WWE 2K18

[Nerf]

It's all good showing Brock, Rollins and Orton, but how shit does Tyler Breeze look? They only seem to put the effort into the top guys.

[Gorka]

13 minutes ago, Nerf said:

It's all good showing Brock, Rollins and Orton, but how shit does Tyler Breeze look? They only seem to put the effort into the top guys.

Not great.

[Maxx]

Hey now, according to the dev they didn't put in any effort at all.

[Owen]

damn, the Universal Championship looks damn good. Glad to see they're finally putting effort into the championships 

[Gazz]

14 minutes ago, Owen said:

damn, the Universal Championship looks damn good. Glad to see they're finally putting effort into the championships 

Till you put it on someone who isn't the same size as Brock and it floats six inches off their waist.

[The Buscher]

[apsham]

Oh shit! Sanity being in the game as a whole, I was not expecting. I wonder if they're going to basically include the entire NXT roster as if it was the main one?

[The Buscher]

Well 2k said the roster for this one was close to 200, so even if 95% of last year's roster is ported over they'd still need to add a bunch more to make up the numbers.  So I'd say nearly every NXT regular as of Mania or so is probably in.  Roode, Ciampa, Gargano, and AOP are among the other first timers that should end up in.

From the main roster there aren't too many new additions from last year's game.  Rhyno, Hawkins, Ellsworth.  Not sure if they'll put all the cruisers in but Tozawa's a good start.  I'd say Swann, TJP, and Kendrick are nice bets at least as former champions.  10 to 1 odds say the Hardys wind up DLC though.

[Adam]

The Hardys as DLC would be utterly ridiculous.

[apsham]

It would technically be smarter for them to do versus "hey, want Buddy Murphy?".

[Skummy]

Tozawa being in is pretty promising, as despite him being in the CWC, he wasn't amongst the first few talents on 205 Live, was he? So that suggests a slightly later cut-off date.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Hardys are DLC, though - they're someone you think they'd have made a point of showing us if they were in the main game, I'd have thought, and Wrestlemania is cutting it pretty fine for a debut to make it into the new game.

[Your Mom]

Damn it seeing Sanity in there makes me want to play it  

[Nerf]

18 minutes ago, Skummy said:

Tozawa being in is pretty promising, as despite him being in the CWC, he wasn't amongst the first few talents on 205 Live, was he? So that suggests a slightly later cut-off date.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Hardys are DLC, though - they're someone you think they'd have made a point of showing us if they were in the main game, I'd have thought, and Wrestlemania is cutting it pretty fine for a debut to make it into the new game.

The cut off is usually around the end of April, isn't it? I know the narrative changes depending on what suits them more, but we've had people debut later than WrestleMania in previous games and make the cut. If they're DLC, the reason for it is pretty transparent in all honesty.

[Tkasto]

http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/08/16/wwe-2k18-first-47-playable-superstars-announced

Now though, here’s all 47 new announcements in full…

• Bray Wyatt
• Dolph Ziggler
• Sami Zayn
• Dean Ambrose
• Baron Corbin
• Kalisto
• Akira Tozawa
• Sin Cara
• Hideo Itami
• Eric Young
• Jinder Mahal
• Bushwacker Butch
• Bushwacker Luke
• Konnor
• Viktor
• Cesaro
• Sheamus
• Karl Anderson
• Luke Gallows
• Nikki Cross
• Alundra Blayze
• Emma
• Lita
• Summer Rae
• Paige
• Brie Bella
• Nikki Bella
• British Bulldog
• Buddy Roberts
• Diamond Dallas Page
• Big Boss Man
• Mark Henry
• Bam Bam Bigelow
• Bret Hart
• Dusty Rhodes
• The Undertaker
• Big Show
• Andre the Giant
• Kane
• Diesel (and Kevin Nash)
• Luke Harper
• Erick Rowan
• Sawyer Fulton
• Alexander Wolfe
• Killian Dain
• Braun Strowman
• Goldust

 

Edited August 16, 2017 by Tkasto

[Nerf]

Sawyer Fulton?

[Maxx]

9 minutes ago, Nerf said:

Sawyer Fulton?

You want all of Sanity, you get all of Sanity!

[The Buscher]

I actually really dig Fulton being in.  Felt bad for him getting hurt before Sanity could ever really take off.

They included the 4-person group entrance but that's for a 6-man tag with Nikki managing them, surely.  No way they would've been permitted to allow intergender matches again.  So you'll need to add Fulton back to Sanity if you want to use the team in 8-man tag team goodness.

[apsham]

 

Fucking YES JoJo as a ring announcer. I was so tired of the robotic Lillian they'd been using for years.

[BuddyAwesome]

Buddy Roberts!

[Arjen Robben]

1 hour ago, Busch Strowman said:

I actually really dig Fulton being in.  Felt bad for him getting hurt before Sanity could ever really take off.

They included the 4-person group entrance but that's for a 6-man tag with Nikki managing them, surely.  No way they would've been permitted to allow intergender matches again.  So you'll need to add Fulton back to Sanity if you want to use the team in 8-man tag team goodness.

The ring announcing suggests it's an Eric Young singles match that the rest of Sanity are with him for.