DrVenkman PhD

Yes, and only four of them are dual brand. Well, 5 if you count the ECW PPV, but that's something totally different.

An Elimination Chamber match... for #1 contendership... NOT a title... at a future PPV... that SAME MONTH. Well played cabbageboy.

I was wanting to have my friend and I start dueling "Let's go Raw" "Let's go SmackDown" chants but he wasn't up for it. I said one of us should cheer one, then the other the opposite, but all he said was "or we both cheer one and hope someone else picks up the opposite". After some discussion during Raw, we also concluded Raw were the heels even though HBK was their captain and JBL is the captain (if Batista is out of the match) for SmackDown. On paper, it has the potential to create an interesting heel/face dichotomy, but often that sort of ambiguity results in confused reactions / silence. We shall see.

I'm going out be out of town until next Tuesday so I guess I'll have to make a roster decision based on people that I assume will appear.

Unless I am mistaken (and there is a good chance I am), the MEB is essentially Giant "Prince A-Train" Bernard's Baldobomb finisher. Is that in the game somewhere? Also, and again correct me if I am wrong, this is the first PS2 SmackDown to not use the 6 Man HIAC match for the Armageddon PPV in season mode. Hell, I don't even think there is an Armageddon PPV in season.

The first time I played I did SmackDown (Eddie) and got both the Legends Tour and the ECW storyline - one after another, actually. The key to the Legends Tour, as near I can tell, is to be someone that has a story arc about them. Since the game uses audio instead of text, the only out it seems to have for those arcs is to replace them with the Legends Tour. Speaking of which, I marked out when I heard Jimmy Hart doing some voice overs for the Legneds angle... then once more when he does his non-legends storyline.

That episode was gold. The IT Guy thing was awesome, Dwight is always good, and then Michael shooting everyone was really, really funny. The end of the episode did make him a bit too pathetic though, but I was really happy with the hour of TV I taped and watched after work last night.

I won't say "no" because for all I know it might be possible, but the lockers exist for wrestlers with alternate attires (Kane without unlocking anything, and I believe only Carlito, Cena, HHH, and JBL after unlocks) to switch outfits during season mode.

I found GM Mode a lot more fun when I went to a friend's house and played it last night.

You can try and book people that are losing against lower card guys, too.

I saw a headline on Yahoo! saying a gamer was going pro somehow. I assume this person is AndrewTS. How is that working for you?

When I say "knocked out", I mean that state where the opponent is animated differently when they are on the mat.. you know, flat on their back, not moving, will probably be down for a 3 count if you pin them. I didn't feel like going into that detail so I jsut said "knocked out". I thought Start was the button that brought up the ability to draft legends in GM mode (if pressed on the Roster page, of course).

I didn't understand what PBJT was so I just laughed at the idea of a talking dog singing in a banana costume. I thought the episode was great outside of the terrible song that Herbert sang. Doc Brown and the racist crows were big laughs for me. American Dad was ok. I didn't initally like the show at first, then I came around to thinking it was decent. I think I set the bar too high when the episode where PAtrick Stewart's character was dating Hayley aired because after that I thought AD was becoming better than Family Guy. It hasn't lived up to that episode since.

The trick is to knock them out before doing the move. Yeah, in past games you could do it whenever, but I find if I go for the frogsplash after waiting for my opponent to be right out, I always hit it. Does anyone play with the stamina bars on? I assumed it would be a nuissance and shut it off without ever trying it. Much like not noticing that Start opened a seperate menu in GM Mode, I didn't notice until recently that pressing Start in the locker room lets you customize it. The Canadian flag hangs proudly now.

Powerbombing people into caskets > *

Is there an Old Jake or someone to reaplce this walking disaster of a poster?

I always (well, always since I was made aware of it) assumed the rush submission was due to Perfect's crippling back injury.

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Classic Mr. Burns.

WWE.com's SmackDown preview makes note of a Batista/Orton street fight title match this week.

I haven't seen one commercial for this movie. I guess I don't watch TV as much as I used to.

I think my problem in GM mode is I'm booking like I would in EWR... basic shows with the idea of building to gimmick matches on PPV. Clearly I should just stop doing this since the other GM books gimmick matches left and right and the world title seems to change hands every other week. If it becomes too much of a chore to win, I think I'll just use the mode as a multi-player thing with a friend. It is certainly an interesting addition though and I don't fault it for what it is... I fault myself for sucking at it.

I am having difficulty doing a possum pin. The description makes it sound like you can hold circle and press either L@ or R2 in advance and see what your opponent does, but that doesn't seem to work. When I tried doing it like a normal counter (waiting for the attack) but holding O, I still failed... and I guessed right. Hassan went to grapple my head, I was holding circle and pressed R2. I lost my stored finisher, but did not counter the move or do a possum pin. Guess I need to keep trying.

I thought it was a bit weak that the opening of the game (until I played again it became the Raw opening) was just the opening of SmackDown, featuring people like MNM and LOD who aren't even in the game (well, Heidenreich is, but not LOD Heidenreich). Other than that (and the top rope finisher problem I had a few times with Eddie, noted by another poster using RVD) I've been enjoying myself in exhibition matches. Has anyone ran into an alleged glitch where the computer puts you into the sleeper hold and you can't break it, even if you do it right? Some people on GameFAQs are complaining about it being "broken" while other people are just accusing them of doing it wrong. Since I've never been put in a sleeper, I don't know. I've also yet to see the "ice skating" irish whip glitch. Also, can matches end in double DQs somehow? I was doing a 6 man tornado tag and after a long period of time of every fall being broken (and the ref being hit several times, by accident) the bell just rang and it said "DQ" on the screen. No winner was declared.

Well I was referring to the "Nick Dinsmore" part, not just Dinsmore.