General Gaming Thread

[MalaCloudy Black]

Spike Chunsoft is the merger of Spike and Chunsoft. Spike made the Fire Pro Wrestling games, which dated as far back as the SNES. Fire Pro Wrestling Returns, their 2005 game, was ported to North America and EU in 2007 and held critical acclaim as one of the best pro wrestling games around at the time.

EDIT: Fire Pro Wrestling dates even further back than I thought (!), to 1989 and the TurboGrafx 16.

[MDK]

Oh.

I am whelmed. 

[MalaCloudy Black]

Honestly, if my PS2 or PS3 still worked, I'd be busting FPWR out right now. The roster was stacked - full of guys from AJPW, NJPW, DDT, Toryumon, and even WWF, WCW and ECW guys - but because they didn't have the licensing rights, they had knock-off names (but the likeness was there), and with just a USB stick you could download files that renamed each wrestler to their real-life counterpart. 

[TheWho87]

33 minutes ago, apsham said:

Holy shit more details are needed. I'm going to assume PS4 exclusive though, grumble.

The Twitter account tweeting this is named 3/2 in San Francisco, and the website ends in 170302 so that might indicate they will release some news next week.

Also according to Puroresu Spirit's Facebook the footage was taken at K-DOJO's Blue Field and features Kyu Mogami and Ayato Yoshida wrestling with GO Asakawa as the referee.

[apsham]

Spike Chunsoft has done a deal of Nintendo development in recent years as well so I'm just going to cross my fingers and say Nintendo Switch as well.

[Ruki]

Steam and PS4! Looks like the second quarter.

[Meacon Keaton]

Second quarter of 2017? Please tell me we're like two or three months away from this. 

[MalaCloudy Black]

Quote

 

The greatest grappling game returns to take on the world! Customize every aspect of the match, from your wrestler to the ring itself, in your fight for the championship belt.

Play Online: Organize exhibition matches, tournaments, leagues, championship bouts and battle royals with players from around the world.
Mix Up the Rules: Modes include Deathmatch (steel cage, barbed wire or landmines), MMA rules and no-holds barred Gruesome Fighting.
Unlimited Customization: Create your dream wrestler from over a thousand devastating moves and even more body parts to battle for custom championship belts. Personalize the ring, mat logos and even the referee!
Realistic Simulation: Give your creations personalities with a robust CPU logic system that defines their every action. Does your wrestler play to the crowd, or play dirty? You provide actors for the ringside drama.

 

http://gematsu.com/2017/03/fire-pro-wrestling-world-announced-ps4-pc

Online play!

[Meacon Keaton]

Oh man, an EWB league would be pretty friggin' fun.

[RPS]

I would destroy @Meacon in a wrestle bout on this game. Just me and him greased up. In our underwear. Engaging in a sophisticated wrestle match. That I would CLEARLY win. 

[Meacon Keaton]

Nuh uh I'd lock you up in a submission. A submission!

[RPS]

1 minute ago, Meacon said:

Nuh uh I'd lock you up in a submission. A submission!

Come at me bro

[OctoberRaven]

I'll be mounting all yall from behind.

(Once I practice to sharpen my mad skills because I mostly run CPU vs CPU sims these days)

[Paton]

I decided to hook my PC up to my TV and use that as a monitor. It takes a bit of adjusting. Has anyone done this before? Did you find that gaming on it was better or worse? No difference?

[Ruki]

No different, just a bigger screen.

[MDK]

8 hours ago, Paton said:

I decided to hook my PC up to my TV and use that as a monitor. It takes a bit of adjusting. Has anyone done this before? Did you find that gaming on it was better or worse? No difference?

Since my PC monitor died I'm using two TV's for my dual setup. No difference for me apart from the little monitor has to be set to 1804x1014 otherwise you cant see the borders.

Oh and with gaming some games look better than others. Playing FIFA or GTA on the big TV? Lovely. Playing Football Manager or Civ VI on the big TV? Not so good.

[thatshortguy]

Agreed.  Aside from the occasional odd resolution or dodgy refresh rate, it can be alright.  I've considered downgrading from my 1920x1200 monitor to a 1080p just because I can't really discern the quality (plus not taxing my 1060 quite as much would be nice.)

[Schlitzbrille]

When I thought I couldn't love this scene anymore

[Bobfoc]

It reminds me of this:

 

[lanky316]

Capcom Disney classics coming back! 

http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-26534-The-Disney-Afternoon-Collection-Bundling-Six-Retro-Disney-Classics-This-April.html

I'm happy with this development. Used to love Darkwing Duck and Duck Tales. A couple of the others were I'll pick this up later that obviously never happened...