Hello everybody, it’s Ryan back on WrestlingRambles after a short hiatus. I have been dealing with exams and other bullshit and unfortunately had no time to write for the website. But I’m finding life a little more relaxed and a whole lot more boring as my next exam isn’t until the 21st! Woohoo!
Anyways, I return from my hiatus to write about something that usually gets discussion going amongst the WWE fans that are also gamers – WWE 13! Two weeks ago on Raw, CM Punk revealed the cover of this year’s WWE game, turning Laurinitius’ hopes and dreams back down the shitter. The cover, in my opinion, is the best one in years, possibly ever but that’s only because Punk is one of my favourites. People like John Cena, Randy Orton, The Rock, Triple H, The Undertaker so on and so forth have been snubbed for what seems to be the hottest property in the wrestling industry today. However, whilst we’re on the topic of the cover, remember last year when there was a vote off between John Cena and The Rock? Wouldn’t it be cool to have a vote off between CM Punk and Daniel Bryan? Just a thought considering both wrestlers’ are loved dearly in the IWC it’d be interesting to see what way the tide turns in terms of popularity. It could also potentially be used as a tool to keep the fire in their rivalry alive.
I haven’t heard about any new features or remaining features that have been announced, if anyone does have links to such details please comment them below, I’d love to see what things have been put in or taken out. BUT, onto what I would love to see in WWE 13:
- Storylines: remember those good old days when you took control of a wrestler (think they only ever allowed for male storylines) and guide them through various feuds. Nowadays all we get is the WWE universe mode where you cycle through week by week by week with boring “storylines” and decide who rises through the ranks. 9 times out of 10 I found Goldust challenging for the WWE championship and lost every time to… You guessed it Juan Seena!! BORING! This time round I’d love to see the old story/career mode reinstalled but with the option of taking any wrestler; male or female through their career. It’d be pretty interesting to have other things thrown in to the career path like personal relationships, allies and enemies, money making schemes etc.
- NXT/FCW: remember in WWE 12 you had the WrestleMania thang?! You had the option of having a rookie, your own CAW making his sort of way up. Awkward. Anyhow, I’d scrap them all completely and install an NXT/FCW platform whereby you take your CAW and rise through FCW then up through NXT then Smackdown before finally jumping ship to Raw! This would probably be my number one wish. It’d finally make the WWE franchise have something of real value in it. How satisfying would it be to have your CAW rise through the ranks from FCW to Raw? Very. I wouldn’t make this mode entirely easy, it’d be cool to have to cut promos in the ring with three options given on the bottom of the screen and you choose the one that seems the most impressive. A bit like Sims. You would also have to impress through your matches and with enough experience and enough impressive points you’d be allowed to move on to NXT and so on. But one wrong move and your either future endeavored or else your put back to development. I’d definitely get the most fun out of a mode like this.
- Create an arena furthered: this was one of the more impressive features of WWE 12 but I feel that it could go on even further. Being able to chop and change the stage set. Make it elaborate as WrestleMania sets or make it as simple as the old WWF “stages”. If I could change the stage I’d make an old Backlash stage or SummerSlam stage.
Now onto WHO I’d like to be in WWE 13:
- Lita: for a while now we haven’t seen Lita in a WWE game. Wouldn’t it be great to see one of the best, if not thee best female wrestler in WWE history back on the tip of our fingertips? Sure would! Taking her to the top rope to hit her famous moonsault on some motha fucka like Kelly Kelly! Hahaha oh the evilness!
- Edge: You think you know me? Well then you should know that any WWE game without Edge just isn’t worth buying. Why? Because how could you play a WWE game without spearing a bastard a few hundred times?
- Ryback: I’m beginning to love Ryback and everything he’s about. He’s the modern day Goldberg and I definitely enjoy watching him beat a few nobodies about. Plus how awesome would it be to scoop one or two wrestlers on yer back and dumping them like a bad habit?!
- Shane McMahon: I was always a Shane O’Mac fan growing up throwing the attitude days. So it would be a treat to have the dollar dollar, dollar dollar McMahon in the game. In fact, and I know for a fact that if he was in the game I’d play him just to hear his theme song and entrance. It’d also be great to be able to jump from the Titan Tron like good ole Shane used to do.
- Stephanie McMahon: What a frickin’ jezebel this woman is. But what a fine piece of ass she was. Remember when Stephanie and Vince had the Father versus Daughter match in WWE? Would you not be tempted to recreate that moment and slap Vince silly because of all the gripes you have about the booking in WWE at the moment? I would.
That’s all the time I have for this week folks. Give me your feedback on my opinions, wants and needs to make it through what seems to be the same shit repackaged every year. But, please be warned if you tell me that something on my list didn’t make it then be prepared to have a death on your hands. Oh, and the bombing of the THQ Headquarters.
Follow me on twitter @Razor_WWE94, where I will be available to talk shit and talk wrestling… as always.
Laters Losers,
Ryan.
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CM Punk is by far the most interesting wrestler in the world. I mean that too. Who in TNA is more interesting? Who in ROH, CHIKARA etc..
He deserves to be on the cover. Sometime soon he will be wrestling’s hottest commodity again. The CM Punk era of pro wrestling. We’ve Ce-na nuff of John Cena. I’m so hoping for Punk/Rock at WM 29. If that happens, it would get Punk over so much more.
Back to the column. I myself have not looked or read up on any news/leaks, whatever, regarding WWE 13. I will buy it because Punk is on an epic cover and I cannot wait to play with him against Stone Cold, The Rock on my 64″ projector screen.
All the wrestlers you want to see it will more than likely be in it.
Welcome back 🙂
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For sure he is! He deserved the cover no doubt.
Loved the Cena pun! Gonna start using that flat out muhaha! Hey, I’ve Ce-na nuff LOL! Brilliant.
Punk/Rock would be great, but only if Rock doesn’t get gassed within the first ten minutes. All respect to The Rock for getting into the ring, but if I was getting his fat paycheck for a match then I’d be making sure I wasn’t getting carried through the match. I’d LOVE to see Punk and Bryan at Mania in something like an iron man match. WWE could do it but probably won’t because they have to make time for Undertaker and also need time to feed HHH’s wallet and ego.
Thanks for the welcome back 🙂
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haha been saving that one for a while!
Regarding Rock, some are saying he’ll face Brock but I doubt that will happen. Two part-timers feuding makes no sense. WWE are building Punk up strong, IMO he should have the title until WM 29, whether he wins or loses against Rock, he had a great run. Or, could be better if Rock won it at Survivor Series, Punk got ”injured” from a brutal Rock bottom which damaged Punk’s neck. Have Punk return at the Rumble, win it, seek revenge against a heel Rock at WM 29. Yeah I’m dreaming, lol.
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“Cena nuff” has been around for years. I see signs all the time. I’m a Cena fan, but it is clever.
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Punk said at the recent Comic-Con that it was THQ who wanted him on the cover NOT WWE. WWE would have actually wanted someone else, but it wasn’t their call.
Im actually looking forward to this one! But I really don’t see the point in the whole ring collapse physics when using large wrestlers. It seems like a pointless gimmick being used because it happened in the last year when in reality its happened like twice before?
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Interesting.
I guess they’re trying to make it realistic but in real life, a proper ring setup, the spansions would never fail. I don’t mind but it is sort of gimmicky. It happened 3 times I think. Lesnar-Show, Show-Morgan (am I right??) and last year.
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Yeah, I get that their trying to make it realistic but it sorta seems a lot of game coding for something that no one really gives a shit about haha!
I tried to youtube Show-Morgan but the only thing that came up was Show being F5ed through an announcers table.
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Woah! That’s bullshit! Wonder who WWE wanted on the cover instead. To think Punk has carried the company on his shoulders for the last while you’d think WWE would see the advantages of putting him on the cover.
The ring collapse physics is bullshit too. First of all, I don’t play Big Show on the WWE games. The only large man I play is Mark Henry. But Mark Henry and Randy Orton aren’t big enough or shouldn’t break the ring. Yeah it’s happened before, I don’t see why they’re so hot on it now. Saying that, I will purposely play a match just to break the ring to see what goes on.
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I like the storyline thing. Having career options is a great idea 🙂
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Yeah, the storyline mode was always something that was sorely missed. I’m glad they’ve decided to bring it back.
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I say have different covers.
All I want in the game is a Santino/Mario mode. 🙂
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Like last year they’ll probably create covers and upload them online for people to print out and slot into their game boxes. But I know what you’re saying. I’d love to walk into a game shop and be able to choose from a range of covers. That being said, I’d be standing there for about half a day deciding on which face I want to look at every time I’m opening the box!
LOL! Santino Marella on the Mario style platform would be pretty funky! I was at a Deadmau5 concert last night and he had this massive stage where he had change the Mario character to one with the Mau5 head going through the different levels. Then he had a Mau5 head playing Pacman and then he had the Mau5 character going through the different levels of Sonic the Hedgehog. Was pretty damn interesting.
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Yoshi vs. Yoshi Tatsu?
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Storyline Mode- Yes! Yes! Yes! I’ve been begging for them to add this back to the games since…well, whenever they did away w/ it. RTWM is boring, you only get to use a certain 5 people, and only up to WM; it doesn’t even take you through a full year!
WWEU mode is just stupid. All you’re doing is setting stuff up via charts, which the computer can simply undo. Not to mention, the same scenarios recurr.
Storyline mode is, or was at least, better. I remember all the way back to playing WWF No Mercy. One part of the story was having to decide whether or not to employ the services of the APA. You could either say yes, and pay for it later, or decline, and take them on right there in the boiler room.
I want the stories back, and I want to be able to make decisions that impact the stories/game.
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RTWM was extremely boring and extremely limited. I got bored within the first few “weeks” of it. Just found the whole thing a bit tedious and was yearning for the storyline mode back!
WWEU is just idiotic and achieves absolutely nothing. I find myself skipping every single match because I know that no matter what the outcome of the match is that it doesn’t effect the game. Like one week Triple H is going against Sheamus and then the next week Triple H is going against Santino Marella. Ummm okay.
YES! I remember that bit in WWF No Mercy! I always said yes to them because they are badass and I didn’t wanna take them on! haha. That’s the main thing in the WWE games that I want. I want to be the person in control. To be able to say yes or no to something is desperately needed. It would be amazing if you could dictate the promos as well, like I proposed above the FCW-NXT-SD-Raw thing would be amazing. It would feel more like achieving something.
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I remember in WWE Day of Reckoning’s storyline mode, you had to go through the developmental territory first, then you went on to Heat/Velocity, than Raw/Smackdown. I liked that mode better because you got to choose which brand want to wrestle in, you got career options, and you felt like you actually achieved something.
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I know in one of the Smackdown games (can’t remember if it was Know Your Role, or Here Comes the Pain) you were able to somewhat dictate the promos, choosing to say one thing or the other, and that impacted the game a bit.
Just the whole ” Here’s our game we created, everything has already been decided for you, enjoy our efforts” thing sucks.
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Day of Reckoning was awesome, still play it now and again on the Wii!
I don’t know about anyone else but do you feel the gameplay/controls had got a bit complicated? Just too much to do moves etc…. I miss the days of hold B for grapple then UP and B for move or Smackdowns analog up for move. Simple. Easy. Fun.
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Yes! I think I became so annoyed with the controls in WWE ’12 that I just quit. They keep trying to “simplify” the controls, but only end up making them worse. Unfortunately, I don’t expect things to change much in ’13.
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I’m pretty damn excited for this because of the story mode. So sick of having to create my own stories in my head and make fake rosters. This should hopefully fill that void. I’m also pumped about the attitude era feel to it too. You’re right about Lita. I wonder if they are even going to worry about attitude era divas? Is Trish confirmed yet? I’m excited about Mankind for some reason.
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First off, good to see you back on here with a column!
Gotta say your ideas are pretty damn good, really liking the idea of rising up through FCW/NXT to the ranks of the main roster. As a few have already mentioned, it was on old Smackdown games where you could dictate what your wrestler would say backstage, and to other wrestlers, which changed what would happen. So that shows they could actually do it again if wanted, plus it would be much more entertaining than the RTWMs of last year.
Hoping to have Ryback on, just to clothesline the head off a few people. I think Edge will be in, guess he could now be like Austin? A legend featured and added to the roster of every game.
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