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    King of Colosseum 2

    DOR uses the same sort of engine as No Mercy didn't it? Which would be like the VPW2 engine. If that's the case, it's somewhat the same as KOCII. You press a button to go for grapples, and strikes block that. Except in KOCII, when you start a grapple, you have to input a move command once the grapple reaches a certain part. For example, one grapple might be to grab and twist an arm around into an arm bar, and then once that animation is done, you push another button to use a move. Most wrestlers have 3-5 grapples each, from the front and from the back. Then 3-5 moves per grapple.
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    King of Colosseum 2

    KocII does seem head and shoulders above every other wrestling game. The grapple system is just a ton of fun and has a lot of variety to offer. The roster of wrestlers is quite relevant to my interests as well. The only issues I have with it are technical (terrible load times and bad framerates in tag matches, which can be fixed, but is still annoying). Still, KoCII is the sort of wrestling game that would totally work in the West, because the graphics are good, and the gameplay is quite a bit better than any of the WWE games. So as long as it had the WWE license, it would do quite well. Of course, I don't expect that to happen anytime soon. There are a lot of options if you want some unusual matches, just because there's something like 100+ unlicensed wrestlers you can unlock with "templates". Basically you just load the templates in the edit mode, and you have a real wrestler. There are quite a few MMA guys in the game too. Want to stick Fedor in there with Kobashi? Giddyup.
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    PlayStation 3

    True enough, and yet another reason to not buy on launch. Then again, Sony could just phase out that cheap model within 3 months. I wouldn't put anything past them at this point.
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    PlayStation 3

    I like how $599 is somehow the default price, as if there's no way anyone would possibly buy the cheaper version, even though it makes more sense.
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    PS3 .VS. Wii .VS. Xbox 360?

    To save $100
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    PS3 .VS. Wii .VS. Xbox 360?

    Aren't the only differences between the basic and premium PS3s the extra 40 gigs of HD space and the flash reader? If that's true, I'd say the premium bundle and not the basic bundle is the rip-off.
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    WarGames

    The hilarious thing about the Sid-Pillman thing from '91, is that after Sid nearly killed Pillman, he decided he had to do the move again, this time "properly". As if a "properly" executed powerbomb was needed after he nearly broke Pillman's neck with a crazy high-angle powerbomb. Good old Sid.
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    Comments that don't warrant a thread

    So you can only move whoever you select as the party leader, and no one else. But you can still control the other characters actions manually, or you can just let the AI do it (the gambits). I'll probably play with gambits off, because I hate AI controlled characters. Knowing all of this, I wouldn't say the battle system is any better or worse than a typical turn-based system. The best thing about the battles are that they're seamless with the fieldmap, which makes the game flow a lot better than a typical RPG.
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    Comments that don't warrant a thread

    I've only had 1 playable character in my party so far, so I can't say how it's going to be when there's more. Right now it's fairly easy. I don't know if it's any better than turn-based system where the characters are fixed, but it's not any worse. I know what you mean about SO3, I absolutely hate real time battle systems too. FFXII isn't "true" real time though, as characters are still waiting for an ATB bar to fill before they can take action. The player can just move characters (well, at least the main character) around the field in real time. I don't think there's any strategic value to that other than getting close enough to an enemy to attack it or use certain skills. It's closer to VP2 than it is to SO3 I'd say. I'll post an update when I get some more characters.
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    Comments that don't warrant a thread

    I'm playing the full game. Some warez group got ahold of a review copy and released it. Since it was a decent time before the release, I decided to get it and play it. I'm still buying it when it comes out though
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    Comments that don't warrant a thread

    So far, Final Fantasy XII seems very much like an MMORPG, right down to the part where I got absolutely smoked by some high level enemy in the first zone outside the city (along with the battle system and city designs). I like MMOs, so it's fine by me, but I imagine this game will cause quite a stir. The voice acting isn't atrocious either, which is nice.
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    PlayStation 3

    What a terrible way to launch a console. If I was even remotely interested in getting a PS3 at launch, I'd be pretty pissed. What the hell is wrong with Sony and MS?
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    Indy comments which don't warrant a thread

    60 minute matches do stick out like sore thumbs in this day and age, just because the average wrestling match is paced a lot faster than it was in the 70's and 80's. So whereas back then, a 60 minute match might not look much different than was typical, today you can completely see a 60 minute match coming just by how much slower the match is wrestled, and how many time-wasting shortcuts are taken. It can lead to a contrived sort of feeling surrounding the match. I do think it can be done well, it's just difficult.
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    Favorite Wrestling Pictures

    Nobuhiko Takada.
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    Valkyrie Profile Silmeria / Lenneth

    I meant Rufus' "secret", which seems like it is going to be revealed at some point. I don't know if it will be a big deal or not. I think monsters drop more money in the next area. I was getting 8-10k per run, including selling some monster pieces that the merchant can use. Didn't take too long to equip my party. Although, some of those pieces were selling for a few hundred, so that's a valuable source of income beyond what the monsters actually drop.
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    Wii

    I'm very tempted to buy a Wii at launch now. The only thing that worries me is the bullshit with defective models at launch. Maybe I'll wait a couple weeks and see how it pans out. It also depends on whether games like Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and Zelda will be playable in the standard way, in case the "Wii way" sucks. Does anyone actually know if games will give players the option?
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    Valkyrie Profile Silmeria / Lenneth

    Artistically, the game is incredible. Character and enviroment designs are fantastic. The plot is kind of like typical RPG fare, but it's interesting due to the fact that it's based on Norse mythology. Seems like all of the live characters are getting some development, although one of the characters' supposed secrets is fairly obvious. And finally, Motoi Sakuraba rules, that is all.
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    Best of the 1980's - Other Japan Ballot

    Thought I'd post my ongoing ballots for DVDVR's best of the 1980's projects. This one is for the "Other Japan", meaning all men's promotions outside of AJPW and NJPW (they have their own categories). I've already started, so I've posted the current list. I'll also add short blurbs about the matches when I have something to say about them. 1. Nobuhiko Takada vs Akira Maeda (11/10/88 UWF) 2. Kazuo Yamazaki vs Nobuhiko Takada (8/13/88 UWF) 3. Akira Maeda vs Gerard Gourdeau (8/13/88 UWF) 4. Kazuo Yamazaki vs Nobuhiko Takada (9/11/85 UWF) 5. Nobuhiko Takada vs Bob Backlund (12/22/88 UWF) 6. Yoji Anjoh vs Masakatsu Funaki (6/14/89 UWF) 7. Masakatsu Funaki vs Tatsuo Nakano (7/24/89 UWF) 8. Kazuo Yamazaki vs Nobuhiko Takada (12/5/84 UWF) 9. Akira Maeda vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (8/13/89 UWF) 10. Yoji Anjoh vs Minoru Suzuki (10/25/89 UWF) 11. Akira Maeda vs Kazuo Yamazaki (5/21/89 UWF) 12. Kazuo Yamazaki vs Yoji Anjoh (8/13/89 UWF) 13. Kazuo Yamazaki vs Nobuhiko Takada (5/4/89 UWF) 14. Nobuhiko Takada vs Akira Maeda (1/10/89 UWF) 15. Nobuhiko Takada vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (10/25/89 UWF) 16. Super Tiger vs Nobuhiko Takada (9/6/85 UWF) 17. Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Super Tiger (9/11/85 UWF) 18. Akira Maeda vs Kazuo Yamazaki (5/12/88 UWF) 19. Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Super Tiger (7/17/85 UWF) 20. Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Akira Maeda (3/2/85 UWF) 21. Super Tiger vs Akira Maeda (9/11/84 UWF) 22. Nobuhiko Takada vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (7/8/85 UWF) 23. Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Super Tiger (12/5/84 UWF) 24. Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Nobuhiko Takada (10/22/84 UWF) 25. Atsushi Onita vs Masashi Aoyagi (10/6/89 FMW) 26. Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Kazuo Yamazaki (1/7/85 UWF) 27. Super Tiger vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (6/24/85 UWF) 28. Yoji Anjoh vs Minoru Suzuki (4/14/89 UWF) 29. Super Tiger vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (9/7/84 UWF) 30. Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Masakatsu Funaki (5/4/89 UWF) 31. Nobuhiko Takada vs Marty Jones (2/18/85 UWF) 32. Yuko Miyato vs Minoru Suzuki (5/4/89 UWF) 33. Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Osamu Kido (9/6/85 UWF) 34. Akira Maeda vs Super Tiger (1/7/85 UWF) 35. Riki Choshu vs Genichiro Tenryu (2/21/85 JPW) 36. Osamu Kido vs Akira Maeda (7/21/85 UWF) 37. Super Tiger vs Nobuhiko Takada (7/21/85 UWF) 38. Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Kazuo Yamazaki (8/29/85 UWF) 39. Super Tiger vs Marty Jones (3/2/85 UWF) 40. Akira Maeda vs Kazuo Yamazaki (2/18/85 UWF) 41. Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Kazuo Yamazaki (7/24/89 UWF) 42. Super Tiger/Joe Malenko vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara/Osamu Kido (5/25/85 UWF) 43. Masami Soronaka vs Scott McGhee (12/5/84 UWF) 44. Nobuhiko Takada vs Masami Soronaka (3/2/85 UWF) 45. Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Osamu Kido (2/18/85 UWF) 46. Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Yoji Anjoh (5/21/89 UWF) 47. Osamu Kido vs Akira Maeda (1/29/85 UWF) 48. Minoru Suzuki vs Johnny Barrett (10/1/89 UWF) 49. Ryuma Go vs Atsushi Onita (4/30/89 Pioneer) 50. Rusher Kimura vs Alexis Smirnoff (11/22/80 IWE) 51. Mighty Inoue/Higo Hamaguchi vs Carlos Plata/El Doberman (11/27/80 IWE) 52. Bob Backlund vs Masakatsu Funaki (5/21/89 UWF) 53. Carlos Plata/El Doberman/Goro Tsurumi vs Higo Hamaguchi/Isamu Teranishi/Mach Hayato (11/22/80 IWE) 54. Super Tiger/Akira Maeda vs Nobuhiko Takada/Yoshiaki Fujiwara (7/23/84 UWF) 55. Kazuo Yamazaki vs Chris Dolman (11/29/89 UWF) 56. Riki Choshu/Yoshiaki Yatsu/Kuniaki Kobayashi vs Hiro Saito/Shunji Takano/Super Strong Machine (11/2/85 JPW) 57. Nobuhiko Takada vs Akira Maeda (5/25/85 UWF) 58. Atsushi Onita vs Masashi Aoyagi (6/2/89 Ultimate Karate Ikki Kajiwara Memorial) 59. Shozo Kobayashi & Haruka Eigen vs Mighty Inoue & Isamu Teranishi (6/29/80 IWE) 60. El Gran Hamada vs Perro Aguayo (4/11/84 UWF) 61. Mighty Inoue/Higo Hamaguchi vs Spike Huber/Rocky Brewer (7/25/80 IWE) 62. Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Akira Maeda (7/13/85 UWF) 63. Tarzan Goto vs Mitsuhiro Matsunaga (12/4/89 FMW) 64. Higo Hamaguchi/Isamu Teranishi/Mach Hayato vs El Cobarde/Herodes/Goro Tsurumi (3/26/81 IWE) 65. Akira Maeda vs Kazuo Yamazaki (10/22/84 UWF) 66. Osamu Kido vs Super Tiger (7/8/85 UWF) 67. Kazuo Yamazaki vs Jack Snuka (9/11/84 UWF) 68. Osamu Kido vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (7/25/85 UWF) 69. Cuban Assassian/Phil Lafleur vs Super Tiger/Osamu Kido (10/22/84 UWF) 70. Carlos Plata/El Doberman vs Mighty Inoue/Mach Hayato (11/1/80 IWE) 71. Super Tiger vs Osamu Kido (8/29/85 UWF) 72. Atsushi Onita/Dick Murdoch vs Masanobu Kurisu/Jos LeDuc (12/4/89 FMW) 73. Jimmy Backlund vs Mitsuteru Tokuda (10/6/89 FMW) 74. Killer Khan vs Stan Hansen (??/??/86 JPW) 75. Pete Roberts/Akira Maeda vs Keith Hayward/Osamu Kido (12/5/84 UWF) Rusher Kimura vs Alexis Smirnoff (11/22/80 IWE) - I doubt this will be a popular pick, but I liked it. There was a lot of very, very basic and deliberate matwork, but it wasn't inactive matwork . Sometimes one hold would be held for 2 or 3 minutes at a time, but both guys would constantly try to fight their way out of those holds, and eventually, it turned into a solid and focused leg attack from Smirnoff. I'll take basic and deliberate combined with active and focused any day. Super Tiger vs Akira Maeda (9/11/84 UWF) - I loved the back and forth in this match. Great counters and great momentum swings made this really dramatic for me. Masami Soronaka vs Scott McGhee (12/5/84 UWF) - This was perhaps the most realistic match on the set so far. A lot of chain/amateur wrestling going on here, with both guys working for holds, and moving along in a realistic and smooth way. For how great of an amateur Kurt Angle was, these two seem to have a better grasp of how to translate that style into the pros. Pete Roberts/Akira Maeda vs Keith Hayward/Osamu Kido (12/5/84 UWF) - A complete bore for 25 of the 30 minutes this match went. Lifeless matches aren't a big deal when they're short, but when they're long, it's just painful. Maeda did nothing except kill one of the first exciting sequences of the match. The other three only picked up their game during the last 10 minutes or so. There was little or no direction, focus or action and it lasted 30 minutes. Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Super Tiger (12/5/84 UWF) - Absolutely brutal. The early portions of the match are peppered with some great mat sequences, with both guys working for holds, transitioning to other holds when those weren't working and just looking really believable in general. Then Tiger starts killing Fujiwara with kicks. For about seven minutes. This was actually good and bad in that it was silly that Tiger was allowed to kick the hell out of Fujiwara while he was down and supposedly taking a ten count. If a ten count is going to be used for knockdowns, the other guy can't be allowed continue beating his opponent after the opponent gets knocked down. It ruins the point and drama of the knockdown. The whole finishing sequence would have been better if Fujiwara was taking the beating on his feet, along with making a few more attempts at a comeback. But I can't complain too much, since this is still early UWF, and the workers were still perfecting the style. Kazuo Yamazaki vs Nobuhiko Takada (12/5/84 UWF) - This was more or less a better version of Tiger vs. Maeda from 9/11/84. A great swing match, where both guys had their moments. Great, fluid matwork early, awesome transitions from one move attempt to the next and a fantastic back and forth stretch run where the outcome was very much in doubt. Osamu Kido vs Akira Maeda (1/29/85 UWF) - Maeda actually sold a bit. Early portions were very dull, as Maeda was in control for 95% of the first 10-15 minutes. Things picked up at various points, but the work was never more than good. Ends up being merely decent, which is a lot better than I thought it would be after the first few minutes. Nobuhiko Takada vs Marty Jones (2/18/85 UWF) - Good bit of fun here, with some clever reversals, great body language from both guys and a neat mini-story revolving around the headscissors. Not much drama, just a solidly worked, shoot-style wrestling match. Akira Maeda vs Kazuo Yamazaki (2/18/85 UWF) - Not such a great first 15 minutes, although it wasn't all bad. Things got really good when Yamazaki was allowed to make his comeback and get in some quality offense. Most of the match was mediocre, but the stretch run made it good enough to get a decent placement on the list. Riki Choshu vs Genichiro Tenryu (2/21/85 JPW) - This was one of those matches where they don't waste any time in moving the match along, as Tenryu tried to bomb Choshu out of there right at the start, which made the whole match seem like a stretch run. If the sort of work these guys did was at the end of 15-20 minutes of build, this would be a MOTYC. As it was, it's just merely good, but a lot of fun regardless. Nobuhiko Takada vs Akira Maeda (5/25/85 UWF) - This was way too clipped, showing only six of nineteen minutes. What I saw was mostly good, and was enough to put it over some of the weaker matches, but I didn't see enough for this to really get a good placement. Nobuhiko Takada vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (7/8/85 UWF) - The main point here was that Fujiwara is a prick, and that makes Takada angry. Angry Takada decides to kick the crap out of Fujiwara, but that doesn't really stop Fujiwara from being a prick. Short match, but it had a nifty story and it was a ton of fun. Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Kazuo Yamazaki (8/29/85 UWF) - There was some nifty matwork here which led to some bizarre positions, along with a couple of neat counters. The match never really got hot, and the ending was somewhat abrupt, but it was still a solid match due to how good the early portions were. Kazuo Yamazaki vs Nobuhiko Takada (9/11/85 UWF) - Tough call between this match or their 12/5/84 match, but I went with this one. The early portions of this match were hit or miss and weren't as strong as their previous encounter, but the stretch run was a lot better. Only problem was that it may have gone on a little too long. In any case, this match seemed like a blueprint for UWF2, as this was worked much like the bigger UWF2 matches, with a lot of knockdowns, comebacks and tons of drama. Kazuo Yamazaki vs Nobuhiko Takada (8/13/88 UWF) - Takada was actually heeling it up here, twice kicking Yamazaki while he was down, along with punching him right in the face. The opening 5-10 minutes of this match was full of neat little spots and story sequences like that. Later, Takada started going after Yamazaki's leg but couldn't put him away. One complaint is that the dragon suplex wasn't treated well, as it didn't even get a close near-fall, and it wasn't sold very well either. Finishing sequence was incredible and the actual finish was incredibly hot. Excellent match. Nobuhiko Takada vs Akira Maeda (11/10/88 UWF) - Incredibly dramatic and epic match. Both guys were just whaling on each other by the end. Really great story, with Takada getting the worst of it early, and only being one knockdown away from losing, only to reverse the tide and storm back for the win. The finish was just beautiful, as they were drilling each other with their best shots, and it was only a matter of who would go down first. Maeda's selling was fantastic and it was the best performance of his that I've seen.
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    Favorite Wrestling Pictures

    My favourite picture of Owen Hart Uh oh. Ouch.
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    ROH-Glory By Honor V Weekend

    $20 is generally what WWE sells their PPV DVDs for is it not? And suffice to say, almost any ROH show is probably quite a bit better than the typical WWE PPV. Of course, I also think $20 is too high in general. To me, even $15 would be a reasonable price for an original DVD copy of a 3 hour show. I'm just not keen on paying $20 for any 2-3 hour DVD.
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    Vader's jump from WCW to the WWF

    Vader clearly wasn't a big boy.
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    ROH-Glory By Honor V Weekend

    I wonder what kind of reaction Morishima is going to get. He's not really one that a casual kind of puroresu follower is going to know much about. The guy's freakin awesome though and I look forward to him vs. Joe (which is one of the only 2 matches that makes any sense for him in ROH).
  23. Mid 90's New Japan smokes any of these rosters. The North American "big 3" (Benoit/Guerrero/Malenko) during their primes. Liger. Otani, Samurai, Kanemoto when he didn't suck as much, Akira, a prime, pre-lazy Muto, a still good Chono, Hashimoto, Hase, Tenryu, Koshinaka, Fujinami Yamazaki (after 96) plus the slew of young guys who would become better later on (Nagata, Tenzan, Kojima and Sasaki). Plus others that they brought in on occassion, like Scorpio, Jericho, the MPro guys, etc.
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    Favorite Bret Hart & Ric Flair match

    Bret vs. Austin from Survivor Series 1996. Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat from Clash of the Champions VI.
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