considered too divisive and unpopular to be able to be rolled immediately into more in-depth games. Basically providing proofs of concept for shit that will be shoved into the next samey ubisoft open-world experience
Wrestling is so fricking moronic and anyone I've ever known who was into it was a degenerate
This.
They need to cut the ads and make it one hour again. 3 hours per show, two shows a week is crazy.
Too many ads these days, it's unwatchable. Literally ads every five minutes.
>Makes wrestling great again
I love the Codester.
>the only thing that could defeat Vince's BBC fetish is someone that genuinely loves black women
It's a work, this is too predictably scripted
>Roboute Guilliman surrounded by twerking black Sisters of Battle
Truly a new age is upon the Imperium of Man.
It's basically a yearly subscription fee kind of thing for madden or fifa morons at this point. And I'm sure there's probably some kind of season pass on top of that, as well, but they aren't about stop now. It's just something they buy once a year. But it's more loyalty to just liking the NFL or soccer than it is fanboyism like you see with a Nintendrne.
Wrestling is fun when you don't get too invested into it, the moment you do everything becomes very predictable.
>captcha W0AA
Hey lapsed oldgays
CM Punk came back
CM Punk is newbie shit
The only difference between sports games and WRPG is instead of killing enemies you're scoring points. That and sports games have 100s of playable characters.
to be fair wwe games had always felt different in each entries. svr06 doesn't play like 07, 2k19 doesn't play like 2k16, and each games have different campaigns to separate them enough from each other.
not defending the annual practice as a whole, but wrestling games is one sports genre where the annual release is justified.
Wresting Empire is still the best wrestling game of all time. No other title has come close to capturing the madness of the industry.
SPECIAL...
tfr and my nostalgia for the N64 games like Wrestlemania 2000 and No Mercy makes me want to pick up one of the the new games
the funniest thing is that they call the 2k games simulations
Hot take: Wrestling would still be fun to watch if kayfabe was still a thing.
So you guys hyped for Ultra Pro Wrestling?
True but how could you keep kayfabe in this day and age?
You couldnt hence why it blows dick now.
Fair enough.
Although I do wonder if you could maybe have something approaching kayfabe again by using social media.
the way they currently do it, by mixing it with real life
good example is how punk came back and immediately got injured and will now miss wrestlemania
lots of people are saying it's work (it's not). by blurring the lines and including things from real life, there's less of a suspension of disbelief. it's incredibly good when it works.
>Punk came back
>already injured
It hasn't been a fricking month!
it's almost as if he's old as frick and was never particularly good
You would think he'd be in decent shape after taking 10 years off. AJ Styles is older than him, hasn't taken time off and wrestles a much higher impact style.
punk has always been shit
AJ is based though
punk is a whiny homosexual who couldn't cut it before and definitely can't cut it now
aj is on some kind of light steroids, probably even just trt to stave off aging and muscle loss. cm punk eats vegetables, won't drink one beer, and is injured every month.
Punk had a b***h fit and left, got destroyed in his pitiful attempt at copying Ken Shamrock and going to UFC, then fricked around for a few years.
It's a shame the ONLY good thing about modern Punk is his wife.
By not reminding the viewers that's it's fake every 30 seconds. Take the rules/ref seriously. Don't do dumb shit. Have less gymnastics routines and better fundamental mat work.
Because bigger nipples
We played PES7 long into ps3's lifetime.
My favourite WWF game was No Mercy for N64, the one that needed to be recalled because it erased your saves after a few months
No Mercy is legit one of if not THE best wrestling game ever made so that's a pretty safe thing to say.
Vince i'm sorry i spazzed out on you when we were shooting roman candles at each other and you shot me and i got upsetti and gave you and indian burn, and we never talked again. Thanks for letting me play No Mercy at your place and shit
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>The biggest difference is they added more black people to the background
lmao
>bigger nipples on the right
I don't know but I'm glad average neighbor is getting a new better model to rip for his videos
gacha for normalgays and brazilians
How do I get into Japan Wrestling? I hear the format is different and I need to subscribe to watch their stuff or can I just pirate it?
What about Japanese wrestling is interesting to you? My biggest suggestion would be to just watch the PPVs and only watch the top of the card. Go to Ganker and check out the thread of whatever promotion you're interested in.
Right has more detailed nipples, beard, and specular map.
For the foolish hopes that universe mode won't be trash this year.
I'm looking forward to pirating it.
I know a guy who's a big wrestling fanatic, has been for 20+ years. He lives in a modular home in a run-down neighborhood, 43 years old, no wife or kids, Nintendo fanboy, looks like a sweaty homeless person, and he never has money.
playing Mario or counting quarters
sports tribalism compounded by consumerist tribalism drives people to keep throwing their money away, and it's brought to you by the hypergreedy publicly-traded Black personporations who brought you microtransactions, day one dlc, locked on disk (rip physical media) content, and featuring the political-will-dissipating manufactured culture war. Now where's your subscription
If you talk about football game, yes we're.
this is going to be off-topic and for that I do apologize, but I am rather intoxicated and this idea struck me clear and true: do you think that it is a technological inevitability that we will be able to have some kind of chip in our brains that manually gives us hits of dopamine and serotonin, and that we are doomed to have that technology be controlled by masters who will use it to ensure that your doing of the most menial, tedious, tiresome labor imaginable is simultaneously making you more happy than any human being who ever existed, more serenely happy and truly, angelically at peace while being exploited to the maximum level until your body gives out? Every tedious nut and bolt tightened to mechanical precision in a twelve-hour shift in a factory-mine gives you a jolt of the kind of pure nostalgic warm pleasure you get from remembering a childhood crush kissing you, just this absolutely perverse undermining of what it even means to be a human being? Are we doomed, like as a species?
yes
nah wouldn't happen you're crazy man
Actual answer?
Because it's like one of two or three games they buy in a year and they'll play it for literal hundreds to thousands of hours over the course of that year.
god I wish that were me, I wish I could be like that, I wish my brain worked differently
You and me both anon, I looked at my steam spending the other day since the linnk was posted in a thread on here and saw I spent over 15 grand in the last 10 years, on steam alone. I've probably put that much into the my consoles as well over that same time.
it fricking sucks in retrospect
I currently have 13,000 hours in Rimworld and I am not a happy person in general, I wish I could be a gym rat NBA2K guy. I wish I could drink protein shakes and do pull-ups and never have to think about politics or money and frick random women and never really have to worry about anything in life
If you think gym rat nba2k guys are 'happy' and 'don't worry about anything', then you're not that smart.
Most people who go to the gym are miserable or depressed.
Take tiny steps to making yourself more mentally healthy. Maybe it means cleaning your room/apartment on a regular schedule, or going on walks/short runs in the morning, but do something. And each day things will get a little bit better. It sucks man, I've been there and was stuck there for years, but you can get through it. The most important thing to remember is no one can actually help you but you, and you have to be willing to do the work to get the help that you need. It's a scary thing to feel, the helplessness of knowing that it's all on you, but it's worth pushing through.
>15 grand in the last 10 years
What the frick dude? I mean what the actual frick? That's equivalent to buying 20 brand new AAA games every year at full price on launch day plus all available DLC. I couldn't even think of that many games I'd want to play if I had the money. Please explain how you can reasonably spend that much and not even realize it.
I've started to notice that this isn't just sports games. It's actually a fairly common phenomena. Lots of people, for some ungodly reason, just replay the same game a million times, over and over, unendingly.
I don't get people like that. If I played my favorite games over and over again, it would just make me hate them.
its because gaming isnt their primary hobby like it is for you and i
The actual reason people like wrestling, is because it's not serious. It's low-brow, carnie culture that is written with the same phycology as cartoons from the 80 and 90s ere, like He-man or whatever.
The reason wrestling is actually bad now though, is all these hipsters (jut liek with videogames), don't wat to just shut their brain off and watch a fun show, they want to instead dedicate their lives to talking about it as an art form.
The reason we don't watch boxing o something else, is because wrestling is about good v evil, not about who's a better fighter.
The "wrestling community" though have ruined it, dissecting it and desperately wanting their little hobby to be taken seriously and worse trying to get fricking women to watch it. Conversely, more women were into wrestling when it was a family day out in the 80s to go see a show, and less women now watch it when though half the shows are pandering to them.
The pseuds who "critique" the matches don't even want the wrestlers t look like wrestlers, they want to self insert Mary Sue style, so when a kid turns on the TV they see some chap who wouldn't even be able to do security for a nightclub, beating fricking monsters.
It's perverse. Everyone now must elevate their hobby to the level of high art, butt hey ruin it in the process.
The Japanese don't spend all his time talking about wrestling, they go and watch it in silence after work. That's how it should be.
>So I was browsing through Ganker
>WHAT
>the vidjia board
>WHAT!
>The board for video games. When I ran across this news story. So it turns on ol' McMahon is apparently on of those interracial sissies
>WHAT
>I said he's one of those SHITTED degenerates
>WHAT
>One of dem race traitors
>WHAT
>I said he's one of those black wiener spammers. And he just kept trading texts with this woman he wasn't even frickin and honestly Stone Cold started feelin a bit guilty
>WHAT
>I said I felt bad
>WHAT
>I said it pulled at my consciousness
>WHAT
>I said it tickled my pity bone 'cause after all ol' Stone Cold delivered so many ass whoopins to old Vinny ya gotta wonder if I didn't somehow contribute to his cuckold crazy
>WHAT
>I said I'm scared I made him one of those NTR Black folk
>WHAT
>A e-thot enjoyer
>WHAT
>I said I'm scared I beat him so bad he's gonna start producin some of that israelite type of porn so before that happens I figure I can either be nice and try to get him therapy
>WHAT
>I said get him a shrink
>WHAT
>I said commit him
>WHAT
>I figure I'd send him to a psych but then I remembered they'd just prolly put him on hormones so I figure I just go whoop his ass! So ol' stone cold is gonna go get in his truck, he's gonna go down to the court room and he's gonna Stunner Vince 1 2 POW right there and then get him off the internet and that's the bottom line! 'Cause Stone Cold said so!
Because they are moronic.
No really, that's it.
>poorgay thread
Why do people sportsball/bumfights at all? Like, are you slop lovers, do you slurp the slop? Do you enjoy the Black personball beat em up hahaha ball cross line I now act like life has meaning.
I don't know dude, I don't understand shabbos goyim.
I played NBA2k until 2k14
I grew up playing basketball and still to this day as a middle 30s frickwit hoop once or twice a month with the same group of dudes I've been hooping with for the last 15 years.
It's just one of those things I've been into my entire life, can't really explain why.
You tell me
Has yet to be topped
its very funny to me that you consider American Wrestling as sport lmao
It's called sports entertainment ya ding-dong diddly mark
its more akin to athletic acting entertainment ya goofus doofus
It’s the only game these braindead apes are playing and so they feel justified into basically paying a $70/year subscription fee
It feels wasteful to the rest of us because we play a frickton of games
because they are gays and like men
Anyone tried the wrestling games for promotions outside of WWE/WCW?
why aren't there savory pop-tarts? Like cheese and crackers vibes, but I could toss it in the toaster. Some little fakey bacon bits. I am too stoned right now.