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Post by skullrxw1 on Nov 26, 2007 18:59:45 GMT -5
I was wondering since they are some of my favorite wrestling games, what do you think of them?
Virtual Pro Wrestling 64 I think is horribly underrated and is buried under the love people have for VPW2.
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Post by retrogamah on Nov 26, 2007 20:10:20 GMT -5
Honestly, I think the entire Virtual 64 Pro Wrestling in english would have been a killer game back in 1997-98.... the developpers cut it in half and did it as an Americanized package called WCW vs nWo World Tour..... and that WCW game went really popular in North America... it brought a revolution in wrestling games, THQ made big money... and I still consider WCW vs NWO World Tour one of my top games!!!
And there's things in the WCW vs nWO game not found in later games , even today.... I suppose that's in the Virtual 64 game as well...
...unmasking masked opponents with the "eye gouge" move ...
... doing different flying moves from the top corner with one of those junior heavyweights on a lying opponent face up, depending of the lying opponent's position in the ring (perpendicular from a corner for perfect splashes- or in random position, for moves like knee drops, elbow drops)... there were innovations like that have been erased in latter games (WCW Revenge WWF Wrestlemania 2000)....
Yukes did 9 WWE games and they still don't make several moves that made the Aki N64 games unique...
And if i was lucky , I would have bought those games on Internet for a long time...
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Post by skullrxw1 on Nov 26, 2007 22:38:53 GMT -5
Yea WCW vs nWo World tour would've been better if they had left ALL of the wrestlers in
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Post by retrogamah on Nov 26, 2007 22:56:30 GMT -5
The arenas look cool in VPW2 (outdoor stadiums, typical Japanese halls)
My first thoughts when I bought WCW vs nWo in 1998 was the meaning of the arenas and the DOA-IU wrestlers... I wasn't aware of the real wrestlers they represented, except Saladin and Black Belt, who looked a lot like Abdullah and TAKA Michinoku (I was sure they were those guys)...
DOA' s outdoor stadium looked cool, I used to imagine it a Japanese stadium with a league of hardcore guys.... and the IU arena looked like the ECW Arena with a balcony .... I thought of it as a Mexican arena with cruiserweights, masked wrestlers... so that's where I developped my taste of a "worldwide" wrestling game type!!!!
It was my first 3D game and that was quite a big change from the old SNES WWF games...
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Post by skullrxw1 on Nov 26, 2007 23:01:11 GMT -5
Another thing about VPW64 and VPW2 was that they reminded me of a 3d firepro that was better than Iron Slam 96
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Post by retrogamah on Nov 26, 2007 23:08:31 GMT -5
That's true... they have the same kind of multileague thing ...
And I'd like to have them on real N64 cartridges, as well as SPFW X Premium on SNES... I'm a big player on old consoles!!!
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Post by skullrxw1 on Nov 27, 2007 12:56:07 GMT -5
I'd like to see another VPW game made.
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Post by retrogamah on Nov 27, 2007 14:25:11 GMT -5
I'm waiting this for ages.... some kind of an Americanized VPW 3 , juste like the Fire Pros, on PS2 , with the leagues and fake names....
Even with the N64 graphic resolution standards, they could make a very very big game, filling a PS2 disk easily with a good 200 wrestlers .... commentator voices are not necessary, they eat disk space for nothing, the grunts and sound stuff like in the old N64 carts are OK...
Another thing I've been fantasizing is a Legends of Wrestling game that Aki could make, and add Japanese-Mexican-Canadian legends into it!!!
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Post by skullrxw1 on Nov 27, 2007 21:43:39 GMT -5
That legends game would be great.
On VPW3 the graphics could be like King of Colosseum
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Post by The Authority on Nov 29, 2007 7:09:03 GMT -5
I love vpw 2. I think it's better than no mercy.
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Post by skullrxw1 on Nov 29, 2007 22:03:40 GMT -5
I love vpw 2. I think it's better than no mercy. Yeah they took alot of the moves out and they should've atleast of give No Mercy the Firepro treatment and put some puro guys in recostumed. |
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