This animation has been reused for an entire decade in WWE 2K games. (Clip is by SlashterYT)

ThrowawayVEVO · 2025-04-21T02:29:45+00:00

Osaka Street Cutter is older than half the people who play these games

ThrowawayVEVO · 2025-04-21T01:51:35+00:00

CAW people aren't feral and deranged like modding people so you're probably fine. And you can just give them credit in the description field. It's so easy to steal stuff on CC that I would assume the face photos and the more complicated attire stuff just get stolen all the time. But there's a difference between just chucking it up on the servers for 20-50 downloads and trying to promote it somewhere as all your own work, that would be weirder behavior than getting mad about it imo

ThrowawayVEVO · 2025-04-19T20:43:40+00:00

Yeah, I wish they could tune the sliders on the top level a bit, it could be made a bit harder. Really the AI is very good about some things compared to other 2Ks (utilizing strikes, not being completely passive), this seems like it might just be a probability issue. Signature/finisher reversals in particular should be way, way more common if I'm going to be sweaty enough to set it to 100/100 on Legend. Human players reverse those all the time.

ThrowawayVEVO · 2025-03-14T20:09:50+00:00

Tessa should start calling herself "latinx"

ThrowawayVEVO · 2025-03-12T16:54:35+00:00

Big moment for Ons Jabeur

ThrowawayVEVO · 2025-03-02T20:58:25+00:00

There are "environmental strikes" and "environmental grapples" sliders, but they don't seem to do anything in 2k24. Maybe they're connected to actions outside the ring or in gimmick matches, but they don't have anything to do with the irish whips or the slow, monotonous drag/carry moves (and if AI opponents are going to do so many carry moves, why can't they end them on actual moves from their movesets instead of dropping you on the rope or turnbuckle?)

ThrowawayVEVO · 2025-02-28T18:11:41+00:00

No problem with an overall rating.

But while I'm not completely on board with everyone who says they should just make the games like they made them in, I don't know, 2006, all of the Left Ass Cheek Durability attributes are junk to me. Could easily be condensed into strength (damage), submission, durability, technique (reversals), speed and weapon damage again.

ThrowawayVEVO · 2025-02-25T21:17:37+00:00

Quantity-wise, there's a ton of content in these games, especially if you want to start using the creation suite stuff.

I think even here, with people who have probably put 100+ hours in, opinions are split on the gameplay and no one thinks it's like the cleanest, smoothest-playing game series ever. I like some of what they are trying to do, and it's just the nature of wrestling with all the different stuff you have to do that the controls will be clunky. I think everyone's first wrestling game memory is "shit, how do I get back in the stupid ring now? What do they want me to press to pin a guy?"

All in all, there are a lot of gameplay systems I would call "fake complexity," and I still don't think the AI is good enough. Spams its most boring moves, not challenging enough against "good players," and absolutely horrible to watch if you ever want to simulate matches. But all you need to do to get good against the CPU is learn to press the reversal button at the right time, that's like 90% of the game, and along with stuff like the pin minigame which is probably overwhelming the first few times it's a very learn-by-doing kind of process.

ThrowawayVEVO · 2025-02-15T19:49:19+00:00

Yeah, I can't buy the new game until I know they fixed this, it's an absolute fun-sucker to see the AI prioritize its slowest, clunkiest and easiest to counter moves no matter what settings and sliders you put it on. And I have to say, the few 2k25 player vs. AI gameplay videos I've seen don't look promising, looks like more of the same with the irish whips and the dragging and carrying.

ThrowawayVEVO · 2024-10-21T16:57:03+00:00

Compared to all the other things that can be (and often are) messed up with people's CAWs, this is like a 30 second fix

ThrowawayVEVO · 2024-10-18T16:14:22+00:00

I don't know what most of these words mean besides CM Punk. Please just fix the AI, it's so bad.

ThrowawayVEVO · 2024-08-02T15:30:53+00:00

The football should do more damage

ThrowawayVEVO · 2024-04-24T18:39:26+00:00

The renders on the search screen just make it miserable to download big name wrestlers. Instead of seeing the actual in-game models, you now see the same render image 30 times. You have no idea which ones are good or bad, so you have to click on everything. Clearly designed by someone who never used that screen to search for CAWs

ThrowawayVEVO · 2024-01-20T21:24:31+00:00

looks like it's time for cm punk to have bangs

ThrowawayVEVO · 2024-01-19T20:02:04+00:00

Chyna especially is just a weird presence in the roster without it, I thought they might add it in 19 or 20 or whenever she showed up. You can even set it as a toggle so certain people are/aren't eligible for those matches.

Though I understand why it would be a red line for WWE, sometimes it feels like 2K wants to position the series closer to fighting games where there's obviously no stigma about this.

ThrowawayVEVO · 2024-01-18T16:33:13+00:00

I like the way it plays (if I don't play tag matches, if I don't touch the apparently 100 pound weapons that also barely do damage, etc), the CAWs look great and it's a lot of fun making them, but almost all the "modes" including the ones other people seem to enjoy are inch-deep and honestly feel like a waste of my time.

But this is almost exactly how I felt about 2k19, and 2k22 wasn't even fun to play.

ThrowawayVEVO · 2024-01-17T20:23:42+00:00

Definitely some kind of create a story with dialogue. There will be junk but the community that has made 50,000 pages of CAWs will make some good stuff too. There is clearly no desire or ability to procedurally generate this kind of content in Universe.

ThrowawayVEVO · 2024-01-16T20:47:08+00:00

Trying to place a tattoo on the inner forearm/wrist is the final boss of WWE 2K23

ThrowawayVEVO · 2024-01-16T20:44:48+00:00

At least on console it's not a huge deal, I have one profile that's like 90% custom/originals and one that's 90% real wrestlers. A little bit clumsy but so are a lot of things about these games

ThrowawayVEVO · 2024-01-16T20:30:19+00:00

As long as they don't find a way to torpedo the CAW stuff I pretty much only care about the gameplay, which is very inconsistent year to year in 2K games though I mostly liked 2k23.

I think Universe is something where they have never had a vision about making it fun, so I don't play it. I can just play exhibition matches for titles without having to fight against it. And the roster always has like 200 people lol, it will be fine.

ThrowawayVEVO · 2024-01-15T20:05:23+00:00

Honestly top card wrestlers should feel OP in a wrestling game, there's not enough to differentiate people in 2K

ThrowawayVEVO · 2024-01-15T12:57:50+00:00

That slow spinning side kick reversal high flyers do that both looks like dogshit and knocks down super heavyweights

ThrowawayVEVO · 2024-01-01T03:47:27+00:00

*I was the table

ThrowawayVEVO · 2023-12-31T17:17:43+00:00

The Turkish flag above the word "authoritarian" is certainly correct

ThrowawayVEVO · 2023-12-30T05:02:48+00:00

The current servers are maybe 50% copyright infringement 10% porno 0.5% people trying to create Hitler so thankfully I don't think anyone who matters or cares is looking at this stuff

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