WWE 2K17

[stokeriño]

I hate that I am so sensitive to stupid irrelevant crap with clips of speech. Like, even the way that "DON'T YOU DARE BE SOUR" has slightly different inflections to the way it's normally done on TV is going to bug me forever and ever and ever.

Nonetheless, the entrance overall is still so fun that it's succeeding in its job of making me want the game more.

[JasonM]

17 hours ago, Gazz said:

It wouldn't be a WWE game without cold, dead, soulless eyes and and the hair model glitching through the body model.

Good model, but how hard is it to make decent eyes that don't look like they're on drugs.

[Nerf]

That intro by Big E is going to annoy me until the end of time.

[FLiam]

As I said before, the audio in these games is always terrible. Why doesn't Big E even say "clap for your 2 time champs" for?

Go play a UFC game and listen to the commentary and ring announcing and it's no different than the TV broadcasts, as they're putting effort in.

Why don't the WWE guys? Baffling.

The Enzo intro in last years game is a prime example, he just talked.

[Adam]

6 minutes ago, Alexis Sanchez said:

As I said before, the audio in these games is always terrible. Why doesn't Big E even say "clap for your 2 time champs" for?

Go play a UFC game and listen to the commentary and ring announcing and it's no different than the TV broadcasts, as they're putting effort in.

Why don't the WWE guys? Baffling.

The Enzo intro in last years game is a prime example, he just talked.

I completely agree with you, but I imagine that particular detail is due to you perhaps playing a Universe or Career mode where they are the 3, 4, 5 time champions?

It does sound as horrible as always though and there's obviously no need for it, it can be done well as we've seen in so many other games.

[Avenged Probably]

3 hours ago, Nerf said:

That intro by Big E is going to annoy me until the end of time.

It's just like real life then.

[Bobfoc]

I honestly thought that it was Xavier Woods who does the New Day opening announcement. I feel silly now.

[MalaCloudy Black]

They're live at Gamescom right now.

[MalaCloudy Black]

 

[Gazz]

That apron powerbomb had all the impact of a paper aeroplane. 

[Bobfoc]

Paper aeroplanes are deadly in Comix Zone.

[stokeriño]

Hearing all the same hideous commentary soundbites again (I haven't played 2K16 in several months) actually makes me feel physically nauseous.

[Adam]

"She's starting to sweat a bit"? Really?

Also, JBL shouting about finishers every five seconds is just super. When do they ever refer to a move as a 'finisher' on TV?

[apsham]

Yeah I've gotten to the point where I've turned off the commentary for these games. I don't like to compare to the UFC commentary becaue I feel like the devs in that case have more access to the guys and more of a focus.. but at the same time it's just distracting and meh.

[stokeriño]

I don't think there was an option to turn it off in 2K16? Although I could just use the mute button I guess.

[apsham]

There's voice... and that turns off any and all voices. But I pretty much only care about ring sounds anyways if I bother to play with sound at all.

[stokeriño]

I must have missed that. :/

[TCO]

That's the worst commentary I've ever heard in a sports game. It's like it's ripped out of the 90s.

[MalaCloudy Black]

It kind of astounds me that in over a decade of wrestling games, the commentary's still at that level. At this rate I wouldn't be surprised at all if they just recycled commentary and only had King/Cole/JBL/whoever go into a booth and say superstar names and then just edited it all together. "Paige [awkward pause] with the SUBMISSION!"

I wish they'd do what they do with the UFC games. IIRC, they get Rogan & his co-commentator to sit down and watch fights (in-game, I wanna say?) and commentate as if it's a real bout, which brings emotion and some banter into play and makes their commentary sound far, far less mechanical.

[Bobfoc]

I've said it before, but I'd like the commentary to either be very good, like with the UFC games, or fantastically bad, like in Just Bring It. "The Rock's...THE ROCK BOTTOM...is extremely powerful" is far more entertaining to me than "He's making a statement here with this attack" and "You've got to be kidding me". If you're going to cobble together generic statements that add nothing to the action, at least go all-in and make it memorably stupid.