All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing)
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Subject: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Wed 11 Nov 2020 - 21:25
All Elite Wrestling premiered three new console and mobile games late last night:
The first game they announced is very reminiscent of WWE SmackDown!: Here Comes The Pain, and directed by the director WWF No Mercy. That's some genealogy. Secondly is a General Manager simulator for mobile phones, and thirdly is a gambling game.
There'll surely be more to say as things progress, especially with that console game, which is still early into it's development. But for now, is anybody else excited to see how these pan out? I love wrestling games, but I absolutely hate what 2K have been doing these last eight years. I'm ready for something - anything! - different.
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Wed 11 Nov 2020 - 22:02
I'm keen as like you I used too like wrestling games then they became muh and haven't played one for years
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Tue 17 Nov 2020 - 22:18
It's definitely cool they have the WWF No Mercy director on board but I tried to look him up to find out what other games he had done since then and I just couldn't find anything at all and that's a wee bit worrying tbh. I've said this elsewhere on here but I'll repeat it again, if they approach making it as a fighting game first then they will be on the right track to a very good wrestling game.
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Sun 22 Nov 2020 - 10:42
Interested in how this turns out. I resubscribed to the Network recently and have enjoyed getting back into some wrestling (although haven't watched AEW in months) but you guys are right, 2K have really ruined the WWE games by making them "simmy". As good as No Mercy is, I prefer the PS2 games as they managed to get that blend of arcade/sim just right. Not sure about the graphical style of this though.
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Sun 22 Nov 2020 - 11:19
Which PS2 games are those that you preferred? I'd honestly be happy with anything that was reminiscent of Shut Your Mouth, or Here Comes The Pain, or SD Vs. Raw 2006. They're all fairly different games, married by having a really fun game engine in their own right. I can see the AEW game being more like Def Jam Vendetta than anything else though.
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Sun 22 Nov 2020 - 11:33
Yeah the first three. Just Bring It was basically the third PS1 game which were great fun with plenty to do. Shut Your Mouth is my favourite and Here Comes the Pain is superb too, but that was when it started to get "simmy", so Rey Mysterio couldn't lift up Big Show, and things like that. I also lost interest in WWE after that so didn't play the subsequent PS2 games, but did pick up Smackdown vs Raw 2011 on PS2 as it still used the old engine and really enjoyed that.
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Sun 22 Nov 2020 - 13:54
I was always a big fan of WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role but that might be down to time and place as a few friends liked wrestling that 4-Player often happened on PS1 which most had compared to a N64.
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Fri 27 Nov 2020 - 20:35
Smackdown 2 was pretty good. The original Smackdown game feels a bit like a concept game in comparison, but those load times during the season mode were pretty dire.
What I really liked about Smackdown 1 through to Shut Your Mouth was how easy it was to add your create a characters to the WWE season modes.
I skipped the third Smackdown game, but I did get Shut Your Mouth close to release and it's a truly great wrestling game. I loved the story mode, which had a variety of storylines based on which wrestler you picked (including stuff for your created folk).
There was also a really odd "open-world" like mechanic where you could walk around back stage and chat to other wrestlers, or walk into Vinny Mac's office and demand a title shot.
I really miss that fusion of curated plotlines and silly arcade action. If the AEW game can recapture that, then it'll be well worth the price.
I still can't quite believe how awful the 2k games are.
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Sat 28 Nov 2020 - 0:27
I'm hoping they nail the online for this as well as I think it'd be a great laugh to have a wrestling game for those GNamer multiplayer sessions.
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Fri 18 Dec 2020 - 20:51
Shut Your Mouth was my favourite as well. Just a quality time all around - I think I was a bit too young to experience No Mercy, so it was the PS2 era of wrestling games that were my ticket. But aye, not much to say as of yet - here's hoping we get an actually decent big budget wrestling game considering the shambolic state of the 2K games as of late.
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Fri 6 May 2022 - 7:57
A new gameplay trailer for the Yukes-developed AEW console game debuted over the last day or so. The game is called AEW Fight Forever:
It's supposedly way over budget and development is supposedly going badly.
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Fri 6 May 2022 - 12:50
Sounds like they missed the boat on that one, someone announced a wrestling RPG like a month or two ago, Wrestle Quest I believe it was called.
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Fri 6 May 2022 - 12:53
What is this obsession American wrestling games have for uncanny valley avatars?
That AEW wrestling game looks proper weird. It's like they couldn't quite make up their minds as to whether or not they wanted it to look realistic or arcadey. I kind of like the pauses before the impact that the moves have as I feel it gives the action a bit of a pop. There's no hiding that the animations are stiff as fuck though. I guess that means they've kind of captured the essence of mashing wrestling dolls together so there's that.
And I tell you what, I'm intrigued by a WWE RPG.
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Fri 6 May 2022 - 13:55
A WWE RPG you say? They'll never top this.
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Fri 6 May 2022 - 14:26
Keen for WWE RPG, might even get Balla on it.
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Tue 7 Jun 2022 - 16:06
Who would be the secret, ultra-hard endgame boss that shows up? The Undertaker? Vince? Savio Vega?
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Tue 7 Jun 2022 - 19:29
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Wed 8 Jun 2022 - 13:13
"He fell flat on his arse!"
SHOCKMASTER was hit for critical damage!
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Wed 8 Jun 2022 - 21:17
Ahh this could actually be legit brilliant if they embrace the silly side of wrestling, imagine bigging up this boss battle only for it to be Shockmaster who immediately trips and loses all his HP.
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Wed 3 Aug 2022 - 14:34
STEAM page is up and so are preorders on Amazon (Dec 31st), that I would think this will get dated at the THQ event for this year.
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Wed 3 Aug 2022 - 22:50
The Cappuccino Kid wrote:
I love wrestling games, but I absolutely hate what 2K have been doing these last eight years. I'm ready for something - anything! - different.
While I was encouraged by how WWE 2K22 turned out, it's not a game that'll be talked about for generations to come. Will AEW: Fight Forever be talked about for generations to come? Not likely. But like before, 'I'm ready for something - anything! - different'. That trailer there looks a bit janky and I'm sure it'll run like absolute bollocks on the Switch, but so long as the wrestling mechanics are fun I'll be happy-ish.
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Thu 4 Aug 2022 - 18:32
It has Mario Party style minigames in it, so it's already more inventive than anything 2K have put out in their history.
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Tue 23 May 2023 - 12:45
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Thu 25 May 2023 - 19:13
I was all set for typing something like '’2hile I was encouraged by how WWE 2K22 turned out, it's not a game that'll be talked about for generations to come. Will AEW: Fight Forever be talked about for generations to come? Not likely. But like before, 'I'm ready for something - anything! - different'. That trailer there looks a bit janky and I'm sure it'll run like absolute bollocks on the Switch, but so long as the wrestling mechanics are fun I'll be happy-ish', but past me was already spot on.
I’ll wait for reviews and a price drop. The footage that’s out there is showing off its similarities to WWE Day of Reckoning on the GameCube, and that’s really promising.
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Subject: Re: All Elite Wrestling Games (AEW: Fight Forever, AEW Elite General Manager & AEW Casino: Double or Nothing) Tue 6 Jun 2023 - 15:40
I saw footage of a wrestler getting a skateboard from under the ring, running up to the top of the entrance ramp and then smacking the other wrestler whilst doing a 360 ollie over their head. It's a yes from me.
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