With 'mania season on I've started playing the current WWE wrestling and it so average and dull I've gone back to replaying No Mercy, this game really stands the test of time. I've been creating alot of classic and current wrestlers and despite the blocky graphics you can get pretty close to getting them all but it doesn't help that so many of them like Goldberg, Lesnar, Steiner etc are just big guys with black trousers/shorts.
I wouldn't call the new games average and dull. I haven't played 15 yet but I have 14 and really enjoy it.
Some of the old games are hit and miss. Most of the Acclaim ones hold up really well While the THQ games can be very bad. I have been playing some WWF In Your House and WCW/NWO Thunder lately myself. In Your House is pure arcade fun while Thunder is...erm...not very good but it still has a lot of charm to it.
Edit: Also Raw on original Xbox is an awesome game.
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The old ones I think hold up well are Wrestlefest (the Arcade game), the AKI/THQ ones (No Mercy being the last of the series) and Fire Pro Wrestling (S: 6 Man Scramble I think being the pinnacle). I'd rate FPW as the best wrestling game series I've ever played.
couldnt enjoy No Mercy because of the silly save glitch.
Forgot about that, that was really annoying, I remember at the time THQ were blaming it on faulty hardware despite it being reproducible on an emulator with a rom of the game.
Rimmer: "Look, I think we've all got something to bring to this conversation, but I think that from now on the thing you should bring is silence."
Homer: "Oh people can come up with statistics to prove anything Kent. Forfty percent of all people know that."
I wasted so much of my free time in high school playing these games. I personally preferred the WCW/nWo game as that was when the wrestling wars were in full force (admittedly, WCW was on the decline at the time), but both were great.
couldnt enjoy No Mercy because of the silly save glitch.
Forgot about that, that was really annoying, I remember at the time THQ were blaming it on faulty hardware despite it being reproducible on an emulator with a rom of the game.
It was an error within the cartridge that they fixed in later copies. I remember on eBay a while ago that a guy who worked for THQ was selling several dozen unopened copies of the game that he had received which were the version that didn't have this issue.
couldnt enjoy No Mercy because of the silly save glitch.
Forgot about that, that was really annoying, I remember at the time THQ were blaming it on faulty hardware despite it being reproducible on an emulator with a rom of the game.
It was an error within the cartridge that they fixed in later copies. I remember on eBay a while ago that a guy who worked for THQ was selling several dozen unopened copies of the game that he had received which were the version that didn't have this issue.
That is the incident I was referring to, THQ issued a statement at the time which blamed the problem on the manufacture of the cartridge (i.e. the manufacturers were to blame not them), the problem was the bug was reproducible on N64 emulators which showed that explanation to be wrong and that the issue was a software bug (and hence THQ's fault). They got a lot of flak at the time for trying to blame someone else for their own mistake, the fixed cartridges contained a new build correcting the software issue.
EDIT: Looking online it seems even the revised cartridge still has the bug and it was never properly fixed
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