Mike wanna be

Bix you huffin paint chips or something, i seriously doubt they go up to someone like Batista and say HERE YOU NEED TO SHOOT THIS UP TO GET BIGGER, call me crazy but i bet the guys we all think are on steroids really are not I'll go one better and call you a moron. Just take a look at the rise and fall of Chris Masters (complete with "How to lose 50 pounds in 4 weeks" nationally televised joke!).

5? I had 3, once they start 0-2. I'm pretty sure they could suit up Jesus at QB and the Pound would still be wielding their "Start Quinn" signs and chants.

"It's a me, Marella!" Gorilla Monsoon's rotational inertia has just shifted to overdrive.

They're probably just being offered so people can buy a cheap one and offer it as a tournament prize, instead of giving away a console or something. Hell, if I had the money to throw around I'd probably get one.

Hook & ladder, statue of liberty yes. Troy, yes, Troy State not that I've seen. And when will we get back all the special teams trick plays & Reverse Camera "Block that kick!" camera? I loved that fucking thing.

I'm just starting to understand recruiting. I'm still no good at it, but I signed 3 recruits out of 35 during the actual season. It's a start...now I just have to learn to win a game. 3-9 the first time I played/simmed, I got fired. Started over, simmed every game, went 8-4. I suck.

Why's it bad to have logos on the loading screens? I mean, if it's a designated "Loading..." screen anyway, realism's snapped anyway by the frozen-in-time thing, so if they slap an ad on there, go for it. I probably flipped over back to Vid1 to watch TV 2 seconds into the load anyway. And what good are in-game advertisements anyway? The only way they'd get me to buy something is if they offered a sale or a coupon somewhere. I'm not going to go get a sub at Subway just because Frank West picked one up, said "Mmm" and gained six health bars.

He's still got 1980s Bob Backlund's promo-cutting skill, that thieving bastard.

All-Pro's getting buried in the reviews, though. As for this game, everything that was "left out" seems to be stuff I didn't care about in the first place, and the additions are fun to screw around with. I'd recommend a rental, but not quite enough for an outright purchase.

A self-fulfilling curse/prophecy, in that case. I see Khali, because Khali/Batista's the only Smackdown match already booked that could feasibly slide into the ME slot left from Kane/Edge. Maybe throw Kane in as an extra challenger, make it a triple threat for the gold.

Agreed 100% with Scroby. Lack of custom entrance themes killed me; I was set to make 2 Owen Harts (one for Nation, one for "The Rocket/King of Harts" Owen) with about an hour of internet surfing for the themes, only to find that I couldn't put them in the entrance. Lame. I also hated the size imbalance, but for dubious reasons (I always create the colossus Nightmare as my CAW to start, and since he's a Super Heavyweight I would catch shit from anyone I played on Live because of the size imbalancing.)

"Wrestling? On my show? We'll just see about that, mister hot-shot Freebird. And Free Bird's a song, not a man, goddammit!" How....convenient.

He appeared to be bald with a goatee, but I didn't get a great look at him. And that was one of the better spots I've ever seen; AJ went for a cross-body on Abyss, and just bounced off as Abyss took about a half-step back. EDIT: And TNA forgets to edit out the NWA part in their title graphic. Smooth.

I still can't get over the commentary over-selling things that should be all but ignored, and then all but ignoring a massive left-side lariat that JR would've sold like death, and a mild "Did you see that" for Harris stealing the Unprettier. And an even MILDER Mike Tenay when Harris kicks out of the Unprettier. EDIT: And the cameraman somehow misses the Dustin interference that finishes the match. Great work, as always.

How the fuck can they keep having KOTM matches when they spend every non-KOTM PPV having the guy who lost the belt trash the match premise? Shouldn't you put over the uniqueness of your own match instead of constantly "What kind of match idea is this? This is stupid, it's idiotic, it's asinine!" burials.

The tambourine of doom~! Promo seemed to drag...although part of that is because I can't get the sopcast volume loud enough to be comprehensible when they aren't yelling without deafening myself whenever I get IMed.

Maybe they're confused and are hoping Eric Bischoff will come on at 8:57 to announce the MNF result.

Benoit might be replaced with someone like...the Canadian Dream, Craig Renoit!! *bad dub* Ca-naaaaaaaa-di-uuuuuuuuuhn *end dub* dre-e-e-aaaaaaam. *Cowbell*

Hey the tape library is good for something. Apologizing to the delusional ECW faithful that bore witness to Big Topless V?

Agreed. Somewhat like Vince did way back in the day; juice to get the body, and then work out all the time to keep it as big as possible once you're forced off the "assistance".

They're so conditioned to the face overcoming "insurmountable" odds that they really don't have a clue what to expect when the argument can suddenly be made that both men will have "overcome the odds", so to speak, to emerge victorious.

You mean eLicense. And they're (virtually) uncrackable; the game doesn't unlock without confirmation from eLicense. eLicense doesn't have a set pool of codes to choose from like CD-keys, it generates them randomly upon purchase. Your only hope would be to somehow grab a generated eLicense code between the time it's generated and the time it's input into the buyer's game. On the EWR front, my PWF company (started backyard 75% PI) is up to the Cult range, and its TV show (aptly named PWF on Monday) bouncing between late evenings and graveyards on Sci-Fi (there are 2 other late evening shows on that night, so when Sci-Fi decides the ratings are good enough it automatically shifts the show into that slot. It promptly gets killed in the ratings and I have to either drop it back to graveyard or hope they don't just outright cancel it). Shelton Benjamin (swiped from Double Double E) just won my top title after Arsenicing his salary down to a reasonable level (I was making ridiculous offers to all the "Contract about to come up" workers, and he's the only one WWE didn't resign). As usual, my development territory has more workers than my active roster (I lose interest if I've got to keep 30, 40 workers involved, so I just constantly sign/re-sign/release/fire workers from my dev territory, unless they become super-workers), including Armando Alejandro Estrada, Elijah Burke, the Majors brothers & almost every training school graduate I've had.

Now New Jersey can get a capable backup, win the season-ending shootout and get the Leafs into the playoffs.

Newer games can't get away with constant enemy re-spawning, making you replay the entire game over from scratch when you run out of lives (with a few exceptions), and feature generous save options. Old games didn't, and typically the technology wasn't there to offer all those options we have available today. Lest we forget the rise of the Internet. You get stuck today, www.gamefaqs.com and you're back in business. You got stuck back then, your options were: A) Play until you figured it out B) Ask anyone you could get the attention of if they owned the game and knew how to get past that spot C) Wait for the next issue of Nintendo Power and hope there's something in there D) Run up your parent's phone bill calling the hotline and hoping they could help you.

Law & Order reruns aren't what they used to be. I assume they're thinking 8-11 like the specials, and not 9-midnight...