AEW Fight Forever (and other AEW video games)

[C.S.]

Console Game (Current and Next-Gen): Something fun to pick up, akin to NBA Jam and No Mercy.

Mobile Game 1: Elite General Manager 

Mobile Game 2: AEW Casino Double or Nothing (appears to be a virtual casino sim, oddly enough)

Summary: AEW Reveals Its First Three Video Games, One Developed By Yuke’s (WrestleZone)

[Blehschmidt]

The footage with Shida and Omega looks like No Mercy with modern graphics. That's a great start!!

[Stiva]

Very wary of Yukes making any wrestling game after their last few WWE games before they removed themselves from it but who knows if that was THQs restrictions fucking things up? I’m into a mobile TEW style affair though, it’s the one thing that I’m amazed nobody has made a crack at on phones.

[MoS]

Too much talking and bad jokes

[C.S.]

37 minutes ago, MoS said:

Too much talking and bad jokes

You actually watched the whole thing?

I just skipped around until there was game footage.

[MoS]

17 minutes ago, C.S. said:

You actually watched the whole thing?

I just skipped around until there was game footage.

I tried to, had to switch off. Kenny Omega impersonating Steve Jobs is really not my thing

[sek69]

It was a bit since Cody, Aubrey, and Britt all did the "dress as Steve Jobs at an Apple presentation" thing.

Also they brought in the producer of No Mercy to work on this and Kenny's been adamant that their goal for an AEW video game was very much "No Mercy, but on modern consoles". That's all I was hoping for and it looks like that's what we're getting.

[MoS]

It was a lame, unfunny bit

[El-P]

I can't tell because Youtube is down. So 2020...

[C.S.]

AEW's video game, Fight Forever, will be added to GamePass on release day.

https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/report-aew-fight-forever-will-release-day-one-xbox-game-pass

Cool for Xbox fans, I guess, but really shitty for everyone else.

I personally hope this badly backfires on AEW Games/THQ and completely tanks sales on PlayStation and Switch.

The GamePass model does more harm than good for the industry.

I personally no longer buy games that go GamePass immediately while players on other systems are treated like second class citizens. 

Why would I pay $60 on my chosen system when people on another system are getting it for "free" with their lower-priced subscription? You guessed it: I wouldn't and won't.

Instead, out of principle, I just wait for bottom of the barrel pricing or for it to eventually land on the other subscription services.

[C.S.]

21 hours ago, C.S. said:

AEW's video game, Fight Forever, will be added to GamePass on release day.

https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/report-aew-fight-forever-will-release-day-one-xbox-game-pass

Or maybe not...

The SAME SITE that reported the GamePass "newz" is now saying this.

What gives? 

[SirEdger]

LOL

At this pace, WWE 2K23 will be released before Fight Forever. Seriously, this is smelling like a complete fiasco.

[sek69]

Fiasco? They have a release date announced.

[SirEdger]

A release date for Fight Forever? Where did you see that?

[The Thread Killer]

29 minutes ago, SirEdger said:

A release date for Fight Forever? Where did you see that?

They’ve been hyping on TV for a while now, brother. Personally, I don’t care. The last Pro Wrestling video game I bought was this one on the NES…

 

 

I assume these newer games are similar?

[SirEdger]

Wow, I haven't played that game in ages.

[The Thread Killer]

I freaking loved the hell out of that game back when it came out. I used to love fighting that big Giant Machine rip-off on the final level, you could only knock him down with certain flying moves like a knee smash. Good times.

[sek69]

Funny thing, in the Japanese game it was based off the end boss actually was Andre.

[NintendoLogic]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCW_Wrestling#Super_Star_Pro_Wrestling

Some of the changes are at least somewhat comprehensible (Sting and Choshu both used the scorpion deathlock), but others are just baffling. Ricky Steamboat as Bruiser Brody?

[sek69]

My favorite is Hawk as Stan Hansen when Hawk was already in the Japanese version. Also Ric Flair as Baba makes sense in a weird way since both were famous for chops.

[The Thread Killer]

I never played the Japanese version of that game and now I want to.

[Robert S]

2 hours ago, sek69 said:

My favorite is Hawk as Stan Hansen when Hawk was already in the Japanese version. Also Ric Flair as Baba makes sense in a weird way since both were famous for chops.

Now Eddie Gilbert as Abdullah the Butcher...

[sek69]

14 minutes ago, Robert S said:

Now Eddie Gilbert as Abdullah the Butcher...

if I remember it was because both had fireballs as special moves

 

[C.S.]

Did anyone preorder Fight Forever? I bit the bullet and took a risk by preordering the digital Elite Edition.

I don't usually go for digital, but I decided to in this case because the game is going to get incremental updates that wouldn't be on disc anyway.

Really hoping for the best here, as the WWE games have been unplayable dreck for a decade now.

[MoS]

The bits I have seen of the game look great tbh imo. Real, proper No Mercy vibes