WWE 2k15

[apsham]

It's essentially a way to do a GOTY edition without pressing a new disc.

[Hellraiser]

I have a problem. I bought the season pass when the game was released. So when the last two Showcase DLCs were released I could simply download them for free. Now the Warrior Showcase is out and despite my Season Pass I still have to pay 9.99 to download it. Anyone else has that problem as well?

[Meacon Keaton]

Path of the Warrior DLC is out!

[Hellraiser]

And it's really disappointing. It only has 8 matches. Well, if we're being honest about it it is only 6 matches as the ones against Honky Tonk Man and HHH were basically just quick time events. They included Rick Rude. Why couldn't they put in their WrestleMania V as well as their SummerSlam 1989 match as well? Or his 1991 Rumble Match with the Sheik? He got his win back as SummerSlam 1991 which is in there. Or his re-match against Savage at SummerSlam 1992? Even if they didn't have license for Hercules to do the WrestleMania IV match they had other options. The modles of Andre The Giant and Macho Man look like shit and the Hogan Modal looks ridiculously fake as well. And for the live of me I can't figure out why we can't use Sid Vicious outside of the showcase mode.

I'll think twice about getting the Season Pass next year.

Edited April 2, 2015 by Hellraiser

[Colly]

They'd have to make weird Giant Gonzalez with extra arse detail attire for him if they did SS92.

Edited April 2, 2015 by Ultra Rare Colly

[BuddyAwesome]

Kinds of wishing I'd have just bought the Warrior DLC since nothing on the others I'll even use. However, props to them on getting Rude his entrance down great!

[Meacon Keaton]

Absolutely love having all these legends. I only bought the Warrior DLC and I haven't even started it yet, but being able to play with these guys is fantastic. And they even have "Cool, Cocky, Bad" for Honky's theme song!

[BuddyAwesome]

It's pretty rad having a match at the Live 91 arena too!

[Hutch2004]

So this version of the game feels like a real improvement. What do you think the next game needs to be even better?

I'd love it if they played with the stamina system a bit more. Instead of chinlocks etc being submission moves they should trigger a mini-game where if you're successful you can drain a portion of your opponents stamina bar. It's already a great system, so I think that addition would help a lot.

[Hellraiser]

So this version of the game feels like a real improvement. What do you think the next game needs to be even better?

I'm honestly disappointed. To me it seems like for every step forward they took in terms of gameplay and grafics they took two steps back in regard to everything else. And I get that this is mostly due to them having to build the next-gen version from scratch and that the pressure from WWE to release a new game every year doesn't really allow them to work on the game for as long as they want to or add as many features as they want to. But I'm still disappointed.

-Despite the scanning technology they use some models look off. And I'm not talking about the legends and other people they couldn't scan. I'm talking about people like Rusev whose upper torso seems way too small amongst others. I don't really know how they could change that through.

-The chain wrestling needs to be reworked. It is new and fun for the first 2 or 3 matches you play but after a while it just gets repetitive and I turned it off. It is a good idea but it needs to be more dynamic

-A new lightning engine. That always bothered me. If I want to douse the arena in red light for the entrance of my created superstar I want it to actually be doused in red light including reflection effects and everything . It seems like no matter how you set the lightning for the entrances it doesn't really matter since outside of a few expections (like Undertaker, Warrior and Wyatt entrance) it never looks right.

-reworked weapon's physics and gameplay

-more details outside the ring to make everything seem more realistic (like cameramen or a time keeper) if the computing capacity of the consoles allow for it. This is a very minor complaint although it really would help with the atmosphere

-completely reworked Create a Superstar mode. This was honestly what disappointed me the most about the game. It was was absoluite shit this year. The CaS was always the strong suit for the Smackdown/SmackDownVsRaw/WWE game series that other game series (apart from maybe WrestleMania 2000 and No Mercy) were not fit to hold a candle to and added tons of replay value to the game. They ruined it this time. Even the face scan system couldn't hide the fact that this year's CaS was very limited and all the caws look samey. Although I loved that we are finally able to edit the attire of the roster. Maybe add the abillity for me to change beards and hair cuts and add face-paint although I know that would be a lot of work.

-More than 25 Cas Slots. What the fuck where they thinking here? Or if that isn't possible for whatever reasons make it so that an alternate attire doesn't take up one entire CaS slot.

-More match types. I don't need any new ones. Just bring back the ones they cut for no reason and in some instances are in the game in other modes but not in exhibition mode. And I want them to not declare them as new features.

-The abillity to add my own costume music to the game. I get that this isn't their fault as it is the current-gen consoles themselves that can't read mp3s but I hope they get that sorted out for WWE 2k16

-Bring back all the other creative modes they cut/weren't able to implement into the game. And I want them to not declare them as new features

-more generic entrance animations, legend animations and animations of former WWE superstars in the create an entrance mode. Or at least make it possible to create our own animations by using the taunts.

-rework the career mode and add more storylines that don't only play out on Twitter, more interactions with other superstars the abillity to not only play as a CaS and no retirement after I won the WWE Championship. Make it more interesting. Another huge disappointment this year.

-I know we already discussed this and I get that it is easier and cheaper to use superstars you already own the license for in showcase mode instead of contacting wrestler and negotiating deals with them but I want them not to have as many duplicates for the showcase mode and the DLCs next year. I would love for them to treat the showcase as away to add legends into the game. And if your promotional material tells me I'll get access to a certain wresler (even just as a manager) I want access to that damn wrestler!

-re-worked match engines. It bothers me that after more than 15 years a ladder matche for example still playes more or less the same than it did in the PSX games

-more counter animations and more than one option to counter the move. For example when my opponent wants to powerbomb me than I want to be able to counter that move into a back-body-drop when gets me into the starting position. And when he lifts me up being able to counter with a Hurricanerana or a Kidman's face crusher as a crusierweight or simply force him to fall backwards as a heavyweight.

-when I'm done creating a wrestler, moveset, entrance etc. I don't want to be automatically thrown back to the main menu. I know this isn't really a big problem but it gets REALLY annoying after a while.

I know the list is unrealistic, it is impossible to implement it all and some of these things have plagued the SmackDown/SmackDownVsRAW/WWE2K Series for years but no one said that a whish list needs to be realistic. If I would have to pick one thing to be the priority for WWE 2k16 I would have to choose between a better Career mode and a better CaS mode.

Edited April 8, 2015 by Hellraiser

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

I decided against it this year what with the developer change midway through. I feel 2k16 will be far more polished since they'll have had a year to work at it and improve the changes they've already made.

[Gabriel]

We already established that the 25 CAW limit was done because they couldn't find a way to compress the wrestler files without losing quality before release.

I believe that one of the developers mentioned that they've figured something out, which should mean at least double the slots for 2k16.

[Pizza]

Since they are saved to harddrive, they should be infinite, and only limited by how much space you have available on your system.

[Gabriel]

Since they are saved to harddrive, they should be infinite, and only limited by how much space you have available on your system.

Sony and Microsoft both require that games fit under a specific size.

I agree though. If I want to fill my hard drive with stuff just for WWE, I should have that option. But that isn't an issue with 2K or the game. That's an issue with the companies that make the consoles.

[Hellraiser]

Since they are saved to harddrive, they should be infinite, and only limited by how much space you have available on your system.

Sony and Microsoft both require that games fit under a specific size.

I agree though. If I want to fill my hard drive with stuff just for WWE, I should have that option. But that isn't an issue with 2K or the game. That's an issue with the companies that make the consoles.

Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't know that. So it is the same kind of problem like mp3 support.

Edited April 8, 2015 by Hellraiser

[TheWho87]

[Schlitzbrille]

[Bobfoc]

Depending on the modding community, this could be tremendous.

[Whisper]

That's actually awesome news. You'd think the scope for modding a pc version would be absolutely huge.

[apsham]

It's the interest in doing so that makes me wonder.