You know what really grinds my gears? Arcade ports, where they never really save the high score right. Instead of Pac-Man showing it at the top of the screen, it resets back to default, and the high score get logged on a separate screen.
NO! NO! (Whacks programmer with rolled up newspaper.)
That is NOT how you do it! The entire motivation is beating the top score, which should be right in front as you AS you play.
If MAME can do it with a single text file and line of code, I bet it's doable, but the devs are too lazy to bother.
The games pissing me off.
"Put Hunter through a table."
Sounds easy enough.
*Gets table under ring, slowly opens legs up, clunkily positions table. Knock Hunter off ring apron. Hunter MISSES table. Gets up, Hunter accidentially taps table. Table legs close.*
Ok, maybe if I set it up in a ring corner.
*Irish whip into corner. Table doesn't break. Hunter reverses move, puts ME through table.*
Finally said F it, and spent the next half hour beating on Hunter and the ref with steel.stairs.
Unlockable costumes just ain't worth the effort.
Originally posted by cdtm
The games pissing me off."Put Hunter through a table."
Sounds easy enough.
*Gets table under ring, slowly opens legs up, clunkily positions table. Knock Hunter off ring apron. Hunter MISSES table. Gets up, Hunter accidentially taps table. Table legs close.*
Ok, maybe if I set it up in a ring corner.
*Irish whip into corner. Table doesn't break. Hunter reverses move, puts ME through table.*
Finally said F it, and spent the next half hour beating on Hunter and the ref with steel.stairs.
Unlockable costumes just ain't worth the effort.
The newer games are better for the actual wrestling, tbh.
I thought the table breaking was annoying. I eventually did figure it out, once I learned the clunky, non intuitive controls. Pretty sure I can recreate it in demand now.
But the act of hitting Hawk with a belt before the ref wakes up is probably the hardest single thing in the game. Mainly because, most of the time you aren't even FACING your target. The dodgy targeting randomly has you looking at the non legal tag partner on the other side of the ring. Or your own partner. Or, the ref.
Here Comes the Pain never had these problems! Man, wrestling games have regressed, if I could load up Wrestlemania XIX or, dare I say it, No Mercy, and get a perfect gameplay experience.
Originally posted by cdtm
Is 2k14 much different? Completely fell under my radar at the time, but the 30 years of Wrestlemania looks interesting.
14 isn't much different iirc. I think it's 15 or 16 when things really start to shift, as that was the switch from last gen to current gen. After that, it took a couple of games, but 19 was/is really good, imo.
Originally posted by cdtm
I thought the table breaking was annoying. I eventually did figure it out, once I learned the clunky, non intuitive controls. Pretty sure I can recreate it in demand now.But the act of hitting Hawk with a belt before the ref wakes up is probably the hardest single thing in the game. Mainly because, most of the time you aren't even FACING your target. The dodgy targeting randomly has you looking at the non legal tag partner on the other side of the ring. Or your own partner. Or, the ref.
Here Comes the Pain never had these problems! Man, wrestling games have regressed, if I could load up Wrestlemania XIX or, dare I say it, No Mercy, and get a perfect gameplay experience.
Make sure targeting is set on manual.
A setting, eh?
I'll change it, since it's murder on Rumbles and tags. Managed to get past that one spot by simply bring the belt in the ring, waiting on the scene where the ref gets knocked down, and quickly hitting Hawk while he's already down.
Big pain in the butt, but it's worth it for LoD.
In general, the games not as bad once you learn how to cheese the AI. Essentially, a lot of Irish Whips, abuse outside like a dirty rulebreaker, and keep lifting them up and spamming the "dizzy" grapple moves where you don't actually lock up before hand. (The AI seems to have more trouble reversing those, compared to standard grapples.)
Body part targets also work pretty well, but do next to no damage.