Thesis kinda thing...
Hi,
Just a quick little aki/asmik related rant. I hate No Mercy, or rather, its my least favorite of the aki/asmik wrestling games. While that maybe blasphemy to some (like 97% of the people that enjoy these family of games), I really don't like no mercy in comparison to the other games, it feels off and just doesn't play smoothly to me. Based on pure playing, Revenge is my favorite to just pick up and play, I've played like all of my favorite battle royals and tag team matches on that thing (Kanyon and Booker T: GREATEST TEAM EVER). Its just a really great game, and might be the best playing of the aki/asmik games.
The trio of revenge/wm2k/vpw2 are the pinnacle of the series to me and really flow well together. Revenge set the stage, introducing new player models and introducing the look that would define the series in my mind, wm2k always seems like an unfinished game to me, like it was a work in progress with ideas that were fleshed out in vpw2. Virtual pro 2 is my favorite game (tied with mvp2005 as the two games I've probably more time than any other games in my life), yet I wished it played like revenge if that makes any sense.
Anyway back to why I dislike no mercy. I hate the player models, fucking hate the shit out of them. Fucking terrible looking, all the wrestlers look like douchebags. All of them. I really like the look of the revenge/wm2k/vpw2 dudes, cartoonish yet cool looking. The crappy player models, combined with disjointed playing makes for such a shitty experience for me. Story mode while cool, tag team wrestling on no mercy is such a fucking drag, something that was so awesome in revenge, that you can't sit down and enjoy tag team story mode. I would rather a title road/road to wrestlemania/royal road succession mode that I can sit down and enjoy wrestling matches, than the fucking kick in the balls that story can be on no mercy. Also fuck taking out create a title, I love that shit (EWF Intercontinental Television champ, son).
There are somethings I enjoy, some of the new moves (rikishi driver/olympic slam...wwf finishers of that era/return of the cryonic kick/double underhook backbreaker/etc.), the new getting hit by a lariat/clothesline/axe bomber animation, being able to brainbuster a dude on a table and the ladder match was kinda neat.
I guess it boils down to just not vibing with the whole no mercy experience, it wasn't meant for me I guess. I just dislike the wwf vibe the game gives off (which I guess is plus for the game since thats what its trying to achieve), I'm just used to my aki/asmik games being what I wanted that to be, if that makes any sense.
Thanks for reading this long-winded rant, you are the best internet.
Joe
Just a quick little aki/asmik related rant. I hate No Mercy, or rather, its my least favorite of the aki/asmik wrestling games. While that maybe blasphemy to some (like 97% of the people that enjoy these family of games), I really don't like no mercy in comparison to the other games, it feels off and just doesn't play smoothly to me. Based on pure playing, Revenge is my favorite to just pick up and play, I've played like all of my favorite battle royals and tag team matches on that thing (Kanyon and Booker T: GREATEST TEAM EVER). Its just a really great game, and might be the best playing of the aki/asmik games.
The trio of revenge/wm2k/vpw2 are the pinnacle of the series to me and really flow well together. Revenge set the stage, introducing new player models and introducing the look that would define the series in my mind, wm2k always seems like an unfinished game to me, like it was a work in progress with ideas that were fleshed out in vpw2. Virtual pro 2 is my favorite game (tied with mvp2005 as the two games I've probably more time than any other games in my life), yet I wished it played like revenge if that makes any sense.
Anyway back to why I dislike no mercy. I hate the player models, fucking hate the shit out of them. Fucking terrible looking, all the wrestlers look like douchebags. All of them. I really like the look of the revenge/wm2k/vpw2 dudes, cartoonish yet cool looking. The crappy player models, combined with disjointed playing makes for such a shitty experience for me. Story mode while cool, tag team wrestling on no mercy is such a fucking drag, something that was so awesome in revenge, that you can't sit down and enjoy tag team story mode. I would rather a title road/road to wrestlemania/royal road succession mode that I can sit down and enjoy wrestling matches, than the fucking kick in the balls that story can be on no mercy. Also fuck taking out create a title, I love that shit (EWF Intercontinental Television champ, son).
There are somethings I enjoy, some of the new moves (rikishi driver/olympic slam...wwf finishers of that era/return of the cryonic kick/double underhook backbreaker/etc.), the new getting hit by a lariat/clothesline/axe bomber animation, being able to brainbuster a dude on a table and the ladder match was kinda neat.
I guess it boils down to just not vibing with the whole no mercy experience, it wasn't meant for me I guess. I just dislike the wwf vibe the game gives off (which I guess is plus for the game since thats what its trying to achieve), I'm just used to my aki/asmik games being what I wanted that to be, if that makes any sense.
Thanks for reading this long-winded rant, you are the best internet.
Joe
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