AndrewTS

Forgive my memory, but what "great" matches has Booker had in WWE? Wow, must-miss TV this week. By the Shelton stuff alone Raw smokes SD this week, it appears. "Carly Colon" Gee, I wonder what his gimmick is...?

Already got Voodoo Vince for 10 bucks, with everything. My Giant Eagle's video department sells off old rented games from time to time, and it's often a great way to score a deal--although at times you'll have to do without the original casing or box art. Rental chains often can give good deals, but you're more likely to find them hunting for older stuff that are all marked down to around 10 bucks. The newer games they'll soak you, usually. I've seen Blockbusters being asinine enough to charge $22.99 for a used PS2 Greatest Hits game. Produced? Not sold? That's strange. Ugh, it's most assured Enter the Matrix is one or will be one soon. I can't go to game store without practically tripping over a stack of them. So Xenogears sold a quarter million copies and there's at least 400,000 Xenosagas out there? Good grief.

Does anyone have any pics of Dustin in his Seven persona? Maybe a pic of him "floating" to the ring and then a more close-up picture?

So the short story is, when Atari went kaput, companies like Activision and Midway swooped in like vultures and picked the corpse clean? So some got the name and some got the publishing rights to old games and some got certain copyrights to make future games, and those properties may have changed hands since? Not too difficult to figure out except to when you want to know who got what.

Foley, old people, and techers wear flannel. EDIT: I guess rednecks as well, but around here, everyone's a redneck and not all of them wear flannel, so *shrug*.

^ Always a lovely way to start when you're imparting wisdom to another, asshole. By that logic, there are no inherently flawed gameplay systems, correct? I'll freely admit I don't have such a strong grasp of the game. By my definition of cheap, yes they are. You may have your own definition of it that's more lenient than mine. That's why I personally refrain from throwing most of the time. As for the 3D fighter throws, multiparts that require a specific series of buttons to be entered at a particular time for an opponent to escape them seem a bit excessive and certainly abusable. Plus, unless you have a guide in front of you which details exactly what they are (because I've yet to see any such game tell you how to do that within it's training mode or anything of the sort), you're either going to have to figure them out by trial or error or spring for an overpriced guide. You happen to disagree with that opinion, so if that lost any of my non-existent credibility to speak on 3D fighters, so be it. If that defense includes actually contact (defensive manuevers that deal out damage), then sure. However, a time-wasting, do-nothing style is not all that interesting.

I thought Atari made Primal Rage? Or did Midway gobble up Atari/whoever the hell made that game? It'd be weird to think the MK makers made an MK clone. Or rather, it wouldn't be (War Gods, Tao Feng).

For most of the particular cases here, yeah. However, that doesn't mean that companies shouldn't fix stuff that's cheap or things that are just whacked out--like dominating characters, moves with too much priority, and throws doing too much damage. However, a company has to be careful not to overdo it, like all the upgrades to SFII. I'd say most early fighters had "cheap" throwing. It's simple to execute, quite damaging, and difficult to counter. That's the criteria for "cheap" as far as I'm concerned, plus remember that there were no penalties for a missed throw and it was unblockable. Plus, the early fighters had some insane range on throwing. Later SF games lessened the throw damage, made them counterable, added "missed throw" animations, for instance. It's an extremely lame one. As long as a game have some method of overhead attacking, it's not a problem. Ironically, MK does have a plus in its favor in that regard, because block damage is higher than it is in a typical Japanese-bred 2D fighter. In the SF games, for instance, you don't take any block damage from normal attacks. Although the later games made it easier to stuff out turtling, such as the universal overheads. Just like with parries, turtling, etc., if you go too far in that direction, things get really freakin' boring and cease to be fun. That's the point the original poster had made.

Gotcha. I thought the Desparations were eponymous, and the title of the game meant something. So when I'd heard Wild Ambition was a remake of FF1 (albeit incorrectly of course), I'd assumed Desperations were what the title referred to in the original game.

Wow, I think I'd better dust off my N64 and play this game again because I sure as hell don't remember any of these secret characters. That would be pretty hard to do when WCW vs. the World is for Playstation. Oops. I had it confused with WCW vs NWO World Tour for N64 as a lot of the characters you mentioned and their Japanese counter parts were in that game. Heh, right. Most of the vs. the World peeps were in VPW 64, but the unlockables in World Tour were only WCW guys, Joe Bruiser, and Black Widow. Sadly, VPW 2's roster can't touch VPW 64 or WCW vs. the World's.

Yeah, I played W.A., but not the original Fatal Fury. I thought Desperation Attacks were "Fatal Furies."

Please, get started. Among equally-skilled players a Chun Li will pretty soundly beat an Elena, but the overall game balance is rather even. If players are rather good at parrying, it becomes a rather pointless exercise because those with the faster attacks will have the advantage, but you can even turn those off if you want.

Wow, I think I'd better dust off my N64 and play this game again because I sure as hell don't remember any of these secret characters. That would be pretty hard to do when WCW vs. the World is for Playstation.

The Raw lottery was last week. This is the first week boost of the usual two weeks. Let's see what next week's ratings are, then the real test will be the weeks after that.

Benjamin = ratings, motherf***ers!!

It said "s*ck it" actually. Like Fock Fear. Yes. It probably isn't archived, though.

It was the (front) "BLOW ME..." (back) "Into the Stratusphere" (back) shirt. The dumb sexual innuendo was a bit too blatant I suppose, that's all.

With Peter Jackson's name, I have some faith in the project--however, was this really necessary?

Considering Kurt Angle said he would need an entire year to prepare for the Olympics, and if Kane has done any am wrestling it would have to be in high school or something, you have to be a pretty big dope to buy this.

Nah, that just happens because in their minds, there IS NO WAY IN HIGH HEAVEN OR HELL that they are wrong. Actually, the Apologists were proven to be full of shit when it was revealed that Vince thought Ultimo was a Japanese Rey Mysterio and Ultimo has subsequently spent 90%+ of his contract either off TV or on Velocity. Of course, the point can be argued that Ultimo pretty much sucks right now, but WWE should look into stuff like that before hiring some one. Stephanie hiring Mr. America "sight unseen" sadly wasn't too big a leap in logic compared to the way this company is really run.

I want to see a Reviving Stunner.

Well, the thing with Wild Ambition was that it was just a remake of Fatal Fury in 3D. That's it. They even reused really-old voice samples. Gameplay wasn't enhanced one lick. Basically, it was a pretty pointless exercise. I hate when we add another dimension to a game--then don't do a damn thing with it. It's completely unnecessary, then.

THIS TRULY IS A NEW RAW AND A NEW SMACKDOWN!! EARTH-SHATTERING CHANGES A COMIN'!!! I CANNOT CONTAIN MY EXCITEMENT!!!!

*Banky watching joshi* "What the fuck is this? One of the girls has no tits or ass, and the other is a fatass tank-looking bitch? How's a guy supposed to wank it over this?!"

In the case of Grabbed By The Ghoulies, I think it's just a case of "PLEASE clear it from our shelves!"