This is what I'm wondering about. I'm more interested in the random/wacky nonsense that can happen than in the gameplay/playing it.
Wrestling Empire (MDickie) coming to Nintendo Switch (update: out now!)
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I love wrestling games. I've been obsessed with Fire Pro Wrestling for the past few months since the move craft dropped. So I definitely see some appeal here.
That is what makes it great. It is soo goooodddddd. I just picked it up, cant wait to play it later tonight.
I'm making my way through the career mode and this is like the Deadly Premonition of wrestling games. Its janky exterior might make it look bad initially but in reality it is an incredibly ambitious and unique game. The controls are legitimately more intuitive than any WWE game in recent memory and the engine really reminds me of No Mercy in some ways.
And it goes without saying that the game is fucking hilarious. The career mode specifically throws some truly wild shit at you, like podcast appearances with a fake Joe Rogan/Jesse Ventura stand-in and contract negotiations that you can fail by asking for a bit more money or creative control. I actually just signed with the WWE-equivalent promotion after beating "Ripper Ace" and they immediately changed my gimmick to something WAY worse and told me to eat shit for not liking it and now Ripper Ace wants his win back, which might be the most faithful representation of that company ever.
And it goes without saying that the game is fucking hilarious. The career mode specifically throws some truly wild shit at you, like podcast appearances with a fake Joe Rogan/Jesse Ventura stand-in and contract negotiations that you can fail by asking for a bit more money or creative control. I actually just signed with the WWE-equivalent promotion after beating "Ripper Ace" and they immediately changed my gimmick to something WAY worse and told me to eat shit for not liking it and now Ripper Ace wants his win back, which might be the most faithful representation of that company ever.
Ha, Steph and HHH signed me then immediately after, told me to beat up Bray Wyatt backstage.
A lot of the roster is actually locked and need to play through to unlock them.
This is great, but I have two questions. These may be answered in the tutorial, but that's as wonderfully rough as the rest of the game.
1) How do you throw an opponent into the ropes?
2) How do you get out of a pin or submission? I was mashing everything and nothing seemed to have an effect. I had to take control of my manager and come into the ring to smack my opponent to get me out of a bear hug, lol.
1) How do you throw an opponent into the ropes?
2) How do you get out of a pin or submission? I was mashing everything and nothing seemed to have an effect. I had to take control of my manager and come into the ring to smack my opponent to get me out of a bear hug, lol.
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Oh man, can't believe I forgot about it already. Definitely gonna buy this, but may be a while as I'm working my way through BOTW.
1) Grapple and a direction in the grapple
2) It is mashing, but sometimes you'll just be in there a while. Hold the left stick towards the ropes to get the break if you can.
Kinda. Just pick a character to play as and if you hit ZL and ZR, you'll change who you're controlling. I'm pretty sure you can just control nobody, but if that doesn't work, just become a manager or a commentator.
You just have to deal with it. It's not a game about winning every match, just doing the best you can.
Sometimes the boss will say you look like shit and give you the option of having the day off. Other times they'll force you to wrestle with an injury.
I just had this happen in my career. I came down sick, I was offered the night off, but decided to work anyway to improve my attitude. Lost to Roman Reigns with an instant armbar. Now I'm back in their office because they struggled to put together a card and want me to work twice in one night with no health!
Similar thing happened to me where some manager paid me to rough up someone backstage and I had literally zero health, so I just came up to them looking completely exhausted and they knocked me out in a single punch. I laughed so goddamn hard.
Hahaha. Was it not possible to find a weapon and attack them from behind with it?
It is, I bought it yesterday. Couldn't find it on the website, but it's on the eShop.
Great, thanks! Switch is currently charging so I hadn't checked the eShop, but I'll do that ASAP.
Ah, right!
I was also spending all of my 'green energy' on upgrading my wrestler between every match. Should I be doing that? Or is that a health bar too?
This game is great!
I'm pretty sure that's also your health bar. At least it was in previous games.
lol that explains why I'm permanently at zero health at the start of matches then! I'm a strong boy with high stats though!
I partnered up with a guy to be my mentor. I wrestled in a match where after the time limit who ever had the last pin wins. Despite me winning like 4 pins to 1 I still lost because I got pinned at the very last second.
The ref is like "nahhh redo it". This time I won. Then the Boss is like "hey we need you out for another match tonight " so I go out and it was against my mentor.
However I had no health so I got clocked by a bat and lost.
This game is great
The ref is like "nahhh redo it". This time I won. Then the Boss is like "hey we need you out for another match tonight " so I go out and it was against my mentor.
However I had no health so I got clocked by a bat and lost.
This game is great
That's not a sequence of buttons, it's random chance. If you have a higher skill level, you're more likely to just follow up with a submission hold or if you hold grapple while someone doves off the top rope, you have more chance of reversing it.
Hit them with a bigger move and keep trying. Sometimes it will just happen. Not having energy is not a guaranteed victory, the game is quite random and unpredictable by design, it's not something you're supposed to win at every week, just experience the career journey.
You can't... Yet. His other games have had a booking mode added in later, so hopefully this does too. Still not totally AI driven as you have to book it, but it's neat.
Ok interesting.. still might buy today. Watching this New Legacy stream to help me decide
Yeah, they play without the Day 1 patch which has added a lot of career things that can happen, but they still make a lot of craziness happen as usual!
My favorite video game memory is from the Android version of this game, Wrestling Revolution. I was playing career mode, and had become champion. Since you can control your character during their entrance, I made it a thing where I would get on the top rope and taunt before each match. As soon as I became champ, I changed my finish to an arm-bar since the guy I defeated used it as his finish (I was a heel, if you couldn't tell). My next match was a rematch against him, and I planned to use his own finish against him to cement myself as the champ. I got in the ring, went to the top rope to do my taunt, but randomly fell off to the outside before the match even started (damage from the last match carried over, and you have a chance of falling over when you are hurt, randomly). It was a no DQ match, so my opponent went outside, and immediately put me in an armbar. I tapped.
That type of completely dynamic storytelling might sound corny to some people, but it is the closest thing to having a real "wrestling feel" I have ever seen in a game.
As someone who has probably a hundred or so hours on Android, this game is definitely the most competent, complete game MDickie has made. The only thing I feel is missing is a dedicated counter button. The tutorial references counters a lot, and I know they can happen, but I think it's random which is funny but sort of lame. Otherwise, I am not kidding when I say this is the best wrestling game, probably ever. The level of goofy mishaps, dynamic moves and storytelling, and customization is unmatched by any other game in this genre. If you are at all on the fence, but love wrestling, please play this.
I don't want to ignore the possible bad politics that MDickie has (alleged earlier in the thread) but I can't find anything substantial to back that claim up, so I am willing to just enjoy the game for what it is, I suppose.
That type of completely dynamic storytelling might sound corny to some people, but it is the closest thing to having a real "wrestling feel" I have ever seen in a game.
As someone who has probably a hundred or so hours on Android, this game is definitely the most competent, complete game MDickie has made. The only thing I feel is missing is a dedicated counter button. The tutorial references counters a lot, and I know they can happen, but I think it's random which is funny but sort of lame. Otherwise, I am not kidding when I say this is the best wrestling game, probably ever. The level of goofy mishaps, dynamic moves and storytelling, and customization is unmatched by any other game in this genre. If you are at all on the fence, but love wrestling, please play this.
I don't want to ignore the possible bad politics that MDickie has (alleged earlier in the thread) but I can't find anything substantial to back that claim up, so I am willing to just enjoy the game for what it is, I suppose.
God, I was Universal Champion and I had a challenege to get my popularity up. I failed and I got fired, but then a thing came up that saying Federation Online's reputation had been decreased as Hasney showed up at wrestling school with the title!
They have to be really bleeding. Cave their face in with a chair repeatedly.
They have to be really bleeding. Cave their face in with a chair repeatedly.
My manager called me out, sick of being on the shadows apparently and demanded a match. Her new client interfered, but I still got the win and injured my former manager.
I would have loved to have seen it that played out in the future but... I may have killed her.
I would have loved to have seen it that played out in the future but... I may have killed her.
Nah, he showed a demo of it working, but said it wasn't his vision for wrestling, so it's not in.