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Defend the Streak? Yeah, it's essentially Slobber Knocker except you're restricted to playing as one of the three Undertakers.

It has some merit, considering that Impact had a nearly four-year-long developmental cycle. When you don't need to worry about a yearly release (or quality of gameplay, really) it's easy to come up with models that look decent. But even then, that comparison picture's not worth much. The picture of Booker from iMPACT! is almost certainly a bullshot image while the picture of Booker from WWE '12 is in-game footage. iMPACT! had decent models (CAWs excluded, because they look as bad as SmackDown! 3/SYM-era CAWs), but they definitely aren't some kind of standard that THQ/2k/Yukes should aspire to. With any luck, they'll at least try to take advantage of the advanced hardware the PS4 and XB1 are packing to make improvements to the game's graphical presentation.

Huh. I'm gonna have to check and see how it works out with other people (since I didn't really pay attention to Triple H after I finished the match), but it looks like CM Punk has a unique victory animation if he wins on Defeat the Streak. Then again, I haven't played Punk as often in this game, so for all I know I just got his usual win animation.

I beat Taker tonight as Triple H. The first time, I tried doing it like an actual match, and lost. The second time, I decided to go bullshit and used a sledgehammer as if it were punching. I essentially beat on 'Taker for seven straight minutes, stopping only to button-mash my way out of two straight flash Hell's Gates, through his "I just got hit with a finisher, now I'm gonna warp behind you" bullshit Tombstone, and to hit 'Taker with spinebusters and Pedigrees. It took five of 'em.

Defeat the Streak Undertaker is more along the lines of what I was expecting three years ago when the developers were hyping up the "vs. Undertaker" Road to WrestleMania storyline for SvR2011. Rage-inducingly hard to beat, but when you do, it's likely the greatest feeling you can experience through the game. I was able to do it - after several attempts using guys like Ryback and Cesaro - with Daniel Bryan. I even got to be a little arrogant about it, because I beat him with the big knee, with a wake-up taunt and everything.

Well, I paid $15 for my copy brand-new, and it's worth at least that. Compared to '12, 2k14 is a pretty decentish jump in content (especially considering the roster available thanks to 30YoWM mode).

Exactly, guys like Punk, Heyman, and Cena make strong cases for 95+ charisma, but I can definitely name quite a few promos from all three men from this year alone that fell flat in a major way.

That just institutes a needless paywall on shaky legal ground... not to mention that paywalls such as eLicense are the reason why people like Bill even still need to produce updates for EWR over a decade after its release. If someone wants to donate money to Bill, it should be as a thank you for his work on the updates rather than because there's an incentive in it for the donator. That way'd probably be a lot less murky (legally-speaking) as well. Posts like yours don't make it any easier. Anyway, I saw someone earlier suggest raising Heyman's charisma to 100. While Paul is definitely one of the best on the mic, I don't think he deserves a 100, as sometimes his promos can be a bit off just like anyone else. I think he deserves the high 90s, like a 95-97, but 100 seems a bit much. I agree. I'd actually go so far as to suggest that nobody deserves a score of 100 in any of the visible stats (Brawl/Tech/Speed/Charisma). There's no such thing as the perfect match, nor is there such thing as the perfect mic worker, or the perfect brawler, technician, or high-flyer.

GameStop also has a deal where if you trade two games on this list in, you can get a new game for $10. I used that to get GTA V, and I'm planning on using it again to pick 2k14 up at the end of the month.

You trade a Pokemon you own - whether it's in your party or your box - and get a random one in return. You're as likely to get a Japanese girl's Eevee as you are to get an American guy's Flabebe.

I think I was nearing 30 if I wasn't there already. The game as a whole takes longer to get from place to place. My Chesnaught's at L70 and I haven't even faced the Elite Four yet.

Eh, it doesn't impress me much. Most of the stuff in that video is either cutscenes stolen from Story Designer (like Bryan fighting off all three Shield members before being backed into a corner) or edited to not look so iffy (Kofi double-stomping a guy through a table). Even the gameplay additions - the OMG Moment double finishers, literally every catch finisher except for Swiss Death - don't look that good. I'm gonna be sitting this year out. Hopefully 2K will ensure that next year is actually done with some competence.

You'll know what choice to make when the time comes. There are 3 choices. If you choose any of the other two options, it means you are a terrible person. Honestly, I think the ending choices are probably the worst aspect of the game, and not even because of the choices themselves, but how you're given them. I'd rather have a series of missions that build up to one ending or the other as opposed to literally choosing between three endings on the spot.

Oh yeah, completely. All a high Flight skill really does is minimize turbulence, and even with maxed-out Flying and having completed flight school, I still had trouble with some of the parts of the heist you go to it for.

Plus, an easy way to work the money system is to just leave the Assassination missions 'til you've beaten the game. You'll have absurd amounts of money with which to invest.

Rockstar really went out on a good note on this generation of consoles and here's to GTA VI on the One and PS4. This game exceeded my already high expectations. Well worth the 5 year wait. I think, like the characters do at many points, I'm gonna lay low from the game for a bit, let the clock run down on GTAO's activation and see others in my house marvel over the game like I did at parts.

Yeah, that was so depressing. Are Franklin or Lamar part of GSF? I really hope there's a mission that sees you take back the patch. Nah; the gang that Franklin and Lamar are in are CGF, "Chamberlain Grove Families" or something like that. They share Grove Street's affinity for green, but I think that's about where the similarities end.

It's amazing that, for once, the writers have gotten me to hate a character on Dexter. It's just sad that that character had to be Batista for how willfully ignorant they've written him as being about Dexter.

PM me a list of the competitors in the blocks (if you don't want them spoiled) and I'll see what I can do. I'll try and have your header up in a little bit.

I'm pretty much in Benji's boat; if I get either system - which as it stands won't be for quite a while unless there are some pretty significant exclusives - Sony'll be seeing my money a lot sooner than Microsoft will.

I'll try and knock something out, give me a few minutes. EDIT: First attempt. In retrospect, maybe the black letters-on-black WCW logo isn't a good combo. Also, not entirely sure if WCW was using that logo in 99. which is when I believe your diary takes place? I need some sleep, so I think I'll try again tomorrow.

Well, the Warrior model is a finished product, not just of 2k14. It's a slightly edited version of Warrior's model from Legends of WrestleMania. I already know I'm definitely not getting this on release, but hopefully information released in the coming weeks will help me determine whether or not I actually want to get this at all or just wait it out until 2K's finally allowed to build their own version of the game from the bottom up.

Actually, I think it was some sort of issue with TWZ and World War Z, but regardless, yeah, it's a skeezy move by the developer.

I'm in the same boat; early Scrubs JD/Turk could beat Troy and Abed, but entirety-of-Scrubs JD/Turk are handily beaten.

The audio is horrible compared to the Playstation version. Look up a program called "Anxious Heart". It replaces the audio files with your choice of the game's PSX equivalents, various official covers such as the Black Mages' version of OWA, and several fanmade covers of songs. The only song I don't think it replaces is the song that plays over the ending and possibly the credits.