Coffey Posted July 15, 2023 Report Share Posted July 15, 2023 17 hours ago, C.S. said: I'm arguing with an idiot on another message board who claims WWE 2K20 (a broken, buggy, indefensible, irredeemable disaster of a game) is better than AEW Fight Forever. If someone wants to say they prefer 2K22 or 23, that's at least a reasonable take, but 2K20 was a catastrophe. His big response: the eyeroll emoji. Exchanges like this make me glad that PWO exists. Things can get heated here, but it's respectful and intelligent for the most part. It's actually come full circle for me. When I first got online, back at the end of 1998 (after Kevin Nash ended the Goldberg streak coincidentally) I was searching out wrestling video game information. Stumbled upon WrestlingGames.com which started my pro wrestling message forum participation. I've been posting on forums about wrestling for like 20-25 years now... and Sek has been there for a lot of it. Sadly, my biggest "claim to fame" (if you can even call it that) was being the guy that defended Val Venis & thinking he deserved more of a push. Now seeing that he turned out into a burnout conspiracy theory nut, it's a good thing that didn't happen. Back then, we were all playing those THQ/AKI N64 wrestling games in real, modern time. Now all these years later, we're still talking about wanting a game that plays like No Mercy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strobogo Posted July 16, 2023 Report Share Posted July 16, 2023 Why doesn't Scott Steiner have a No Sympy shirt on PWT that is in the style of the No Mercy box art Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man in Blak Posted July 30, 2023 Report Share Posted July 30, 2023 Well, my AEW Fight Forever review is finally out there - it's a month after I filed it for embargo (and after the CMS apparently decided to scramble my byline), but it is live: https://gamecritics.com/stevegillham2gc/aew-fight-forever-review/ There won’t be any revelations or hot takes here; it’s a very tight word count for a more general audience. It’s not even especially well-written…but I’m just happy that it’s published. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Wrestling 2000 Posted July 31, 2023 Report Share Posted July 31, 2023 I dug your review nice job. i like the ladder mechanic though. Its either mash or a different mini game like the pull through deal in the current 2k games. I got busy and couldn't play for a bit, now im getting crushed in ranked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted August 1, 2023 Report Share Posted August 1, 2023 Yeah I got tripped up by the ladder mechanic at first because it's over complicated in 2K games. Once I realized what Fight Forever was asking me to do, it was a "why the hell wasn't every other game doing it this way" moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted August 2, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2023 Very nice and fair review, @The Man in Blak. I was wondering why it took so long to publish. If you wrote it a month ago and the site held onto it all this time, that's...odd. (BTW, is the byline still scrambled, or are you Steve Gillham?) Anyway, the only thing I would've added is a paragraph on how limited the CAW mode is. You mentioned some things I didn't even know about - like being able to trigger chain wrestling. I just wish we knew how. I think you liked the minigames more than me. I love the idea of them, but the execution is lacking IMO. (The baseball one is genuinely fun though.) Once again, I love the transparency (how long you played, which system, how you acquired it, etc.) and accessibility information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man in Blak Posted August 2, 2023 Report Share Posted August 2, 2023 Yeah, I submitted it on deadline for the embargo, but...things happen. Some of it was CMS troubles, some of it is working with a volunteer site where people are working outside of their regular jobs on editing and publishing. That byline is me, though - we just had to re-associate every piece I wrote for the site (including this one) under a new user to fix everything. @_@ The CAW breakdown was a word count casualty - I was limited to a thousand words - but I would agree that the lack of appearance customization (in particular) was a little disappointing, especially compared to some other wrestling games out there. I had to make a similar compromise on describing the mini-games -- they weren't particularly great mini-games, but I thought they worked well enough as a change of pace for the Road to Elite. And yeah, the baseball one is silly in the best way; of all the ones they did, that's the one that seemed close to being on par with a Mario Party level of minigame quality. And I still don't know how to trigger chain wrestling. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted August 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2023 7 hours ago, The Man in Blak said: I was limited to a thousand words Any reason why? That seems really odd for a volunteer website. Actually, for a website in general. Such a policy makes sense for print media, obviously, but online? I realize 99% of the internet has no concept of brevity and just vomits out an overabundance of words, but it still seems like a strange restriction to me. If it were me, I would've written 1050 words - I highly doubt anyone would check - but I'm a bit of a rebel that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man in Blak Posted August 3, 2023 Report Share Posted August 3, 2023 I’ve never been given a reason for GC specifically but I find that, even online, most word counts are meant to triangulate a happy medium between SEO optimization (which generally favors longer pieces), editorial bandwidth (not much at a volunteer site) and content throughput (also limited with volunteer writers). In a world increasingly populated by nine hour Youtube critique videos where written reviews arguably have the least amount of mindshare they’ve ever had with gaming as a whole, I don’t mind aiming to be concise, even if it introduces some interesting challenges with structuring a piece like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted August 24, 2023 Report Share Posted August 24, 2023 https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/aew-announces-stadium-stampede-mode-will-be-playable-aew-fight-forever-82423 Fight Forever getting a Stadium Stampede mode later today, gonna be a battle royale (as in Fortnite not a rasslin battle royale) completed with a full stadium map. Looks like it's going to be fun an at the very least it shows their promise to keep adding to the game wasn't just marketing BS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Wrestling 2000 Posted August 24, 2023 Report Share Posted August 24, 2023 i think its out now, ill check it out after work hopefully. I saw that there is new outfits for some people too. Cant find any patch notes which infuriates me as a gamer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strobogo Posted August 25, 2023 Report Share Posted August 25, 2023 AEW Fight Forever Patch 1.03 Features A Massive Amount Of Fixes (yahoo.com) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alucard Posted September 18, 2023 Report Share Posted September 18, 2023 For anyone interested, Fight Forever is currently on it's first minor sale at 20% off on the Playstation store until Sept. 28 From 59.99 to 47.99 (comes out to 51.95 with tax) for the standard version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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