Heya brahs, AEW FF's *£41* here! If you find the game in your region at a discount, please post below and i'll edit my post! www.simplygames.com/p/aew-fight-forever-ps5 (non-affiliate link)
I know you guys weren’t the only ones to say it, and I hate to be that guy BUT! Bulldog appeared in WWF Warzone & WCW/NWO Revenge the same year AND Fire Pro Wrestling & Legends of Wrestling 2 in the same year, AND Showdown Legends of Wrestling & Smackdown Vs Raw the same year. Because the British Bulldog wins, whether he wants to or not!
Bought the DLC for PlayStation got the DLC Matt Hardy and no one else for the DLC because somehow the hardware for PlayStation 4 isn't working right right now and they still haven't fixed it yet
@@checkeredslime9478 I mean I told everyone to buy Horizon 2 instead 😂 I reckon a lot of people mistook us having a great time chatting about the fun parts for "it's an incredible game". The gameplay is rock solid, there's just very sparse content.
If you win the Masters you get the green jacket. If you win the Tour de France, you get the yellow jersey. Does that mean if you win the Owen... You get the blue blazer?
Cody appearing in both in the same year is amazing. I think Bret Hart did the same in 98 with WWF WarZone and WCW/nWo Revenge. Only the truest of royalty can accomplish such a feat
@@firstroundboxing7649I want to hear more about the similarities between Cody Rhodes and Bret Hart. And then their differences. And then how each of them look dressed like the Undertaker.
The roster inclusions are interesting. Having Yuka Sakazaki, who has made just over 20 appearances - mostly on Dark and Dark Elevation, but no Jamie Hayter or Toni Storm is a strange choice but is probably a relic of the long development time. Also, having Keith Lee but no Swerve is strange.
Yeah! It must be a nightmare working on wrestling rosters, as it's a fast-moving industry. Take Tears of the Kingdom - everything planned in 2017 is just as relevant in 2023 (or 2025, 2023 etc) as nothing is time sensitive. But a roster planned less than a year ago can be wildly out of date now.
I always appreciate your honesty Jay. Not saying anything against Matt or Steve but I'm really glad you allow yourself to contradict them rather than just do nerd crew "i agree" dialogue.
5:25 Cody is far from the first person in history to be officially licensed in two rival wrestling games in the same calendar year. Bret and Bulldog were in both WWF War Zone and WCW/nWo Revenge in 1998. Jericho was in both WWF Wrestlemania 2000 and WCW Mayhem in 1999. Hogan and Eddie Guerrero were in both WWE Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth and Legends of Wrestling II in 2002 (and Hogan was also in WWF WrestleMania X8 for GCN). Andre, Bret, Jimmy Snuka, and the Road Warriors were all in both Showdown: Legends of Wrestling and WWE Smackdown vs. Raw in 2004 (and Andre, Bret, and Greg Valentine were also in both Showdown and Day of Reckoning on GCN). I'm sure there may be other examples.
The farty pyro (in the exploding barbed wire deathmatch) is in the game! It happened in Deadlock's playthrough of the match they recorded during the pre-release community event!
V1 saying that this game will hold up in 20 years in terms of graphics whereas 2k23 will look terrible is very strange I think it’ll be looked back on like the impact game in that it aged really poorly with its different style
@@PanelVulture I think that was the point he was trying to make even though I completely disagreed because the game doesn't look 'timeless' or anything like that. I really hope they flesh it out a bit more in the future and work on what they have then it could turn into a really decent game.
Long time fan of the reviews boys, but this game crashes everytime I go to a match...10 times in an hour...AEW FIGHT FOREVER is officially in my boy stable!!
People have been complaining for years that the 2k games dont have some match types like special Guest referee and Inferno but this fucking game doesn't even have a cage matchs
I don’t think saying “AEW is only 4 years old so …” works as an excuse for the lack of matches or all the bugs because AEW themselves didn’t make the game it was made by developers with decades of pro wrestling games experience
Not to mention it was announced like 3 years ago and talked about since the founding of the company. There’s really no excuse for the bugs at that point.
You just don't get it. By breaking free of the annual cycle and taking three times longer to develop the game, they were able to deliver you a third of the content for full price. Please enjoy.
Classic beloved games like Skyrim and Witcher 3 were in development for much longer, by bigger studios, build upon previous title experiences and engines , and STILL released in horrendous states . Took years of patching to fix, and still full of bugs and glitches to this day. This isn't me "shilling" for the game, as I have no interest in it and think its just another garbage lazy copy paste wrestling game This is me pointing out that you either don't know much about video game development, or just want to rag on anything AEW related as most people seem to do online It's the cool thing to do I guess Trash this game, but WOWWWWW 2k added 1 new feature every year for the past almost 10 years, while taking away features from previous titles, and the game still broken. So if the measuring stick for AEW video game is "Its been in development for 3 years and theres no excuse for a 4 year old company....", what is the threshold for WWE video games that still suck and have been awful since SVR 2007
@@ITRiBUTEIFor someone who claims to be not shilling, you sure doing a lot of shilling. I seem to recall Witcher III and Skryim getting GOTY declarations upon release. This game is getting 6s from multiple reviewers.
@@ITRiBUTEI those games are literally hundreds of times bigger in scope and Yukes has made this exact type of game for 20+ years. The game it's trying to be a spiritual successor to (No Mercy) has more customization options, a visible branch so you can navigate career mode without a FAQ, and way more finisher slots. Weird that you think the WWE games have sucked for so long but magically really like THIS one even though it's still all Yukes? I'm sure that's me being biased though, and you're not being unreasonable at all comparing this games scope to Witcher 3 and Skyrim. Good god dude I wish you were shilling, at least you'd get paid for a take this bad and strawman heavy.
How much did Tony Khan kick down to Matt Muscles. The graphics are bad.... That makes it charming.... The storyline isn't that good..... that makes it memorable. Congratulations for being all in
Seeing the footage in this video has convinced me that I never want to buy this game. I do find it interesting that many of the flaws of past WWE games are negatives, while the flaws of this one are apparently charming, but to each their own. Hopefully they make a better game sometime, and hopefully it won’t take a decade.
Just gotta say anyone who bought this game based on OSW’s review, the game is good but the story mode is lacking. I watched this review and got the game because I thought the story sounded cool, but it’s not how it’s sold like. All the storyline’s you do in the game are completely disconnected, with no real connection. You can win the tag titles and then you’ll just never defend them or even be mentioned as tag champ.
Saying that the game is gonna age better graphic wise is gonna age better than 2K23 was the most ridiculous thing I've heard lol, completely threw the entire review out the window
Yeah, I'm not really a gamer and just watched this because I enjoy listening to the lads talk, but I couldn't make any sense of that comment. They really needed OOC on this to balance the excessive optimism.
@@inlimboed91 Yeah I really don't mind the attitude to support this no matter what, hell I purchased the game as well because I appreciate TRYING for a new game but there is still a world where you can hold that belief and still see a pretty unpolished end product. I do have trust in AEW to do right by the fans because no matter what side of the fence you're on, they always really try to do that but this takes a lot more improvement to be anything but 5-10 hours of playing time. I went through one RTE run and while some of the gimmicks were fun the first time, they don't have a lot of substance in them to make them really worthwile.
There were times where I questioned the honesty of V1/Matt in this review, especially with how hard they defended what are objectively pretty bad graphics. Enjoying a video game is of course subjective but this review felt bordering on shill-work at times.
@@lracseroom8286 Yeah as much as I find V1 hilarious the majority of the time, when he starts talking about his opinions, (mostly about games) it can get borderline hypocritical. They start well enough, with the "you can like what you like", but so often it'll turn into effectively, "if you don't have my opinion you are either wrong or stupid". That's something I've picked up on when he tags along for game reviews.
OSWReview is increasingly positive of everything they review, and that's why I love them. Even when they review crap, they put a light spin on it. Life is too short to hate everything, ESPECIALLY pro-wrestling. but yes, V1's explanation that Fight Forever will age well, unlike WWE games...because the next version of the WWE games will make the old ones look bad? So does that mean that every future AEW game will look this bad graphically?
I’m glad that you guys are having fun with the game, but I honestly wouldn’t recommend it right now. The fact that this game has less features, modes, and match types than a 20 year old game made by the same company (or even Fire Pro Wrestling World, which is more of an indie title than this) is $60-70 in 2023 is inexcusable. I love that the AKI style gameplay is back and that it runs much better than WWE 2K, but graphics and gameplay isn’t enough. Side note: I don’t think you guys or NewLegacy or anybody who got a code for this game really understand that this game right now is not worth the money. I know that this game is going to be constantly upgraded and improved for years to come instead of being an annual roster update for $60-70, but it’s ridiculous that I could still play HCPT or No Mercy (emulation or physical hardware) and get the same or greater amount of enjoyment than spending way more that it’s worth to play this. I’m not mad or hating on this game or anyone that has found joy in this, but I figured that some more light should be shined on the fact that this game has less to do than a 20+ year old game and cost way too much just because it’s an AEW game. Also, there’s no excuse for this to be so bare bones or to say it’s an indie title, because it’s not. The developers, publishers, and IP are all major players in their respectable fields. If it needed to take longer to put more into it, then so be it. Let it take forever, at least it would show that they really cared and not tried to rush out a game that looked no different than when it was shown off a year ago. Anyways, congrats on getting to review it early and give your thoughts on it, as well of nL. You guys deserve it
To correct Yukes and WWE relationship breaking down, after 2K19, Yukes announced that they were making their own wrestling game because they wanted to make “something else” in their own words. 2K hated that, took half-baked 2K20 away from Yukes, gave it to Visual Concepts, and resulted in the fine mess that was 2k20.
Couple of small points: Matt’s gripe about the submission and ladder mini games in WWE2k being really hard is odd. I’ll give him the ladder one as that’s not overly simple (it’s still not hard) but he said he preferred AEW’s as that’s just pressing a button, and then another button. He then makes a point about submissions being hard in 2k when it’s just button mashing. So he likes the button pressing in AEW but not WWE? V1 mentions near the end about Cody’s WWE entrance being great and long but then annoying after seeing it loads of times. He does know you can skip entrances right?
I gave up on this review; idk why but they can’t be objective about AEW. I don’t hate AEW but you can’t honestly believe that this game looks better than 2k23 and it’s not even stylized enough to say it is going for a unique look. It legitimately looks like the action figures vs 2K that’s nearly photo real. Also the characters are 3 years out of date… like 1 is kinda industry standard and they try to update songs and hopefully get to important visual things but this is like 2k20’s roster coming out in 2k24
You have to realise something is annoying you, before you remember to skip it. And to the other guy, if you don't like the graphics then don't buy it but for a lot of us, we'd rather have a game that looks ass but is fun (Fight Forever) over a game that looks great but isn't a good time to play (most big games released in the last three years in all genres).
It’s not cartoony… it’s low res. Those aren’t synonyms. It legitimately looks rubbery like I said like old school action figures. An opinion isn’t a defense for a stupid argument, if I said Malbogia from the 90s spawn looks better than Thanos from Avengers you are aloud to say… “uhh are you just shilling?” Especially when they admit they got the game for free
Hey guys great vid but I gotta ask why are you calling Yuke’s and THQNordic new companies? Both have been around for years, and so I don’t cut them as much slack. Especially Yukes because they had been developing wwe games for years.
People trot out the "it's like No Mercy" when it's honestly probably more in line with the Gamecube WWE games like Wrestlemania 19 and the Day of Reckoning series which felt like an update to the formula at the time.
I agree that it plays more like DoR. I really liked the physicality of it but I actually really enjoyed the slower pace of the N64 games. A point the guys were making that it plays quite fast and twitchy is actually a minus for me.
In regards to the Exploding Barbed Wire Death Match: they did actually add an option/chance for the pyro to utterly fail as a nod to the Moxley Omega disaster.
I don't think the McMuscles guy really gels well with the guys tbh EDIT: I think Jay is the only one being completely honest and objective here. There is some real rose-tinted glasses shit going on with VI and the other guy lol
Literally just played Rumble Roses for the first time like an hour ago and heard the teat sheep line naturally for myself and then it was mentioned in this vid, 11/10
22:25 Regarding this, play through the story mode until you unlock the option to buy the "Historic" explosion for the Exploding Barbed Wire match. You will be delighted by what happens.
Regarding the jukebox, for some reason by default it only loops those few in game songs over and over. You have to manually select all/add all the wrestler themes to the rotation and turn on randomization, otherwise it will play the same songs in the same order over and over. It's a weird oversight in the game.
5:30 re: Cody Rhodes being in 2 rival wrestling games in the same calendar year. Bret Hart was in both WWF Warzone (July 1998) and WcW/nWo Revenge (October 1998).
Why are you forgiving this game for lacking match types when the developer has the pedigree of Yuke's, who have been making wrestling games for decades?
Mate the game's being made from the ground up, and since it's a few years post pandemic, it's likely an entirely new team? And it's made in conjunction with the aew guys, who are novices at working on games. Bitta leeway seems fair
@@OSW That's ridiculous. There are games made by one guy with no experience that are incredible and games made by highly experienced and successful AAA studios that have been absolute garbage. And there there are games made by one guy with no experience that are garbage and games made by highly experienced and successful AAA studios that are incredible. You judge a game on that game's quality, not who developed it. These comments honestly show more of your real opinion on this game than the entire hour long review.
@@mothertrucker341 Given that the things people are criticizing this game for are precisely positives for them, yeah it seems like there is a latent bias involved. Especially when the game ties into the brand identity for AEW.
Snapshot album will show you all the available storylines in Road to Elite. There are three storylines for each PPV for 12 total. You can see all of them in three playthroughs
Yeah, if I remember correctly, that No Mercy save bug was in version 1 of the cartridge (No offence, Steve) as Matt said. Never happened in the revised 1.1 cartridge I had as a kid. Unfortunately, mine was swapped for a buggy version in a heel turn from a friend just before leaving school.
It might have only been a bug with the PAL version of the cartridge too. I pre ordered mine here in the US so I know I got the first edition and I never experienced the glitch.
I haven't played this game since the 2nd week it was out. The entire package was just so damn disappointing. Really expected more given how much Kenny said he was involved.
He's the reason for the minigames instead of a good create/career mode. Because when I played no mercy and here comes the pain, my favorite part wasn't customization or the season mode it's FUCKING MINI GAMES.... GODDAMN IT KENNY THIS FIGHT FOREVER NOT POKEMON STADIUM 2!!!
Especially for a clearly unfinished game. If this was released as free to play with built dlc, or at most 20 dollars, it would be worth the price. Haven't been disappointed with a launch title since cyberpunk
Aew fans are wild. You actually wanted the charisma vacuum and some fat fuck? I heavily doubt those two would have been people itching to buy this game
I can't stop thinking about this comment as V1 complains about day 1 dlc before immediately admitting he's going to buy it/enable them. Its like Rick James on the Chappelle show levels of credibility lol
Confirmed..... i legit do not trust a single game review person/ website/etc....... ill watch "before you buy" if im on the fence to get a better feel for what im in for.
@17:35 "They dont look like they dropped a load in their jocks" while Penta literally does the shuffle of an old man with a Depends filled to capacity🤔
People need to stop saying this is the first game so cut them some slack. Yukes has been making these games for over 2 decades. People act like some new developer made it.
@@Reaverbothe responded like that to at least 40 different comments on this video, saying royghly the same thing every time. He either works for WWE or is clinically insane.
@@itsdoomedjack9774 honestly 2k15 aint anything on gameplay but that game had way more content actually coming from a first time wrestling game company
Bad idea to watch this at work and come to the part of Daniel Bryan... MEAT-EATER! Co-workers gave me funny looks as I was holding back laughter like crazy.
She's perfect for a video game, especially. You look through the roster and see this monster right in your face and it's like "holy shit I have to try her out!" Especially if you're getting the game not as someone who watches AEW but just wants to play a new wrestling game you heard was fun.
I liked abadon very much but to be honest i am not invested in her since she durned face. It doens't fit the gimmick, i think. Anyways, glad she is the old abadon in the game.
YES! My copy of No Mercy had the "erase everything and I mean everything" bug. Completely ruined and ended my experience with No Mercy. I LOVED Wrestlemania 2000 though.
The graphics just ain't it the old n64 graphics looked cartoony cause that's the best they could do back then. With fight forever it's just them being cheap
I got the game on PS Plus and honestly I feel so bad for people who paid full price for the game. It looks and feels to me like a game that was still being tested rather than a full release.
@12:25 Hoping for an 8 wrestler DLC pack for $15? I guess it depends on whether THQ has updated its pricing model to match WWE 2K23, which looks to have upped the price of DLC wrestlers. ($10 for just Bad Bunny? $5 for individual "throwback" versions of guys like Cena or Batista?)
Ouch. That sucks. Create A Wrestler not being good is a massive deal breaker. I dont think i played No Mercy once as an actual character. How did they fuck that up?
V1 i love you man, but your opinion on this game is absolute bias. This game will not age well in the next 20 years, as i think that this game has already aged before it even came out. Not saying that you shouldn't enjoy anything AEW related, but come on man. Be a bit more objective about AEW products.
Honestly, the game just really missed for me. The story felt closer to bad parts of Yakuza and there were a lot of bugs than just broke things. Controllers dropped all the time. When playing more often than not, the controls delayed or didn't trigger at all. Weapons would disappear or someone would randomly slide all over the ring. At best it may be a 2/5 for me.
Steve and Matt trying to convince the audience and Jay that the graphics actually look good and have charm was pathetic not gunna lie lol. Both of them are just bashing WWE games anytime they can while Jay is being unbiased .
Since this video was pretty much released when the game was, as are.most.positive review videos for this game, I wonder what they think of it now that they've most likely played all 8 hours of the content. Aew is really bringing back all the old elements of 90s and early 2000s wrestling. $50 pay per views which cannot be streamed.on another source. Having to tune in on a certain time on a certain date to see their product. Even the graphics on this game scream late PS2. Unfortunately they are bringing back a lot of the antiquated elements that wrestling fans have outgrown and got accustomed to better options, and part of the reason why WWE is light years ahead in delivery is because you can watch whenever wherever for $5 a month. With AEW you have to watch when they air and on what station like it's 1999 all over again. If they could cater to dial up Internet and AIM they would 😆 . And thats the product as a company whole As for the game, the road to elite is fun in a way, very reminiscent of smackdown shut your mouth, which was innovative in 2002, but now just seems hackneyed and like we've long improved from this point. The hardcore matches are fun. The exploding barb wire matches are okay for about 3 or 4 times, but they r duce what you can do on the match in terms of wrestling in favor of some sparkles that lose charm about the 4th or 5th time you see them. And you can't bounce off the ropes, leave the ring, or do anything that makes watching wrestling great. That is all gone in favor of seeing some sparkles when you throw your opponent into the ropes. Plus the match in road to elite where you wrestle your shadow self is meant to be deep and introspective but just comes off as retarded and on the thinking level of a 12 year old stoner. Don't get me wrong. Match for match the game is fun for about an hour or two. 6/10 is a fair rating for this game and if you pay over $30 for this game you've payed too much. WWE 2k23 is overall much better. Much more match options. Plenty of wrestling legends to unlock through gameplay and not spending money. Better graphics. More exciting matches. More realization of what year it is, as well as paying homage to the past. 2k23 is better in almost every way imaginable.
How are they shills? Theyve literally reviewed only 2 AEW shows ever since AEW launched. Also ----- state of your username. I can def expect a very non biased, level headed review from a guy with that username. Smh.
I love the fact the defo not biased lads who 100% arent being nice so they get treated nice by one of thier fave companies havent really mentioned any of the common issues - any remotly levied criticism is then compared to WWE2K23 (fed bad) but you cant compare them in any ither aspect because AEW and yukes have never made a game 😂 Also bravo to the editing team who cut the "i like the ladder retrieval game showing you have to hit a particular button in sequence better then i need a science degree to understand the 2k submission system" and its exactly the same system of pressing the buttons till they change *chef kiss* Also highlighting the AEW creator controct was a nice touch Except you got it free - a 60£ game with day 1 paid DLC Good work lads - stick to the classics
Mate, in the words of Bart and Lisa Simpson, they’re giving you thousands of hours of entertainment for free (plus Nogger U if you feel like chucking them a few quid). Get off your fucking cross.
Just commenting to say that yes, early versions of No Mercy did have an erase bug. You know it's about to happen because when you do match your custom wrestler walks in as generic (The default look of the CAS until you started working on them). I'm pretty sure once you see it it's already too late to salvage it.
I still have horrible memories of that awful scratchy Original Theme 1 coming on, signifying that my awesome CAW, ReaperMan, had gone to the big Gorilla position in the sky. (I know the name’s shit, I was 13)
Smackdown: Here comes the pain is the greatest wrestling game ever and one the greatest games ever. Unbelieveable easy and fun game play. With a superb edit mode.
I really enjoyed the game the first day... and then, on the second day for no apparent reason, it started crashing every time I try to start a match, save a created wrestler, do anything in story mode, etc. Like, right now, the game is literally unplayable for me on PS4 because I can't do anything without it crashing. And the more I think about it, the more that pisses me off. I know this game had a longer window between announcement and release than many were expecting, but the fact that such a game-breaking bug could happen so shortly after launch makes me think that maybe they should've sorted that out before they greenlit shipping the final product out. Because my initial impression of the game was quite positive, but having to deal with this level of a technical issue has soured my opinion of it significantly.
I went to their booth at tokyo game show, and they had a whole ring and matches. It was nuts. Only reason i bought the game tbh. Hope they have more matches at the next TGS lol
how the fuck are they missing half the roster??? The amout of folks you mentionedthat are not in it made me kinda not wanna buy it now. Ill wait till they have a njpw and roh pack and all dlc is out.
👍 Thumbs up the vid ya bollix! 👍 WE GOT GAMEZ FOR DAYZZZZZ! Your favourite Irish boys Jay & V1 are joined by Matt McMuscles to review AEW's first major game. Thanks to Thq for the early access codes and Chris Vaughn for the retrospective and roster editing. Enjoy! 💚
You mentioned the TNA game, but by no means it was a young studio: Midway in itself was a whole 50 years old (35 when they started in the videogame business), Midway Studios LA was 4 years old (and as CWS/Paradox, 14 years old - by the way they developed Thrill Kill and Shaolin Monks as well as the Wu-Tang game!), not even the even the ports' developers had a decade of work before them (most notably Ready 2 Rumble Boxing and MK Trilogy as well as NFL Blitz).
at 50:53 they show a unlockable version of Cena in 2k who is supposed to be invisible (you can't see me) and they show it during the glitch criticisms and then show AC Unity missing character model I mean i know you have put like 0 effort into this but its abit scummy to try and compare the Missing Cena like its a bug - when it's not, i get your whole thing is AEW:FF good 2kBad (which is hilarious btw, because every major review and their own subreddit being full of harsh topics is showing how weird you have actually been here) but that's just kinda poor lads
Heya brahs, AEW FF's *£41* here! If you find the game in your region at a discount, please post below and i'll edit my post! www.simplygames.com/p/aew-fight-forever-ps5 (non-affiliate link)
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I know you guys weren’t the only ones to say it, and I hate to be that guy BUT! Bulldog appeared in WWF Warzone & WCW/NWO Revenge the same year AND Fire Pro Wrestling & Legends of Wrestling 2 in the same
year, AND Showdown Legends of Wrestling & Smackdown Vs Raw the same year. Because the British Bulldog wins, whether he wants to or not!
@@kieranwalsh5779 That’s because of the Davey Boy chinlock, made extra famous by WrestlingBios : Reliving the War 🤣
personally i got it from shopto for pc, i got the elite edition for £40!
Bought the DLC for PlayStation got the DLC Matt Hardy and no one else for the DLC because somehow the hardware for PlayStation 4 isn't working right right now and they still haven't fixed it yet
I'm nostalgic for the AKI games and even enjoyed Fight Forever but the glazing in this video is insane.
@@checkeredslime9478 I mean I told everyone to buy Horizon 2 instead 😂 I reckon a lot of people mistook us having a great time chatting about the fun parts for "it's an incredible game". The gameplay is rock solid, there's just very sparse content.
@@OSW fair enough. I guess I'm just envious as I enjoyed it but didn't seem to enjoy it as much as you all did. 😂
The full game feels like an extended demo/first build
Still need a Brucie Bonus episode of you guys explaining the story mode of 2k20 to OOC.
Book it!
If you win the Masters you get the green jacket. If you win the Tour de France, you get the yellow jersey. Does that mean if you win the Owen... You get the blue blazer?
Book it!
This fuckin guy
He gets it
You get the gimmick of the Blue Blazer
This is the Bruce Hart of jokes.
Brother brother brother, you won this.
Cody appearing in both in the same year is amazing. I think Bret Hart did the same in 98 with WWF WarZone and WCW/nWo Revenge. Only the truest of royalty can accomplish such a feat
Jericho and Big Show too being in WCW/nWo Thunder in January '99 and then being in Wrestlemania 2000 in October '99
Please don't compare Cody Rhodes to Bret Hart.
@@firstroundboxing7649 not a comparison, just a similarity. When Cody gets his very own rope, we’ll compare.
@@firstroundboxing7649I want to hear more about the similarities between Cody Rhodes and Bret Hart. And then their differences. And then how each of them look dressed like the Undertaker.
Jericho was also in WCW Mayhem released in 1999
The roster inclusions are interesting. Having Yuka Sakazaki, who has made just over 20 appearances - mostly on Dark and Dark Elevation, but no Jamie Hayter or Toni Storm is a strange choice but is probably a relic of the long development time. Also, having Keith Lee but no Swerve is strange.
Yea the games been in development for a while. I'd imagine the game is gonna get consistent updates over the next year. Adding new wrestlers and such
FTR?
@@888Pungyupdates? You mean dlc
Yeah! It must be a nightmare working on wrestling rosters, as it's a fast-moving industry. Take Tears of the Kingdom - everything planned in 2017 is just as relevant in 2023 (or 2025, 2023 etc) as nothing is time sensitive. But a roster planned less than a year ago can be wildly out of date now.
I remember when WWE2K22 came out, comically out of date as 2022 was the year of cuts.
Also love Jay's tribute to drunk V1 at the Motorhead show saying "PLAY THE GAME"
I always appreciate your honesty Jay. Not saying anything against Matt or Steve but I'm really glad you allow yourself to contradict them rather than just do nerd crew "i agree" dialogue.
Very cool
I will say something against Matt and Steve. Felt very shill-y from them.
@@EnclosedPoolArea agreed. They want everything about AEW to succeed even if it's subpar.
But jay usually reigns things in and is the voice of reason
@@Thearmyofsnipers OOC was sorely missed here. You had two superfans in V1 and Matt and no one to counterbalance.
@@EnclosedPoolArea Does he even have any modern gaming console?
They perfectly captured JR's fatigued apathy
Fatigued Apathy is my new band name.
My man needs some twisty rockets
@@OSWneeds some nose beers
"Chris Jericho shoots the twisty rockets at MY ASS!"
@@fergalstackstreams laughed way harder than I expected. Thank you.
5:25 Cody is far from the first person in history to be officially licensed in two rival wrestling games in the same calendar year.
Bret and Bulldog were in both WWF War Zone and WCW/nWo Revenge in 1998.
Jericho was in both WWF Wrestlemania 2000 and WCW Mayhem in 1999.
Hogan and Eddie Guerrero were in both WWE Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth and Legends of Wrestling II in 2002 (and Hogan was also in WWF WrestleMania X8 for GCN).
Andre, Bret, Jimmy Snuka, and the Road Warriors were all in both Showdown: Legends of Wrestling and WWE Smackdown vs. Raw in 2004 (and Andre, Bret, and Greg Valentine were also in both Showdown and Day of Reckoning on GCN).
I'm sure there may be other examples.
Nope. That’s all of them.
@@yelnaw Of course, if you count unlicensed stuff like the Fire Pro series, then you get a bunch more examples.
@@mrpopsiclemanIf you count those, The Great Sasuke's probably been in 3 games in 1 year.
The farty pyro (in the exploding barbed wire deathmatch) is in the game! It happened in Deadlock's playthrough of the match they recorded during the pre-release community event!
It was an option in a beta build of the game, the option is no longer available from the start. possibly unlockable.
@@FatherAxeKeeper Booooooooo
You unlock the option by playing through the barbed wire deathmatch storyline in the story mode.
Game is hot Garbage
@@PaxBisonica89 cool story
V1 saying that this game will hold up in 20 years in terms of graphics whereas 2k23 will look terrible is very strange I think it’ll be looked back on like the impact game in that it aged really poorly with its different style
@@PanelVulture I think that was the point he was trying to make even though I completely disagreed because the game doesn't look 'timeless' or anything like that. I really hope they flesh it out a bit more in the future and work on what they have then it could turn into a really decent game.
Yeah I nearly fell out of my chair when that was said.
For me it was the line from the guest guy about jpeg backgrounds being "really neat and refreshing". Some mind-boggling opinions in this review.
To be fair, a very similar game in Def Jam Fight for NY still looks good today and it uses a very similar look to Fight Forever.
@@Edboy2k22"This 60$ 9th gen game looks similar to a game from 6th gen". I don't think that's a good thing.
Long time fan of the reviews boys, but this game crashes everytime I go to a match...10 times in an hour...AEW FIGHT FOREVER is officially in my boy stable!!
Crashed several times for me as well. You are not alone.
Is it still happening? For me and many other ppl this has never happened.
People have been complaining for years that the 2k games dont have some match types like special Guest referee and Inferno but this fucking game doesn't even have a cage matchs
I don’t think saying “AEW is only 4 years old so …” works as an excuse for the lack of matches or all the bugs because AEW themselves didn’t make the game it was made by developers with decades of pro wrestling games experience
Not to mention it was announced like 3 years ago and talked about since the founding of the company. There’s really no excuse for the bugs at that point.
You just don't get it. By breaking free of the annual cycle and taking three times longer to develop the game, they were able to deliver you a third of the content for full price. Please enjoy.
Classic beloved games like Skyrim and Witcher 3 were in development for much longer, by bigger studios, build upon previous title experiences and engines , and STILL released in horrendous states .
Took years of patching to fix, and still full of bugs and glitches to this day.
This isn't me "shilling" for the game, as I have no interest in it and think its just another garbage lazy copy paste wrestling game
This is me pointing out that you either don't know much about video game development, or just want to rag on anything AEW related as most people seem to do online
It's the cool thing to do I guess
Trash this game, but WOWWWWW 2k added 1 new feature every year for the past almost 10 years, while taking away features from previous titles, and the game still broken.
So if the measuring stick for AEW video game is "Its been in development for 3 years and theres no excuse for a 4 year old company....", what is the threshold for WWE video games that still suck and have been awful since SVR 2007
@@ITRiBUTEIFor someone who claims to be not shilling, you sure doing a lot of shilling.
I seem to recall Witcher III and Skryim getting GOTY declarations upon release. This game is getting 6s from multiple reviewers.
@@ITRiBUTEI those games are literally hundreds of times bigger in scope and Yukes has made this exact type of game for 20+ years. The game it's trying to be a spiritual successor to (No Mercy) has more customization options, a visible branch so you can navigate career mode without a FAQ, and way more finisher slots.
Weird that you think the WWE games have sucked for so long but magically really like THIS one even though it's still all Yukes? I'm sure that's me being biased though, and you're not being unreasonable at all comparing this games scope to Witcher 3 and Skyrim.
Good god dude I wish you were shilling, at least you'd get paid for a take this bad and strawman heavy.
Played the game for about one month, it feels like I've played it all and have already moved on to wwe2k23
How did you get a month out of this? I played for 90 min and feel tired of it.
@@AndiBraun93 must have a short attention span lmfao
How much did Tony Khan kick down to Matt Muscles. The graphics are bad.... That makes it charming.... The storyline isn't that good..... that makes it memorable. Congratulations for being all in
Seeing the footage in this video has convinced me that I never want to buy this game. I do find it interesting that many of the flaws of past WWE games are negatives, while the flaws of this one are apparently charming, but to each their own. Hopefully they make a better game sometime, and hopefully it won’t take a decade.
Just gotta say anyone who bought this game based on OSW’s review, the game is good but the story mode is lacking. I watched this review and got the game because I thought the story sounded cool, but it’s not how it’s sold like. All the storyline’s you do in the game are completely disconnected, with no real connection. You can win the tag titles and then you’ll just never defend them or even be mentioned as tag champ.
Saying that the game is gonna age better graphic wise is gonna age better than 2K23 was the most ridiculous thing I've heard lol, completely threw the entire review out the window
Yeah, I'm not really a gamer and just watched this because I enjoy listening to the lads talk, but I couldn't make any sense of that comment. They really needed OOC on this to balance the excessive optimism.
@@inlimboed91 Yeah I really don't mind the attitude to support this no matter what, hell I purchased the game as well because I appreciate TRYING for a new game but there is still a world where you can hold that belief and still see a pretty unpolished end product. I do have trust in AEW to do right by the fans because no matter what side of the fence you're on, they always really try to do that but this takes a lot more improvement to be anything but 5-10 hours of playing time. I went through one RTE run and while some of the gimmicks were fun the first
time, they don't have a lot of substance in them to make them really worthwile.
There were times where I questioned the honesty of V1/Matt in this review, especially with how hard they defended what are objectively pretty bad graphics. Enjoying a video game is of course subjective but this review felt bordering on shill-work at times.
You guys have the most positive review on this I've seen so far. Which actually has me skeptical of it even more now lol.
Right? Glad I’m not the only sussy one
The movement is a little iffy but it's been fun as online so far
@@lracseroom8286 Yeah as much as I find V1 hilarious the majority of the time, when he starts talking about his opinions, (mostly about games) it can get borderline hypocritical. They start well enough, with the "you can like what you like", but so often it'll turn into effectively, "if you don't have my opinion you are either wrong or stupid". That's something I've picked up on when he tags along for game reviews.
OSWReview is increasingly positive of everything they review, and that's why I love them. Even when they review crap, they put a light spin on it. Life is too short to hate everything, ESPECIALLY pro-wrestling.
but yes, V1's explanation that Fight Forever will age well, unlike WWE games...because the next version of the WWE games will make the old ones look bad? So does that mean that every future AEW game will look this bad graphically?
@@lracseroom8286 V1 is just too biased with AEW stuff he needs to relax and have fun like he used too.
Thanks for the video lads! Always a better day with OSW in it 🙏
I’m glad that you guys are having fun with the game, but I honestly wouldn’t recommend it right now. The fact that this game has less features, modes, and match types than a 20 year old game made by the same company (or even Fire Pro Wrestling World, which is more of an indie title than this) is $60-70 in 2023 is inexcusable.
I love that the AKI style gameplay is back and that it runs much better than WWE 2K, but graphics and gameplay isn’t enough.
Side note: I don’t think you guys or NewLegacy or anybody who got a code for this game really understand that this game right now is not worth the money. I know that this game is going to be constantly upgraded and improved for years to come instead of being an annual roster update for $60-70, but it’s ridiculous that I could still play HCPT or No Mercy (emulation or physical hardware) and get the same or greater amount of enjoyment than spending way more that it’s worth to play this.
I’m not mad or hating on this game or anyone that has found joy in this, but I figured that some more light should be shined on the fact that this game has less to do than a 20+ year old game and cost way too much just because it’s an AEW game. Also, there’s no excuse for this to be so bare bones or to say it’s an indie title, because it’s not. The developers, publishers, and IP are all major players in their respectable fields. If it needed to take longer to put more into it, then so be it. Let it take forever, at least it would show that they really cared and not tried to rush out a game that looked no different than when it was shown off a year ago.
Anyways, congrats on getting to review it early and give your thoughts on it, as well of nL. You guys deserve it
To correct Yukes and WWE relationship breaking down, after 2K19, Yukes announced that they were making their own wrestling game because they wanted to make “something else” in their own words.
2K hated that, took half-baked 2K20 away from Yukes, gave it to Visual Concepts, and resulted in the fine mess that was 2k20.
WWE 2k20 was meant to warn us about the actual year 2020
I still remember how much of a shitshow that game was. DEAR LORD
WWE 2k20 GOAT
Couple of small points: Matt’s gripe about the submission and ladder mini games in WWE2k being really hard is odd. I’ll give him the ladder one as that’s not overly simple (it’s still not hard) but he said he preferred AEW’s as that’s just pressing a button, and then another button. He then makes a point about submissions being hard in 2k when it’s just button mashing. So he likes the button pressing in AEW but not WWE?
V1 mentions near the end about Cody’s WWE entrance being great and long but then annoying after seeing it loads of times. He does know you can skip entrances right?
I gave up on this review; idk why but they can’t be objective about AEW. I don’t hate AEW but you can’t honestly believe that this game looks better than 2k23 and it’s not even stylized enough to say it is going for a unique look. It legitimately looks like the action figures vs 2K that’s nearly photo real. Also the characters are 3 years out of date… like 1 is kinda industry standard and they try to update songs and hopefully get to important visual things but this is like 2k20’s roster coming out in 2k24
You have to realise something is annoying you, before you remember to skip it. And to the other guy, if you don't like the graphics then don't buy it but for a lot of us, we'd rather have a game that looks ass but is fun (Fight Forever) over a game that looks great but isn't a good time to play (most big games released in the last three years in all genres).
@@Killbrokraft Usually people who rush to the 'touch grass' defense, are actually quite bothered themselves.
It’s not cartoony… it’s low res. Those aren’t synonyms. It legitimately looks rubbery like I said like old school action figures. An opinion isn’t a defense for a stupid argument, if I said Malbogia from the 90s spawn looks better than Thanos from Avengers you are aloud to say… “uhh are you just shilling?” Especially when they admit they got the game for free
I think the submissions minigame Matt is referring to is the "chase each other around the circle" game that everyone hated.
I miss old OSW when they didn't do paid 1 hour ads
Praying for Brody King and Buddy Mathews additions to this game.
They are my lost boys with the coolest movesets.
Good news gentlemen apparently the malfunctioning pyro is in the game
It is in the game. I believe if one player is still lying on the mat when the counter ends it malfunctions
We did it boys. Farty pyro in pixelation.
@@kassi420 Apparently it happens if a player taunts right as the timer ends? I dunno though, it might be one of those things that is just random.
Hey guys great vid but I gotta ask why are you calling Yuke’s and THQNordic new companies? Both have been around for years, and so I don’t cut them as much slack. Especially Yukes because they had been developing wwe games for years.
People trot out the "it's like No Mercy" when it's honestly probably more in line with the Gamecube WWE games like Wrestlemania 19 and the Day of Reckoning series which felt like an update to the formula at the time.
I agree that it plays more like DoR. I really liked the physicality of it but I actually really enjoyed the slower pace of the N64 games. A point the guys were making that it plays quite fast and twitchy is actually a minus for me.
Totally agree
I'll have to disagree with the 2k23 controls, I find them really easy to use. Looking forward to playing fight forever tho
Crying shame Billy Gunn isn’t in the game (yet…) should be right on the front cover, bigger than anyone else!
"AEW is heavily influenced by WWF No Mercy"
This also applies to AEW's actual wrestling
Billy Gunn and Double J as a DLC pack maybe?
@@silentverity4975 Yes!!!
When they took punk off the cover they should've replaced him with Billy Gunn
In regards to the Exploding Barbed Wire Death Match: they did actually add an option/chance for the pyro to utterly fail as a nod to the Moxley Omega disaster.
NO F**KING WAY!! ok I'm gonna play it over and over til I get that 💣💨
@@OSW its an option in the menus
@@OSW In some other pre-release videos, it was an unlockable in the shop. Then they could switch it in the menu.
All of the years of development and a mountain of money later... and we get a AAA game that looks like a mobile game.
Its looks nothing like a mobile game lol. What should it look like. All the wrestlers look like themselves
Mobile game is unfair imo
Come on, no it doesn't.
It looks like a launch ps3 game lol
I don't think the McMuscles guy really gels well with the guys tbh
EDIT: I think Jay is the only one being completely honest and objective here. There is some real rose-tinted glasses shit going on with VI and the other guy lol
Literally just played Rumble Roses for the first time like an hour ago and heard the teat sheep line naturally for myself and then it was mentioned in this vid, 11/10
a true pervy classic
My god, they are charging 12 dollars for one charcter, he should absolutly do a "What Happuned?"
22:25 Regarding this, play through the story mode until you unlock the option to buy the "Historic" explosion for the Exploding Barbed Wire match.
You will be delighted by what happens.
didnt the new legacy inc guys get it by just both taunting at the exact same time right before the explosion?
Regarding the jukebox, for some reason by default it only loops those few in game songs over and over. You have to manually select all/add all the wrestler themes to the rotation and turn on randomization, otherwise it will play the same songs in the same order over and over. It's a weird oversight in the game.
5:30 re: Cody Rhodes being in 2 rival wrestling games in the same calendar year. Bret Hart was in both WWF Warzone (July 1998) and WcW/nWo Revenge (October 1998).
Why are you forgiving this game for lacking match types when the developer has the pedigree of Yuke's, who have been making wrestling games for decades?
Mate the game's being made from the ground up, and since it's a few years post pandemic, it's likely an entirely new team? And it's made in conjunction with the aew guys, who are novices at working on games. Bitta leeway seems fair
@@firerbenoit2808 No need to shout mate. It's to play an AEW game (YMMV) and it was £41 on launch day, which is a much fairer price
@@OSW That's ridiculous. There are games made by one guy with no experience that are incredible and games made by highly experienced and successful AAA studios that have been absolute garbage. And there there are games made by one guy with no experience that are garbage and games made by highly experienced and successful AAA studios that are incredible. You judge a game on that game's quality, not who developed it.
These comments honestly show more of your real opinion on this game than the entire hour long review.
The create a wrestler versions in WWE 2K are better than most of these character models.
This aged well.
OSW having the most positive review I have seen for this game. Not shocked. I know how much they love AEW
What your point? That you only have to like AEW to like the game?
@@mothertrucker341 Given that the things people are criticizing this game for are precisely positives for them, yeah it seems like there is a latent bias involved. Especially when the game ties into the brand identity for AEW.
Snapshot album will show you all the available storylines in Road to Elite. There are three storylines for each PPV for 12 total. You can see all of them in three playthroughs
Yeah, if I remember correctly, that No Mercy save bug was in version 1 of the cartridge (No offence, Steve) as Matt said.
Never happened in the revised 1.1 cartridge I had as a kid. Unfortunately, mine was swapped for a buggy version in a heel turn from a friend just before leaving school.
It might have only been a bug with the PAL version of the cartridge too. I pre ordered mine here in the US so I know I got the first edition and I never experienced the glitch.
@@FatherAxeKeeperIt's definitely in the US release. My uncle gave me his copy, which is the original release, and it's happened a ton to me.
I haven't played this game since the 2nd week it was out. The entire package was just so damn disappointing. Really expected more given how much Kenny said he was involved.
He's the reason for the minigames instead of a good create/career mode.
Because when I played no mercy and here comes the pain, my favorite part wasn't customization or the season mode it's FUCKING MINI GAMES....
GODDAMN IT KENNY THIS FIGHT FOREVER NOT POKEMON STADIUM 2!!!
Day 1 DLC is outrageous
Especially for a clearly unfinished game.
If this was released as free to play with built dlc, or at most 20 dollars, it would be worth the price.
Haven't been disappointed with a launch title since cyberpunk
Evil Uno not being in the game is really sad, QT Marshall (pre QTV) not being in their is sad for the boy stables everywhere
Which is weird because I’m pretty sure Uno himself was directly involved in the development and stuff for the game.
Aew fans are wild. You actually wanted the charisma vacuum and some fat fuck? I heavily doubt those two would have been people itching to buy this game
in their what??
Man, I hope Matt got paid for all that shilling he done for the video. You'd think he was an AEW employee for how hard he defends the game.
osw is a credible source
THE credibile source
The ONLY credible source
Whether they like it or not.
I can't stop thinking about this comment as V1 complains about day 1 dlc before immediately admitting he's going to buy it/enable them.
Its like Rick James on the Chappelle show levels of credibility lol
Confirmed..... i legit do not trust a single game review person/ website/etc....... ill watch "before you buy" if im on the fence to get a better feel for what im in for.
@17:35 "They dont look like they dropped a load in their jocks" while Penta literally does the shuffle of an old man with a Depends filled to capacity🤔
People need to stop saying this is the first game so cut them some slack. Yukes has been making these games for over 2 decades. People act like some new developer made it.
@@Reaverbothe responded like that to at least 40 different comments on this video, saying royghly the same thing every time. He either works for WWE or is clinically insane.
@@almightycinder yeah i saw him a few more times after posting that lol
Fr bruh its just people gobbling up anything new but not good
@@itsdoomedjack9774 should i mention that its aews first game but yukes like 10th - 15th game 😭
@@itsdoomedjack9774 honestly 2k15 aint anything on gameplay but that game had way more content actually coming from a first time wrestling game company
I’ll probably buy the game, but not at full price. This is not a full price game lads
They're trying to sell the gold edition for 80 bucks....get the fuck outta here hell no.
Allow me to introduce you to a little lady named Fitgirl
and her pimp Mullvad
How do you know it's not worth the price if you didn't buy it?
Bad idea to watch this at work and come to the part of Daniel Bryan... MEAT-EATER! Co-workers gave me funny looks as I was holding back laughter like crazy.
How they couldn't have Daniels and Kaz since they were tag champions with Scorpio Sky/SCU initially since the launch is staggering.
You can actually see Kaz posing with a tag belt in the opening video.
@@JackgarPrime not enough, fans want SCU or at least Daniels cause Daniels is great.
Of all the women wrestlers in the game, I'm glad Abadon made the cut, considering how she gets almost no TV time.
She's perfect for a video game, especially. You look through the roster and see this monster right in your face and it's like "holy shit I have to try her out!" Especially if you're getting the game not as someone who watches AEW but just wants to play a new wrestling game you heard was fun.
I liked abadon very much but to be honest i am not invested in her since she durned face. It doens't fit the gimmick, i think. Anyways, glad she is the old abadon in the game.
I have to say, I’d rather have cage matches in the game than a wrestling-themed Mario Party mode.
YES! My copy of No Mercy had the "erase everything and I mean everything" bug. Completely ruined and ended my experience with No Mercy. I LOVED Wrestlemania 2000 though.
There is a later revision which fixed the bug but it also removed the visible blood (at least here in the Ireland/PAL versions)
After having come so far just to have the game delete everything, I was over it and I think I never played it again. I remember being extremely sad.
The graphics just ain't it the old n64 graphics looked cartoony cause that's the best they could do back then. With fight forever it's just them being cheap
Also no CAW morphing is a travesty
Was the CAW mode in Impact also limited?
@@Jack91790 Oh the Impact game CAW mode was still worse. But that was over 10 years ago
Despite all the missing characters, Here is Trent Berretta.
I love how the camera tags Trent several time, but no mention of him all 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Listening to JR reminded me of Tazz's commentary from Just Bring It:
"Triple H won...
...DA MATCH."
I got the game on PS Plus and honestly I feel so bad for people who paid full price for the game. It looks and feels to me like a game that was still being tested rather than a full release.
I love that the lads have a variety of awesome matthews to call on inh times of OOC not being in.
We need an ROH pack if nothing else for the Briscoes. And maybe include an old school CM punk/Danielson attire.
All the music surrounding the minigames sounded exactly like something from WM 2000 or No Mercy to me. I loved that.
@12:25 Hoping for an 8 wrestler DLC pack for $15? I guess it depends on whether THQ has updated its pricing model to match WWE 2K23, which looks to have upped the price of DLC wrestlers. ($10 for just Bad Bunny? $5 for individual "throwback" versions of guys like Cena or Batista?)
Ouch. That sucks. Create A Wrestler not being good is a massive deal breaker. I dont think i played No Mercy once as an actual character. How did they fuck that up?
It’s the one non-gameplay thing you NEED to be good in a wrestling game, and it has been for 25 years now.
V1 i love you man, but your opinion on this game is absolute bias.
This game will not age well in the next 20 years, as i think that this game has already aged before it even came out.
Not saying that you shouldn't enjoy anything AEW related, but come on man. Be a bit more objective about AEW products.
MJF is coming out with Wardlow for God's sake! 🤣
Honestly, the game just really missed for me. The story felt closer to bad parts of Yakuza and there were a lot of bugs than just broke things. Controllers dropped all the time. When playing more often than not, the controls delayed or didn't trigger at all. Weapons would disappear or someone would randomly slide all over the ring. At best it may be a 2/5 for me.
Steve and Matt trying to convince the audience and Jay that the graphics actually look good and have charm was pathetic not gunna lie lol. Both of them are just bashing WWE games anytime they can while Jay is being unbiased .
Good God who the hell cares! People so worked up in the comment section over literally nothing.
The graphics do look good. Deal with it.
Call me when WWE games, with their massive budgets, have an Andre the Giant that doesn't look like garbage.
@@Wannabe_Baby They look like absolute dogshit.
@@Wannabe_BabyThey look like wwe 2k15 graphics at best honest to God.
Since this video was pretty much released when the game was, as are.most.positive review videos for this game, I wonder what they think of it now that they've most likely played all 8 hours of the content. Aew is really bringing back all the old elements of 90s and early 2000s wrestling. $50 pay per views which cannot be streamed.on another source. Having to tune in on a certain time on a certain date to see their product. Even the graphics on this game scream late PS2. Unfortunately they are bringing back a lot of the antiquated elements that wrestling fans have outgrown and got accustomed to better options, and part of the reason why WWE is light years ahead in delivery is because you can watch whenever wherever for $5 a month. With AEW you have to watch when they air and on what station like it's 1999 all over again. If they could cater to dial up Internet and AIM they would 😆 . And thats the product as a company whole
As for the game, the road to elite is fun in a way, very reminiscent of smackdown shut your mouth, which was innovative in 2002, but now just seems hackneyed and like we've long improved from this point. The hardcore matches are fun. The exploding barb wire matches are okay for about 3 or 4 times, but they r duce what you can do on the match in terms of wrestling in favor of some sparkles that lose charm about the 4th or 5th time you see them. And you can't bounce off the ropes, leave the ring, or do anything that makes watching wrestling great. That is all gone in favor of seeing some sparkles when you throw your opponent into the ropes. Plus the match in road to elite where you wrestle your shadow self is meant to be deep and introspective but just comes off as retarded and on the thinking level of a 12 year old stoner.
Don't get me wrong. Match for match the game is fun for about an hour or two. 6/10 is a fair rating for this game and if you pay over $30 for this game you've payed too much. WWE 2k23 is overall much better. Much more match options. Plenty of wrestling legends to unlock through gameplay and not spending money. Better graphics. More exciting matches. More realization of what year it is, as well as paying homage to the past. 2k23 is better in almost every way imaginable.
They obviously got paid by Tony Khan for that review 😂😂😂
The game was fucking trash i traded it in after less then a month
It's great knowing when every other critic is bashing this game, Tony Khan can always rely on his number 1 shills over at OSW!
How are they shills? Theyve literally reviewed only 2 AEW shows ever since AEW launched. Also ----- state of your username. I can def expect a very non biased, level headed review from a guy with that username. Smh.
That Samoa Joe robot arm...
"Stings been caged by The Horsemen! Here comes stings buddy JOEBOCOP, Bob!"
I see Tony Khan drove dumps truck full of money to the lads house's, and they weren't made of stone 🌝
I love the fact the defo not biased lads who 100% arent being nice so they get treated nice by one of thier fave companies havent really mentioned any of the common issues - any remotly levied criticism is then compared to WWE2K23 (fed bad) but you cant compare them in any ither aspect because AEW and yukes have never made a game 😂
Also bravo to the editing team who cut the "i like the ladder retrieval game showing you have to hit a particular button in sequence better then i need a science degree to understand the 2k submission system" and its exactly the same system of pressing the buttons till they change *chef kiss*
Also highlighting the AEW creator controct was a nice touch
Except you got it free - a 60£ game with day 1 paid DLC
Good work lads - stick to the classics
Mate, in the words of Bart and Lisa Simpson, they’re giving you thousands of hours of entertainment for free (plus Nogger U if you feel like chucking them a few quid). Get off your fucking cross.
They're not boys because they got titles, but the Gunns or Billy Gunn not being in the game is criminal.
Like the last 4 tag champs not being fully in the game is weird. no Acclaimed, the Gunns, Swerve and Lee and even FTR being dlc
Just commenting to say that yes, early versions of No Mercy did have an erase bug.
You know it's about to happen because when you do match your custom wrestler walks in as generic (The default look of the CAS until you started working on them). I'm pretty sure once you see it it's already too late to salvage it.
I still have horrible memories of that awful scratchy Original Theme 1 coming on, signifying that my awesome CAW, ReaperMan, had gone to the big Gorilla position in the sky.
(I know the name’s shit, I was 13)
Had 3 separate copies that all did that shit!
Woww, im over elated that I never experienced this bug back in the day.
My copy erased on me for years before I sprang for a new copy
@@clinteldoradoNahhhhh! 😢 RIP ReaperMan! 🕊️
Smackdown: Here comes the pain is the greatest wrestling game ever and one the greatest games ever. Unbelieveable easy and fun game play. With a superb edit mode.
seeing Bryan fight his evil shadow duplicate gave me persona vibes that came out of nowhere.
the Caw is an absolute backbreaker for me, 2k23 is my most played game this year and all I do is CAW stuff.
Rumble Roses! Now there’s a good game and I wish I could still play it (no working PS2).
I really enjoyed the game the first day... and then, on the second day for no apparent reason, it started crashing every time I try to start a match, save a created wrestler, do anything in story mode, etc. Like, right now, the game is literally unplayable for me on PS4 because I can't do anything without it crashing. And the more I think about it, the more that pisses me off. I know this game had a longer window between announcement and release than many were expecting, but the fact that such a game-breaking bug could happen so shortly after launch makes me think that maybe they should've sorted that out before they greenlit shipping the final product out. Because my initial impression of the game was quite positive, but having to deal with this level of a technical issue has soured my opinion of it significantly.
Time heals all wounds
V1 turned heel on this review for me personally
I think wrestling video games are the ONE genre where microtransactions are permitted. "Trimming the marks" is wrestling 101.
That's the thing I don't care about microtransactions cause only idiots would buy them
Lol stop
Tony Khan: Please enjoy AEW: Fight Forever, where nothing can possib-lie go wrong!
I did a lot of things at work today that made me feel like a alien so I needed this vid today
I hate the 20 sec snippet entrances.
I went to their booth at tokyo game show, and they had a whole ring and matches. It was nuts. Only reason i bought the game tbh. Hope they have more matches at the next TGS lol
I'm actually surprised they didn't include some more legends like Arn, Jake and Medusa.
how the fuck are they missing half the roster??? The amout of folks you mentionedthat are not in it made me kinda not wanna buy it now. Ill wait till they have a njpw and roh pack and all dlc is out.
@@mikeymidnite7685FTR is here already day one if you preordered.
Called locked dlc
Njpw won't be in the game, aew lite roh will be
@@petesmart1983 Devs in a recent interview hinted at upcoming NJPW content.
@@petesmart1983 I disagree, if you think they wont have a forbidden door pack your loony tunes.
👍 Thumbs up the vid ya bollix! 👍
WE GOT GAMEZ FOR DAYZZZZZ! Your favourite Irish boys Jay & V1 are joined by Matt McMuscles to review AEW's first major game. Thanks to Thq for the early access codes and Chris Vaughn for the retrospective and roster editing. Enjoy! 💚
You mentioned the TNA game, but by no means it was a young studio: Midway in itself was a whole 50 years old (35 when they started in the videogame business), Midway Studios LA was 4 years old (and as CWS/Paradox, 14 years old - by the way they developed Thrill Kill and Shaolin Monks as well as the Wu-Tang game!), not even the even the ports' developers had a decade of work before them (most notably Ready 2 Rumble Boxing and MK Trilogy as well as NFL Blitz).
the reason all the DLC is coming out so fast is the release got delayed so all the DLC got finished during the delay
the farty bad pyro is in the death match. it's random or you have to unlock it. i saw it on NL playthrough
at 50:53 they show a unlockable version of Cena in 2k who is supposed to be invisible (you can't see me) and they show it during the glitch criticisms and then show AC Unity missing character model
I mean i know you have put like 0 effort into this but its abit scummy to try and compare the Missing Cena like its a bug - when it's not, i get your whole thing is AEW:FF good 2kBad (which is hilarious btw, because every major review and their own subreddit being full of harsh topics is showing how weird you have actually been here) but that's just kinda poor lads
6 and Xpac was also on two different games, rival companies within the same year on the 64... Js its not only cody
Mr Waltman indeed "ripped A$$" many times on N64
He was on World Tour in 97, and a few years later Wrestlemania 2000
@@Smokey1419 he's on WCW NWO revenge and wrestlemania 2000 which is definitely less than a year apart look it up
@@rebeccaburr3387 I can promise you hes not on Revenge, i still have all 4 games. Revenge is the only one he isnt on
@@Smokey1419 had to look it up and your right... My brain remembered him in there and he wasnt
14:50 Jericho's model in this is an inaction figure.