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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => PS3 Discussion => Topic started by: soundifound on March 29, 2001, 01:14:04 PM

Title: How Come?
Post by: soundifound on March 29, 2001, 01:14:04 PM
How come only one company is allowed to license a WWF game but there are multiple titles by different companies for the NBA, NHL, NFL?
Title: How Come?
Post by: EmperorRob on March 29, 2001, 01:25:15 PM
Probably b/c no one else wants to shell out the $$$ for copyrights.  It costs lots of money to use names and brand logos and trademarks and all that crap.
Title: How Come?
Post by: Dolbytone on March 29, 2001, 01:25:31 PM
Wrasslin\' sucks, who cares.

(In a particularly bad mood today, no offense)
Title: How Come?
Post by: soundifound on March 29, 2001, 01:40:21 PM
Yes, wrestling does suck now.  I used to like it but its too damn repetitive so I quit watching.
Title: How Come?
Post by: EmperorRob on March 29, 2001, 02:03:17 PM
Well you definitely ought to watch tonight on Smackdown and if you missed Monday night then you missed the greatest show of all time b/c Vince bought WCW.
Title: How Come?
Post by: soundifound on March 29, 2001, 03:30:00 PM
I saw it Monday, it was pretty good.  Maybe I\'ll start watching again...probably not
Title: How Come?
Post by: Bozco on March 29, 2001, 08:33:09 PM
Get real its fake
Title: How Come?
Post by: Crippler on March 29, 2001, 08:36:16 PM
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Originally posted by Bozco
Get real its fake


Better than watching those boring soap\'s.

Young and The Restless - Just die already !
Title: How Come?
Post by: EmperorRob on March 29, 2001, 09:01:32 PM
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Originally posted by Bozco
Get real its fake


So what\'s your point?  You think video games are real?
Title: How Come?
Post by: inteq on March 29, 2001, 09:08:17 PM
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Originally posted by EmperorRob
Well you definitely ought to watch tonight on Smackdown and if you missed Monday night then you missed the greatest show of all time b/c Vince bought WCW.


Really?  So are they going to merge the two or what?  That would be A LOT of wrestlers.
Title: How Come?
Post by: Kenshin on March 30, 2001, 02:16:01 AM
I love wrestling and all but it really has become so dang repetitive. As for wwf buying wcw, I just pray to god that they dont incorporate alot of the wcw wrestlers into the wwf. Maybe goldberg or DDP but thats it. Sorry im not a WCW fan at all. Im wwf all the way, although they are getting kinda boring now too. Meh go figure.
Title: How Come?
Post by: Dolbytone on March 30, 2001, 02:17:58 AM
I thought WCW was owned by Turner, why would he sell it?
Title: How Come?
Post by: SuperSaiyanMasters on March 30, 2001, 11:04:29 AM
Ted Turner didn\'t sell it..remeber when aol merged with time warner... i think aol sold it b/c they wanted to make a music channel for the future to compete with mtv..i heard it would be coming out sometime next year..plus the turner exc said that they didn\'t want wrestling on their networks anymore..so go figure..
Title: How Come?
Post by: Coredweller on March 30, 2001, 12:11:39 PM
I don\'t watch wrestling, but I will buy the PS2 WWF game when it\'s released.  I think it will be fun.

In a way, the console game will be more realistic than the actual wrestling events.  Think about it:  Wrestling events are fairly well scripted, participants are careful not to seriously injure each other, floors, turnbuckles, and chairs are padded, etc.  Would this stuff be simulated in a console game?  I don\'t think so.

I haven\'t played the PS1 wrestling games much, but it seems to me they were designed as if the wrestling were real.  Would you as a player watch your health bar return to full, but then NOT get up off the canvas because you\'d been told to take a dive?  Would you wait to defeat your opponent because the television broadcast would run short?

Apologies to all you folks who might think it\'s real.

Coredweller
Title: How Come?
Post by: EmperorRob on March 30, 2001, 05:27:50 PM
AOL-TIMEWARNER sold WCW for 2 reasons:They\'ve started a feud with Shane McMahon vs Vince at Wrestlemania and Shane bought WCW before Vince could.
Title: How Come?
Post by: Kane on March 30, 2001, 05:38:11 PM
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I haven\'t played the PS1 wrestling games much, but it seems to me they were designed as if the wrestling were real. Would you as a player watch your health bar return to full, but then NOT get up off the canvas because you\'d been told to take a dive? Would you wait to defeat your opponent because the television broadcast would run short?


Of course wrestling videogames are designed as if wrestling was real. Everyone knows real wrestling on TV is fake, but who\'d want to play a wrestling game were all the fights were predetermined and none of your punches and kicks actually landed?

[Edit: Never mind, you already said that in the first part of your post. I just skimmed over it.]