Progressive Boink

[B]

This has got to be hands down the most amazing wrestling video game ever made. Sure, it looks like a Super Nintendo game, but I swear to God there is nothing more refreshing than playing a wrestling game where the wrestlers not only act like WRESTLERS, but where wrestlers act like their real-life counterparts.

For example, I'm in a league right now where I'm playing as Masaaki Mochizuki. I breezed past Juventud Guerrera and TAKA Michinoku by just kicking the shit out of them, but in my third match I ran afoul of Tenzan. Tenzan is a lot bigger and stronger than me, but he underestimated me and just kept throwing suplexes and trying to choke me out with the Buffalo Sleeper really early on. My kicks weren't working, so I went to the air, hit him with a double stomp, and stunned him. That gave me enough time to throw him out to the floor and hit a big running dive. Knowing I wasn't going to have a chance to beat Tenzan in the middle of the ring I went for my finisher, a spinning brainbuster, on the outside. Not only did I hit it, but I SPUN AWAY FROM THE CROWD while doing it to hit it in the middle of the floor, getting a critical and keeping Tenzan down long enough to crawl back into the ring before the countout.

This is the most wondeful game. And I haven't even gotten to the joys of my Abdullah the Butcher/Steve Corino deathmatch when Abby broke out the fork.

[A Link to the Matt]

what system is this on B?

[B]

The PS2.

http://www.amazon.com/Agetec-Fire-Pro-W ... B000VG6Z9S

It's the full American version and you can pick it up online, at any video game store, or even a Dollar General if you have one around (they have it for 15 bucks). It's an absolute steal if you want any kind of depth from your wrestling game.

You start off with over 300 wrestlers to choose from and almost 200 CAW spots. The pre-existing wrestlers are just about everybody who has wrestled in Japan (from 70s/80s All Japan like Jumbo, Hansen, Gordy, Kobashi/Misawa/Kawada/Taue all the way over to Joshi wrestlers like Akira Hokuto, Aja Kong, Bull Nakano, Ayako Hamada, all the way down to Anthony W. Mori, the fucking Florida Brothers complete with wacky cheats, Kurt Angle... basically everyone you can imagine not currently employed by the WWE).

[Whittle]

are WWE wrestlers in it with fake names, ie undertaker = undead taylor?

[B]

No, no WWE guys are in the game at all. There are a lot of TNA guys, though (Angle, Jarrett, Sting, Hall and Nash, AJ, Petey Williams). There are a ton of pre-made edits that look just like the WWE guys, and there are knockoff versions of some WWE themes, like The Rock, Austin, and Triple H. Of course, every single move they've ever thought about doing also appears.

Hilariously enough, Road Warrior Hawk appears as "Undead Gladiator."

Some of the fake names are better than the real names. American Dragon is "British Azteca." And the descriptions for them are even better. Dragon's description is "A deadly assassin from the West." Andre the Giant's is my favorite. "The biggest man in the entire world."

[A Link to the Matt]

Not just the world, the ENTIRE world.


The worls fattes twins are going to be so dissapointed

[B]

I just had a series of epic matches with KENTA against Jushin Thunder Liger. He beat me handily in an armory show, finishing me off with two running palm strikes. In the rematch at the Tokyo Dome, I fared a lot better, landing some strong strikes and getting him up for the Go 2 Sleep, but it was reversed, and Liger took the rematch with a fisherman buster and a triangle choke. In the final match of three, we took it to the United States, and against all odds I finished him off with the KENTA rush, the busaiku knee, a second rush, and a Go 2 Sleep.

After the match I hit him with a second knee for good measure.

[B]

update: Kendo Ka Shin has the Dragon Soldier B gear as one of his outfits

[Whittle]

i want this game but i never got the timing down

my bro tried to teach it to me but instead of letting me learn, he just beat me down

i will buy it eventually, esp for the awesome price

[Jim]

I spent like two hours the other day trying to critical Mirko Cro Cop (Cyborg Police f'n lol) with about a half dozen different wrestlers to no avail. I would just kick the shit out of him for a solid 30 minutes (in-game time) and he would bust out a straight punch or a high kick and critical me. I finally got him with Misawa's back elbow combo. It was glorious. Fuckin' tough Croatian prick.

[B]

I'm undergoing the arduous task of renaming everybody now. You'd think a wrestling game made in Japan would give you enough spaces to spell out "Pro Wrestling NOAH."

Now I'm stuck with just "Poison JULIE."

[Alex]

Fortunately for guys with long names, you can mess with the spacing to give yourself more room. It looks stupid in the menu, though. Go go Ken Sha!


I'm seriously considering getting one of those Maxdrive things just to download wrestlers that other people have made.

[Whittle]

is there a firepro game for PSP?

[Jim]

I'm undergoing the arduous task of renaming everybody now. You'd think a wrestling game made in Japan would give you enough spaces to spell out "Pro Wrestling NOAH."

Yeah, no kidding. Fans are clamoring for the likes of Naomich Marufuji and Shinsuk Nakamura!

I've had the game for about a month now and I decided that to avoid going crazy I would just rename anyone I've ever heard of. I stopped at the Joshi roster for some reason, despite recognizing the majority of the wrestlers. I dunno. It's just really fucking tedious.

[B]

You are not experiencing the joy of having Lioness Asuka in a game unless you change her name to Lioness Asuka!

[Casey]

$5

I mean Jesus Christ how desperate to sell this game are they

[B]

It's just that cheap for the holidays (for example, Sopranos seasons were marked down from 100 bucks a piece to 19 bucks a piece last week) and because it's available in some sale bundles.

But seriously, BEST GAME EVER.

Just now I finished up a Satoshi Kojima vs. Kaz Hayashi match in dramatic fashion. I had him against the ropes and went for a lariat. Kaz ducks, jumps onto my shoulders from behind and forward victory rolls me. Instead of getting a pin attempt I roll through, come up, spin around, and lariat the holy shit out of him for a critical win.

[Casey]

I know that everything on Amazon gets sold cheaper at the holidays, it's just that it's rapidly approaching the cost of manufacturing when you sell it for that cheap. I guess I would just expect things that already cost as low as $15 to not have a 2/3 off sale.

[Wohngespenst]

I was actually going to buy the game at a gamestop tomorrow, but damn, 5 dollars (10 with shipping). I'm looking forward to it arriving.