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B2W2, as Pokemon games, were kinda dull and samey, but what I loved about them was the weird stuff they included. That city you could control, the movies you could star in, the World Tournament with all the gym leaders/notable trainers, I would love it if SuMo included any of those.

Yeah, the owner of the 9000verse mod updated it for TEW2013.

Here you go!

Of course, when he goes Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan, that shoots up to godwhydidyoudothistousakiratoriyama

I just hope Bethesda got Obsidian to help them work on the story. Not that Fallout 3's was bad, but New Vegas was that much better.

It has always been okay to watch.

Well yeah, after a few years' development and all the time they saved not coming up with original characters, the game had to be at least playable.

Just from watching the nL stream last night... the game's not bad, per se. It's a decent foundation, and the dev team had some pretty good ideas I'd love to see implemented in the WWE games, but calling it competition to said games is like saying any given lower-level indy is competition to the WWE.

But yeah, $25 is fucking ridiculous for how many limitations this game has.

I'm pretty sure the blacksmith has a shop area where you can buy equippable amulets that essentially reward you with the ability to re-spec. The first one's free, then they're like 300 gold per thing.

So the game is actually good? For real? After the giant disappointments that were the ME3 ending and DA2 as a whole I kinda swore to myself that I wasn't gonna buy any EA/BioWare games. But you make it seem like it is a genuinely good game. Now I am considering getting it. So do you think someone like me who loved DA: Origins and hated DA2 would like the game?

The ME3 ending was just fine, and while DA2 was repetitive at points, it was a pretty good game.

Not before the Extended Cut it wasn't.

Eh, what the hell. I'm in.

I don't see why they could not have tried to push the last-gen versions to the limit rather than (from what it sounds like) just rehashing 2K14.

Its not a case of the last-gen being magically the same as current-gen its the fact that if you compare games from the start and end of a consoles life you can see a big difference, just look at games released during the first year of the PS2 and the last year, the hardware was capable at both points its just the devs pushing the titles to the limits.

They've already been pushing it to the limit for like two years now.

Yeah, I think a lot of people tend to forget just how limited multi-platform developers were with the last generation of consoles given that the Xbox didn't use blu-rays. You either had to make a game that could push the Xbox's limits while missing the PS3's, or make a game that could push the PS3's but would take like three discs to play on the Xbox.

From the look of the game - at least from what I was able to glean from newLEGACYinc's release stream - it's decent enough. I don't have 2k14 anymore, and I'm only planning on getting 2k15 on 360 to hold me over 'til the PS4 version releases, so I don't really care all that much.

What was interesting though is a crackpot theory someone came up with that almost sounds kind of plausible: the old-gen version of 2k15 was intentionally kneecapped as a means to dissuade consumers from buying it (and thus allowing them to cut support earlier, as opposed to THQ keeping the franchise supported on the PS2 up through SvR 2011). Literally everything that's been announced that had some sort of fanfare or interesting reaction has been for the current-gen versions of the game with the exception of Who Got NXT, which is basically another take on the Attitude Era/30 Years of Mania/Showcase gameplay anyway.

Like I said, it sounds absolutely batshit, and it'd basically be 2K, WWE, and Yukes basically throwing away money and potentially customers... but it kinda makes sense. Or at least, I want it to make sense so I don't start thinking that the current-gen version is equally as gimped.

I do. I'm fucking awful at it, though. My Supremacy-themed civ got to -19 Health and the ability to produce lame spider-robot cannons last night before I gave up.

So, not that it was any surprise at this point, but Sami Zayn, Adrian Neville, and Bo Dallas at the least have been confirmed for 2k15 as of today.

I know people have been screaming for Final Fantasy VII to be redone, but I really really want Final Fantasy IX redone. It's not my favourite at all but I felt like it was a fun game to play through and I'd love to see it remastered.

Given Square's business strategy over the last year or so regarding the Final Fantasy franchise, I'm starting to give up hope that we'll see remakes/remasters of the post-IV/pre-X series.

From what I understand, they're apparently going to port the entire FFXIII trilogy onto Steam.

EDIT: And from the look of that FFXV trailer, it's gonna be the best GTA game yet!

Yeah, that NXT stuff's the only hangup for me on believing this 100%. I was thinking it could be a tutorial mode since they're radically changing the playstyle of the game this year, but most of the new stuff is being kept for the current-gen versions of the game.

I just saw a fairly interesting theory on why WWE's had NXT guys on RAW and Main Event this week: they might announce the inclusion of actual NXT superstars at Takeover 2, and as well as promoting the show, they wanted to familiarize the crowd with the NXT people in the game. One of 2K's most recent videos on the WWEGames YT account apparently has a bit where you can see a list of files that include the name "Zayn" in them, which could possibly mean Sami Zayn's in the game.

It would be exciting if this weren't coming off the heels of THQ's last two spectacular death-whimper entries into the series. Mystery-box marketing is fine when a series has a reputation for being great, but when the last two games in the series have been effectively held together with paper clips, chewing gum, and the grace of God (I mean for fuck's sake, WWE '13 never had its no two-count glitch fixed and WWE '14 didn't change the special referee replacement animation to account for the fact that John Laurinaitis' character model was no longer in the game)... it begins to inspire more dread than it does anticipation.

Do wrestlers still have solid blocks of hair in games?

No, but they still didn't necessarily look all that great in the later games. The hair at least had/has physics by WWE '12/'13/2k14 (they're basically the same game).

On that note, I'm worried that they haven't shown evidence of anyone with actual hair yet. Yeah, it was cool to see how Cena, Orton, Cesaro, and Goldust look, but none of those guys have much in the way of head or facial hair to render. Makes me worried we're gonna be getting weird-looking hair for the nicely-scanned models.

Assuming there is a NXT contingent still to come it does kinda make sense to announce them later. When they do a proper "preview" for the My Career mode that'd be a good place to announce it. Sorta like last year when they announced the WrestleMania mode roster separate from the regular roster.

I wouldn't be surprised if they save the announcement of NXT's inclusion into 2k15 for the Takeover 2 show on the 9/11.

Seems like we're getting the trailer for the Season Two finale tomorrow.

Which means we might get the finale itself within the next week or two.

It's also pretty nice to see a rare outing for 'Vigo' John Cena.

Well, only a Carpathian would come back to life now, and choose the WWE.

Trust me, once you play virtually any game that actually has like, proper cloth physics (or hell, a physics system in general to dictate how the models react), you'll really notice how little work THQ had been putting into the WWE franchise.

I'd also argue that if 2K really wants to prove themselves to the fans THQ bled out with the terrible showings in '13 and (their developed portion of) 2k14, they should be trying to get as big a roster looking as good as they can for the transition to the One/PS4.