Absolutely this.

Hmm I think it goes against the spirit of it to be honest. It is a wrestling thing. Gotta have an official title, or else how could the company...No, the world.... endorse the belt?

Sure. The best part of the PAX RR is seeing all of the game industry folks camping it up. The game itself is not fun to watch as someone with little to no interest in wrestling.

Exactly it, would be easier to watch the actual game part and it would be easier for the competitors as well as the commentators. It would eliminate unfair advantages. It would make the whole thing more legitimate.

They should just play the most recent wrestling game and make custom characters for everyone.

Or that. but it seems like alot of work on the part of the organizers.

But again my issue is the controls. I don't know if people who don't normally play those games would be able to master the controls quickly enough. Anyone can figure out gang beasts in under 5 min.

@49th: The most recent games don't really support the pass and play style multiplayer like the old games do. Not to mention the new games are way more complex. Think Madden 96 vs Madden 2015.

I think that'd be really cool. The biggest problem with the Rumble is that the game itself is not that fun to watch. Plus, it's really hard to keep track of who is who, especially if you're like me and know nothing about Wrestling.

All of this. The game while neat and retro, it is getting in the way of the actual event.

FAO people who voted yes:

You're wrong, because the best part of any rumble is the countdown noise and the entrance music. As a wrestling fan I think I know what I'm talking about when it comes to building an enthralling rumble.

I agree with this. If Gang Beasts had entrance music and the countdown timer it would be pretty amazing though (especially if you could set the entrance music to be a specific audio file).

Yeah but all of that enthralling stuff you're talking about is done outside of the game.

I think we are forgetting that the results of this are probably predetermined. It is wrestling, after all ;) But hey, maybe people would find a different game more entertaining.

If it is predetermined, Gang Beasts seems like a terrible choice due to the random nature of the physics.

@corruptedevil: Or a great choice due to the superbly intuitive controls.

@devil240z

"Its a new game that is in active development so its more of a hip current thing that people actually might care about playing rather than some crusty old wrestling game that everyone seems to hate."

You're missing the whole point. It's not about the game at all! It's all the crazy shcanigens they get into during the event that people care about. I also don't think Gang Beast captures the wrestling sprit that they're going for, at least not in its current build, but things could change I guess. They also played Gang Beast already at the Hunger Games event.

No. The whole point would be lost.

They did play this during the Gamespot Hunger Games thing, apparently, but that hasn't been posted on the internet yet.

Nah, it's a wrestling event so it needs to be a real wrestling game for authenticity. The crappier, the better.

As some have already stated, the best part of the pax rumbles haven't been the actual game part, it's the real world shenanigans. Watching them play no mercy is actually kind of boring and it it weren't for the other stuff I wouldn't care for it. I would love for them to play gangbeasts, but I don't think it would feel right until it was an actual finished/released game.

The N64 wrestling games actually have some basis in skill, Gang Beasts is fun but it's not a skill based game at all.

They have plenty of time to practice with the game it's not like it's some surprise each time.

Is Gang Beasts a wrestling game? It isn't? Then that's a big no.

I mean, they apparently set up an 8 man Gang Beasts thing at PAX Prime this year. I don't see why they couldn't do the official "2 men start, new person every few seconds" thing. Make it completely broken to support up to 30 people at once, only ever allow that version to be played at PAX events, etc.

edit: Also, if they set the entire event to take place in that Ring stage.

No, this is about wrestling. The center idea here is a parody of the WWE's royal rumble. The moment you remove this from a wrestling game is the moment the whole joke goes off the rails.

Yes? It seems like a pretty good replacement if they wanted to get away from wrestlemania 2000.

Since we're talking about wrestling... Def Jam: Fight for New York? Maybe throw down some rap battle between the contestants? It doesn't suit the format exactly, they would need brackets and eliminations... but... you know... it's pretty awesome.

Gang Beasts doesn't even have a royal rumble mode, which is an important part of the whole thing. Also, playing a wrestling game, particularly Wrestlemania 2000 is kind of a big part of the reason the thing exists. Part of the entertainment factor is seeing stuff happen like Dan getting Mideon or the appropriateness of Jeff winding up with Big Bossman.

If you start playing Gang Beasts or *insert indie multiplayer game X* it stops being the PAX Royal Rumble and just becomes random pax videogame challenge. You're co-opting a thing that was originally hugely about a love or nostalgia for professional wrestling to play something entirely unrelated and at that point it might as well have never existed in the first place.

I'm obviously taking it too seriously, and the show would still be fun. But my preference is for it to remain about actual wrestling games and I'd be bummed to see that replaced by Gang Beasts, even if the game is ridiculously fun to watch.

This is the video game equivalent of two awesome foods combining to make a terrible mess. Some sort of gang beasts competition is a great idea, but it should be its own thing.

I think what I'm seeing in this thread is a lot of non-wrestling fans getting caught up in the shenanigans and general weirdness of pro-wrestling, but not actually caring about the wrestling part. And that's totally okay, but this is a wrestling thing. If you're on board for the dumb promos and the off-screen malarkey, that's totally cool, but this only really works because the game they're playing is a wrestling game. It's the rug that ties the room together, as it were.

By the way, the game they're playing is WrestleMania 2000 and not No Mercy.

only if they keep the blown out bassified music from the N64 games

I agree. It's already the best "over-the-ropes" wrestling game and it's not even a wrestling game.

Gang Beasts is an amazingly fun game to watch when it's fuckaround time, but they would have to add a lot to the game to capture the proper feel of a royal rumble. One of the things they would need to add would be proper wrestling moves. Which they will never add. So, no, definitely not.

I think there'd be some pretty significant challenges in supporting 30 controllers simultaneously.

It would need to have a countdown timer and probably some kind of entrance thing in order to work as a pass and play kind of thing. But if they added that, it would be a perfect fit.

It needs those things to work for the theatrical element of the Rumble.

A Gang Beasts rumble would be over in about six minutes, so that ain't gonna work.

I just wanna see fake/hyperbolic game industry beef. The game is nearly irrelevant to my enjoyment, but it would be cool if it was something that is fun to watch.

Since Jeff, Dan and Alex have taught me literally everything I know about wrestling I have a really hard time following who's playing who in the rumble and that would be easier sorting out that if they played Gang Beasts. And it would be more entertaining watching the game.

If they instead could queue up music for the persons playing instead and focus on their entrance onto the stage it would be more fun then watching N64 pixels running in. Just imagine Will Smith entering to Gettin' Jiggy Wit It or with a black suit and the Men in Black theme.