I don't care how good they look if the games still shit.

That too.

I definitely want to see a new gameplay engine, though I might be convinced to buy if they added a lot more moves. That was a problem in the last couple. Everyone having the same moves with the same animations.

I know real life move sets aren't that diverse, but games of yesteryear, guys would have their own animations for the same move, with the subtle nuances they applied in real life.

We used to complain about 30 versions of the vertical suplex being in the game, but looking back now, I'd much rather have that, than seeing the same exact animation in every god damn match.

It seems like they were removing more stuff than they were putting in. Would much prefer they flooded it with more moves/match types/different 'legends' than make it look prettier.

Would still rather have the Public Enemy or the Yeti than Cena in a purple shirt.

No way.

Grimace Cena 4 lyfe

Fine Hack Meyers and Lodi for green tshirt Cena.

Didn't know Cena was looking to get into the next Planet of the Apes movie

Hahahahaha love it

The Chimp is here! :roll::lol:

<font color=goldenrod>The 2 feuds for Showcase mode are HHH/HBK and Cena/Punk.

Pipebomb in video game form.</font> :cool:

Ugh

BOOOOOO @ the HHH/HBK feud. Now for some in-game clips to move the buy or not scale one way or the other.

DLC to release more feuds for the mode most likely.

looks weird

proportions or the angle or something looks funky

idk

Big Bossman vs The Mountie

It must be done

God damn, nearlyl looks like a photo. Glad Punk made it in.

Don't forget Nailz. We need a nightstick match.

I'd love that. I can't see it happening though.

I hear rumored there may be a special CM Punk: "TYBAGH" (Take Your Ball And Go Home) Edition as well.

:lol:

Basically, you play as CM Punk through the standard Career Mode/Universe Mode/whatever it's going to be. Every week, you get an option to "Walk". If you don't, you get a "Congratulations" screen and a really fucked up storyline unfolds for you to partake in. This is your "Thanks for not Quitting". You make it through this said scenario, you unlock something (Extra stuff in Create Modes). Then you're back to Career/Universe Mode. Only now, the controls have changed and you start struggling in matches and lose some big matches you'd think CM Punk would win. Now, the option to "Walk" is in the normal menu screen and can be used at any time.

Should you choose "Walk", CM Punk is gone and you get to choose someone else to use. Once in awhile, you get a cutscene to CM Punk at home and you get the option to "Come Back". A mini-Game pops up and this decides whether you come back as a monster face or as a pissed off, self-loathing, "I didn't have anymore money and HAD to come back" type character. Then it's back to Career Mode/Universe with CM Punk if you chose to have him come back, then more screwed up scenarios and options to "Walk" again.

Romors of a "Hot Coffee" scenario with AJ Lee have been scrapped, as of this writing. :(

lol

Yeah, I was bored

Burying him by making him look skinny?

Only two rivalries? Hopefully you can control other wrestlers that may have had matches with the participants during that time.

Thank God we'll have short-haired and long-haired HHH. Had me worried there for a minute.

Did they swap Punk's lower body for AJ's?

Yeah Aj had more muscles!

Man, they femmed ol' CM Punk right up.

Okay, that actually sounds really promising. Still can't help but be skeptical though, given how long it's taken to get info/screenshots, the bumped up release date, etc.

The grappling system, as you deal damage, the grappling options get better, etc. This sounds almost Fire Pro Wrestling-ish. Not that that's a bad thing by any stretch.

Still not my ideal system but I dig the direction. Good try.

The HBK/HHH feud was an amazing 2 year odyssey.

I love the idea of starting with the typical back and forthhammerlock type stuff that's in a real match, I just don't know how well it will work with a rock/paper/scissor system.

I like the idea of a more true to life ring, where Big Show can't to the top rope in 0.3 seconds.

Still need to see all this in action.

It's SummerSlam this weekend, think we'll get some footage?

If they use FirePro as a blueprint, I'll be a very, very happy man.

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<font color=goldenrod>Holy crap, this looks very promising.</font>

What's with that guy doing skipping Cesaro's entrance?

http://www.gameranx.com/img/14-Aug/wwe2k15goldust.jpg

<font color=goldenrod>The detail on Goldust is astounding.</font>

That Orton entrance looks almost photo-realistic! Still a lot of the gameplay dynamics to be seen and a whole bunch of info on the modes, but things are looking pretty good.

Will these improvements make it to the 360/ps3? Or is it all just One/Ps4 stuff?

Not as far as the Career Mode goes. Apparently, that is Xbox One/PS4 exclusive. I do hear that the graphics/animation upgrades are supposedly coming to the 360/PS3, but I'd want to start seeing screens for them before I'd believe it.

<font color=goldenrod>lol the gameplay video is private now, probably because the creator was getting ripped for spamming an Irish whip.</font>

Following up on my post about having different atmospheres and not just different ring setups - does anyone think that when you do the punk/cena story that the crowd or entrances when you do MITB in Chicago will look and sound different than any other match? Really want that big fight feel during the actual game play rather than just a cut scene or recap video before the match.

Couldnt embed -- john cena entrance

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v9nvqUln-Qk

<font color=goldenrod>Cameraman doesn't follow Cena to the ring? That's it - I'm cancelling my pre-order.</font>

Who are these fucking losers playing the game?

Someone's jelly

Striking looks soooooooooo much better than the hyper speed combo crap from the last games.

What i like about it was when randy orton was down, he grabbed the ropes to get back up

Hoping the upcoming XBONE update means we'll be able to use music of a USB for custom entrance themes.

http://majornelson.com/2014/08/12/ki...t-coming-soon/

Are they doing the roster reveal today, and what time?

The whole "slowly crawl over for the pin after a big move" thing is in the game.

Little detail, but it's something I've wanted to see forever. Yay.

<font color=goldenrod>1 PM EST/10 AM PST. Should be on this link:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/08/...-roster-reveal

Thing is 2 fuckin' hours long though.</font>

http://www.ign.com/videos/2014/08/16...██


STING BAH GAWD IT'S STI...Wait that's Steve Borden not Sting

woooahhh scsa shooting on the hulkster!

no footage... wtf

<font color=goldenrod>Yeah, just renders. Lame.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>I'm watching on YouTube. Haven't had any issues.</font>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIxNOxiV4i4

<font color=goldenrod>NXT confirmed :cool: Now hoping they reveal some NXT guys.</font>

IGN was slow and freezing for me too, I switched to youtube and no issues.

lol "Tyson Kidd.... you can see him alongside Natalya on Total Divas".

<font color=goldenrod>So they said the reveal would be in 3 sections, and there are still a bunch of guys that would seem to be slam dunks to be in.

Either the 3rd section is massive or they're holding off Legends/NXT/etc. until another day. Or it's just a way smaller roster than expected.</font>

No surprises so far.

wtf roster is this snes one

<font color=goldenrod>No Kane???

This can't be it. They have to be NXT guys or legends or something they've held out.

Maybe a 4th section and Renee said 3 by mistake.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Kane
Mark Henry
Cody Rhodes
Bad News Barrett

Yeah...there are definitely more to come.</font>

I think they'll be in the next batch for sure, Vito.

I've put the roster in a notepad atm, then I'll post after I've put them in alphabetical order.

<font color=goldenrod>All of these people asking Sting when he'll wrestle again wouldn't have survived 1997 WCW.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Yeah so 2K pretty much trolled everybody. They've already sent out a tweet inferring that there are more to be announced later.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>And WWE.com just posted a new list. Loads of people that weren't announced for some reason:

The WWE 2K15 roster includes:

AJ Lee
Alberto Del Rio
Bad News Barrett
Batista
Big E
Big Show
Booker T
Bray Wyatt
Brie Bella
Brock Lesnar
Cameron
Cesaro
Chris Jericho
CM Punk
Cody Rhodes
Curtis Axel
Damien Sandow
Daniel Bryan
Darren Young
Dean Ambrose
Dolph Ziggler
Erick Rowan
Fandango
Goldust
Hulk Hogan
Jack Swagger
Jey Uso
Jimmy Uso
John Cena
Justin Gabriel
Kane
Kevin Nash
Kofi Kingston
Luke Harper
Mark Henry
Naomi
Natalya
Nikki Bella
Randy Orton
Rey Mysterio
Ric Flair
Rob Van Dam
Roman Reigns
R-Truth
Ryback
Santino Marella
Seth Rollins
Shawn Michaels
Sheamus
Sting
“Stone Cold” Steve Austin
Summer Rae
Tamina
The Miz
The Rock
The Undertaker
Titus O'Neil
Triple H
Xavier Woods</font>

<font color=goldenrod>I still think there are more to come, really. The roster selection screen showed 92 spots and this roster is about 60. If nothing else I think they may reveal some NXT people later. They confirmed you start My Career mode on NXT. If they don't have any NXT people you'll pretty much just be wrestling Xavier Woods and Tyson Kidd for weeks on end.

If that's the final roster though, it shows 2K's statement that they have a later cutoff date is complete bollocks. No Paige or Rusev who literally debuted the night after the normal cutoff date.</font>

DLC for them most likely.

I can't support a game that doesn't have Christian.

http://i.minus.com/im8fx0PLg3enB.gif

Rock changed a lot ever since losing to Cena.

I'll give you Nash, but I think for the majority of people playing the game, having as many current performers isn't as important as having people who they would enjoy playing.

Most people will take Austin over Slater any day, even if Slater is more relevant.

No entrance videos or any footage at all, just render reveals and not even the full roster.

Considering how much this event was hyped, this has to be considered a letdown. And as a whole this has been one of the most poorly marketed games I've ever seen. Why, I don't know, because what little we've seen so far has all been great.

no WWE Paige = no buy

they have like 30 spots to fill relax

Paige will definitely make it.

That's rough.

When did Tamina turn into Lord Vigo from Ghostbusters 2?

You're always going to get Rock & Austin, and eventually Triple H, blame the Attitude era, but to the casual fan all the guys you listed are more recognizable than half the current roster. And they may as well milk the Legends contracts even if it's the same Legends pretty much year in year out.

<font color=goldenrod>Heath Slater is the one "current roster" guy I'm fussed about. Regardless of when the cutoff was, he's been on TV seemingly every week since like 2012. His exclusion leads me to believe that 3MB wouldn't have made the cut even if they were still around, which is shocking considering some of the guys that did make it.

I'll be very bummed if there's no Rusev, Bo Dallas, etc. in the main game as well (not counting DLC). I would have pegged those guys for DLC initially but 2K outwardly stating that they had a later cutoff this year led me to think people who debuted soon after WM would make it in.

The other current guys are no great loss. I love Christian but he's practically retired it seems. Zack Ryder and Sin Cara have done nothing. I would have liked Los Matadores to beef up the tag division but realistically I don't know how much I would have used them.

Booker T, Ric Flair, and Kevin Nash were on the WWE.com list but not on the WWE 2K15 website, so I'm assuming there is going to be a proper legends reveal later. Vince will be in, he always is. Edge getting in wouldn't shock me either, he's one of only about 4 people left to be in every game so far. Oh and there is going to be a retro version of Triple H, his render was already shown.

I've never liked Legends being in these games and have said I could happily do without them, but at this point I've accepted that it's never going to happen.</font>

I like having the legends.

I get the point with some of them, differing movesets/wildly different appearances, but for the most part they shouldn't be getting their own slot for each version just because one has a ponytail and the other version doesn't. I'd rather they varied the Legends they used if anything, I don't care about Jimmy Snuka give me someone like Stevie Richards or Raven, who can have as many character slots as he likes, instead. I don't care about losing job guys like Ryder though.

I don't mind the legends so much, except for them having multiple characters for the different versions. It fucks up my universe mode when I want one of them to be active in it. They could just have the different clothing or music or whatever as alternates instead of a different character slot.

Charge 89 pence/cent a superstar and flood the store with random midcarders and variants, I'd buy Max Moon and the new Midnight Express plus Jim Cornette as the NPC manager, they'd make a killing signing up guys that work the indys now.

No road dogg and billy gunn -- they were active up til wrestlemania wasn't they?

Not so cut up about Legends vs. current roster as long as there are enough "new" guys/first appearances in the games.

This time we have Bray, Harper and Rowan, Woods, and Sting. That's not a whole lot. Whilst having Austin, Rock, Hogan is great, it's not new.

I could do without the legends if it means having the current roster included. I didn't really futze about too much with the Create A Story either because my 360 doesn't support USB keyboard use. Hopefully the Xbox One version supports this.